@@SartBGplant trees illegally turn your kitchen into a nursery you can do it. Make your first mugshot one for planting a tree in a public space fuck the gestapo
As an Australian, that scene looked like fairly typical "boring" scrub that I normally would have no interest. You made it fascinating. So many interesting plants!
That is exactly the mission of Tony, and other teachers like him. To get people to appreciate that what looks boring in nature, is not. Bonus swearing and misanthropy included. He even got me to like depauperate ultra-mafic serpentine soils and what the fuck.
I can't help but notice all the narcissism and "got mine" in the human world lately -- watching these videos basically erases that cancer on my psyche for a good while. My spinal health will never allow me to go hiking or bend down to explore nature like this, so thank you so much. Love your attitude, even if its a character you might put on haha
"I'm learning with you!" I'm sure you retain more information than I do on a bad day than I do on my best. I'm just the eager idiot nodding about trying my best.
Dude, I desperately want to listen and watch you experience a spring in South Africa (especially the desert areas) during the blooms. I think you'd both love the crazy prehistoric plants and the crazy amounts of flowers.
I think it is illegal to proposition the local wild life into the back of your van. Great video. "strip malls, depressing tract housing, the kind of things that make you want to puke and die" - gold.
You caught me with the bong rips and food. Some of the greatest videos to watch while doing so... over time i start to notice reoccurring families and genus, and they start to stick... thank you for these videos very educational. Crime pays
God damn! I'm a gardener in Berkeley and he got it on the money! Anigozanthus and Grevilia in every garden and all the succulents you can steal. So good!
Man your message about respecting Earth in almost every video.... im so thankful for that. Keep spreading it man!! Great botanical content of course :D un saludo desde España!
I really connect with you man. I'm science freak myself and love biology. Love the way you talk, someone who speaks truth. Keep it up man. I wish you could realize how much your videos help me stay happy in life.
Perth based plant (especially proteaceae) enthusiast , loving your quirky commentary, hope you get to visit more of our south west, Stirling ranges and Albany area , there are some amazing plants still in flower right now
Yep, I used to love ripping a bong and walk through the south west forests in springtime. Damn workplace drug testing! I just discovered your channel and find you were just in my neck of the woods. I studied some botany on a course I did in the goldfields of WA and discovered my love of the bush. By the way, I love that your finger is metric!
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt still, life emerging in all kinds of shapes forms and diversity and what not on this little rock lost in space is pretty fucking amazing I try to keep my focus on that and fill my sad old punk heart with amazement and awe and gratefulness these are Milk Bones for the soul and they keep me alive and again, thanks a bunch for taking us around and sharing so generously your passion with us fuckers, fucker ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c5zvD_fTIBQ.html
I'm probably guilty of a shitty comment or two, sorry for that. FWIW I'm extremely glad we have you out there showing the human world what they're missing in the natural world. I already knew, in a general sense, but I'm learning a lot of specifics from you and I hope you keep going.
Great video - I hope you’re heading out to see the famous wildflowers. It should be a good year. Part of the country is in severe drought but over that side I hope it’s OK. For us Aussies, this is a real treat! Have you got a local botanist with ya??
Proteaceae being closely related to Platanaceae rang some bells for me. I work on some fossil flora on Long Island that is approximately 86 mya, and a major component is Platanus. Thanks for that tidbit!!!
Wonderful that you're in Perth. Welcome! Enjoy the amazing array of plant life. I'll never meet you personally in all likelihood but I'm so happy you're visiting!
Here in Santa Cruz County every Eucalyptus globulus I see has notches cut out of the leaf margins by the eucalyptus tortoise beetles. These little guys are really helping us by reducing the leaf surface and thinning the canopies of these trees which are the largest weeds in the world.
I heard they brought the Eucalypts to SoCal to use as railway sleepers - stupid bastards chose the wrong kind - doesn't grow straight-grained enough - so now you just have weeds.
It's impossible not to.. hear my biology teacher.. from the early 80s.. The best. Married his ex student at +50, and brought her in to teach us about iris diagnostics and .. homeopathy.but The spirit is still there..
