Magpies aren't magazines; neither are they pies. Pocket gophers don't live in pockets; neither will the bring you coffee or pick up your laundry. Silverfish aren't made of silver, nor are they fish.
To the last question: when you stumble into the emergency room after 5 King Cobra bites, yes, it matters a LOT what order it belongs to as the antidotes are different.
No... it doesnt. Maybe in 1 of 5k instances. Being that upward of 50% of such bites occur on collectors that own snakes outside the areas in which they have any reason to stock antivenom for them. If you have 1 bite thats wet, and you yourself arent in possession of the needed juice, you are likely dead. Five wet bites mean you were fooling with more than one snake very likely, youd better hope that they were the same kind because if its even two different species you just got elected mayor or fucktville. And if its more than 2 snakes of the same species you just increased manifold your chances of being a collector thats not in easy reach of the juice, because these snakes are exactly social so having five together and getting bitten by them all at once or in rapid succession is really unlikely in the wild. So whether its 1 or 5 species, if you have five bites from snakes, you need to be setting your affairs in order. You only go to the hospital if your are just trying to die in a way thats convenient for others.
metamorphicorder You smugly responded to a years-old comment and completely missed their point. Getting bit by multiple snakes isn’t the issue, it’s the fact that misidentifying what you were bit by can mean your death, as there’s a good chance the antivenin for one species won’t work for another. Bites by native species still happen, and in areas where several seriously venomous species live (not enormously uncommon), properly identifying which species the bite was from is imperative.
@@OakenTome That was obvious enough I think it was okay to mostly ignore it. But their point about 5 bites is true- there's likely no point in even bothering to go to a hospital at that point. But for a single bite, yes, try as hard as you can to kill the snake and bring it in with you (mind the head, they can still bite and will inject ALL their venom in that state so if it was a dry bite before it certainly won't be then!) or take a photo or something.
... Don't try to catch a snake you can't identify y'all. To be safe, don't go NEAR snakes that you can't identify. The snake does not want to be near you either, it will leave you alone or try to get away from you. Altho yes, if you insist on keeping incredibly deadly reptiles most ppl really shouldn't, have antivenin bc your local hospital will just look at you like "well iunno, it's a king cobra!" (Unless you happen to be in Asia)
I'll never forget the clip of a brightly coloured mantis shrimp punching a crab so hard its leg starts to come off, and as a response to this, _the crab straight up rips the leg off and hands it to 'em_ like "please stop you can have my leg just don't kill me"
I planted a sea cucumber tree in my back yard, but it never grew. Any suggestions on how much water to use? For some reason everyone says to throw the seed "back into the ocean."
+Trenton Scaife That doesn't work, my salt wall got washed away by water and now those damn sea slugs are damaging my hard earned sea cucumbers again! Ah well, at least there's no sea bears around.
@@alexlestrange8662 Weird to designate the "original" by color like that. Why aren't the other pandas designated the same way? I'm not arguing with you, just writing as I'm mulling that over, lol.
Fluffymiyster well the red pandas were the first to be named pandas(after a local language in Nepal where it was first sort of studied). The giant panda were 'found' fifty years later and were also called pandas because they both ate bamboos(the word panda came from nigalya ponya meaning something along the lines of bamboo eater). The giant panda is only found in China and it already had its own different name by the time it was 'discovered'. But then the name panda grew in popularity while referring to the giant panda and the black and white pandas became synonymous with the word 'panda' as the first(animals named) pandas went largely ignored(or at least less talked about) to the point that they started being called red pandas and lesser pandas and fake pandas which is highly unfair I tell ya
@@alexlestrange8662 Aww, poor babies were swept under the rug. But thank you for the information! And I happen to like red pandas more if for nothing else than they're forgotten more. They look like red raccoons but hopefully less ornery. ...And then there's the interesting anime Aggretsuko, about a red panda adulting, lol. I think they're slowly making their way back to popularity but I didn't know they were the originals.
Next time you go to the natural history museum or aquarium, be the guy who say "Actually they're not true cobras" and "Its not an actual eel, its a knife fish"
The whole "mountain lions are not real lions" is something I've known since I was a kid, so I've always referred to them as pumas or cougars. The one that really surprised me was the king cobra not being a true cobra.
I didn't realize that pumas and panthers are in completely different subfamilies of Felidae. I always thought that a panther, a puma and Mountain Lion were all names for the same cat.
@@kinglyzard in india, leopards are called panthers. Many people call black leopards and black jaguars as panthers.
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Brazilian here, native portuguese speaker. Just to clarify, the phrase "Cobra de Capello" (5:29) means "Snake of the Hood" or Hooded Snake, just like you said it (although that is not common in Brazil, we just call them "Naja"). But the deal is the word "Cobra" just means "Snake", so the name mix up is even more understandable, since for us, every snake is a cobra! ;)
Jackrabbits are fascinating. They're born fully-furred, with eyes and ears open, and their mother leaves them all in their own individual hiding spots. They're expected to forage for much of their own sustenance. She then returns to them all to nurse around one to two times per day, for only about 4-5 days (!). Then, they're completely on their own. That stage of their life couldn't be any more different from rabbits. 😳 But that's probably also why we're told to leave single baby rabbits alone. If they really were baby rabbits, they'd be blind and hairless, and smaller than the size of golf balls. And are almost NEVER seen, because they're hidden in nests, deep underground in warrens. Whereas, if they're actually jackrabbits, they're independent enough to definitely not need human intervention.
One day (6 years ago)..... We lived in the mountains and one night I was in my room and I heard scratching at our front door I got up and looked out of the window and I saw a GINORMOUS mountain lion I was like 5 so I didn't know what to do. My mom got up and asked me why I was up I told her look out the window and she said go to sleep but I didn't want to and when she took me to school the next morning we saw a bunch of dead birds and turns out are old house had a doggie door and the mountain lion was trying to get in and we moved about a week later.
