The story about the warblers coexisting and finding ways to live around each other's needs to avoid competition is really beautiful and made me a little teary.
I can't believe you guys! Haters, Back off! Hank DOES know what he is talking about, look it up, and he makes it so you don't have to spend an hour learning it. So if you don't like it, don't watch it, but you don't have to be rude.
Thank you for your videos.Since discovering crash course, my grade went from a B to an A. Your examples are easy to remember and your charisma helps me to remember details.
Wow, tough to understand as I'm french (yeah, french people and english you know...) BUT KEEP THE SUBTITLES AVAILABLE ! By the way, wonderful illustrations (images and jokes !) and the content is crystal clear so keep it up, we need more courses like that on the internet and particularly in ecology and evolution ! Now let's push the complexity further and you will be my first-channel-to-check everyday for the rest of my Master (in ecology, of course ^^) ;)
Awesome explanation, for the first time in my life I am finding ecology interesting. Keep up the good work and ignore the morons crying about pronunciations.
I watch these as background noise. I've taken the courses and remember the content well but it's pleasurable to hear it all again in a more casual atmosphere and in a much much more enjoyable manner.
While you were teaching by the sunflowers Hank sir, I suddenly thought of the hunter gatherers who started farming 1,2000 years ago and how they learnt and struggled. And now here we are - teaching millions across the world about nutrient competition by transferring millions of images into the atmosphere as internet signal. MY GOD. I had a proud tear in my eye, even though my 14 years on Earth make a practically non-existent time in our history. :) Don't you agree that we indeed should change our Gregorian calender to 12017, as Kurgesagt suggests? Thank you once again, for this video. You crack me right up.
I'm glad crash course is doing ecology, as I find it much easier (and more fun) to watch than crash course biology. It means I can now watch Hank's videos as well as John's :)
It really depends on what you major in to be honest. If you have a degree in gender studies for example, then that statement will most likely apply to you whereas if you have an engineering degree,for example, it's less likely
Great work! Didn't know that much about the Niche concept. You forgot to emphasize that commensalism and mutualism are forms of Symbiosis and that there's also parasitism.
Thank you, Hank, for not going into the controversy of weird scientist who do not believe in competition. I hear about it non-stop in my ecology class -.-
You can tell the birds in the background of the intro are layover sounds because every scene they switch, all the audio but the birds are cut. Not sure why i recognized this but i feel kinda proud.
When I made that comment two months ago, almost every visible comment was about watching these videos for school. Hence my feeling of aloneness at the time xp I'm glad to see there are many of us who are interested in the subject matter ^^
While everyone else worries about the pronunciation of niche, I'm curious about the pronunciation of mycorrhizae. Scientific names for plant families or insect suborders also get me--every instructor says these differently. But I guess that's allowed for a dead language. Besides, once a foreign word is adopted into another language, the rules change. It's like how octopus can be octopi, octopuses, or octopodes. If you just want the English plural, octopuses is technically correct. Therefore, "neesh" and "nitch" are both valid.
I LOVE THESE VIDEOS. You make these so exclusive. Idea for when you get to succession (because, let's face it, you will)- TERRAFORMING. Terraforming is like, the ultimate succession.
I wonder if resource partitioning is built into or appeared in human genes as a defence mechanism against competitive exclusion. Maybe culture and different tastes?
i dont think so. having diff tastes is prob due to the dispersion of humans and what they found naturally growing in their area whereas culture is similar but also came from religion
Ecology and economics are not intrinsically opposed as intuition suggests. Academically, they both describe the distribution of limited resources among potentially unlimited wants. One can essentially model economics as a special case of ecology with a focus on Homo sapiens. The trick to reconciling the two is realizing that not all competition is a zero sum game, then finding a point where economic and environmental health can be sustained. Ignoring either will be disastrous for the other.
There's a Crash Course: Biology on this. He uses animalia, plantae, fungae, and Protista as the four kingdoms within then eukaryote super kingdom (I forget the correct term). Bacteria and archaebacteria are separate.
