8 Facts About Animals We Got Wrong
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- There are a lot of animal stereotypes in the media, like "cats love milk!" or "bears can't get enough of that honey!" But what if we told you that everything cartoons taught you is actually a lie? Join Stefan Chin for a new episode of SciShow and uncover the truth about these 8 animal myths!
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So... does this mean that coyotes really aren't fascinated with TNT and anvils?
No, they are. That's why that isn't one of the misconceptions in the video.
Another sad fact is that coyotes can run faster than a roadrunner.
Do they even chase them though?
Kishore Shenoy The more you know
I thought they all had a line of credit with Acme.
"Bears don't actually raid bee-hives for honey"
*I wonder why we were always told bears love honey then?*
"Instead, they eat the helpless and developing child bees for protein"
*-oh*
Hahaha! My same reaction
well its not that they don't eat the honey as well.
actually a lot of animals that like sweet food will eat honey if they get the chance.
It's for most animals the only way to eat something sweet.
but the sugars are burned off very quick so for a bear it's useless for the hibernation. they could be useful direct after the hibernation periode.
it's like the redbull of the forest.
thanks for the extra information! I know they eat the honey also (I did watch the same video as you) but thought the fact that their main target was the larvae was pretty funny
I work as a hunting guide and trust me, bears are crazy for honey. They are opportunitie scavengers who will do anything for food. They will tear cabins apart for the coffee honey.
So they eat 10 kg of honey with few bee larvae in it. Conclusion: they do it for bee larvae ??????
My town has banned feeding the geese and other birds bread to prevent angel wing, which I think is pretty great.
“Hi I live in a nanny state”
@@paullowell3342 what.
@@paullowell3342 what.
@@paullowell3342 what.
@@paullowell3342 what.
When I was a kid and was given bread to feed the ducks, I would eat it myself
You're welcome ducks
DFTBA
One time my family was feeding them french fries and I didn't quite get it so I threw a chicken nugget at them
@@emberhermin52 it's 3am and I just got home drunk and that made me laugh outloud
@@vall7178 no? Unless the duck looks like it’s starving to death you still shouldn’t feed it bread because it will just make it feel like it’s full and it’s just not healthy and it makes the duck start to rely on humans for food which is not a good thing
@@anjafrohlich1170 I bet you lay in the street and stop ambulances getting to hospital because you want to make a 'change'. Feeding ducks bread IS NOT BAD, end of, do some research. Or is that too much of hard work 'good sir'
What? You gonna tell me turtles don't like pizza? I don't trust you.
Kinzoku they're mutants though...
I was trying to mug someone when 4 turtles pulled up and beat my ass. When they went away i saw them buying pizza from the corner store
Actually, turtles love pizza.
They'd probably eat that, but I'm not sure if it's safe
Only Surfing Turtles like pizza.
"Dairy loving humans are the weird ones"
*angry Wisconsin noises*
Same
The overwhelming majority of adult humans of either Semitic or European origin are lactose tolerant. We've been milking goats and cattle for so long that our DNA has adapted to the lactose.
normals have a gene that switches off after infancy, in weirdos the gene stays on. the gene makes lactase needed for lactose digestion.
@shortythecat lol its not
Lactose intolerant Wisconsinite noises...
ugh. as a wildlife carer, thank you so MUCH for talking about the bread in ducks problem. Each year we regularly pick up all kinds of birds with malnutrition problems...we get angelwing, but more rickets. Mothers who eat bread and seem ok can still produce young with serious health problems....do not feed them bread!!!!
I like that you made an episode about this. Not because I learned something from it but because, as a biologist, I run in to problems because of people believing these misconceptions all the time.
0:52 Bears will tear hives apart... with their bear hands.
bears...beats.....battlestar galactica......
microbuilder MICHAEL
*MICHAEL!*
Lol, sweet.
They have claws on their paws.
Thank you~ I finally convinced my mom to stop spending so much on extra bread for the pigeons.
Johnny *Now she'll just switch to foods they can eat, so if you see her bring home bird seeds don't bother looking for any pets in the house.*
Feeding bread to ducks isn't as bad as not feeding them at all. Don't listen to this guy when he talks about the ducks, he literally has no idea what he's on about and is just reading a fictional script. Keep feeding the ducks, even bread, winters coming and they'll need it. Thanks 👍
@@vall7178 t. Guy that ignored the video and didn't do any research of his own.
@@somedumbloserscsgochannel5942 with a name like that, I'm going to assume you're trolling.
@@vall7178 So.. make it so they have disabling angel-wing and end up malnutrition instead? *Gotcha*
The problem is, a tiny bit of bread is likely okay to give to a pet duck you're feeding other good stuff with. But when *everyone* feeds bread to wild fowl all the time it causes bad affects. It ends up hurting them.
If you bring a bag of defrosted peas (the sort in the frozen section at the store) the ducks MAY use you as a climbing structure to get the peas.
