Nature's Most Surprising Projectiles

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Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann
Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault
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Producer: Brian McManus ( / realengineering )
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[1] www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/bombar...
[2] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...
[3] news.mit.edu/2015/how-bombard...
[4] royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
[5] link.springer.com/article/10....
[6] www.cell.com/current-biology/...
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[8] tierphysiologie-bayreuth.de/wp...
[9] elifesciences.org/articles/74...
[10] www.nature.com/articles/srep2...
[11] www.sciencedirect.com/science...
[12] bit.ly/3Cr7ntc
[13] www.micropia.nl/en/discover/m...
[14] journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

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@GeoffryGifari Год назад

the image of charles darwin biting a beetle with his hands full and getting shot by it just seems utterly hilarious

@barrymccociner4105 Год назад

Seems like he should have had a container close by if he was hunting beetles.

@death13a Год назад

No plastics were invented yet during his time

@hanselguzman7089 Год назад

He said “container” did not mention plastic

@dianemartinis2801 Год назад

Darwin was definitely dedicated to learning and he definitely got his lesson that day.

@markdrill2707 Год назад

With curiosity clearly well above that of the average cat, I'm surprised he wasn't killed by it

@winkleberrygang Год назад

That butterfly flying upside down after evading death by the archer fish was incredible.

@rogerstone3068 Год назад

Well, yes, but it can't have been true because according to this video the archer fish has 100% accuracy, which is to say it never misses.

@ackkid5430 Год назад

Well, it didn't miss. It just wasn't a kill.

@ooooneeee Год назад

@@rogerstone3068 that was in lab conditions, not irl.

@lenarianmelon4634 Год назад

@@rogerstone3068it didn't miss, the butterfly just shook off the hit.

@lilywong9672 11 месяцев назад

@@rogerstone3068 Do you know what "missing" means?

@emmetthowell899 Год назад

2:07 the knowledge that Darwin referred to a beetle he was holding between his teeth (which I mean can you blame the dude he had no more hands) as “the little inconsiderate beast” just made my life a little bit happier today, as I too have called wild animals I’m holding little inconsiderate beasts

@GeoffryGifari Год назад

Imagine the amount of computation in an archerfish's brain trying to aim in ebbing, murky water and taking account of light refraction from water to air, not to mention gravitational pull on the water stream

@DirtRider999 Год назад

I mean i doubt they're 100% accurate but it's still amazing.

@GiRR007 Год назад

its impresssive for the size of the fishes brain but not too impressive. Most of it is basic pattern recognition, something brains are very good at anyway.

@alterego3734 Год назад

It really doesn't require much computation at all. However, finding the right computation to do is not easy. Evolution is well suited to find efficient good-enough solutions to such problems.

@chatteralt8905 Год назад

It’s not that complicated

@idiotidiot5821 11 месяцев назад

Breaking surface tension too

@UnicornOfDepression Год назад

"Whatcha watching?" "Something about bugs with acid sharts, fish that shoot water, and mushroom cannons." "Bro, are you high?" "That's not the point. This is awesome. Check it out." "Whoa."

@terramater Год назад

It's fascinating to take a closer look at this topic! Our crew managed to shoot some sort of ant war, in which, in order to protect their territory, they used chemical formic acid. They sport acid from the tips of their abdomens, targetting their enemy. And after that, it's crazy and fascinating to see how the whole conflict gets even more intense.

@iateabugtoday5587 Год назад

Vivaldi playing in the background makes this so much more intense. Absolutely brilliant and terrifying

@archlectoryarvi2873 Год назад

What's the name of the music that starts at 2:31?

@ooooneeee Год назад

IKR. That gave me portrait of a lady on fire flashbacks.

@ooooneeee Год назад

@@archlectoryarvi2873 Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer) - movement 3: presto from The Four Seasons Here is a good concert recording of it (Presto starts at 8:11): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g65oWFMSoK0.html

@davegoud Год назад

"The zone of repugnance" that's funny...and appropriate. God I love this channel. Again, the clarity and articulation of her voice is oh so impressive....not to mention the content.

@strangesocks 6 месяцев назад

I dont how to say this in a non-insulting way but I fall asleep within a minute of putting your videos on... i have no idea why but as a person who struggles sleeping (its 3am ive been awake 20hrs) its a real lifeline. I watch them in the day sometimes too for entertainment but primary consumption is bedtime. I'm going to put this on now and go to sleep. Thank you for this weird gift! Your content is so wonderful and interesting and just peak relaxation for me. Thanks again xx

@strangesocks 6 месяцев назад

Worked like a treat 😌

@dudeybagz 3 дня назад

You’re not alone there. Her voice is angelic

@fishdude666ify 10 месяцев назад

I used to work at a pet store in the fish room and had a pair of archers at home. When I'd walk past the tank I'd feel water hitting my ear, and one time I was on the phone and was standing next to the tank looking down at them through the open top. They were side by side looking up at me, and I swear i watched the water coming straight up at my right eye. It hit, and i sputtered and wiped my face and as soon as i took my hand away the one on the left fired (watered?) and hit my other eye.

