Animal Wonders
YouTube channel · in 8 videos (2014–2026)
Jessi Knudsen Castañeda and her husband Augusto's channel about rescued animals, announced by Hank in May 2014. It is also their Montana haven for exotic and native animals that can't return to the wild, and Hank's company Complexly helps produce its channel, Animal Wonders Montana.
Videos by year: 2014: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2026: 2
Threads
- Hank asks viewers to check out Jessi Knudsen Castañeda's new Animal Wonders channel (2014) — ask, promotion (not a request), 2014–2019
- Animal Wonders: launch of Jessi Knudsen Castañeda's rescued-animal channel (2014) — project history, last documented in 2019 (looked back on in 2025), 2014–2025
Also named in the threads: The Brain Scoop: Emily Graslie's YouTube show from the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (2012) · Mental Floss YouTube channel, made with John and Hank (2013) · Sexplanations: Lindsay Doe's sex-education YouTube channel, made with Hank (2013) · How to Adult: launch of the channel (2014) · SciShow Space: launch of the space-science channel (2014) · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 edition · The Financial Diet: YouTube show, one of Hank's newest video projects (2015) · The brothers ask viewers to join the annual Esther Day livestream party (2021)
Often together
What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.
Sexplanations (2) · SciShow (3) · Project for Awesome (3) · YouTube (2)
What the videos say
The most important statements of each year; all statements.
2014
- 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness — announcement: Hank announces a new channel launching this week (week of 12 May 2014) with Jessi Knudsen Castañeda and her husband Augusto, SciShow regulars who bring rescued animals to educate the world; it is Jessi's passion. — 00:01:59
- SciShow producer Caitlin Hofmeister will document the passion and toil of running a small business that feeds hundreds of mouths, two of them twin infant children. — 00:02:14
- Hank points viewers to Jessi's new channel via the description link or an on-screen annotation that doesn't work on phones. — 00:03:48
- 2014-05-30 · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! — Hank lists census shares unaware of their shows: 14% Mental Floss, 30% SciShow Space, 33% Sexplanations with Dr. Lindsey Doe, 50% How to Adult, 64% Animal Wonders. — 00:01:00
2016
- 2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank says his team helps some creators get a leg up through shows like The Financial Diet, Healthcare Triage, Sexplanations and Animal Wonders. — 00:01:34
2019
- 2019-12-13 · Is This the Cutest Animal Noise? — Hank: Kemosabe lives with Hank's friends Jessi and Augusto in Montana at Animal Wonders, a permanent home and safe haven for exotic and native animals that can't return to the wild. — 00:00:43
2022
- 2022-08-03 · Why is it So Hard to Say 'I Love You'? — announcement: Hank announces an Esther Day livestream tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern with people from This Star Won't Go Out, Esther's family, John and Sarah, and the Animal Wonders folks. — 00:02:40
2025
- 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John: For Y, YouTube, John says he hasn't mentioned half the shows Hank helped produce, such as PBS Eons, Animal Wonders, Brain Scoop and Mental Floss. — 00:05:21
2026
- 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: Hank reads the schedule: Animal Wonders with Jessi Knudsen Castañeda next, John from seven o'clock, then John and Charlotte McDonnell, Hank and Destin, Taylor and Miriam, and Hank again for the late-night shift from 12 o'clock Eastern. — 06:59:50
Also named in: Project for Awesome 2026 part 5!