The Only Non-Human Mammal that Farms

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Gophers: Garden Pests… or Farmers?

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@SciShow Год назад

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@havtor007 Год назад

So you are just deleting videos with errors now with nothing to say about it just trying to pretend that the video did not exist at all. Sad to see the day when Scishow is just a propaganda machine instead of giving real information and being honest when you get things wrong it is human to do that just acknowledge it.

@cvspvr Год назад

@@havtor007 wat?

@havtor007 Год назад

@@cvspvr this channel if they get things wrong and get backlash on it they delete the video does not say anything and do not try to fix it. Keep an eye out and you will see it happen again. They are completely fine with spreading misinformation. They used to not do this they used to be very good at fixing the wrong parts. Now this channel is not trustworthy on anything when they can not admit when they are wrong.

@marilynlucero9363 Год назад

That's one amazing thumbnail, lol.

@cjtherou4427 Год назад

It ain't much but its gopher work

@WingZero172 Год назад

@@cjtherou4427 take my like and get out

@michaellyden2580 Год назад

Agreed.

@Junk_Druggler Год назад

Almost as good as your happy Quagsire :D

@geoffreymartin6363 Год назад

@@cjtherou4427 you've earned the rest of the day off of the internet

@pluribus_unum Год назад

RE: 1:31 - Don't mistake aerating for tilling. Most tilling techniques decrease soil aeration over a few seasons and greatly increase soil compaction and a decreasing ability to sustain beneficial microbes and fungi. If you garden, buy a broadfork and reduce tilling.

@cob571 Год назад

@@peanutbutterjellyfish2665 I work in an organic vineyard. We do both.

@eingrobernerzustand3741 Год назад

@@peanutbutterjellyfish2665 Rotortillers great advantage is that they break stones.

@cob571 Год назад

@@peanutbutterjellyfish2665 I work in the southern Okanagan valley in British Columbia, Canada. We don't subcribe to lackluster 'american' definitions of Organic. The only spray we use is certified organic sulfur. This helps fight mildew and is no different than some person with heavy flatulence farting all over our vineyard. Edit: We also use tunnel traps to control our gopher population. My coworker in his late 70's goes around the vineyard and puts tunnel traps in their burrows. He kills about a hundred per week in the summer. As for weeds, I use a tractor-mounted grapehoe. This is a blade that slides underneath each plant, destroying the roots of weeds and allowing the dead weeds to decay back into the soil. We use a rototiller because after each pruning season, our many tonnes of branches must be chopped up and buried into the soil to provide structure to our normally silty valley terrain. We use manure mulch later in the spring to provide more nutrients. Now go back to swatting away moths with your hands.

@unclejimmy5778 Год назад

@@cob571 what is done with the corpses of the groundhogs? I've never really heard of people eating them(although I'm sure you can) but I assume the pelts might be usable.

@ryno4ever433 Год назад

If your ground is still in the first few years of being worked, I recommend tilling with compost, especially in heavy soils. After these initial couple of years, definitely try to move away from it.

@maccrazy7335 Год назад

When I was a kid I was told never to destroy a gopher-mound because they keep the soil stable and healthy.

@anyascelticcreations Год назад

Yep. And look at the southwest US where gophers are destroyed so cattle can graze without stepping in the holes. We all know how well that whole cycle has gone. As the stripped soil blows away in the wind.

@anyascelticcreations Год назад

I'm glad someone very wise taught you this. 😊

@Artifying Год назад

I didn’t know I needed to have a favorite gopher photo but the absolute distain on this creatures face is palpable at 1:00

@nemonomen3340 Год назад

“It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.” - A gopher somewhere

@Yoga_With_Amy Год назад

the issues with gophers in the garden for me is absolutely not the digging - if they get in they can eat every plant in a bed in a single night 😅

@jamesoshea4702 Год назад

Oh no!

@b_uppy Год назад

How about doing a video on *soil carbon,* specifically, as topsoil. About how it binds with clay to make it more porous. About how it binds with sand to help it retain water. How it allows inorganic nitrogen become available to plants via bacteria. How it can help soil biota increase minerals. Reduce the need for irrigation. Reduce flooding. Help recharge aquifers, etc. Please explain how old the science is, too.

