Attack of the Killer Fungi | Planet Earth | BBC Earth 

If you haven't seen the Planet Earth series you REALLY should. It's almost universally regarded as the greatest nature documentary series ever made. 10 1 hour episodes released in 2006, and 10 more coming in glorious 4k later this year.

Much better than the way NatGeo does the Monster Bug Wars....

George Fenton's masterful work.

Jon K that is true

Yes, song names?

They should call it Last Of Us

@@ConnorRK-pn9yj They should named characters Ellie and Joel in part1

@@thunder9009 and then make a TV show about it a few years later aswell as a very controversial sequel!

lol

I think in Super Mario when you eat the red mushroom this happens!

Plus it looks like an aftermath of a gigantic war

Jin Lee Here you go~ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eyWRCXna79g.html

Jin Lee As for the playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLACA9C263217A3183

@EasySneezy 123 how? More like Tim Burton music

Yeah, it's like prehistoric definition of cringe, proto-cringe.

Its an ant horror story...ants lead quite dramatic lives actually

Ants are more intelligent than most realize. They are quick to notice problems and do their best to solve it. In this case, they became aware how how infected individuals behaved and then learned to dispose of them before the fungi can infect others. They may have tiny brains, but they sure know how to use them!

It probably an instinct kinda thing, a ant that doesn't work is throw out, i dont think they are thinking that far

while ants are quite inteligent, is not the type of inteligence we have. individual ants are quite dumb, but an ant colony is considerably smarter, showing good problem solving skills. that's why creatures like ants and termites are refered to as a super organisim. Don't think about an ant colony as a society of individuals, but as a single big creature made up of ants. a single ant isn't really capable of learning and planing ahead, but a colony can.

@@tentailmadara2500 This instinct thing is starting to feel more and more just like an excuse to avoid discussing other creatures intelligence. Ever heard of ant cemetery? Usually when an ant dies, it get carried into a region of the anthill where all their deads are located. Then why would they take an ant that behaves weirdly and throw her away if they don't give that treatment not even to their deads? Why don't they eat it instead? It's pretty obvious to me that there is a sort of understanding of the disease, of course they might not know what's causing it and why, but they sure know that they have to place the infected ants far away from their colony to avoid further danger. This can't be only instinct, since it's not something innate but it's obviously something that the colony learned through experience.

We lose...

Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, it would take at least tens of thousands of years for Cordyceps to gain the potential to navigate a completely new nervous system, not considering how long it would take it to evolve to warmer climate. In fact it's much more probable that raising temperatures would serve as the demise of the Cordyceps fungi rather than a selective pressure

Don't take this comment as me crapping on the Last of Us. Their concept was fantastic and very creative. I just wanted to share some fun info about Cordyceps

@@Oofioli how is it the fungí would take that much time? Just curious, thanks for all those fun facts

@@Oofioli Well good at least I won’t be here if it does happen

Because she evolved to be a better human technically. Her DNA adapted probably.

@@kevinxsavagegm and it’s also fiction

I see HBO has brought us here to be educated

@@YTMenace_ Suspension of disbelief my man

@@YTMenace_ best left unspoken dude

There’s one woman you come across who is sobbing while chewing on a corpse. Speed her up a little and she’s saying “I didn’t want to kill you.” They’re trapped within their own minds, watching what the fungus makes them do and powerless to stop it.

It’s almost like they watched this clip and made a video game out of it….

@@FreemanicParacusia is this in the show, part 1 or 2? I’ve never came across this before

@@UnclePalpy its early on in the game, before joel and tess get to ellie

Holy shit shut the f ck up about the last of us!

Haha same LOU

😂

It's a mystery 🤔🤔

😂 yeah. I wonder why.

One of lifes big mysteries

srbarkerchan pretty scary...shaun of the dead insect edition

I think it's basically all of these insects... most of those white spots under trees that wrap around or like balls against the sides of tree trunks of Fungi too. Dissolving everything they can, but both seem to be so useful either in gather nutrients for a tree to use or keeping insect populations down!

srbarkerchan you

me did... eh i did

Me... do i get a cookie?