I was privileged to see a Florida panther (a very rare subspecies of puma) while riding in the Southern Tandem Rally back whenever it was. My stoker couldn't get the video camera into play before the cat saw two of bicycles-for-two another bike was drafting us) and bounded into the brush. You mentioned the size of the mountain lion. The Florida panther had been scavenging a road-kill carcass near the centerline a,d when I spotted it , the crooked tip of the tail was over the edge of the pavement
Fun fact: the Latin name for the cobra is pronounced Nai-uh, with a soft j. My dad was a herpetologist for the San Diego zoo and named me after the Indian cobra, or Naja Naja
There's a group of snake deities called Nagas in Indian mythology. Looks like the Latin and Sanskrit words are related. The hard g could easily morph into the semi vowel y between the 2 vowels across time and dialects. The Thai word for snake is /ngu/. Thai is interesting because it's a bit of a blend of Sinitic and Indo European vocabulary on account of the influence Buddhism and its liturgical language, Pali, has had upon the substrate tonal, monosyllabic Thai dialects. Everyday Thai has many words that derive from Pali which came from Sanskrit and are Indo European. /Ngu/ for "snake" might be one such word. (The Chinese word for snake is 蛇 shí but that's today. Chinese has a huge vocabulary and changes things up from time to time but ngu sure looks like a cognate. The Thai word for Naga, the snake deity, is /Nakh/ so they traded the g of Sanskrit for its allophone k and dropped the second vowel. Thai has plenty of polysyllabic words these days, unlike its cousin over yonder however it is still highly monosyllabic and drops letters from words frequently. Sorry, for rambling. what I was trying to say is: Cool name, Naia!
Anteaters in Germany are called "Ameisenbär(en)", which translates to "ant bear" - yet they are neither ants nor bears, their closest relatives are sloths...
There are many unrelated animals called anteaters, because that's what they do. You're thinking of the giant anteaters, pygmy anteaters, and tamanduas. They're related to sloths.
This summer I was at the park and some people in front of me freaking out about a bug. One person did a google search and announced that it was a himmingbird hawk-moth. Another person asked, 100% seriously, "Is it more moth or more hummingbird?" They debated this for ten whole minutes. At some point during their conversation, someone said, "I didn't know hawks and moths could breed." It was absolutely astounding. I almost chimed in but I really wanted to see if they'd figure it out themselves. They did not.
You should do a similar video, except about fruit/vegetables! Like how strawberries aren't berries but bananas are, tomatoes are botanically-considered to be fruit, and how apples aren't "true fruit". And how potatoes aren't vegetables, whereas sweet potatoes are.
Killer whales are dolphins, yes. They share family, dolphinidae; but all dolphins share infraorder (a "sub" order), catecea, which belongs to all water dwelling mammals AKA whales. By the same logic, manatees are whales, too. Technically.
Ulfric Stormcloak Killer whales are actually whales, since whale can be used as a term to call basically every member in the cetacea family. This means dolphins can be called whales as well.
Robbi Irvine Nope, manatees aren't cetacae so they can't be considered as whales (same logic for why seals and sealions aren't whales). They're waaaaayyy more closely related to elephants than to whales actually.
A small correction. Cobra in portuguese actually means snake. "Cobra de capello" as shown in the video is archaic portuguese for snake with a hood or hat. In portuguese any snake is a cobra, but cobras (in the english sense) are usually referred as "naja", based on the mitological "Naga".
That's what's called a nickname. Just like how nobody thinks mountain lions are actual lions. You are very obviously just jumping onto the "lets hate on whites" bandwagon.
Doc Brown Hate on whites? lol! then what are Australian and new Zealanders? they are the white folk that get annoyed with Americans calling koalas "koala bears".
Think of it this way. Pluto went from being the smallest and least understood planet to now being the biggest and most important of all dwarf planets and Kuiper Belt objects.
The lady bug is called "mariehøne" in Danish which translates to "Marie chicken", the common blackbird is called "solsort" which translates to "sun black" and a sloth is called "dovendyr" which translates directly to "lazy animal". I haven't a clue why the first two are named like that. We Danes give stuff wierd names
You forgot the best name for mountain lions! They're occasionally referred to as "mountain screamers" which is the best possible name for anything ever
whales is an informal grouping that specifically excludes dolphins and porpoises, including the killer whale. "killer whale" as we call it is actually just a bad translation from its original, spanish name, which should actually be translated as "whale killer". The 'whale' part of its name was never even meant to signify that it was a whale itself.
I really appreciate how specific and technical you guys are willing to get. The amount of information you present in just a few minutes goes up so much and I learn far more about how to contextually the information you give me because of it. Please keep it up. I love SciShow.
Well done on the description of the King Cobra. It's great to be exposing the public to such technicalities to bring awareness to diversity. It helps to teach people such things like "not all snakes or all spiders are bad." In regards to the detailed descriptions when comparing (which I'm a big fan of) it may help to emphasize illustrations. Even if they are basic drawings, as probably not everyone on youtube is fluent in their familiarity with anatomical positions.
Holy H that might actually be legit and it blows my mind. Veggies = things on the plant that we eat like roots, stems and leaves. Fruits are made as seed vessels after a flower is pollinated. This makes okra a fruit as well and that bugs the H outta me.
+That Leetri Guy It's not arbitrary at all, it's well defined. A vegetable an edible part of a plant. It's basically the "meat" of a plant, where a fruit is the "egg" of a plant.
In German, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian a hippopotamus is called a river horse (direct translation), but now I am not so sure anymore about its horse ancestors ;-). In Dutch it is a horse from the Nile.
"Decapoda" is the coolest order name that exists. Scientists probably looked at the large claws of a lobster and said "those look like they can decapitate"
I have a feeling that a lot of elongated fish have been called 'eel' whether they're in any way related to each other or not...kinda like how a lot of animals we call 'worms' are likewise not related to each other at all.
