ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! Stream the album on major music services here: streamlink.to/music-for-scien.... Check out “The Idea” music video here: • The Idea, written by P... .
From the world’s biggest land animal to a creature built more like a tank than a sub, meet seven mammals that you might not think can swim well, but do!
Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk
SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org
----------
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: / scishow
----------
Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:
Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara Growing Violet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow
----------
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: / scishow
Twitter: / scishow
Tumblr: / scishow
Instagram: / thescishow
----------
Sources:
Moose:
core.ac.uk/download/pdf/51419...
www.jstor.org/stable/1380408?...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
Elephants:
www.jstor.org/stable/2844657?...
journals.physiology.org/doi/f...
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Armadillo:
scholarship.rice.edu/bitstrea...
www.xenarthrans.org/wp-conten...
www.jstor.org/stable/1374817?...
ilacadofsci.com/wp-content/up...
Kharai camel:
kuums.org/wp-content/uploads/2...
www.pnas.org/content/113/24/6588
earther.gizmodo.com/the-fight...
www.theguardian.com/environme...
Kangaroo:
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Sloths:
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/p...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/e...
www.nature.com/articles/375224a0
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
Proboscis monkey:
academic.oup.com/mspecies/art...
link.springer.com/article/10....
www.newscientist.com/article/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/e...
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Image Sources:
bit.ly/3mLrqJS
bit.ly/3e9l4QW
bit.ly/32j44BS
bit.ly/3mLBkeN
bit.ly/2ONOCe2
bit.ly/3tmi3Tv
bit.ly/3wW1IXX
bit.ly/3deRUjT
bit.ly/3skER4T
bit.ly/3gbRpco
AAAC Wildlife Removal of Fort Worth ( • Baby Armadillo swimming )
bit.ly/3a9UiX6
bit.ly/3mQI6zY
bit.ly/3dYC4sS
bit.ly/3mUrw1Z
bit.ly/3ac2mH1
bit.ly/32j4ok4
bit.ly/2RrKK3g
bit.ly/3gaQbxP
bit.ly/2PV5ZKH
bit.ly/3diYRk8
bit.ly/3uNYCmY
bit.ly/3aezpKG
bit.ly/3wUW0W5
bit.ly/2Q70QyW
bit.ly/3e6Zoor
bit.ly/2PV6cgX
bit.ly/3tkTR42
bit.ly/3acXukP
bit.ly/2RAVA7j
bit.ly/3wVD5KO
bit.ly/3uRDhJc
bit.ly/3e4wftP
bit.ly/3dZVuxG
bit.ly/2Qnjdj1
bit.ly/3deSvlD
bit.ly/3uS5MXq
bit.ly/2OPCKZ9
bit.ly/3dZVxJS
bit.ly/3mKe9Bu
bit.ly/3mNnTuB
bit.ly/3uUppxN
bit.ly/32fd3UN
bit.ly/32eWM2d
![เกิดใหม่ทั้งทีก็เป็นสไลม์ไปซะแล้ว ซีซั่น 3 - ตอนที่ 57 [ซับไทย]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pNhft3YZFRE/mqdefault.jpg)
This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! Stream the album on major music services here: streamlink.to/music-for-scientists. Check out “The Idea” music video here: th-cam.com/video/tUyT94aGmbc/w-d-xo.html.
how did you manage to get an album promo as a sponsor but not even play a clip of the music
@whesley hynes sounds like you are trying to start a death cult? Good luck with that.
@whesley hynes so you are actually saying animal life is more important than human life? Idk what to tell you but you are wrong....
Ok, but when will the Rest of Humanity,
especially the Religious Part 'catch up'?
I talked with many of them and theyre
like the slower little brother of the Rest of Earth.
They more primitive.
If the first track isn't "Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo, then rest is all built on a faulty premise...
"Armadillos have evolved the ability to swim, in order to survive being tossed into the water again and again by scientists."
Naw, they jumped in to avoid the painted jaguar.
pokemon
Haha LOL 😂
If they can swim in the Mississippi without drowning, they are better swimmers than humans
Eventually they'll stop drowning right?
Scientist throws animal into water: I'm a marine biologist!
lmao
*George Costanza* would be proud 😉🤣
Better do what he says. He’s a whale biologist.