I hope my wife gives birth to a fun guy who likes to climb trees as much as this one did

😂😂😂

GOT IT XD

😂😂😂 ok now you must leave!

My ex basically, a manipulative mind controlling fungus

True.. nature knows how to preserve its equilibrium.

What about humans? Who balances us?

@@vegas7023 Karma

@@vegas7023 The same thing...Nature. Mr. Midousuji seems to believe that us being apex predators means there is nothing that can out smart us. Unfortunately for Mr. Midousuji, he might learn the heard way that he's incorrect in saying that. However, it would be fun to see him try and "balance out" a major earthquake/tsunami. "The more there are, the more likely they will be attacked." Look at what's happening in China right now. Their population is 1.3 BILLION people.....Anyone shocked by the current events taking place there haven't been paying attention to history.

Bro how the fuck does something evolve into this. This looks more like a human invention gone wrong.

you sick yea well im going to yeet you off somewhere far.

True. Shows that they are intelligent enough to realise that the fungus is... Well, bad.

Fr!!

Theres lots of post-production and often scenes are staged.

@@tomtoms15of course they’re staged doesn’t mean they’re any less cool

Yea but what of plants decide to say in let's say a million years infect humans the same way lol scary but true

@@tims6540 there is no queen human, we are individuals not a colony. We balance ourselves through violence while nature assists with disasters.

Humans :👁👄👁

@@tims6540 Well of course someone is pulling the strings. Doesn't make us less individuals. Being ruled isn't natural for us, but it is for ants.

Nature doesn't need a parasite to balance out man. Man already balances out by his own hand.

Actually this would be "possible" if the fungi adapts himself to warmer temperatures in his ambient. For now, they can't resist more than 34°C or something like that.

@iron5263 For now at least haha

@@shadisonh2120 global warming isn’t helping either

@@iron5263 “But what if say the Planet were to get warmer” Last Us Scientist. I see someone has seen the first episode of the Last of Us

@@DrWatson4 haha true but that's actually real, so there is a really small wall between reality and fiction 💀

I just have watched Alien: Resurrection XD there was similar scene XD

Some people use fungus spores to kill victims by inserting them in their trachea, when the fungi sprouts, it chokes them... It’s not fictional, it’s true

@@athendity2567 Huh... 🤔

That's how all the victims went through in TLOU. It's cool how ND went crazy and thought of clickers and bloaters. Imagine when the desease period lasts long enough, your whole body starts to cover up with hard fungus shells, your skin pops open, fungus grows and starts to speard spores, eventually your head/brain (that's where the fungus concentrates the most) becomes mindless. After some time, you can't see or smell, just bite and orienteering by the tiny sound echoes, like a sonar. And on the last condition, your body starts to fill with fluid inside, you become fat (maybe noticed when a cat drowns, he becomes super fat, like a round baloon), your veins burst, you're practically completely covered with scales and spores, hence you are turned into mindless killing machine and with ease can torn everyone apart or throw away a peace of "what used to be a flesh" with spores. It's just so fucking awesome, that guys from ND researched what cordyceps fungus is, its behaviour and nature, interpreted in their game and "improved"/developed it even further. Nature sure is scary and fascinating!

The movie splinter

I learned about the Cordyceps in University, even saw it in the lab and in the forests. Believe me...this is scary stuff!

I learnt about cordyceps in a great book called "The girl with all the gifts" :)

@@evertree2133 awesome novel 🤩

Well, in the making of the game they said that this is where the inspiration came from.

@@rafaelarcas942 I never got to play the game, glad it's coming out on the PC. Knew about cordyceps but I didn't know that was the thing in the game. Super cool and also frightening haha. Love that the show is raising this into the mainstream.

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Cameraman will always be alive no matter the species

@@Kieee Good point

I'm sure he's fine

@@hoff4301 did you just assume its gender?

It was mentioned in the background of the first game too. Near the beginning of the game, there’s a flyer you can find that shows all stages of the infection and has it labeled as “Cordyceps”

Well i dont think that much research went into it in the last of us, after all the creator was inspired by this to make the game

The great thing is they did the research for the game 10 years ago already, all the hard work was done by the time they made the show.

