That Canadian kid from the first part has done the same thing before. When he was Fourteen he found another City that was actually explored in person so the kid is proving to be an absolute boss. Imagine what he could do with access to LIDAR...?
Why do we need some much palm oil. When I went to the jungles of Ecuador we had to travel through miles and miles and miles of palm tree farms for the oil. It was upsetting
Don't know why is used so much anyway, palm oil is not healthy for the body, having ten times the carcinogenic material of any other commonly used naturally occurring oils.
sadly, because the industry demands it. it's cheap neutral oil, a hectare of palm oil plantation produce more oil than olive. almost all processed food you find at the market use palm oil
If we, European, wouldn't have chop our forest long agowe would be chopping it right now to plant canola or sunflowers. At least palm oil yeald 10 time more than canola per hectare. So if non-tropical ecologist were sincere, they should ask that more palm tree be grown in the tropic while European totally ditch local oil production and MASSIVELY regrow their forest
George, The Amazon Rainforest mostly consists of trees that Humans have planted and utilized going back to the beginning of agriculture. You can google “Amazon Rainforest manmade” and you’ll see legitimate publications positing that Humans are responsible. So if there are areas of farmed trees and plants then modern farmers are merely partaking in a 10,000+ year old tradition.
I'm from Costa Rica! I live in the jungle too, in the Caribbean coast. The spheres are so interesting to me. It is too bad that they relocated them. There is a place where some steps randomly appear from the ground, and at the end of these steps is a sphere, with more spheres around the step structure. They moved most of the spheres there but it looks like it points to something.
Kelvinium hey!! I'm literally looking at buying property in Costa Rica...is it possible somehow, some way we could possibly exchange email addresses to chat about a couple things? I'm a real live person from Canada, not a creep or stalker..just could REALLY use a real live person with feet on the ground down there... :)
Kelvinium thank you my friend, I'll email you right away, so you have mine and you can delete your comment with your email, so you don't get spammed to death..lol :)
Due to the difficulty of finding a corpse flower, you can recreate the experience in the comfort of your own home by looking at pictures of it online while holding a plate full of rotting meat.
I saw and smelled a corpse flower at Cornell University a few years back. It has a nasty smell, but is amazing to see such a thing in the Finger Lakes region of New York!
TheBlues32 ~ some have suggested that everything the explorer said was true but he spread small pox and disease to all the natives. Since it was almost a century before someone else went through, that would have been enough time for everyone to die and nature to grow in.
@carddamom I just saw this reply! Sorry, I forget where I read that. In was in some history book. that’s about all I read, when I read. I just don’t remember which one.
Those are just incredible! I'd love to see some of those lost cities in person! Could you do a video about the abandoned Pueblos of the American Southwestern Four Corners area?
A great video, packed full of facts. However, the feeling I have after watching is one of sadness. Hearing of the many historical finds destroyed by man through ignorance and greed. I'm optimistic though that we can learn from this & hopefully preserve any existing or future finds.
I’ve seen a rafflesia in the jungle, near Mount Kinabalu! It was surprisingly easy. Locals have them just growing in their backyards and put up signs advertising them. I think we paid a few ringgits and just walked a few metres into the jungle. It wasn’t a large one, and it must’ve been a variety that didn’t smell very rotten. But it was a great bonus to our holiday!
4:00 There are several boiling rivers in Yellowstone. So many drain into the Fire Hole River that the water of this river goes from about 40 degrees when it enters the geyser basin area, to about 70-80 when it leaves.
I've seen a rafflesia flower in Borneo. It wasn't deep in the jungle, it was about 10 metres from a bitumen road. The forest where it lived was a patch of remnant vine scrub between the road and a farm.
I do love how people jump all over Simon for his pronunciation. Unless you have a knowledge of multiple languages you may not know how that word is pronounced in it’s native language. Especially considering how the English language steals and then bastardizes the pronounciation at will (e.g. Quixote vs quixotic). I’d imagine that the vast majority of the UK would say « kwe -beck » rather than « kay-beck », or « kon-kwist-a-dor » vs « kon-kis-ta-dor » You’ve got to give the guy props for even trying. I had great fun while I was staying in BA, as I had only a very passing knowledge of Castilian Spanish, when I had to ask for directions to Avenida Callao - yep, that is not pronounced anywhere near how it’s written; lol!
Katrina O'Connor yeah I grew up in Guatemala. So I give Simon tips from time to time on Spanish or more accurately on Mayan words. Like You- Ka-Tan península. But I try not to sound like some of these dicks who just troll him. I love this channel
😂 no language steals or bastardizes. People who speak English-yes, including those learning it!-keep words from their mother tongue, some to work their way into English, but by and large native English speakers over time have upheld an amalgamative linguistic tradition of adopting words from other tongues which, for one-say it better’ so-to-speak-which (as in any language) are spoken in a form pronounceable to the speakers. How you negativize our acceptance and wonder for other languages!!