😂😂😂
Is that what's happening in the background in that one Hulk Hogan video? Marine Biology? lll
Scientist: throws armadillo into water
Also scientist: looks at 600kg moose, "would you like to get into the water sir?"
Just dangle food on the other side.
"Scientists thought Elephants are too big to float. "
*Looks at cruise and cargo ships*
Yeah that checks out xD
Ships are full of air though wich reduces the density a lot.
@@Ignasimp one could say seriously or jokingly say that elephants are also hollow and full of air . Floating is displacement.
@@bryanjensen300 well instead of air elephants have lots of fat on them which does float from all the oil
Whales
@@frog4880 Yeah, imagine how stupid scientists would feel if whales existed.
*Moose* * swims to avoid wolves. *
*Orca:* "hello there"
Orcas don't enter rivers
But moose do go out to sea and their bodies have been found in orca.
I see u have watched that RLL video. Or was it from another channel?
@@ronmaximilian6953 they do swim in rivers. I’ve seen them in rivers
@@redhidinghood9337 It was from bioark who I think is just RLL but might not be.
I love the casual mentions of scientists throwing animals into water
Ha YEET
the difference between science and screwing around is note taking
@@matheussanthiago9685 And making them public.
Just like parents to their babies.
THROW BABY!!
"Wow, it's so cool that you're involved in the scientific process! Remind me what you do as a researcher?"
"I throw armadillos into water, and then I see if they can swim"
@whesley hynes Wow, that's some good bait
Biologist: "Is this kangaroo a witch?" Tosses into water
Kangas are known to drag other males into a body of water and drown them... definitely a witch
Medieval Australia is really wierd
If it’s drowns, it’s a witch.
for science...
3:54 "at least that's what one armadillo did when a researcher kept throwing it into the water"
...
I can't
Best way to train Sandshrew
I love hilarious little snipets of research like that.
Obviously prior to Ethics Committees.
@@TomLeg I mean unethical science could teach us A LOT.
It's good that it's not allowed but it is a barrier to studies.
@@Londronable Yeah now we need the Armadillo's mom to sign a consent form.
If I recall correctly, because moose swim so far and so deep so often, one of their major Predators is in fact the Orca.
Moose feed on fresh water plants, and live primarily inland. I don’t think many moose have ever been taken by an orca.
@@warrendourond7236 moose swim from island to island, during which time they're eaten by Orcas. It happens more often than shark attacks on humans do.
Yeah, I have heard of it happening... but considering how little of the moose’s habit fits this specific scenario compared to the vast amounts that don’t. I do not believe an aquatic predator could compare to their terrestrial predators. Having lived for years in amongst these animals, I am absolutely certain the grizzly bear is an adult moose’s top predator, followed closely by the wolf. Black bears take many newborn calves in the spring, but it would be an astonishing rare scenario where one would take an adult. It’s not like moose makes up a large part of the orcas diet, where it is a staple for grizzlies and wolves.
@@warrendourond7236 given the number of land predators that can feasibly take down an adult moose(even adult grizzlys have been known to be killed by moose occasionally), combined with the fact that moose tend to live near water often feeding off of plants as far as 20 feet down in both fresh and saltwater and since they would be completely helpless against orca's it wouldn't surprise me if orca's are solidly in the top 5 main predators for moose. Granted this is primarily because moose have very few predators.
@@garethbaus5471 lol... yeah I guess.. Human, grizzly, wolf, black bear, orca...
03:51 "...when a researcher kept throwing it into the water"
_Incidentally, the same researcher discovered that armadillos have middle fingers on that same day_
@whesley hynes While it is certainly an important moral issue, I don't think throwing words like "evil" in the mix is helpful.
We should all strive to minimize suffering, but we have to deal with juggling cost/benefit in the relative and the absolute.
The extension of this is highlighted in the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", where all of society benefits from the subjugation and torture of one single child. Clearly, there is more to the issue than saying "the needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few" when we're the architect of suffering when this thought makes our stomachs turn; that's why we agreed on basic human rights.