My teacher explained fundamental and realized niche's different. So now im confused @_@ (Fundamental niche - the total range of environmental conditions that are suitable for a species existence. Realized niche - the range of environmental conditions that a species actually occupies. )
Hank does have a master's degree in environmental studies and is biochemistry major though. He does have some scientific training and the show is written with the help of people who teach ecology and biology.
I had about a dozen replies with expletives or saying I was simply wrong. Yours was the only one that actually explained. I've gone through college level chem and only ever heard it pronounced aluminum (that's without the i) except in bbc videos (at which everyone in class laughed). "Aluminium" is also dinged in spell check for me and I got dinged for it once in a lab writeup. I'm sorry that makes me a bad person.
Since a lot of people in the comments are asking: mutualism, commensalism and parasitism are all technically types of symbiosis. When the term is used loosely, "symbiosis" tends to refer to mutualism.
crash course is absolutely amazing and if you don't think so, you can leave instead of trying to point out every little pronunciation error or little-known tidbit of obscure info that he just happens to not know. screw all the nonbelievers.
i'd have expected mention of farmer ants in this topic, i mean they're basically ants that do the same that humans do, keeping other animals and 'milking' them for honeydew. or it gets even better with a certain species of ants. (following is copy pasted from wikipedia) An interesting variation in ant-aphid relationships involves lycaenid butterflies and Myrmica ants. For example, Niphanda fusca butterflies lay eggs on plants where ants tend herds of aphids. The eggs hatch as caterpillars which feed on the aphids. The ants do not defend the aphids from the caterpillars but carry the caterpillars to their nest. In the nest, the ants feed the caterpillars, which produce honeydew for the ants. When the caterpillars reach full size, they crawl to the colony entrance and form cocoons. After two weeks, butterflies emerge and take flight.
I love Hank's videos, his job as a teacher, and the way he is, but understanding him when the words are just cascading from his mouth, is really, really hard when you try to actually absorb what he teaches while not being a native speaker in English. Subtitles are not the perfect solution.
By looking at nature we can better understand ourselves. Animals don't have inhibitions that would hold most humans back so by looking at them we can try to see the world through a more simple and easier to understand veiw.
The element was first termed Alumium by Humphry Davy in 1808, before he settled into calling it Aluminum by 1812- While the postfix -ium had a precedent in at least six other elements at the time, there were at least platinum, molybdenum and Tantalum as examples for the -um convention The -um suffix is consistent with the spelling of its alumina oxide, as lanthana, magnesia, ceria, and thoria for the oxides of lanthanum magnesium, cerium, and thorium respectively.
The thing is the word is originally French, hence the awkward pronunciation. So I guess you can pronounce it the way you like once it's been integrated in your language, but the standard accepted pronunciation would be following French phonolgy, that is with a long "eee" sound to mimic the French "i", followed by a "shh" sound, since the sound "tch" doesn't occur naturally in French pronunciation (except for foreign words like "patch" that were obviously borrowed).
Yeah I would agree that applies definitely for the same language spoken with different accidents in different regions. Like French in France, Canada, and Africa have different accents, or Spanish in Mexico vs Spain. But for words that originate from a different language, like a Chinese or Arabic word or name, I usually try pronounce it the way they would because that is just how I am, and seems more proper to pronounce those in their native language accent.
When he talks about the four kingdoms, he means the 4 eukaryote kingdoms. He also sometimes talks about the other two domains. The 4 kingdoms are Fungi, Protists, Plants, and Animals.
niche (google translate sais nee-shh, dictionary com sais nitch) comes from the French "niche" (nee-she) with a very short e at the end, like the German "Niesche" (nee-she) with a short e at the end. (The short e is not like in "she" or "thee", but "the". )
I love the Table of Contents stuff! Does the stuff in those table of contents somehow link to what you search? Like if I searched R vs K should it bring up the Human Population Growth video?
www.google.com/#q=niche Hit the pronunciation button and you'll quickly find you're wrong. It comes from French but this is American English so the e is silent.
