Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground
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I have been enlightened. Thank you.
that explains everything
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I hate you
I dont im sorry ily HAI
Giraffe as Interesting definitely has always been here.
Yes of course it has! (no sarcasm here...)
Yes and war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.
Jesus A spec, your ass is everywhere. Do you subscribe to all the same channels I do?
mhm 100%
ASpec? here??
Mosquitoes are insects that I would just erase from the life cycle if I had the infinity gauntlet
and maybe wasps too
@@kingjoolien2495 any type of annoying insect, really
Cockroach
and flies
And cockroaches
Fun fact: giraffes actually *can't* bend their necks in the middle like that because they're mammals, and all mammals have only 7 neck vertebrae. Theirs just evolved to be really long and rigid. Compare this with birds like swans and flamingos who can bend their necks in crazy directions because avians don't have such a small or even set number of neck vertebrae.
Could you imagine a human with a neck like an avian? 😱
It's not just the vertebrae. They have massive tendons to keep their neck in position; even when they are dead, if you pull it down, it springs back upwards. It is actually hard for them to bend it down for drinking. 🦒
@@sendmorerum8241 You know I swear I read something like giraffes also have special blood valves in their neck that close on major veins/arteries for bending over to drink so that they don't end up passing out after pulling their heads up. (You ever get dizzy from sitting up too fast? Like that but way more exaggerated.) I've also read that's why sauropods couldn't stand on two legs like in that famous Jurassic Park scene for the same reason. Also many species' modern deesigns have them more horizontal, so they just couldn't physically do it, either.
Funner Fact: Sloths have a varying amount of neck vertebrae (Two-toed sloths from 5-7 and Three-toed sloths from 8-9)
Also Fun: Manatees have 6 neck vertebrae.
what about their headbutts?
Next on Wendover Productions: The logistics of being born in January in a hidden Chinese tunnel while being bitten by a mosquito previously only found in the London Underground
Surrounded by bricks.
@@codymar4515 bricks.
And it also involves planes
@@ashrocks8443 The mosquitos were flown to China in planes.
@@codymar4515 bricks
You forgot to mention that mosquitoes from other parts of the UK find their London brethren miserable, self-obsessed, stingy and rude.
😂 😂
I dunno the ones on the Glasgow subway can put up a good fight,
As a London mosquito, I can confirm this
Next video on Wendover Productions:
Why There’s a Unique Mosquito Species in London Heathrow
they are the same guy and together they control the world
@@hughlevantjames905 1st part is false, 2nd part is true
@@hughlevantjames905 if they are the same guy how can they be together?
Actually, it's gonna be "The Logistics of Surviving Underground as a Mosquito"
@@hughlevantjames905 No they are not, clearly those are two different Sams. Get your tin foil hat off.
The return of Giraffe as Interesting! I’m always hyped to see him
Yep, I definitely love that classic recurring character. Hope to see more episodes with that character that never gets old.
0:41 imagine a regular mosquito but it just targets your ear.
Somehow it would be 10 times worse than a regular mosquito
Dont they do already? :(
Nice try, narc. You clearly work for a secret government bioweapons lab and you just want to brag about what you're making today.
As an Australian, it's weird to hear someone say mosquito so many times without giving up and saying mozzie.
As a Canadian, we give up and say skeeter.
What do you mean "Australian" he just said that Australia doesn't exist
Moztralia sounds like a good name.
Well, we do say Mozzies
In planetside :)
@@PaulVandersypen skeeter to me sounds like a synonym for 'ejaculator'
The giraffe example works perfectly once you realize that a longer neck requires more resources to grow and energy to maintain and has a higher risk of injury. Basically, your giraffes will converge on the shortest neck that allows them to comfortably reach their food supply.
I actually believe the main reason why giraffes don't have even longer necks is one of blood pressure. Getting blood from the heart to a brain that is increasingly high up requires a very high blood pressure, which in turn requires other organs to be more resistant to it, and it requires some sort of way for the giraffes not to instantly burst their cranial arteries the moment they bend their necks down. Giraffes already have unique adaptations to prevent the latter, but as their necks get longer, the problem gets progressively worse, and there comes a point where it is no longer evolutionarily worthwhile.
