Australia's Most Destructive Creature

Подписаться 1,6 млн

Просмотров 1,6 млн

50% 1

Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/realscience-...
New streaming platform: watchnebula.com/
Patreon: / realscience
Twitter: / stephaniesamma
Instagram: / stephaniesammann
Credits:
Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann
Editor: Dylan Hennessy (www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)
Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (kpatart.com/illustrations)
Animator: Mike Ridolfi (www.moboxgraphics.com/)
Sound: Graham Haerther (haerther.net)
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster ( / forgottentowel )
Producer: Brian McManus ( / realengineering )
Imagery courtesy of Getty Images
Additional Footage
Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary
Queensland State Archives
Dmitry Konovalov
Music:
The Ghost by Martin Puehringer
Monster from the Deep by Young Rich Pixies
Organism by Roie Shpigler
Agitated Swords by Marco Martini
John James by Steve Poloni
Heart by Roman P
In Orbit by Ian Post
Chaplin--scene-2 by Maya Belsitzman, Matan Ephrat
Secret Pathways by Ardie Son
Wandering Caterpillar--scene-1 by Maya Belsitzman, Matan Ephrat
Warts 'n All (The Cane Toad) by Don Spencer
Climbing by Nbdy Nprtnt
References:
[1] www.nma.gov.au/defining-momen...
[2]
[3] www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...
[4] www.newscientist.com/article/...
[5]sci-hub.se/www.scienc...
[6] royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
[7] www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM19016
[8] www.nature.com/articles/439803a
[9] www.nature.com/news/2006/0602....
[10] www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
[11] www.pnas.org/content/118/35/e...
[12] royalsocietypublishing.org/do...

Наука

Опубликовано:

18 фев 2022

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 2,6 тыс.

@realscience Год назад

Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/realscience-australias-most-destructive-creature It's a great way to support this channel! :)

@amiradil1060 Год назад

Hey @Real Science, I think you have mistakenly used toad photo as a thumbnail. I know you know it is human.

@ashokkumar-se5sl Год назад

FIRST KILL THAT PEOPLE WHO GAVE THIS FOOLISH ADVICE TO AUTHORTIES THAT TO KILL WORM BRING FROG

@stevenmichaelcunningham4760 Год назад

It was unreasonable. Known as crime. Get therapy considering..

@shmackydoodRon 10 месяцев назад

Lemme git mah shtick.

@GardaOrban 9 месяцев назад

As someone studying biology I absoloutely adore canetoads you're doing a really excellent job at explaining all these lovely creatures.

@RealEngineering 2 года назад

Wait, so you're telling me.....they are literally turning the fricking frogs gay?

@nameless1016 2 года назад

like that other invasive species taking over all of the earth...what were they called again?

@hayleegood9024 2 года назад

@@nameless1016 hmmmm it’s on the tip of my tongue 🤔

@augustuscampbell1313 2 года назад

Lol

@realscience 2 года назад

precisely Brian

@CAMSLAYER13 2 года назад

That was a real problem related to chemical dumping. Alex Jones just made it look crazy.

@mariah2161 Год назад

"All of this because of this stupid, ugly toad" i laughed way more than i should have

@OrchidNectar 11 месяцев назад

Yeah a low blow 😭

@PREST00 9 месяцев назад

I heard that tooo

@xusiaxod6255 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, should have said the stupid asshole humans who introduced it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and i'm sure the female toads find the males very attractive.

@mattmendoza2667 8 месяцев назад

i feel the intensity and anger hahaj

@Teacher.Taufik 8 месяцев назад

I laughed at it too

@rathivemind2936 Год назад

fun fact: Recent observations found bin chickens (ibises) using a method of wash, rinse, repeat (and then swallow whole) in order to eat the cane toads safely. Cane toads may be dangerous but Australia's wildlife always find a way to be more.

@skoutlander5516 9 месяцев назад

You know the toad disaster is bad where the DEATH ADDER is going endanger.

@blakena4907 2 года назад

Okay, Australia isn't allowed to have any more new animals. It's obvious everything just gets faster and deadlier there.

@CubeBrik 2 года назад

As an Australian, I agree. No more underland beasts aloud.

@gebali 2 года назад

Agreed. Especially cheetahs. They're already fast and deadly enough.

@lycanrocknroll9158 2 года назад

@@gebali I don't see the Cheetah evolving to become more dangerous in Australia. I think they would fair better in Australia as they are now instead of Africa. No need for more bulk. No lions or hyenas or any land predator that can oppose them. Their speed is enough as it is. they hunt things that are faster and more agile than kangaroos (not red kangaroo) and emus (my guess on what their largest sized preys will be) and they won't have to defend it from lions and hyenas.

@havanadaurcy1321 2 года назад

When humans are sheeple to a feral animal (horses at Kosciusko for example) they hate everyone who is humane because starving=humane when it's cruel. We have a neighbour starting a breeding program, they get fed.

