The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi
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Plants are constantly under attack. They face threats ranging from microscopic fungi to small herbivores like caterpillars, up to large herbivores like elephants. But plants are ready, with a whole series of internal and external defenses that make them a less appealing meal - or even a deadly one. Valentin Hammoudi explains some of the fascinating ways that plants defend themselves.
Lesson by Valentin Hammoudi, directed by Juan M. Urbina Studios.
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Well I don’t have money right now because I’m using it on taking care of my turtle!
Only 11 likes in 3 weeks
I am 11
ayyyyyyy already put $100
Plants start with +10 defense and +15 alchemy, but no speed.
nice
Robert Perez Ohh, thats why they always get chosen for guilds.
Robert Perez they only got 0.10 speed because they are just slow
Mr Spelly grand kingdom
Robert Perez... Nice those are pretty nice skills... A tanky cleric plant... Im making that a joke in my next campaign
I guess plants vs. zombies was actually acurate
🥗🥗😨😖
Accurate*
Guess these plants evolved from the plants from the video
vegans/vegetarians have some similarities
zombies spread diseases
some vegans spread information
in the game they both eat plants
so ye
stop
Peppers has capsaicin to defend against predators.
Humans:mmm delicious
ghost pepper: hold my beer
@@glowstonemine Should be
Ghost pepper : hold my capsacin
Carolina reaper: *"You doubt my CAPSAICIN"*
@@lizlee8715 heat freaks: _what?_
yea doesnt mean its good for u
Plant : Oh I will make this chemical to help me survive better!
Humans : OHHHH SPICES!!!
*when you become spicy to make humans not like you but it backfires*
@@youtubeguy415 we could help out the plant in a way. Simply pooping outside XD the circle of life! We eat the plant for its spices, we poop outside, the soil takes it as fertiliser for the spice plants, more spice plants grow and the cycle repeats.
@@nekowolf2336 We are already helping the plant out by properly caring for it, cultivating it, and making use its seeds actually go in the ground and become proper plants themselves, which we give the same treament to.
It's an unintentional way for plants to avoid extinction. Once humans find a good use for a plant and begin cultivating it, that plant is very unlikely to ever go extinct. Look at tomatoes. It would take an act of God or the extinction of humans to make the tomato plant run the risk of going extinct.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja Bananas would like to have a word with you
Caterpillars: "Mmmmm, cotton."
Cotton: "Yo wasps, can we get an assist here?"
The Cotton had the Wasps as a Killstreak
The wasps are the cotton's shootas
calling in wasp backup now
More like "hey wasps the meal's here"
Wasps are mercenaries
Plants: *Creates defenses to protect itself. *
Humas: *Eats them anyways*
Plants: Am I a joke to you?
Different defense, diffirent seasoning
god thinks that plants are a joke
jk save the amazone trees
Sorry it’s them vegans
"humas"
Ah yes, the mighty humas
Humans: we discovered long distance communication systems.
Plants: Hold my air borne chemical messengers.
100th like 😊
and underground system too
Brilliant!
Koala: only eats eucalyptus leaves
TED Ed: shows koala trying to eat a random sapling
I was looking for this😂
Well, exactly explained why Koala doesn't eat anything else aside from eucalyptus
@@gabrielraboy5359 cuz thats all they can eat or something in Australia
What if it's a eucalyptus sapling
stock animation, no correlation to the talk, yet childish and affordable
Here's what i learned something new,
Plants can communicate.
Plants are electric and grass type
Ability :static
some are grass and poison types
some are grass-bug types
Plants are pokemon
@@herrscherofsweets9583 you don't have a pokéball, do you?
( *LIE LIE LIE LIE* ) uh.... no...* *hides pokeball* *
Koalas, elephants, turtles:
We:awwww sooo cute!
plants: CTHULHU!!!!!
Reila Murray I
Hypocrisy at its finest.
Olive Parkinson ?