@@rjfaber1991 I was wondering if giraffes actually bend their necks. I don't think they 'bend' them - they lower them to get to drink from watering holes
They could have used the real-world example of Galapagos tortoises. They have a long neck and a short neck variant . One island has grasses and the other has bushes. The grassy island has tortoises with shorter necks and a shell that slopes down, the island with bushes has tortoises with longer necks and a shell that doesn't slope down in front as much.
I am now excited for a HAI and Wendover collab.
Wait, the already are
Me, as someone who grew up in a tropical area: *interesting*
Well yeah but many people are
In India we have a lot of mosquitos
That’s twice as interesting as he intended
Savage mosquitos? Oh the English. You people are funny.
There are so many mosquitos in the Philippines that I had an allergic reaction... I never had any allergies from mosquitoes
Can't wait for r/Mandelaeffect to start arguing about the fact that HAI's mascot has a) always been a giraffe, b) never existed, C) always been a yellow long necked zebra
On another note, a musquito might have helped in finding a muderer. Police in Finland believe they have caught a car thief with the help of a dead mosquito they noticed inside an abandoned vehicle. Police saw that the mosquito had recently sucked blood and decided to send the insect for analysis, and the DNA matched the man on the Police Register.
A random kid: Why is New York called the city that never sleeps?
Sam: ‘cause good night, sleep tight, and don’t let the bed bugs bite!
No really kid. Pray to whatever you call holy, that those ghastly little monsters don't find the place that you sleep. For you shall never rest again if you are the target of their invisible blood-feasting horrors.
Sweet dreams!
@@johnladuke6475 That kid either won’t be sleeping for the rest of his life, or will fall asleep, forever.
would be more fun if they where actually the size of the bugs displayed in the video... you could even adopt them as a pet and put on a leash and take it for walks!
@@theldraspneumonoultramicro405 Excuse me. What!?
@@asianinthetree8912 perhaps you could even cuddle with the lil cutie in bed and be woken up in the morning by its cute little antannae carrasing your face as it begs you to pet and cuddle with it and give it many kisses on the head.
Mom mosquito: Why don't you play with the neighbor mosquito's kid?
The neighbor mosquito's kid:
A giraffe?
@@AnthonyGruba a basement dweller
If all the mosquitoes on the Underground were stacked on top of each other, it would be about the height of a 15-storey building
Damn it I was going to type this
@Olivez Since this is talking about London, shouldn't it use the british spelling?
@Olivez Story is the American spelling
r/shitAmericanssay
pretty useless info without a cross sectional area of the stack
I've been mindlessly browsing youtube for the last 4 hours putting off doing this evolution essay ive got due in in a few days and the stuff about selection actually got me inspired to do research for it - don't ask me how it was HAI of all youtube channels which managed to motivate me lmao
Did you actually complete the assignment?😂
Did you finish it?
The NY bed bugs is hilarious and worrying at the same time
“This video has been sponsored by Brilliant.”
Ahh you didn’t need to tell me. I already knew 😈
I still can't get over it being sponsored by Skillshare…
You're brilliant!
Basically Brilliant, Skillshare and Honey are the pimps of most youtubers nowadays
Thumbs up for the Animorphs reference. Haven't even though about that in 20+ years.
He put himself on the cover! I was supposed to be a bug
I think HAI has evolved to have the best transitions to sponsorships on youtube
I'd say LTT
Linus has lost his touch over the years, all hail the new king HAI
@@louyCIA lost his touch just like this segue for today's sponsor Ridge wallets
LegalEagle has an undefeated transition game.
Oversimplified is also pretty good
I've lived in london for 12+ years and never seen, felt, nor even heard OF these mozzies. So no need to fear them if you were planing a post-covid London trip!
Sounds like something a London mosquito would say.
@@TheU7D hes right tho....
@@TheU7D They're evolving to use the Internet in their drab, (sometimes) dark, and isolated underground quarters.
@@hamingnu6610 sometimes dark? Have you seen a well lit station on the underground?
@@richardhobbs7360 I was thinking more like, them living within the walls or something. I don't usually see mosquitos or any insects for that matter, in the underground stations - so I just assumed a lot of them are also just not seen around the station itself. I thought they'd be elsewhere.
