The Insane Biology of: The Emperor Penguin

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@freddyP300 3 месяца назад

I can’t believe you ignored what is arguably their most important adaptation! They can dance! Trust me saw a whole movie about it

@realscience 3 месяца назад

I figured the nature documentary Happy Feet had already covered this extensively lol

@slcpunk2740 3 месяца назад

@@realscience You didn't want to step on their toes? 😂

@AldrianCG 3 месяца назад

They are also good at surfing! 👍🏼

@SuperFilmregisseur 3 месяца назад

And at hijacking cargo ships 👍

@HISTORYSQUARE 3 месяца назад

They can surf They can dance They are cute We are the fans They can fight they have legions. We love them they are emperor penguins

@IAmUBro 3 месяца назад

"Upright, clumsy, kinda chubby social creatures, who just want to cuddle." The writing for this has always been solid, and it's only improved over time. Thank you for all your hard work

@_aitalks_ 3 месяца назад

Agreed! Amazing segue to the ad!

@aBitTedious 3 месяца назад

Haha no wonder I love penguins. We have so much in common 😂

@PoliticalMatter 2 месяца назад

In those cold. Harsh climates; no wonder they are social animals.

@CrimsonA1 2 месяца назад

I mean, it's all cute and cuddly until you see the insides of their mouths 😬

@Bike_baik_saja_ Месяц назад

and they have siblings that eating bamboo

@nekomakhea9440 3 месяца назад

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

@shakeit995 2 месяца назад

I may not like it? I love it

@TheTurtleThief 2 дня назад

This is what beak performance looks like, too!

@aks47u 3 месяца назад

Penguineering

@GeoffryGifari 3 месяца назад

Related to penguin evolution, are all flightless birds evolved from flying ancestors? Are there flightless bird lineages which never really took off from the ground even since the dinosaur times?

@realscience 3 месяца назад

good question! I had to look it up myself. It seems that even the ancestor of ostriches, kakapos, and kiwis could once fly. It seems at first glance that yes, all flightless birds evolved from flying ancestors

@Lotschi 3 месяца назад

that‘s a super interesting question!

@BlessingsMate 3 месяца назад

Do you think a fat bird with feathers would flourish trying to swim while waiting for evolution to catch up! Like a whale with half a leg and a nose above it's eyes! Everything is perfectly adapted to its environment now in insane ways because of design. Not purposeless mutations (that cause a loss of information). Life is miraculous and precious, talk to your Creator before its too late. Jesus loves you

@apan2480 3 месяца назад

All bird lineages come from a flying ancestor.

@kkivvix9406 3 месяца назад

@@BlessingsMateEverything is not perfectly adapted, it is "good enough." Evolution is not a conscious endeavor, does not have any goals, nor does an individual evolve. Your concept of perfection is flawed as it pushes the narrative that there is no inherent struggle to survive and that individuals choose to change for their environment. It is random mutations and natural selection (which is external to any single organism), that's all. Organisms are constantly playing catch up (also referred to as an arms race) with their surroundings, that includes penguins. Some die because its too warm, some die because its too cold, some are bad at catching fish. Whats left are those that were good enough (not perfect) to survive. If animals were perfect there wouldn't be ~51 extinct species of penguin.

@sciencenerd7639 3 месяца назад

17:05 penguin just keeps truckin along

@Penguin_Happy 3 месяца назад

That was me!

@Silver-Arrow 3 месяца назад

i felt this

@DustinHaning 3 месяца назад

Penguins are one of the few animals that can actually say, "I'm just big boned!"

@crystalm4324 3 месяца назад

My pet peeve is that there is no documentaries on what penguins and seals do the OTHER 6 months (or so) of the year! We never get to see how they survive in the open ocean, not touching land or ice for months. Why don’t we ever see floating pods of sleeping penguins, walruses or elephant seals!? Any one else agree?

@jonr6680 3 месяца назад

They are busy working on their movie contracts of course!

@12pentaborane 3 месяца назад

I don't think penguins live months on end in the open ocean.

@RippieFarmer 3 месяца назад

...the other 6 months of the year.... they are feeding, socializing and getting ready for another round of breeding. There are plenty of documentary type videos available that focus on that aspect, just gotta know to search 🔍 for them

@solalvergara 3 месяца назад

There is year long ice and land in Antarctica so they don't have to hang out in the open ocean all the time like. Plus got tons of surfing competitions so they busy

@randomsleepyness 3 месяца назад

Imagine if penguins discovered coffee.