​@@jonnerzyt If you walk back into Sarah's room in the first game you can see an infected ant on her TV too.

I would play that

WTF are you talking about o_O?

Marky 360 The videogame "The Last of us" was based on this.

@@duxnihiloWTH is a Last of Us? Video game.... This is a documentary on ants what do you do in this game play as an ant running away from an invisible fungus?

@@marky3609 no. Instead of ants its people. Spores or fungi infect people make them extremely aggressive. It's a really good game.

The ants of us...

Lol

Jajaja

or moths, spiders... 🤔

This comment deserves viral spread lol

Were it not for the arbiter's council I would have glassed your entire planet!

My thoughts exactly lol.

Thats why the ants can figure out whos infected and can take them away

Mythic Knight imagine if this was the virus to mankind right now unstoppable

I was waiting for someone to say something about Halo

Gurumayum Madan True that, huge respect for these guys.

I know its 2 years late but incase you were interested the music is an original piece called - The Cordyceps by George Fenton and the BBC orchestra.

Alexander Cummins Better late than never. Thank you, my good man.

Alexander Cummins I can not thank you enough. I've been wondering what it was called for years!

Darude-Sandstorm

@@technologick1183 you are alive ?

Yeah no...i would rather not....

Oh God that was funny.. ahh man I needed that😅

Christ this is so genius in so many ways.!

The dead bugs actually made me feel sad

Damn

But if the world were to get warmer....

Well and spiders, but they're similar.

Hell yeah!

MICHAEL GILLON the last of us 2

the girl with all the gifts

MICHAEL GILLON I thought about that tho I beat that game so I know what you mean

valeria fernandez Yes yes i was thinking about that😧😧😧😧😧

TimG57867 yep it's also where the last of us got the idea for infected humans

TimG57867 I was just about comment that.

TimG57867 Yes. I love Pokémon for many reasons but this is my second favorite reason. They do heavy research and incorporate these little known facts to their creaturez

Pokemon is half Japanese folklore, half little-known gross bug facts.

paras is still alive and thus you can see its lively eye...

Idk if you're comment is sarcastic or not 😂 its funny coz you cant tell

@@johnchristian8685 maybe we could call the most mature zombies clickers.

@Shiloh Stephens come here often?

Already have been made, its called The Last of Us

@@EdSuavePerez No joke?! They stole my idea!!

Ikr

This is beautiful

It is beautiful

@ your comment got me confused for a second 21 years ago

Beautiful and balanced

Stfu

LMAO

The reply 😂

more to "OH MY GOD A ZOMBIE, HONEY, PICK THE SHOTGUN"

"Bro you were eating your own ass in front of the queen man... you gotta be exiled"

No shit Sherlock

@@tunchunairarkomoron

@@vulcher7927 r/whoooosh

@@tunchunairarko not towards the joke I’m just stating you are

@@vulcher7927 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Maybe more than imagination, might even a possibility. 😬😬😬 It adapted and balanced the forest by taking host of living creatures!?! 🤯👀👀👀

@@jashanestone: Hence why he said that reality is scarier than imagination, there's no possibility, this is a thing.

The forbidden fruit was amanita muscaaria/fly agaric/fly amanita. A fungas. Beelzebub is called lord of the fly or flys or flyers for that reason. Fly agaric/fly amanita and it makes you feel like you’re flying apparently. You can laugh at this and stay in denial or accept the truth

Couldn't agree more. Lets hope it never jumps the species barrier.

@@gerbenkoelewijn6374 if it does jump species I will know exactly how to survive so I don't mind

Hippity hoppity your brain is my property

lmao

*Cringe* ...

Dumb cringe

I wonder if this was the zombie ants thingy the other youtubers were talking about?

Lol glad that the guy who made covid in a lab hasn't heard of this thing.

@@doomass4207 Covid wasn't made in a lab.

@@Macaulyn_97 yes it was.

@@thinginground5179 no it wasn't?