I tried feeding peas to ducks once. And had around a dozen mallards squawking and flapping all over me. I finally dumped the bag out and covered my head! They reeeeealllyy liked those veggies!
As a kid me and my parents looked after some ducklings (they kept coming to our house without their mother, she disappeared) and their absolute favourite foods were peas and cooked rice
I wish they would've talked about the misused eagle sound that is actually a red-tailed hawk.
I laughed so hard the first time I heard that adorable little chirp come out of an eagle’s mouth!
They never show bald eagles competing with crows and ravens for road kill, either. But it happens.
@@timdowney6721 the bird equivalent of brains vs brawn
When you think about it, a bird that is misrepresented as being as being greater than it really is, is the perfect symbol for America.
@@fireaza It's also a kleptoparasite, stealing a decent portion of its fish from the Osprey while getting all the glory.
You probably could have made an entire miniseries of list episodes about things people get wrong about animals.
But the most important question hasnt been answered... are elephants scared of mice and eat peanuts?
I dont know about the peanuts , but they arent scared of mice
Yes, they go out of their way to avoid stepping on mice. There is a Mythbusters episode dedicated to it.
Most elephants dislike peanuts
Wouter Cloetens they used albino mice which are not common in the wild
They REALLY do not like small, loud things darting around them - running mice included. They do not care about one that they can clearly see, however.
I remember going to the park with my boyfriend and calmly explaining to a family that they can't feed the birds bread and instead should use the 25 cent food machines that have food made for the ducks. That ended in us almost throwing fists at each other. They refused to listen and kept feeding bread to the ducks. Assholes.
The porcupine one really surprised me. I studied zoology for 2 years in highschool and still had no idea. This really shows us the impact of tv shows and cartoons on our minds and how impressionable our minds are.
I can one-up you. Zoology is my current major and I still thought they shoot their spikes until now.
@@nickfosley2882 Did none of you consider they would need some sort of propulsion to do so? You know, like most skin lacks? Did you think it was CO2 propellant, or maybe tiny springs?
@@cartoonraccoon2078 I never really gave it a thought to be completely honest, but you bring up a great point
You'd need to specify in specific wildlife to find that out. Another thing he didn't mention is, while they don't launch quills, they can "throw" them from their tail by using momentum. This doesn't shed all the quills, and it doesn't pierce too deep, but it's probably where the misconception of them blowing out their needles came from.
@@angellace3498 You are thinking about manticores
Thank you for mentioning not feeding bread to birds!!! I've been trying to tell people about that around here, but they just get mad and ignore me. One pond in particular gets people DAILY bringing bread and cereal for them....A massive amount of ducks, pigeons, geese and even gulls all inhabit that place.
They need a local law or something to charge people who feed birds with bread
Tell them to bring rolled oats instead
Large amounts of breading makes most of these birds taste a lot better. But I agree, it's going in the wrong way.
So tigers do have springy tails then?
That's tiggers, not tigers. Fortunately. XD
R.Instro Exactly. Tiggers went extinct two centuries or so ago.
Tigger's our word, but you can say Tigga
Yes, and it helped bio engineer to develop the pogo shoes
And do they turn into stuffed animals when adults are around?
#9 Mice don't really like cheese that much, they'll eat it if there's nothing else available in sight, but it's far from their favorite food; one of their actual favorites is something you (and I) probably share with them as a preference: plain chocolate chips, which are the base ingredient of modern traps.
Mom always put crunchy peanut butter on mouse traps.
I have always understood what bats were doing when they swooped near me. My dad probably told "little kid me" something like, "the bats were my friends, and were protecting me from the bugs that were out to get me and have me for dinner." I don't remember this but, it is how I have always felt about them and it sounds just like something dad would have told me. I feel the same way about dragonflies. I noticed my roommate always freaked about both, getting all twitchy and flailing around. Can you guess who regulatly has 20x more bug bits than me? This seems like reason enough to let them hang out. One night, to drive the point home, the bat crapped all downthe front of his shirt. I have to admit, I pee'd myself a little. There was aim and intent in that swoop.
This is something I do remember my dad saying to us kids regularly, "don't start no crap, won't be no crap." Lol thanks for the quality time pop!
I'm always glad to see the dragonflies when I'm out hiking at the peak of black fly or mosquito season, and am delighted if one lands on me. Bats only bother me on the rare occasion one finds its way into the house - but I've worked out a catch & release protocol, and happily send them on their way.
I love any creature that feeds on mosquitoes.
@@MrMarkOlson welcome to the food chain ys buzzing little boogers!
That last one....actually happened to me
Back in the early 90's when I had really long hair a bat swooped down at me, hit me in the head and got stuck in my hair.
That night I found a practical use for headbanging.
Oh my gosh😧😖😱
So in short, cartoons are not documentaries.
Yep they are what are you talkin about
Ahhh, man! And here I spent so much time in front of the tv on Sat. mornings
My ex and I were out for an evening stroll and I got to talking about the myth of bats flying into someones hair and getting trapped.