Reila Murray lol 😂
Reila Murray LoL is that nvm
weed: *makes amazing neurological defense*
humans: *harvest weed for its neurological defense*
weed: do I look like a joke to you?
its "am I a joke to you"
@@dtm934 Anoop Fogg yenCHers e hat
dtm yess weed is a pretty good joke
@@dtm934 give him a break,the lad doesnt have a master's in memeology
*Mission Failed
3:55 Even plants self-quarantine, guys. STAY INSIDE
lmao🤣
@Kavya Murthy Yes me too
Plants quarantine better than the world (and America). The infection looked small, but no, the plant had to make sure it was all good and took the extra step of self destructing that huge entire section around the infection to quarantine it. Mean while trump decides to quarantine only when it starts to become serious.
@@yousefhadi2332 yes sooooooo true
@@yousefhadi2332 so your saying we should self destruct too?
Lol i cant even defend myself
When you realize that a plant can put up a better fight than you can.
Well you do... It is called your immune system.
Yeah.. your words just disrespect the amount of works "immune system" have done to you. :(
Use your fists
Easy fix. Learn Krav Maga at official school near you. Then purchase Bruce Lee’s Official notes published by His wife Linda Lee and friends from back in the day and study that. You’ll become a self defense machine in no time
When a plant is sad,
What do other plants do?
They photoSYMPATHIZE
Ethan Dat dude,do you make puns before watching the video to get likes.I mean,they are nice puns but watch the vid first.
r u ethan hunt
i get it
Ethan Dat
Anyone else got his min blown ?!!
Science class will never be the same again.....
They Protecc
They Attacc
But most importantly,
They learned how to fight Bacc
But we like them as a snacc
But movement they lacc
@@nickyguy1451 I at vegan
Bruh fighting back is protecting and attacking at the same time.
@@dragoon8675 you and the donnie above me ruined the chain
Didn't knew that plants can inter communicate. Now I wonder what sweet things my plants might be saying about me when I water them every morning :)
My plants (seeing me) - " And here comes the weirdo"
Trees in forests actually have complex fungi web systems underground that connect whole forests, and allow trees to share food with and communicate with even unrelated species of trees.
@@deftheocelot9125 that’s actually insanely awesome
My plants when they see me go outside "The crazy ones gone quick get the uno"
What I expected
*Houseplant jumps out from nowhere with nunchacks* fite me
On The Wall Well i do not think it have a nunchack.
On The Wall random does not equal funny
On The Wall a
On The Wall PLANTS VERSUS ZOMBIESSS!!!!!!
Sandeep Bjm wth no, I live in Mumbai.
plants protec but they also attac
Kelly Lorena no god stop
Kelly Lorena they also attrac
This meme is spreading fast
But most of all the respec wamen
Kelly Lorena but most importantly they a snacc
Insects: *Touches plant*
Plant: Calls for allies -> Sends 10+ chemicals out -> Tells near by growing plants to do the same
Human: Takes something sharp *Chop Chop*. Ah yes, a nice salad to start the day with :)
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True
Haha
I didn't know the tingling, stinging feeling in my throat after eating pineapple is actually the plant's defense mechanism! 😆😆😆 Probably shouldn't be having too much of these!
The concept of plants alerting their neighbors or forming alliances is sooo cute 😊
You should look up "mother trees" in forests then. They've actually shown the big mother trees absorb the nutrients from the sun & then intentionally feed it to their babies that are too short to reach the sun themselves :) Just like in Avatar, but real! Plants are really cool when you really look at what they can do
I know pines do that too which is why pine forests smell so good :)
@@lilaclizard4504 Plants are the coolest things in the planet, they give us oxygen, they are also quite exotic in some cases, and they are also pretty good as a food source
sounds pretty messed up when it's on humans
its cute until you end up thinking that plant toxins are healthy and rid your natural diet of carnivory.
0:32 that seamless transition though.