Lol had this thought with "conquistador". Maybe it's just an accent thing but Americans pronounce it con-KEY-stador. So his pronunciation sounded so weird lol
I don't know where he got the pronunciation of "Yucatan" from but he is pronouncing "conquistador" the way it's pronounced in British English. His pronunciation of "conquistador" is very close to the Spanish pronunciation.
Actually, an area of land that is filled with partially decomposing organic matter where your only two options are: A. You leave it alone and it does nothing, or B. You try to enact any kind of change and it starts belching gas and harming the enviroment, is called a *Peatland*, not a swamp. Did you even watch the video?
13:57 Oh my gosh, that's such a shame... Incredibly riveting and interesting video, though! I've always found the unexplored jungle absolutely fascinating. I intend to become an archaeologist, in fact!
I mean Vileplume has a blooming corpse flower on its head ivysaur had a bud for a slightly different looking flower so my guess would be vileplume smells of death, venusaur might but ivysaur definitely doesn't
corpse flower starts as a *bulb* the bulbs grow on *ivy* The flower attracts insects similar to a *venus* flytap. However, the flower doesn't smell until it blooms... Venusaur almost certainly smells of death.
Rafflesia are different than what are commonly known as corpse flowers, although, confusingly, rafflesia are also sometimes known as corpse flowers. Rafflesia are the world's largest flowers, and corpse flowers are the world's tallest flowers. I have seen both in the wild in my husband's native West Sumatra.
Gotta love he way we destroy both natural wonders, and prehistoric, man made ones! Not to mention the way we, “drain,” the, “carbon sinks,” thus assisting in developing our own disastrous demise!
The first time I found out about the corpse flower was on David Attinboroughs Private life of Plants, a DVD set which was well worth the price; as it never gets boring, well, for me, anyway!
It would be great if you could do a segment on the manmade like shape that you can see in the middle of the ocean away from nowhere that you can see when you look at google earth.
The Mutart Conservatory in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada has a corpse flower and has bloomed at least twice. I haven't seen it personally but it was big news for the local area's TV and newspapers.
So has anyone staged an expedition to find this forgotten city in the Yucatan rainforest? I love it when they actually find hidden cities in South America
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Great content. Love the fact that they're still finding these previously unknown civilizations
That Canadian kid from the first part has done the same thing before. When he was Fourteen he found another City that was actually explored in person so the kid is proving to be an absolute boss. Imagine what he could do with access to LIDAR...?
Darn it, those clever Canadians.
Yeah man, give me your address and I'll mail you some inexplicable stuff.
so the corpse flower really is the perfect gift for me on valentine's day since it smells as dead as my love life.
tale a shower
Haha i feel you, thats pure gold though 🤣
Youre hot what are you doin wrong?
Stapelia cactus is the one for you too than.
Join the club
Love watching your videos, Simon. Thank you, and keep up the good work.
Why do we need some much palm oil. When I went to the jungles of Ecuador we had to travel through miles and miles and miles of palm tree farms for the oil. It was upsetting
Vegetable Glycerin mostly comes from Palm Oil and is used in so many things.
Don't know why is used so much anyway, palm oil is not healthy for the body, having ten times the carcinogenic material of any other commonly used naturally occurring oils.
sadly, because the industry demands it. it's cheap neutral oil, a hectare of palm oil plantation produce more oil than olive. almost all processed food you find at the market use palm oil
If we, European, wouldn't have chop our forest long agowe would be chopping it right now to plant canola or sunflowers.
At least palm oil yeald 10 time more than canola per hectare. So if non-tropical ecologist were sincere, they should ask that more palm tree be grown in the tropic while European totally ditch local oil production and MASSIVELY regrow their forest
George, The Amazon Rainforest mostly consists of trees that Humans have planted and utilized going back to the beginning of agriculture. You can google “Amazon Rainforest manmade” and you’ll see legitimate publications positing that Humans are responsible. So if there are areas of farmed trees and plants then modern farmers are merely partaking in a 10,000+ year old tradition.
i wish i could subscribe 2x times, great content Simon.
janneloffecarlsson actually you can,by making another account.thank me later!
janneloffecarlsson i have two accounts and both are subscribe to here and today i found out
If you haven't subscribe to the "today i found out" youtube channel. Almost like subscribing to this twice since hes part of that as well
janneloffecarlsson agree
This is my favourite channel on you tube and I think Simon is a great presenter.