Suddenly a bat flew into her hair and got trapped. I immediately calmed her and carefully retrieved the poor thing. It flew away fine.
The fact that it happened right as I was saying it was truly surprising! In the end it was all good fun.
I'm sure it does happen. Bats can make mistakes, be old, sick, etc. but the myth is they're trying to make nests in someones hair. The myth never did stand up to scrutiny because 1) Making a nest in/on another living and moving animal wouldn't be a good place to make a nest & 2) Bats don't make nests in the first place.
Bat gang leader: He did it! Alright! Squeaky is in the club!
Note to self "Don't buy moth themed ear rings"
Same thing happened to my dad and I when we were going out for a dirt bike ride. He had just gotten a new old/used Honda and the drive up he was telling me about how reliable Hondas are and the brand was great.... Not 30min in he heard a little "tink" and couldn't go anywhere. Timing chain broke on the 30+ year old bike hahaha. He fixed it and it rode just fine after that, we still have a good laugh about it.
You cursed it by saying it would never happening and not touching wood immediately.
The porcupine was my favorite. When I was a kid, my cousins caught and tamed a young porcupine. Porcupine quills aren’t very sharp, so they won’t puncture your skin without considerable force. He had the run of the house, and liked being picked up and petted (the correct direction, of course).
I'm a bit surprised that you didn't mention that Mel Blanc, Bugs Bunny's first voice actor, was slightly allergic to carrots. They tried other things to bite on but nothing else made the proper carrot sound. So they saved that part of the record to the end of the session since his throat would start to swell when chewing it.
They couldn't let someone else bite the carrot? That seems pretty ridiculous. Did they not want to pay someone for a carrot bite? Would the producer or whatever not just do it and move on? How strange.
@@lolaartemis i think its because Bugs talks while chewing it. So the guy providing the voice had to be the one to bite it. Pretty horrible they made him do that though!
Poor guy
Some rabbits don’t even like carrots
Check this out on Snopes. It's not true. Mel Blanc wasn't allergic. He didn't particularly like carrots, but they were only a problem because they were hard to chew and swallow quickly while saying his lines. So, he bit, spit out the carrot, then talked.
cartoons aren't an accurate depiction of real life? who would have thought
That means coyotes are basically indestructible then. While roadrunners outsmart them everytime.
Indeed cartoons aren't. However anime is 100% accurate.
Laima Lama Kids, of course.
No. People do not get nosebleeds when they look at hot girls. Why won't that stupid myth just die?
Hey, a girl just told me that cartoons mess up with her eating disorder because the girls in there are so thin. Who knew that those are fictional characters, thus not real and have no real link to real life. Those are drawing and entertainment to me, not a model for life.
"Dairy is bad for cats"
Well, you tell my cat that. She keeps stealing our cheese and licking our whipped cream off our desserts.
Your cat may like it, but she doesn’t make the link between her diarrhea and that food she ate hours ago. A bit like humans eating a full bag of chips: we keep doing it because the effects are too far away from the cause…. But you know better…
Veterinarian here, good to see a vid where all the facts are correct, great job :D
I'll never know how she managed it. But my cat, who dearly loves milk things, fell to eating a sherbet-bowl-sized serving of vanilla ice cream I forgot to protect. I saw later that she had licked the entire serving!
I am very grateful she is none the worse for wear😱
No diarrhea or other harm, thank goodness!
The dairy in ice cream, yogurt, and cheese have been processed to make the product, so they actually don't have as much Lactose as plain milk does. Still should be careful though, she might try again!
@@crazycatlady39 Almost none in many cases. I'd be more worried about the sugar.
My family gave our cat around a teaspoon of vanilla ice cream every night for several years, and while that doesn't intuitively seem like it should be too bad in that amount, he wound up diabetic because of it. He had to have two shots of insulin per day, every day for around twelve or thirteen years, when he finally passed away.
Some animals keep producing lactase even as adults
@@ledumpsterfire6474 that sounds so American it made me shed a tear
@@steveweast475 Diabetes really is the great American past time, and sometimes our pets want a piece of the action.
i used to live in an apartment building where one of the tenants had a cat that would visit my apartment via the fire escape. one day, i saw my roommate giving it a dish of milk. apparently, he had been doing this for a while and would keep milk in the fridge just for the cat. when i told him that cats shouldn't drink milk, he looked at me like i was crazy, like "what are you talking about? of course cats drink milk." that cat was probably going back home to its owner with seemingly random diarrhea for months.
I grew up in Hungary. In Hungarian and other Eastern European cartoons (perhaps elsewhere, too), hedgehogs always carry their apples and pears on their spikes. No cartoon ever shows how they put those there or how they remove them, though :- )
Dairy loving/tolerant humans (like me) are descended from that group of people who survived better because they retained their lactase. Wild rabbits that get into my garden in winter, deliberately dig up many of the plants specifically to eat the roots.
I don't think I've ever met anybody who believes porcupines can launch their quills.
