The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America

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  • @MinuteEarth
    @MinuteEarth  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +310

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    • @alphaapple1375
      @alphaapple1375 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Thank you for including metric units! It means so much to me, I stand in solidarity with international people 🌍 from those outside of the United States 🇺🇸! By the way, I also stand in solidarity with LGBT+. 🏳️‍🌈!

    • @Gmackematix
      @Gmackematix 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Usually MinuteEarth likes its puns, so imagine my surprise when nobody said that for this monkey puzzle, scientists have yet to come up with a raft of proposed ideas.

    • @alto7183
      @alto7183 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A esto podría tal vez haber islas temporales en el paso donde con el tiempo ayudarán, comerse sus insectos de la vegetación o piojos de sus cuerpos reciclando recursos y comida junto con mayores niveles de oxígeno atmosférico qué afectan el metabolismo y apetito del cuerpo, sin mencionar humedad matutina tan abundante qué todo queda mojado por rocío matinal y además de eso los fósiles de palmeras ancestros de África y suramerica dejarían cocos a la deriva qué afectarían por ser la migración de flora de África a América, claro también cuando la Antártida era puente de selvas y bosques en el pasado, sugerencia.

    • @CornPaper
      @CornPaper 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@alphaapple1375 "I stand in solidarity with international people" this is hilarious. thank you American person for sharing your solidarity.

    • @alphaapple1375
      @alphaapple1375 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@CornPaperThank you so much! 😄

  • @ShankarSivarajan
    @ShankarSivarajan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3460

    "The world is big enough. Time is long enough." Inspiring words.

    • @ComicalHealing
      @ComicalHealing 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      Now apply that to an infinite universe.

    • @capitaopacoca8454
      @capitaopacoca8454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Yeah I'm so inspired to wait in the beach until the little piece of land I am in disconnects from the continent and I end up in some new strange land. I don't see how this can inspire anyone to do anything. It's just beautiful and contemplative

    • @hish33p32
      @hish33p32 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Now apply that to your self improvement journey, most people think they lack time and/or energy but no, they just lack focus, focus is a much more important factor than time, a student who only studied for 2 hours but is deeply focused will achieve more results than a student who studied 5 hours but was distracted.

    • @capitaopacoca8454
      @capitaopacoca8454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@hish33p32 yeah but what million of years old monkeys have to do with this

    • @nBasedAce
      @nBasedAce 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So, eventually the people on Gilligan's Island will get back home.

  • @El_Omar2203
    @El_Omar2203 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1067

    So this scenario is the monkey-typewriter hypothetical, but with rafts instead of typewriters... and a lot of drowned monkeys.

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +238

      well when you put it that way...

    • @mattitrooper396
      @mattitrooper396 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@MinuteEarthlol

    • @firelight3806
      @firelight3806 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 Report this as spam

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 Don't believe in superstition. Jesus wasn't magic. He was just a man.

    • @MuammarQadaffi
      @MuammarQadaffi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      JESUS (EESAH) Is a prophet and the messiah who will testify against the man worshippers on judgement day ..@@greywolf7577

  • @denniseggert211
    @denniseggert211 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1901

    The chances that Monkeys crossed some 1500 km of Ocean is actually pretty high. A piece of Bogey Marsh that broke of makes it sounds like a tiny piece of Land that they barely cling on to, it´s far more likely that it would be big enough to not just carry a few monkeys but a whole small eco system with it. Floating Islands, detached portions of other Islands or Continents are found all over the World.

    • @skeletonking2501
      @skeletonking2501 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

      That sounds cool as shit

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      So... the floating island in "Dr. Doolittle" isn't as far fetched as it sounds...