It's seems like you're the only one that finds it a problem. Words change pronunciation all the time. Sometimes it is for stupid reasons or stupid people. Why is "fishes" now considered acceptable as the plural form of fish? Cuz of stupid people saying it until it becomes accepted. There are some things we need to get used or let go so that we can focus our time an energy on something more important. His message is more important than his pronunciation.
Jodie653 I picked up on the same N-ITCH thing. In the UK it is phonetically pronounced N-EE-SHH, which I much prefer to the American N-ITCH - no doubt that is my local conditioning. Ultimately though unless we all become language conservationists our languages will always change. Saying that there are loads of words Americans have got 'wrong', so now you lot over there speak American English which us Brits find quite amusing at times. Maybe its a kind of CEP thing where we all have to sound and speak slightly differently in order to retain individuality/uniqueness on a county and then personal level. How boring would it be if we all sounded and spoke the same? Evolution of language would end.
Nitch and Neesh are both correct pronunciations. No aspect of linguistics is static, by it's nature it is dynamic. Saying that the American or European way of pronouncing Niche is wrong is like saying that a southern accent is an improper way of talking.
I'm writing a paper applying concepts of the ecological niche to J.G. Ballard's High-Rise. It's like a wicked combination of John and Hank. English and Science.
hey come on, stop being such a prescriptivist! language isn't an unchanging perfect creation; it changes over time. hop on aboard the train of linguistic descriptivism and accept all the "mis"pronunciations as nothing more but random mutations which may or may not turn out to be useful for the survival of the language.
"biology is all about sex and not dying."
I love Crash Course.
How old r u now doctor witten
I can't understand him when he talks too fast. Thanks dude for the subtitles, really appreciate it.
Who got assigned to this while in quarantine?
@Yado Lina lol
I did.
Yado Lina my school has two thirty minute assignments a week so for pap biology we watch these videos then take a quiz/test
I'm a bio teacher assigning this right now :)
Me. Lmao
The story about the warblers coexisting and finding ways to live around each other's needs to avoid competition is really beautiful and made me a little teary.
I wouldn't be able to bear school without Hank ;-;
Best person on the planet atm
I can't believe you guys! Haters, Back off! Hank DOES know what he is talking about, look it up, and he makes it so you don't have to spend an hour learning it. So if you don't like it, don't watch it, but you don't have to be rude.
Thank you for your videos.Since discovering crash course, my grade went from a B to an A. Your examples are easy to remember and your charisma helps me to remember details.
Wow, tough to understand as I'm french (yeah, french people and english you know...) BUT KEEP THE SUBTITLES AVAILABLE ! By the way, wonderful illustrations (images and jokes !) and the content is crystal clear so keep it up, we need more courses like that on the internet and particularly in ecology and evolution !
Now let's push the complexity further and you will be my first-channel-to-check everyday for the rest of my Master (in ecology, of course ^^) ;)
Awesome explanation, for the first time in my life I am finding ecology interesting. Keep up the good work and ignore the morons crying about pronunciations.
I watch these as background noise. I've taken the courses and remember the content well but it's pleasurable to hear it all again in a more casual atmosphere and in a much much more enjoyable manner.
"Rub each-others' backs for nutritious favors."
While you were teaching by the sunflowers Hank sir, I suddenly thought of the hunter gatherers who started farming 1,2000 years ago and how they learnt and struggled. And now here we are - teaching millions across the world about nutrient competition by transferring millions of images into the atmosphere as internet signal. MY GOD. I had a proud tear in my eye, even though my 14 years on Earth make a practically non-existent time in our history. :)
Don't you agree that we indeed should change our Gregorian calender to 12017, as Kurgesagt suggests?
Thank you once again, for this video.
You crack me right up.
I'm glad crash course is doing ecology, as I find it much easier (and more fun) to watch than crash course biology. It means I can now watch Hank's videos as well as John's :)
Millenials in a nutshell: "It's not what they studied for in college, but it makes a decent living"
Queen of Generalization....