@@pincurchin3655 It was

Hãris حارس ikr

What do you expect when you go on an all expenses paid trip with bolt action 303s and a camera?

@@qwanathomas735 NatGeo, Nature and other channels have the same and sometimes bigger budgets and cannot reach this level. Don't think that money covers it all.

@@qwanathomas735u sound jealous

@@dwaynekeenum1916 You sound wrong.

And worker - AYE CORONA!

Said, a late Ant Queen.

Also by Ant Queen: It'll disappear by April. Drink some detergent.

2 Weeks to Flatten the Curve! - Ant Queen

@@thinginground5179 New Zealand has done it in shorter. Nice try though.

Ya and then naughty dog fired all those people and hired sjw to work on the sequel for LOU2

@@robo2729 nope

Neil Druckmann

@@phillipedwardness9591 It was actually Bruce Straley original idea.

@@neruba2173 really? I have never heard that and everything I just read online says that Neil was the writer. Brian was Game Director, but story written by Neil.

It's the music that sets that beautiful side, other than that it's straight nightmare fuel

All creatures have intelligence friend we just have the added advantage of “opposable thumbs”

Sisters - all worker ants are infertile females :) same for termites, wasps, and bees

Most living creatures are intelligent , it's just we humans are ignorant

@@lucasrobin2788 Cool.

​@@Cuunke And we can speak, drawback is choking.

My thoughts as well. We (humans) are already pretty susceptible to viruses/biological threats. We consider ourselves Apex predators because we have no natural threats... But what if something like cordyceps evolve to threaten humans?

human population will be in total decline by 2100 anyway, there's no need for a virus or fungi, like was the case with all other great cultures, even the Roman, there will be great population decline and measures such as a bachelor's tax will be implemented to stop it. still, cities will act as machines will take in people from the countryside all over the world, use them up as labor in poor living conditions (which they'll have been conditioned into thinking are acceptable and good), and produce no offspring. like how by the 5th century Colosseum in Rome had over 420 species of wild vegetation living in its ruins (the most grand artifact of civilization was reduced to a rural ruin), by 2400, the human population will be gutted with or without catastrophic virus/bacteria/fungi plagues.

gotcha buddy

@@khorps4756 there's already a decline in population. Especially in First World countries because of development and less females especially in China and India

8 billion is nothing. There are over 100 quadrillion ants on earth.....

Grzybica.

MORGELLONS 😱😱😱

Is going just like in Last of Us them

@@SamSiro619I sure hope we die before it makes us zombies sir

Are you sure? Apocalypse?

David Attenborough is a brilliant man. Around 90 he is.

I mean he's got me thinking of the part where " each specializes in a different species " part so uh yeah. Pretty relaxing if you ignore half the video

@@korrenthereaper4357 Fun fact: He's also the brother of Richard Attenborough who was John Hammond in the Jurassic Park movies.

He’s a dude alright!

@@korrenthereaper4357 hes a legend

I do share your idea. Sir David Attenborough has taught me a numerous of things.

Graham Norton made Sir David Attenborough narrate a tortoise humping a shoe, and it was kind of beautiful. 🤣

We should be respectful of those tiny dudes. If one morning they woke up thinking about the extinction of the human race, they could succeed easily...

Don't you mean yellow crazy ants

+TAsill K exactly hehehe =D

ikr

That all sounds well and good but look up the Australian cane toad, and how well that turned out.

yes i have watched that before...instead of the frogs eating the beetles they just multiplied and now devastating other species =( well that is what i have thought of too if that fungus is introduced to a different environment it might devastate other species as well =(

David Tang I was thinking the exact same thing. The art of death can be bueatiful but yet scary at the same time.This deserves more likes my friend!!! 👍👍👍👍

Hector Andazola thank u

Ars Moriendi!

This is art "in" death.

"My Performance. BEGINS!!!!". ~Jhin the Virtuoso (League of Legends).

The Xenomorph is based off of the designs of HR Giger’s work in the Necronomicon. The idea was to bastardize human sexuality. I think you might be misconstruing it with the direction James Cameron decided to take with Aliens.