@Triattt Год назад

Australia is freaking brilliant with ecological shenanigans. The emu war, Macquarie Island, cane toads... I think living in a land where everything is out to kill them, makes them crave biological chaos.

@nikanj 2 года назад

I watched this documentary too back in high-school. I still distinctly remember the popping sounds the cane toads made when run over. I'm surprised that it's such an iconic part of science education even outside of Australia.

@CT-vm4gf 2 года назад

Pop!

@infinityxtanishq8712 2 года назад

yuck

@JulioLenin88 2 года назад

It's an important example of what nations SHOULD NEVER do, that it is included in almost every curricula.

@user-lg8in8kn3x 2 года назад

Yeah it sounded the same as a kid jumping on his juicebox (popper) during recess.

@reofi Год назад

We kill them with golf clubs on Queensland. They definitely pop from a good strike

@lasercraft32 2 месяца назад

14:18 "We as a species already are playing god, whether we like it or not. So we might as well get good at it." Why is this such a raw line oh my gosh... XD

@cruxie1 Год назад

I grew up in far north Queensland as a boy, the LZ of the cane Toad... this is an informative video, but I can add a little more information. There is a little monitor lizard that has reached the endangered list because it sees the toad as a frog that is a normal part of its diet, also this little monitor is the ONLY animal to predate on the largest and most aggressive of the crocodiles, the "Saltwater crocodile" this little monitor will sneak into a crocs nest and steal eggs when the parent is off feeding... So now without a reduction in the crocs clutch, all the babies are hatching, this has in turn caused a boost in croc numbers...

@nekomakhea9440 2 года назад

By 2050, Australia will either be toad-free or overrun by genetically engineered truck-sized mega toads. Either I'm excited to see it.

@Austrian_Painter.7 Год назад

Not a good news for people with Ranidaphobia

@davood123 9 месяцев назад

its fine. there will be new adventure hunting tourism then

@MacTechG4 9 месяцев назад

“Mad Max… Beyond Thundercroak!”

@fakjbf3129 2 года назад

Cane toads and the gene shredder program remind me of the krogan from the Mass Effect video game series. A very aggressive and fast reproducing species was uplifted to fight a galactic invasion, and after they won the war they started reproducing out of control. Eventually the other species deployed a sterility plague which meant the majority of females are infertile, keeping their reproductive rate more in line with the other species.

@hechss 2 года назад

Hahaha, what a comparison! I always found the krogan too talkative and easy-going, giving their history, plus their aspect.

@BattleToads1990 2 года назад

At least the Krogans got results. In this case, the Cane toad didnt even do what the Australians wanted them to do....reduce the cane beetle population. They got transported here for nothing lol.

@DrVonTennla Год назад

Genophage

@cliverosfield69 Год назад

@@BattleToads1990 why r u going against ur same species,Mr.toad?

@LunitoJo Год назад

That was the first thing that came to my mind too

@GardaOrban 9 месяцев назад

As someone studying biology I absoloutely adore canetoads you're doing a really excellent job at explaining all these lovely creatures.

@robertkelly5025 Год назад

This is the best segue into a sponsor I have ever seen. Not forced at all. Actually amusing making me want to do what she says to do. I'm a severe cynic so that is extremely rare. Kudos!

@DarkSygil666 10 месяцев назад

I agree! That was amongst the most awesome of transitions into an advertisement I have ever seen or heard.

@TehAly Год назад

Bees have caused problems in some regions. For example, in Mexico it has led to the decline of endemic bees, who don’t have stings (they actually look like oversized flies) and thus have a hard time competing against their overseas cousins

@lindafarnes486 9 месяцев назад

Wow, that's interesting. Australia has many native bee species includind a small stingless species. But the stingless species are doing fine because they polinate different kinds of flowers. Smaller flowers.

@xusiaxod6255 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, and humans have f@cked up pretty everywhere they went.

@craigmerryfull7704 Год назад

i remember every summer growing up in queensland my family would have to cull the toads. they hunt at night so we would use lamps to attract moths which in turn attracted an army of toads emrerging from their burrows. culling is such a strange feeling. you are taking a life to save many other lives but its not their fault they are good at surviving.

@kingkazuma2239 Год назад

Your taking many lives to save more lives

@tristrisX Год назад

If anything it's the humans fault for placing them where they didn't belong

@rebelusa6585 Год назад

Sounds like a perfect target practice for a. 22 long rifle.

@charlessarver1637 Год назад

Nope, it's not a moral issue

@Lyle-xc9pg Год назад

Disgusting

@Lormjin Месяц назад

good job, nice sounds, scenerio and editing^^

@incomitatus 9 месяцев назад

This is one of the most interesting nature videos I've ever watched about predatory animals. I've never even heard of the Cane Toad or most of the predators mentioned. This video was so fascinating, that I subscribed to this channel, something I hardly ever do. But one thing I have noticed about living organisms on this planet, nature generally finds a way to restore equilibrium, it may take decades, but it happens. BTW-thanks for putting the advertisement at the end of the video.

