Correction: At 6:06, that’s not actually a picture of milkweed; it’s likely some kind of Eupatorium, which is a different genus. Thanks to everyone who pointed that out!
How can those jewel beetles not figure out that those bottles aren't females after they see and touch them!?! They look nothing alike and they're texted isn't exactly identical.
@@rainstriderstreamflower5645 Because beetles don't exactly have the same senses as humans. YEah, to you they look extremely different, but to the decentralized and simple nervous system of a beetle, the difference is likely very small.
Umm you need correction on the beer bottle. It's called a throwdown ( 250mls ) a stubbie is 375mls and if you must know we have a third size called a tallie (tall-e)/a long neck 750mls 😁
The parasitic eggs alongside the other eggs being rejected more over time could show up statistically in the fossil record or something. Plus the host species could be known for spotting parasitism. That’s already two solid indicators. And I’m not even a paleontologist or what it’s called.
@@paddor I'm not familiar with prehistoric brood parasite species. I wouldn't doubt we'd be able to determine that they are. I meant how would we know if a changed host strategy was their downfall and not one of the more common causes of extinction?
@@Charok1 Well, they aren't taught how to do it by their parents. So they have to rely on instinct, if that instinct goes away they are SOL. According to Wikipedia, the ducks aren't endangered and they lay their eggs in more than just coot's nests.
A little crazy that they just kept fornicating the bottle until the passed out from exhaustion and got eaten by ants. I guess they couldn't stop until triggered by some response from the female, or something. Insects are mother Nature's version of robots. They just keep on trucking no matter what sort of damage to their bodies or circumstances they're under. If they can perceivably continue, they will.
WormholeJim I mean, female jewel beetles are big but nowhere near as big as those bottles. Since size advertises fitness for them those bottles looked like the sexiest of all sex gods. And if you did manage to get your genes into a bug that big then you would almost be guaranteed to get your genes passed on so the risk is well worth it for them.
Being 6'3", I've had 3 boyfriends who definitely thought that - and about 100 height-creeps who wished. Just to be clear, I don't think a man who likes tall women is a freak - if he just walks up and says hi, states his interest, and can back off if it isn't mutual. Follow me home to figure out where I live, and then start hanging around on the corner, trying to catch a sideways glance, however - you are a creep.
That dragonfly asphalt thing makes so much sense. If you've ever looked at asphalt at a very very low angle, like when driving on the highway, it looks just like water! Shiny like a mirror
cars, driving in a straight line on a clearly marked path: bbrrrr every prey animal ever: time to jump directly in the way of this horrible noisy abomination
I hate that about them. Out in West USA there are jackrabbits, and not only do they jump out in front of you they then freeze making it really hard not to hit them. One evening I drove 6 miles back from town and hit 6 rabbits. That was a rough night.
Yeah, squirrels will then choose to zig and zag, rather than choose a direction and stick with it. A good strategy against natural predators. Not so much against an automobile.
The other thing to consider is prey pack animals often travel in a similar fashion. Ever heard of a game trail? Pretty easy to follow, leads to food as long as you know how to read tracks.
These things make me think of the ways in which we humans might find oueselves trapped and tricked by what evolution has "left" us with. Drug addiction and sugar craving are just some of the more obvious ones.
@@elafimilo8199 Drugs mimic a natural dopamine hit of evolutionarily fit aactions: find food, escape predator, defeat rival, get a mate etc. Excep they give a stronger high and without any acomplishment. The trap is that this makes a natural high insuficient. Sugar (and salt, and fat) are the same thing (eg sweet=fruit=nutricious), but the receptors are on the tongue instead of in the brain.
Less obvious : in modern society the number of babies tends to go clearly below 2.1 per woman. We have not yet evolved to deal with contraception and relatively comfortable environment, where our survival instincts don't kick in. There is apparently some genetic adjustment on the way, but it includes shift towards slightly lower IQ and propensity toward higher religiosity / ethnocentrism. Yes, belief in creationism seems to be evolutionary advantageous. :D :D :D
@@atomicwinter31 Thinking about that penguin that fell in love with a cardboard standee of a Kemono Friends character and got upset when the collab ended and the standee was removed; so the zoo had to buy it and set it up permanently for him.