@MrBarryyoung 3 месяца назад

Can we mention how they walk and stand like they are barefoot on a freezing tile floor? Love the series! Great education, great entertainment/humor!

@th1nk_outside 3 месяца назад

Yeah i always wonder how also ducks in winter stand barefoot on the ice and have their feet in the freezing water all day. Turns out they have very strong blood circulation in the feet, an insulating skin and some kind of heat exchange mechanism to heat the blood before it comes back into the body from the feet. Still cant imagine how its possible, especially for such a small animal that isnt even moving a lot

@guanium 2 месяца назад

Well, animals aren't humans so their feet is not the same as ours but adapted to the environment they are in.

@callum4796 3 месяца назад

The mass trawledge of krill is also affecting them as its a major part of their diet. Since whaling was basically forcefully stopped in the Antarctic by the organisation Sea Sheppard krill trawling has increased which has effected the breeding rates of both whales and penguins as its essential to their diet. This has led Sea Sheppard to deploy ships to the Antarctic this year to attempt to forcefully stop the mass trawling of krill

@th1nk_outside 3 месяца назад

They are the real heros. People who risk and commit their lives to travel into a lawless place and fight reckless companies for the sake of our planet. Big respect for sea shepherd!

@LetsTalkAboutPrepping Месяц назад

Stinky eggs! Throw the stinky eggs!

@michaelbayley9432 3 месяца назад

Vasoconstriction is actually fairly common in birds it’s actually hugely advantageous to birds of prey for diving as effectively lets them reach those race car speeds safely. But it also just helps regulate temperature with air temperature changes from elevation.

@specster3795 3 месяца назад

Seeing this Channel grow has been amazing, this is one my favourite RU-vid channels as the research is so in depth and the editing is so good!

@austinwald2731 3 месяца назад

The subtleness and style of the background music fits perfect!

@lightice.i 3 месяца назад

I never understand how people can view an animal like the emperor penguin as “inferior” or deemed as the bottom of the evolutionary gifted. It literally takes a high amount of specialization to not only survive, but thrive in the polar regions. I know it’s because there is a learning curve in science and especially in the beginning they didn’t know better in combination with their cultural biases, but damn bruh they don’t deserve that shade 😭 so thanks for the video helping clear this exact fumble- i agree w @freddyP300, i saw it too they CAN dance

@lukas823 3 месяца назад

22:27 damn. That got deep really quick

@GeoffryGifari 3 месяца назад

How different are hemoglobin molecules in different animals to make them able to store more oxygen?

@stickthick3155 3 месяца назад

Just smile and wave boy's just smill and wave

@Theo-ul8qm 9 часов назад

I don't think they were emperor penguins, though 😅

@jakethomason5495 3 месяца назад

that penguin falling down at 17:00 lol

@thalmoragent9344 3 месяца назад

Whether soaring high above in the skies, diving deep beneath the waves, or remaining firm upon the ground, the Dinosaurs of this Era still, in their own way, rule this world.

@LetsTalkAboutPrepping Месяц назад

Sorta. Bring any of them against me and we'll see who's superior

@zedd_maraj 3 месяца назад

Thank you for your amazing content of the “insane biology”, im always waiting for new episodes and i hope you can post more frequently . Thank you ❤️

@Innomen 3 месяца назад

Watching them effortlessly shoot from the water to the ice is such a massive own if you've ever tried to climb from water onto like a slick rock before. Nothing will remind you how inept your body plan is like that. Seriously worthy of the sunglasses meme. Bro do you even ice? I also love how they use their beak like an ice pick hammer to yank themselves forward if the initial jump wasn't quite enough. Truly, lords of the ice. Your torpedo compare is apt, we need to be making giant robot penguins as our submarine design.

@El_Vuego 3 месяца назад

Your channel is seriously my favorite of all RU-vid. Your videos are beautifully designed, thoroughly researched and your voice is pleasant to listen to. I'm learning so much, and i will be watching and liking every video you make.

@charleswingfield380 3 месяца назад

please do a real science video on the biology of tigers but still a great job you have done

@SamFischer117 3 месяца назад

honestly I loved the video about their unqiue adaptations... but your transition into your sponsor segment was absolutely flawless! always enjoy your videos

@ConWolffilms133 3 месяца назад

I’ve always loved watching videos just talking about animals for whatever amount of time and just learning more and more about the creatures on earth! There’s always been something about the wild that has always interested me. I really like your videos in particular so keep up the good work!