@dune7824 4 месяца назад

Cane toads aren't so bad really. Native fauna does suffer short term but it rebounds fast. On the other hand, our so-called "growth" and development leaves no survivors aside from humans and domestic pets.

@TheRCvie 2 года назад

As a kid, Detol in a water-gun did the trick of killing a toad, the smell the next day was horrendous clearing the yard of dead toads. Toads will actively avoid car tires at the last second, they've become masters of avoiding cars on the road now.

@nunyabiznes33 2 года назад

What if we make tires smell like cane toads?

@Zuignap 2 года назад

What if we make tires bigger?

@HesderOleh 2 года назад

That is the exact opposite of kangaroos and other macropods that will stay at the side of the road and at the last second jump in front of the car

@deathbycheese850 2 года назад

@@HesderOleh that happened to me in a 110km zone. Dented my bonnet so badly, I couldn't open it. And the roo survived.

@HesderOleh 2 года назад

@@deathbycheese850 I wondered how we haven't influenced roo evolution so that they stop jumping in front of cars, but I guess if they survive and reproduce after getting hit it won't change the phenotype frequency

@zhanghai9725 2 года назад

Fun fact: Some dogs get a high from licking Cane Toads. It's hella bad for them but some of them can't stop. My mate has a dog that's legit addicted to chewing and licking the toads

@alecchappel2388 Год назад

I grew up in Townsville in the 90s and can attest to the sheer numbers being talked about here. Our local government used to offer bounties for toads.. it wasnt alot per toad, but it did encourage the young people in our town to earn some pocket money, and we did haha. When it actually did rain.. which was fairly irregular their populations would absolutely explode and we would do exactly what was told here.. get our dads golf clubs and a large bin of any description and cull as many as possible. While in retrospect it was pretty inhumane, it was much more important to save our native species.. and filling our wallets with enough candy money for weeks!

@MacTechG4 9 месяцев назад

Why wouldn’t the PowerPuff Girls stop the Cane Toads then? ;)

@edenwayne8407 9 месяцев назад

I think it's fascinating to see such a fast evolutionary competition

@grdprojekt 2 года назад

Considering Australian declared war on Emus, I'm not surprised the next step would be bringing in a non-native, invasive species to the country. Great job, Aussies.

@JustAnotherAccount8 2 года назад

We have a sick humour down under that's for sure

@auscaliber1 Год назад

yknow that all the emu war actually was, was using the army to cull an overgrown population, which just turned out to be way too cost ineffective? thats all it is.

@walangaccount8984 9 месяцев назад

Australians just can't win on animals lol

@Liboo52 2 года назад

“We, as a species, already are playing God, whether we like it or not. So we might as well get good at it.” Absolutely brilliant 😂

@ianclaudio 2 года назад

I think she really hates the toads.

@paigelego4027 2 года назад

This is like the clench line mid way through an action movie

@andy-the-gardener Год назад

by 'playing god', i presume you mean 'be non existent'. yup, 8 billion planet eating chimps are definitely working on that one. the more there are, the fewer there will suddenly be

@leapdrive Год назад

We are not playing God. We were given lordship over animals (Genesis). The issue is when we apply Science to our own reproduction.

@andy-the-gardener Год назад

@@leapdrive no, the issue [soon to be resolved by the 4 horsemen] is that the humans have not applied science to human reproduction. the sensible thing when theres an 8 billion strong plague of insane predatory chimps running amock is universal mandatory sterilization

@lizzieperlizzie Год назад

I would love to hear you talk about the reindeer and mice/rats of South Georgia. That's an amazing success story!

@laughingcat6540 Год назад

i came over just to figure out exact details of the toad's appearance for my school project... i did not expect all the other necessary information to be here too. thank you so much!

@mintybadger6905 2 года назад

I live in Florida and I had two of these jerks living in my yard - my baby koi kept disappearing. I accidentally stepped on one of the toads one night and I swear he just shoved my foot off it’s back and waddled off. Thankfully, my husband was able to catch them and my koi pond is starting to recover.

@michaelmeyer9872 Год назад

That is frustrating

@amit4Bihar Год назад

Their impact on humans: trophic cascade. They have removed other predators and thus the number of granivores birds have multiplied in Australia. Granivores birds eat grains. So very bad for crop production in Australia.

@briangan3133 Год назад

Bruh I don't dare to touch them

@snacks1755 9 месяцев назад

@@amit4Bihar Clearly you guys should just release a ton of cats to sort out the bird problem. /s

@etienne8382 9 месяцев назад

@@briangan3133I don’t touch anything in my backyard. Stingers, Salties, Taipans. Everything in Australia wants you dead!

@Felix-nz7lq 2 года назад

As someone studying biology I absoloutely adore this channel, you're doing a really excellent job at explaining all these interesting concepts.