I've been told, maybe a hundred times, that people think porcupines can launch their quills, but I've never met any of the people who think that.
se7en
How the hell do you turn a video like this into a political comment? Yes, many Trump voters are uneducated, but that comment wasn't uneducated, it was just stupid.
Welp I’m one of those idiots then. Never seen a porcupine in my life though if that counts as an excuse
dragozal
You lost me. What idiots?
I believe he meant that he believed that porcupines could launch theire quills. Idiot indeed.
I'm as blind as a severely near sighted bat
Ian same
Preach
When I was a kid, I used to take my pet bunny outside and literally feed him grass. This horrified my mom, who would warn me not to. Now I see I was right, lol. (I was only doing it because it really intrigued me to watch him chomp it up. He especially liked the round grass with the seeds.) He had a really good diet, I see now. We gave him pellets and soft leafy greens as a treat, and he only got baby carrots occasionally. I thought, at the time, that my mom just really didn't want to waste carrots on the bunny, but now I think maybe she was following rabbit care instructions. I was in elementary school, so I didn't know to read up on rabbit care, and mostly just followed what my parents told me to do. My dad built him a cool rabbit coop in the backyard, too.
I knew all of these things were myths, or at least inaccurate, but I didn't know much of the details he went into. That bit about the porcupine quills going in easier than a hypodermic needle was really cool
WAIT, Rabbits eat their own poop? Who knew.
Biologists
We call it 'hrakaflay' and it's not weird.
People who own rabbits.
many species do this actually. And young animals often eat their mothers poop in order to seed their guts with the microbes needed to digest adult food properly. I know horses do this, and if baby koalas dont do this, then they are unable to digest the eucalyptus leaves that are their sole source of food....and they will die. I remember something about guinea pigs making different kinds of poop and only eating certain ones...and letting them eat their poop is really important for their health, but i dont remember the exact reason why...
orlendatube Hey thanks for that I learnt something new. I really appreciate replies like these and thus give you a thumbs up!
but foxes are still sly and smart right?
itaybron they are master escape artists.
This is common animal misconceptions not common animal characteristics in fables
itaybron o
No, they aren't as adaptive as Racoons and Bears who are natural generalists and evolved to be able to solve problens for the moment, they are even known for the way they can learn to open cans or junk boxes. Foxes for instance are cannivores, they are bond to a more specific behaviour.
itaybron of course! They have the benefits (and drawbacks) of both dogs and cats
My rabbit likes carrots, but he really goes crazy for apples. He once stole one out of my mom's lunch bag and ran away with it. It's like a kid eating a box of chocolate, though. They should live off of hay primarily followed by vegetables and a modest portion of pellets in most cases.
My parents never knew about bread being an issue, but they always used popcorn anyway. (I believe I also remember it being blander, less flavored popcorn? Not sure. It's been a long time.)
I'm glad for that every time I hear about the effect of bread on birds.
Popcorn is surely just as bad though, they are supposed to eat grasses and water weeds, not grains.
So the food portrayals WERE accurate in one aspect: the animals in question do indeed love these foods. They just needed to be portrayed as junk food rather than a healthy diet. A carrot as the rabbit equivalent of a candy bar sort of thing, or a cat with a milk addiction, etc.
You forgot to mention that the HAWWW! sound that eagles make is actually produced by hawks, eagles actually chirp.
@Star Knight - I am sure that they did "not forget". When a video is only 9 minutes long, they have to establish priorities.
So no milk for my cat got it, just lasagne then.
O_o Lasagnia has cheese in it. It would still make the cat sick. It is best not to feed it any dairy products. It is best to stick with cat food.
And coffee. Don't forget coffee. Also your cat hates Mondays.
Sorry Garfield; onions and garlic can cause things like anemia in cats! No Lasagna! And only Decaff coffee! Because they really can't handle caffeine -- they can get far more hyped up alot quicker with the same amount of caffeine that a person might not experience a reaction to do to tolerance from drinking it everyday.
Actually Winnie the Pooh is a great example of his species because he is a teddy bear. And I can say for sure that teddy bears love eating imaginary honey.
"It's like how dairy loving humans are the weird ones, not the norm." ... slayed
IAMNOTAPENGUIN was drinking a glass of milk when that was said... almost snorted it i laughed 😅
It just means we're more evolved, that's all. :P
Embrace the weirdness .
Some populations needed to evolve an adult tolerance to lactose because there were few other resources available in their native environments. Others didn't have this problem, so no solution was necessary. Having fewer mutations can be an equally effective evolutionary strategy, it just depends on the circumstances.
@@Beanzoboy there's no such thing as more evolved lol
Oh yeah and you can still touch birds and the mom will still accept it
read more y does this sound like child molestation
This one is so dumb, i dont get why everyone believes that. Birds pretty much cant smell!
@@madhatt3r93 I agree. Bird moms won't tell the difference, if someone touches thier baby.
@@madhatt3r93 I was told that it was so kids didn't disturb the nest or accidentally hurt the chick.
