Jessi, didn't mention that Rubber Boas will use their tail as a fake head, while they are baby eating, to fend of the mamma. If you give them a chance they will often wrap around your wrist, and fall asleep, making a snake bracelet.
To those saying "survival of the fittest" about helping those turtles who are saved and helped out of the nest, consider the children that WE have and all of the medical care that helps them survive those first years and how many human babies would die without the proper medical care.
Oh gosh! I remember reading about them! As a Costa Rican myself, I've worked with turtles too, but I worked in the pacific coast as the Pacuare reserve is rather off-limits to highschool students. Thank you so much for helping us conserve our 5% of flora and fauna
As always I enjoyed this one very much, yet I realized something that I did not before. The really good job of the camera team and the editing team! All angles and close ups are very neatly made, and there is no distraction from the content.
I found a rubber boa and had no idea what species it was when I found her. I'm was even more intrigued when I researched what the characteristics were for a rubber boa. Cool snake!
I would think that the reason the leatherback turtles lay "blank" eggs with their fertile ones is a matter of predation- predators like foxes have been known to dig up turtle nests to get at those tasty eggs. However, your average fox doesn't have pockets- so, it's likely to try and make off with as many eggs as it can fit in it's mouth. It's a lot easier and more sensible to make off with a bunch of small eggs than with one big one- as you can only eat the big one once, but the smaller ones represent multiple meals. Just a thought tho...
I went to Tortuguaro in I think 2017 specifically to see leatherback turtles. unfortunately there was a huge storm out in the ocean that was throwing large waves up onto the beach and no turtles were coming in to lay at that time. It was the most disappointing thing on our whole trip. (We went all over Costa Rica to see wildlife) It was the best vacation I have ever had even with the disappointment,
2:50 Leatherback is the largest reptile? How? Average Saltwater Crocodile weight is 1000kg according to google and an adult Leatherback according to google is 200-750 kg. And I'm pretty sure most adult crocs are longer than a leatherback lol.
I had a rubber boa as a kid. We found it and brought it home. Then it gave birth. Live birth. It was the first time I had ever seen a reptile give live birth
This is not fair. I'm 15 years old and am already pretty much looking for colleges for a career in ecology. Plus I have never gotten to see an ocean before. The EPI should come to my school.
Wait wait wait.. I've been subscribed to you for a year or so now, only to realize today that I live in the same town as you guys? I don't think that would mean as much as if it were a large city such as New York, but Missoula? Small world.
pramitbanerjee They are a byproduct of meiosis in females (including humans) which are infertile. The process produces one fertile egg and three polar bodies. They are usually broken down by the animal's body, but in this turtle's case they are also laid with the fertile eggs.
Could the infertile eggs scattered throughout the lay be a barrier for the fertile ones? Maybe for physical room/cushioning or thermal insulation or ? Do the predators (not including humans) have a preference of one size over the other? Do they target the smaller ones first?
I would have killed for the opportunity to hang with a wildlife biologist as a kid. Great job that these folk are doing, I hope they pay for the trip so it aint just rich kids who can do it.
I have an interesting question: Why do we miss people/ expartners/ pets/ being in our birth town or our old house? Help us #Scishow, you’re our only hope!
There is this experiment where if you put a lit match in a microwave (on a glass tray), then start the microwave, it makes plasma. Is it really plasma or is it a substance that flows with the magnetic field?
Are those oddly-shaped infertile sea turtle eggs perhaps designed that way purposely so that, if a predator tries to eat the eggs, the predator will hopefully eat the infertile eggs instead of the ones that will hatch?
My guess is that the infertile eggs act as decoys to swamp the predators. But then, why the obvious big fertile eggs? If I were a predator, I'd go for one big egg over a bunch of smaller eggs, so I'm not so sure.
Around 2:50 she say's leather back turtles are the biggest reptile. Admittedly I know very little about the subject so someone could correct me back surely a salt water crocodile would be bigger and heavier than a leather back turtle? Also again this is from wiki so maybe bullshit but quick Google search says leather back turtles are vulnerable two classes lower that the critical level this lady suggests. It appears she does not have any idea what she is talking about not very impressive Sci Show.
