Animal Behavior - CrashCourse Biology #25

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  • čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
  • Hank and his cat Cameo help teach us about animal behavior and how we can discover why animals do the things they do.
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Komentáře • 633

  • @TheFireflyGrave
    @TheFireflyGrave Před 10 lety +268

    Vampire Bats regurgitating blood into the mouths of their comrades is somehow both heartwarming and terrifying. So thanks for that.

    • @cordless157
      @cordless157 Před 4 lety +4

      I bet when we shoot a bunch of bombs into the air because of an important date (July 4th) Dogs must have the same thought.

  • @sealuck99
    @sealuck99 Před 8 lety +275

    I have a Biology exam tomorrow and these videos are saving my life

    • @sionnach9946
      @sionnach9946 Před 7 lety

      D.N. K.

    • @BeanDar
      @BeanDar Před 6 lety +1

      D.N. K. Gay

    • @cordless157
      @cordless157 Před 4 lety

      @@BeanDar why do you have to say that, it's just another comment on the internet.

    • @BeanDar
      @BeanDar Před 4 lety

      @@cordless157 Look here bud, you better get back to your own stepping grounds. Mind your own turf

    • @cordless157
      @cordless157 Před 4 lety

      😂 That escalated real quick

  • @afroteddybear
    @afroteddybear Před 10 lety +269

    Green's cat, not to be confused with Pavlov's dog.

    • @AJChegs
      @AJChegs Před 10 lety +10

      I see what you did there

  • @SciShow
    @SciShow Před 12 lety +158

    the SciShow team also produces the CrashCourse Biology videos... we're the same people!

    • @ygatesatellite4964
      @ygatesatellite4964 Před 6 lety +2

      I can across your video on Turbo Feline Roadmap - there's many great videos there that will help out

    • @stefanreckmann6072
      @stefanreckmann6072 Před 4 lety +18

      *OK* , SciShoww.... Nobody asked you...

  • @crashcourse
    @crashcourse  Před 12 lety +11

    There is a video on dreaming planned for the SciShow channel. Look for it there in September!

  • @JillLikesCheese
    @JillLikesCheese Před 12 lety +28

    Through the whole video, I couldn't help thinking, "When does Cameo get a treat?"

  • @angelinafiera3998
    @angelinafiera3998 Před 9 lety +79

    A note on those South American vampire bats; they also exhibit tit-for-tat. In a somewhat cruel experiment, researched grabbed some bats leaving the nest and injected their sacs with air using a syringe and shoved them back in the nest. To their neighbors, these bats appeared to be engorged, having lots of blood to share, but this was only an illusion so the bat doesn't feed the other's babies. In return, the other mothers won't feed the babies of the bat perceived as not sharing with the others.

  • @nikec40
    @nikec40 Před 12 lety +24

    You can explain things in 10 min better than my ethology professor in few hours. Thank you :)

  • @knobtwista
    @knobtwista Před 10 lety +19

    *I loved this episode!*
    Thanks Hank and the producers, there really isn't much to find about Ethology on the net. I have an important project in school next week and this really saved me a lot of time.

  • @Pankomputerek
    @Pankomputerek Před 12 lety +14

    I've been in Hank's living room. It's like we're friends now.

  • @sarahhinde9398
    @sarahhinde9398 Před 10 lety +12

    Hank, you are my new hero! I teach an animal studies class and I have only just discovered CrashCourse and I am in LOVE!! You make these topics exciting to learn about and easy to understand. I cannot thank you enough for sharing your wonderful brain with the world! :)

  • @GhostRaven
    @GhostRaven Před 11 lety +10

    Thank you to Cameo for making a cameo

  • @TheElizabethP
    @TheElizabethP Před 10 lety +13

    Hank you are awesome. Great job with your Team on these videos. I appreciate your hard work in this crash course. Keep up the great work.

  • @sneebo1
    @sneebo1 Před 12 lety +9

    You had me at: "My cat" :3 Also the fact that Crashcourse Biology is always fascinating BUT MOSTLY KITTY =^.^=

  • @GabeNewellDFTBA
    @GabeNewellDFTBA Před 9 lety +98

    Chicks dig nerds that can dance? Ladies...

    • @KyleThum
      @KyleThum Před 9 lety +8

      YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Step 1: look good and step 2: know how to dance

    • @GabeNewellDFTBA
      @GabeNewellDFTBA Před 9 lety +6

      Kyle Thum I'm 1 for 2, and it isn't the first one...

    • @enaszaq3051
      @enaszaq3051 Před 4 lety

      i'm mean, its not a lie so...