I was kinda hoping for the 'tarantula' since they are not even close to being related to true tarantulas, which are a subspecies of wolf spiders. If anything, they're the furthest you can be from a wolf spider if you stay within the realm of spiders.
Jesus They're not, tarantulas (lycosa tarantula) are some of the biggest spiders in the wolf spider family (excluding Aragog, which clearly is a wolf spider as well). but what we call tarantulas (family of Theraphosidae, which isn't even in the same infra-order as lycosa tarantula) are in most languages called differently. In German, Danish, Dutch and possibly other germanic languages, it translates back to 'bird spider'. In English, only the 'goliath bird eater' is called a 'bird eater'. The term 'primitive spider' is used as well, but that is usually ment to indicate all mygalomorphae (infra-order that theraphosidae belong to, but that would include funnel web spiders and other reasons why I'm glad I don't live in australia) Anyway, they are vastly different in behaviour and anatomy. Theraphosidea have downward facing fangs, are generally slow, are functionally almost blind, have downward facing fangs that are mainly used for offence, not defence (unlike pincher-fang spiders) and keep their young in an egg sack. Lycosa tarantula are fast, have much better and bigger eyes, thinner legs (especially at the end), smaller body-to-leg ratio and carry their spiderlings on their back. The reason for the misnomer is most likely the way they set traps, which is almost identical: they make a hole, make a web on the ground, and wait for insects to land on it so they can attack (along with the fact that both spiders are huge and hairy). Lycosa tarantula has a much stronger web, though.
Interesting fact regarding big cats... Evolution allows for only one of two options (with the possible exception of the snow leopard)... You can either roar OR purr, you cannot do both!!! 😸
Okay scichow, I have a direct follow up question. if we think that rabbits and hares developed their similar traits separately instead of from a common ancestor, I'm curious to know, who got the traits first rabbits or hairs and which branch saw what the other one was doing and followed suit
one of my favourite "nonsense" examples along this line is the house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata). In german, it is literally called "spider woodlouse", but as the english correctly states, is a centipede and neither a spider nor a woodlouse (which, speaking of double weirdness, is not a louse = insect but a crustacean). Really nice video, and exactly the kind of topic I could discuss about for hours.
In my country there's a word that roughly translates to "rooftop-hare". In times of starvation that word was used to disguise the fact, that the meat on the table actually came from a cat.
1:42 - So for the past 12 to 16 million years, scientists thought that some of their similar traits developed separately in different species of rabbits and hares? First of all, I didn't know that scientists were around that long. And second, that's some fucked up science if the scientists' similar traits came from rabbits and hares.
on the note of cougars, we have had a lot of sightings recently about 20-40 miles north of Milwaukee Wisconsin. pretty cool until you see tracks by your apartment complex
Cobra is actually the Portuguese name for any cobra. The Portuguese name for "cobra with a hood" is actually "Naja", how do I know it ? Well I'm fluent in Portuguese :P.
In some rare cases, yeah, but I think it's more like human women having more facial hair than "normal". A little rare but it happens. (That's just the thought off the top of my head, don't quote me)
I went to Colorado in 2015 and the mountain goat was one of the main animals I was looking for in the wild because it’s too hard to see big horn sheep unless you’re right up on them because bighorn sheep are too well camouflaged against the mountains Mountain goats are camouflaged too but nowhere near as well as the bighorn sheep💯
Some lionesses have manes, due to a mutation, which is promoted by prides having greater territorial power with more male lions, or the perception of it since these mutant lionesses also act like males, but are treated by their own pride as a lioness.
I'm glad that Michael is hosting this one because when I saw the title I was expecting Olivia - I like her a lot, but she's been "typecast" into the animal videos. Maybe I'm just extra sensitive as a female scientist, though, so take that observation with a grain of salt. Love your channel and content despite what this comment may suggest 💖
Having lived in AB and BC 🇨🇦 (western Canada), I have seen MANy mountain goats. As a former hunter I have seen “Jack Rabbits” from Alberta to the Arctic Circle. my only glimpse of a Mountain Lion(cougar locally) was th back side, as it went into a gully. It was enormous! I was unfortunate to see a King Cobra while in Cambodia, it was enormous and nothing I wanted to see up close. Great episode. 🇨🇦 Army Veteran.
A rose by any other name smells just as sweet. But pro tip, when ordering from the florist, the name matters. Switch the name rose for the name corpse flower and it will not smell just as sweet.
Number 8 could be the Penguin. Penguino was the Portuguese name for what we call the Great Auk. It was a large flightless, black and white member of the Puffin family that lived all around the North Atlantic. Sadly it's now extinct. When sailors and explorers reach the Southern Ocean and found what we now call Penguins, they noticed the similarities and assumed it was the same type of bird.
"MOUNTAIN CHCKEN"?? What a synchronicity.. I've been seeing qa lot of toads recently, and just the other day, I started thinking about how frogs and toads are so similar to chickens (they're both short and stocky, their mouths are like chicken beaks, they have muscular thighs, they hop, they puff themselves up, and even the way they sit looks like a chicken lol..). (Also, geese are like snakes, since their necks move like snakes, they face small, round heads, and they hiss.. I just noticed u started talking about snakes when I started writing this last part lol)..
worth mentioning, the mantis shrimp is not only not a shrimp, it's *also* not a mantis
And the sea lion is neither a lion nor a sea. It's very important to make that distinction.
Also, beached whales are not beaches...though they *are* whales.
how come there are whales on land?
Because they won't fit around Uranus?
bruh
*Surrounded by King Cobras* "YOURE NOT A REAL COBRA" *cobras slither away weeping*
Pinocchio except it’s a king cobra who wishes he was a real cobra
I don't know why but that cracked me up! Bravo 👏👏
We have Jackass-Rabbits here. They wait until you get really close to them and then they run across the street and make you slam on the brakes.
Close. Jackass-Rabbits have fur, that's how you tell the difference from a standard Jackass.
don't break. they squish easily.
Yeah, but when I'm driving the work vehicle I'm not taking any chances. With my luck something will end up puncturing the radiator.