@@Jinka7 i guess that makes sense, but sometimes there really are situations where a baby bird or a fledgeling has to be moved, because it fell out too early or its in a dangerous place. I think we should just tell the truth: that you can move a baby bird if its in danger or fell out too early, but disturbing them otherwise is unkind and usually unnecessary. ☺
Okay two of this got me. First is the bee larvae thingy with the bears. I never thought of those when I think about bears' behaviour in the wild. Second is the carrot part. I know carrots are bad for rabbits, but never known the reason.
Thanks for an educational video! One thing you forgot is a hedgehog with an apple stuck in its needles - don't know about the US, but I Russian books it was omnipresent.
1. Bears go for the brood in bee hives, not honey
2. Cats lose ability to digest milk through age
3. Elephants can't drink through their trunks
4. Rabbits struggle to digest carrots
5. Birds shouldn't be fed bread
6. Ostriches don't bury their head in the ground when scared
7. Porcupines can't launch their quills
8. Bats are not all that blind and some can even see better than humans
Thank you ^_^
9. Roadrunners don't say "beep-beep".
10. Cats don't really hate Mondays.
I knew all 8 of these! Where do I pick up my medal?
Brandon, please do this to all videos.
Thanks.
And I hope CZcams will pay you for your efforts.
Thanks again
Another bat one that I was surprised to learn, though it totally makes sense; echo-locating bats don't catch the bug in their mouth.
Its too small a target, and if they missed by even a little bit, think of the risk; injury to an eye, nose, or ear. They get close and then twist to fan out the skin of the hands (wings). When they feel where they caught the bug, they turn their head to that spot on the skin and grab it.
See I wasn't sure about Winnie the pooh on account of how many bears I've seen running around with t shirts on lately. Luckily this cleared things up for me.
Best way to educate yourself about these animals is to help out in shelters, conservation sites, and really just thinking about how your actions impact animals on their health and home.
In fact, the majority of humans can't properly digest milk either. Roughly 65% to 70% of all humans and up to 95% in Asia*
* Lactase Non-persistence and Lactose Intolerance - PubMed 2017 May
Tiax Anderson nice citation, babies can digest a lot more though.
Which was explained in the video itself; mammal babies can but most adults of essentially every species lose that ability.
I cannnn. Chocholate milk
What does it mean that I can eat cheese and yogurt but milk gives me the hot shits
cheese and yogurt have alot less lactose or no lactose. You can drink lactaid which has an enyzme in it which already digested the milk sugars.
Yeah but Pooh is a yellow bear and Bugs Bunny is 6 ft. tall. So technically they're not part of their respective species in the first place.
The MSA well, when you think about it, pooh isn't even a bear he's a stuffed toy. He's referred to as such in the song 'something something something all stuffed with fluff!"
(I haven't heard it in awhile okay)
I am also fairly certain that pooh is a stuffed animal in the actual canon of the series.
Edit: Danae Kelly already pointed that out.
Bears can be yellow...or, more accurately, blond. Black bears come in all colors, black, brown, cinnamon, blond, blue-grey, white and even mixtures of those colors, like one old, cinnamon bear with a blond head that used to live up near the lakes not far from here.
If you count stuff like Space Jam, Bugs is only 4' tall (if you count the ears)
Woah.
Our cat:
- Licks residual soymilk from my bowl after I finish my oatmeal.
- Licks a bit of coconut milk yogurt off the edge of the container after I finish it.
- Licks regular dairy, like ice cream and yogurt.
She's never gotten sick from all this stuff. I don't know why she does this, especially since non-dairy products are _probably_ not good for cats. She's just a weird cat.
The Red Porcupine has the evolutionary advantage of being the most well-hidden taxidermized animal in that one display at the Royal Ontario Museum. 9 year old me spent so much time looking for it only to realize that it's over your head outside the display.
If you really enjoy feeding ducks and other water fowl, go to a pet shop. Duck pellets are ideal and you can buy in large quantities (even as big as a sack. Keep it dry though, not outside in a shed or where it can get mouldy), and take a pot of them to the park on each trip. Some parks in the UK have those machines which for a small amount of cash will dispense a large handful of them. It's by far the best stuff to feed them, and as said in the video, for the environment, and I wish more councils would supply them.
Re rabbits and carrots, totally agree, but what you can do is feed them the green shoots at the top (a tiny slice of the carrot holding them together isn't anything like as bad as a whole carrot). Give them something hard to chew on, though, or their teeth can overgrow and need clipping (same applies to just about all rodents). There should be something ideal at a pet shop or ask your vet.
Only thing I wouldn't want to try out in this video is the bear thing. Which would you try to get between? A bear and a pile of larvae or a bear and a bee-free honeycomb filled with honey? Personally, I wouldn't get close enough to try either out, but my instinct says that the honeycomb would be grabbed and taken to where the grubs are. The bear will keep an eye on them whilst enjoying the honey first. That's my guess anyway!
