i'm trying to go back to school for ecology and this video only helped to cement the decision for me. even if i never graduate and start a career in my desired field, my love for the natural world and its many machinations will stay with me for life. i've always been the one to crouch down on a walk and look at what bugs are crawling around, what plants are growing nearby, any tiny little peek into the world around me and how it works. curiosity is a beautiful thing, and it's great that you're fostering that here. :)
I work as a gardener and been rascinated by nature most my life even before that. As a kid i learned as many animal names and stuff from movies and picture books. Then, as a teen/young adult learning about plants felt like relearning everything, like discovering a new alien world(cause as a kid i thought plants were just mildly more interesting than rocks). So yea, can confirm this videos message 100%
My journey into botany started with looking through a microscope at a sample from a cesspit during my first year of archaeology. Learning to recognise, and later identify, seeds and fruits was rewarding and let me to specialise in archaeobotany. I collect lots of diaspores (seeds and fruits) for a reference collection. Most countries or regions have flora's, books about plants, often with a key to identify the species. If you are keen on the hobby, its worth investing in one of your region. You could always contact a local botanist, for example from a university or knowledge institute, to ask them what book they recommend! There are also nature associations were they count plants for surveys or have excursions, were I am they are mostly popular with elderly people who gladly pass on their knowledge to any young folk.
I'm currently in a Botany class and am taking a field botany class this coming quarter. This kind of stuff is what I want to keep in mind during the excursions. And also throughout my life. I'll eventually work in agriculture, so, many of my interactions with the natural world will be less about fun and learning and more about diagnosing and prescribing. Hopefully, I'll be able to spread the joy of the natural world with those I interact with. Thank you for the wonderful video.
First time seeing your channel, i love this video. In the past year I've fallen in love with observing and exploring nature and recapturing lost childhood feelings towards the natural world I had lost. Ive lived over 20 years in the same region and only in the past year have I actually seen many of the most common plants! I have been absolutely blind to original creation around me and it shocks me, the most blatant staples of the ecosystem I'm only now experiencing. I'm embarrassed to admit I've never noticed red maple seeds transition out of flower stage at the end of winter and turn into red seeds (before drying out and ready to drop). I've lived in South Georgia my Whole life and never noticed this.. and red maple trees are Everywhere. The human world is so insular and everything else was just a blur. All I saw was a blur of leaves and tree trunks and weeds that meant nothing and could not be differentiated. And I was missing out on the deepest beauty. none of this was taught to me in school. No respect or admiration for our own environment is encouraged to kids at school. That's a travesty. Now I notice all the birds and their songs. And I'm exploring the wilderness on a regular basis, I'm actually about to go right after this. I live by a great wilderness called Okefenokee Swamp, its over 440 thousand acres. I used to be very ungrateful for being born here. It didn't help that most of the woods I saw were pine plantations, equal rows of pines that obscures the original ecology. I believe that kids are so insulated from nature in this human constructed world they have no chance of a basis or foundation of understanding what life really is. It's amazing you are making this video, you are really doing a service to spread passion and wonder to help reconnect people with the earth in a time where alienation is at an unprecedented high. I look forward to more videos of nature if you make them
The book collection you shared was fascinating. You’ve made me want to hunt that set down and read through them because it’s so wonderful when there’s a level of artistic expression within science or nature books. Keep making videos!! I really enjoyed this one & it made me laugh too. Sending good vibes from a fellow seattle artist.
Such a good video. Got into botany myself only 3 years ago and now i am a biology student. The excitment i felt when i found Adoxa moschatellina for the first time was so cool, and it is seemingy very unremarkable plant. The coolest thing about it is that you starting to see all the connections in nature and understanding it on a deeper level. Sorry for my english.
I don't know how the TH-cam algorithm knew I'd enjoy this video, but it was in my feed today. I do watch some videos on other science topics. I already enjoy nature (I hike a lot) and have very, very slowly been getting to know specific kind of plants better. For instance, for the last couple of years, my favorite tree has been the ginkgo. I'm not into gaming at all (I think that's your other topic in your videos?) but I'm here for the botany. I also like your name, Dapper Sloth.