D.A.B Science and More! Lol
D.A.B Science and More! II
D.A.B Science and More! I
D.A.B Science and More! Lol 😆
The Science Biome ikr
Plants: The amazing ways we defend ourselves
Me: *F I R E*
Redwood trees: oh no... anyways
Lol but *not the trees*
Chilly: Through centuries I developed a difficult system of chemicals to prevent mammals from eating me
Humans: hUrT plAnT mAke mOuTh Go Broom broom
What I learned today:
TED-Ed host a coloring competition
Cyan Stickmin you again
Cyan Stickmin
And nothing else really? Gosh, the information in the clip are just mind blowing! I simple love the video
Cyan Stickmin I
Cyan Stickmin i
Cyan Stickmin I think you did that last time with gifs
I wanna be a plant when I grow up
Zenny LZ You do that. LUV YO SELF
search in youtube: feed me dexter
Zenny LZ If I was a plant I would be a large Venus flytrap
I was a plant once, I was tripping on shrooms at the time. It was a beautiful sunny day and I was lying down in the grass of my friends garden. It felt like I was in a David Attenborough documentary on the garden of eden, birds flying all around and I even saw a pheasant. Lying down in the grass with no shirt I felt the sun beating down on my back,I was photosynthesizing and growing roots. I wasn't moving but I could feel myself growing along with the plants that surrounded me. There was one particular white clover flower that I was focusing with my 'third eye',I felt like we were sharing information but I just couldn't comprehend it.
When the trip was over I was kinda depressed, my incarnation as a plant was the happiest I had ever been.
Jack Duck what!
Amazing job with the visuals. Especially when illustrating defenses like the raphides, I totally winced as if I were in pain. Good work!
1:12 poor trees,their bark has ligma
When I learn more from Ted-Ed then when I'm in school...
Clearly. Because it's *than. :)
XD my bad
Hobbes Hobbiton you can't learn grammer by ted ed videos
Umesh Sonune
*grammar,I guess they don't teach spelling at your school too.
Hobbes Hobbiton ii
2:40 in the Philippines we call a Mimosa plant, Makahiya which means "shy" in Filipino.
Wow it's similiar here :) In Indonesia we call it "Putri Malu" means shy princess hehe
@@dzikrinasaira3475 why shy princess? What's the story? Please do tell
@@haniejoycemallorca1239..
Interesting, I did some research on it, and got the story behind it.
Well, once upon a time, there was a princess named Kaniawati. Because of her beauty, many princes from other regions came to propose her. But she was so shy, so she repeatedly reject them, she didn't even reveal her face for them. Nevertheless, somehow, a prince Jaka Amparan made it into her room, and accidentally saw her face to face. Due to her excessive shame, she fell down and faint. Local people linked this story with Mimosa Pudica, they thought this princess has similar act and behavior, just like this plant. So they called this plant "Putri Malu" which means "Shy Princess".
@@evanraymond8728 Wow, you took the words right of my mouth. Thank you for explaining :D
@@dzikrinasaira3475..
You're welcome. Have a nice day
plants : in constant fighting for his love everyday
vegan : lets eat them
i mean life
#warchdominion
Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Me: I want to be a plant!
I think one of plants' most overlooked defense mechanism is their ability to have an indefinite cell division in their apical meristem throughout their lifetime. This way, whenever all of the other mentioned mechanisms fail, they will always grow back.
What did the plants do in the maths class?
They started growing square roots
no
Rishabh Dhiman GENIUS!
Rishabh Dhiman DA DUM TISS😂 🥁
This is gold
Rishabh Dhiman Pretty sure they did Log-arithms
Isn't it fascinating how simple life forms such as plants learn to adapt various defense mechanisms from spikes traps to chemical warfare?
Weird to hear “electrical signals” when talking about plants
now my life's goal is to have my painting on Ted-ed's Office fridge!
Life goal achievable! :) You're welcome to join us on Patreon, Braulio!
TED-Ed
Wait a second, you write comments and are able to reply?
Lol
Damn
Traveel they only reply to worthy comments
Words I understood:
bugs
coloring
fridge
Dummy
galogalgoalgaibalaoab r/ wooosh
@@TheOwlManBranch r/ihavereddit
@@TheOwlManBranch r/iwatchredditonyoutube
@Orion D. Hunter r/imsosmart
5:00
Cotton plants: "I use the insect to kill the insect!"
2:14 what my pizza roll sees on it's way too my mouth
*when you're a bedbug and a bean plant comes out of nowhere and stabs your leg*
Congratulations on 5 million subscribers!!!
