“Wild man Andrew Ucles catches wild animals barehanded to spread a message of wildlife conservation to show how to approach and capture wild, deadly, dangerous, poisonous, and even cute animals as well.”
Right, I — okay. I don’t see exactly how catching animals barehanded is part of conserving them, but I would definitely watch that, I can get behind this —
“Is Andrew Ucles fake? Watch and decide for yourself.”
Why would you ask yourself that question on your own About Me section?
Why is there a dead kangaroo lying in the middle of the road at the beginning of the “How to catch a Kangaroo disguised as an Emu” video? Why wouldn’t you disguise yourself as a kangaroo to catch a kangaroo? You had a perfectly good dead kangaroo.
WHAT NO YOU CAN’T
I HAVE WATCHED THIS VIDEO THREE TIMES AND I STILL CANNOT FIGURE OUT WHEN THE HAWK SHOWED UP
Here is a greatest hits compilation of Andrew catching animals, as advertised, with his bare hands:
Here is a four-minute video that is purportedly cobbled together from “sixty-seven days of survival in the Australian Outback.”
Here is a quarrel Andrew has with a wombat inside a tunnel (he claims pushing a wombat out of a tunnel is as difficult as “pushing a car with the handbrake on,” which I find difficult to believe).
I…think I believe him? Some of the time? Who is his cameraman? Most of his recent videos are set in “Africa” (nowhere more specific, just “Africa” — as in Andrew Vs. Africa, which I think is an inadvisable title) and they seem doubtful as hell. Right? That scene where he’s fleeing from the elephants? That’s not…that’s not something that’s real.
I don’t know.
David G put it pretty well in the comments:
“I’ve watched all your video your amazing, you should definitely get a tv show because I’ve never seen anyone catch dangerous animals with their bare hands”
I don’t know. Here’s Andrew (probably) catching a deer with his bare hands.
Everything is true, probably.
Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.