It really depends on what you major in to be honest. If you have a degree in gender studies for example, then that statement will most likely apply to you whereas if you have an engineering degree,for example, it's less likely
Great work! Didn't know that much about the Niche concept. You forgot to emphasize that commensalism and mutualism are forms of Symbiosis and that there's also parasitism.
I'm so glad there is a biography in this episode. They were my favorite part of the biology course.
Hank Green: Campaigning to get "meh" a valid scientific measurement since 2012.
Ending up in different job. Realized niche. That's some harsh reality
Thank you, Hank, for not going into the controversy of weird scientist who do not believe in competition. I hear about it non-stop in my ecology class -.-
As someone who enjoys studying economics, I think ecology is so very similar when you think about it.
l love all of the videos... thank you for your teaching! Way cool.
Nice video, you speak faster than anyone but clearly. Thank you really helpful
Hank, kneeling outdoors was such a cliche science show host thing to do.
We nerds are so proud of you.
I got to watch this is Bio class today and I nearly crapped myself when Hank poped up. My teacher thought i was crazy
You can tell the birds in the background of the intro are layover sounds because every scene they switch, all the audio but the birds are cut. Not sure why i recognized this but i feel kinda proud.
Thanks!! I have a bio test in two days. This has helped immensely.
When I made that comment two months ago, almost every visible comment was about watching these videos for school. Hence my feeling of aloneness at the time xp I'm glad to see there are many of us who are interested in the subject matter ^^
this is quite helpful since I have an AP biology test on ecology this Thursday so it is a nice review, keep up the amazing work Hank :D
love this show, im currently studying environmental biology and these videos are a summary of what ive been learning all semester :)
Busy doing my lab report. Was actually praying for some new Hank to cheer me up and WOOP! this just got uploaded :D :D :D
I am soooo loving this Ecology course! Challenge to Crash Course Ecology: Barnacle Benefit to Whale> Yes or No? If Yes, what is the benefit?
While everyone else worries about the pronunciation of niche, I'm curious about the pronunciation of mycorrhizae. Scientific names for plant families or insect suborders also get me--every instructor says these differently. But I guess that's allowed for a dead language. Besides, once a foreign word is adopted into another language, the rules change. It's like how octopus can be octopi, octopuses, or octopodes. If you just want the English plural, octopuses is technically correct. Therefore, "neesh" and "nitch" are both valid.
Barnacle armor, +1 against piercing attacks, +2 against detection, -1 to speed. Size: 10XL.
I LOVE THESE VIDEOS. You make these so exclusive. Idea for when you get to succession (because, let's face it, you will)- TERRAFORMING. Terraforming is like, the ultimate succession.
watching hank at school, in biology class, best class ever!!!
I wonder if resource partitioning is built into or appeared in human genes as a defence mechanism against competitive exclusion. Maybe culture and different tastes?
i dont think so. having diff tastes is prob due to the dispersion of humans and what they found naturally growing in their area whereas culture is similar but also came from religion
I love hank so much. I started watching vlogbrothers to warm up. Learning is fun. YAY!
Definitely enjoying CC Ecology! Keep it up.
great video, great info, great humour.
Ecology and economics are not intrinsically opposed as intuition suggests. Academically, they both describe the distribution of limited resources among potentially unlimited wants. One can essentially model economics as a special case of ecology with a focus on Homo sapiens. The trick to reconciling the two is realizing that not all competition is a zero sum game, then finding a point where economic and environmental health can be sustained. Ignoring either will be disastrous for the other.
There's a Crash Course: Biology on this. He uses animalia, plantae, fungae, and Protista as the four kingdoms within then eukaryote super kingdom (I forget the correct term). Bacteria and archaebacteria are separate.
My teacher explained fundamental and realized niche's different. So now im confused @_@
(Fundamental niche - the total range of environmental conditions that
are suitable for a species existence.
Realized niche - the range of environmental conditions that a species
actually occupies. )
Thanks bro.
