History WebVideo / CasualGeographic

* BlackAndNerdy: He explains the reason he took interest in researching animals is due to reading Zoobooks as a kid, and his first game was a zoo simulator. He also had a book that plays animal sounds. He then wanted to be a zookeeper when he grows up.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Capybaras may be the nicest things on Earth and are willing to chill with anything from turtles to ''crocodiles,'' but even they have their limits. Mamadou points out cappies don't mind being fed by humans and being near them, but if they're showing warning signs and you still get up close, you're liable to get bitten.

** He will often explain why certain bears are bad news. Polar bears for example are the prime example of this trope, given they actively hunt humans if given the choice. Averted for black bears - they're just as capable of carnage as a polar or grizzly, but they can also be very calm around humans so long as they're getting food, with one clip even showing a black bear literally sitting down at a picnic table with a group.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Frequently brought up. He will discuss animal behavior that both is and isn't correct. Some examples include:

* DeadlyEuphemism: He uses phrases such as "past tense", "cancel your life subscription", "co-sign your obituary", "take off the census", "soul filing for divorce" and "404 on your birth certificate" among several as a substitution for using the word "death". He also uses "reverse baptism" as a euphemism specifically for drowning and variations of "unethically late-term abortion" for the killing of recently-born baby animals.

** Blobfishes do not look like blobs in general. They only look like blobs because they'll be forcibly pulled to the surface, and decompression kick in, resulting in its memetic look.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "I should probably explain what the hell that is", often used when he opens a video with a clip of a very bizarre-looking animal or animals engaging in extremely questionable deeds.

-->'''Mamadou:''' If blatant disrespect were a sport... they still wouldn't play because anything with rules goes against a honey badger's belief system.

-->'''Mamadou:''' They're a highly dangerous menace to society... if you're zooplankton.

** This quote describes it best: "God gave us thumbs and everyone else has to pay for it".

-->'''Mamadou'': ''Billions''. We've spent billions of dollars trying to explore space when the real ET shit's is happening in the ocean.

-->'''Mamadou:''' Sharks are really just the pit bulls of the ocean.

-->'''Mamadou:''' (sees a man pick up a dead Man-o-War ''and then pretend to lick its air bell'', delivers a bleeped-out PrecisionFStrike) This is why women live longer than men. Shit like this.

-->'''Mamadou:''' (speaking about things that anger zookeepers) No other animal causes more migraines and high blood pressure than a hairless primate armed with an iPhone and a sense of entitlement.

!!His videos provide the examples of

** If an animal HatesBeingTouched, it's best to let them be.

* BodyHorror: How often do you hear about fish mating, and ''fusing'' with their mate? He goes into detail that, yes, this is how anglerfish mate, wherein the larger female will typically have ''multiple mates'' fused with her.

Mamadou B. Ndiaye, also known as ''Casual Geographic'' or ''Hood Nature'', is an animal commentator from New Jersey. He gives animal facts while being serious as possible and is known to make creative witty remarks on the animals he brings the topic of. He also uses Instagram and [=TikTok=] before editing the videos on his [=YouTube=] channel.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Capybaras may be the nicest things on Earth that's willing to chill with predators and humans, however, that doesn't mean they can't be agitated. Mamadou points out cappies don't mind being fed and being near humans. But getting into their personal space despite the warning signs will irritate them.

** Cheetahs definitely fit the bill,he goes into depth on how it's practically bullied by nearly everything in the savannah. And is described as "a cat who just can't cat"

** This quote describes it best; " God gave us thumbs and everyone else has to pay for it"

* ThreateningShark: Subverted. He actually explains some sharks are docile, and even friendly with humans (some can actually be jealous if their favorite humans interacts with another shark), and evens mentions how a man met with a baby Port Jackson shark and how they bonded, to the point that he introduced his children to said shark.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In Lamar Valley, a disease struck the Druid wolf back from 36 to 4, and they frequently fought with the rival wolves called the Sleuths. They also killed a coyote while his mate watched and ran. Eventually, the same disease that took most of the Druid wolves infected the Sleuths, Which caused them to return to their original territory. A lone wolf nicknamed Casanova that spent time with the Druids replenished their numbers with their surviving daughters, allowing the Druids to take back their land.

** As much as he disses on the panda bear for not ''technically'' being a species of bear, they're still bears at heart. For example, a panda once mangled a man's leg so badly, doctors declared it damaged beyond repair and had to amputate it. Another incident involved a man in a panda suit that tried to get close, and the panda bear responded by attacking him.

*** The "champion" of their species, in his eyes, is one named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c36UNSoJenI Stoffel]], who frequently used his cunning and intellect to break out of the holding pen and cause chaos for his handlers. Mamadou declares his crowning achievement in disrespect was escaping to go and pick a fight with the lion pen, getting mauled nearly to death, and then, once he was fully healed, escaping and ''returning to do it again''. Mamadou notes that because he imprinted on humans as an infant, Stoffel never intended to actually escape, merely just to cause his people's blood pressure to spike. They only made things harder for themselves when they later decided to find a female badger for him, which, in Mamadou's words, was giving him [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde the "Bonnie" to his "Clyde"]].

-->'''Mamadou:''' If being disrespectful were a sport... they still wouldn't play because anything with rules goes against a honey badger's belief system.

** Mixing this trope with SuicidalOverconfidence (or as Mamadou puts it, "crackhead courage"), honey badgers frequently steal the kills of leopards, will square off with both lions, both individually and as a pride, and highly-venomous cobras, and even break into the hives of African bees (which are noted to be tenfold more aggressive than European bees) to gorge themselves on honey, often to the point of being ''stung to death''.\\\

* {{Determinator}}: It's no secret what Mamadou thinks of the honey badger, considering his video on the subject of them is quite literally titled [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=honey+badger Why Honey Badgers Don't Fear God or Lions]], and he even put them straight up at the top of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEXaDFr35pM Top 10 Animals with Black Air Force Energy]] list, above the likes of ''cape buffalo'' and even ''hippos''.\\\

Mixing this trope with SuicidalOverconfidence (or as Mamadou puts it, "crackhead courage"), honey badgers frequently steal the kills of leopards, will square off with both lions, both individually and as a pride, and highly-venomous cobras, and even break into the hives of African bees (which are noted to be tenfold more aggressive than European bees) to gorge themselves on honey, often to the point of being ''stung to death''.\\\
The "champion" of their species, in his eyes, is one named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c36UNSoJenI Stoffel]], who frequently used his cunning and intellect to break out of the holding pen and cause chaos for his handlers. Mamadou declares his crowning achievement in disrespect was escaping to go and pick a fight with the lion pen, getting mauled nearly to death, and then, once he was fully healed, escaping and ''returning to do it again''. Mamadou notes that because he imprinted on humans as an infant, Stoffel never intended to actually escape, merely just to cause his people's blood pressure to spike. They only made things harder for themselves when they later decided to find a female badger for him, which, in Mamadou's words, was giving him [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde the "Bonnie" to his "Clyde"]].