@@TheGreatMunky lmao work cars break if you look at them funny.
The regular rabbits that live around here do that too.
was really hoping for a: You guessed it right. They aren't mountains.
Mountains aren’t real. Neither are lighthouses.
-Nightvale
Wow, and here I was thinking they were mountains. Thanks for crushing my hopes and dreams
Magpies aren't magazines; neither are they pies.
Pocket gophers don't live in pockets; neither will the bring you coffee or pick up your laundry.
Silverfish aren't made of silver, nor are they fish.
@@georgedunn320About the Gophers what f you pay them to get something for you? 🙃🙃😁😁
Are they hills than? 🙃🙃
To the last question: when you stumble into the emergency room after 5 King Cobra bites, yes, it matters a LOT what order it belongs to as the antidotes are different.
No... it doesnt. Maybe in 1 of 5k instances. Being that upward of 50% of such bites occur on collectors that own snakes outside the areas in which they have any reason to stock antivenom for them. If you have 1 bite thats wet, and you yourself arent in possession of the needed juice, you are likely dead. Five wet bites mean you were fooling with more than one snake very likely, youd better hope that they were the same kind because if its even two different species you just got elected mayor or fucktville. And if its more than 2 snakes of the same species you just increased manifold your chances of being a collector thats not in easy reach of the juice, because these snakes are exactly social so having five together and getting bitten by them all at once or in rapid succession is really unlikely in the wild.
So whether its 1 or 5 species, if you have five bites from snakes, you need to be setting your affairs in order. You only go to the hospital if your are just trying to die in a way thats convenient for others.
metamorphicorder You smugly responded to a years-old comment and completely missed their point. Getting bit by multiple snakes isn’t the issue, it’s the fact that misidentifying what you were bit by can mean your death, as there’s a good chance the antivenin for one species won’t work for another.
Bites by native species still happen, and in areas where several seriously venomous species live (not enormously uncommon), properly identifying which species the bite was from is imperative.
@@OakenTome That was obvious enough I think it was okay to mostly ignore it. But their point about 5 bites is true- there's likely no point in even bothering to go to a hospital at that point. But for a single bite, yes, try as hard as you can to kill the snake and bring it in with you (mind the head, they can still bite and will inject ALL their venom in that state so if it was a dry bite before it certainly won't be then!) or take a photo or something.
... Don't try to catch a snake you can't identify y'all. To be safe, don't go NEAR snakes that you can't identify. The snake does not want to be near you either, it will leave you alone or try to get away from you. Altho yes, if you insist on keeping incredibly deadly reptiles most ppl really shouldn't, have antivenin bc your local hospital will just look at you like "well iunno, it's a king cobra!" (Unless you happen to be in Asia)
I'll never forget the clip of a brightly coloured mantis shrimp punching a crab so hard its leg starts to come off, and as a response to this, _the crab straight up rips the leg off and hands it to 'em_ like "please stop you can have my leg just don't kill me"
of course sea cucumbers aren't vegetables.
they're fruits.
I planted a sea cucumber tree in my back yard, but it never grew. Any suggestions on how much water to use? For some reason everyone says to throw the seed "back into the ocean."
You have to plant it in a sea backyard.
"Throw it back into the ocean" Haha get it? I'll walk myself out with my Cpt. Obvious cape...
You need to put salt around your seeds. Sea slugs will invade your garden at night and eat your sea cucumbers.
+Trenton Scaife That doesn't work, my salt wall got washed away by water and now those damn sea slugs are damaging my hard earned sea cucumbers again! Ah well, at least there's no sea bears around.
“Prepare to be disappointed... they’re knifefish” ok but I’m the opposite of disappointed because knifefish sound waaay cooler than eels
Stabby bois
Red pandas should've gotten a mention imo
Their classification is pretty interesting
I just commemted this too, was looking to see if anyone else had as well :)
Red pandas are the original panda though
@@alexlestrange8662 Weird to designate the "original" by color like that. Why aren't the other pandas designated the same way? I'm not arguing with you, just writing as I'm mulling that over, lol.
Fluffymiyster well the red pandas were the first to be named pandas(after a local language in Nepal where it was first sort of studied). The giant panda were 'found' fifty years later and were also called pandas because they both ate bamboos(the word panda came from nigalya ponya meaning something along the lines of bamboo eater). The giant panda is only found in China and it already had its own different name by the time it was 'discovered'. But then the name panda grew in popularity while referring to the giant panda and the black and white pandas became synonymous with the word 'panda' as the first(animals named) pandas went largely ignored(or at least less talked about) to the point that they started being called red pandas and lesser pandas and fake pandas which is highly unfair I tell ya
@@alexlestrange8662 Aww, poor babies were swept under the rug. But thank you for the information! And I happen to like red pandas more if for nothing else than they're forgotten more. They look like red raccoons but hopefully less ornery.
...And then there's the interesting anime Aggretsuko, about a red panda adulting, lol. I think they're slowly making their way back to popularity but I didn't know they were the originals.
What's john going to do when he finds out that mountain goats arent really goats?
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Write a book?
Oh snap
TheGinginator14 Can somebody explain this?
dragozal The Mountain Goats is the name of John Green's favorite band
Next time you go to the natural history museum or aquarium, be the guy who say "Actually they're not true cobras" and "Its not an actual eel, its a knife fish"
But let's keep a mongoose close anyway...
I already do that to my sister.
@@ginnyjollykidd And a mongoose is not a goose. Not even a bird at all. I won't address the mon part.
@@CAMacKenzie Mon Mothma isn't the mother of a moth either.
It seems like you can't trust anybody these days.
Electric eels aren't eels?!
How shocking.
Dad jokes
One more eelectricity pun and I'm gonna blow a fuse.
LOL good one
@@ag4162 Why would I reply to your *thunderous* comment
Sea lions aren't actually lions.
Sea lions also aren't actually seas.
#myhero Lauren thank you for letting me know I always got them confused.