Yeahhhhhhh congrats TED-ED :)
100th like!!
Don't chu mean 6,053,893 sub's?
“Cotton plants under siege of caterpillars” is one of the most epic sentences I didn’t know I needed to hear. I can just picture the battle field
Jalapeno: *Noooooo, you can't just eat me I'm supposed to be hot*
Humans: "Haha, Hot sauce goes brrrrr"
What a fabulous insight into these remarkable organisms. Everything around us is now being revealed to be infinitely more complex than we first perceived years ago. From bats being blind to Tortoises being the oldest animals... it it time to abolish old textbooks (now basically crock-pots of mis-information) And move toward digital learning everywhere. -cheers for this video.
Well, not "infinitely" more complex. What in the universe can be infinitely complex?
@@asrnyigit4040 The universe itself.
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With opposite goutlewwew
No boy with oetfwvviloate
@@asrnyigit4040 for example, a chair
Damn that background song is so calming
It’s amazing that plants are somehow aware of the existence of other living beings despite not having brains.
Plant:*Has defences to deter animals from eating them*
Humans:”mmm spicy”
Humans: *learned to not detect heat on tounge*
2:10
There is a fruit native to Brazil called "pequi" (I don't know if it has a translation).
It has this same natural defense where it expells a lot of small spikes when bitten.
So be warned, if you come to Brazil (or see a yellow overgrown bean), do not bite pequi under any circunstances. Its okay to eat the yellow slimy-like substance in the surface, just be careful.
Oi Murilo
Next thing you know, plants will he teaching us a thing or two about self-defense.
2:38. My grandma has those. They are satisfying to touch and watch them curl up
2:10 whoa, there are plants that straight-up produce histamine? That's awesome
When you're a vegetarian and you're trying to figure out if the people spamming "Take that vegan" in the comments applies to you...
E drop those comments are usually to the vegans who scream "staph murderingb aninals blah blah blah"
There's a difference between vegetarians and vegans yet some people don't even know that including the vegans lol
This is probably a longer response than you need or want, but...
No, it doesn't really. The "take that vegans" comment or any comment anywhere that is directed toward vegans is done to poke fun at how persistent vegans are in imposing their ideas and lifestyle onto other people. I personally don't know many vegetarians who constantly belittle people for eating meat/seafood the way they want to and are more conscious of their own diet.
Tl;dr nah you're good.
E drop I have seen 0 of those comments
Humans weren't ment to eat plants... at least not without a fare bit of meat, fun fact, our eyes would be on the side of our heads and we would be much stupider if we were herbivores.
Is it just me or when I eat kiwis and pineapples my mouth always has a weird numb sensation
Enzyme activity. Especially pineapples. That enzyme can actually "digest" your mouth, which might be where that numbness comes from. That being said, Kiwis and pineapples are extremely healthy for you.
Lightning McCoy They're high in vitamin C. I can't eat normal kiwifruit only golden kiwifruit as they are less acidic.
Tends to go with a latex allergy...
I think its the latex get yourself some good quality pineapple
You don't eat the middle whitish part of the pineapples
Caterpillar: Haha, you cannot defeat me
Cotton plants: I cannot but they can
**releases scents to attract wasps that lay egg inside caterpillar**
Caterpillar: Am i a joke to you?
Me, sees plants: Aww look at how cute it looks!
Plants: *Am I a joke to you?*
Stinging nettle is a a-hole, I'm not trying to touch you I'm tending to the sheep!
3:57
I think we r all familiar with this word now 😂😂
I was thinking the same thing
had to watch this bc of school almost fell asleep
5:54 the fridge of honor
they have their own soul and thoughts as well. I used to think these just the rumors or myths from elder generations, but actually it really makes sense until i have watched this video.
it's so amazing that plants themselves have communication with each other
0:40 they also face the attack of vegetarians.
Even non vegetarians eat plants, you can't live on 100% meat diet
No, the truth is we can't survive. We just trying to last longer by recharging with animals and plants.