    • @divinesleeper
      @divinesleeper 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      the only thing that floats long enough to cross an actual ocean is a pumice raft, and pumice raft wouldn't be inhabited by monkeys or sufficient vegetation to survive.
      It's far more likely that the highly speculative scale for continental drift is wrong

    • @bosstowndynamics5488
      @bosstowndynamics5488 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +206

      ​@@divinesleeperPersonally, as an outsider, to me the most likely thing would be the thing suggested by the joint evidence backed scientific theories of experts from multiple scientific disciplines working together, rather than a TH-cam commenter using a single unlikely event to say that the entire understanding of plate tectonics (and by extension a lot of the geology underpinning it) must be wrong.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Well one thing of note is that any item at sea will attract life... they probably ate a lot of sea birds and a fair bit of fish, even lemurs can catch and eat birds and fish making food easier

  • @pedromenchik1961
    @pedromenchik1961 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1064

    I think there’s a missing piece of this: There are several islands between Africa and South America, including the Cape Verde Archipelago, Fernando de Noronha, Penedos de São Pedro e São Paulo, Trindade & Martim Vaz, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, etc. Some of those have food and fresh water too. So maybe the migration happened piecewise over many years by island hopping instead of the whole distance at once

    • @vincentx2850
      @vincentx2850 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think though the journey between the islands is a lot shorter, the probability of monkeys making all those journeys one after another, from a mathematic point of view, may be even lower. Animals do disperse through island hopping don't get me wrong. One primate, the long tailed macaque seems especially good at it, reaching all the way to Timor from its Sunda homeland. But the Indonesia archipelagos are a lot closer together with a much shallower sea and way bigger islands, and even with that the monkeys still cannot reach Papua or Australia.

    • @rcookie5128
      @rcookie5128 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Were those islands existing during the era the monkeys must have voyaged over?

    • @aguyontheinternet8436
      @aguyontheinternet8436 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +295

      well, of course, those islands would need to show signs that monkeys lived there for that to hold up

    • @MrMtanz
      @MrMtanz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Good argument!

    • @wile123456
      @wile123456 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      Well does any of those islands have monkeys? Because if not then it isn't likely.

  • @nickshapiro8308
    @nickshapiro8308 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +415

    Wow! Seems so unlikely... but like it says, even once every 2000 years over a few million years...

    • @Zaxares
      @Zaxares 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      And if you scale this up, all the way into infinity, no matter how ridiculous or unlikely the scenario, it is GUARANTEED to happen one day. It's like the old "infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters" thought experiment. As crazy as it sounds, given enough time and monkeys, those monkeys WILL, through sheer random chance, manage to type out the complete works of Shakespeare.

    • @Stratelier
      @Stratelier 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Let's apply actual mathematics to these hypothetical figures:
      - "Once every 2000 years (P) over a few million years (N)"
      Say, P = 1/2000 = 0.05%; N = 4 x 10^6
      Probability of even 1 successful roll during this interval = *about 65%*
      (Calculate it yourself! = 100% - (100% - P) ^ N)

    • @andyyang5234
      @andyyang5234 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@Stratelier I'm not entirely sure what you're calculating, or how it relates to the question. Once every 2000 years is not really the same as having a 1/2000 probablility every year, and the formula doesn't calcuate the chance of a successful roll.

    • @pierrecurie
      @pierrecurie 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Zaxares We don't have anywhere near infinite monkeys. "Eventually" can be insanely long (eg far longer than the age of the universe).

    • @Stratelier
      @Stratelier 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@andyyang5234 At the same time, these are not predictable events occurring on a fixed schedule (e.g. _literally_ "once every 2000 years") and their incidence over time is estimated from known (or inferred) past occurrences.
      The formula I listed is the probability of "at least one" successful roll (given a fixed probability over a # rolls). If there are _no_ successful rolls then by definition you have a streak of consecutive failures, something which is super simple to calculate.
      Whether or not we even have the "correct" values to begin with is a completely different question...

  • @vincentx2850
    @vincentx2850 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +488

    Monkeys are not even the only one that made this very journey. All the South American rodents, tortoise, crocodiles and even cichlids likely came from African ancestors.

    • @Hizsoo
      @Hizsoo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Maybe the islands in the region and erosion is so much underestimated.

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @vincentx2850 Yes. S. America was one of the continents that was mostly populated by marsupials... back when, and there are STILL many species of them. Mostly opossum like ones. In fact, marsupials most likely originated there.
      The large mammals most likely got there from N. America too when the Panama connection happened.

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Hold up how would fish do it?

    • @lenarianmelon4634
      @lenarianmelon4634 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      @@LimeyLassen the rafts were huge (hundreds of meters wide to possibly a kilometer) and could hold small pools of water inside them. Also, certain species of fish eggs, especially from areas with fluctuating rainfall can survive years in complete dry conditions as long as they're covered. And animals can eat fish eggs and poop them out while still being viable.