Hank does have a master's degree in environmental studies and is biochemistry major though. He does have some scientific training and the show is written with the help of people who teach ecology and biology.
I had about a dozen replies with expletives or saying I was simply wrong. Yours was the only one that actually explained. I've gone through college level chem and only ever heard it pronounced aluminum (that's without the i) except in bbc videos (at which everyone in class laughed). "Aluminium" is also dinged in spell check for me and I got dinged for it once in a lab writeup. I'm sorry that makes me a bad person.
This is wonderfully explained. Thank you!
Yesss please physics crash course!
I partially understood, and thanks for the bit I did understand. Now to hunt for some videos to help for the other bit...
I stop my homework... to learn...
Keep it up crashcourse!!
Since a lot of people in the comments are asking: mutualism, commensalism and parasitism are all technically types of symbiosis. When the term is used loosely, "symbiosis" tends to refer to mutualism.
crash course is absolutely amazing and if you don't think so, you can leave instead of trying to point out every little pronunciation error or little-known tidbit of obscure info that he just happens to not know. screw all the nonbelievers.
i'd have expected mention of farmer ants in this topic, i mean they're basically ants that do the same that humans do, keeping other animals and 'milking' them for honeydew. or it gets even better with a certain species of ants.
(following is copy pasted from wikipedia)
An interesting variation in ant-aphid relationships involves lycaenid butterflies and Myrmica ants. For example, Niphanda fusca butterflies lay eggs on plants where ants tend herds of aphids. The eggs hatch as caterpillars which feed on the aphids. The ants do not defend the aphids from the caterpillars but carry the caterpillars to their nest. In the nest, the ants feed the caterpillars, which produce honeydew for the ants. When the caterpillars reach full size, they crawl to the colony entrance and form cocoons. After two weeks, butterflies emerge and take flight.
Hank , any recommendations for a good environmental society ? you should start one because so many like and would follow you.
crash course really like their chairs
thank you so much, this sums everything up quite nicely.:)
(btw niché is pronounced "neesh" )
wow. you really made that topic actually interesting and entertaining
The king of Fundamental Niches?
DAISYWORLD
This guy is just great and cracks me up!
hank i loved seeing you outside in the real world !!
Loved, "and the other one is kind of like 'whatever' ".
ecology should be a required class for all business majors
I love Hank's videos, his job as a teacher, and the way he is, but understanding him when the words are just cascading from his mouth, is really, really hard when you try to actually absorb what he teaches while not being a native speaker in English. Subtitles are not the perfect solution.
really outstanding
Thank God for this! I have a Biology final today and I literally cannot look at another textbook!
By looking at nature we can better understand ourselves. Animals don't have inhibitions that would hold most humans back so by looking at them we can try to see the world through a more simple and easier to understand veiw.
Whoa. I could totally picture Hank being a hippie. Nice one, Rowan Gavin.
this is very helpful they should put questions like brain pop and have the right answer so you know that your actually understanding
just in time for biology final!! Thanks Hank!
Dang he looks good in natural light....
The way you (assuming you're British) say aluminium is precious.
Perfect timing. This stuff is on the exam I'm sitting next week (:
Totally love this videos, thanks for teaching nonscience focused people like me some science!
The element was first termed Alumium by Humphry Davy in 1808, before he settled into calling it Aluminum by 1812- While the postfix -ium had a precedent in at least six other elements at the time, there were at least platinum, molybdenum and Tantalum as examples for the -um convention The -um suffix is consistent with the spelling of its alumina oxide, as lanthana, magnesia, ceria, and thoria for the oxides of lanthanum magnesium, cerium, and thorium respectively.
The thing is the word is originally French, hence the awkward pronunciation. So I guess you can pronounce it the way you like once it's been integrated in your language, but the standard accepted pronunciation would be following French phonolgy, that is with a long "eee" sound to mimic the French "i", followed by a "shh" sound, since the sound "tch" doesn't occur naturally in French pronunciation (except for foreign words like "patch" that were obviously borrowed).