Very pleasant surprise to find a little channel like yours showing people the door for botany, I love the passion, but mostly thank you for sharing the passion in hopes of kindling mutual feelings in others. I hope the best for you and your channel :)
Glad to see that botany is finally, _finally_ beginning to just catch on in the internet these days. I've been a huge nerd for botany for like... 7, maybe 8 years now, and its such a fun subject through and through, so interactive and there's so much depth you can literally never run out of interesting stuff to dig into. CPBBD was one of the first channels I subscribed to, back in like 2019 or so when he was a good bit more obscure than today, and I've followed Weird Explorer's fruit hunting and botany adventures for even longer. I 100% vibe with the points this video makes, and basically have the exact same set of feelings about the subject. Growing plants is also a really fun hobby, and a great way to learn hands on some stuff about plants, hell sometimes even stuff that hasn't even been recorded before (I've noticed my Akebia quinata doing a little bit of mimicry, and I'm starting to suspect that the entire Lardizabalaceae is capable of mimicry to varying degrees after reading that Lardizabala has been noted to do it too, its not just Boquila that can mimic!). Its always nice to take a break and just observe or research the natural world from time to time. Literally the only downside so far with my botanical interests is that for like the past 6 years I have developed an unhealthy obsession with the Kauri forests of New Zealand which... yeaaaaah, those are kind of hard to come by... (long story, but combined with a previous geology interest I dug a little too deep into paleobotany and got some anemoia for forests of periods past, and NZ is basically Cretaceous park) Also ironic that I also happen to be from the PNW and hate plants named after people too lmao. Fun fact about the Douglas fir, the tallest tree on the planet used to be a Douglas fir (the tallest reliably recorded, the Nooksack Giant, was roughly 465 feet tall), its just that all the tallest ones were all cut down.
Hey, 👋 I know this is a little late but, teaching people how botany leads to knowledge in other areas would make a very cool vide. Joust one I can think of the top my head is a plant endemic to my country Tillandsia geissei has a crazy cool way of traping moisture from the air with pentagonal shaped tricomes that steak onto one another. Because the small distance between the tricomes solitaire gets traped. To this day is one of the coolest electronic microscope pictures I have seen.
Great stuff dude!!! love how easy going informative but also down to earth the energy is in this video. I'm 19 and currently on my own path to becoming an educator for wildlife conservation; it's great to see other people as passionate as I am :)) lots of love from AB Canada 🙏🌌
If you just brake down the genius name which is from Latin. The gives you the hardy Ness and purpose as well as the film of the the plant. Such as lavadulagustafolua= the hardy flower ❤
my most recent dive was into the magic that is sphagnum moss, because i watched some videos about the - frankly absurd - impact moors / wetlands have on the carbon cycle, both good and bad. Example: moors in their deteriorated state cause about 5-7% of total WORLD wide CO2 emissions, thats crazy. Why is there so much carbon in those bad bois? Easy, because they are covered in sphagnum moss, that has a funny way of growing -> it has no roots and doesnt need the ground to grow, it basically just sits in water, the top end growing, the bottom end dying. But because the moss makes the water it sits in acidic (because it takes in nutrients through ionic exchange) there is barely any bacteria and oxygen in the water, which almost halts decomposition entirely (i gotta look into this some more tho). And this going on for millennia. This is where we get peat from - all of it. And it takes AGES. A normal moor makes about 1mm of peat a year 😀 1. So every god damn meter of peat took 1000 years to make - sphagnums growing and dying, for 1000 years. Barely anything else in the moor matters, as long as it rains and the sun shines, the moss will grow (all other plants are secondary - moss calls the shots here). And since most moors began their existence after the last ice age - 12.000 years ago - the oldest moors have a peat layer as deep as 12 meters 😀 thats about the hight of your house. Now here it gets interesting Moors make up 3% of all the land area of the planet. Forest make up about 30%. With this, it may, or may not surprise you to learn, that all the carbon stored in moors (at 3% land cover) is fucking twice as much as all the forests in the world together (in numbers that is 550 gigatonnes of carbon if you're curious). The god damn amazon rain forest - of one the if not THE largest forest in the world - has less carbon captured than some wet piece of land in canada or sibira. And thats causing us some problems right now - because people of the last centuries (and still today) think moors dont do shit, and would rather burn these fuckers (peat), or put some corn field on it (instead of making sure that carbon - stays - in there for good) - so they drain them (cuz, you know, wet) and make them 'usable'. Now remember - the living sphagnum moss is making the water acidic through the way it takes up nutrients - and thats the only thing that stops the decay of the meters and meters of dead sphagnum underneath. Well with no more water present ( or living moss for that matter) all that preserving effect turns to wishful thinking - as ALL OF THE DRIED UP PEAT UNDERNEATH STARTS TO ROT IMMEDIATELY, RELEASING ALL ITS CARBON AS CO2 INTO THE ATMOSPHERE so thats that Thank you for coming to my TED talk
I liked this video a good bit; it's thesis is salient and insightful. Regarding the opening; from observation here on youtube I believe that it is better to present yourself as authoritative and not merely an up and comer. Speak without concern for your audience's opinion, those who truly appreciate your message will see and stay. The methods of attracting attention like thumbnails and titles are still effective though
Good video. Glad you're pursuing something you're passionate about! As a headsup, the red text on a green background may struggle standing out for people with red/green color blind.