    • @jaychoubisa15
      @jaychoubisa15 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Even the humans are from african and European decent

  • @Magmafrost13
    @Magmafrost13 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +302

    The other weird thing about how unlikely rafting seems to be is that it seems to have happened with SO MANY GROUPS OF ANIMALS throughout time

    • @thwingerpodthvet4302
      @thwingerpodthvet4302 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Also plants too. Most plants can only grow so far from the plant the seed came from.

    • @Someone-sq8im
      @Someone-sq8im 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      Given enough time, anything that can happen will happen

    • @spongebombepicpants1073
      @spongebombepicpants1073 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/video/XJoLeDG3qQU/w-d-xo.html

    • @RobMacQ
      @RobMacQ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      In a world with no sea walls, levies, damns, or coastal development these kinds of rafts would have been much more common

    • @teathesilkwing7616
      @teathesilkwing7616 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@thwingerpodthvet4302well a plant seed is much more likely to survive the trip, they usually have built in food

  • @syawkcab
    @syawkcab 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    Makes me wonder if rafts of monkeys or other animals ever landed in Antarctica and they just froze to death

    • @sicksock435446
      @sicksock435446 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Penguins when they meet monkeys for the first time "🗿"

    • @Noah-ws8ho
      @Noah-ws8ho 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Antarctica has very strong circular ocean currents ssurrounding it. So, that's fairly unlikely in recent history. The currents have to be favorable.

    • @stephenderry9488
      @stephenderry9488 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Long before the monkeys, the marsupials and flightless birds (ancestors of kiwis, cassowaries and emus) reached Australia from South America by walking across Antarctica. Of course in those days they were all joined together, and Antarctica was a lush temperate vegetated land.

    • @singsongbum
      @singsongbum หลายเดือนก่อน

      monkeys got to Americas thru the atlantic-triangle trade.. these monkeys were packed in 1000s in a ship and sent to work the fields, bruh.. President Lincoln saved these monkeys from slavery

  • @megasun
    @megasun 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +429

    Imagine... how many monkeys just DIED, and other lemurs, reptiles, etc.. When they fell on a mat/raft, not by choice, floating into endless ocean, the chance to reach another habitable island/land is so slim. This is very different from human migration to Polynesia, where human did it on purpose, with ships and tools, through exploration and planning.

    • @bensoncheung2801
      @bensoncheung2801 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      69 👍
      That’s… quite a large number.

    • @microska2656
      @microska2656 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yea... What are you trying to prove by saying that

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Well there is a chance that humans first learned about islands by accidental means like that especially gor some of the larger islands, if absolutely nothing else technically every shipwreck is still a case of this it's just the end if the destination that counts not the whole thing, it's even more comfortably a case of ir if the ship breaks and you cling to something, the monkeys were probably smart enough to manage a bit of independent mobility (like they were bad swimmers it wasn't impossible for them to swim so they mught have swam the last bit and even if it was just like 100 yards they swam that makes each island and bit of coast that mych bigger and makes it so much more probable

    • @foakjljrwajkltawtrawtwa441
      @foakjljrwajkltawtrawtwa441 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Hypothetically we can say there are monkeys at the bottom of the ocean

    • @MP-vc4nu
      @MP-vc4nu หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Imagine… how many animals and insects just DIED at the moment you typed that comment

  • @strawwagen
    @strawwagen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +305

    Shame you didn't show that the "rafts" would've been HUGE, likely spanning hundreds of meters
    A sight to behold!

    • @DAMfoxygrampa
      @DAMfoxygrampa 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      How would they have been that big?

    • @Hater_Ultima
      @Hater_Ultima 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      ​@@DAMfoxygrampaLarge peices of land breaks off from larger peice of land.

    • @LoreleiBlaine
      @LoreleiBlaine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@DAMfoxygrampalook up "floating bogs" and you'll get an idea of the sort of thing this must have been.