(One minor quibble - you put a 'parent's milk' in the bit about cats. I'm all for equality of the sexes and all, but it'd be a bloody miracle if a) the father had anything to do with the bringing up of kittens - some house cats _might_ but that's going to be rare, and b) since when do male mammals produce milk?! Not an insult to males of any mammalian species to say 'none'! Oh yes, and give them water to drink. Kibble isn't good for quenching thirst ;-) )
parent's = belonging to the parent.
parents' = plural, belonging to the parents.
I don't think there was anything wrong with his choice of words. He referenced the "mom" specifically before that sentence. Context English implies he would still be referring to the moms.
I love having Bats around Me. Less insects to bug Me
Yeah right. Wake up in the middle of the night with a bat sucking blood from your leg.
I’ll never forget about the lady I heard about who bought a toucan and almost killed it because all she offered it to eat was Fruit Loops...And I used to do educational programs about pet invertebrates (like tarantulas and scorpions) and it astounded me what people (and not just kids) believed about them just because they saw it on tv. There’s a LOT of things people will believe their whole lives just because they saw it on tv, about any given thing.
3:34 That's actually hilarious! Bugs' carrot habbit is a movie reference (which also is weird that its not a cigar, but an actually carrot) and modern day viewers assumed it was a rabbit diet reference, but we were just too young
The next thing you are going to say is that Michael Jordan didnt acctualy play for The Loonie Tunes
Maybe even say that turtles don´t like pizza!
he DID. He totally did.
@@istvansipos9940 Actually he didn't. MJ played for the Tune Squad team.
@@personaslates Toon. Squad Actually. The only music playing was Space Jam.
I was so confused by the bears don’t eat honey thing, but then I realised I was thinking about Sun Bears (aka Honey Bears) not Grizzlies or Brown Bears. Sun bears don’t need the fats and proteins for hibernation because they don’t hibernate. Honey still isn’t the primary part of their diet though.
It's a bit deceptive because grizzlies and brown bears love honey, they'll eat it if it's all there is. Just that the larvae is more valuable calorie-wise. Sun bears and sloth bears love larvae, not just bees but other insect species as well. They'll rip apart trees to get at termites. The long tongue is for licking up bugs and larvae stuck deep in logs.
As a beekeeper I know a bit about bees and bears, I've seen the damage bears can do. They missed the most valuable food in the hive, better then honey or larvae. The pollen. Pollen is 40% carbs and 35% protein, a lot more protein then larvae and it's got the carbs energy kick. Plus it's loaded with vitamins, minerals and all sorts of other stuff. An older hive can have a lot of pollen stored in it, especially in the tropics where the bees don't have to consume their stores over the winter.
If the bears get lucky there's also royal jelly, never a lot of it but it's got to be a treat. Of course humans, hunter gatherers, also eat the larvae along with the honey. It's only in modern times that beekeepers have gotten squeamish about eating all the goodies a bee hive has to offer. Plus I'd like to see the larvae grow into adult workers..
Sun bears are more resistant to bee stings than any other bear
@@krismichael1633 The video specifically mentioned brown and grizzly bears will eat honey if it is there and the larvae aren't. It is not deceptive at all.
@@dinkledankle Look at the text posted below the video. It says 'If you watched a lot of cartoons as a kid, chances are you picked up some common animal stereotypes like "cats love milk!" or "bears can't get enough of that sweet, sweet honey!" What if we told you that everything cartoons taught you is a lie!' This is what I am talking about.
When I was younger, I would walk through my park and see all the bats up in the trees. I would usually go around 7 or 8 o'clock at night and when I would see them, I would clap really loud and they would all come down and swarm around me. My sister told me that they would chase me if I did that so I tried it a few times just to see and sure enough, they actually would. But yeah, I also had no idea about a lot of animals being lactose intolerant. I would always give my cats milk to drink and they would go lay down afterwards and then have diarrhea. I never put two and two together to know it was the milk that was causing it. But I guess it's true that people hurt their animals trying to show their love for them. I saw a video that said that a lot of people unintentionally hurt their animals thinking they are doing something good for them but it actually turns out to hurt them. But that killed me knowing that I was the cause of my poor kitties pain, upset stomach and diarrhea. I'm glad I know now but it still hurts to know that I was hurting them not helping.
if it makes you feel better, we're pretty much constantly hurting people and animals either directly or through distantly related events
8:12 - this is my favorite drawing that I've seen of a bat Ever.
Cats can't drink kibble though.
It's solid
Is that a challenge?
No balls.
That bothered me too! I thought he was gonna say to give them water instead... I guess he was talking about milk as a source of food, not as a drink.
Which is why he said to stick to kibble AFTER the cat has been winged off milk...
I understand that the Honey Badger just doesn't give a Dam about Any of this, nope he doesn't care.
Regarding the bears and honey, has anyone tested what they are actually attracted to? I'm not questioning that the grubs are more nutritious but I wonder if it's the sugary smell or the bee buzz that attracts them in the first place. And if they relate to sweet food the way we do. If anyone has bears handy they should try experimenting with different honey boxes, like: 1 with a bee buzz emitting radio, 1 with a jar of honey, 1 with only grubbs etc.