@shadygodd 3 месяца назад

i was so offended when you said people thought they were the lowest tier of birds because ive always loved penguins bc they couldnt fly and dived

@helloitsnicko 3 месяца назад

Accidental Russian Penguin Technology is my favourite 70s prog rock band

@helloitsnicko 3 месяца назад

Aw they changed the thumbnail, now my comment makes me look like an insane person Ps. Look at that majestic beast @ 2:47 PPs. 17:05 lmao

@Cryptic141 3 месяца назад

probably the only emperor worthy of its title

@asifuzzaman21 3 месяца назад

Absolutely love all of your videos. Keep making them.

@ivolocoso6989 3 месяца назад

The educational and production value of these videos is insane, thank you so much for making them.

@EdeYOlorDSZs 3 месяца назад

This channel never disappoints! ❤

@jonr6680 3 месяца назад

What a perfect video, voiceover is sublime and the script and research are top class, visuals are incredible. Plus the subject is actually worth the hyperbolic title! For once is not clickbaity. Got to bring up the missing key fact, penguins are off the charts on the cuteness scale, as certain franchise movies attest... Funny how science hasn't managed to enumerate this dimension yet.

@HanyaAngulooke 3 месяца назад

It's extremely depressing that these amazing adaptions have costed them greatly due to our caused climate change as it's the first time an entire penguin colony has lost their eggs and offspring to being submerged in water. I really hope we won't have to rely on zoo penguins being the last vestiges of the species 😞

@phoenix-sound 3 месяца назад

What are you on about?

@HanyaAngulooke 3 месяца назад

@@phoenix-sound Sorry maybe I was a little long winded but here is the article I'm talking about scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=first+recorded+penguin&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1706787827276&u=%23p%3DSU4xXWFuLhUJ

@mexalcorta 3 месяца назад

We must manufacture more electric cars!!!!!!!

@davidegaruti2582 3 месяца назад

Luckily these are not the only penguins left ! But it would still be a shame to lose them

@phoenix-sound 3 месяца назад

I wish every single penguin lived forever and ever and that no one would ever die or go hungry.

@whiskey6string 3 месяца назад

That's it. I'm naming my band Russian Penguin Technology.

@dracodracarys2339 3 месяца назад

Makes you wonder why penguins ditched flying to swim better, when their northern counterpart the puffin is an equally talented swimmer but still can also fly.

@TheMrKlump 3 месяца назад

I've always been drawn to penguins and this video made me appreciate them so much more.

@castrumsolitas4355 3 месяца назад

I love your channel. Thank you for the information ❤️

@rubycelica 2 месяца назад

i think you are my favourite channel here on yt❤your voice is so pleasant and engaging and your content is extremely well prepared/put together and informative. i really love it and appreciate your efforts very very much!

@kushclarkkent6669 3 месяца назад

My favorite animal, baby! This is one of the greatest videos I've seen in a long time. Thank you!

@rishishukla2241 3 месяца назад

My favorite animal!! I had requested the this episode in an earlier video. Thank you!

@keerthikrishna6670 3 месяца назад

Just discovered your channel and all your content is awesome 😄

@shelbysloan5983 3 месяца назад

That was a super smooth transition into the sponsor 👌 super well done.

@GeoffryGifari 3 месяца назад

When it comes to penguins, don't their fat layers make it harder to dive? What is the relative density of penguin fat compared to water (or human fat)?

@slcpunk2740 3 месяца назад

I would guess that it's not related to fat vs water but fat vs the rest of their body. If by making themselves slightly larger they can be significantly heavier than it would benefit them over being slightly smaller and much lighter. Water is heavy so they would likely still have to exert themselves to dive but to a lesser degree. 🤔 I may be wrong. 🤷

@GeoffryGifari 3 месяца назад

@@slcpunk2740 Could be... but that requires their bones and other organs to be denser (and much more so for bird standards) could be...

@slcpunk2740 3 месяца назад

@@GeoffryGifari you're thinking flighted birds, penguin bones are not the same ... also aquatic animals have denser bones in general

@GeoffryGifari 3 месяца назад

@@slcpunk2740 exactly... the result of the evolution of their bones compared to other birds (as I remember its mentioned that penguins evolved from flying birds... so the change in density is even more drastic) might end up countering the buoyancy of their fat

@th1nk_outside 3 месяца назад

Ever seen a sperm whale? It dives 3km deep and has huge amounts of fat

@mannyortega 3 месяца назад

That must have been one of the smoothest, most over-engineered segways, I've ever come across in a youtube video! :D

@RobertHenderson.poopiebear 3 месяца назад

I LOVE the way they walk. The shorts of them falling and getting up is SUPER CUTE 😂!