Maybe you should do a video on humans evolutionary traps like eating until obese. Or getting addicted to drugs. Might be pretty interesting to see how our biology works against us.
"So, in seeking to do what they've always done, monarch butterflies might end up making choices that are bad for the survival of their species." Change "monarch butterflies" to "humans" and this is just as true. Collectively, we aren't as bright as we like to think we are.
dagnabit. i initially was interested in swamp milkweed, but i let my mom choose the tropical milkweed because she was paying for the plants and really liked the flowers. i was bummed to learn it wasn't perinnial here, and now i'm double bummed that it won't even be good for butterflies if i overwinter the plant inside like i'd planned.
Oh no😭 i have been growing tropical milkweed and i have had a few seasons of monarchs come through my garden its all coming down now good thing milkweed grows fast i will just change which one i am growing
I wouldn't worry about it. If you have mild winters, cut the plants down at the base to interrupt parasite cycles. There are native milkweeds (e.g. A. humistrata) with more cardenolides than the Mexican one, so frankly, I don't think that topic was properly researched. By all means, plant locally native varieties, but don't panic. The tropical one provides a longer nectar season, which is important if you have a small garden and may need to use the same plant for nectar and caterpillars.
@@Erewhon2024 Thank you for that bit of information i will definitely be more cautious in the future and I will be trimming them back in winter from here on glad i didn't go out and start pulling yet honestly the only reason they were ever in my garden was to help the monarchs even just a little but now i know Thank you
Yes please do!! They’re going extinct the monarch butterflies. I work for a wildlife and animal conservation organization and we have been trying to spread the word. Is good that you want to do better. Thank you!
I appreciate the commitment put into the video! I'm sure there are other great examples of evolutionary traps in nature but the selected five here were all enjoyable to learn.
A while ago I saw a headline stating that a baby turtle had washed up on a beach with over 100 pieces of plastic in its stomach. I am both ashamed and proud that my first thought was "OK, how many baby turtles do we need to clean the ocean?"
It's funny and also really sad that in order to save the beetles, it would be more efficient to change the bottle itself instead of telling people to stop littering.
I'm glad you acknowledged that sometimes it's okay for a species to lose an evolutionary race. Animals have come and gone long before the intervention of humans. We have just accelerated the speed in most cases.
"The problem here is that Dragonflies haven't evolved fast enough to figure out the difference between artificial, shiny things and natural ones". I am glad you guys are nerdy scientists and not politicians and lawyers and stuff. I can already imagine a scenario: "Your honor, let me make it open and clear that this is not a homicide, on the contrary, the problem here is that the victim has not evolved fast enough to dodge the bullets."
To be fair, Olivia did say that it's up to the humans to try to make their technology look less watery to dragonflies, so they'd probably say it's up to the humans to not aim their bullets at other humans who haven't evolved fast enough to be bulletproof.
I remember one time when I was hanging out with Ringo Starr during the Australian leg of his 1989 world tour. This was after his rehab for alcoholism and even though he wasn't drinking, he kept coming to the bar and buying beers in small bottles before taking them up to his hotel room. Nobody knows what the former Beatle was doing with them, but the cleaner found about two dozen of them unopened on the bed...
> confused teenage beetle Which is something quite different from a confused flour beetle, which is so called because humans confuse it with red flour beetles.
Amazing and very intriguing about the duck that lays their eggs in other bird's nest. How or where do they learn it from? You grow up with--not--your mom so wouldn't you learn how to make your nest?
One time I had a baby I didn't want, and saw an empty two child stroller with only one kid in it, so I put my child in the stroller with the other kid. Now my child will grow bigger, stronger, faster, and kick their child out of the nest. So I think it's pretty natural is what I'm saying.
Normally 99 out of 100 of your shows are, hmm, can I use that word here, brilliant but this one was one of the best you've made. Yup, you're not catering just for Americans and thank you for doing that!
My cat has something in common with the turtle. At 10-years-old, he doesn't seem to know the difference among cardboard from his scratcher, carpet fuzz, nut shells, his (or the dog's) fur and actual food. Much as I wouldn't mind seeing evolution take it's course, THIS human is continually shamed into interfering with his choices.