Every god damn time you say something is going to blow my mind, it does. I had no idea about secondary pollen presentation, what a wild concept. Endless forms.
Both crows and Australian magpies are passerines (that's the order) but you're right, Australian magpies are in a different family, Artamidae... I confused them with the Australian ravens I hear everywhere, which sound like upset cats, and are true corvids. Australian magpies aren't in the crow family and lack the nasal bristles (where the beak meets the head) indicative of the crow family. Another case of convergent evolution.
Been reading about this. Suggested that passerine birds evolved in gondwana, are older lineages than northern hemisphere birds. Apparently they have a higher proportion of species that are highly social. Magpies are amazing birds: like corvids but even smarter. New Zealandish parrots are also remarkable in this regard. Dunno about African species.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin. Origin of Species 1859.
Glad you left out "the creator" part of that. He was bullied into adding that in there anyway by the scared halfwits in his day who couldn't accept the idea of evolution not being the will of a grand choreographer.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt I always liked this quote from William Beebe, it was relatively non-religious for the time and it addresses the ongoing extinction crisis: “The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.” ― William Beebe
so weird you being in perth, i started watching your channel and thus started walking around reserves and stuff, looking at plants. but i don't know what anything is. but i was like 'damn i hope he goes to australia one day so i can get some clues about clades and stuff without doing any reading' and then you're literally right here like a month or two later.
I love listening to the pronunciation with the accent on the first syllables. eg ZanTHOreah. We say ZanthoREAH. I'm so happy you came to little old Perth. We are a biodiversity hotspot here in SWest Australia and so I'm rapt to hear you even more excited than i am about this stuff.
The leaves on that Grevillea look amazingly like rosemary, and the Allocasuarina resembles tiny Equisetum! Actually I'm puffin' on my pipe and drinking coffee. Sounds like you were the same kinda kid that I was, nothing delighted me more than to see a plant breaking thru the concrete. Love me sum Corvids!
Yes, those birds are called honeyeaters (Meliphagidae). While at King Park did you see the displays of native Asteraceae? They are now grown with the liquid smoke technique perfected in Western Australia. Hope you also saw the Caladenia flava in the grass at that time of year.
Fantastic looking shit, no doubt, thanks for sharing. The internet isn't TOTAL crap, just mostly crap. You're the exception, again. Scaveola makes a pretty good ornamental plant in southern US, tolerates our heat. I've seen purple, pink & white cultivars. Doesn't get invasive, annual & doesn't reseed.
I thought he was gonna try to talk the beetle on the Drosera at 11:23 down off the plant, but I guess the beetle's ex girlfriend was right... Nobody will even notice he's gone.
Listening to your most recent podcast, got to you talking about going to Australia today, and was super stoked. Just wish i could remember all of the information you spit out.
Which episode of Joey Yells Bullshit at Animals was this? 3? 4? Anyway, the different strategies nature has found to survive is mind boggling and beautiful. I've always loved plants (they fucking make themselves out of sunlight and thin air, how could you not love that?) But this channel is giving me a renewed appreciation for them. Thanks for sharing.
Could be mistletoe mimicking the hosts morphology, always a food source attractant for birds which in the process poop out mistletoe seeds onto new hosts while looking for a meal. Perhaps the host benefits with insect pests being on the menu too.
That "Med Climate" puts ours to shame. We must live in one of the coldest Med climates on Earth and at 37 north too. I have a South African Protea- King Protea in Haysticks here..but all growth no blooms so far in five years. Tricky son of a gun to keep. The Euc macracantha is fantastically showy...only now in California nurseries are afraid to carry the whole genus in the ignorance of them being firestarters (The Prodigy) and that they "sterilize" the soils. Don't seem to sterilize the continent of Australia. Keep up the good work!
I was just thinking the other day that you’d like king’s park lol it’s a nice change from the city. I try to visit every time I go to the hospital bc those cement buildings are fucking depressing.