@_ayush_oswal 3 месяца назад

Love this series❤ so informative 👏 👍

@Sawaedo 3 месяца назад

Thank you for this awesome video!

@diego89132 3 месяца назад

Great video thank you for your work 💪💪

@CovertGhoul 3 месяца назад

Very surprised that I consistently watch these ads and not skip them. Very well done.

@nazarnovitsky9868 3 месяца назад

Thanks for this new video !!! 😊

@pizzadude64 3 месяца назад

babe wake up, the insane biology of just dropped a new video

@no-uq5qe 2 месяца назад

love your videos! please consider adding captions!

@Bbeff.Baby. 3 месяца назад

Absolutely love this video and absolutely love penguins !I have to say you have the cutest voice ❤

@rootbeef 3 месяца назад

Thanks for another amazing video! I know you've done sea turtles but I'd love to see an Insane Biology of turtles and tortoises in general (or any one species of your choosing), because after volunteering at a turtle rescue for a year and reading Of Time And Turtles by Sy Montgomery, I've learned just how bonkers their healing abilities and general biology are. They're amazing animals that deserve a spotlight!

@adriancheng935 3 месяца назад

Very educational, nice video! 😊

@Kroggnagch 3 месяца назад

God... some of these shots look so, so incredibly cold. Yet, life, it thrives there. It doesn't just, uhh, find a way, it totally thrives. How incredible.

@tannercarlson7419 3 месяца назад

Love these videos!

@Hizzy76 3 месяца назад

My family still hunts penguin to this day with our tribe. Smart bird and taste great

@myspleenisbursting4825 3 месяца назад

How do you cook them

@stevec7923 3 месяца назад

Now that's silly. Everybody knows they have great taste.

@adi8941 3 месяца назад

thank you for the great video

@ancestralworm 3 месяца назад

Another fantastic video.

@rishishukla2241 3 месяца назад

Can you make a video on the biology of a thermophilic bacteria or mycoplasma. Non-animal videos would be great too

@d33w 3 месяца назад

Underwater missiles are usually called torpedoes, no? Anyway, great video love them penguins

@Gift-fh4qw 3 месяца назад

So emperor penguins like formula 1 cars have DRS ( drag reduction system)

@benejeneb 3 месяца назад

Damn, I'd love to try the coffee but only USA shipping 🤷🏻 Fantastic videos as always 😊

@davidbelen7199 3 месяца назад

He was drunk 🥴 17:04 These lil dudes are so cool.

@michelprins 3 месяца назад

great video thx

@-Zax- 3 месяца назад

Really amazing video.

@Mighty_Maihi 3 месяца назад

I have seen 2 wild living swimming penguins here in New Zealand. One exploring the rock caves during my militart training and onnat Ōrewa Beach where I reside, during a cyclone, at 11:53 pm pitch dark but waves crashing and rain falling. We were soaked. It Swam right between my legs before my aunt could take the video (problems with the wet) but there I was knee high with the water. It sounded like a dog lost at sea at first. Then it became more clear to the ear. Beautiful bluey pingu.

@SailorGreenTea 3 месяца назад

I guess we know which animal the next missiles shall be modeled after.

@fauxvier8519 3 месяца назад

Incredible video

@booj1827 3 месяца назад

Great videos!

@meganmccrea97 3 месяца назад

love your videos!

@carolinegodden4364 3 месяца назад

'The Lords of Antarctica ' 🙇

@eyespliced 3 месяца назад

The way I've thought about penguins is that while they may not be able to fly in the air, they now fly in the ocean. Because that is what they are doing. They aren't swimming, they are flying in the water; or treating it like the air.

@amlcarbarca 3 месяца назад

the thumbnail is a King Penguin, still you produce amazing content! thanks!

@susanacuratolo1200 3 месяца назад

GREAT PROGRAM STEPHANIE-- TRADE IS GREAT TOO☕😉

@calibaba2739 Месяц назад

Thank you. Good video. How the penguin not getting decompression sickness？

@Christopherlidis 2 месяца назад

That was the smoothest transition to a sponsor

@sanssoucilucci 3 месяца назад

Watched it on nebula first, forgot, and started tripping out when i couldnt remember where i knew everything from 🤣🤣🤣

@ryateo1 2 месяца назад

"this isn't how it works at all" Lol, the hubris as you stand on the backs of giants.