But science itself is our best tool to minimize suffering and shoulders little of the blame. While horrendous things have been done "in the name of science", calling it evil is akin to burdening a sculptor's hammer with the blame because people have been killing others with hammers, these hard, unyielding, unforgiving tools of supposed evil ^^
My dad always said that all mammals are capable of swimming, but some are better suited for it than others. Pigs, he said, could swim, but their hooves are so sharp that they risk slashing their own throats while they're at it. In retrospect, I did not ask him enough follow-up questions about where or how he learned that...
Plot twist: He is a pig in his previous live
No. Giraffes' heavy heads would sink and drown them.
Hippos can't swim, they walk on the bottom.
@@TheKentove The infants swim very well. For the adults, being buoyant also does not mean they can't swim: I can attest to this from when I was younger, slimmer, and much more muscular. I sank like a rock, but I could still swim.
That's an old wives tale in the UK.
kangaroos are well versed in water, surprisingly. Besides using water to flee from hunting dogs, if the dogs give chase and swim after them, they've also been observed grabbing hold of the dogs' heads with their front paws and holding them underwater til they drown.
Brutal, but I guess I can't blame them.
I seriously doubt that many researchers were picking them up, unless they enjoyed the kangaroo's attempts to eviscerate them.
That's basically how they fight each other. Lots of disemboweling kicks and choakhoalds.
what
Raccoons will do the same. Hunters know not to let their dogs follow coons into the water. Coons will climb onto the dogs heads and drown them.
I came here to say this, but you beat me to it. They are deadly in the water.
They obviously haven't met my bulldog. First time he fell in the pool he ran across the bottom and I had to save him.
🤣😂🤣
Oh no 🤦♀️
Don't they have like dense bones causing them to sink like hippos?
that is what artificial selection will do to you.
That's cute. I'm not sure that domesticated and selectively bred species count, to be fair.
“Dude, why do you keep throwing that armadillo in the water”
“Research”
8:42 "Experiments done in the lab found that sloths can go without oxygen for more than 20 minutes"
Interesting, but I wonder if this experiment was done by the same people who threw armadillos into water lol.
Newborn humans are excellent swimmers! At birth, we instinctively know how to hold our breath, open our eyes and head for the surface. We can tread water , "dog paddle" and keep our faces in the air. My husband and I tried it in the bathtub with our newborn. From the day we brought him home from the hospital he swam, and always stopped fussing when placed in warm water!
At about nine months to one year of age, that natural ability goes away. Apparently, learning to walk ends our instinct to swim IF we don't go into the water every day.
When I throw babies into water it's kidnapping
@CL Melonshark He died of TB before he could. :C
@@BeckyNosferatu I'm sorry
Those are reflexes, they don't actually know how to swim and will drown fast if you put them in deep water unsupervised. Google it.
exactly. That title is bs
So what happened to all the other primates, besides the proboscis monkey, that they threw in the water and failed the test?
_"You rescue the gorilla"_
_"No you …"_
That was my first thought too.
I call lier lier pants on fire
Who knows? It might have respect for a man capable of THROWING A GORILLA into water.
In any water rescue situation: reach or throw, don't go! Tie off a rope to a sturdy point, toss the other end to the gorilla, and run like hell.
@@jefferynordgulen4436 plants for hire
@@Anthraxb0mb they probably would tie a rope to it, then tie the other end to a boat if given the chance. If there's one thing I learned from this video, it's that researchers are not always good people.
How could any scientist ever think something was "too big to float"? We’ve understood buoyancy since the days of Archimedes.
My mate has often said she "swims like a hedgehog". A part of me doesn't want to tell her hedgehogs can swim.
*Sonic made an entire generation think hedgehogs can't swim*
So it’s like the people who say they’re “blind as a bat”. (Hint: bats can see just fine)
I like how half of the video is just scientists being like water +armadillo =YEET
@whesley hynes bruh
"omg this poor kanngoroo is lost at sea!"
"Should we save it?"
"No, I wonder how far it can swim"
@whesley hynes That's such an insanely backwards way of thinking, I don't even know where to begin.... :S
@whesley hynes That is just less than a fraction of the applications of science and the scientific method. I don't agree with it either, but sometimes when we have no other ways of testing out very important medical procedures, medications, etc, and we can't just use cells in a dish we are forced to do this. Scientists aren't sadists, also if it weren't for these lab rats, etc, we would also have a fraction of the technology (medical and otherwise) in our world and be hundreds of years behind where we are now. I want you to REALLY think about how that would affect you, if you suddenly lost most of the things you use on a daily basis to live, work, stay healthy, etc. I'm not trying to be rude, but your comments are comically small-minded. Cheers
@whesley hynes I say we halt all scientific progress and force ourselves back into the dark ages! Bring back the castles! Oh that's not what you mean. Eh, we can still have spacecraft that doesn't involve hurting animals.