@b_uppy Год назад

If you could also speak of ghe problems of temporary reduced productivity when you convert from chemical ag to organic ag or permaculture. Please expound on the time it takes for soil biota to come back after stopping chemical inputs. And why organic and especially permaculture methods are important in rebuilding soil carbon. People also need to be aware we only have a projected 45 years left of topsoil. Topsoil (the carbon-rich stuff) is also called black gold by gardeners and farmers. We need this as a PSA everywhere...

@baileyjerman5573 Год назад

Meh

@b_uppy Год назад

@@baileyjerman5573 Describes you well.

@baileyjerman5573 Год назад

@@b_uppy nerd

@michaeljf6472 Год назад

[Pocket Gopher: Farms] [Bearves, terraforming an entire ecosystem to fit their needs]: "Not bad kid"

@timdowney6721 Год назад

Judge Smails: Do you know what gophers can do to a golf course? Mc Fiddish: Increase crop yields?

@MaryAnnNytowl Год назад

Well, the definition of farming is a little loose, so it might qualify, yes. And the secondary impact shock was mentioned, but there was a third impact shock that wasn't mentioned here. The Anton Petrov video on this same meteorite does cover that part, and in more detail. I'd suggest you look for it, if you're interested in more information!

@slickestrick4117 Год назад

Pocket gopher is a euphemism just waiting to happen

@avariceseven9443 Год назад

I hope they make a video on how scientists date those craters, specially those in other planets.

@kearstinnekenerson6676 Год назад

All I know is if the squirrels don’t stop putting bird seed pockets in my garden I’m going to end up with free bird seed lol

@marilynlucero9363 Год назад

Hold up, pocket gophers? Now we're getting on prime meme territory.

@justayoutuber1906 Год назад

go for coffee

@deckardcanine Год назад

Now that's my kind of Pokemon.

@N3bu14Gr4y Год назад

Sounds like something Dale would throw at people.

@Carewolf Год назад

@@deckardcanine Pokegoph.

@scottmcmaster4927 Год назад

Excellent content as always. Keep up the impressive educational work SciShow.

@janetf23 Год назад

I like to scoop up the fresh soil from the gopher mounds in the lawn to reinvigorate my flowering plants.👍

@Supersmile330 Год назад

I fully expected the video to end with "And that's why we should send gophers to farm mars for us." That topic change super jarring, cuz I didn't realize there would be two topics in this video before the change

@NovoxPrayer Год назад

Was wondering if scishow quiz show is coming back anytime soon

@cob571 Год назад

unfortunately it probably fell way due to not enough viewership for the cost of setup

@anyascelticcreations Год назад

I would like it to return, too.

@mattstyles2498 Год назад

The comments are not focusing on what matters. That grade A++ thumbnail.

@irighterotica Год назад

Tracing a rock back to Mars from billions of years ago. That's crazy.*

@anyascelticcreations Год назад

Scream "Representative! " into the phone for hours. 🤣 Has Stephan been watching me?

@twocvbloke Год назад

We need to send Gophers to Mars then... :P

@NoAnnoyingCommentary Год назад

Should have put the caption on the thumbnail “it ain’t much but it’s honest work” 😂

@sparkywatts3072 Год назад

Gophers are NOT the only non-human mammals that farm! Pikas harvest, cure and then store grasses and forbs. That is real farming not eating roots and pooping.

@Lumberjack_king Год назад

That thumbnail Is pure gold

@GoatZilla Год назад

that's more like a symbiotic relationship than farming

@HeavenlyKnight96 Год назад

Dale Gribble should totally upgrade to Pocket Gophers.

@yudeok413 Год назад

For anyone wandering NWA7034 was found near Bir Anzarane, Morocco.

@TJtheHuman Год назад

African Elephants spread the seeds of a particular fruit along their trails, and the fruits require an elephant tusk to open. Is that a mammal farming?

@ayden6566 Год назад

Source?

@anyascelticcreations Год назад

I had no idea! Do you remember what kind of fruit it is? I'd love to watch a video on that.