@catinthehat906 2 года назад

There is now a genetic technology that is being used on invasive fish species in the USA. Essentially they genetically engineer males in the invasive species that have two Y chromosomes. This means when they mate they produce all male offspring including 50% YY males. Eventually the number of females in the population fall to such low levels that the invasive species dies out. This might be adapted to get rid of other invasive species, including Cane Toads in Australia.

@amit4Bihar Год назад

@Imugi007 Год назад

Except for the whole toad "venom" thing. Does no one else cringe everytime she says toad venom?

@isaaccruz4870 Год назад

Why would you 😂when she talks bad about the toad when it’s who’s fault ? The Australian governments .

@lilinsulatorchick9665 Год назад

Isn't her voice just adorable lol young, yet knowledgeable. I love it. Keeps me interested.

@1996vivian Год назад

Thank you for the recent info? on these monsters. I live in Florida and they are hated here by many! Please can you do a video of how to rid them of your yard? They are so hard to kill.

@andrewallen9993 Год назад

Water pistol full of Dettol or an air rifle!

@KonradvonHotzendorf 25 дней назад

12:25 the legend. I love him serving trying to get em all

@stephenwest6738 Год назад

The same thing happened in Missouri with the Asian carp. It was introduced in the 70's to battle a moderate algae problem. There are now a trillion spread out over several states in one of the largest freshwater lake and river systems in the US. It's been described as putting out a campfire by blowing the hoover dam.

@seahorse2 Год назад

Happened in Manitoba too. Introduced carp, then when government learned they made a mistake, then they tried to convince us we wanted to eat them. NOT.

@lilinsulatorchick9665 Год назад

Hah good analogy

@user-ww9hp9fo5n Год назад

@@seahorse2 😂

@shanecollier9578 Год назад

Hopefully they don't evolve like the cane toads and start turning into Gyarados

@missouribankfishing 9 месяцев назад

They should be fished for commercially for pet food. I'd imagine that would help a lot

@TheReallavaman281 2 года назад

There's also a follow up documentary called Cane Toads: The Conquest. It features some of the same people from the first one from the 90's!

@Emilianoo8 Год назад

I learned so much interesting things this morning my eyes were just wide watching this it was funny and serious and just different emotions

@monicayoungblood8557 9 месяцев назад

Wow 😳 THAT'S crazy 😮.... Great video, very informative 👍😁

@amroal-zoubi2804 2 года назад

Why are they called cane toads? I didn't see a single toad using a cane in this video.

@markzuckergecko621 2 года назад

Their native habitat is in Florida, primarily in and around sugar canes.

@RealEngineering 2 года назад

They have been selectively bred over the years to eliminate the nasty species wide limp. Humans are amazing

@netherwolves3412 2 года назад

@@RealEngineering and that’s all that really matters

@markzuckergecko621 2 года назад

@@RealEngineering not really, they're the same toads that are indigenous to Florida, it's just that Australia is a completely different ecosystem, the other species there haven't developed an immunity to their toxin, so they have no real predators other than humans, so they can breed and breed and breed and eat everything in their path. Nothing genetically special about them other than being a particularly large species of toad.

@regalbeauty 2 года назад

Ba-Dum-Tss 🥁

@jonathanmatthews4774 2 года назад

I'd love to see a video about how wax worms (or was it silk worms) have evolved to eat plastic and if we are doing anything to help that process in a fight against plastic pollution.

@iamjustkiwi 2 года назад

Mealworms! They can eat and digest polystyrene foam and produce organic, non toxic waste as an output. I breed them as feeders for a lot of my pets and it's bizarre to be able to watch them just munching away on foam.

@Xainfinen 2 года назад

We also have bacteria that evolved to digest plastic, they're breeding them so they can adapt to different plastic. We would be extremely lucky to find plankton that do the same with microplastic, right now they eat it but don't digest it.

@cyrusthegreat3081 Год назад

Will they eat plastics my car? ( second order thinking)

@michaelmeyer9872 Год назад

@Jesus Gonzalez bro stop going on every comment and posting that stupid shit everyone knows cats are very destructive over there too. I've seen documentaries where they literally go around town sniping stray cats

@kingkazuma2239 Год назад

Be careful what you wish for

@rollingarchives Год назад

as problematic as the kudzu plant is, it's all so beautiful looking 4:18

@richardshunt Год назад

I can't even be mad at the toads; this is just another classic human blunder.

@snakelizard2343 2 года назад

I actually caught my pet cane toad in the yard of my summer home in Florida. As devastating as they are, I freaking love Patty and can’t wait for her to grow dinner plate sized

@emailitzs641 Год назад

Try having 30 of em in your yard at once mate and yard is small and it never ends

@michaeljuderoxas3081 2 года назад

Let us always remember though, that humans are the OG invasive species.

@jasondashney 2 года назад

Invasive species are ones that are brought somewhere either on purpose or accidentally. Humans were not brought to new places, we went on our own accord which is the natural spreading of the species.