Hey great video! didn't know your channel b4 and greatly enjoyed it. I'm wondering about the nature rambles books, I can only find them (in their 4 book version) by a different author "Edward Step". Are those books somehow related?
Do you think the Royal Botanic Garden Kew website is also a good resource? (especially to see the distributions) please become the naturalist of youtube
Scientific names need to be written in a standard format. The genus name is capitalized, the specific epithet is not, and the whole thing needs to be italicized.
Fun fact: Menzies is a Scottish surname and, in Scotland at least, is pronounced MING-iss ([ˈmɪŋ.ɪs] in IPA), because the z is originally an obsolete letter called yogh (ȝ) which usually corresponds to gh or y in modern spelling. MacKenzie also used to be something like ma-KENG-yee (as recorded in The Surnames of Scotland by George Black which came out in 1946), although this pronunciation is now lost.
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i'm trying to go back to school for ecology and this video only helped to cement the decision for me. even if i never graduate and start a career in my desired field, my love for the natural world and its many machinations will stay with me for life. i've always been the one to crouch down on a walk and look at what bugs are crawling around, what plants are growing nearby, any tiny little peek into the world around me and how it works. curiosity is a beautiful thing, and it's great that you're fostering that here. :)
Your kind words mean so much! Keep doing what you love and good luck!
I work as a gardener and been rascinated by nature most my life even before that. As a kid i learned as many animal names and stuff from movies and picture books. Then, as a teen/young adult learning about plants felt like relearning everything, like discovering a new alien world(cause as a kid i thought plants were just mildly more interesting than rocks).
So yea, can confirm this videos message 100%
My journey into botany started with looking through a microscope at a sample from a cesspit during my first year of archaeology. Learning to recognise, and later identify, seeds and fruits was rewarding and let me to specialise in archaeobotany. I collect lots of diaspores (seeds and fruits) for a reference collection.
Most countries or regions have flora's, books about plants, often with a key to identify the species. If you are keen on the hobby, its worth investing in one of your region. You could always contact a local botanist, for example from a university or knowledge institute, to ask them what book they recommend! There are also nature associations were they count plants for surveys or have excursions, were I am they are mostly popular with elderly people who gladly pass on their knowledge to any young folk.
I'm currently in a Botany class and am taking a field botany class this coming quarter. This kind of stuff is what I want to keep in mind during the excursions. And also throughout my life. I'll eventually work in agriculture, so, many of my interactions with the natural world will be less about fun and learning and more about diagnosing and prescribing. Hopefully, I'll be able to spread the joy of the natural world with those I interact with.
Thank you for the wonderful video.
It’s tough turning a passion into a career but it’s a hell of a lot better than having a dead end job you hate! You’ve got this!
This was such an enjoyable watch, thank you.
An enjoyable listening experience as well
First time seeing your channel, i love this video. In the past year I've fallen in love with observing and exploring nature and recapturing lost childhood feelings towards the natural world I had lost. Ive lived over 20 years in the same region and only in the past year have I actually seen many of the most common plants! I have been absolutely blind to original creation around me and it shocks me, the most blatant staples of the ecosystem I'm only now experiencing. I'm embarrassed to admit I've never noticed red maple seeds transition out of flower stage at the end of winter and turn into red seeds (before drying out and ready to drop). I've lived in South Georgia my Whole life and never noticed this.. and red maple trees are Everywhere. The human world is so insular and everything else was just a blur. All I saw was a blur of leaves and tree trunks and weeds that meant nothing and could not be differentiated. And I was missing out on the deepest beauty. none of this was taught to me in school. No respect or admiration for our own environment is encouraged to kids at school. That's a travesty.