Or the sea, there actually animals
Navy SEALS aren't actually seals. But imagine if they were.
you made my day
The whole "mountain lions are not real lions" is something I've known since I was a kid, so I've always referred to them as pumas or cougars.
The one that really surprised me was the king cobra not being a true cobra.
I didn't realize that pumas and panthers are in completely different subfamilies of Felidae. I always thought that a panther, a puma and Mountain Lion were all names for the same cat.
@@kinglyzard in india, leopards are called panthers. Many people call black leopards and black jaguars as panthers.
Brazilian here, native portuguese speaker.
Just to clarify, the phrase "Cobra de Capello" (5:29) means "Snake of the Hood" or Hooded Snake, just like you said it (although that is not common in Brazil, we just call them "Naja"). But the deal is the word "Cobra" just means "Snake", so the name mix up is even more understandable, since for us, every snake is a cobra! ;)
Spanish Sombreo means hat and to non-Spanish speakers it means Mexican hat with the wide brim.
Eu achava que Capello era espanhol, nunca escutei essa palavra antes
Jackrabbits are fascinating. They're born fully-furred, with eyes and ears open, and their mother leaves them all in their own individual hiding spots. They're expected to forage for much of their own sustenance. She then returns to them all to nurse around one to two times per day, for only about 4-5 days (!). Then, they're completely on their own.
That stage of their life couldn't be any more different from rabbits. 😳
But that's probably also why we're told to leave single baby rabbits alone. If they really were baby rabbits, they'd be blind and hairless, and smaller than the size of golf balls. And are almost NEVER seen, because they're hidden in nests, deep underground in warrens. Whereas, if they're actually jackrabbits, they're independent enough to definitely not need human intervention.
The wabbits (Cottontails) around here don't nest in burrows, just hollowed out ruts in the grass and in lawns.
One day (6 years ago).....
We lived in the mountains and one night I was in my room and I heard scratching at our front door I got up and looked out of the window and I saw a GINORMOUS mountain lion I was like 5 so I didn't know what to do. My mom got up and asked me why I was up I told her look out the window and she said go to sleep but I didn't want to and when she took me to school the next morning we saw a bunch of dead birds and turns out are old house had a doggie door and the mountain lion was trying to get in and we moved about a week later.
Ok, that's scary. I'm sure your mom was terrified. Glad you are ok.
I was privileged to see a Florida panther (a very rare subspecies of puma) while riding in the Southern Tandem Rally back whenever it was. My stoker couldn't get the video camera into play before the cat saw two of bicycles-for-two another bike was drafting us) and bounded into the brush.
You mentioned the size of the mountain lion.
The Florida panther had been scavenging a road-kill carcass near the centerline a,d when I spotted it , the crooked tip of the tail was over the edge of the pavement
~ZeFrank voice~ Here are true facts about the mantis shrimp....
miss him
what happened to him :(
joined buzzfeed
not sure why. Buzzfeed is horrible....
here are true facts about BuzzFeed
he joined buzzfeed because he'd earn a fuckton of money from all them crappy clickbait videos
Mountain chicken better be on here!
Never mind lol
GradeAUnderA xD
+FuckMotheringVampire lol yeah, your point? xD
+FuckMotheringVampire how doesn't he stop lying? he tweets once a month and uploads a satirical video every week.. no idea what you're talking about.
It was on another scishow show along with the amorphalas Lily.
Fun fact: the Latin name for the cobra is pronounced Nai-uh, with a soft j. My dad was a herpetologist for the San Diego zoo and named me after the Indian cobra, or Naja Naja
There is also a Naja Grass, an aquatic plant used in fishtanks.
Excellent breeding media for fish like guppies.
Also called Guppy Grass.
There's a group of snake deities called Nagas in Indian mythology. Looks like the Latin and Sanskrit words are related. The hard g could easily morph into the semi vowel y between the 2 vowels across time and dialects. The Thai word for snake is /ngu/. Thai is interesting because it's a bit of a blend of Sinitic and Indo European vocabulary on account of the influence Buddhism and its liturgical language, Pali, has had upon the substrate tonal, monosyllabic Thai dialects. Everyday Thai has many words that derive from Pali which came from Sanskrit and are Indo European. /Ngu/ for "snake" might be one such word. (The Chinese word for snake is 蛇 shí but that's today. Chinese has a huge vocabulary and changes things up from time to time but ngu sure looks like a cognate. The Thai word for Naga, the snake deity, is /Nakh/ so they traded the g of Sanskrit for its allophone k and dropped the second vowel. Thai has plenty of polysyllabic words these days, unlike its cousin over yonder however it is still highly monosyllabic and drops letters from words frequently. Sorry, for rambling. what I was trying to say is: Cool name, Naia!
@@76rjackson no that’s super cool! My dad said that my name, in Latin, is actually derived from the Sanskrit word!
Unless they answer us back, it doesn't really matter what we call them.
Ah, so these were the days *before* your rise to pun-power? Curious.
Anteaters in Germany are called "Ameisenbär(en)", which translates to "ant bear" - yet they are neither ants nor bears, their closest relatives are sloths...
They aren't ants, but they sure as hell are eaters!
There are many unrelated animals called anteaters, because that's what they do. You're thinking of the giant anteaters, pygmy anteaters, and tamanduas. They're related to sloths.
This summer I was at the park and some people in front of me freaking out about a bug. One person did a google search and announced that it was a himmingbird hawk-moth. Another person asked, 100% seriously, "Is it more moth or more hummingbird?" They debated this for ten whole minutes.
At some point during their conversation, someone said, "I didn't know hawks and moths could breed."
It was absolutely astounding. I almost chimed in but I really wanted to see if they'd figure it out themselves. They did not.
You should do a similar video, except about fruit/vegetables! Like how strawberries aren't berries but bananas are, tomatoes are botanically-considered to be fruit, and how apples aren't "true fruit". And how potatoes aren't vegetables, whereas sweet potatoes are.