There those gosh dang biologist tossing armadillos into the water supply again
Look, we were bored and all the booze had run out. What were we supposed to do?
@@ptonpc Every weekend for two years, y'all went to the gosh dang lake and start tossing armadillos into it, we put signals all over the lake "No armadillo tossing" and you went and did it anyways
@@FakeSugarVillain Yeah? Well, in our defence, we didn't just toss them in the lake. Sometimes we used catapults or little rocket cars. It was awesome!
@@ptonpc I saw one of you carrying a cannon, an armadillo cannon, and you were all trying to make the little thing turn into a ball, you madmen even put a little helmet o on the critter, and then you went and shot it at the lake
@@FakeSugarVillain ah yes armadillo tossing my favorite sport 😉
That swimming armadillo was the perfect unexpected cuteness overload I needed. ♥️
that thumbnail is the happiest elephant that i have seen in my life, amazing
Elephant being cute... who woulda trunk?!
Meanwhile whales: "Basically every mammal is good at walking on land... except us"
(Edit: Dolphins are whales)
Dolphins are whales honey
@@ElInextricable no they're not lol
@@DarkProvidence420 uk.whales.org/whales-dolphins/what-are-the-differences-between-whales-dolphins-and-porpoises/
Yeah Dolphins and porpoises are toothed whales and the great whales are baleen whales.
For OP: Seals, and Walrus are bad and mostt closely related to bears.
@@therewasoldcringe whales have teeth
@@kyleellis9177 I was thinking that too, but it seems debatable. While they are very slow and rolly-polly on land, seals, walruses, and sea lions can get onto land and move around if they want to while whales can't.
I wonder if that's why seals and the like still have full-body fur while whales don't: they need it to keep the sun from cooking them when they get up on the rocks.
...
No scientist ever thought, "I think that there elephant is too big to float." I promise. That isn't a thing. Size has nothing at all to do with floating...
They never said when. Throughout history, scientists (or their equivalents) got a lot of things wrong
Apparently, babies CAN swim naturally, but they forget how if they aren't doing it often.
They can't swim. The can float without drowning for a short time.
@@Diesel257 No, they can paddle. There's no way to teach a nonverbal young infant the concept of paddling. And yet with safe "training" in which they are allowed to practice without obviously dying if they fail they can learn learn float and turn around to paddle to safty.
Not really, they just flail about. Even if they could, they don't have the strength to hold their heads above water so they'd drown.
@@Robert399 forget the act of moving through water.... what about the instinctual knowledge of how to hold their breath the way people need to to be underwater (which anecdotal I didn't learn until I was 20-something)
They can't swim, they can hold their breath and somewhat float, that isn't swimming, it's floating and not dying. You aren't actually moving anywhere though.
SciShow: *"All mammals are great swimmers except for humans."*
Hippo at the bottom of a lake: *"Oh, don't mind me!"*
and cows
They compensate for by being really good at jumping.
Oh, hippos don't swim, they run, like an angry water rhino 🦏
@@Sara3346 Fun fact! Hippos can jump 50 feet into the air!
@@gribberoni Where did you hear that? I was talking about jumping while being buoyed by water.
I read an article once that babies have a natural instinct to swim. I hope they didn't discover that because some scientist kept throwing babies in a pool.
Hospitals offer bathtub births, so it seems to be something that's known for a long time.
They can't swim. They can float without drowning for a bit. A total lack of motor skills isn't conducive to athletic performance.
@@Diesel257 they do doggy paddle which is directional unlike floating or treading water
@@TransformersNibbasInDisguise54 No, they don't. Again, motor skills.
@@Diesel257 my mom is literally a nurse. She says they can.
“Any prowess we have is learned.” Yes, this is true for literally everything humans do haha.
2:32 "their bodies displace enough water to counteract their weight" That's the same trick I use to float!