Yeah it’s what the last of us infection was based on actually they didn’t even change the name for it.

*Galaxy brain manoeuvre.* 👀 🧠

Last of us game's virus was inspired by this

@YowLife I think you meant the parasitic wasp, those do inject the egg inside the host

It very unlikely to happen to humans

@@laylowxalex I know virus is not a fungi, but you should see the concept virus can adapt and mutated from only animal to human. This could work for fungi too. Covid 19 basically adapted and mutated virus thanks for stupid china bring as weapon. Now why wouldn't you think these scientists stop at covid 19? Just matter of time they figured how to mutated fungi too.

Don't think the actual camera man sits there for weeks 🤣 Think they set up a camera and then leave it. and go check on it every now and then

@@liamobrien6322 No-no-no someone actually does sit there for weeks! 😁

I love it

So glad I'm not the only one that thought that! Just watched that movie not days ago.

if it hasn't done it yet it probably won't

evolution is scary it could happen one day many many years from now or if country's tried scientifically altering the fungus to infect humans but hey who knows

Magic Mushrooms

That's basically the plot of the last of us

It's a very big step from insects to humans, thankfully.

It could happen to us

xwingsta .reyes OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@stanczyka2407 ya it happened in the Last of us

Hes infected! Exile him!

I'm having diarrhea rn, so what could happen?

Dre Flows that meme is moldier than the dusty box of week old donuts at the corner store.

Insect’s career

Chinese people: Let's eat this PS I'm not kidding nor am I being racist. I am Chinese and we really do eat cordyceps. It is a very expensive ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine

And why we never should try and control it.Controlling nature never works.We drained the fens of east anglia and now the land has sunk below sea level so that it will be easily sunk by the rising sea levels.We killed off wolves in places like Yellowstone and the ecosystem declined as the deer ate the plants down and the land became overgrazed and degraded.We decided to build groynes on the coast to trap sand, but this actually made it worse as new material was cut off for the other beaches, causing worsening rates of erosion.Man must realise despite his intelligence, ability to invent and knowledge learned, he is not a god or a creator, nature needs no such hand in matters.Man must learn to accept nature as it is, not as he sees it should be, wolves must be left alone to roam the lands and manage prey levels, mangroves must be kept as they are what helps protect coasts from erosion and sea floods, and marshes are not mere obstacles for development but needed features that act as a sink for floodwater, minimising damage.

then you dont know nature.

@@Moonlakes yeah, this is cute compared to shit I've seen lmao

Search for ‘POOR DEER’ on youtube

They must have got Scott Lang to do it.

I'm a photographer and somehow understand how they do this. The level of preparation, equipment and setup you need for this is insane.

I've watched docs like this in my childhood, eating my dinner. Try to scary me now XD

You got the first part correcto..

@@pelimies1818 and second

Exactly!

"Mr. Mason...take care of it!"

I haven't seen one of your comments without replies yet. I'll fix that.

Toilet Paper too

Defend left lane

Nope. Not even that would save them

I hate you 😭😭

Wild, yeah? Imagine some bigwig like Sony behind those games too

One can only dream of such a thing

@@LamLe-M.O.Coh and imagine the company creating the games is naughty dog the same company that made uncharted

@@Axemcaxington Ooh, I like Uncharted! Whaddya say, maybe they could bring in Nate's voice actor for, who knows, a villian role?

@@LamLe-M.O.C maybe

lairdriver Nature is so bizarre yet it all adds up until us humans enter the picture. Why would nature create something that will inevitably destroy its creator?

Wimp

Idk man, it's satisfying to me.

@@TomCL-vb6xc dont worry nature is coming up with something for us

alligatorLP ikr

Me too 😅😅

That’s how reinforcement learning works. The algorithm sometimes makes random suggestions to see your reaction and learn more about you.

Because the last of us part 2 is coming

I to am a member

Bruh

Cue the acoustic guitar. We're fucked.

2021: hmmmmmmmm this is going to be the new Covid

How did you compare a fungi killing an ant to corona. literally nothing like it, woman.

@@thinginground5179 ._. she didn't.….man