I honestly would love a video about the effects that environmental racism has had on humans and on their surrounding habitats but that's more of a social science topic
0:11 "Evolution has been helping animals survive for millions of years" does not convey the right message. It is like saying, "spacetime curvature has been helping apples fall on the ground for thousands of years". The wording should have been like: "We can explain the survival of animals by the mechanisms of evolution acting on them for millions of years". No wonder lots of science miscommunications are around. A well-intended fact-centered channel like this cannot be too careful about this.
I have milkweed growing in my yard. It smells like lilac.the flowers are in balls and are the same color as the incorrect reference shown @6:06 in the video.
I sometimes feel that humanity is too full of itself. We seem to think we can control and “protect” everything. The world constantly changes, some things adapt and evolve, some don’t and die. That’s nature and we are pretty much powerless to prevent it. Obviously we should be careful what we do to the environment. But there’s limits to how much control we actually have.
"find a recycling bin" is a terrible thing to say about plastics that aren't recyclable (e.g. bags) it can often lead to the entire container being dumped, or at least anything else that gets stuck in it. So it INCREASES plastic trash.
So the coots started rejecting parasitic eggs because they started getting parasitised by other coots, whose chicks were more work to raise than the ducklings?
I was thinking the duck “problem” might be an easy fix. Certainly artificial incubation or sticking eggs under other duck species wouldn’t mess the black heads up.
Nice of the manufacturers of the stubbies to re-design the bottles to save tge beetles. You don't get to hear much about about big businesses doing something so environmentally friendly.
Evolution isn't the result of some protracted observation of the environment or a result of zoological customer satisfaction surveys. Most all adaptive evolutionary pressure comes from differential survival rates and reproductive variation. Mere genetic drift, guided only by the mathematics of chance, has no direction; Natural selection, guides evolution towards heritable adaptations to the current environment. I think a video discussing the topic of "Genetic bottlenecks" would be an excellent follow-up and further illuminate the underlying factors.
There is no such thing as morality in nature, animals do what they do in order to survive and reproduce. At least this duck's offspring leave after like a day, instead of killing their nestmates and staying for months or years, like other brood parasites.
Quick note from an Australian.. A "stubbie" is technically, just any 375ml bottle of beer. Still (very) commonly sold everywhere. Not to be confused with "Long necks" (750ml) AKA "Darwin Stubbies"
The next time someone expresses concern over guys marrying robo-waifus or body pillows, remember that a beetle species ended up in peril due to the males literally falling in love with bottles. Stranger than fiction, I tell ya.
The difference here is that the beetles literally couldn't tell them apart, whereas guys (and probably gals as well) will be able to tell the difference, and probably not care since they don't want kids.
Lazy usually is smart. That's because all the energy goes to develop the brain when it's not wast- used on working. Just not when you're a duck, which kind of figures.
I'm really sorry for the complex lifeforms like turtles but for the insects etc I think we should just let evolution do it's job. Unless the change is trivial and simple we should just ignore it. Also we're pretty bad at accurately changing things in nature so trying to fix the problem might just make the problem worse or at the very least only kick the can further down the road. I'm sorry, but I don't care if a flying robot with the intelligence lower than my calculator learns the hard way not to put eggs on our solar panels.
If that last one is not caused by humans should we really intervene ? There are possibly thousands of similar cases of extinction of the stupid lazy parasitic species until one gets do something different and the specie survive. If not well.. nature There are a lot of birds mimicking other birds eggs so good and we just didn't heard or found those who didn't survived..
"... And then humans came along..." As if humans come from a magical place outside of nature. I get the point of the impact we have on other species, but the idea that we're seperate of nature is a fallacy.
I have had a really strange encounter with a dragonfly. I have told several entomologists about this and none have ever heard it's like. I had one land on my arm. I was trying to photograph it and then there was a sudden pain and the dragonfly flew away. When I got the bleeding stopped there was a round divot a little less than 1/8" in my arm where the flesh was just gone. I suppose that some piece of high speed debris could have hit my arm right in front of the dragonfly's face, but I was deep in a city park. The only technology you could see from where it happened was the occasional aircraft.