I grew up in north Idaho and went on my friends boat with him and his family down a river and we saw a moose swimming it came by our boat and checked us out a few times then swam to shore and sat there calling out and snorting at us for like 2 mins. One of the coolest wildlife experiences I’ve ever had!
Funny, I live in Alaska and used to go out fishing(to a variety of places, many in the wilderness) with my father all the time, and I don't think I've ever seen a moose swim at all in my life.
@@nopeno9130 maybe it's too chilly there
I've never seen an animal swim faster (marine or otherwise) than my cat when she fell into the pool.
Funny thing my dad once witnessed in algonquin park: he saw a swimming moose climb out of the water until she was just knee deep, then she peed, then got back in the water. I don't know if it's all moose or just this one who didn't know how to pee underwater
She has more courtesy than a lot of humans.
Well...now we know moose don't need to be taught not to pee while swimming either, unlike some humans
The male moose is attracted to the very loud, very audible sound of the female moose peeing. Don't ask how I know this. Also I don't know how the female moose knows this.
Moose are freaking huge, I had a relatively small cow come up to within a couple feet of me while deer hunting once, terrifying experience for sure, when it finally noticed me it snorted swung it's head around and stared straight at me for what felt like an eternity!
I think it’s also interesting to mention that of all the animals you probably think are good at swimming, hippos can’t swim well at all. They really just walk along the bottom
Ok, but when will the Rest of Humanity,
especially the Religious Part 'catch up'?
I talked with many of them and theyre
like the slower little brother of the Rest of Earth.
...They more primitive...
@@loturzelrestaurant ...what? Lol who are you talking to?
It's not that hippos can't swim well, they can't swim period. Also, they straight gallop at the bottom
@@justoneman13 Edit: Haha, that was just a joke. No offense.
@@loturzelrestaurant I think you may be a little confused. You seem to be having a completely different conversation
I hear Orcas are pretty good swimmers too
OMG REALLY???? They had a huuuugggeeee body yet able to swim easily???
Pfff... orcas are a hoax
@@JoseELeon they're pandas marine unity
How about chimps?
@@Tonius126 you mean children in suits?
"I wonder what happens when I throw this Kodiak bear into a pool?" (Researcher is never heard from again.)
Awesome list of animals, especially love the mooses! Rose Bear Don't Walk is gorgeous and did a great job :D
When you throw random animals into water: Science
It only becomes science if you take notes. 8)
Lol
@@gildedbear5355 no it's science when you take notes and do it REPEATEDLY
I wonder when animals are going to throw random scientistsinto water
@@MrOssuarian nah, reproducing the messing about is technically the job of others 8D Of course, there's nothing wrong with /you/ repeating your messing about, but it's not actually needed for science to have happened 8D
The reason humans and primates aren't instinctive swimmers is because our instincts in general are more abstract, to allow more complex learned behaviors to fill them in. Humans have to learn to walk, even, where many grazing mammals can walk within minutes of birth.
Human babies are born with the instincts to know how to walk and swim. Human babies can be taught how to be drown proof in swimming pools easily. The reason humans need to relearn how to walk is we are born physically incapable of walking and laying around for months usually leads us to forgetting how as the brain focuses on other things, like learning language.
What I've noticed in my experience with people who "can't swim" is it's not that they can't, it's that they panic too much to even try. Once they get over that, they can usually manage a passable doggy paddle without being taught. Don't ask how I got this information.
Great video, great speaker. Fascinating stuff.
Back in 1999 a moose managed to cross the Øresund Straight between southern Sweden and Zealand, the largest island of Denmark. Øresund is at an average around 15 km wide with quite a lot of current to it, being a major link for ships leaving the Baltic Sea and into the Atlantic. This was the first time in, roughly, 4.500 years, that a moose had been in Denmark outside of zoos, so it caught quite a lot of attention, though people were advised to keep at a distance, mostly for the sake of the moose. Unfortunately, after living peacefully, the singular moose was killed as it was struck by a train.
In 2015 a small amount of moose was released inside a wildlife reservation, in the hopes of increasing the local biodiversity.