  • @perandreassvensson
    @perandreassvensson Před 10 lety +11

    Hi. Great video!
    Although I have a couple of comments.
    First - I would say that the 2 main tasks in an animals life is Survival and Reproduction, where finding food is but one part of survival. In fact, I would boil it down to just one: Reproduction, as all other behaviors ultimately serves reproduction, and without it, no other traits will be passed on.
    Second. You make the same mistake as many of my students: mixing up Tinbergens question 3 ( adaptive value) and 4 (evolutionary history). Your explanation for question 4 is actually an answer to question 3. An answer to question 4 could be something like: "Pheromones are used by many types of mammals and is likely to have evolved long ago... however, the specific sex pheromone used by this hamster is unique for this species, thus it is a fairly recent modification to the smell, possibly as a means to avoid interbreeding with other hamster species". In other words: question 4 asks to what extent the behavior could be explained as a a phylogenetic "leftover" from evolution acting on ancestors.
    /Andreas (Lecturer in Ethology and Behavioral Ecology)

    • @perandreassvensson
      @perandreassvensson Před 8 lety +1

      The History (or Phylogeny) - question has to do with the evolutionary past of the animal. One example is goosebumps - there is probably no Function for this in humans. But seeing how animals with their fur intact use the same reflex to fluff their coat when chilly, shows that the History explanation is key to understanding why humans have this behaviour.

    • @neq7141
      @neq7141 Před 4 lety +1

      ok boomer

  • @jargonwins5710
    @jargonwins5710 Před rokem +3

    fastest way to feel old on the internet. rewatching the first crash course video you saw lol.

  • @DoubleTrouble2015
    @DoubleTrouble2015 Před 10 lety +51

    What kind of cat is cameo? She is very fluffy :D

  • @justinhogg3884
    @justinhogg3884 Před rokem

    Taking this as a class in my next and final semester before earning a BS in Wildlife Conservation & Biology and this was a wonderful introduction / crash course. Thank you!

  • @blondeleo16
    @blondeleo16 Před 12 lety +3

    Aw, Cameo. What a gorgeous cat!

  • @Scarlet_Gryphon
    @Scarlet_Gryphon Před 12 lety +2

    D'awww... Lemon and Cameo are so dang adorable... The video was awesome as well.

  • @camiiii_-.
    @camiiii_-. Před 9 lety +22

    your dog is so cute! I paid attention tho, i promise! :)

  • @CassandraKarlberg
    @CassandraKarlberg Před 12 lety +2

    This was the first crashcourse episode I've watched and I just have to say that this is brilliant. Thank you very much.

  • @TransGuyOnTheFly
    @TransGuyOnTheFly Před 4 lety +1

    The way he acts with animals and insects is adorable LOL

  • @Balrenn
    @Balrenn Před 12 lety +2

    Your cat would make a great intro to random X inactivation and the tortoise shell / calico coat color!

  • @PetarVasilevX
    @PetarVasilevX Před 7 lety +73

    "The only two things that matter - eating and sex" is a rather sad statement...

  • @OlleLindestad
    @OlleLindestad Před 12 lety +2

    Suicide is very rare, when you think about it, and it was probably virtually unheard of during most of our evolution. It's hard to imagine a hunter-gatherer being depressed enough to take her life; she'd be too busy running from lions and the like. I'm guessing the selective pressure against suicide has simply been too low for evolution to do anything about it.
    Mind you, lots of animals commit suicide for adaptive reasons, like honeybees, but that's a different story.

  • @Layla5915
    @Layla5915 Před 12 lety +17

    I LOVE YOUR CAT!!! you're officially my favorite person!!!!! love the show :)

  • @simranjackson
    @simranjackson Před 11 lety +3

    Despite this being a very interesting episode, all I want to say is that Lemon and Cameo are so adorable

  • @marzipants777
    @marzipants777 Před 8 lety +15

    Lemon, we miss you!

  • @TheBasikShow
    @TheBasikShow Před 12 lety

    If "animal behavior" is doing something that simply helps you survive and reproduce, then the definition of sentience is finding an activity more desirable than survival.
    I'm so glad that I'm sentient.

  • @ZoggFromBetelgeuse
    @ZoggFromBetelgeuse Před 12 lety +1

    Can't wait! I recently made a video about dreaming based on my own observations of earthlings. I wonder whether my hypotheses match with earthlings theories.