Killer whales aren't actually whales. And whales aren't from Wales.
Killer whales are dolphins, yes. They share family, dolphinidae; but all dolphins share infraorder (a "sub" order), catecea, which belongs to all water dwelling mammals AKA whales.
By the same logic, manatees are whales, too. Technically.
[Looks to camera] We'll be back after these messages...
you forgot to mention that Wales is allso not full of whales
Ulfric Stormcloak Killer whales are actually whales, since whale can be used as a term to call basically every member in the cetacea family. This means dolphins can be called whales as well.
Robbi Irvine Nope, manatees aren't cetacae so they can't be considered as whales (same logic for why seals and sealions aren't whales). They're waaaaayyy more closely related to elephants than to whales actually.
when he said king cobras weren't even cobras I sat down and rethought life
"And mountain goats, which you may have guessed are not mountains."
"I'VE BEEN LEAD ASTRAY!"
I think the winner is the Italian name for shrews: "toporagno" or "spider mouse"
Neither spider nor mouse but definitely the coolest name.
Maybe it's because it's European portuguese, but here in Brazil, "snake with a hood" would be "cobra com capuz"
So, Bugs Bunny is a Hare after all
He's actually a Wabbit. Although it sounds like Rabbit, it's actually more closely relate to the Hare.
Kill da wabit kill da wabit kill da wabit
He's shaped like a hare, but spiritually he's a cartoony bunny. So he's technically both
Bunny does not denote rabbit
Oxford English Dictionary
bunny
NOUN
plural bunnies
informal
1 A child's term for a rabbit.
A small correction. Cobra in portuguese actually means snake. "Cobra de capello" as shown in the video is archaic portuguese for snake with a hood or hat. In portuguese any snake is a cobra, but cobras (in the english sense) are usually referred as "naja", based on the mitological "Naga".
Guinea Pigs?
Water Bears?
Black people or white people?
That's way to obvious
Killer whales
Don't ruin the, for me.
Electric knife fish sounds cooler
you forgot koala bears. they're not bears and yet many American and I assume European folks call them koala bears
They're vaguely bear shaped and I don't think I've ever met anyone ignorant enough to think such a marsupial was a type of bear.
That's what's called a nickname. Just like how nobody thinks mountain lions are actual lions. You are very obviously just jumping onto the "lets hate on whites" bandwagon.
Doc Brown Hate on whites? lol! then what are Australian and new Zealanders? they are the white folk that get annoyed with Americans calling koalas "koala bears".
Patrick McCurry your world must be very nice. where you from?
but koalas are koalas, only you guys call them koala "bears"...
"Goats and beavers both have fur, therefore they are the same animal"
-comment section
"Fish and beavers both live in the water, therefore they are the same thing."
- Catholics
"Bats and birds have wings, therefore they are the same thing" - also OT
Doritos and cheetos rhyme therefore they rhyme.
"Dinosaurs and mammoths are both big skeletons therefore they are the same thing"
Real scientists and Deepak Chopra use the same words, therefore they are equally right.
"scientists are always classifying and reclassifying things" So you're telling me there's hope for poor pluto?
ShopTalk no,if we add him,we would need to add the other 1000+ proplanets.
Miao Music that’s what I was thinking
No.
Pluto has 5 moons which is more like a planet. So a little hope.
Think of it this way. Pluto went from being the smallest and least understood planet to now being the biggest and most important of all dwarf planets and Kuiper Belt objects.
One Punch Shrimp
The lady bug is called "mariehøne" in Danish which translates to "Marie chicken", the common blackbird is called "solsort" which translates to "sun black" and a sloth is called "dovendyr" which translates directly to "lazy animal". I haven't a clue why the first two are named like that. We Danes give stuff wierd names
You forgot the best name for mountain lions! They're occasionally referred to as "mountain screamers" which is the best possible name for anything ever
That sounds like a roller coaster
- Then come the mountain goats which, you guessed it...
- Aren't mountains
- Aren't goats
- Yes, that... That was my second guess...
Killer Whales aren't actually whales.
Well, sorta. Porpoises are whales, and killer whales are porpoises, therefore killer whales are whales.
he has a great voice for asmr
Whales, porpoises, and dolphins are all members of Cetacea. They’re all cetaceans, which are big aquatic mammals.
whales is an informal grouping that specifically excludes dolphins and porpoises, including the killer whale.
"killer whale" as we call it is actually just a bad translation from its original, spanish name, which should actually be translated as "whale killer". The 'whale' part of its name was never even meant to signify that it was a whale itself.
Josh Adams Porpoises are cetaceans but aren't whales
7:20
“Even the octopus, who is quite a badass, can’t deal with these little psycho bastards.”
-You know where this quote is from
If you're surrounded by a group of king cobras, they must be of the royal order... and you're royally boned
I really appreciate how specific and technical you guys are willing to get.
The amount of information you present in just a few minutes goes up so much and I learn far more about how to contextually the information you give me because of it.
Please keep it up. I love SciShow.
Grade A under A video on naming animals made me laugh, just remembered it while watching this.
Well versed in subject and straightforward. Appreciated for a dose of interesting education in my day. Thank-you!
Well done on the description of the King Cobra. It's great to be exposing the public to such technicalities to bring awareness to diversity. It helps to teach people such things like "not all snakes or all spiders are bad."
In regards to the detailed descriptions when comparing (which I'm a big fan of) it may help to emphasize illustrations. Even if they are basic drawings, as probably not everyone on youtube is fluent in their familiarity with anatomical positions.
There’s some alternate universe where American settlers got the species right and instead of Jackrabbits they called them Ass Hares.
My distant relatives live in Dominica and a couple of years ago I went ... the made me 'mountain chicken' and when I found out I felt so disgusted
Well then, how about some Rocky Mountain oysters?;)
why would you be disgusted? Frogs taste good
The dingleberry sprinkled dessert didn't make up for it, I reckon?.