Edit: Oh wait you were commenting about how underground stations are probably not always well-lit. Yep. Yeah... Don't know if that's applicable everywhere, I just know a lot of places that still have flickering lightbulbs.
"a weird name about which there are no jokes i feel comfortable about making"
That's all you had to say, i was in hysterics
how? hes never said a funny joke
@@dwightbeane757 that wendover guy is hysterical too. he should get some pointers fromr him
@@nortonman5238 yeah, they should do a collab
@@nemodaremo9524 I don't think they can do a collab. Wendover copied HAI's voice, that's plagiarism.
@@th-bt6fn I hope you’re joking.
Since the comments are disabled on the latest video, I just wanted to say the sign language video was one of the most interesting and definitely fully interesting video I've seen from you!
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And I had the exact same thought lmao, it definitely was one of the ,if not the , most interesting video on this channel and the creative way to make us talk here just makes it more awesome :D
You know its a good day when Half As Interesting posts a new video
Giraffe as Interesting has evolved from a hypothetical company to a real mascot, I'm proud of him.
Any news on when the Giraffe as Interesting merch will be available? Us fans have been asking for it for years!
So frikking genius. They removed the comments under the "new language" video, forcing us to come up with a new way to communicate - that is, by commenting on the previous video. If that was intentional, all the props in the world to you HAI.
If you don't mind I'm gonna make this a copy pasta or something like that and paste it under every comment asking why the comments are turned off for the video(with some credit of course) and btw your smart for figuring that out. I was confused cause there were people calling HAI a communist cause he said "communism isn't that bad" or something like that but I couldn't find any evidence of that and came here and found this genius comment.
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@@KingNachos4 the link only works if you copy it by hand btw
@@sebastianstark3224 I think its like that only on phone cause it's working on the laptop I'm using.
@@KingNachos4 im on pc and its not working
Why are comments off for the most recent video?
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Wy was comments turned off on the other video?
i checked out the sponsor. it's brilliant.
Haha!
*_C O M E D Y_*
So I probably missed this being mentioned before in one of the other videos featuring Giraffe as Interesting, but is there a plushy version of them available to purchase? If not it seems like a missed opportunity.
I'm starting to suspect that Half as Interesting and Wendover productions are the same guy.
Have you ever seen them in the same room together? That's also my main evidence for the Harry Potter theory that Dumbledore and the flying Ford Anglia are actually the same characters. *_You never see them together in the same scene!_*
No they're 2 different people
I am glad that Giraffe as Interesting shows up in every video, and I look forward to seeing more of it.
Nice to see giraffe-as-interesting returning to the videos 👍😂
Yes totally a reference to a extremely old HAI video that totally exist
The last time I was this early, the 737 Max was still flying.
Except it's flying now again
It has started flying in some regions from the past few months
It was re-certified towards the end of last year
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
lol
a quick search says that the species did not originate in London, just that it is a different mosquito more suited to living underground than the type on the surface. But not that the surface mosquitoes adapted to live underground in London and then became a separate species there. That's a significant difference imo
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
you Missed
@@sanyampathak763 Sorry! But I am a straight man.
That joke about bedbugs in New York was the best one
Ha HA Ha ewwww
I love how often vids are uploaded to this channel😁 it's awesome!
So, when's the Giraffe as interesting plushy coming out?
5:39 that punch line was GOLD
Why no comments on the new video
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1:11 that guy on the right looks like he will never give you up
writing on these keeps getting better. love the wit
Yes! The return of Giraffe as Interesting!!!
Hey Sam, good job on this. Even if a few details were off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
Your jokes are getting better and/or worse and I love it.
Thank you for finally finding a use for the Mosquito Animorphs book cover
Sam: Giraffes can’t bend their neck.
Me: Nervously looks at the Giraffe from the Madagascar movie.
Funny, I never saw mosquitoes in the few times I used London Underground back in 1990's. Are you sure they're still there?
Watching this before going on the London Underground, nice.
the selection types part was really interesting. that's the kind of depth i'm looking for
Gotta be careful though, can't have the video become a whole interesting. Only half.
truly award-winning giraffe animations :D:D
thank you for making these
HAI, I have to give you props for the masterpiece at 4:55. That is all.