@DinnerForkTongue 9 месяцев назад

Damn, bro, what did you do to those fish? lmao

@kytrensol9777 8 месяцев назад

@@DinnerForkTongue maybe they were playing? I heard they do that.

@RyzawaVT Год назад

I wonder what the smartest fish is if it isn't an archerfish. Also I like this kind of video focusing on multiple creatures instead of just one!

@theflyingdutchguy9870 Год назад

i dont think its an intelligents thing. its more like a instinctual thing like beavers building a dam.

@BadassRandomness Год назад

Snakeheads are quite intelligent

@bellumxyz1421 Год назад

No it's definitely intelligence. It was even mentioned in the video how the archer fish could learn abilities from other fish. Instinct isn't taught. It's an inherent impulse to do something. It requires intelligence to observe and learn from others.

@Beanpolr Год назад

@@theflyingdutchguy9870 Beavers building dams isn't t 100% instinct either.

@2424Lars Год назад

Manta Rays have the biggest brains of all fish as far as I know, and have shown signs of self-recognition in mirrors. Although there are studies of other fish species having supposedly passed the mirror test, so who knows?

@toxinlich Год назад

Your video has truly made my weekend, it's the highlight of it! Keep up the amazing content.

@GgTTV828 Год назад

One of my favorite armed and dangerous creatures is the pistol, whom, using its specially designed claw can fire bubbles at its prey. The bubble is useful at stunning, and sometimes frying the prey, that it hunts. It is capable of being shot at over 82 feet a second, generating over 216 decibels of sound, and generating over 4,000°c in heat from the exploding bubbles. It is an absolutely insane creature!

@Joshua_Hale 11 месяцев назад

Normally I don't worry about these sort of nitpicks too much, but the word 'shrimp' (I'm guessing that's what's being discussed here) is really important for this comment.

@gobeaugo Год назад

This wsa very well done. Better intro than most, great examples, good narrative, and a more engaging delivery style than most RU-vidrs.

@ramuk1933 Год назад

Oecophylla Smaragdina Weaver ants - formic acid spraying - are also impressive. It's a beautiful creature, too. And Colobopsis Saurdausi "kamikaze" ant has worker castes with a gland of acid that runs the length of its body, which it can rupture in battle, spewing a sticky acid everywhere, dying in the process.

@DefektoPrime Год назад

The squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) is another interesting projectile flinger in nature. The fruit uses fluid pressure to squirt its seeds out

@eliteteamkiller319 Год назад

@behlockaetheking7062 Год назад

Extremely disappointed pistol/Mantis shrimp weren't mentioned, as they use implosions that reach thousands of degrees, through cavitation bubbles, either knocking out their crustacean prey, or shattering their shell. Scientists are theorizing it's a quantum event, and creates an entangled pair of particles. Absolute dissatisfaction that they weren't included

@wheelchair_charlie Год назад

Great video "exploding" full of interesting amazing animal facts! Extremely well written and narrated as all your videos are! Thanks you!

@adrianqx Год назад

Have always been fascinated by bombardier beetles, was pleasantly surprised to find the are quite common in my parents backyard was great fun showing their tricks to my kids !

@avgvstvs5587 Год назад

was just watching another one of your videos, happy to have another one to watch now :)

@snowkracker Год назад

I could watch stuff like this all day. And I do.

@julianusapostata6677 Год назад

I love your Formats. They are very unique Going in a very big topic But very close and deep in the examples

@christianheichel Год назад

It'd be interesting to hear your take on how you think the bombardier beetle evolved without blowing itself up...,???

@burntbreadbits Год назад

I'd assume the ones who couldn't got "selected out of the breeding pool" across whatever log they were climbing on.

@DendrocnideMoroides Год назад

@@burntbreadbits that is obvious but it is more interesting to know how exactly they do that biologically

@omarb7164 Год назад

I suggest you look it up, it’s easier than getting it explained to you. There’s a complicated evolutionary path but basically it’s chemicals that weren’t volatile or dangerous inside the beetle, but the chemicals had some benefits, and the benefits improved progressively

@markferguson5924 Год назад

It doesn't just happen with those chemicals alone: like many reactions, you need a catalyst to get a practically useful rate at an acceptable temperature. And the enzyme shape/concentration can be varied gradually, providing the necessary evolutionary ramp - so creationists using the beetles as an example of 'irreducible complexity' that would explode while half-formed are sunk again, though they never admit it.