Correction: At 6:06, that’s not actually a picture of milkweed; it’s likely some kind of Eupatorium, which is a different genus. Thanks to everyone who pointed that out!
How can those jewel beetles not figure out that those bottles aren't females after they see and touch them!?! They look nothing alike and they're texted isn't exactly identical.
@@rainstriderstreamflower5645 Because beetles don't exactly have the same senses as humans. YEah, to you they look extremely different, but to the decentralized and simple nervous system of a beetle, the difference is likely very small.
@@antonioscendrategattico2302 Ok thx!
Both cake and kale are delicious in my opinion
Umm you need correction on the beer bottle.
It's called a throwdown ( 250mls ) a stubbie is 375mls and if you must know we have a third size called a tallie (tall-e)/a long neck 750mls 😁
Just think. If that duck species had run into that problem and died out long ago, we probably wouldn't suspect this to be the reason.
Not to mention how many other species that have died out because of some bizarre reasons we can never guess.
The parasitic eggs alongside the other eggs being rejected more over time could show up statistically in the fossil record or something. Plus the host species could be known for spotting parasitism. That’s already two solid indicators. And I’m not even a paleontologist or what it’s called.
*Dodo Peeks around corner shyly*
@@paddor I'm not familiar with prehistoric brood parasite species. I wouldn't doubt we'd be able to determine that they are. I meant how would we know if a changed host strategy was their downfall and not one of the more common causes of extinction?
@@Charok1 Well, they aren't taught how to do it by their parents. So they have to rely on instinct, if that instinct goes away they are SOL. According to Wikipedia, the ducks aren't endangered and they lay their eggs in more than just coot's nests.
Australian Jewel Beetles: “I like big bumps and I cannot lie!”
HAHAHAHA that was a good one
Wish I could like this comment multiple times. :)
You, Good sir (or madam) just won the internet.
A little crazy that they just kept fornicating the bottle until the passed out from exhaustion and got eaten by ants. I guess they couldn't stop until triggered by some response from the female, or something. Insects are mother Nature's version of robots. They just keep on trucking no matter what sort of damage to their bodies or circumstances they're under. If they can perceivably continue, they will.
WormholeJim I mean, female jewel beetles are big but nowhere near as big as those bottles. Since size advertises fitness for them those bottles looked like the sexiest of all sex gods. And if you did manage to get your genes into a bug that big then you would almost be guaranteed to get your genes passed on so the risk is well worth it for them.
Who hasn't at sometime thought "Holy giant girlfriend!"
I think that all the time. Damn fetish.
Who hasn't at one point preferred the company of a beer bottle than the opposite sex?
Being 6'3", I've had 3 boyfriends who definitely thought that - and about 100 height-creeps who wished. Just to be clear, I don't think a man who likes tall women is a freak - if he just walks up and says hi, states his interest, and can back off if it isn't mutual. Follow me home to figure out where I live, and then start hanging around on the corner, trying to catch a sideways glance, however - you are a creep.
Awww yeaaaahhhh
@@HeatherSpoonheim to put it mildly. Yeesh
10:10 when you've written a pun so bad the host refuses to read it xD
Eggsactly!
It was an eggselent pun, too...the writer has eggsquisite punmanship.
Truly sublime pun writing for this eggsistential predicament.
I was stunned you didn't include all the insects (& other animals too) that end up attracted to artificial light!
maybe it is because artificial light can also be a positive for spiders to catch insects and maybe other living things.
They could do another whole video on how artificial light affects wildlife.
That dragonfly asphalt thing makes so much sense. If you've ever looked at asphalt at a very very low angle, like when driving on the highway, it looks just like water! Shiny like a mirror
Oh, like a mirage?
@@jaschabull2365 yes
@@jaschabull2365 That is exactly a mirage!
So we inadvertently made, umm s** dolls for Australian Beetles...
Not all of us who make beetle sex dolls do so inadvertently.
@@distantignition nice.
To be honest, they ain't the first men choosing beer over women.
