"Hoverflies are unable to bite or sting..." HAH! Hoverflies bite HARD! They aren't venomous, but they hurt like a MFer. EDIT: I am informed that despite also hovering and sharing similar color patterns, horseflies are not considered to be hoverflies.
The "owls eyes" are even shaded correctly, and look like they're reflecting light. Literally a better job than I could do if tasked with drawing owls eyes.
this channel is *not* informative this matpat wannabe spreads false info, fearmongers and makes animals seem stupid or evil at times if you want animal content, this clone of 100s of other channels is not the place
Can someone please bring integrity back to the Internet.. Your videos are entertaining enough without having to exaggerate the thumbnail. It used to be deceitful, but now it's normal. You don't need to improvise the pics. Your content is good as it stands.
You forgot to mention more detail about the owl butterfly. When looking at them from the back, they look like an owl... when you look at them from the side, they look like a snake. Look at the top rear of their wings, you will see a snakes head, upper scales, lower scales, nostril, eyes and mouth.
I wonder if us as humans have developed something similar to mimicking or camouflage, but instead of appearance it's how we act. That's why we have so many personality disorders. We're all probably just separate developing human beings slowly adapting in a weird ways and we don't even know
The best traits humans have are improvisation and adaptation to whatever situation we find ourselves in. That’s what has been passed down through the generations.
many disorders probably exist due to the shitty intake of chemicals and stuff like that we get each day from processed food and plastics to hormones we get through the meat industry etc... same with back in the day they see spikes in different disorders due to led poisoning... but yea psychopathy is a very good survival kit to have... fearless calculated logical thinking... and not too much emotions and feelings would help everyone... especially today where we are taught to be pussies and feminine weak and emotional...
I find it amazing how nature changes an animal to look like a predator for a way of defense. It's just so awesome how the world works and how much we don't know.
@@dominicsommer7187 'Sactly. One small mutation makes a pattern that looks ever so slightly like a snake at a glance, then future generations look more like a snake, and so on, until the resemblance is incredibly convincing to predators. No guiding hand, no ultimate design or intention - just small, incremental adaptations becoming more refined and specialised over time, due to mutations and selective pressures.
Obviously the OP was wondering about the specific biological mechanics at play, but I love the fact that neither of you knew the answer and you were both super confident in giving one, anyway. A traditional suggestion is that mimicry evolves in a two-step process, in which a large mutation first achieves approximate similarity to the model, after which smaller changes improve the likeness.
@@dominicsommer7187yea but explain it. How can one species evolve to mimic a completely different species? Small changes over time? How does evolution even know what to change into? Is it just the animal thinking man it sure would be nice to look like a snake, they never have to deal with birds of prey. Maybe it’s just my 8th grade education of how evolution works but i have a hard time wrapping my head around how this can happen. If you can explain it please do.
Pupa actually can move. Sure, they can't move away from whatever spot they are tethered to, but they can move. Usually they do a sort of head butting move when they feel threatened and that often is enough to scare away a predator.
@@vipr1142 I just call them other human species. Most are human, have all the same traits, etc. Like we are visiting an unknown area of earth, we have to be cautious. They've got to also be since our fucked up military tends to be hostile to anything that isn't born on this rock.
Very interesting topic and put together to an informative movie quite well. But sometimes the illustration and sounding is getting too lazy and unnecessary. Two examples: To illustrate the mimicri the Kongolese Giant Toad to the Gaboon Viper you cut in a True Frog at 21:41 for 1.5 seconds before were presented the toads to good to be true version of the snake's hiss. Then, whenever you talk about bats, you're showing us some random bat and huge amount of flying foxes, which exactly don't do that specific task you blabla over. Why? You do such a good job shouting information at us. I-i-i-i see, it must have been Steeve, who sounds surprisingly like you, Watop! Strike again! 😜🤣
Bugs had a billion year head start yet here we are so far advanced that we are observing their evolutionary progress. It makes sense when you really break it down but also, it doesn't.
1:44 This language you're using to describe the evolution of these creatures is intriguing. I don't believe any of these harmless flies ever made the deliberate choice to mimic a wasp. It was surely a creature that benefited from the way predators learned to evade that appearance. It takes a keen eye to be interested in certain details that others might overlook, after all.
The glowing cockroach that the video mentioned that is not a cockroach at all, that is a pop beetle. If you push them down, they will jump and make a popping sound.
Please learn how to properly pronounce "chrysalis". It's pronounced "CHRISS-uh-liss". Batesian Mimicry is super cool. One of my favourites is the Leaf-tailed Gecko. It really does look like a leaf when it's not moving.
That’s the person who made the video. If you watch other videos on the channel you’ll see whenever he appears on screen that’s how he looks - always has that disguise.
Damn WATOP how you gonna get the topic of *the entire video* wrong right out the gate⁉️ It is *not* called "deceptive mimicry" when a harmless organism imitates a more dangerous one.. It's called *_batesian mimicry‼️_* Even a bug mimicking a rock is being "deceptive"... That has _nothing to do with_ mimicking a more dangerous animal in particular!
That owl butterfly is something crazy alright. I was jusf wondering why they were using the Warcraft 3 human icon? Friggin played that recently before the video?😂
Very interesting, but why on earth use footage of megabats from SE Asia, when discussing a European microbat? There is a big difference between a bat with a wingspan of 40 cm, like the Myotis, and 150 cm like the Pteropus, which decidedly does not buzz. This is the first video I've seen from you; I'll check out some others, where I hope you take more care about such details.
How did you get so much information flat out *wrong* in this episode WATOP⁉️ The bluntnose knifefish *_does not_* "mimic an electric eel" by trying to "look like an eel".... Electric eels actually *are not eels at all‼️* They are *_also knifefish_* and therefore closely related to all other knifefish 💯 (btw *all* knifefish look like that w/ long bodies & a long fin that undulates to propel them)
I get a bird taking advantage of its neck to mimic a snake and then it catching on throughout the generations... but how the hell does a bird evolve to mimic a caterpillar? Like... How did that come to pass, right down to the bright orange, im baffled
Butterflies are actually quite fearless of danger and it should be a compliment to tell somebody they are bold and fearless as a butterfly! Think of it they can walk on the face of a mighty lion and dance in the jaws of alligators and around the teeth of crocodiles all without fear.
1:39 Animals dont bother to identify them, if they see yellow and black stripes on a flying thing their instincts kick in. Theyre pretty easy to differentiatiate from bees, if you look at them upclose, ive even been fooled by them a couple times even though i know Bee-mimicking animals existed.
More often than we wish to admit these changes occur in one or two generations rather than over hundreds or thousands or millions of years. If you want a perfect example of this the munchkin cat just popped into existence on a farm under a truck.
Honestly I would avoid some of these animals just because they look more dangerous than they really are. Like that caterpillar snake like I don't know maybe there are some short snakes and I don't want to find out if it's venomous
Does all this evolution assuming speak bother anyone else? I just think people sound really stupid when they talk like they know how these animals came to have their spots and so forth and so on…. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, and it is a pretty lame theory, at that.
So that explanation of natural sellection why was it assumed that that there was one caterpillar born differently and passed down a gene, why isnt it that it was always like that with all of them?