Watching this video while I'm in London Underground 🙃
Technically Giraffe as interesting wasn’t made up today. He made his first appearance in a video about why there are so many businesses located in Delaware
The references to Animorphs and Malcolm in the Middle has given me so much nostalgia, thank you so much 😂
Take another look at the animorphs book here vs the original....
as a long time subscriber, I can concur that Giraffe as Interesting has always been part of HAI.
yo where are the comments on the latest video
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Why you turn off comments on new video?
They wanted us to find an alternative way of communicating
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5:48 now that is class!! Best joke/pun ever made on HAI. 👏🔥
HAI: please, never stop making those bad puns and jokes, they're absolutely adorable and you're one of the few channels that makes them work
Evolution is amazing!
Wow, what happened on the new video that caused you to shut off the comments?
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Genuinely spectacular example for the different natural selection types
1:03 don’t lie. It’s the same guy. I’ve seen you guys at the same time.
1:20 Strange People Eating Mosquitos? Wow! Those people are STRANGE! 😂
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few few details were a bit of, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
I remember the first hai video and how the mascot giraffe as interesting was there
I still don’t get how you manage to make the transition to the sponsor soooo smooth
Really wasn't expecting a Cleveland Browns reference in a video about subway station skeeters. Kudos.
I love how he always forces me to learn stuff with jokes.
Who else is surprised there are surface dweller skeeters and underground skeeters? Nature looking like the Time Machine novel out here.
I'm less surprised after reading your wording. There's no reason a similar split couldn't have happened in nature with a cave-dwelling population. We just made a cave with a convenient motorized buffet inside.
The Morlocksquitos
Finally, the return of Giraffe as Interesting!
5:28 I felt that
Getting molested by underground mosquitoes is the least dangerous thing you should have to worry about while waiting for the train
What are the other more dangers things one should worry about in the London Underground?
How long have you been waiting to use that New York joke? 😂
I'm guessing, since the person who wrote it stayed up all night scratching and writing jokes about their bedbug infestation.
I live in London and I did not know this!
HaI : choose giraffe as an example
also HaI : can't draw giraffe head
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I'll come back to this video when the Browns win the 2021 Super Bowl
Yeah nevermind
The “surface” underground lines were started in the 1860s and built just under the roads with outlets to the sky to vent the burnt coal. AFAIK mosquitos don’t like smoke.
The “deep” tube lines, which have a circular shape, were started in the 1890s and have electric traction. Only one of these lines is completely underground. The rest come to the surface at some point.
Is the new species in both tunnel types or only the deep tube?
Giraffe as Interesting made me laugh way harder than it should have. So much so that I had to pause the video and leave this comment to commemorate the occasion.
Also if you ever decide to sell merch.. I would 100% buy a Giraffe as Interesting stuffy :)
Why is the new video’s comments off
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Hi Sam
Very interesting now the evolution of that happened so fast
That Animorphs reference got me. 😂
A foreign invasive species on the underground you say?
Hi, I was wondering why the comments are disabled on your latest video. Is there a specific reason, or is it an accident.
Exactly why I clicked on this
@Mark Coppa didn’t claim them. If they did there would be a yt kids logo in the description, miniplayer and save would be disabled and the comments would say “Comments have been turned off on videos made for kids”
They did it so we would find an alternative way of communicating
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Good ‘old’ giraffe as interesting, always loved how hes always been here
Was listening to yt on autoplay while while making breakfast and actually thought I was watching wendover productions. Your not wrong.
i swear you can hear him pick his nose by the acoustic change of his voice at 4:48
I though last video had comments disabled as another shitty joke...
Rude
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@@mr.randomgamer888 That's this channel's thing - bad jokes. He's super meta about it
@@ArcticProxy I mean, true but this time it was meant this time as more than a shitty joke ya know
Wow, it's been a long time since I heard anybody mentioned Animorph
Sam: I can't think of a joke.
Me, who speaks Spanish: Culex- Culo- Ass Molestus- Molesto- Molestar- Annoy. Culex Molestus- Annoying Ass, which fits a type of Mosquito.