I really like 12:52 Jeff says, "Oh, that I don't know" calm & honest. Some people out of pride might try to cover. You always seem to have guests of such good character.
I really appreciate this episode because the first guest isn't just clueless in the corner when they bring the animal out. Instead all three of them are communicating at the same time.
I love these talk shows, especially this one. Two people studying the same thing (same general area) that meet and each learn something new, all the while, teaching me and some 301+ people.... Life is wondrous...
Love this one! I know it's not always (or usually) possible but I love when the guest expert and Jessi study the same species. Also, love when Hank is like "alright, I want the bunny now!"
This is one of the best SciShows I ever seen and most definitely my favorite! Genetics is fascinating, and it is always great to hear from someone doing research.
I really really enjoyed this episode and appreciated how well the subject was explained. it was simple without being childish. and all the of them just seemed perfect for the subject. that was awesome, informative, fun, and adorable. thanks!
I love that the guest speaker continued to be part of the show after the animal came. Usually in the talk shows the guest star just kind of sits there and looks at the animal while Jessi and Hank talk.
Yes, and also I have always hoped from the start there would be a person knowledgeable as Jessi on the animal, usually they know very little. For example, a bird expert to a parrot or a macaw owner to a macaw. Perhaps they'd have a nice chat over the animal, almost how Derek and the host did, more educational.
Every time I see Cheeks, either here or on Jessi's channel, I immediately go into baby-talk mode. Just like, "Is so, so, cutesie, yes, it is! So fwuffy!" XD
+Papera Di Gomma Yes, I know; I still can't fight the urge! I know why we love other people, too, yet I still fall head over heels more than I should XD
I asked for a video that covers domestication earlier today and I get it just a few hours afterwards! Now, I'm either a psychic or the whole scishow team saw my comment and went turbo-mode to make a really good domestication video! Btw, he forgot to mention domesticated breeds have smaller brains than wild ones. This process has also been observed in humans!!
I just want to say that I am really impressed that you get people with fresh research in their field on your show. Especially just after he got published in Science. Impressive! (and very interesting, my PhD is also on the evolution of recent domesticated animals)
That was fascinating! Thank you for the links, this is something I'd like to delve further into. I'll never see rabbits the same :) Oh, and Cheeks is utterly adorable :D
Me and my friend were minding this rabbit for about half an hour and half of his side of the conversation was just 'bunny...Bunny...BUNNY!' It was pretty funny. Also this episode made me want to pet the bunny.
Up until 5 years ago, I knew nothing about rabbits. Our pets were limited to dogs, cats, goldfish, hamsters, gerbils and fancy rats. My son found a white rabbit in the middle of a residential street in NYC and brought it home. I called every animal association I could think of and was told that the shelters were so overrun with rabbits waiting to be adopted that over 300 of them were being fostered in homes just waiting to be able to get into the shelters. I knew we were stuck with this poor abandoned guy and he actually amazed us. He had all the wonderful personality traits of cats and dogs combined! He was affectionate, got along beautifully with our Labrador and cats and was overall very very sweet. He was all white and HUGE! We named him Matrix, however, I wanted to call him Breakfast, but this upset the children. Sadly he died at a fairly young age due to a parasite in his brain that he most likely caught from being transported to a meat market soon after he was weaned from his mother. He's was more valuable to sell as an "Easter Bunny" and when he grew to his adult size, whomever had him first just threw him in the street. The "rabbit people association" I connected with were extremely helpful with everything we needed. It was a lot of work caring for all his needs, but I was very surprised as to how nice of a pet they could be.
Bravo! And Thank you for showing such kindness to that innocent lost creature it sound like you enjoyed the time you had with him and he with you. You have a good heart.
"this one weighs 500 grams... so 2lbs ...." ... umm jessi knows animals thats for sure .. conversions are not her strong suit :P LOVE YOU ALL AT SCISHOW thanks for spreading the knowledge !
13:50 I'm amazed it took Hank that long to deploy that gesture... also, 15:05 Yay! Bunny mlems! ...and just when I thought it was over; 15:32 or, as I like to call it "Do it! Motorboat my bun!"