This sounds perfectly logical to me, however, eating the eggs of a protected species probably carries some heavy penalties regardless of whether or not the eggs are viable. It is much easier and far more practical to just say "No sea turtle egg eating, period" than to enforce the eating of only non-viable eggs. And maybe they just don't taste good. ;)
Nah, sea turtles and eggs are supposedly incredibly delicious. In countless numbers of tropical cultures and native indigenous groups, Sea Turtles and they're eggs are an incredibly prized delicacy and Galapagos Giant Tortoises didn't get a scientific name for over 200 years after their discovery because literally every single one was eaten before it cold be taken back to Britain! In addition, Charles Darwin, who, believe it or not, was on a literal quest to eat one of every animal on earth, said that GGT flesh was the most delicious meat he had ever tasted!
So I don't mean to be overly pessimistic, I know people who work to save sea turtle nests and learn more about them are doing great work, but isn't the death of adult turtles exponentially more important than the predation of eggs and hatchlings? Even without humans around most sea turtle hatchlings are not meant to survive to adulthood, which is why they produce so many. It's the adult turtles that are valuable; because so few make it each breeding individual is tremendously important to the species. Shouldn't more resources be devoted to protecting the adults than the nests?
Are you saying you aren't immediately enticed by the mere mention of rubber boas?! In all seriousness though, most people seem to prefer the "truth in advertisement" titles because it tells you exactly what you are going to get. The other day one youtuber put up a video, but the people he was working with told him to give it one of those "clickbait" titles and the comments were completely saturated with hatred for the title, even though the video was amazing and his fanbase really likes him, enough that he changed it to a barebones title despite the company's pleadings. I mean sure, they could have spiced it up a little and called it something like "Digging for turtles and a snake that eats babies" but people would still think that as sort of sell-out-ish, plus with it helps when people are searching for a video so they know what they are getting.
The title represents the video very well. I will unsubscribe the very first video they make with a click-baiting sensationalist title, this is a place for science, logic, not bullshit. If knowledge doesn't interest you, you shouldn't be here.
Pivitrix So when I asked for a clearer more concise and informative title for the vid... I was really asking for "a click-baiting sensationalist title..."? How omniscient of you... really you should use your powers for good and not just obfuscation.
That explains what happened up until the forces of industry and agency changed the face of the biosphere. It's correct and educated of you to recognize that principle, and also there's more going on, sorta like how rocket science, which is less complex than ecology, isn't entirely governed by the still applicable and wonderfully beautiful concept of parabolic motion, or maybe universal gravitation would be more apt as a metaphor. And survival of the fittest may still be at play, in a sense. Human's 'survival of the fittest' yielded industry, which helped us take advantage of resources in such a way that we could flourish, but since industry as a force took off on it's own pretty much, now our best chance of flourishing for generations to come is to support life in as many ways as we can. This type of 'altruism' isn't unfamiliar to humans, because cooperation isn't a zero-sum game, it's win-win, generally. The trick now is to balance the macro and micro, so things like increasing plant bio-mass through reforestation and increasing industrial efficiency, and decreasing the amount of the most toxic compounds being spewn as well as conserving bio-diversity, as an ecosystem as a whole is more than the sum of its parts, so to speak. QED, LOL.
Survival of the fittest isn't some sacred process that we need to uphold, especially in cases where the species is in extreme danger of going extinct. I'd rather save a species than leave it to die out of the misplaced sense that we have to respect the mysterious workings of nature.
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That entire beginning about saving baby turtles- then an all-baby-eating-diet boa is introduced xD Haha. I love these talk show episodes! :D
Jessi, didn't mention that Rubber Boas will use their tail as a fake head, while they are baby eating, to fend of the mamma. If you give them a chance they will often wrap around your wrist, and fall asleep, making a snake bracelet.
I did a trip like this in high school with an organisation called Operation Wallacea. I want to the Peruvian Amazon. It was amazing.
To those saying "survival of the fittest" about helping those turtles who are saved and helped out of the nest, consider the children that WE have and all of the medical care that helps them survive those first years and how many human babies would die without the proper medical care.
#Mmmbabies is a thing now...
Oh gosh! I remember reading about them! As a Costa Rican myself, I've worked with turtles too, but I worked in the pacific coast as the Pacuare reserve is rather off-limits to highschool students.