That moose was one hell of a persistent illegal migrant. ;)
People were probably advised to stay away for their own safety, not the mouse's. They're not friendly animals, and they can easily kill humans. They do every year in the NW US and Canada when people get too close... nowadays, I think it's usually because they're taking selfies. Lesson: Cute ≠ safe
I don't know if Japanese macaques swim, but they sure like to soak in a hot water pool.
They learned by watching people
How about chimps?
@@Tonius126 th-cam.com/video/HvunJEONC2M/w-d-xo.html they don't hate it
Some of them also wade into the sea to make their foods salty with sea water. That's a learnt ability because usually they're really scared of water.
The armadillo swimming 500 meter to another island was making it's way back after being thrown in the sea by scientists, again.
I love that Rose is getting more time on the channel. She's my absolute fav💖💖💖
"Humans need lessons in order to swim" tell that to the baby on the cover of never mind
😂
Basically every mammals good swimming except human
Giraffe 🦒 : I didn't know that
Chimpanzee: "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that".
When you're a giraffe, every end of the pool is the shallow end.
There was a moose in Newfoundland that swam 8km or so to an island (bell island) where he lived by himself. They brought over a moose lady friend but she died. I think about that way too much.
I thought human babies naturally know how to float and hold their breath but they unlearn when they stop swimming or never get to swim from infanthood
they do. But that kinda ruins their title, so they left it out of the video...
Correct. Video is absolute bullcrap.
What I learned through this video: scientists keep throwing poor armadillos into the water to see what happens
*and kangaroos
YEET DA ANIMAL
What about the ones they didn’t bother mentioning because they didn’t make it?
And going further and further out in boats to see how far they can swim
@whesley hynes You can always give a "do not resuscitate" order if you are not fond with what people are doing to save you, so people can save someone who actually deserve it.
@whesley hynes lmao throwing animals in water is rude and annoying but there are rules and ethics they have to follow
dont be so overdramatic
Moose like water all the time. They can also swim underwater. Combined with their crotchety nature, it's not uncommon to be chased around a lake or river by one. It's terrifying, once you realize they move fast enough that you have to swim all out to stay ahead of them. They aren't perfect though, i did find a dead one under a logjam once.
They're not fast enough to out swim the orcas. Oh also a moose once swam from Sweden to Denmark, making it the first moose in Denmark since 1999
@@arcticdino1650 no way! That's pretty cool
@@arcticdino1650 the invasion has begun
I mean yeah, their innate abilities surpass ours, but we can’t even walk until we’re taught how to do it
Michael Phelps be like: Hold my 23 Olympic gold medals.
Well I can at least blame my species for it now
Same
Nah I can I'm confident if I were dropped in the middle of the ocean my death wouldn't come from drowning and I'm just as human as you probably are I'd blame your parents Humans like orangutans need almost 2 decades to learn how to survive by their parent so yours are just incompetent ignorant or dumb
@@THEPIELORD42 thanks for that.
@@THEPIELORD42 Also, there are plenty of infants that can swim the first time, just some people overthink it and forget.
@@THEPIELORD42 Imagine thinking that the danger of middle of the ocean is not being able to swim and then calling someone else dumb
im crying laughing at the mental image od scientists just yeeting armadillos into water
In the immortal words of Daniel Tosh: "Swimming? You mean that thing you do instinctively do before you drown?"
I really want to see a giraffe swim! I imagine it will look like the Loch Ness Monster
I love watching my dog swim. He will do laps in deep water for hours on end and loves every second of it, but even five minutes of treading water and I'm tired out.
Assuming still water it should take basically no effort to keep you face above the surface as humans are naturally boyant. (Exceptions for low bodyfat/high muscle mass and extra dense bones)
Depending on your dogs coat they may have a natural life jacket from thick hollow hairs. My old dog was a yellow lab who could just float there, he used his tail like a rudder. My current dog is less boyant and hates the water (even rain).
My golden retriever doesn't swim 😒 he's afraid of water, panicked totally when I tried to take him into water and his belly got wet. We live 300meters from the seashore...
I can only float with exerting energy if I'm floating on my back.
You had me at "their long flappy snoots"
long flappy snoot
I know! I thought that was adorable, too!
Thanks for sharing the knowledge
Never come near a kangaroo in the water, they are proficient and drowning other creature (that is not even a joke, look it up)
Because they aren't great at it and want a free ride out, on the human, much like humans that are drowning will drown others.