    • @bensoncheung2801
      @bensoncheung2801 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      43 👍

    • @aribantala
      @aribantala 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      Which also increases likelihood of survival because that patch of land may also carry edible, fruit bearing, and live plants as well

  • @FreeTibetFTW
    @FreeTibetFTW 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    At 02:43 Is that a Passimian ??? within "New world monkeys"??? LOL, You made my day hehe

    • @devincowan892
      @devincowan892 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Been searching for this comment

  • @five-toedslothbear4051
    @five-toedslothbear4051 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    When I was a kid, I was amazed at the movie Ra, the documentary of Thor Heyerdahl and crew showing that humans could have crossed the Atlantic on papyrus boats. It was amazing to see that tool-using humans could have done that with planning and purpose. That monkeys could have crossed the Atlantic more or less by accident is even more amazing!

    • @spongebombepicpants1073
      @spongebombepicpants1073 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/video/XJoLeDG3qQU/w-d-xo.html

    • @singsongbum
      @singsongbum หลายเดือนก่อน

      monkeys got to Americas thru the atlantic-triangle trade.. these monkeys were packed in 1000s in a ship and sent to work the fields, bruh.. President Lincoln saved these monkeys from slavery

  • @softlysnowing3959
    @softlysnowing3959 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    I love the detail of the die representing the chances of survival. So cool.

  • @TipsTricksandTalents
    @TipsTricksandTalents 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Clicks on video, immediately checks comment section.

    • @zlodevil426
      @zlodevil426 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For young earth cultists or people talking about the slave trade?

  • @MacLeodddd
    @MacLeodddd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Soo happy this topic is bring covered!!! A podcast I listen to was talking about this a few years ago, and thought it was insanely incredible.

    • @singsongbum
      @singsongbum หลายเดือนก่อน

      monkeys got to Americas thru the atlantic-triangle trade.. these monkeys were packed in 1000s in a ship and sent to work the fields, bruh.. President Lincoln saved these monkeys from slavery

  • @ml8808
    @ml8808 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Here before the thumbnail changes 😮

  • @miketacos9034
    @miketacos9034 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I don’t care, I’m imagining monkeys purposefully building and sailing the HMS Oo-oo ah-ah and riding it to glory. (HMS stands for Haha Monkey Sailing)

  • @fabrizioburgosmore6220
    @fabrizioburgosmore6220 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    2:43 Thnx for including Passimian!!!

  • @sixtynine4009
    @sixtynine4009 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Instagram reel commenters would have a field day with this video.

  • @gneu1527
    @gneu1527 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I really like your artstyle and the way you draw monkeys.

    • @stinkytoy
      @stinkytoy หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those monkeys were so goshdarn cute

    • @stinkytoy
      @stinkytoy หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those monkeys were so goshdarn cute!

  • @dondiezel
    @dondiezel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    It turns out that the world is big enough and time is long enough that things we think are so improbable as to be impossible have actually happened many times over.

    • @ngtony2969
      @ngtony2969 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      when you say "we think are imporbable", that we only includes dumb people.
      Normal/smart people understand probabilities is chance x number of trials.

  • @prophetrexlexful8783
    @prophetrexlexful8783 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    damn i thought it was about slavetrade

  • @StarKatGaming
    @StarKatGaming 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I just love how adorable all the graphics are in this video specifically. The monkeys alone are so cute doing their things

  • @somewinner8229
    @somewinner8229 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    The most likely explanation: the Eagles from Middle Earth carried them after they threw the Ring of Power into Sauron's pit 😂

    • @ShankarSivarajan
      @ShankarSivarajan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Birds bringing things over is actually eminently plausible _for plants._

    • @somewinner8229
      @somewinner8229 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ShankarSivarajan nice, good to know. I'll advise the tree people of this important information 😅

    • @QuantumHistorian
      @QuantumHistorian 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@ShankarSivarajan I have it on good authority that that's exactly how the coconut spread all the way from Africa to Camelot.

    • @georhodiumgeo9827
      @georhodiumgeo9827 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nope, If it was the eagles they would have only taken them part of the way instead of just taking them to where they actually needed to go.
      Possibly they were carried by swallows, Not European swallows but maybe multiple African swallows holding a monkey by a string held under the dorsal guiding feathers... Then again African swallows are non migratory so its still up for debate.

    • @fishyfishyfishy500akabs8
      @fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ShankarSivarajanalso small insects, mites, or such clinging to their fur.