Now I notice all the birds and their songs. And I'm exploring the wilderness on a regular basis, I'm actually about to go right after this. I live by a great wilderness called Okefenokee Swamp, its over 440 thousand acres. I used to be very ungrateful for being born here. It didn't help that most of the woods I saw were pine plantations, equal rows of pines that obscures the original ecology. I believe that kids are so insulated from nature in this human constructed world they have no chance of a basis or foundation of understanding what life really is. It's amazing you are making this video, you are really doing a service to spread passion and wonder to help reconnect people with the earth in a time where alienation is at an unprecedented high. I look forward to more videos of nature if you make them
The book collection you shared was fascinating. You’ve made me want to hunt that set down and read through them because it’s so wonderful when there’s a level of artistic expression within science or nature books. Keep making videos!! I really enjoyed this one & it made me laugh too. Sending good vibes from a fellow seattle artist.
Such a good video. Got into botany myself only 3 years ago and now i am a biology student. The excitment i felt when i found Adoxa moschatellina for the first time was so cool, and it is seemingy very unremarkable plant. The coolest thing about it is that you starting to see all the connections in nature and understanding it on a deeper level. Sorry for my english.
I don't know how the TH-cam algorithm knew I'd enjoy this video, but it was in my feed today. I do watch some videos on other science topics. I already enjoy nature (I hike a lot) and have very, very slowly been getting to know specific kind of plants better. For instance, for the last couple of years, my favorite tree has been the ginkgo. I'm not into gaming at all (I think that's your other topic in your videos?) but I'm here for the botany. I also like your name, Dapper Sloth.
Glad you stopped by :)
I felt encouraged to start delving into Botany, and inspired to do it my own way - really great content.
Very pleasant surprise to find a little channel like yours showing people the door for botany, I love the passion, but mostly thank you for sharing the passion in hopes of kindling mutual feelings in others. I hope the best for you and your channel :)
You just made my day!
You have such a soothing voice. Hope you make more videos. ❤❤
Glad to see that botany is finally, _finally_ beginning to just catch on in the internet these days. I've been a huge nerd for botany for like... 7, maybe 8 years now, and its such a fun subject through and through, so interactive and there's so much depth you can literally never run out of interesting stuff to dig into. CPBBD was one of the first channels I subscribed to, back in like 2019 or so when he was a good bit more obscure than today, and I've followed Weird Explorer's fruit hunting and botany adventures for even longer. I 100% vibe with the points this video makes, and basically have the exact same set of feelings about the subject. Growing plants is also a really fun hobby, and a great way to learn hands on some stuff about plants, hell sometimes even stuff that hasn't even been recorded before (I've noticed my Akebia quinata doing a little bit of mimicry, and I'm starting to suspect that the entire Lardizabalaceae is capable of mimicry to varying degrees after reading that Lardizabala has been noted to do it too, its not just Boquila that can mimic!). Its always nice to take a break and just observe or research the natural world from time to time. Literally the only downside so far with my botanical interests is that for like the past 6 years I have developed an unhealthy obsession with the Kauri forests of New Zealand which... yeaaaaah, those are kind of hard to come by... (long story, but combined with a previous geology interest I dug a little too deep into paleobotany and got some anemoia for forests of periods past, and NZ is basically Cretaceous park)
Also ironic that I also happen to be from the PNW and hate plants named after people too lmao. Fun fact about the Douglas fir, the tallest tree on the planet used to be a Douglas fir (the tallest reliably recorded, the Nooksack Giant, was roughly 465 feet tall), its just that all the tallest ones were all cut down.
fantastic video, loved every second of it.
made me rethink my perception of botany.
keep it up!
Hey, 👋 I know this is a little late but, teaching people how botany leads to knowledge in other areas would make a very cool vide.
Joust one I can think of the top my head is a plant endemic to my country Tillandsia geissei has a crazy cool way of traping moisture from the air with pentagonal shaped tricomes that steak onto one another. Because the small distance between the tricomes solitaire gets traped. To this day is one of the coolest electronic microscope pictures I have seen.
Great stuff dude!!! love how easy going informative but also down to earth the energy is in this video. I'm 19 and currently on my own path to becoming an educator for wildlife conservation; it's great to see other people as passionate as I am :)) lots of love from AB Canada 🙏🌌
That’s awesome, you got this!! :)
If you just brake down the genius name which is from Latin. The gives you the hardy Ness and purpose as well as the film of the the plant. Such as lavadulagustafolua= the hardy flower ❤
my most recent dive was into the magic that is sphagnum moss, because i watched some videos about the - frankly absurd - impact moors / wetlands have on the carbon cycle, both good and bad.