@twilightgardenspresentatio6384 Год назад

9:39 one in four prey items being standard is huge for the archer fish

@benmcreynolds8581 Год назад

Animal Avatars! I love Nature. Science and Space is the most facinating stuff ever. I'm so glad it exists at all. It's amazing.

@feltedsneed Год назад

7:18 Mantis: "is that all you got?" 😆

@mellissadalby1402 Год назад

This is a really good one. Well done!

@scheimong Год назад

I like how the mantis got shot, rocked, and a bit dazed, but didn't fall off. Then it looks like it just stared back at the fish as if to say "hey that wasn't nice".

@xandrewvondiue522 8 месяцев назад

6:07 "The mechanics of their water darts are relatively *straightforward* " I saw what you did there

@barcelonadhaneliamcuevas4743 Год назад

Your voice is so soothing I play it with headphones on at night to fall asleep ❤️

@MichaelEilers Год назад

Every science textbook I encountered have just said “bombardier beetle” as if there is only one species, never knew there were 400+ versions. The question I’d like to see answered: how do they manufacture the hydrogen peroxide and store it without damaging themselves?

@apveening 4 месяца назад

Pretty similar to the way your body produces hydrochloric acid.

@SuperVlerik Год назад

So, this isn't "oh wow, other creatures can do this too" so much as "hey look, we're just one of many"

@JoeyP946 8 дней назад

I like how nature is even crazier than I could imagine. a tool using fish takes the cake today

@Dornul Год назад

I fully expected the Horned Lizard to be in this video, as it shoots blood from it's eyes as a defensive weapon. What's wilder than that?

@thetobyntr9540 Год назад

I wonder how long it'll be until some of the bombardier beetles develop this into a propulsion mechanism, or maybe theres something like that undiscovered. They have all the basic parts of a hypergolic rocket motor anyway.

@KaentukiTheFuki Год назад

I feel like a "a combustible caboose" was a missed joke opportunity this video

@jacobmgmt9737 Год назад

This video is so good thankyou

@Brendafdz505 Год назад

thank you so much for ur videos!!!

@Mark_GL Год назад

That transition was smooth.

@mujahidmahmood2444 Год назад

Saw this masterpiece here first. Now I have to see it on Nebula too. Fantastic work on your Nebula only series!

@jodo7814 Год назад

Narrator trying not to laugh at 8:50 while explaining fish shooting water at certain people’s faces.

@qbicc6381 Год назад

The transition to the sponsor advertisement was incredibly smooth!

@gingerfoxx1476 Год назад

Wow, I never knew beetles and archer fish were so cool!

@sapelesteve Год назад

As usual, very interesting and well documented video RS! Another little known fact about Darwin was that he hated barnacles. 🤔🤔

@yepster3 Год назад

love this channel

Год назад

Sensational content.

@13thravenpurple94 Год назад

Great work Thank you

@MrDuane-lr8dm Год назад

Can you please link curiosity stream recommendations in the descriptions?

@user-ov9do5io8r Год назад

Can you do the eveloution of rats I think there ability to adapt to poisonous 1 substances so unique thanks

@PershijsmachnijKherson Год назад

Hello, thanks for the interesting and beautiful video, great channel! Good luck!!👌

@Diet_Fluid Год назад

Love this video 😊

@immagical7036 Год назад

2:00 inconsiderate beast?? Mr. Darwin, did you not realise that beetle was terrified, it thought you were going to eat it, of course it did all it could to get you to stop XD

@AldrianCG Год назад

Kudos to whoever thought “winter” was a good fit in the video. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@JackSparrow-re4ql Год назад

Where did you learn archery? The school of archer fish taught me all I know...!

@jschouten1985 Год назад

When i hear this voice-over it's an instant 👍🏻

@berzerkplayzz7907 Год назад

I still can’t believe we as the weakest physically speaking, we are the most capable and dominating species due to our intelligence

@Volti-Vagra Год назад

strong do good on own smart do good in group bald monki millions stronk- weak n dumb no problem

@DendrocnideMoroides Год назад

we aren't the weakest or slowest biologically, It is just that we have a very sedentary lifestyle.

@CountCocofang Год назад

TierZoo has a great video about this. It's not just intelligence that makes humans so dominant. It's also our long-distance stamina thanks to sweating, reach thanks to projectiles, vision thanks to standing upright and very versatile stomachs thanks to symbiotic micro-organisms. Without high intelligence, which allows complex tool use and teaching, we wouldn't completely take over the planet of course but humans could still dominate regionally.