  • @scratchypineapple
    @scratchypineapple 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    chicago

    • @rollitupmars
      @rollitupmars 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Who’s laughing

    • @veryepikhuman3958
      @veryepikhuman3958 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@rollitupmars why r u so offended at random unfunny jokes in youtube comments. you actively clicked to search by newest so that you could be offended. go live ur life 💀

  • @jeffreybernath6627
    @jeffreybernath6627 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love the dice graphic! Fun and intuitive!

  • @Talonpkmnunity
    @Talonpkmnunity 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    2:44 just gotta love the random passimian

  • @KnowArt
    @KnowArt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    now I'm really curious to the story of these iguanas. How does such a thing happen!?

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      www.nytimes.com/1998/10/08/us/hapless-iguanas-float-away-and-voyage-grips-biologists.html

  • @saulgoodman1046
    @saulgoodman1046 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Last time i checked they were chained and taken in ships

    • @DZY8733
      @DZY8733 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Saul Goodman would HATE you irl😡😡

    • @rollitupmars
      @rollitupmars 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Who the Irish?

    • @jhwhthemerciful
      @jhwhthemerciful 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have animal rights now so quit the racist stuff!

    • @ricardorascon88
      @ricardorascon88 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@rollitupmarsThe main majority of the $l@ve population throughout the world were blk people

  • @yellowman4685
    @yellowman4685 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for your changing back your art style form the previous video.

  • @brysonbushnell
    @brysonbushnell หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Scientists: Humans could have never possibly crossed the oceans in prehistory
    Also scientists: Yeah so, the monkeys rafted here

  • @jjseandxcefree
    @jjseandxcefree 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    so african migration as a metaphor.

  • @ddnick
    @ddnick 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Lmfao 🤣🤣🤣🤣 , I can't stop laughing after reading the title... n that thumbnail is crazy af ☠️

  • @could_possiblybe_thane07echo
    @could_possiblybe_thane07echo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    *reads title*
    _sighs_
    *_looks at comments_*

    • @hexyellow9873
      @hexyellow9873 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me when I see a video about evolution:

    • @user-qb1pn8uj7u
      @user-qb1pn8uj7u 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ive only seen one bad comment, the commenters are way too mature

    • @could_possiblybe_thane07echo
      @could_possiblybe_thane07echo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @user-qb1pn8uj7u oki that's good 👍👍

  • @Bulsajo
    @Bulsajo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wow, so informative and easily the best thing I've watched this week, and agree with everyone who says how powerful the very last line is. More on the topic please (about how humans suck at statistics, but feel free to use more money stories!).

  • @unoriginalclips9923
    @unoriginalclips9923 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    They came over on slave ships

  • @jibbaspaa
    @jibbaspaa 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Thanks! I’m not much of a merch guy and I don’t like the subscription model of patreon, so I appreciate you using this method and reminding me to use it. *Big hug*

  • @Supasmartguy
    @Supasmartguy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was expecting a ton of evolution vs creation debates in this comments section.

  • @mr.shahriar7469
    @mr.shahriar7469 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We all know that cameramans are invincible, but today we learned they can time travel too!

  • @indecipherabletetrapod2635
    @indecipherabletetrapod2635 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    If you'd like to learn more about this topic I'd suggest checking out "The Monkey's Voyage" by Alan de Queiroz, which discusses not just rafting monkeys but also other instances of sweepstakes dispersal, and the evolutionary implications thereof.
    On another note, one thing I feel this video should have mentioned is that monkeys couldn't have gotten to South America when it was still attached to Africa & were simply left "stranded" there as the continents broke up; that would require monkeys having been around since at least the Jurassic period, long before the earliest known primates!

    • @Alarix246
      @Alarix246 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      They mentioned it, quite early on.

    • @Alarix246
      @Alarix246 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@themechanictangerine4337 isn't that what he said?

  • @theshadowking3198
    @theshadowking3198 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    “I know how them monkeys got to the americas” 👴🏻

  • @SwashbucklerSound
    @SwashbucklerSound 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is the infinite monkey theorem in action, in a story about monkeys. I love it.

  • @ahmedxaziz2960
    @ahmedxaziz2960 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Eyes open:😺
    Eyes closed:💀💀💀💀
    The starting of video

    • @doge_69
      @doge_69 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      LOLLLL

    • @HTrntrs
      @HTrntrs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was finding this

  • @diracio
    @diracio 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Great stuff, as ever - and I'd love to give a tip but can't see the button... help please?!