Thank you so much for helping us conserve our 5% of flora and fauna
As always I enjoyed this one very much, yet I realized something that I did not before. The really good job of the camera team and the editing team! All angles and close ups are very neatly made, and there is no distraction from the content.
I wish EPI was around when I was in high school; that said, I love what your organization is doing.
I found a rubber boa and had no idea what species it was when I found her. I'm was even more intrigued when I researched what the characteristics were for a rubber boa. Cool snake!
I would think that the reason the leatherback turtles lay "blank" eggs with their fertile ones is a matter of predation- predators like foxes have been known to dig up turtle nests to get at those tasty eggs. However, your average fox doesn't have pockets- so, it's likely to try and make off with as many eggs as it can fit in it's mouth. It's a lot easier and more sensible to make off with a bunch of small eggs than with one big one- as you can only eat the big one once, but the smaller ones represent multiple meals. Just a thought tho...
I would love it if the team could circle back with the scientists they interviewed over the years. Check in on their progress and new projects!
I went to Tortuguaro in I think 2017 specifically to see leatherback turtles. unfortunately there was a huge storm out in the ocean that was throwing large waves up onto the beach and no turtles were coming in to lay at that time. It was the most disappointing thing on our whole trip. (We went all over Costa Rica to see wildlife) It was the best vacation I have ever had even with the disappointment,
I got to go to Mexico with missoula EPI and it was an amazing experience.
I wonder if any of the High School students who've participated in EPI have gone on to become researchers themselves. That would be amazing!
This EPI project sounds amazing! So so happy to learn about this, and I wish that I was younger so that I could take part in it, but alas I'm not.
Such an awesome episode! :-)
2:50 Leatherback is the largest reptile? How? Average Saltwater Crocodile weight is 1000kg according to google and an adult Leatherback according to google is 200-750 kg. And I'm pretty sure most adult crocs are longer than a leatherback lol.
I'm assuming she just misspoke as leatherbacks are the largest turtle, and the 4th largest reptile
pixlepotumus That would make more sense :)
They're often touted as the heaviest- but not the largest reptile.
Haley Hanson But they are neither. I think pixlepotumus was right, she probably just mispoke and meant to say "largest turtle"
Sadly the guest has a slightly monotonous voice, but fortunately she tells an amazing story :-) thanks for keeping these turtles alive!
I'd love to hear you talk to Paul Andersen of Bozeman Science! He's an amazing youtube educator and can't be too far away from you!
It's nice to find out new things no completely connected to science, but more to nature. Eggs that are not fertile - mind blow
Awww maaaaan I'm not a high school student anymore and I totally would've LOOOOOVED to have an opportunity like this...
www.ecologyproject.org/students/ if you take a look they have places for 'college' students too.
Khaatana Thanks. But I also wouldn't have had that kind of budget in high school unfortunately....or now. College is more costly than high school.
I'm pretty sure I know exactly where this was filmed as I've been there before. It's a distillery. Cool!
Trinidad also has a huuge nesting for leather back turtles =) It's beautiful to see.
happy sunday hank!
I had a rubber boa as a kid.
We found it and brought it home. Then it gave birth.
Live birth. It was the first time I had ever seen a reptile give live birth
This is not fair. I'm 15 years old and am already pretty much looking for colleges for a career in ecology. Plus I have never gotten to see an ocean before. The EPI should come to my school.
Oh man, idk where it came from but that first hello gave me a brief glimpse of an old Hank with grey hair.
Leatherback turtles nest in my country as well.
Maybe the unfertilized eggs is an evolutionary trait to somehow confuse predators.
Wait wait wait.. I've been subscribed to you for a year or so now, only to realize today that I live in the same town as you guys? I don't think that would mean as much as if it were a large city such as New York, but Missoula?
Small world.
Could the unfertilized eggs serve as a form of natural packing peanut?
Where is scishow talk show filmed?
The Sea Turtle thing was really cool.
Do you have to be an american student? I'm a high school student from europe, and I would love this!
Rubber Boas ate my baby!!!
Has anybody found a part of their site that mentions if University students can get in on this? All I found was for high school students,
www.ecologyproject.org/students/ scroll down and there's places for 'college' students.
Khaatana thank you!
A modest snake with a modest proposal...