Lol
cars, driving in a straight line on a clearly marked path: bbrrrr
every prey animal ever: time to jump directly in the way of this horrible noisy abomination
I hate that about them. Out in West USA there are jackrabbits, and not only do they jump out in front of you they then freeze making it really hard not to hit them. One evening I drove 6 miles back from town and hit 6 rabbits. That was a rough night.
It's still the humans fault so it's not like we can really complain
Yeah, squirrels will then choose to zig and zag, rather than choose a direction and stick with it. A good strategy against natural predators. Not so much against an automobile.
The other thing to consider is prey pack animals often travel in a similar fashion. Ever heard of a game trail? Pretty easy to follow, leads to food as long as you know how to read tracks.
aren't cars too fast for most animals to react to appropriately? blaming them instead of humans seems like blaming the victim here.
These things make me think of the ways in which we humans might find oueselves trapped and tricked by what evolution has "left" us with. Drug addiction and sugar craving are just some of the more obvious ones.
That’s actually an excellent point
What's the possible benefit of drug addiction? Or I guess processes similar enough that drug use feels good.
@@elafimilo8199
Drugs mimic a natural dopamine hit of evolutionarily fit aactions: find food, escape predator, defeat rival, get a mate etc. Excep they give a stronger high and without any acomplishment. The trap is that this makes a natural high insuficient.
Sugar (and salt, and fat) are the same thing (eg sweet=fruit=nutricious), but the receptors are on the tongue instead of in the brain.
Less obvious : in modern society the number of babies tends to go clearly below 2.1 per woman. We have not yet evolved to deal with contraception and relatively comfortable environment, where our survival instincts don't kick in. There is apparently some genetic adjustment on the way, but it includes shift towards slightly lower IQ and propensity toward higher religiosity / ethnocentrism.
Yes, belief in creationism seems to be evolutionary advantageous. :D :D :D
@@useodyseeorbitchute9450 #idiocracy
2:14 When Hagrid first saw Madame Maxime.
hehe nice one
This is one of the best comments I've ever read XD
I too am distracted by shiny things!
Me to XD
Nice to know that Humans aren't the only species that have waifus
was looking for this comment.
*Intentionally
WaIFus PreDATe Me
Also penguins can have waifus, same with dolphins i think.
@@atomicwinter31 Thinking about that penguin that fell in love with a cardboard standee of a Kemono Friends character and got upset when the collab ended and the standee was removed; so the zoo had to buy it and set it up permanently for him.
Maybe you should do a video on humans evolutionary traps like eating until obese. Or getting addicted to drugs. Might be pretty interesting to see how our biology works against us.
Jonathan Davis did you see the vid about the rat city?
Aren't both your suggestions in someway one and the same?
Exactly what I was thinking
Or the cold shoulder...
Bri10 nit pick about making vector suggestions? Truly? It's fodder for their creative guys. AKA writing staff
"So, in seeking to do what they've always done, monarch butterflies might end up making choices that are bad for the survival of their species."
Change "monarch butterflies" to "humans" and this is just as true. Collectively, we aren't as bright as we like to think we are.
dagnabit. i initially was interested in swamp milkweed, but i let my mom choose the tropical milkweed because she was paying for the plants and really liked the flowers. i was bummed to learn it wasn't perinnial here, and now i'm double bummed that it won't even be good for butterflies if i overwinter the plant inside like i'd planned.
I think it's cool how dragonflies can see polarization. I wonder what it would even "look" like to us if we could see it too
The male beetle trying to mate with the bottle was pretty funny 😌 glad they were able to make the bottles less sexy.
"These males seemed to prefer stubbies over real females to the point of actual mortal peril" sounds like any true fair dinkum Ozzie
With everything going on lately, you could make a strong case that humans should be at the top of this list... (well, maybe not understandably...)
Dang, you're so close to 1k subs
With you
Oh no😭 i have been growing tropical milkweed and i have had a few seasons of monarchs come through my garden its all coming down now good thing milkweed grows fast i will just change which one i am growing
I wouldn't worry about it. If you have mild winters, cut the plants down at the base to interrupt parasite cycles. There are native milkweeds (e.g. A. humistrata) with more cardenolides than the Mexican one, so frankly, I don't think that topic was properly researched. By all means, plant locally native varieties, but don't panic. The tropical one provides a longer nectar season, which is important if you have a small garden and may need to use the same plant for nectar and caterpillars.