@@rdizzy1 some species on purpose go into water while fighting for a sole purpose of drowning their foe.
@@kacperzygmunt2644 Maybe so, but that doesn't necessarily pertain to the same purpose that could happen with an interaction with a human. Is there a single confirmed instance of a kangaroo purposely entering the water from land to attempt to drown a human? Actual video footage?
@@rdizzy1 there are, this is a defence mechanism against predators such as dogs 🐕. Just Google kangaroo drowns people or something. This is one of the animal myths that actually legit
I like how she says "kilometer"
It's what I use to keep track of my murders
I don't know why but as soon as I heard that I just paused like "... say that again?" I know there's no difference pronouncing it it way but I. Still. Don't. Like. It.
So do I. According to my Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, that is the proper pronunciation. The accent is on the first syllable, like kilogram, kilohertz, or kilobyte.
Timestamp?
@@Kre8-1duH it's funny because you have it backwards. Measuring devices are pronounced the way you pronounce kilometre. Think speedometer, or tachometer. So your murder counter would be a kill-ahm-eter.
As a species, we may be bad at swimming, but no other mammal can build a turbo charged laser armed speedboat that shreds everything in it's path.
We humans are the masters of overcompensating for our fragile egos, after all.
Yes, we all instinctively know how to do that.
No other species would want to do such an absurd thing either.
@@Sara3346 How can you be so sure? 🧐Q
@@Call-me-Al That is so true! But remember that as a species, we are pretty much naturally bad at alomst everything.
Imagine diving in a lake and finding a moose eating at the bottom
"You might think that elephants are too big to float"
Yes because whales, porpoises and human-made boats are already impossible #sarcasm
A porpoise is basically a goldfish next to an elephant. Orcas are *almost* elephant-sized.
@@JonPITBZN lol
@@JonPITBZN and the blue whale is the biggest animal on the planet. what was your point exactly?
@@jakeapplegate6642, my point was that porpoises aren't a good comparison for an elephant's size.
All deer are good swimmers, they have hollow hairs, it's literally like a built in flotation device. My grandfather once saw a moose walking ashore on a remote island in the baltic sea, the island didn't even have trees, it stood there for about half an hour before it stepped into the ocean and kept swimming towards the horizon.
I measured the way it was heading, it is 40km to land in that direction, where it came from it was about 10km.
@@jakobrosenqvist4691 probably some orca food.
In norway that would be a good possibility, but this was in the baltic sea.
@@jakobrosenqvist4691 ah gotcha either way they're shockingly good swimmers.
@@saltykraken9471 To me it's just naturally obvious that moose are good swimmers, but then again, I live in on an archipelago with 6500 islands and lots of moose. On top of that I have been out in the woods or out fishing a LOT ever since I was a kid, and I can tell you, swimming moose are a common sight, and encountering moose on small islands that could not possibly support them long term is also very common.
But I guess that is not the experience the average person has with moose.
I like this show and good to see Rose Bear back hosting. But, living in northwestern British Columbia, we know moose swim and love to eat aquatic plants!!
"too big to float, that's what scientists though" - did the scientists consider the fact that container ships float?
Did you consider that container ships didn’t always exist
What about trees ?
I can't stop laughing about the scientist kept throwing an armadillo back into the water
What other mammal has nuclear subs ?
Humans 1
Rest of the species 0
Sperm whales ARE submarines them self
But, does a submarine swim?
@@tomboyd7109 Well yes, but in different way
I remember being able to swim for as long as I can remember, but I'm sure my dad or some other adult in my life taught me how to. Apparently I had absolutely no fear of water, so that helped in learning.
Babies know how to swim instinctively, but forget it when not being in the water regularly, so if your parents went swimming with you regularly as a baby and later as a toddler, you wouldn't have forgotten how to swim.
@@solar0wind wow, that's interesting! Who knows 🤷♀️
Did they throw you in the pool like scientists do? 😉
@@11cabadger haha, nope, I ran to the water lol my neice was the same way...fearless as little kids.
Always interesting, thank you.
Michael Phelps enters the chat hold my beer.
I kept expecting them to mention bats. Bats is what popped into my head when I read the title.
I read pooped at your head, at first.