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      While unlisted, the option wasn't available, but now it is! check it out and thanks!

    • @Hizsoo
      @Hizsoo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MinuteEarth Not available in older versions of the app. That could also be the case.

  • @anaalina5964
    @anaalina5964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    So it's pretty much what happen to Zalmoxes in Prehistoric Planet!

  • @gustafvonderropp7433
    @gustafvonderropp7433 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for your great explenation

  • @Fatimarocksman1
    @Fatimarocksman1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video !!!

  • @jooliroo
    @jooliroo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    1:30 LotR reference: one does not simply walk into South America

  • @AaronKlapheck
    @AaronKlapheck 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thanks! Love your videos. I also like your Patron page ❤

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you so much!

  • @abd4704
    @abd4704 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Say everything instead of accepting the fact they were spawned there .

    • @joeljoshyjoeljoshy7823
      @joeljoshyjoeljoshy7823 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But they weren't no evidence for it.

    • @abd4704
      @abd4704 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@joeljoshyjoeljoshy7823 Human mind is limited for evidence but we humans have limited intelligence

  • @eekekdrrlrl
    @eekekdrrlrl 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "We've had monkeys the whole time?They walk outside every day."-👴🏻

    • @jonasg.bisgaard1086
      @jonasg.bisgaard1086 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There was a time before humans, learn biology it’s pretty fun and easy to understand.

  • @johnchron8454
    @johnchron8454 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    thats weird I thought they all came on ships

  • @EazyCash1993
    @EazyCash1993 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    They were brought on slave ships lol

    • @Jayzonny
      @Jayzonny 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i scrolled through the comment section just to find a comment like this lmfao

    • @renee8256
      @renee8256 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Jayzonny Literally the first thought i had before i even watched the video😭😭😭

  • @0King2Of0Yesterday
    @0King2Of0Yesterday 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love the use of dice to explain these probabilities

  • @stupidkaijucrazy5548
    @stupidkaijucrazy5548 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Idk why But I’m imagining a monkey Columbus

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A Colobus Columbus who thought he was in SE Asia when he landed :)

    • @Someone-sq8im
      @Someone-sq8im 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MinuteEarthtake my like and leave

  • @paulmphoto
    @paulmphoto 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yes monkeys clung to mats of vegetation to cross oceans but humans with primitive boats with plants and monkeys crossing oceans NO WAY!

  • @quintonneal2881
    @quintonneal2881 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I write software for a living and our solution takes a little bit to spin up sometimes. So, I brought in 5 d6s and started rolling them while I waited to see how long it would take me to roll all 6s. I roll them AT LEAST 20 times a day, but often much more than that. I start our application up dozens of times a day, and can usually get about 10 rolls in before I start debugging (keep in mind I’m doing it on paper so it’s not loud and annoying to coworkers. Also, I’m only doing it in my down time. So, it’s not taking away from my work).
    It took over a year for me to roll all 6s. When I finally got it, I sent out a message to my team and they all started chearing because they had all become somewhat invested in seeing when I’d finally get all 5 sixes. But it literally took over a year of doing it to get it! This video just made me think of that

    • @singsongbum
      @singsongbum หลายเดือนก่อน

      monkeys got to Americas thru the atlantic-triangle trade.. these monkeys were packed in 1000s in a ship and sent to work the fields, bruh.. President Lincoln saved these monkeys from slavery

  • @avu2888
    @avu2888 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I love the end message so much. it reminds me that in order for you to feel so small compared to the size & time of the Earth, the Earth has to equally be so large & long. almost anything is possible & our green/blue space rock has proven that time & time again.

  • @AHICorporation
    @AHICorporation 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "You'll boat too!" - From the movie 'IT is a raft' 🙉🙊🙈

  • @fonsie_games
    @fonsie_games 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Huh, I thought they arrived in european ships from africa to south america?

  • @ThePheenixKing.
    @ThePheenixKing. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Well today I learned! I always thought/remembered to have heard that they walked not over land but over the frozen sea in the south and north to come over to the Americas. Or maybe that was us humans? Anyways great video!

    • @sicksock435446
      @sicksock435446 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Humans probably did so via a northern route.