Yeah I would agree that applies definitely for the same language spoken with different accidents in different regions. Like French in France, Canada, and Africa have different accents, or Spanish in Mexico vs Spain. But for words that originate from a different language, like a Chinese or Arabic word or name, I usually try pronounce it the way they would because that is just how I am, and seems more proper to pronounce those in their native language accent.
When he talks about the four kingdoms, he means the 4 eukaryote kingdoms. He also sometimes talks about the other two domains. The 4 kingdoms are Fungi, Protists, Plants, and Animals.
niche (google translate sais nee-shh, dictionary com sais nitch)
comes from the French "niche" (nee-she) with a very short e at the end, like the German "Niesche" (nee-she) with a short e at the end.
(The short e is not like in "she" or "thee", but "the". )
This is brilliant!!!! Thank you soooo much Hank, this really helpful
AP US History Crash Course? That would save my grade. Please John and Hank, I beg of you.
I learn more here then I do in my bio classes in college.
that would be awesome! i'm now going to hope for that too.
Wish you'd go into Lotka-Volterra in this vid. And Tilmann's model.
I love the Table of Contents stuff! Does the stuff in those table of contents somehow link to what you search? Like if I searched R vs K should it bring up the Human Population Growth video?
Thank you very much for this video. Its really helpful for me. where can we download the pdf version of the lecture . ?
I wanna buy the Warblers book he has! But I can't seem to find it when I search 😭
Please realize that you just taught in 11 minuets what took my biology teacher 3 weeks. And that was way more entertaining.
Always an enjoyable show.
I love you, crashcourse
... In a commensalism way...
bless his soul for time stamps omg
No! You were pronouncing niche correctly! Why did you change it?
www.google.com/#q=niche
Hit the pronunciation button and you'll quickly find you're wrong. It comes from French but this is American English so the e is silent.
The problem word there is american. In the UK people say it the way the french say it. You know, the correct way.
It's seems like you're the only one that finds it a problem. Words change pronunciation all the time. Sometimes it is for stupid reasons or stupid people. Why is "fishes" now considered acceptable as the plural form of fish? Cuz of stupid people saying it until it becomes accepted. There are some things we need to get used or let go so that we can focus our time an energy on something more important. His message is more important than his pronunciation.
Someone needs to correct people before it gets to that stage then.
Jodie653 I picked up on the same N-ITCH thing. In the UK it is phonetically pronounced N-EE-SHH, which I much prefer to the American N-ITCH - no doubt that is my local conditioning. Ultimately though unless we all become language conservationists our languages will always change. Saying that there are loads of words Americans have got 'wrong', so now you lot over there speak American English which us Brits find quite amusing at times. Maybe its a kind of CEP thing where we all have to sound and speak slightly differently in order to retain individuality/uniqueness on a county and then personal level. How boring would it be if we all sounded and spoke the same? Evolution of language would end.
Nitch and Neesh are both correct pronunciations.
No aspect of linguistics is static, by it's nature it is dynamic. Saying that the American or European way of pronouncing Niche is wrong is like saying that a southern accent is an improper way of talking.
I like how if you switch those words, it still works. :3
i just learned this in bio class today! :D this was a like a funner neat revision
Thanks
Very enlightening, thank you again!
oohh and quantum computers! you should talk about them, they are sooo cool. Hank you might find them really fascinating.
I'm writing a paper applying concepts of the ecological niche to J.G. Ballard's High-Rise. It's like a wicked combination of John and Hank. English and Science.
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD WE NEED A MATHEMATICS CRASH COURSE
Was this the first ecolography? Woo!
No0ooo! "Nitch" rather than "Neesh". *dies inside a little* (great series!)
hey come on, stop being such a prescriptivist! language isn't an unchanging perfect creation; it changes over time. hop on aboard the train of linguistic descriptivism and accept all the "mis"pronunciations as nothing more but random mutations which may or may not turn out to be useful for the survival of the language.
I like learning :) Thank you for making these!