Also, some of us watching using our mobile phones might just fumble the phone and the thumbs down gets pressed without our knowing. Agree with the sentiment though: this was another fascinating episode.
I find that thing about domestic rabbits losing their breeding season interesting. Is the domestic trait for that still exhibited in feral invasive populations?
That bunny is one of the poudest products of my homeland, so I say to the world: Your fucking welcome! (now if you please excuse me I'm going to the pet shop.) ;-)
The issue of rabbits (and other meat) for Lent is complicated, interesting, and a bit of hair-splitting. First, it's important to know that the various fasting traditions in medieval Christendom were much longer than those today; this wasn't about giving up steak for a weekend, but in some cases took up half the year in various fasts. Practically, it was very difficult to take meat off the table entirely for such a long period, either because the pre-Christian cultural traditions were still very strong, and frequently, because meat was such a dominant part of the available food sources that there simply wasn't enough fish to make up for meat. In fact, in the case of rabbits, it wasn't rabbits that were considered fish, but rabbit fetuses taken from a pregnant mother, or very newly born, with the justification which sounds like hair-splitting: the amniotic fluid was saline, and to the medieval mind, things that swam in the water (particularly salt water) were automatically fish - be they fish, mollusks and crustaceans ("shellfish"), or even beaver tails. Adult rabbits were almost never considered fish for fasting purposes. Beavers (sometimes the entire animal, occasionally just the tail) and capybaras, however, were considered acceptable in North America. This probably had more to do with mass conversion of a populace to a new religion which would have been made harder if you were also going to radically change their diet and cause widespread social unrest - which they already had plenty of due to the influx of Eurasian diseases and aggressive colonization in some places. * Yes, hair-splitting, because I leave terrible punnery to others.
I love the topic about domestication of rabbits cause i always wanted to learn how to domesticate rabbits.. I even also wanted to have my own rabbit farm someday.. But the other thing that interest me other than the topic is that side table display.. I love it and i really want one! It's a pixelated vase and it has pixelated flowers.. Its so adorable!!
There are lots of breeders out there that owns rabbit farms.. I don't even know what your talking about.. I don't even care who is this lennie person.. I live in a different country than yours so don't push other people into your own ideas..
Bloody Envy He was making a joke about the book, "Of Mice and Men." He was not pushing ideas, merely trying to make someone laugh. Side note: I laughed.
I have a question for Jeff: one of your co-workers by the name of Colin Callahan has a picture by his bio which bares a striking resemblance to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Is that an actual photograph of Mr. Callahan, or is UMT just trolling us?
I wonder if breeding for domestication includes breeding for stunted intelligence? I’ve heard that one of the reasons dogs are the way they are is that they were bred to basically remain as puppies throughout their lives, and thus their cute factor actually gets them extra attention (and presumably food) from the human.
Michael Pesavento Yes, and parents behaviours effect epigenetics in offspring. For example, genes may not be responsible for passive behaviour without epigenetic factors on top of it. Or breeding patterns etc.
Jarred Hart A recent finding in psycho-analytics show's that some of the subtle structures of the human brain are being altered by the use of new technology. Could this be that is a more sophisticated form of what happened to domesticated animals by altering their environments and changing their natural patterns to suit our needs?
Maybe... I'd like to read that study (I'm a psychologist myself). Technology would definitely affect our brains more than animals, but I think there is an influence over their neuro-structures through domestication. The bunnies which survive the stress are able to reproduce. The second generation of bunnies may not be as stressed as the first as they are bred in captivity...
Jarred Hart Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest it was a single study. It's part of a new direction in addiction research. Specifically; Internet addiction and internet addiction as relates to couples therapy. It's suggesting that at a certain level, every click of the mouse causes a small Dopamine reaction much like any pleasure related activity but with the internet being so ingrained in every aspect of our daily lives and the availability of so much media these reactions can become cumulative over time and mimic substance abuse behaviors. How these changes in the brain will affect people in the long term is unknown but as the technology starts being used by ever younger consumers, will the effect be stronger in a population that started experiencing these changes as toddlers. It's interesting stuff.