  • @dolphin64575
    @dolphin64575 Před 12 lety +1

    It's a Cameo cameo! and a Lemon cameo!
    Hey, why does my kitten chase her tail? I'm scared she's going to get hurt becomes sometimes she does it on stairs and then falls down them which is adorable, but worrying.

  • @TheChrisBooey
    @TheChrisBooey Před 12 lety +1

    You make learning fun. I could literally listen to you all day. You rock...

  • @darrenpellichino2923
    @darrenpellichino2923 Před 9 lety +12

    These behaviorists are using the archaic notions of the past Hank. I'm really glad you weeded out the instinct driven reasoning for animal behavior, but the focus on stimulus needs to be down played. Of course stimulus of the animals senses gives them the ability to understand their world their personality and emotional state are still the drivers to their behavior.
    When we put the labels on a fluid system like animal life we are only making generalized assumptions. For example why do we call herbivores plant eaters when they all have been noted to eat animals as well. Cows on farms eat little kittens and chicks. White tailed deer eat fledgelings right out of nests and cats can live on a 70% corn diet. The preferences of animals as a species is a loose guideline on the individual level. So the actual individualistic differences of every animal are in fact the behavior controls.
    Like the male hamster running to mate, do you realize you have to take in account all the males who smelled the pheromone and did not run to mate. Not taking a course of action is just as important as taking a course of action. I have devoted nearly all of my adult life to this subject and have found some very amazing research experiments along the way. Just the fact that animals have different personalities is more profound that most are realizing.

    • @jadyn2446
      @jadyn2446 Před 6 lety

      Darren Pellichino links to your research?

    • @billsonezaki5469
      @billsonezaki5469 Před 5 lety

      Hey, I understand this response is 3 years late, but any way you could recommend or link some of these research pieces/ experiments for people interested in this kind of thing?

  • @itsjustbree9267
    @itsjustbree9267 Před 4 lety +2

    Aaaaah Lemon... I am feeling all the feels...

  • @Shenruss
    @Shenruss Před 11 lety

    Just the visual of hamster skiddaling in preparation for boot knocking was the worth the price of admission to this video

  • @bobbiwib
    @bobbiwib Před 9 lety +1

    I also knew a long-haired tortoiseshell called Cameo that deserved constant attention.
    Let's just say if she finds a long-lost sister called Bloomer, Bloomer is gonna be pissed.

  • @JunohProductions
    @JunohProductions Před 12 lety

    CATS ARE AWESOME!!! That's really all I need to say, the show is awesome but everybody here should already know that.

  • @cbpsd
    @cbpsd Před 11 lety

    Salaam to Hank Green. You are awesome teacher. One of my fav teacher. Thanks

  • @GirlAcrossTheWorld
    @GirlAcrossTheWorld Před 8 lety +2

    It's a Cameo cameo! :D

  • @Running_with_Faith
    @Running_with_Faith Před 12 lety +1

    OMG! You have a greyhound

  • @ChibiChibi310
    @ChibiChibi310 Před 12 lety

    A Cameo cameo! Those are the best!

  • @EmmaLiza
    @EmmaLiza Před 11 lety +1

    I would just like to state my appreciation for the increase in the cute animal quota.

  • @TheBaibai26
    @TheBaibai26 Před 12 lety +1

    Aw, Lemon and Cameo are so cute! :)

  • @debb12345
    @debb12345 Před 8 lety +3

    HELL YES I DIG NERDS WHO CAN LEARN DANCES
    Love Crash Course!

  • @AleneRay
    @AleneRay Před 6 lety

    Thanks Hank! You're a better teacher than my university lecturer

  • @Zile.e
    @Zile.e Před 12 lety

    Cameo is like my grandmother's late cat, Piika. Bless, she looked so much like Cameo... it's odd now since Piika's gone.

  • @Kennessee
    @Kennessee Před 12 lety

    I was saying he was "scratching" an itch. You can't Itch and itch. Some people say it but it is a very informal way of saying it.

  • @DoeiDenise
    @DoeiDenise Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you to Cameo for the cameo

  • @AbiTheElephant
    @AbiTheElephant Před 12 lety +1

    I believe in the first episode, he defined Biology as being 'all about sex and not dying.'