Example:
moors in their deteriorated state cause about 5-7% of total WORLD wide CO2 emissions, thats crazy. Why is there so much carbon in those bad bois?
Easy, because they are covered in sphagnum moss, that has a funny way of growing -> it has no roots and doesnt need the ground to grow, it basically just sits in water, the top end growing, the bottom end dying.
But because the moss makes the water it sits in acidic (because it takes in nutrients through ionic exchange) there is barely any bacteria and oxygen in the water, which almost halts decomposition entirely (i gotta look into this some more tho). And this going on for millennia.
This is where we get peat from - all of it.
And it takes AGES.
A normal moor makes about 1mm of peat a year 😀 1.
So every god damn meter of peat took 1000 years to make - sphagnums growing and dying, for 1000 years. Barely anything else in the moor matters, as long as it rains and the sun shines, the moss will grow (all other plants are secondary - moss calls the shots here).
And since most moors began their existence after the last ice age - 12.000 years ago - the oldest moors have a peat layer as deep as 12 meters 😀 thats about the hight of your house.
Now here it gets interesting
Moors make up 3% of all the land area of the planet.
Forest make up about 30%.
With this, it may, or may not surprise you to learn, that all the carbon stored in moors (at 3% land cover) is fucking twice as much as all the forests in the world together (in numbers that is 550 gigatonnes of carbon if you're curious).
The god damn amazon rain forest - of one the if not THE largest forest in the world - has less carbon captured than some wet piece of land in canada or sibira.
And thats causing us some problems right now - because people of the last centuries (and still today) think moors dont do shit, and would rather burn these fuckers (peat), or put some corn field on it (instead of making sure that carbon - stays - in there for good) - so they drain them (cuz, you know, wet) and make them 'usable'.
Now remember - the living sphagnum moss is making the water acidic through the way it takes up nutrients - and thats the only thing that stops the decay of the meters and meters of dead sphagnum underneath.
Well with no more water present ( or living moss for that matter) all that preserving effect turns to wishful thinking - as ALL OF THE DRIED UP PEAT UNDERNEATH STARTS TO ROT IMMEDIATELY, RELEASING ALL ITS CARBON AS CO2 INTO THE ATMOSPHERE
so thats that
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
Epic vid ❤
I liked this video a good bit; it's thesis is salient and insightful. Regarding the opening; from observation here on youtube I believe that it is better to present yourself as authoritative and not merely an up and comer. Speak without concern for your audience's opinion, those who truly appreciate your message will see and stay. The methods of attracting attention like thumbnails and titles are still effective though
Thanks, I appreciate the advice!!
Good video. Glad you're pursuing something you're passionate about!
As a headsup, the red text on a green background may struggle standing out for people with red/green color blind.
Thanks, appreciate it!!
Hey great video! didn't know your channel b4 and greatly enjoyed it. I'm wondering about the nature rambles books, I can only find them (in their 4 book version) by a different author "Edward Step". Are those books somehow related?
dont know why but ytb algorithm brings me to there
that pretty werid but great
When your perspective is "student of evolution," you can't help but be interested in all things biology.
Subscribing for more botany info!
I’ll keep it coming!
Do you think the Royal Botanic Garden Kew website is also a good resource? (especially to see the distributions)
please become the naturalist of youtube
Absolutely a great resource! :)
Scientific names need to be written in a standard format. The genus name is capitalized, the specific epithet is not, and the whole thing needs to be italicized.
Thanks! I accidentally missed capitalization on a few. Honestly didn’t expect anyone to see the video 😂
@@dappersloth Congrats! You are in favor of the algorithm
I condemn your disrespect to my very own great grandfather the late Archibald Menzies.
Fun fact: Menzies is a Scottish surname and, in Scotland at least, is pronounced MING-iss ([ˈmɪŋ.ɪs] in IPA), because the z is originally an obsolete letter called yogh (ȝ) which usually corresponds to gh or y in modern spelling. MacKenzie also used to be something like ma-KENG-yee (as recorded in The Surnames of Scotland by George Black which came out in 1946), although this pronunciation is now lost.
That’s actually super fascinating!! 😃