I wondered that, too. I think he said they smell them, but what exactly do they smell? I would think that the honey probably has a stronger smell than he larvae, so maybe they smell honey and associate it with larvae.
My cat actually never lost his ability to digest lactose, which happens for a small minority of cats. He goes crazy over milk, and I'll give him a wee bit when I eat cereal. Vet said that small amount is just fine as long as it doesn't give him diarrhea, and it just makes him so happy :')
Can't believe Winnie the Pooh lied to me. I feel deceived.
MiYo I grew suspicious when I didn't see other bears wearing shirts.
Well, given the fact that Pooh has stuffing instead of flesh and bone, I don't think it really lied to you that much.
Winnie the Pooh didn't lie, he really does love honey!
And larvae!
So cats are lactose intolerant... as are almost all adult mammals, except for most humans, because we're weird enough that one of our ancestors pulled on a cow's nipple and drank the stuff that came out XD
IceMetalPunk most adult humans are lactose intolerant. Only descendants of certain nomadic groups are no longer lactose intolerant
And most of these nomadic groups were from Europe and the Middle East.
So that's why I can drink two litters a day at 42......... so I googled and found this.
Around 10,000 B.C. a genetic mutation appeared, somewhere near modern-day Turkey, that jammed the lactase-production gene permanently in the “on” position. The original mutant was probably a male who passed the gene on to his children. People carrying the mutation could drink milk their entire lives. Genomic analyses have shown that within a few thousand years, at a rate that evolutionary biologists had thought impossibly rapid, this mutation spread throughout Eurasia, to Great Britain, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, India and all points in between, stopping only at the Himalayas. Independently, other mutations for lactose tolerance arose in Africa and the Middle East, though not in the Americas, Australia, or the Far East.
IceMetalPunk but what about milk can cause acne to some people?
Milk and dairy products cause an insulin spike in humans that cause the liver to produce even more IGF-1, leading to even more acne. ... - more clogged pores, more acne, and a breeding ground for P. acnes bacteria, which feed on your sebum and spew out inflammatory by-products.
"Birdbrain" or "eats like a bird"
Birds are very intelligent and they eat a lot.
I’d say a characteristic of the way many birds eat is that they are messy. I think more seeds get thrown all over than what they actually eat. Forget about eating “like a pig.”
"Turns out bears don't want to eat honey."
"They don't?"
"They want to eat babies."
my biggest pet peeve is the misconception of cheetah's being speed gods. I love cheetahs, but god damn people don't understand just how much they give up for their speed. They cant just sprint and sprint and sprint. They have to rest a good bit after a chase, and if they don't get anything after it then they're in trouble.
PopeKurt yea but they're like... Really fast...
Yup, it costs them a lot of energy to do it
But this is pretty much true of anything that is fast. Even in the man-made world. Fast airplanes consume tons of fuel, and need vast support infrastructures. Sounds familiar... ;)
You're making it sound like Cheetahs made a huge mistake by picking the "go fast" button during evolution finals.
@@LayneBenofsky Cheetah's are low tier trash cats.
PopeKurt yeah they actually get most of what they want
The rabbit thing completely blew my mind! I figured that if that was a misconception it would have to be an incredibly old one, but no, Bugs Bunny and dated pop culture references! Makes you think twice about making that super-relevant Geostorm joke now, huh?
Numbuh1NerdX , also, mice aren't big into cheese.
Maybe it's the lactose.
For one, I never really questioned it or gave it much thought. Of course, I never thought that all rabbits survived exclusively on carrots, but I assumed that rabbits living near farms and such would consistently go after carrots, and that, y'know, wild carrots were a thing. I'm not exactly a leading expert on produce
I live in Ohio, and one night, I actually got to hear bats clicking at night. It was pretty neat ngl. And basically I don't live right next to town so I can actually see the stars at night and be able to hear nature at its finest.
I live out in the NH woods, & was recording the sound of late summer katydids one night (it's an audiophile thing). Upon slowing the audio down (another audiophile thing - try it with bird calls), I could hear a very faint squeaking I couldn't identify. I wonder if I'd captured the sound of bats hunting....?
@@lesnyk255 that's pretty cool! And possibly could have been bats hunting.
Went camping with my boyfriend and his family about a year ago and at night you could see the bats flying above swooping to get insects..it was a truly beautiful sight! They weren't at our camp spot every night (probably migrated around the entire camp area from camp site to camp sit) but the nights they were we had no problems with misquitos
the image of a huge ostrich trying to blend into the surroundings is just too stupidly funny it made me giggle for 5 mins
"It's like how dairy-loving humans are the weird ones."
Ed: *screaming in the distance*
But what about picnic baskets?
Yes, smarter than average, hat and tie wearing bears will go for picnic baskets.
Two-Face Picnic basket raiding is definitely a real thing and a fed bear is a dead bear because bears become dangerous when they associate humans with food. I'm guessing you already knew that though and were just joking.