@TJtheHuman Год назад

I'm trying to find the name of a specific fruit in mind, but I haven't found it. There are several. Dillenia indica is one fruit dependent on Asian Elephants.

@anyascelticcreations Год назад

@@TJtheHuman Cool, thank you! I'll have to look that one up. 😊

@austenhead5303 Год назад

Unless they actually deliberately bring the seeds to spread, I'd say they're just walking and pooping.

@AhmedBodhi Год назад

never thought I'd hate gophers a little less..

@Yozik2 Год назад

Gopher was the internet of the 80's

@kaitlyn6853 Год назад

I wonder if we could genetically engineer the roots of a tree or some hardy tuber to make use of the gopher's root growing techniques and find a way to sustain a mars/moon colony off the passive growth from an underground and environmentally controlled ecosystem, while having the productive parts of the plant above-ground and facing the sun in perhaps a glass chamber of sorts. If it proves too radiation-intensive for photosynthesis inside of the glass chamber we could set up solar panels inside of the chamber where it will be kept safe from the buildup of particulates and dust.

@freddoflintstono9321 Год назад

I think that that double impact area on Mars is actually kinda worth avoiding :)

@weekendstuff Год назад

Came for the thumbnail. Stayed for the content. Thanks for sharing. Weekend Stuff

@hyperspacey Год назад

It was either that, or skin my chauffeurs ... Wait, I've got that song wrong haven't I

@ludwigiapilosa508 Год назад

3:00 Mustafar

@damien_strix Год назад

Pocket monsters on the other hand....

@Jackiee_Chann Год назад

My lawn says - pest

@mamanoneyall51 Год назад

I'm alright..nobody worry about me🎶🎶🎶

@johnnykwest7819 Год назад

Ah you got me at the thumb nail!

@aarononeal9830 Год назад

Sci show needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees

@maksphoto78 Год назад

For a second I thought this was from Gopher's gaming channel about a gopher simulator... 😀

@FunDownSouth Год назад

No one is going to talk about the jump from gophers to Mars rocks?!

@drkmgic Год назад

I love that thumbnail

@justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456 Год назад

Soon they'll develop rayguns

@mikaeelmalik1724 Год назад

What about the Picca they cut and dry grass moving it to stay in the sun then storing it to eat later

@Weirdoid Год назад

And I thought Journey to the Microcosmos would be the sci show channel that focuses on alga rhythms. :)

@theliquidllama1 Год назад

Anybody else here hoping to see a gopher farming ?

@samwill7259 Год назад

It aint much, but it's gopher.

@claysoggyfries Год назад

W thumbnail

@franciscosoares2440 Год назад

It ain't much, but it's honest work

@Lol0Wut Год назад

I feel obligated to say that some leafcutter ants farm an edible fungi in their underground burrows, and have done so for some 60 million years. It's actually the reason they cut leaves and bring them back underground. To form what's basically mulch from decaying organic material where the fungi can thrive in. They've done this for so long that some species are in obligate symbiosis with the fungi. It can't grow in the wild or hybridise with other fungi anymore, it can only grow in these mould gardens the ants create. And the ants are dependent on the fungi too, they lost the ability to produce some vital nutrient in their own body (I forgot what though) and can only get it by eating the fungi. Edit: I forgot to mention, there are other species ants that farm aphids (garden lice).

@NovaSaber Год назад

That's why the video title has to specify "mammal".

@vernonfridy8416 Год назад

“Pocket gophers” aren’t a species; rather, that’s a name for gophers in general.

@feirmebeardonn4597 Год назад

Nope. When a gopher usurped over 250 carrots in a single day... death to pocket gophers.

@Svadigo Год назад

I didn't catch up how the gopher links to the Mars ._.

@raphlvlogs271 Год назад

gophers can greatly help the growth of some plants but they can be detrimental to other plants.

@justbecause4557 Год назад

Technically squirrels do too, just inadvertently.

@smurfyday Год назад

No they don't. They don't tend to their crops, rely on their growth.

@justbecause4557 Год назад

@@smurfyday I never said they were good at it. 😁

@mfultimate Год назад

1:00 that gopher looks PISSED

@francesbernard2445 Год назад

What about while farming trees instead of crops?