@@Erewhon2024 Thank you for that bit of information i will definitely be more cautious in the future and I will be trimming them back in winter from here on glad i didn't go out and start pulling yet honestly the only reason they were ever in my garden was to help the monarchs even just a little but now i know Thank you
Yes please do!! They’re going extinct the monarch butterflies. I work for a wildlife and animal conservation organization and we have been trying to spread the word. Is good that you want to do better. Thank you!
Nobody:
Australian Jewel Beetle: G I A N T W O M A N
We found out what kind of insect Greg would be.
Australian birthrates dropped because the males were too busy with beer bottles? When you think about it that shouldn't seem surprising.
@@PurpleRhymesWithOrange sounds like australian Sapiens have that same issue
Proof that even beetles can be d**kheads.
for those who like em unreasonably thicc
Would pandas be considered to be in an Evolutionary Trap? Since in a lot of ways they are stuck eating bamboo that is the wrong type of food for them?
I appreciate the commitment put into the video! I'm sure there are other great examples of evolutionary traps in nature but the selected five here were all enjoyable to learn.
"Holy Giant Girlfriend"
Don't judge my taste in girlfriends
My girlfriend is full sized, not giant!
"Forty bucks if you put me in your pocket"
@@crunchychips8123 It's not a horse pocket
I LIKE 'EM BIGG. I LIKE 'EM CHUNKY.
@@apocalypse487 It's a Harley Quinn reference.
A while ago I saw a headline stating that a baby turtle had washed up on a beach with over 100 pieces of plastic in its stomach. I am both ashamed and proud that my first thought was "OK, how many baby turtles do we need to clean the ocean?"
That book "What to Expect when You're Egg-specting" is what reminded me to upvote.
I’ve planted tropical milkweed hoping to help monarchs without knowing it was bad
Evolutionary trap, my favorite genre of music.
It's funny and also really sad that in order to save the beetles, it would be more efficient to change the bottle itself instead of telling people to stop littering.
I'm glad you acknowledged that sometimes it's okay for a species to lose an evolutionary race. Animals have come and gone long before the intervention of humans. We have just accelerated the speed in most cases.
"The problem here is that Dragonflies haven't evolved fast enough to figure out the difference between artificial, shiny things and natural ones". I am glad you guys are nerdy scientists and not politicians and lawyers and stuff. I can already imagine a scenario: "Your honor, let me make it open and clear that this is not a homicide, on the contrary, the problem here is that the victim has not evolved fast enough to dodge the bullets."
To be fair, Olivia did say that it's up to the humans to try to make their technology look less watery to dragonflies, so they'd probably say it's up to the humans to not aim their bullets at other humans who haven't evolved fast enough to be bulletproof.
Jewel beetle after finding out it can't mate with a bottle: "It's not you its me... or well maybe it's you"
I remember one time when I was hanging out with Ringo Starr during the Australian leg of his 1989 world tour.
This was after his rehab for alcoholism and even though he wasn't drinking, he kept coming to the bar and buying beers in small bottles before taking them up to his hotel room.
Nobody knows what the former Beatle was doing with them, but the cleaner found about two dozen of them unopened on the bed...
> confused teenage beetle
Which is something quite different from a confused flour beetle, which is so called because humans confuse it with red flour beetles.
Amazing and very intriguing about the duck that lays their eggs in other bird's nest. How or where do they learn it from? You grow up with--not--your mom so wouldn't you learn how to make your nest?
One time I had a baby I didn't want, and saw an empty two child stroller with only one kid in it, so I put my child in the stroller with the other kid. Now my child will grow bigger, stronger, faster, and kick their child out of the nest.
So I think it's pretty natural is what I'm saying.
I LOVE HOW CITED YOUR SOURCES ARE....
You mean "3 animals that HUMANS mislead + 2 animal with poor judgement"
mislead implies that it was intentional.