I'm from Costa Rica! I live in the jungle too, in the Caribbean coast. The spheres are so interesting to me. It is too bad that they relocated them. There is a place where some steps randomly appear from the ground, and at the end of these steps is a sphere, with more spheres around the step structure. They moved most of the spheres there but it looks like it points to something.
Kelvinium hey!! I'm literally looking at buying property in Costa Rica...is it possible somehow, some way we could possibly exchange email addresses to chat about a couple things? I'm a real live person from Canada, not a creep or stalker..just could REALLY use a real live person with feet on the ground down there... :)
Kelvinium thank you my friend, I'll email you right away, so you have mine and you can delete your comment with your email, so you don't get spammed to death..lol :)
Brad Fitz
I was about to say, like the message when you see it so I know to delete it. lol
Kelvinium I sent off an email a couple minutes ago to you my friend. :)
@@kelvinium8014 hows the hunt
Thank you, you have the most interesting and informative posts, I find them fascinating
Rafflesia arnoldii has been successfully grown in captivity, It flowered recently in Christchurch New Zealands Botanical Gardens.
In Auckland as well a couple of years ago.
That kid had better have gotten an A on that project ffs.
Seriously. What an amazing achievement for such a young lad.
Did anyone confirm the city or is it still an assumption, makes big difference.
Does anyone love this guys voice as much as I do?
I like his pacing.
Oh yeah
He needs to do audiobooks to help people sleep. It's very soothing
The voice is obv ok but what i most like about this channel is how effective he explains, warms my german heart xD
Those silly "Conkwistadors".
Wow #9 is the flower on venesaurs back . Love it GOTTA CATCH EM ALL
And straight up IS Vileplume/Gloom.
You should check out the stone spheres of Nova Scotia. Very similar looking found mostly near safe entrys to coves and bays.
Due to the difficulty of finding a corpse flower, you can recreate the experience in the comfort of your own home by looking at pictures of it online while holding a plate full of rotting meat.
Stupid jokes aside, cool vid. You guys get a like :)
There is a corpse flower at the Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton, AB
I know what Im doing this weekend!
@@ridrfan1 also at Cornell University in New York. I saw and smelled it when it bloomed a few years back.
I get the same effect by not reporting the forty milk bottles still on the doorstep of my neighbours house.
"The Mayan calendar doesn't get as much credit as it deserves"
2012 disagrees.
Mayan calendar didn't actually suggest the world would end then. Just a new cycle beginning.
willisverynice are you referring to the movie?
And the comments support Simon's observations concerning American humor. I thought your comment pretty damn funny anyway.
Round stones, ballast from UFOs?🤔
@@musicenjoyer8605 I figured they just stopped counting for one reason or another.
I was extremely lucky to see the corpse flower in full bloom. It was really cool to see it 😁
Excellent video, left a like and a sub :}
I saw and smelled a corpse flower at Cornell University a few years back. It has a nasty smell, but is amazing to see such a thing in the Finger Lakes region of New York!
Huh. A boiling river. Just goes to show that some legends have more than a slight kernel of truth in them.
TheBlues32 ~ some have suggested that everything the explorer said was true but he spread small pox and disease to all the natives. Since it was almost a century before someone else went through, that would have been enough time for everyone to die and nature to grow in.
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@carddamom I just saw this reply! Sorry,
I forget where I read that. In was in some history book. that’s about all I read, when I read. I just don’t remember which one.
Those are just incredible! I'd love to see some of those lost cities in person! Could you do a video about the abandoned Pueblos of the American Southwestern Four Corners area?
Missouri’s botanical garden was able to get the corpse flower to bloom last year!
yup,favourite video list site now.
Excellent video! One of the best I’ve seen!
Our world is amazing
Yes the world is fantastic. Humans kind of suck but the planet is cool.
No it's not.
Ur doing a Awesome job dude, u gives us the Story in a timely manner. Thanks
I'm pretty sure that zombie fungus was the inspiration for an episode of The X-Files.
It was
Also, The Last of Us on Playstation.
Well as long as it does not gain enough biomass to reach critical mass and create a Gravemind we should be fine.
There's a Corpse Flower on Oahu Hawaii. It makes the local news when it blooms.
There is a corpse flower at Moody Gardens in Galveston, TX. I've seen/smelt it bloom twice in ten years.
Is that Rafflesia or Titan Arum?
Titan arum
Amorphophallus titanum
always great i learn more from your vids then i did at school
Very interesting Simon!