  • @nikkopooyak3738
    @nikkopooyak3738 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    New world monkeys is a great name for a band.

  • @phnv
    @phnv 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    great and yet simple explanation on the statistics of the whole thing

  • @huntermckinney18
    @huntermckinney18 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Think about how many times this similar situation may have occurred, but didn’t end with survival…

    • @Alarix246
      @Alarix246 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's absolutely normal way for nature to function. Grasping it is one part of becoming adult, mature and reasonable.

    • @stephenderry9488
      @stephenderry9488 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your 100 million deceased sperm siblings laugh at drowned monkeys.

    • @AndrewRipley-mp5vr
      @AndrewRipley-mp5vr 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Alarix246 except for thats not how any of that works, the food source and and water is impossible to sustain a big enough population of mammals on any kind of raft for such a prolonged period of time

    • @Alarix246
      @Alarix246 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@AndrewRipley-mp5vr well I ain't going to argue. I know what I know, and believe that you're going to correct your opinion when the time comes. You only think and wish it didn't work that way.

  • @SouthParkSnowDay
    @SouthParkSnowDay หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    they come to europe by boats, usually from libya.

  • @morwickchesterham3875
    @morwickchesterham3875 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Monkeys floating to America on wooden objects... reminds me of Columbus and his crew...

  • @kenshek5074
    @kenshek5074 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Monkey rafting trip!!! I have something completely different in my head.

  • @stan134
    @stan134 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Birds or bees might have transported monkey seeds over ocean, without even knowing it.

    • @colorado841
      @colorado841 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your comment made my head explode.

    • @burner555
      @burner555 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🧠📉📉📉📉

  • @Brandon579JB
    @Brandon579JB 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The travel of the monkey raft would be a perfect disney movie like ice age

  • @large_hadron_colander8301
    @large_hadron_colander8301 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:43 Didn't know Passimian was a new world Pokemon hahaha

  • @Playerone1287
    @Playerone1287 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Watching this channel after a long time
    Like 5-6 years

  • @GuvernerZoubek
    @GuvernerZoubek 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    im holdin my tongue on this one

    • @Indoraptoad
      @Indoraptoad 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We all are

  • @AltHistoryMap
    @AltHistoryMap 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    monke floating on raft looks cool, maybe i'll click- (4 hours later): "WHY IS THIS CHANNEL SO GOOD?"

  • @514Exc
    @514Exc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you look at a world map, south america fits perfectly inside the continent of africa, both continents share similar tree species however south america has 3x as much biodiversity as africa today. Seeing this makes me think of The tower of Babel

  • @liambohl
    @liambohl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Came for the sailor monkeys, stayed for the dice

  • @juliav.mcclelland2415
    @juliav.mcclelland2415 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Could an incomplete fossil record explain it? Could there have been ancestors of New World monkeys in what is now South America dating back to when South America and Africa were still connected by land, and we just haven't found the fossils of any such New World monkey ancestors that old? Or do the DNA tests preclude that and date when the split happened?

    • @amberbydreamsart5467
      @amberbydreamsart5467 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      on quick googling; monkeys, as a cladistic group in general, first appeared about 55 million years ago, and the last time south america and africa were connected directly was 140-180 million years ago, so it can't be from back then, monkeys didn't exist.
      I think any north american land bridges since are precluded because there's no evidence of monkeys settling in north america and then traveling south - all DNA signs point to the origin contact being in south america. As far as I'm aware, as well, the DNA testing is usually pretty good at pointing to a vague timeframe for when species diverged, since mutations happen at a relatively predictable rate (though i'm less certain on that, don't quote me on it)

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm pretty sure monkeys didn't exist at all that far back. Shrews, maybe.

    • @xtifr
      @xtifr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      DNA tests show when the split happened. That's _why_ rafts are the only serious hypothesis left.

    • @sicksock435446
      @sicksock435446 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because when the continents were still connected Monkeys had not yet evolved.

    • @benjaminbronnimann3966
      @benjaminbronnimann3966 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Africa and South America split during the jurassic 180 million years ago, the earliest signs of primates appeared 55 million years ago, so for that hypothesis to work primates would have to be over 3 times older than we thought almost as old as the first dinosaurs, so yeah highly improbable

  • @franciszurielburgos3798
    @franciszurielburgos3798 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    which monkey the workers or a animals? (their the same)

    • @BryceCrowe
      @BryceCrowe 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ????

