DanTheTurtleMan YouTube Stats

@dantheturtleman_ · Animals & Nature · Updated Nov 14, 2026

DanTheTurtleMan channel overview

DanTheTurtleMan (@dantheturtleman_) is a YouTube channel in the Animals & Nature niche created in 2011. It has 435K subscribers and 148M total views across 682 videos, an average of 217K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 373K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 425K views. Over the last 12 months, DanTheTurtleMan published 9 videos (89% Shorts), and 2 of them (22%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does DanTheTurtleMan make?

Returbe estimates DanTheTurtleMan's YouTube ad revenue at $2.6K – $10K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.51 to $2.05, typically $1.03, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $1K.

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Upload schedule

DanTheTurtleMan publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 77 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (30% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

DanTheTurtleMan's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are DanTheTurtleMan's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• DO NOT BURY TURTLES ⚠️‼️🐢3.3M views · Dec 2, 2025109.7× typical views
• He FROZE His Turtle 💀227K views · Dec 19, 20257.6× typical views
• Landlord Clueless I Have Dozens Of Pets…😳40K views · Jan 13, 20261.3× typical views
• Indoor MANGROVE Turtle Pond! 🐢🌴34K views · Dec 31, 20251.1× typical views
• Raising These Baby Turtles Was (almost) Impossible6M views · Sep 27, 20251× typical views
• Breeding The Illegal Fish (accidentally)425K views · Nov 7, 20261× typical views
• INDOOR Mangrove Pond! 🌱150K views · Aug 21, 20251× typical views
• Tiny miracle runt baby turtle 🫶🐢109K views · Aug 5, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

2 of DanTheTurtleMan's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Breeding The Illegal Fish (accidentally)425K views · Nov 7, 20261× typical views
• FAKE Turtle Rescue 🐢18K views · Jul 25, 20260.6× typical views
• Turtle Room Build! 🐢🛠️9.2K views · Jul 12, 20260.3× typical views
• Indoor Mangrove Pond Experiment! 🌱25K views · Apr 19, 20260.8× typical views
• Shrimp walking on LAND 🦐😳26K views · Feb 3, 20260.9× typical views
• Landlord Clueless I Have Dozens Of Pets…😳40K views · Jan 13, 20261.3× typical views
• Indoor MANGROVE Turtle Pond! 🐢🌴34K views · Dec 31, 20251.1× typical views
• He FROZE His Turtle 💀227K views · Dec 19, 20257.6× typical views
• DO NOT BURY TURTLES ⚠️‼️🐢3.3M views · Dec 2, 2025109.7× typical views
• Raising These Baby Turtles Was (almost) Impossible6M views · Sep 27, 20251× typical views

The Animals & Nature niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 13K videos from 1.6K channels in this niche. 19.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.1K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Cute Pet Paradise (52K subs, best video 6923.5×), Belaya Nerpa (44K subs, best video 87.1×), Pierre Lefèvre (405K subs, best video 105.5×), Franchement c'est ça (46K subs, best video 20.8×), Girly Globe (28K subs, best video 1583.4×), Wild Pause (28K subs, best video 66.4×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with DanTheTurtleMan or YouTube.