I actually love this channel. Well done Simon you never fail to entertain :D
A great video, packed full of facts. However, the feeling I have after watching is one of sadness. Hearing of the many historical finds destroyed by man through ignorance and greed. I'm optimistic though that we can learn from this & hopefully preserve any existing or future finds.
Love watching this guy and these videos 😁👍
The Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis has a corpse flower. They announce when blooms every year.
I don't think I'd want anyone to *announce* the corpse flower's blooming to me. I'd rather be warned about it!
I live 2 hours from stl that's awesome I didn't know that!!
Omaha has one at lauritzen gardens too
I'm on a topTenz binge!!
the des moines botanical garden in iowa, usa has a corpse flower that blooms!
Gonna have to go see that then. 2 hrs away isn't bad.
There are many around the country. The Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh has one.
USA USA USA
And over here in the UK, we're proud of our daisies
That isn't a rafflesia. It's a amorphophallus, which make big flowers but not the biggest.
Great content! The Denver Botanical Garden did have a corpse flower for a while actually, they're very strange.
I’ve seen a rafflesia in the jungle, near Mount Kinabalu! It was surprisingly easy. Locals have them just growing in their backyards and put up signs advertising them. I think we paid a few ringgits and just walked a few metres into the jungle. It wasn’t a large one, and it must’ve been a variety that didn’t smell very rotten. But it was a great bonus to our holiday!
Very cool info. Thanks Simon
4:00 There are several boiling rivers in Yellowstone. So many drain into the Fire Hole River that the water of this river goes from about 40 degrees when it enters the geyser basin area, to about 70-80 when it leaves.
Eric Taylor yes but Yellowstone is a giant volcano, the Amazon jungle isn't
NYC Botanical gardens in The Bronx has had Corspe flower since 2016. And it's had some amazing blooms! 😍
So enjoy your well-presented and unique material.
Great videos.
I've seen a rafflesia flower in Borneo. It wasn't deep in the jungle, it was about 10 metres from a bitumen road. The forest where it lived was a patch of remnant vine scrub between the road and a farm.
Awesome!
I like your sweater Simon.
edit: excellent video.
Interesting- thank you👍
All of your videos are very interesting.
This is one of the most interesting videos on this chanell
The Smithsonian Botanical Gardens had three corpse flowers bloom within the last year or two. I couldn't get within 6' of it due to the smell.
What would you personally compare the smell to?
@@thenobledildo8870 A Japanese food called natto. It reeked.
I do love how people jump all over Simon for his pronunciation. Unless you have a knowledge of multiple languages you may not know how that word is pronounced in it’s native language. Especially considering how the English language steals and then bastardizes the pronounciation at will (e.g. Quixote vs quixotic). I’d imagine that the vast majority of the UK would say « kwe -beck » rather than « kay-beck », or « kon-kwist-a-dor » vs « kon-kis-ta-dor »
You’ve got to give the guy props for even trying.
I had great fun while I was staying in BA, as I had only a very passing knowledge of Castilian Spanish, when I had to ask for directions to Avenida Callao - yep, that is not pronounced anywhere near how it’s written; lol!
Katrina O'Connor yeah I grew up in Guatemala. So I give Simon tips from time to time on Spanish or more accurately on Mayan words. Like You- Ka-Tan península. But I try not to sound like some of these dicks who just troll him. I love this channel
You have changed nothing.
😂 no language steals or bastardizes. People who speak English-yes, including those learning it!-keep words from their mother tongue, some to work their way into English, but by and large native English speakers over time have upheld an amalgamative linguistic tradition of adopting words from other tongues which, for one-say it better’ so-to-speak-which (as in any language) are spoken in a form pronounceable to the speakers. How you negativize our acceptance and wonder for other languages!!
Foarte tare !! Multumim!
Nice Video
1:15 Simon Whistler, it is pronounced: 'Yoo-cah-tan', not 'Yuckitten'
Not yuck kitten??
Lol had this thought with "conquistador". Maybe it's just an accent thing but Americans pronounce it con-KEY-stador. So his pronunciation sounded so weird lol
Americans and Brits are horrible at learning how vowels are pronounced in other languages.
Most people in every country of the world are horrible at pronouncing words from languages they don't speak.
I don't know where he got the pronunciation of "Yucatan" from but he is pronouncing "conquistador" the way it's pronounced in British English. His pronunciation of "conquistador" is very close to the Spanish pronunciation.
Ancient civilizations are so strange and awesome.
They guy holding what to be a spider infected by the zombie viruses... be the first human to become a clicker.
Thank you, enjoyed your video
cool video I cant believe I seen the biggest flower very cool
Great job y'all...just like always!
I wish he would do 10 strange things of the swamp known as Washington D.C.