  • @linq7584
    @linq7584 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video

  • @aaac1456
    @aaac1456 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    that is very cool. also love the d20s.

  • @TheRealTobias
    @TheRealTobias 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I love how you visualised the changing probability with those dice! Keep nerding out! 😊

  • @gregbutler6851
    @gregbutler6851 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You literally just explained how Africans made it to South America thousands of years ago.

    • @Jayzonny
      @Jayzonny 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Don’t say that, please.

  • @scrubyboat
    @scrubyboat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The art style is back to normal!

  • @edwardmacnab354
    @edwardmacnab354 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    some pretty big storms have caused large masses of trees to come down in one fell swoop to be swept away by engorged rivers to the sea

  • @gardenhead92
    @gardenhead92 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    One does not simply raft into South America

  • @eduardostapenko6808
    @eduardostapenko6808 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "thats definetly were aliens" as one of mine classmates sad...

  • @debochando
    @debochando 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just loved the dice illustration for explaining the increased probability.

  • @mrwri
    @mrwri 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this video reminds me of that guy who visited the soviet union and just stood outside a building until a queue formed behind him

  • @Albatross3AM
    @Albatross3AM 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The slave trade

  • @alburt02t
    @alburt02t 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    How do we know it rained nearly every day in that region at the time? Genuinely curious.

    • @Toomuchbullshitt
      @Toomuchbullshitt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The earth was much warmer during that time. Ice core drills proved both CO2 levels and temperatures were sufficient enough for deluges of tropical rain to occur daily along the equator.

    • @AndrewRipley-mp5vr
      @AndrewRipley-mp5vr 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Toomuchbullshitt that does not prove it rained everyday

  • @josephbanatlao6461
    @josephbanatlao6461 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did the “history” channel’s Ancient aliens did an episode on this subject yet?

  • @ice_wallow_come8773
    @ice_wallow_come8773 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A lot of them where brought in boats.

    • @SquidMonke4
      @SquidMonke4 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thats not true why the hell would europeans have monkeys on boats

    • @saulgoodman1046
      @saulgoodman1046 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To work the farms idiot get a joke sometimes​@@SquidMonke4

  • @themattinahat3042
    @themattinahat3042 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Slavery. Next question

  • @wilsonng7554
    @wilsonng7554 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:51
    In the ancient time, there are some islands in the middle of the sea, the monkey not just need to travel very far away

  • @rook0982
    @rook0982 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    0:17 Clearly a giant catapult was used 😂

  • @sposso97
    @sposso97 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I feel like there's more things that might have happened to make the journey even more possible

    • @sicksock435446
      @sicksock435446 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      One thing the video didn't mention is a potential food source for the monkeys... dead monkeys. D:

  • @Treblaine
    @Treblaine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It could have been a tsunami that washed a massive volume of water over a huge area inland and when it receeded it dragged a huge number of trees as well as monkeys who would quickly find a tree as a raft. It may not have been one raft but dozens of trees washed out to sea and the animals most suited to survive on these tree rafts would be small monkeys.

  • @maddoxmonteza
    @maddoxmonteza 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Homo Sapiens got to Madagascar in the same way.

  • @thyblackpanther
    @thyblackpanther 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When science has a clear gap:it has to be this way

    • @ngtony2969
      @ngtony2969 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pls stop lying and get educated. I mean, ur pic is rightwing incel enough already. No need to further emphasize and embarrass yourself.

    • @Someone-sq8im
      @Someone-sq8im 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ¿Que?

    • @drksideofthewal
      @drksideofthewal 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Once you’ve eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

  • @killmeister2271
    @killmeister2271 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    this video is exactly why i question EVERYTHING no matter how improbable it seems

    • @wile123456
      @wile123456 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Meanwhile religious extremists still refuses to accept evolution as a theory because they are too stupid to understand that monkeys and humans share a common ancestor and that current day monkeys aren't the fathers of humans.

    • @c_sea1n
      @c_sea1n 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      oh hey killmeister

    • @killmeister2271
      @killmeister2271 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@c_sea1n hi lmao good to see u