Secrets of the Flea Circus
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- Tim Cockerill is an entomologist by day and a circus performer by night. It seems only natural that he would become fascinated by the flea circus. Did they use real fleas? How did they work? What do you feed a flea? He tells us what he found, illustrated by his amazing collection of flea circus props and ephemera.
Created to support the Miniatures event at Wellcome Collection on 19th January 2011 which will feature a modern day flea circus. For more information see www.wellcomecollection.org/wha.... - Věda a technologie
I started out watching videos of the Red Hot Chili peppers, then interviews with Flea and the band, and now I'm watching a video of actually fleas doing a circus. Thanks CZcams! 👌
That's hilarious! I've followed that sort of CZcams quicksand trajectory before...you start at A and end at god know where...
I'm glad it's not just me who's interested in this.
I looked at the video because this dude looked like Steve from Blue's Clues lol
Jean Slice I came here checking if anybody commented on that yet
Same here.
I always thought a flea circus was a metaphor of some sort not literal fleas in a circus
Mars Bars me too
same until today
I'm literally finding this out right now!
I've seen a lot of weird shit in my life, but this? Good lord, this takes every cake in existence.
"I live off them and they live off me."
I very loudly said "Nooo!" When he said that. 😱
So this is where my struggle of sleep left me
Absolutely fascinating. I first heard of flea circuses about 50 some odd years ago and always wondered what they were all about. Thanks to the Internet I finally find out. Your video is excellent - very comprehensive and informative. Great job!
Where's a flea rights activist when you need one
Thanks for this - I always wondered about the mechanics of the flea circus. Its interesting how an audience can attribute intentional performance where there is none - I used work with a troupe of "performing turtles" and really it was all about staging so that whatever the turtles did of their own accord was packaged as performance.
Now THAT was ridicu-louse!
This video made me itch so much
I thought I was the only one..
I went to flea circus as a child,tonight talking to my mom she remembered going as a child!
My bloke could not believe us!thought we were conded to believe!
So it is GREAT to find your CZcams😂
This is insane! Letting the fleas feed off of him! Mad
this guy is pretty passionate about fleas
who isn't...
I can't believe they got collars on them. That is insane! I thought they were impaled on the wires, which is kind of awful, even though they are fleas! I would never have guessed they had collars!
They're not capable of feeling pain
Amazing. Thank you. Ive seen flea circus stuff in movies from the 1800s and was always intrigued by the flea circus. I assume they arent "trained" but are using their instincts, which is primarily through the use of their incredible leg strength. I didn't realize they didn't use dog or cat fleas. I actually didnt think there was a difference between the two. But they use human fleas. I always thought a flea was simply a flea. Fascinating.
Fleas actually don't even have proper brains and function on a collection of nervs and react purely by reflex. These shows are essentially a magic trick and sometimes they didn't even have fleas anywhere near the performance.
ah, yes, all those movies from the 1800s about flea circuses
Where do you keep the fleas when there not performing?
You've heard the phrase "new type of guy just dropped," now get ready for "old type of guy just reincarnated"! What a cool, weird project.
Very interesting. But why didn't they show a performance?
Bet Europe hated the flea circus.. gave them flashbacks to the bubonic plaque
thats cool steve from blues clues is still keeping busy
Hehe I peed! This is so cute and funny little tiny fleas :3
The Julia A. Purnell Museum in Snow Hill has fleas dressed in tiny clothes. ❤️
Im almost 40 years old ive seen flea circuses when i was a kid. But never have i seen one w real fleas. It was my understanding the flea circus was always a bit of humbug as Barnum would say.
Which secrets exactly were shown here?
+ThatsRight1001 that it wasnt all magnets and sleight of hand like it is now. and that we cant imagine it because we've only seen tiny cat and dog fleas. though without a demo, you never know
just heard of the german flea circus deaths ,unbelievable, the whole troop wiped out ,very sad indeed .
R.I.Flea.
im surprised, going on a random video spree, I was watching a spider being tased and beamed to death with a laser with tons of people crying insect abuse? shouldn't they be prowling here too?
Kevin Soh Why the question mark on the first sentence? What question are you asking?
don't they ever try to escape like Nelly the Elephant? just imagine calling out the police helicopter to search for your superstar flea,,,,? wow, there's a good movie plot in there somewhere, I swear, My old dog (R.I.P) could dispatch his fleas out like little messengers, and they would go back to him, obviously for some munchies
I fucking hate fleas...
Weemikie, You couldn't of expressed the truth in better words. Creapy how certain individuals minds disfucton.
Very interesting document. However, there are obvious ethical implications here in meddling with other creatures' livelihoods for the sake of science and entertainment.
"A man is truly ethical" wrote Albert Schweitzer, "only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."
As a human being first (before a scientist), would you not agree?
Sounds pretty gruesome and not fun, to be perfectly honest.