Ha! And people think it's old Coots that can't deal with change.
A company changes its product to save a species? That's new.
Normally 99 out of 100 of your shows are, hmm, can I use that word here, brilliant but this one was one of the best you've made. Yup, you're not catering just for Americans and thank you for doing that!
5:17 Hey look, the PS5 is building form...
lol
Wish SciShow Tangents was on youtube in video form too. The videos of Holy F*cking Science were always great to watch.
You guys should cover how/why birds fly into windows and buildings and what we can do to prevent it!
if i had bumps at the base of my stubby, i'd probably have it checked out
Gotta love those sexy beer bottle bumps
I can already see the memes of the jewel beetle situation. Stubby-chan, the internet's new giant waifu lol
My cat has something in common with the turtle. At 10-years-old, he doesn't seem to know the difference among cardboard from his scratcher, carpet fuzz, nut shells, his (or the dog's) fur and actual food. Much as I wouldn't mind seeing evolution take it's course, THIS human is continually shamed into interfering with his choices.
"Alas(????) the story does have a happy ending"??? Why is that sad?
Probably misused the word alas.
I honestly would love a video about the effects that environmental racism has had on humans and on their surrounding habitats but that's more of a social science topic
I love how the graphic designer figured out the pun when the scriptwriter didn't.
Timestamp?
THANK YOU for these kind of videos they’re very informative and helps us know how we humans can do better. Don’t stop spreading ecological knowledge!
If the beetles love those bottles, who are we to judge? Now everyone's happy with the changed bottles, ...except the beetles.
The idea of a beetle trying to get busy with a beer bottle is pretty funny though.
Who else just learned that dragonfly babies are called nymphs?
🙄
I always thought they were nymphos, but apparently that's something else entirely.
0:11 "Evolution has been helping animals survive for millions of years" does not convey the right message. It is like saying, "spacetime curvature has been helping apples fall on the ground for thousands of years". The wording should have been like: "We can explain the survival of animals by the mechanisms of evolution acting on them for millions of years". No wonder lots of science miscommunications are around. A well-intended fact-centered channel like this cannot be too careful about this.
I have milkweed growing in my yard. It smells like lilac.the flowers are in balls and are the same color as the incorrect reference shown @6:06 in the video.
"They'd keep trying until they collapse from exhaustion."
Hah, atleast we humans aren't that dumb!
Right?
No because there isn't a man on the planet who could last that long
The male aussie jewel beetles are just too cultured to like real beetles at that time when stubbie-chans r available 😂😅✌️
the heck, so humans basically gave beetles the equivalent of dakimakura waifu pillows?... or erhem... those “love” dolls.
My favorite host! Thanks
What about pigeons leaving eggs in stairs and populated homes?
"Swiggity swiggity swubbies, I'm coming for your stubbies"
- male jewel beetle
I sometimes feel that humanity is too full of itself. We seem to think we can control and “protect” everything. The world constantly changes, some things adapt and evolve, some don’t and die. That’s nature and we are pretty much powerless to prevent it.
Obviously we should be careful what we do to the environment. But there’s limits to how much control we actually have.
Scishow tangents is love :D
i can't believe there are chadipillars & bufferflies and entitled parent ducks, just wow
Now I want to apply for a research grant specifically to start teaching these lazy yet harmless ducks how to make their own nests.
"find a recycling bin" is a terrible thing to say about plastics that aren't recyclable (e.g. bags) it can often lead to the entire container being dumped, or at least anything else that gets stuck in it. So it INCREASES plastic trash.
Great list! Although, there's probably a lot more species that could go on a list like this, aren't there?
So the coots started rejecting parasitic eggs because they started getting parasitised by other coots, whose chicks were more work to raise than the ducklings?
Admittedly the poor monarch butterflies's error isn't so evident. That's one even humans had to work to find out about.
10:11 eGGspecting :- ) Brilliant!
I was thinking the duck “problem” might be an easy fix. Certainly artificial incubation or sticking eggs under other duck species wouldn’t mess the black heads up.