People eat frogs in many cultures. They have frog legs in American buffets. While I personally don't eat them, I hear they're quite delicious.
its like a fishy chicken wing
SciShow: "Up next we have mountain goats which are - you guessed it -"
me: "not mountains!!"
SS: "Not goats."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
cucumbers are a fruit, not vegetable.
Vegetable is just an arbitrary term, doesn't really mean anything other than it's an edible plant.
Cucumbers are a plant, not an animal.
+ That leetri guy yep you got it
Holy H that might actually be legit and it blows my mind. Veggies = things on the plant that we eat like roots, stems and leaves. Fruits are made as seed vessels after a flower is pollinated. This makes okra a fruit as well and that bugs the H outta me.
+That Leetri Guy It's not arbitrary at all, it's well defined. A vegetable an edible part of a plant. It's basically the "meat" of a plant, where a fruit is the "egg" of a plant.
In German, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian a hippopotamus is called a river horse (direct translation), but now I am not so sure anymore about its horse ancestors ;-).
In Dutch it is a horse from the Nile.
What about the crab eating seal? Never eats crabs haha
"Decapoda" is the coolest order name that exists. Scientists probably looked at the large claws of a lobster and said "those look like they can decapitate"
Liked the artwork you used to show the classification hierarchies. Hope to see it again.
I have a feeling that a lot of elongated fish have been called 'eel' whether they're in any way related to each other or not...kinda like how a lot of animals we call 'worms' are likewise not related to each other at all.
It's best not to think to much about the naming of things that swim. Even the term fish is problematic
I was kinda hoping for the 'tarantula' since they are not even close to being related to true tarantulas, which are a subspecies of wolf spiders. If anything, they're the furthest you can be from a wolf spider if you stay within the realm of spiders.
Wait what? Tarantulas are not tarantulas?!? Shouldn't the tarantula family be based AROUND the tarantula?
Jesus They're not, tarantulas (lycosa tarantula) are some of the biggest spiders in the wolf spider family (excluding Aragog, which clearly is a wolf spider as well). but what we call tarantulas (family of Theraphosidae, which isn't even in the same infra-order as lycosa tarantula) are in most languages called differently. In German, Danish, Dutch and possibly other germanic languages, it translates back to 'bird spider'. In English, only the 'goliath bird eater' is called a 'bird eater'. The term 'primitive spider' is used as well, but that is usually ment to indicate all mygalomorphae (infra-order that theraphosidae belong to, but that would include funnel web spiders and other reasons why I'm glad I don't live in australia)
Anyway, they are vastly different in behaviour and anatomy. Theraphosidea have downward facing fangs, are generally slow, are functionally almost blind, have downward facing fangs that are mainly used for offence, not defence (unlike pincher-fang spiders) and keep their young in an egg sack.
Lycosa tarantula are fast, have much better and bigger eyes, thinner legs (especially at the end), smaller body-to-leg ratio and carry their spiderlings on their back.
The reason for the misnomer is most likely the way they set traps, which is almost identical: they make a hole, make a web on the ground, and wait for insects to land on it so they can attack (along with the fact that both spiders are huge and hairy). Lycosa tarantula has a much stronger web, though.
Interesting fact regarding big cats... Evolution allows for only one of two options (with the possible exception of the snow leopard)... You can either roar OR purr, you cannot do both!!! 😸
Okay scichow, I have a direct follow up question. if we think that rabbits and hares developed their similar traits separately instead of from a common ancestor, I'm curious to know, who got the traits first rabbits or hairs and which branch saw what the other one was doing and followed suit
Evolution isn't real.
Are you saying one of them is a copyCAT?
one of my favourite "nonsense" examples along this line is the house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata). In german, it is literally called "spider woodlouse", but as the english correctly states, is a centipede and neither a spider nor a woodlouse (which, speaking of double weirdness, is not a louse = insect but a crustacean).
Really nice video, and exactly the kind of topic I could discuss about for hours.
I didn't know Rabbits and Hares were different....
Well then...
Gene Cha
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Just remember that the hares always have hairs, right from birth.
In my country there's a word that roughly translates to "rooftop-hare". In times of starvation that word was used to disguise the fact, that the meat on the table actually came from a cat.
Where do you live? that sounds really interesting... (kind of sad, but interesting.)
That first jackrabbit picture is one of the animal photos that I warp when I get bored. What a coincidence!
1:42 - So for the past 12 to 16 million years, scientists thought that some of their similar traits developed separately in different species of rabbits and hares? First of all, I didn't know that scientists were around that long. And second, that's some fucked up science if the scientists' similar traits came from rabbits and hares.
Honorable mention should go to lantern sharks. Despite being super cool, they're actually not real lanterns.
The mantis shrimp is the best animal hands down.
The mountain chicken is a glorious name and was wisely chosen. Love it!
How about Mexican chickens?...which are actually iguanas
I guess we’re not talking sage grouse here.
It is amazing how much time people have spent organizing animals by these tiny little differences.
on the note of cougars, we have had a lot of sightings recently about 20-40 miles north of Milwaukee Wisconsin. pretty cool until you see tracks by your apartment complex
Another one for the list: the Portuguese Man of War isn't a jellyfish, it's a colony of organisms working together.
to be fair, it never says it's a jelly fish in the name, we just assumed
Well it's not a Man of War and I'm pretty sure it's not Portuguese either.
jellyfish, not a fish made out of jelly, it is apperantly not jealous either.
It's not a man. Never participate in wars and arnt Portuguese. ( Name comes from a type of ship though)
I thought it was a progressive metal band member kicked out for not knowing English.
When he said "electric eels... are electric," I want to say "Boogie woogie woogie!"
*Pedants' Corner*
By common consent, things _are_ what we call them..
Mantis shrimp are super animals. They have 16 different types of color receptors in their eyes and, as he mentioned, punch like bullets.
Cobra is actually the Portuguese name for any cobra. The Portuguese name for "cobra with a hood" is actually "Naja", how do I know it ? Well I'm fluent in Portuguese :P.