  • @Sneha-Anatra
    @Sneha-Anatra Před 8 lety +1

    Hank, you're the reason i'm going to get a good grade in biology

  • @rominacerati
    @rominacerati Před 10 lety +30

    Why is your neck red? Hmmm

  • @saltandhash
    @saltandhash Před 12 lety

    Regarding Bower Birds, many would argue that they do not collect garbage, but aggregate piles of trinkets with specific and unifying aesthetic characteristics. lol

  • @StapleToothTiger
    @StapleToothTiger Před 12 lety +1

    Thanks for reminding me to feed my cat. Sometimes it's hard to tell if he's begging for some food or just being super affectionate because of how much he loves me. Now to wait a few minutes for him to barf up his tasty treats because he always eats too fast. *sigh*

  • @UrsusCetacea
    @UrsusCetacea Před 12 lety

    Separate comment for this. Communication occurs where animals transfer information, not necessarily talking, humans also use body language, tone and writing as well as speech. Animal communication could be codified into a 'language' e.g. ground squirrel signals for different predators. If directed communication is required then animals will be physically able to, if not then they won't. It's not that they're stupid, just that they don't need to, we're not weak because we can't lift tree trunks.

  • @harikrishnanreghu929
    @harikrishnanreghu929 Před 8 lety +6

    Aah what to say.. Amazing videos.. Thanks a lot...

  • @cordless157
    @cordless157 Před 4 lety +2

    1:12 Can we just accept the fact that the dog simply looks depressed

  • @Chiang_Dragonfire
    @Chiang_Dragonfire Před 11 lety +1

    I'm so glad you made an animal behavior video.. I'm gonna major in this!

  • @Drowninginantimatter
    @Drowninginantimatter Před 11 lety

    No, you can do anything you want, Marty, you are an awesome human being.

  • @GarrigKitten
    @GarrigKitten Před 12 lety

    A cat named Cameo? Total win

  • @999is666upsidedown
    @999is666upsidedown Před 11 lety

    And that is why this word --> "Plasticity" has the word plastic in it. It means the ability for the brain to change. Certain brain structures produce certain actions. Ex: So if an animal has a small hippocampal region, it probably wont remember very well, so it would go off exploring, forget its way back, and die.

  • @brennancattermole3898
    @brennancattermole3898 Před 4 lety

    Wow...used this guy in my GCSEs when he was at sci show and now im taking my animal behaviour at uni and he STILL is useful😂

    • @joashalom
      @joashalom Před 4 lety

      Brennan Cattermole How are you doing in uní? Any advice? I’m thinking about the same pathway, but need advice and help because I’m still not exactly sure what to do.

  • @TheKFinance
    @TheKFinance Před 12 lety

    Canadian Geese! I live a stones throw from the lack in my city and there are so many of them. They are also really loud!

  • @CourageousCaleigh
    @CourageousCaleigh Před 12 lety +1

    What an adorable kitty! XD

  • @UrsusCetacea
    @UrsusCetacea Před 12 lety

    The reason for Hymenoptera being so altruistic is that they are haplodiploidy which means the determine sex by either being a fertilised egg or an unfertilised one which gives females twice the genetic information of a male, it also makes them more related to their sisters (All workers are female) than to their potential children. This makes it very beneficial to help sisters and is the reason they are communal and social insects. So that explains why they are altruistic.

  • @Kyermemehtar
    @Kyermemehtar Před 12 lety

    Kudos to all the ladies promoting intelligence as an evolutionary trait!

  • @MaticGabor
    @MaticGabor Před 10 lety +3

    his cat is da*n awesome!

  • @JBLHPJ
    @JBLHPJ Před 12 lety

    Hank, I think you should talk about the relationships in which animals and plants need to live, a 'micro-world' if you will. especially those in the Galapagos islands and talk about how many external factors like the weather and sea temperatures play a crucial role in shaping said relationships.

  • @dovigreenspan1338
    @dovigreenspan1338 Před 8 lety +4

    What is the difference between Morphology and anatomy?

  • @PrimroseFrost
    @PrimroseFrost Před 12 lety

    Most dogs aren't latched in their crates very often, and there are a lot of benefits to having one. First, it gives the dog a place where they can go if they feel stressed. Second, it's a convenient place for a bed, which also ties in with making the animal feel comfortable. Thirdly, if there's an emergency or a dangerous situation, you can put them in their crate and latch them in there until everything's been dealt with. For instance, it's really useful if you need to clean up broken glass.

  • @jsredrose
    @jsredrose Před 12 lety

    Such a beautiful cat.

  • @UrsusCetacea
    @UrsusCetacea Před 12 lety

    As a stop-gap until these videos are made, I may be able to help. There isn't much of a 'hive-mind' for the cooperative breeders such as the Hymenoptera (Bees, ants, and the like). If you're interested, look into the evolution of emergent behaviours. Each ant works to do what it's own impulses tell it to do and when you look at the colony it seems as though the whole thing is working together (Same thing with flocks of birds flying in unison). So yeah, emergent properties, not hive mind.