@@prism2451 eating plants is just as bad as eating meat because we're just killing a living being.. we should only eat fruits like tomato, mango and etc because we can replanted the seed
@@rieqgreg2138 plants aren't sentient tho
@@othmane0313 they are still a living being who produced oxygen, without plants and trees the world is dying.. look at it a lot of animals in Ocean gonna extinct because of climate change
The fridge part made me crack up in the middle of a boy scout meeting, resulting in my headphones being broken.
All these plants must be charged with war crimes for violation of Biological Weapons Convention. 😃
Jelly Bean lol
Penguin how about humans? We are destroying everything and we think is ok
@@RrRR-lv9fu calm down it's a joke!
US will impose sanctions on these plants.
They protecc
They attacc
But most importantly,
They use life hacc
The mimosa species shown is Mimosa pudica. It has little spikes on it. I was in Trinidad may years ago, and made the mistake of walking bare legged through a patch of them. The resulting scratches combined with sunburn was a painful reminder for the next three days. Ouch!
I just keep rewatching this video ever so often. It's just so well made i love it
Ted-ed quality has improved even more after they have started monetizing and receiving patreon ☺.
TED-Ed is awesome. 😫 Thanks so much for the lessons.
The artwork for this video is incredible! Sooo beautiful!
Haven’t seen a ted ed since along time forgot how beautiful and informative they are
Guess I'm sticking to grass
The Ace Of Spades I think grass has defends too
And that is there sharpness
Flip a clip motions And the way they taste?
0:56 voice went down a whole octave when he said *fruits* 🥵
It can be extremely relevant to talk about the enormous and almost unknown impact of mycorrhizae on the defense of plants to understand what plants do (exchange with mycorrhizae) and what mycorrhizae return to the plant (protection, energy, communication via the mycorrhizae network).
An episode only on this subject could fascinate many people.
Thank you for the quality of your videos.
I gotta say, the visuals for this video were really cool
thanks Ted Ed
Looks like a preview for a new tank/alchemist class in a videogame :)
New Class Unlocked: Gossypium, the Long-Staple Sorceror! Special Move: Tyrant of Wasps!
Wild Plants: *we can thrive*
My houseplants: we are *allergic* to tap water
Can we all just take a sec and go give any nearby plants recognition for how metal some of them can be.
Plants: develop tiny little needles to stab the inside of predators
Humans: “mmmmm I love the funny feeling you get when you eat pineapples”
Great information, way to go. We can see nations that have covered lands with or with out certain plants. As a defence and/or protection.
That sound at 2:41 😱😱
Ha Ha Ha , office fridge .
5:08 those are bees not wasps
key overlooked video in my life
TY for unlocking new levels of understanding~
2:41 when I usually see these plants, I just poke them with my shoe cause cause it's satisfying to watch it close
Wow, who knew that something as simple as a plant could be so complex? It's almost as if it was carefully designed...
Thats what many years of evolution will do
@@Ricky-by3zm yep
Simple? Life didn’t just happened and existed, there’s a lot of time and evolvement for that
Cotton: Under siege by caterpillars
Also cotton: Airstrike inbound!
4:55 it made me shiver
Every cactuses is gangsta until the camel appears.
0:51 You sure humans ain't in that list.
Plants are smarter than they look
1:07 For anyone wondering, I'm pretty sure that flower is an oleander.
Absolutely mind blowing!
You completely failed the mimosa pudica animation. It FOLDS not curl.
thanks for your very nice input !
Valentin Hammoudi you’re welcome! Next time you could make it fold like a Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula). If you live in the southeastern USA you could go outside and look for Mimosa strigillosa which folds the same as M. pudica.
Too bad they can't defend against vegans
People who don’t know about veganism affirming their ideas of how the word funcions in their mind:
@@Mecflura it's a joke gabriella
@@Mecflura bruh it was a joke
@@Mecflura do you not know the word joke?
This is why we should only eat fruits like tomato, mango and etc. We can plant more trees and we're not killing them
Ted-Ed: The tree bark is full of lignin.
Me: what?
Ted-Ed: LIGNIN BALLS!
i like that plants tell the others of its same kind to help it
"ayo bro can u help im getting attacked by some bugs"
"ight sure bro"