Eggsellent episode.
looks like even bugs love bottles more than their counterparts since bottle can't tell you "no" :D
Oh my lord the beetles liked the “adult fun doll” more. 😂 “look, she don’t talk and she will always say yes” r/niceguy
Just for clarification from an Australian all beer bottles are called stubbies to this day!
I mean, humans are making choices that might be bad for the survival of our species. Does that mean we also have (understandably) poor judgement?
You forgot to mention the cute fur balls of the koala 🐨 and panda 🐼 they are also seemingly on the losing end of nature’s pitfalls 🤦♀️
I came here to escape twitter... and then you reminded me... cake.
Now I think to myself... are you a cake?
Am I a cake? 😰
This was an awesome episode :)
Nice of the manufacturers of the stubbies to re-design the bottles to save tge beetles. You don't get to hear much about about big businesses doing something so environmentally friendly.
Evolution isn't the result of some protracted observation of the environment or a result of zoological customer satisfaction surveys. Most all adaptive evolutionary pressure comes from differential survival rates and reproductive variation. Mere genetic drift, guided only by the mathematics of chance, has no direction; Natural selection, guides evolution towards heritable adaptations to the current environment. I think a video discussing the topic of "Genetic bottlenecks" would be an excellent follow-up and further illuminate the underlying factors.
Anyone else feel like a duck that can't look out for it's own offspring kinda deserves to be selected out?
There is no such thing as morality in nature, animals do what they do in order to survive and reproduce. At least this duck's offspring leave after like a day, instead of killing their nestmates and staying for months or years, like other brood parasites.
The thing is, the stubbie is still made today but only for certain brands of beer
Quick note from an Australian.. A "stubbie" is technically, just any 375ml bottle of beer. Still (very) commonly sold everywhere. Not to be confused with "Long necks" (750ml) AKA "Darwin Stubbies"
This lady, Olivia Gordon, is very good and very interesting. :)
I am also attracked to beer bottles.
The next time someone expresses concern over guys marrying robo-waifus or body pillows, remember that a beetle species ended up in peril due to the males literally falling in love with bottles. Stranger than fiction, I tell ya.
The difference here is that the beetles literally couldn't tell them apart, whereas guys (and probably gals as well) will be able to tell the difference, and probably not care since they don't want kids.
Lazy usually is smart. That's because all the energy goes to develop the brain when it's not wast- used on working. Just not when you're a duck, which kind of figures.
Gosh, this is AMAZING!
Does that dragon fly thing explain why I found that dead hairy misqito larva looking thing in my window?
How big is that beetle to think a beer bottle might be a good mate
With great power comes great responsibility.
Technology is a type of power, and humanity hasn't been very responsible with it.
I was literally in the middle of drinking something when she said "HOLY GIANT GIRLFRIEND"
Ok
Welp now you need a new keyboard #spittake
I'm really sorry for the complex lifeforms like turtles but for the insects etc I think we should just let evolution do it's job. Unless the change is trivial and simple we should just ignore it. Also we're pretty bad at accurately changing things in nature so trying to fix the problem might just make the problem worse or at the very least only kick the can further down the road.
I'm sorry, but I don't care if a flying robot with the intelligence lower than my calculator learns the hard way not to put eggs on our solar panels.
If that last one is not caused by humans should we really intervene ? There are possibly thousands of similar cases of extinction of the stupid lazy parasitic species until one gets do something different and the specie survive. If not well.. nature
There are a lot of birds mimicking other birds eggs so good and we just didn't heard or found those who didn't survived..
"... And then humans came along..." As if humans come from a magical place outside of nature. I get the point of the impact we have on other species, but the idea that we're seperate of nature is a fallacy.
I have had a really strange encounter with a dragonfly. I have told several entomologists about this and none have ever heard it's like. I had one land on my arm. I was trying to photograph it and then there was a sudden pain and the dragonfly flew away. When I got the bleeding stopped there was a round divot a little less than 1/8" in my arm where the flesh was just gone. I suppose that some piece of high speed debris could have hit my arm right in front of the dragonfly's face, but I was deep in a city park. The only technology you could see from where it happened was the occasional aircraft.
The ducks just copy some of the bad human habits ;p
See, we can blame humanity again!