@doomkitty63 Год назад

Mac and Tosh - Looney Tunes

@bellcurve0 Год назад

Squirrels plants seeds all day long. Thank you little crack rats fpr building our forests up.

@michaelhorning6014 Год назад

Varmint Cong.

@mikaldoeseverything3047 Год назад

great vid man but i thing you used the word rock a bit too much tho lol.

@robomonkey1018 Год назад

Just tell me what ate my carrots 🥕

@CalebKallimanis-le4zz Год назад

No wonder the Great Plains died which caused the great dust bowl 😮‍💨

@jasonwilliams1713 Год назад

Those video brought to you by Adidas

@randyselvidge5594 Год назад

I would love a detailed explanation as to how we get samples from Mars to Earth. That video would be intriguing.

@Natuesanomalies Год назад

Ants aren't mammals but some grow fungi to eat

@cassieoz1702 Год назад

I thought we'd decided tilling wasn't particularly food for soil biome and structure. Are the researchers comparing their results to outdated horticultural ideas. If they were animal biologists, that might account for it

@tempura2503 Год назад

Different grass and shrub species respond differently to moderate levels of soil aeration. Moderate aeration that does not remove topsoil is preferable to some fast growing species, as it helps with soil drainage amongst other things. This is different than tilling, which is done before the target plant has a chance to grow, and removes topsoil. For example, biomes that evolved with earthworms are dependant on moderate soil aeration.

@cassieoz1702 Год назад

@@tempura2503 I guess it depends on where you are too. Any 'turning' of soil here (no matter how shallow) exposes the soil biota to UV and kills them. Aerating plows (like Yeoman's) don't do this but we wouldn't refer to 'subsoiling' as tillage. I think part of the issue here is the use of the term tillage and my concern was the all-too-common situation where researchers from one specialty area comment on the relevance to something else that they only have a trivial or 'common sense' understanding of.

@tempura2503 Год назад

I see, looking at the papers, I see comparisons to tilling made by the authors as a means of conveying the idea of soil aeration in their introductions. The actual data analyses are generally more rigorous in trying to connect gopher activity to increased root growth.

@goggleman4935 Год назад

my pet bird poops on my plants, so ig she is s farmer too.

@EndroYTultra Год назад

What not pests wow

@slevinchannel7589 Год назад

But... dont feel accused when i say this, but i love to engage so i talk with lots of Science-Fans and i kinda get the feeling many arent wary enough or arguably dont do enough about Systemic Issues. What about you? Do you watch Channel that can be summarized as 'Problem-Tacklers'? Illumiinaughtii, Some More News and... well... the entire Concept of Atheist-Channel? I mean, even if the recent Abortion-Thing had never ever happened, they would stil be the main-source of valid criticism and problem-identifiers on YT, wouldn they? So it worries me that Sci-Fans only wanna be updated on Fun Science Stuff but not this. I feel like the Fanbases dont overlap enough, even though a healthier relationship between Theists and Atheists is the simpliest thing these Channel want, but they're sure to not stop there.

@NextNate03 Год назад

I don't know how ro talk to other people. I have been talking to robots for way to long of time. 😉

@hs0003 Год назад

Imagine if some dude high up in the food chain, decides that we should bring back the rock to it's launch location on mars.

@HauntingBull Год назад

Pests or Farmers? Neither.. Dinner. 🍽️

@holofish Год назад

Man, I really want to buy adidas.

@diyeana Год назад

I dunno. My missing vegetables and mounds of dirt in the lawn tell me they are pests. 😋

@whatthefunction9140 Год назад

I thought this was going to introduce gopher burgers

@zachrabaznaz7687 Год назад

Good job specifying MAMMAL in the title. Ants are awesome!

@LasloCanadi Год назад

Brought to you by adidas 😁

@MyysticYT Год назад

16th! I love the thumbnail!