So what do they feed Serpentina at Animal Wonders..?
My guess would be baby mice and/or baby rats.
meiosis results in 1 egg and 3 polar bodies, so are the infertile "eggs" just polar bodies?
That was my guess as well.
what is a polar body?
pramitbanerjee They are a byproduct of meiosis in females (including humans) which are infertile. The process produces one fertile egg and three polar bodies. They are usually broken down by the animal's body, but in this turtle's case they are also laid with the fertile eggs.
we think they are laid but it might be something else
Could the infertile eggs scattered throughout the lay be a barrier for the fertile ones? Maybe for physical room/cushioning or thermal insulation or ? Do the predators (not including humans) have a preference of one size over the other? Do they target the smaller ones first?
MOAR JESSIE, MOAR ANIMALS :D
I want one of those snakes. I've never wanted a pet before but I would love to have that thing one my hand while I'm around the house.
What show are they making with jessi?
Animal wonder
I would have killed for the opportunity to hang with a wildlife biologist as a kid. Great job that these folk are doing, I hope they pay for the trip so it aint just rich kids who can do it.
QQ, whats is called when your stomach 'drops' and what actuallt goes on in your body?
Amusing creatures.
The snake reminds me of a psycho quote from Borderlands 2. "I wanna eat yer babies!" XD
i feel like there should be merch that says "100% babies"
I have an interesting question: Why do we miss people/ expartners/ pets/ being in our birth town or our old house?
Help us #Scishow, you’re our only hope!
Love that new baby smell!
Where can I buy some babies?
I've seen rubber boas before, in a toy store.
Hey. I'm in India and interested in this sorta thing!
hi hank, why does my pinky hurt so much when i hit my funny bone?
Now that is one badass snake. :
There is this experiment where if you put a lit match in a microwave (on a glass tray), then start the microwave, it makes plasma. Is it really plasma or is it a substance that flows with the magnetic field?
Fire is already a plasma. Putting the flame in the microwave just adds to the energy of the flame.
Fire is a plasma? Never new that!
Yeah it conducts electricity too. So that's why a microwave would mess with a flame.
speaking of smiling animals you should bring in a crested gecko one of these days!!
"Diet is 100% BABIES" Lol
10:15 "I'm not into that" hahaha
Are those oddly-shaped infertile sea turtle eggs perhaps designed that way purposely so that, if a predator tries to eat the eggs, the predator will hopefully eat the infertile eggs instead of the ones that will hatch?
My guess is that the infertile eggs act as decoys to swamp the predators. But then, why the obvious big fertile eggs? If I were a predator, I'd go for one big egg over a bunch of smaller eggs, so I'm not so sure.
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Rubber Boa buggy bumpers.
Say it 5 times, fast!
lolol this episode gives me the giggles
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Bring back stump hank!
BABIES! It's the troll of the snake world.
TIL Hank is not into watersports.
~~The more you knowwww~~~~
B A B I E S
Geek five!
What does Tina eat in captivity?
Out of curiosity, what do you feed your baby-eating snake?
Around 2:50 she say's leather back turtles are the biggest reptile. Admittedly I know very little about the subject so someone could correct me back surely a salt water crocodile would be bigger and heavier than a leather back turtle?
Also again this is from wiki so maybe bullshit but quick Google search says leather back turtles are vulnerable two classes lower that the critical level this lady suggests. It appears she does not have any idea what she is talking about not very impressive Sci Show.
"No, I'm not into that..." - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
But what about the mama turtle? Won't she be upset that people are taking her babies away?
BABIES
The science of chapstick curing chapped lips please. :)
Every episode I just skip ahead to the part where Jessi comes out.
Could does non-fertile eggs be decoys for predators? You know, so the real eggs have a better chance of survival.
#mmmbabies
I hate to sound uncaring, but if you guys find all these infertile turtle eggs you know won't hatch, why not eat them?
This sounds perfectly logical to me, however, eating the eggs of a protected species probably carries some heavy penalties regardless of whether or not the eggs are viable. It is much easier and far more practical to just say "No sea turtle egg eating, period" than to enforce the eating of only non-viable eggs. And maybe they just don't taste good. ;)
Because babies are tastier. That rubber boa knows what I'm talking about.