@Davethreshold 3 месяца назад

I walk EXACTLY like they do when I walk on the ice. I look so much like them I'm afraid I will grow feathers. It's funny because Lady's Figure skating is one of my favorite sports to watch and I have met Ashley Wagner, Sasha Cohen, and a couple other team U.S.A. friends.❤ Thank you for this one!

@mellon4251 3 месяца назад

This was the longest introduction to a sponsor I've seen in a long time 😄 Good video though

@murphygreen8484 3 месяца назад

Nice! Do Red pandas next!

@rambi1072 19 дней назад

17:04, hahaha. That really made me laugh for some reason

@seper159 3 месяца назад

You should do a video on Mimicry

@theflyingdutchguy9870 3 месяца назад

for the longest time i thought emperor penguins where much bigger than they are. i mean, usually we see them without any reverence for height. i thought they where like 6ft on average. maybe because they look like they are in happy feet

@nickinurse6433 3 месяца назад

We really should study how they do that heat retention with their feathers and try to imitate it to make warm clothes for the cold parts of the world. I worry about the polar bears but not really the Penguins they seem to be so adaptable. I think as the ice freezes they will just evolve like their southern cousins

@taotzu1339 3 месяца назад

I was in the movie theater watching March of the Penguins couple years back. There was a young boy in the theater that started to cry and scream really loud when the giant petrol birds started attacking the baby penguins. Didn't know baby penguins can make anyone cry like that. (BTW, his mother had to take him out of the theater room to quiet and calm him down.)

@GeoffryGifari 3 месяца назад

How did emperor penguins manage to evolve such larger bodies compared to other penguins? Is it related to their dominance in antarctica?

@IHatePeopleOfColor 3 месяца назад

We dont care

@Nsq2468 3 месяца назад

Probably due to the cold and abundant food resources as well as a lack of land predators enabling - and perhaps encouraging - them to grow larger

@GeoffryGifari 3 месяца назад

@@Nsq2468 Thinking about it... how did their prey get so abundant anyway, when that whole ecosystem is frigid?

@Nsq2468 3 месяца назад

@GeoffryGifari I'm fairly certain the reason the poles are so productive is the ice sheets give solid placing with sunlight for algae and stuff to grow which feeds krill and other creatures like that and then boom, food chain. It's like reefs and shallow sea areas, just cold

@killerwal4387 3 месяца назад

Penguin-ancestors (like the ones that already couldnt fly) were actually insanely big, during certain times they were basically the apex predators of earth. Then with lots and lots of other animals, they evolved smaller bodies for the same reasons. Relatively, the emperor penguins just didn't do that much evolving and stayed bigger than the others, because of what the other guy just said (short answer is because they *could*, most animals get bigger when they get more food and better living situations, because its just objectively better, as long as you can afford it).

@stevec7923 3 месяца назад

I love this channel. The scripts, the science, the visuals -- all top-notch. I have one pet peeve. Pronunciation of words like "important." There is not supposed to be a guttural stop in the middle. For me, it's jarring.

@ahmed323 3 месяца назад

Another banger

@Theo-ul8qm 9 часов назад

It makes perfect sense that penguins, and especially emperor penguins, traded flight for swimming. There are no flying insects or other animals to prey upon in Antarctica, nor are there large land predators to run away from. So what good is flying? I also reckon that they have more fat tissue on their bodies to protect them from the cold than most other birds, and are therefore much heavier. I imagine any bird light enough to fly would simply freeze to death in the antarctic winter.

@kyokoyumi 3 месяца назад

Damn that was the longest most elastic ad transition ever xD

@user-hf7gq1pp8v 2 месяца назад

Gorgeous creatures, amazing 😍

@michaelrodriguez4818 3 месяца назад

That was one of the smoothest, relatable, and perfect ad segues I've ever seen. Glad to see you showing your beautiful face more often my goddess.

@jamesgeschwender2276 3 месяца назад

If Internet was around back when i went to school I'd be a different person today. Instead of discovering girls and weed I'd be hanging out with the emperor penguin. I found them so fascinating and I never realized how big they were. Growing up seeing pictures of them seen them on TV and always thought they were little birds . Great video Thank you 😊😊😊