@martinketchum Год назад

@@jasondashney yeah we are invasive, who knows how beautiful earth would still be now if we humans dont have intellegence

@lonekyoko Год назад

@@martinketchum if humans doesnt had ´´inteligence´´ you would never learn what is and what is not ´´beautiful´´ to begin with.

@widodoakrom3938 Год назад

Tell that to Gusti Allah swt who made the mankind at very first place

@theekshithangavel840 Год назад

I'm a zoology major and your videos are absolutely amazing.... However I noticed that the cane toad was referred to as "stupid and ugly"... Although I agree they're not good looking, the idea of calling them stupid is unfair... Because humans are the ones at mistake here to have not done a proper environmental assessment before introducing a new species. Otherwise good job! I love the content... Keep it coming!! Thank you.

@resurgingflame Год назад

They're stupid. Cry about it.

@callaway86 9 месяцев назад

You should take a class on humor while you're there.

@Tuberuser187 9 месяцев назад

I'm not too surprised to hear that these Toads are evolving faster than scientists ever thought possible for Toads, Australia seems to be an evolutionary crucible like no other.

@FM_GOBi 2 года назад

This whole rapid evolution side of things is fascinating. I wonder how all of this will play out. Nature will eventually find a balance, but I wonder how.

@ryancoleman8482 2 года назад

When humans finish this epoch, kill ourselves off as a species and give the planet a few hundred years.

@willwin4744 2 года назад

@@ryancoleman8482 Humans are part of nature, we just happen to be able to influence much more than any other species, for both better and worse.

@NormanMent 2 года назад

@@willwin4744 we are able to influence much more than any other species? Based on what? Ofcourse, based on what humans can percieve. Isn't that biased? I mean, if any species were to be asked what species is influencing the most, based on what they have seen, they would all believe is their own. Actually the species that influences the most is green bacteria, since they are the ones who have caused the greatest extintions by pourong tons of oxigen into the atmosphere. They influence the environment even more that we do, since they produce about 100 times more oxigen that what we produce in carbon dioxide.

@willwin4744 2 года назад

@@NormanMent You are right, they have done more, I still would say humans are up there

@samsonsoturian6013 2 года назад

Small evolutionary processes happen in a few generations. Large evolutionary processes are yet to be observed even in laboratory conditions.

@WalkinStereotype 2 года назад

Interesting that it wasn’t mentioned that corvids and some other birds have started eating the toads too

@Triattt Год назад

Gene therapy was our diversion tactic. The secret weapon were the corvids but you had to ruin it, toad lover. Now they know...

@paulholmes1181 Год назад

The old bin chickens flip them and wash them

@not.harshit Год назад

@@paulholmes1181 Are you talking about the French?

@paulholmes1181 Год назад

@@not.harshit hahahaha 😆

@madkills10 Год назад

yep, they will pick them apart and leave just the poison glands

@sabuhiasadli6083 4 месяца назад

Really appreciate your informative videos. I've learned so much by following Real Science 🙏🏻

@AussieEvil88 Год назад

I've seen Owls swoop down, flip a toad on its back to avoid the poison glands and peck out its organs they're learning and adapting.

@SimonWoodburyForget 2 года назад

I think the reason people are worried about weaponizing genetic technology, has more to do with what will happen when we turn around and start using them on each other as opposed to using them against toads.

@rbesfe 2 года назад

The mechanism described in the video would never work on humans, and even if it did you would have to do a whole host of other awful things not related to gene science to get any person to accept the modification. Like, if a leader starts rounding people up for nonconsensual gene therapy you've got much bigger problems on your hands than the therapy tech itself.

@deathbycheese850 2 года назад

@@rbesfe a bit like what Hitler was trying to do.

@I_Give_No_Fux_ 2 года назад

Probably no need. Lots of developed countries already have plummeting birthrates.

@thatsthat2612 Год назад

there's loads of toads in Bermuda and almost all of them are deformed and at last check no one could figure out why. i kicked one once by accident, coming round from the laundry back to the front of my house, i was barefoot too, also there is a tree in bermuda that's native to Australia and although it been growing in Bermuda happily for a few hundred years it still follows the Australian seasons, so it'll bloom in a Bermudian winter even though its a summer bloomer. its proper weird

@excelsior31107 Год назад

When i was in Canberra, i once jumped out of shock and went looking for my relative who was in the house when i came across a Possum that was jumping from out of no way onto the fence right in front of me behind my cousin's house. At that time i didn't know and wasn't sure about the behavior of that fiercely cute looking creature. That four-legged animal is like an alien to me and does not exist in my country.

@paulcoffey359 Год назад

Yep, that cane toad doco is an Australian classic. I watched it at high school in 1991.

@ANNEKE1999 2 года назад

Thank you for bringing up cats as invasive species. Many people don't like to hear it or are unaware of the problems cats cause when let outside without being watched.

@medinabello19 2 года назад

They're cute though.

@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 2 года назад

Mine kills any rat, insects that comes onto my property so I see no problem.