  • @covac45
    @covac45 Před 12 lety

    "That may be the proximal cause of our journey, but we both know it only exists in contradistinction to the higher level distal cause."

  • @LunarMaira
    @LunarMaira Před 12 lety +2

    Watching you not give that cat a treat for ten minutes was one of the most agonizing things I have ever endured.

  • @kalifusch
    @kalifusch Před 12 lety +1

    Aw little Lemon in the background! :D Hallo, herpaderpapotomus!

  • @marihome4834
    @marihome4834 Před 7 lety +1

    Loving your video was very useful for my veterinary technician studies :) thanks!

  • @thedaytontriangle3448

    I wish good luck to Hank

  • @enialis02
    @enialis02 Před 12 lety +1

    Fantastic as always Hank!

  • @FelicianoR
    @FelicianoR Před 12 lety

    You helped me so much on the AP bio exam. You don't even know.
    So Thanks!

  • @OlleLindestad
    @OlleLindestad Před 12 lety

    Oh, sorry, I see how that sounded confusing. Radiation is the geographic spread and genetic divergence of a species into many lineages. Human radiation was very rapid (we went worldwide within 100,000 years), so we haven't had time to develop much genetic divergence. :)

  • @zoeredadams
    @zoeredadams Před 12 lety +1

    Awwwwww! Dat kitty is so kyoooooot! Sorry - I'm helpless to anything fluffy.

  • @Puzzler363
    @Puzzler363 Před 12 lety

    Thanks I'll look into that. There are behaviours in colonies, though, that lie outside self-interest and I think are unique to hives, aren't there? I'm thinking:
    1) Responding to pheromones that other ants are under attack.
    2) When they form this lattice of ants and somehow decide where they are going to make their next home.
    3) How you can end up with the different roles the ants in a colony have
    4) Bees dying to sting a threat
    I'd also love to know what hive animals' non-hive ancestors were.

  • @WCOBDisorder
    @WCOBDisorder Před 12 lety +1

    I know I'm learning some pretty cool stuff, but for half the video I was just thinking:
    Nice house you've got there.

  • @Tinhaization
    @Tinhaization Před 12 lety +1

    awww cameo :)

  • @ChibiChibi310
    @ChibiChibi310 Před 12 lety

    Crash Course videos are pretty scheduled as to their content. I'd ask the SciShow channel about a Lucid Dreaming video

  • @Uncephalized
    @Uncephalized Před 12 lety

    I responded to the external stimulus of seeing a kitteh and the internal stimulus of loving kittehs by yelling KITTEH before I even knew what I was doing...

  • @CatherineWoofsHallam
    @CatherineWoofsHallam Před 6 lety

    Interesting video that makes this area simple and relevant

  • @nooknerd1
    @nooknerd1 Před 12 lety

    YES!!!! I study animal behavior for fun, so this was awesome!!!

  • @sometimesisetfires
    @sometimesisetfires Před 12 lety +1

    yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!! thank you so much for doing a video on behavior :)

  • @myersa80
    @myersa80 Před 12 lety

    It's possible, but it's only in one spot on his spine, just a few inches behind his tail! Also if you stick your hand in front of his face whilst doing this he starts bathing/biting it.

  • @melanyebaggins
    @melanyebaggins Před 12 lety

    why does Hank saying 'boot knockin'' make me laugh so damn much? ^^;

  • @Poplopo
    @Poplopo Před 12 lety

    Radiation - spreading out and dispersing into different places. Not irradiation, which is what happens when something is radioactive.

  • @bonjoviisdaking
    @bonjoviisdaking Před 12 lety +1

    More videos with cats in them! More!

  • @yell0wducks
    @yell0wducks Před 12 lety

    I'm acting altruistically by linking my classmates Hank's videos.

  • @iCellrocker
    @iCellrocker Před 12 lety

    Been subscribed since episode one, but this is the first episode I've seen. It wasn't bad

  • @uiytresen346
    @uiytresen346 Před 6 lety +9

    Bower birds?
    wait for it ... BECKY, LEMME SMASH!

  • @JohanKristo
    @JohanKristo Před 12 lety

    Nature is awesome

  • @emvln92
    @emvln92 Před 12 lety

    HANK you're turning in to john in this video.....you would go FOREVER without blinking :P

  • @TheMissTokita
    @TheMissTokita Před 11 lety

    This is really great. I'm doing an essay on ethology and this will help so much.