Actually, an area of land that is filled with partially decomposing organic matter where your only two options are: A. You leave it alone and it does nothing, or B. You try to enact any kind of change and it starts belching gas and harming the enviroment, is called a *Peatland*, not a swamp. Did you even watch the video?
South Fl Fairchild garden has a stink plant, at least approximately 6 years ago when it bloomed.
I love this channel
The Moody Gardens in Galveston Texas has one that bloomed while I was there in May 2016.
congrat on about to hit 700k!
That corpse flower makes me think of the demigorgan on Stranger Things!!
The corpse flower is just a wild bloom
OMG! I just love you Simon.
Isn't that thumbnail a Vileplume from Pokémon?!
John Smith not even close... you need some glasses
John Smith ????
I'm pretty sure that's what Vileplume was based on.
John Smith it's just a bad rip off of the vileplume
Yup, a lot of pokemons are inspired from actual weird animals and plants.
Geometric shapes are almost always a sign of civilization except when the current regime of archaeologists scoff at such findings time after time.
Love the background music! Any idea where I can find it?
TheAlystraStardust
It's called "Darude Sandstorm"
I haven'r heard that meme in hours...
Lmk if you find out
I love this stuff!
#2 is like Island of Blue Dolphins (fictional version of an incident that really happened.) The woman forgot her language as well.
Chicago Botanical Garden has a corpse flower.
13:57 Oh my gosh, that's such a shame...
Incredibly riveting and interesting video, though! I've always found the unexplored jungle absolutely fascinating. I intend to become an archaeologist, in fact!
So friggen weird... I was scrolling through n reading comments n got to urs at the EXACT time you put! Sooooooo freaky!!!
Well done Simon
Thank you!
Costa Rica stone spheres are Big Bird's gizzard stones. You heard it here first, folks!
Love this video
Hello Simon
Can you make a video about writers who excelled in their second language?
So...does that mean Ivysaur smells like a rotten corpse?
I mean Vileplume has a blooming corpse flower on its head ivysaur had a bud for a slightly different looking flower so my guess would be vileplume smells of death, venusaur might but ivysaur definitely doesn't
corpse flower starts as a *bulb*
the bulbs grow on *ivy*
The flower attracts insects similar to a *venus* flytap.
However, the flower doesn't smell until it blooms...
Venusaur almost certainly smells of death.
Hey Simon, Sumatra is one of the main islands of Indonesia. Just a little note for your future use.
Peace :)
I love your videos.
What's your point? It was never implied that it was small or irrelevant.
Rafflesia are different than what are commonly known as corpse flowers, although, confusingly, rafflesia are also sometimes known as corpse flowers. Rafflesia are the world's largest flowers, and corpse flowers are the world's tallest flowers. I have seen both in the wild in my husband's native West Sumatra.
Gotta love he way we destroy both natural wonders, and prehistoric, man made ones! Not to mention the way we, “drain,” the, “carbon sinks,” thus assisting in developing our own disastrous demise!
cry about it
The zombie fungus can also be found in Europe it usually attacks caterpillars ( Cordyceps militaris )
human beings are both incredibly fascinating but also obnoxiously destructive
The first time I found out about the corpse flower was on David Attinboroughs Private life of Plants, a DVD set which was well worth the price; as it never gets boring, well, for me, anyway!
Toptenz in the jungle baby
You're going to diiiieee!!!
Wow. Very interesting.
It would be great if you could do a segment on the manmade like shape that you can see in the middle of the ocean away from nowhere that you can see when you look at google earth.
and egg with eyes, a mouth, a nose and even facial hair, what a sighting
Phipps conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pa has the Corpse flower and when it blooms, it's open for viewing. :)
And underground you can find a little pink bulb that when broken WILL SUMMON A GIANT MURDER PLANT.
Oh Lord - @0:51 - you have already outdone yourself Simon. Kwe beck? Really?!
3:38 con kwistadores?!!
So only 1% of the people who watched this video can be bothered to hit the like button? That's just sad.
The Mutart Conservatory in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada has a corpse flower and has bloomed at least twice. I haven't seen it personally but it was big news for the local area's TV and newspapers.
Gr8 content
could the stones have been used to press farm land to make ridges for plants and water directing by rolling them over soil?
So has anyone staged an expedition to find this forgotten city in the Yucatan rainforest? I love it when they actually find hidden cities in South America
Simon is a great host!
So sayeth TheNobleDildo
The corpse flower is named Rafflessia Arnoldi. It's one the smelliest flower that ever existed. It is growing in Sumatran jungles
If you put a rap song on in the background while hes talking it looks like hes rapping😂