Nah, sea turtles and eggs are supposedly incredibly delicious.
In countless numbers of tropical cultures and native indigenous groups, Sea Turtles and they're eggs are an incredibly prized delicacy and Galapagos Giant Tortoises didn't get a scientific name for over 200 years after their discovery because literally every single one was eaten before it cold be taken back to Britain!
In addition, Charles Darwin, who, believe it or not, was on a literal quest to eat one of every animal on earth, said that GGT flesh was the most delicious meat he had ever tasted!
I think the infertile eggs are there for a not known purpose.
So I don't mean to be overly pessimistic, I know people who work to save sea turtle nests and learn more about them are doing great work, but isn't the death of adult turtles exponentially more important than the predation of eggs and hatchlings? Even without humans around most sea turtle hatchlings are not meant to survive to adulthood, which is why they produce so many. It's the adult turtles that are valuable; because so few make it each breeding individual is tremendously important to the species. Shouldn't more resources be devoted to protecting the adults than the nests?
Rubber boas the baby eating snakes.
You realize that show titles should at least be moderately appealing and make sense to a spectrum of people right?
Are you saying you aren't immediately enticed by the mere mention of rubber boas?!
In all seriousness though, most people seem to prefer the "truth in advertisement" titles because it tells you exactly what you are going to get. The other day one youtuber put up a video, but the people he was working with told him to give it one of those "clickbait" titles and the comments were completely saturated with hatred for the title, even though the video was amazing and his fanbase really likes him, enough that he changed it to a barebones title despite the company's pleadings. I mean sure, they could have spiced it up a little and called it something like "Digging for turtles and a snake that eats babies" but people would still think that as sort of sell-out-ish, plus with it helps when people are searching for a video so they know what they are getting.
The title represents the video very well. I will unsubscribe the very first video they make with a click-baiting sensationalist title, this is a place for science, logic, not bullshit. If knowledge doesn't interest you, you shouldn't be here.
Pivitrix
So when I asked for a clearer more concise and informative title for the vid... I was really asking for "a click-baiting sensationalist title..."?
How omniscient of you... really you should use your powers for good and not just obfuscation.
#MMMMbabies
Just Students?
FIRST
It tastes terrible? Who tested that?
Jessi talk to the guest please. Look at her feeling awkward and she really looks like she doesn't want to be there anymore.
Babies.
Baby eating viper 👶🐍
Mmmm babies xD
So, they dig up the nests and help any weaker baby turtles who're struggling to make it? What about survival of the fittest?
Unnecessary.
whoops, I probably should've watched the video before commenting.
That explains what happened up until the forces of industry and agency changed the face of the biosphere. It's correct and educated of you to recognize that principle, and also there's more going on, sorta like how rocket science, which is less complex than ecology, isn't entirely governed by the still applicable and wonderfully beautiful concept of parabolic motion, or maybe universal gravitation would be more apt as a metaphor. And survival of the fittest may still be at play, in a sense. Human's 'survival of the fittest' yielded industry, which helped us take advantage of resources in such a way that we could flourish, but since industry as a force took off on it's own pretty much, now our best chance of flourishing for generations to come is to support life in as many ways as we can. This type of 'altruism' isn't unfamiliar to humans, because cooperation isn't a zero-sum game, it's win-win, generally. The trick now is to balance the macro and micro, so things like increasing plant bio-mass through reforestation and increasing industrial efficiency, and decreasing the amount of the most toxic compounds being spewn as well as conserving bio-diversity, as an ecosystem as a whole is more than the sum of its parts, so to speak. QED, LOL.
They are trying to save a critically endangered species, ALL baby turtles are precious to them.
Survival of the fittest isn't some sacred process that we need to uphold, especially in cases where the species is in extreme danger of going extinct. I'd rather save a species than leave it to die out of the misplaced sense that we have to respect the mysterious workings of nature.
Lol baby eating snake
Won't this select animals that make nests at crappy places?
This video made me hungry for babies
#mmmmbabies
It is a little known scientific fact that babies are in fact delicious.
Hank what ever happened to your sexy sidekick that looks like you but with a wig?
If you are talking about Emily, she works in Chicago now. You can still see her on the Brainscoop channel, for so many cool science endeavors!
FORTH