@jacobsparry8525 Год назад

Yeah well their holes injure animals like breaking horses legs or our own and in our orchard the pocket gophers killed our younger trees so until you can PROVE they will help and not damage we will still be excommunicating them on sight. But interesting subjects

@MerkhVision Год назад

You’ll be “excommunicating” the gophers? I didn’t know gophers went to church! Lmfao

@freya002YT Год назад

Neat

@PatrickPoet Год назад

I was confused when you said other terrestrial planets. Our planet is Terra (from Roman), and I thought terrestrial referred to things on the Earth. Am I confused?

@prettybueno1255 Год назад

Terrestrial planets are planets made of rock, as opposed to gaseous planets such as Saturn or Jupiter. Terrestrial essentially means “Earth-like,” as in the fact that, for instance, both Earth and Mars are made from rock.

@ajchapeliere Год назад

I might be able to explain. Terra as a word root is earth as in dirt, not Earth as in the named planet (usually the concept of the deity comes from the natural substance, so the deity is secondary as far as word roots go). So terrestrial animals live on dry land (earth) and terrestrial planets (like Earth and Mars) have a rocky outer surface, sometimes with liquid covering parts of it. Sometimes it gets confusing when a word is a proper noun in some contexts and a common noun in others. Apologies if the explanation is overly detailed. Just want to be sure it's clear for anyone else who might happen upon it.

@stax6092 Год назад

Neat.

@grempal Год назад

Check me if I'm wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the gophers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key

@Winsto25 Год назад

mama mia

@vernacularbarnarchitecture Год назад

I must object to the title and cite the leaf cutter ant!

@jimorr820 Год назад

Leaf cutter Ants farm too. They farm fungus.

@Acridotheresfuscus Год назад

But ants are insects

@jimorr820 Год назад

@@Acridotheresfuscus fauna are fauna. They aren't flora so they are in the animal kingdom

@Acridotheresfuscus Год назад

@@jimorr820 they specifically said only mammal to farm look closer

@yashoza9792 Год назад

Hey Man I got a question, If inhaling water damages our lungs then why does inhaling steam not cause any problem?

@smurfyday Год назад

Probably has to do with quantity, density, etc. I'm sure if you inhale too much steam, or steam that's pressurized, too hot, etc, it will be harmful too.

@eric2500 Год назад

So they are both.

@comradeweismann6947 Год назад

The Algorithm is being unfair with the channel

@slevinchannel7589 Год назад

@user-zh4vo1kw1z Год назад

Sounds like every species whose behaviour in some way creates an environment that benefits it food source could be considered farmers. So, basically every species. To me farming includes intent and focus of both energy and result, none of which are proven. This is either bad science reporting or bad science publicizing

@AhmedBodhi Год назад

It's Stockholm syndrome haha

@tempura2503 Год назад

Farming has nothing to do with intent because intent is a human construct and poorly defined outside of the scope of consciousness. Many ant species farm fungi purely based on instinct. And most herbivores don't benefit the plants they eat unless you count seed dispersal. This is why plants evolve to avoid predation.

@tomtheplummer7322 Год назад

Pasture pests...

@BritishBeachcomber Год назад

*Ants also farm*

@peterprime2140 Год назад

Ants are mammals, now?

@MrBubblz1 Год назад

Ants

@theorangeheadedfella Год назад

are insects..

@zeeej710 Год назад

Leaf cutter ants.

@peterprime2140 Год назад

Are not mammals.

@v908 Год назад

You've apparently never had trees and shrubs killed by pocket gophers. When I have a small tree fall over and find just a hold leading to a gopher tunnel, and no rootball, it's pretty obvious what happened. Pocket gophers can be very destructive. They really like aloe and agave roots, killing the plants when they eat them from the bottom up.

@Ram-zc4fi Год назад

glad to know Brian Wood is the expert on pocket gophers, and not the University of Florida

@meepmoop2308 Год назад

Hes just summarizing the study. If you disagree with it take it up with the researchers, dont shoot the messenger.

@xtremej2575 Год назад

Yes, because experience is better than actual scientific research

@vicovideocompilationsetc6991 Год назад

Are you sure? Do you have evidence that a pocket gopher dug there and ate the roots? Do you have proof that it is a pocket gopher and not any other burrowing/tunneling animals that did it?