@shanetuma3845 Год назад

If you're weak, maybe you should consider going to the gym.

@MrYoshigu Год назад

If Darwin had seen the Panda 🐼 🐼…I wonder what he will think 😂😂😂 “What in gods name did evolution make the panda for???”

@aashsyed1277 Год назад

3:04 how do they produce this acid ? It can finish in there bodies and how does it heat the mixture ? Can we make this mixture in the lab ? I would love to see how this mixture behaves

@rozinaakter7147 11 месяцев назад

Amazing ❤❤

@bobstewart4989 Год назад

Saw a cedar tree eject it's pollen once. It's like it sneezed

@myboysd5772 Год назад

Very cool video but how do we turn them into weapons of war?

@joeshmoe8345 Год назад

Thanks big dog, that was great.

@robertarguello1115 Год назад

Hello, ... By the way, there's a creature that lurks at the bottom of our oceans. A creature that possesses a punch so deadly, and so lightening fast, that divers don't dare to get a really close look at it, for fear that this creature will smash open their scuba eyewear. Having them to scurry to the surface for air! ... It's called the MANTIS SHRIMP!

@devandholakia5704 10 месяцев назад

Lol putting a beetle in your mouth... that's some real survival of the fittest shit right there

@Santnik369 Год назад

Great narrator

@allanshpeley4284 Год назад

😆

@daltonv5206 Год назад

Bombardier beetles spend too much time at taco bell

@User-nt9tr Год назад

When the beetle feels threatened, it becomes a professor

@othmansonkeir46 Год назад

جزاكم الله خير

@valentyn.kostiuk Год назад

They have schools of archer fish! What a strange place. Why?

@danellboy5757 10 месяцев назад

If i slap myself on the forehead I've got "100% accuracy"

@boispad 9 месяцев назад

Good acting guys

@kyliecunnington7711 Год назад

2:07 I litterly laughed for a good while

@GeoffryGifari Год назад

makes one wonder how projectile weapons evolved in these animals... modification on other chemical glands?

@clivematthews95 Год назад

Animal kingdom is always so interesting

@1TakoyakiStore Год назад

Stargazers are incredibly OP. Like why would you need to envenomate AND taze!

@anthonyrampolla3884 Год назад

You should do the praying mantis

@sebastianfiel1715 Год назад

I'm haunted by the possibility of tiny bullets of fungi shooting from excrement directly to my mouth 😥

@stevenbaker436 Год назад

Jack in box has the same effect on me.

@MrQwint22 Год назад

Spray nozzle? That's a butt cannon!

@Emelineeeeeee Год назад

Oo I want a video about the fish that shoots prey out of the air! Edit: I spoke too soon.

@ujang3288 Год назад

Is this the beetle that inspired the beetle in starship trooper?

@WAMTAT Год назад

Probably

@CLCasual 7 месяцев назад

I still dont understand why it requires soooo much deadly venom, considering the number and size of predators. Seems excessive for the current meta

@Icemanfreezer7 Год назад

The squirting beetle aka squirtle

@joshuazamora6307 Год назад

Subscribed 😍

@QuestionsStuff Год назад

This was really cool .... ;)

@7th_Heaven Месяц назад

This video is like straight outta Tremors

@irtur52 Год назад

0:57 Who does this? Some spider?

@DendrocnideMoroides Год назад

It is an insect called the Ant Lion, it is neither an ant nor a lion but it mainly eats ants so that is why it has the name it has

@profpuffofficial2 Год назад

0:25 *elephants have entered the chat*

@leolldankology Год назад

Bionic sphincter

@iceboorg9737 Год назад

I wanna hear the popping funghi so bad

@dbernadickas Год назад

You can't just say "they do make a popping sound" and not showing it. I'm missing some satisfaction 😂

@Giltcrab 11 месяцев назад

I bet Steve Irwin would have something to say about animal projectiles... too soon?

@jayjalalon-pc3tw Год назад

😎 accuracy.

@stax6092 Год назад

Nice.

@TankorSmash Год назад

The midjourney photo is great at 1:44, almost looks like him

@boombot934 Год назад

Creator's work is amazing👍😍! Blessed be his Name!

@andersvj Год назад

Glad that this title isn't something about "insane" so and so.

@allanshpeley4284 Год назад

I know right. This kid sure loves comparing things to human mental illness.

@Karagoth444 Год назад

Love when scientists air their frustrations. "[Archerfish] shot at ... noses and eyes of experimenters" read: Punk-ass fish shot at us when we just mirin!