That one's actually not too far off. When camping where bears are known to live it is always wise to keep your food in something that won't leak the smell and in a location a bear can't get at it, like suspended high up. They will raid camp grounds and they'll tear open coolers and even break into parked cars to get food they smell there.
a bear will try to eat the foot inside it if it gets the chance.
it's the same reason that if you camp out in bear country that you never store food next to or inside of your tent.
I was once paid to design a shirt that read "A fed bear is a dead bear." I live in a forest town, so residents having to pick up garbage and trash bins after bears come calling is not unheard of. I, myself, have done it; picking up dirty diapers off the road and wondering what in blazes the bear thought was going to be in the bin.
2:03 I really appreciate the use of "their parent's mammary glands" instead of "their mother's mammary glands". A little bit of implicit inclusivity there, I dig it!
I actually knew all of these 🙂 except the one about ostrich's hiding their heads. I didn't really think they did that but didn't know how that myth came to be. It makes perfect sense.
Soooo.... Rabbits eat their own poop.... that's the major takeaway I got from this O,O.....
there are two kinds of herbivores: those whom have microbes break down fibres before the intestine, and those whom must run the food through again.
It's not the same as if we ate our own poop - we don't have a cecum or emit cecotropes.
About all rodents do actually
It's not that much different than what cows do...
Next thing they’re going to tell us is dogs don’t even like dog food
That's why they're always begging for human food from the dinner table.
8:08 just reminds me about the Echolocation song from JumpStart, even the sound wave colours are similar. I swear it's a reference. And now I need to listen to the song again :P
I give my cats lactose free milk occasionally :3 usually in the form of artificial cat milk and sometimes in lactose free milk usually given to lactose intolerant ppl but cat milk is better since there is more nutrients for the adorable fluff balls
Why not feed them a live mouse/frog/bird you caught in your yard? That's a treat for a cat.
"They can't drink water through their nose anymore than you can. Don't try that by the way."
*Tide Eaters* : "Hold my beer"
Great episode👍
Lol bats don't fly into your hair? I used to think that was a myth too until an insect eating bat collided with my head when I was walking back from the bathroom one night while camping. Echolocation is super cool, but its far from perfect 😂
Rabbits have been seen eating the leafy bits/the plant part on a carrot, rarely they will eat roots.
However, domestic rabbits will pretty much eat anything you hand them. My rabbit has stolen my bag of chips before and ate a few before I could grab back. She will turn her nose at carrots though. They're like sugar water to rabbits.
I see wild rabbits just loving dandelion stalks. They eat them like poki sticks
Ssoooo will I have to keep giving this damn mouse a cookie
Ostrich nests a meter deep? That's not what that picture shows!
Nope. He said "about two meters wide and a meter deep." There was no "up to" in there.
R3Testa - A) likely not all of them dig exactly the same size holes, or 2) it might be a matter of camera angle and perspective. Ostrich eggs are enormous, yet the pile in that nest didn't seem all that large.
Dude, how did pigs not get on this list? They're ultra hygenic, super athletic when allowed to maintain themselves, and are very intelligent!
I think this information should be spread to every single animal lover.. I can't even seem to fathom the amount of damage 'animal lovers' must have done to animals unintentionally by feeding them wrong food..
the only thing here I did believe was that bears enjoyed honey and rabbits regularly ate carrots
at the wild live centre i noticed that most rabbits prefer kale or chicory much more then carrots.
you can also make them very happy with twigs. leaves and fresh bark
Domestic rabbits will happily eat carrots if you offer them because they do like the sweet taste, but as the video says, too many will give them GI troubles. TBH they love bananas more than carrots though.
Common Animal Myths are for the weak
Angry Old Hank Green , I recommend standing on yer front porch an' yellin' at things an' stuff.
Omg wut
The most common animal myth is that Hank Green can't rip a tank in half with his bare hands.
Muscle Hank how are you always top comment
Massimo O'Kissed LMAO!
I would love a book with a super porcupine that CAN fire quills and comments that is NOT normal for porcupines!
the people on sci show should do every youtube sci video. danielle on animal logic is on same level
*I actually have drank through my nose, it was really weird but I could still taste and it didn't hurt*
Teach me your technique
Darth Plagueis? Can you hear me Master?
@@rokibeeskiroodroki9018 Suck it in as though you're trying to hock a loogie, then from there you can just swallow it.
So what about mice eating cheese?
Malidictus mice will eat almost anything so technically yes
Oh, I get that. I had a rat in my house a few years ago, and it took bites out of a watermelon, my furniture and the bottom of a solid wood door. Like how bears WILL eat honey even if it doesn't constitute the majority of their diet, mice will neither over-focus on cheese not be specifically drawn to it. From what I understand, they're more drawn to grain and such.
THANK YOU for exposing these myths! Horses also have cecums and shouldn't eat carrots or fruits or sweets because that destroys the laminae in their hooves and ruins their feet.
Roosters don't only crow at dawn. They make that noise all the time