@ANNEKE1999 2 года назад

@@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 Well...for rats is is not a big deal but some birds (and other animals) are decreasing or completely gone in some areas because of cats. And that is the problem.

@rishadaltair3029 2 года назад

We want cats

@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 2 года назад

@@ANNEKE1999 my cat is scared of birds so I see no problem

@RealEngineering 2 года назад

12:04 That sounds like Charlie work

@geraldleuven169 10 месяцев назад

Very well explained !

@thechickenwizard8172 Год назад

As an avid gardener and insect enthusiast, what you said about honeybees at 3:35 is kinda wrong. They've been linked to the decline of both native bees and plant species in many areas in the U.S at least. They outcompete native bee species and hoard resources, while also spreading pathogens and parisites to them from flower-to-flower contact. Honeybees also can't pollinate a lot of native plant species, and on top of reducing the number of native bees able to pollinate them, lead to the overall decline of native plant species too. Honeybees certainly aren't the worst invasive species, and can be neutral or even benificial to some ecosystems. However the damage they cause to native pollinators shouldn't be ignored, especially considering how the whole "save the bees" campaign focuses on them and largely ignored the other bees at risk.

@thraftofcaanan281 Год назад

I love your channel, while being able to communicate amazing and fun information you also act like a person by reminiscing about things you've learned as an individual and it's cool to be able to relate to that

@dontbeasheeple5883 2 года назад

Water pistol full of Dettol, or my favourite method - the nine iron. Fun fact - there's cane toads in Perth, I had one in my yard when I lived over there about 15 years ago. It got the 9 iron treatment

@cosmicphoto05 9 месяцев назад

1. The cane toad's expression says, "I fully intend to cause trouble-lots and lots of trouble. Just for fun." 2. The cane toad is almost as big as my cat. That is disconcerting. 3. Australian government: "I've made a HUGE mistake."

@leeanderson2439 Год назад

Great article!

@atinygoldendeer2045 2 года назад

What amaze me the most is the fast pace of the animal's adaptability to poison. I always imagined that it had a much slower pace

@visionofsolace8961 Год назад

It's a protein production gene splicing, in order to counter the poison, nature has it's tricks up it's long sleeve.

@clarenceadams2143 Год назад

What?

@logicss2893 Год назад

@@clarenceadams2143 what do you not understand

@mikegarcia8406 2 года назад

"We are already playing God so we might as well get good at it " is the most Heavy Metal Sci-fi quote I've ever heard

@Lighthawk_Demon 9 месяцев назад

I remember reading (long ago now) that a caffeine solution would kill frogs by basically hyping their heartbeat up until they drop dead. Because they breathe through and absorb moisture through their skin. I am curious (if anyone reading this knows) as to why Australia has not attempted this method of eradication too?

@chakuseki 9 месяцев назад

First the Emu wars, now the TOADWARS

@cjdangles 2 года назад

That “King Brown Snake” was a Brazilian rainbow boa. Otherwise great episode as always! 😄

@jakes.house. 2 года назад

Your mom's a Brazilian rainbow boa

@TanmoyBiswas 2 года назад

@@jakes.house. what's yours j?

@missng9392 2 года назад

How can you tell?

@cjdangles 2 года назад

@@missng9392 I had a Brazilian Rainbow Boa as a pet a few years back

@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 2 года назад

It's the Australian cousin the munted rainbow boa

@zoe199048 2 года назад

These videos are so excellent - informative, clear, engaging. I often pause to read, consider or look up stuff. Great learning material!

@aoutnumberedlion261 Год назад

True....., I think this sounds like my favorite George Carlin skit on natural disasters (or nature getting back at mankind) that just keep getting worse and worse and worse lol!

@MAmm-bm7qy Год назад

What a video! Excellent.

@KaoruMzk 9 месяцев назад

Wait, you mean to tell me this toad not only survived Australia's hellish plants and animals but is actually *conquering* the place? What a badass.

@rezamottaghi4126 2 года назад

Fascinating as always. I hope the other gen editing program which is on mosquitoes succeed.

@AliHSyed 2 года назад

Not to be nitpicky but they carry poison, not venom. Used to eat something = Venom || Persuade something to not eat you = poison

@GloriousSimplicity 2 года назад

Venom doesn't have to be used to try to eat something. Bees are venomous but are herbivores. Venom is toxins delivered via piercing.

@AliHSyed 2 года назад

@@GloriousSimplicity is that really the definition?

@GloriousSimplicity 2 года назад

@@AliHSyed Yes, you if you Google the definition of venom, the key word in the definition is injection.

@sirBrouwer 2 года назад

even then it could be arbitrary as like a cobra a snake that is evolved to defend it self against bipodal hominins. It has no need for any other animal it naturally encounters to be able to spit venom up to 2 meters in the air (about the height of the eyes of a standing adult human). at that moment there venom against humans is more used as a defence not because it wants to eat us but to want us to not eat/kill them. It's also most likely the reason they developed there ''wings'' so we as humans can see them even better so we know we can and they know we will they to avoid them.