It also kinda bothers me that they used the spanish translation of snake with a hood instead of the actual portuguese one.
but to the outsider spanish = portuguese. we tend to find it funny yall want to make the distinction.
Anun Kash I suppose so. Doesn't help that 90% of portuguese speakers are in South America.
o certo é bolacha
Deffinnition
Bolacha na sua cara :P
Your voice is wonderful to listen to! I'd listen to any book that you read aloud! Fun episode thanks!
The one that suprised me the most was the electric eel... I honestly thought they were actual eels.
Thank you once again. Always so delighted by your fine work. Excellent and delightful. You are such a wonderful teacher. Take care
"Gooey duck", Michael. Do you really expect me to believe that is how "geoduck" is pronounced?
Really?
That is how its pronounced, the spelling I have no clue why its like that, although it is sometimes called _goeduck_.
ZombieBarioth I reject your reality, and substitute my own. :)
Skeletor Jopko
Really, what's it like?
ZombieBarioth Dark and twisted, mostly.
And by that I mean magical.
It was actually a geodude but had to change the name because copyright
I'm German, and in the German language we call turtles and tortoises "Schildkröten" (plural, singular is "Schildkröte") - "shield-toads".
I love Sci-Show and really am sad to point one thing out: You forgot "prairie dogs!"
I think a seal is just a neutral sea lion. Neutral, as in without an ion.
3:50
Female Lions can also have a mane, can't they?
no
In some rare cases, yeah, but I think it's more like human women having more facial hair than "normal". A little rare but it happens.
(That's just the thought off the top of my head, don't quote me)
Only lesbian lions.
I went to Colorado in 2015 and the mountain goat was one of the main animals I was looking for in the wild because it’s too hard to see big horn sheep unless you’re right up on them because bighorn sheep are too well camouflaged against the mountains Mountain goats are camouflaged too but nowhere near as well as the bighorn sheep💯
Spanish moss? (THROWBACK TO LAST YEAR'S PSAT)
Some lionesses have manes, due to a mutation, which is promoted by prides having greater territorial power with more male lions, or the perception of it since these mutant lionesses also act like males, but are treated by their own pride as a lioness.
What's in a name? A Cobra by any other name would still bite the same!
So... now I know where the term "cougar" came from. 😆
I'm glad that Michael is hosting this one because when I saw the title I was expecting Olivia - I like her a lot, but she's been "typecast" into the animal videos. Maybe I'm just extra sensitive as a female scientist, though, so take that observation with a grain of salt.
Love your channel and content despite what this comment may suggest 💖
But what if she likes doing the animal videos more?
I misread that as "what if she likes doing animals more". I think I need help ....
Having lived in AB and BC 🇨🇦 (western Canada), I have seen MANy mountain goats. As a former hunter I have seen “Jack Rabbits” from Alberta to the Arctic Circle.
my only glimpse of a Mountain Lion(cougar locally) was th back side, as it went into a gully. It was enormous!
I was unfortunate to see a King Cobra while in Cambodia, it was enormous and nothing I wanted to see up close.
Great episode. 🇨🇦 Army Veteran.
But why do I have animal misnomers around my anus?
pics pls
or, better, words i understand
+brian554xx What word did he use that one couldn't understand :'D
Okay, this joke is getting really old.
ShadeSlayer1911 Why do I have unoriginal jokes around my anus?
A rose by any other name smells just as sweet.
But pro tip, when ordering from the florist, the name matters. Switch the name rose for the name corpse flower and it will not smell just as sweet.
a koala is not really a bear. its actually a rat in a bear suit...
Koalas are cute until you hear them mating while you are sleeping.
Or until you see them eat their own poop.
or when you find out that half of them have chlamydia
2:17 totally first thought " aren't mountains." come on, joke missed XD
but real cucumbers aren't vegetables either
I liked this episode more, than many other "explain" shows done by You, in the past.
Hermit crabs aren't actually crabs.
I have crabs
Brien, also not crabs.
Tom H
No, because I love watching ponies who react to stupid shit. One of the reasons my name is what it is. I enjoy triggering ponies like you.
I'm a brony. Cry about it. I can actually taste the cringe, it's so potent
I'm a brony. Cry about it. I don't even have the self-deprecational capabilities to consider saying such a statement
Number 8 could be the Penguin. Penguino was the Portuguese name for what we call the Great Auk. It was a large flightless, black and white member of the Puffin family that lived all around the North Atlantic. Sadly it's now extinct. When sailors and explorers reach the Southern Ocean and found what we now call Penguins, they noticed the similarities and assumed it was the same type of bird.
Mmmmmh... geoduck... now I'm hungry.
Also, kudos for pronouncing it correctly, most non-Northwesterners get it wrong.
"gee-oh-duck" *weeps*
geodude
It's more like northwesterners get it wrong. Eo != ooey.
The name geoduck is derived from the Lushootseed language spoken by the Coast Salish tribes. It has somewhat different pronunciation rules.
Adam Stansbury
Which has nothing to do with the English spelling of the word. I don't mispronounce it, but it is a stupid way to spell it.
"MOUNTAIN CHCKEN"?? What a synchronicity.. I've been seeing qa lot of toads recently, and just the other day, I started thinking about how frogs and toads are so similar to chickens (they're both short and stocky, their mouths are like chicken beaks, they have muscular thighs, they hop, they puff themselves up, and even the way they sit looks like a chicken lol..). (Also, geese are like snakes, since their necks move like snakes, they face small, round heads, and they hiss.. I just noticed u started talking about snakes when I started writing this last part lol)..
I've been saying it for years: there's no such thing as a fish.
you are the Don Quijote of internet
Why thank you (totally did not have to google who Don Quijote is...)
Don Quixote (in english)
Of course there's such thing as fish! We just happen to be included...
Giraffes aren't real.
You're surrounded by cobras, what do you do? I draw my electric knifefish!