Animal Wonders: launch of Jessi Knudsen Castañeda's rescued-animal channel (2014)
project history · status: last documented in 2019 (looked back on in 2025) · last event: milestone (2019-12-13) · last mentioned: 2025-12-09
Animal Wonders is a channel launched in May 2014 with Jessi Knudsen Castañeda and her husband Augusto, who bring rescued animals to educate, documented by Caitlin Hofmeister.
Parts: Hank asks viewers to check out Jessi Knudsen Castañeda's new Animal Wonders channel (2014)
Told alongside: How to Adult: launch of the channel (2014) · Mental Floss YouTube channel, made with John and Hank (2013) · Sexplanations: Lindsay Doe's sex-education YouTube channel, made with Hank (2013) · The Brain Scoop: Emily Graslie's YouTube show from the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (2012)
About: Animal Wonders, Jessi Knudsen Castañeda, Augusto, Caitlin Hofmeister, SciShow
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-16 | launched | Hank announces the new channel launching this week (week of 12 May 2014) with Jessi Knudsen Castañeda and Augusto, who bring rescued animals to educate, documented by Caitlin Hofmeister. | The Myth of Greatness 00:01:59 |
| 2014-05-30 | milestone | 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. | Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! 00:01:00 |
| 2019-12-13 | milestone | Hank says Animal Wonders has a YouTube channel, Animal Wonders Montana, which Complexly helps produce; it is wonderful and educational, so subscribe. | Is This the Cutest Animal Noise? 00:01:54 |
| 2025-12-09 | looked back | 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. | Hank Green, from A to Z 00:05:21 |
What is said about it
3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness — announcement: Hank: 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
- 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