@jasondashney 2 года назад

Like every other snob, that became a pet peeve of mine about five minutes after I first learned the distinction.

@shmoppetrocks Год назад

Fantastic video !

@ezg8448 9 месяцев назад

The Pet Shop Boys "Go West" would make the perfect theme song for the cane toad.

@NewMessage 2 года назад

"All because of this stupid, ugly toad." Correction. This innocent, amazing toad, brought somewhere they didn't belong by stupid, ugly humans.

@dollinterrupted 2 года назад

I had the same reaction lol

@livingweaponnightmare 2 года назад

It's still an ugly, horrible toad

@tramon306 2 года назад

Typical western commentators they all put the blame on something or someone else.

@Terry-Fan Год назад

Amen.

@riks081 Год назад

Actually, they're quite horrible. They pretty much hump anything that moves. Seen em humping half a squashed toad plenty of times. Seen them swim into fish ponds and release their poison, then hump the fish as they jump out the water. They basically wait til they're halfway down a dogs throat before releasing their poison. They're nasty, horrible, ugly things. Source: I'm Australian. There are other animals who deserve your sympathy here, certainly not these ones.

@vavin1881 2 года назад

Haven’t Honey bees been linked to the endangerment of native bee species?

@Not_William 2 года назад

Yeah, they have; they compete with and introduce disease to native bee populations.

@quitlife9279 2 года назад

Yeah this video is so retarded, honey bees in north america have wrecked havoc on the ecosystem, but people won't call it invasive because of $$$. Same can be said about crops/livestock, monocultures of potatoes for example have certainly destroyed many ecosystems, but humans only care about our own interest, the term invasive means nothing, humans are after all the most invasive organism of all.

@lonekyoko Год назад

yes, the ´´killer bees´´ are a breed of western and east african honey bees that exists because back on the end of the 50s i guess they introduced east african honey bees to brazil to increase honey production but some of these bees escaped from the kind of quarantine they where and started to spread and reproduce, creating that new variation that is much more defensive and aggro responsive than other kind of honey bees

@internetmail3888 6 месяцев назад

Licking cane toads is something people sometimes do in northern Australia. It's extremely dangerous because it's impossible to know what dosage you will receive. It takes only a small amount to give you life long brain damage.

@gtablurt5791 9 месяцев назад

Cane toads actually eat insects so much which is why in hindsight it is useful in for the environment particularly for the rice farmers.

@RyzawaVT 2 года назад

This game of Frogger has turned rather intense...

@aoutnumberedlion261 Год назад

😆

@Leppymusic 2 года назад

I was aware of the toad invasion from some years already... But totally didn't know about the whole evolution of the native animals as well as the toads themselves. Nature's fast...

@joshualatour959 10 месяцев назад

Blast! Tricked me with the sneaky ad at the end.

@gefginn3699 2 года назад

Great post my friend. I appreciate any awareness being brought to light concerning invasive species.

@benmcreynolds8581 2 года назад

These kind of insane invasive species that we did to our selves.. freak me out so much, and think about how much it has changed a amazing ecosystem. Like Australia's ecosystem that before was so unique and different than anywhere on the planet. Before this plague of toads.

@RennieAsh 2 года назад

And plague of super spiky cacti

@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 2 года назад

Rats invaded Australia aswell

@Opanker_ Год назад

@@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 Japan invaded Australia too.

@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 Год назад

@@Opanker_ only papa new Guinea not Australia

@Opanker_ Год назад

@@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 They did invade it, it just wasn't succesful.

@laanaalove 8 месяцев назад

I consider you to be one of the best science communication channels on RU-vid of all time period your dedication to your craft is inspiring and greatly appreciated. Please never stop making amazing content

@Liam_Grey Год назад

I've watched crows where I use to live here in Queensland flip them over and kill them, some would just do it for fun and not eat anything.

@PandaCatXD 2 года назад

If I remember correctly, I think scientists were doing something similar with mosquitoes in either Hong Kong or Singapore, I don't remember. But they were trying to breed mosquitoes that only lay male mosquitoes and releasing them annually or smth

@sedaotieno 2 года назад

Imagine being a cane toad, listening to humans, who've impacted the environment so extensively, now showing up to backhand any other species that try to do it 😂😂 i'd be salty

@HISTORYSQUARE 2 года назад

Humans are poisonous

@oliverplougmand2275 2 года назад

Exactly, the human species needs to be eradicated and preferably in a way that involves intense pain and suffering.

@n.g.s1mple29 2 года назад

@@oliverplougmand2275 I hope you'll volunteer first.

@ajmalsafi13 2 года назад

@@oliverplougmand2275 Why are you still breathing?

@insuchaway Год назад

This made me laugh.

@Ace-mw4pw 9 месяцев назад

"All because of this stupid, ugly toad"... That seemed personal... 😂

@jarekvoice08legend 8 месяцев назад

I've heard that frogs are dying in a kind of pandemic the world over, could the cane toad be seen as a positive exception to this being a hope for frog survival in some kind of way?