~ cindy bier asks " why do the bunny rabbit babies always flop over dead as soon as we look into each other gaze's when within sniffing distance ? Even when I was a puppy, it is so confusing & sad , should I wear nadaiamine or something ? Does it block rabbit from smelling as it does our dog noses , wroif ? "
This video made me think about something: The Oryctolagus cuniculus species (Netherland Dwarf Rabbit) can be identified by the 'mutated' gene (mutated is in quotation marks because to them is a normal gene) that causes their dwarfism; the fact that, for example, they also have a gene that codes for a protein called examplein in their red cells wouln't be as useful, that specific dwarfism-causing gene mutation would be the one that makes them who they are, the one that diferenciates them from other species from the Leporidae family... Here's my question: would there be a gene that makes us who we are? a gene that diferenciates us from other Hominidae (and, again, it can't be a gene that codes examplein, it has to be an impotant fenotipe like a gene that allows us to use language or tools) that would be a fun thing to investigate. :D
I feel like it took Jeff a while to warm up, so it was a little awkward at first, until he got used to it. If you're really here to listen to someone who is an expert in their field talk about their research on that topic, he had some very interesting things to say. Hang in there, his work is actually fascinating.
In fact the romans named Spain "Hispania" (from which the name Spain directly comes) because of bunnies, based on the phoenician "i-spn-ya", (literally meaning Bunnyland). This can be interpreted in some other ways, but since the romans the "Bunnyland" it's the more accepted interpretation.
The question I want to hear answered is about intelligence in domesticated vs. wild populations. It seems like I've seen reports that, on the whole, domesticated populations are less intelligent than their wild counterparts. I hope you can maybe address that in a future episode. :)
ElijahMFearon The joke, you missed it. Animenome 死ぬ Haha, good impression, that's basically how they are, dang militant vegans giving everyone a bad rep.
Great video, Am I the only one who hates those moments like the one Jessi experienced when she felt the need to correct Jeff? Being on either end of that exchange is always painful
Hank completely mistook, domestication with domination. You can also control or kill any animal with machines and weapons (force), as you would do with a rabbit, just with your hands; including a bull.
On monks reclassifying rabbits as fish, there's a similar story in Japanese culture about hungry monks who reclassified rabbits as flightless birds. (Apparently it was okay to eat birds but not mammals.)
I had a bunny that would give a dog a run for it's money. Meanest thing I ever met... I called him my PitBunny. Maybe his cage was too small, but he wouldn't leave it & every time I'd try to feed him he'd hiss & lunge to bite me... they have really sharp teeth. He was lightning fast & didn't get along with the other rabbits either. I don't know why he was so vicious but I say the relationship between the PitBunny & I did indeed go south, but I still fed him until he died of old age
16:17 ...They are actually pretty easy to kill. You get them by the front of the lower legs with one hand and the back of the ears with the other. And, yank your hands apart as you twist (like wringing a wash cloth). Rats and mice are easier though. Those you just grab by the base of the tail underhanded. And, flail onto the edge of a hard flat surface, like a brick or cinder block (turning your wrist down as you do it so the top of their skull faces the surface on the down swing). It's just one smooth motion with rats and mice. With rabbits...they can shift a lot and it might take a couple tries.
Animenome 死ぬ im not going to argue that but if you are saying that animals are better than people because they don't kill each other thats totally not true animals kill each other all the time even ones of the same species.
No the fact that they each kill each other is unrelated. Animals are better than humans and that is the universal truth. That is all #MerylStreep ANIMALS > PEOPLE
Ok Geoff, you are misunderstanding what I said. The way animals die is completely unrelated to them being better. And yeah, going with technicality humans are animals.. But you know what I mean don't you? Anyways. The universal truth is that ANIMALS > HUMANS.
***** Thank you. Thank you for understanding that not all farms and/or farmers kill animals inhumanely. Our family farm uses no steroids, harmful antibiotics, and when it is their "time", we "put them down" as humanely as possible. Just in case I didn't make myself clear before, THANK YOU!