@@rogeriopenna9014 Bats do that, too.
Me too
Lol 😂!
And cats!
Then why the Olympic record for the 100 meters butterfly style is held by a human?
checkmate scientists
mic drop
I mean have we even tried training animals to do that though? I bet kangoroos and those proboscis monkeys could get there.
Never knew how gold comments were on SciShow xD quite hilarious
Rose's presentation is getting a lot more natural! Great job!
Scientist 1: Can this animal swim?
Scientist 2: Let's test it.
Scientist 1: How?
Scientist 2: I dunno. Throw it in?
Scientist 1: OK. *throws the poor animal in.
Scientist 2: One more time.
Meh, it's how his dad taught him to swim. He doesn't see it as bad.
Scientists 3: don't stop just I'm here. Throw it in again
Yeet
Scientist 1: *a g a i n*
My lab is why they have to say “basically” lol my guy sinks like a rock!
Moose jumps on to ocean to avoid wolves.
Seawolves, "well hello there, thanks to my land brother for sending you to me"
Excellent and interesting presentation. Tfs.
Sometimes you can see kangaroos swimming in the ocean on summer mornings, I think it might help them get rid of some annoying insects...just a guess.
It also beats wasting saliva coating yourself.
Pretty sure swimming can be instinctual with humans too if you start young enough. That Nirvana album cover plus all the videos I've seen of babies swimming seems proof enough. I learned when I was 2 and started competing on a swim team around 4 or 5.
@@remingtonsmooth1417 babies are born underwater all the time.
I remember that "Weird Al" didn't completely commit to parodying that album cover, which is probably for the best.
Wow, I still can't swim at 61. At some point reality struck and I realised it was never going to happen.
Indeed. We are good swimmers. This title is bs
I would never imagine that sloths and elephants are buoyant.
I love the mental image of all these scientists throwing animals into water like hardcore dads! 🤣
This reminds me of this population of wolves in British Columbia if I remember well... they actually are much better swimmers than others wolves and have a more fish-based diet as well, swimming and hopping between the many islands in that area.
(04:10) "...could swim about 50 m after being tossed out from shore"
More surprising than their aquatic abilities is SURVIVING being THROWN 150 feet!
How did they even manage that.
Did... did they build an armadillo catapult?
4:27 Fishermen seeing armadillo's awesome swimming
Armadillo: _Cajuals_
Considering elephants closest relatives are manatees/dugongs, I’m not surprised that they’re good swimmers.
I heard somewhere that because of the amount of time Moose spend in open water that one of their main predators are Orcas.
It makes sense on some level as not much else has the mass or numbers to take one down
On land, their predators would mostly be wolves and bears. I don't think mountain lions generally hunt things that are so large and dangerous.
The moose isn’t defenseless though. A moose once bit my sister. Moose bites can be nasty.
@@truejim was she carving her initials with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush?
*I am a researcher* * yeets armadillo *
Swimming is really only hard for us because we are used to being upright. Lay on your back and swimming becomes super easy.
Nope. I've tried it once- I swam about 1.5 m... That's was the depth of the swimming pool...
yep. We are good swimmers, despite what this video says. And very good divers, unlike any of the mammals listed here.
@@agnesstrzykowska4300 Lay on your back with your ears underwater. I guarantee you won't sink, unless you're holding cinder blocks or something.
Fun fact about moose: Many think that the amount of thorns on the antlers shows the age of the bull. It don´t. How big the antlers becomes is genetic. A 4 year old can have like 20 spikes and a 14 year old usually don´t have that big even if they have the genetics. They are ruminants so they chew everything they eat several times. So the teeth are worn down. So when they become around 14-15 years old they cant chew what they eat so the horns becomes smaller due to the lack of nutrients. If they survive that long they starve to death!
My immediate thoughts went towards the sloth!! They can barely walk but they sure can swim - though very slowly!!
But I didn't whether other great apes could swim, or not!
Sci show: every mammal can swim except us
me: are those diamond pac--man earrings?
"The scientists threw them in the water"
Wait, I didn't know throwing animals into the water was a job description. '-'
@whesley hynes Is it time for the #NotAllScientists talk?
I love how casual it is on his they mention throwing animals on water
Rose is such a good host 😁