@nathanaelqc5186 2 года назад

5:00 "Venom secreting poison glands" I feel like something is not right, the poison glands secrete venom ? So the toad has to bite to inject it ? Or venom gland that secrete poison ? Then why would the venom glands be on it's back and not somewhere more convenient for injection ?

@kscott2655 Год назад

They're just improperly using the terms interchangeably. Unfortunate.

@seatbelttruck 2 года назад

The documentary is called "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" and I highly recommend it. My favorite part is a scientist holding a struggling cane toad and imitating its mating call completely deadpan.

@apolloandwarrior_3229 2 года назад

And how did the toad respond???

@seatbelttruck 2 года назад

@@apolloandwarrior_3229 It's been a while, but I think it just kept kicking its feet and trying to get away. It wasn't a very good imitation, I guess, lol.

@lasercraft32 2 месяца назад

Okay... _Who the freak_ thought it was a good idea to bring POISONOUS toads in to save their crops??? Like _bruh..._ I could understand non-toxic toads, but seriously!? Poisonous ones?

@josephined8576 Месяц назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂I WAS told , this specie was introduced here in the Philippines to control poisonous snakes.

@rogerszmodis6913 Год назад

These bloody things are everywhere. They're in the lift, in the lorry, in the bond wizard, and all over the malonga gilderchuck.

@sbomorse 2 года назад

This kinda reminds me of The Simpsons when they introduced the lizards and then they send in Chinese needle snakes to eat them, followed by snake-eating gorillas, which will "simply freeze to death" when wintertime rolls around.

@tarunumesh7068 2 года назад

Can you guys do "The insane biology of primates" video please. I've always been fascinated by their biology and their adaptations i love your videos

@shavannalinda4162 Год назад

sorry to nitpick but *our* biology…we are primates too

@PyubX Год назад

I thought the speakers guy was pretty smart but the gene editing plan is brilliant.... Though if i knew that kinda thing was possible idve probably thought of it myself tbh

@sirpalepaw1628 Год назад

Tbh, I feel like people don’t really know that we’ve gained some good things from messing with nature. In fact, we’ve been doing it for at least a few thousand years! If we never did, we wouldn’t have strong, fast horses, life saving medications, or even dogs! I definitely blame popular media for painting a black and white picture of nature itself and our impact on it as well as the overwhelmingly negative views of the world on the internet. I think we need to start taking more action and having more faith in ourselves than we actually do these days. (Also, I won’t deny we have been bringing forth a new mass extinction event with plastic, pollution, etc. But I also think that we’re doing better about it than we were way back when!)

@michasosnowski5918 9 месяцев назад

Ok, but these changes are advantageous to ourselves in the short term, while devastating to the natural world - becouse we spread and take more land from wild animals. And in the long run it can even kill us - looking at biodiversity lost and climate change.

@shally7050 2 года назад

You make amazing videos. This videos contains a lot of knowledge. Expecting more videos from you😍

@ph1lodox361 2 года назад

It's always Australia

@OfMicNMen Год назад

You: "All because of this stupid, ugly, toad." The toad: Damn, I didn't even do anything to you. 😞

@MAmm-bm7qy Год назад

Release honeybadgers there, they're immune to such poisons. They'll eat those toads to extinction.

@azrielmoha6877 Год назад

They'll also compete with native marsupial mammals. Australia already have a rampant invasive cat problem

@oneguy9916 2 года назад

Can you talk about the beaver in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina?

@realscience 2 года назад

I do not know about this beaver 🦫

@hindsightpov4218 2 года назад

I was at this interesting store called Evolution in Manhattan that were selling coin pouches sealed with zippers made of cane toad skins for not that high a price. I guess that’s one way of addressing the overpopulation of cane toads in Australia.

@cliffcampbell8827 4 месяца назад

Here is how you deal with the invasive cane toad. First you get a shop vac (wet/dry vacuum). Next is wait for the season when they lay their eggs. Wade into those ponds, turn the shop vac on and suck up all those slimy eggs into the vacuum.

@ianryan9513 2 года назад

I’ve never hated an animal more than the Cane Toad in my whole life. I’m also utterly ashamed as an Australian that our ‘smart’ people did this and thought it’d be a good idea…

@tomvyt956 2 года назад

I really don't like the narrative of hating invasive species, they are just animals doing animal things... Hate the people who willingly release animals from the other side of the world without any research or extra thought

@Aacezay 2 года назад

@@tomvyt956 hate them

@GG-kn2se Год назад

Don’t hate the player hate the game.

@youtubecensors5419 Год назад

But they're cute.

@AnimePlusUltrah Год назад

@@alexparakan Ya I think I heard before that England just basically sent prisoners to colonize Australia, so I'm not even sure if it was voluntary or not lol. I feel like overtime a lot of Australians and others will just turn black again, because of the exposure to the sun.