The Discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2017
- A non-broadcast documentary (made just for fun) recounting the discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii - one of the largest carnivorous pitcher plants yet discovered.
In 2007, Alastair Robinson, Volker Heinrich, Stewart McPherson and a team of local guides climbed a remote peak called Mount Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. On the mountain’s little-explored summit, they found a spectacular new species of carnivorous pitcher plant which they named Nepenthes attenboroughii.
Returning to Mount Victoria on the 10 year anniversary of the expedition, Stewart McPherson retraces the team’s footsteps through little-known rainforests and across raging rivers to reach the summit of the mountain to see Nepenthes attenboroughii once more.
A full account of the discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii and many other spectacular recently-discovered Nepenthes species is provided in the recently published book title New Nepenthes Volume 1 (available from Redfern Natural History).
An Indonesian here. It makes me jealous and a bit ashamed sometimes that most people studying my country's nature are foreign scientists/ researchers. Our government and private sectors rarely take an interest in natural science to the point where a sufficient amount of funding for research is as scarce as hen's teeth. This is made worse by the attitude of most politicians who value research's worth only by the invention it makes not the discovery. In other words, they would only fund research that leads to an invention which they can then capitalize for profits. While knowledge discovery is worthless to them.
Thank you for the wonderful experience this video has given me as an armchair traveller. Fantastic Nepenthes!
Such a captivating story. Thank you for sharing it with us! That guide who had the accident sure is a trooper.
You’ve again delighted this subscriber! And many thanks for honouring Sir Richard Attenborough. In doing so, you have brought honour upon yourselves.
How have I never seen this channel before? I love Nepenthes!
Humanity as a great deal to be thankful for dedicated botanists.
So amazing! Thanks for sharing your adventure with the rest of us! Looking forward to seeing more!
Simply amazing! Thank you very much for making this documentry and helping to sustain these great forms of art/plants.
As as avid hikers in Sarawak, Borneo. I really love and enjoy watching all your adventure trip
LOVE this video and all the pitcher plant ones you have done!!! KEEP THEM COMING lol!! Great work!
My wife and I just visited her family in Narra in December 2022. I had no idea about these recent discoveries of large pitcher plants on Mt. Victoria. I've always been fascinated by them. Thanks for the video!
I live in Palawan. Big mining companies is now a big threat to these mountain ranges..
Hope they stay out! Get the word out.
Yes the big companies with the government permission slowly they destroy our beautiful earth and no one can't stop them
EL GB WHAT TOWN ARE YOU NEAR ? SALAMAT...
Oh crap.... do they mitigate negative impacts to local WATERS and soil???
Yeah, and they have the power to just destroy nature. They infect the local water supply, and then you have lumber companies that clear-cut thousands of acres of forests.. here in America, they will destroy an entire population of sarracenia to build a McDonald's or KFC. It's really heartbreaking..
I love all your documentary about plants with a huge flower.❤️❤️❤️
STUNNING IMAGES..UNBELIEVABLE DISCOVERIES ...GREAT PRESENTATION. SHAME ON ALL THOSE WHO CHOOSE INSTEAD......TO DESTROY IT.......
The Philippines is just blessed with such great biodiversity
Palawan is
Kinibalu in phillipine?
Serawak, kinibalu, borneo all is malaysia and or indonesia ig
@@skyinuri8868 kinabalu is the Saint graal of botanical biodiversity, a true natural wonder, but other places are also quite amazing 👍
@@skyinuri8868 the video is in the Philippines. Not Malaysia.
That was beautiful. Made me wanna go there and do some explorin'.
Can I come too and I'm from Philippines 😊
thank you for this video. I love my country (Philippines).
Really interesting, I love plants and learn about them. Thank you for the video
Beautiful documentary. Thanks.
This is indeed an adventure and great discovery ❤
Very, very interesting. Thank you so much for discovering this.
Congratulations, seek and you shall find, great vid.
I did very much enjoy Climbing Mt Victoria and seeing this great plant with my own eyes, was a tough climb too & making some great friends on the trip ,seeing this vid brought back great memory's of my trips seeing nepenthe's all over Asia , thanks Stew
Love your work, keep it up. It's very educational
this species is now publicly available
That was an amazing video on Paliwan , Philippines nepenthes 🍃🍃🍃😚
Wonderful to learn there's more to learn. Greetings from California. Subscribed🤗
God sure created some varied plants for our pleasure. Thank you for showing us these unique plants.
Such a determination.. Amazing.
Very nice video. Thank you very much for share your experience
Thnk you for this awesome video
Thank you for Appreciating palawan. Hopefully my countrymen can also appreciate it.
Great story! I have one on these Nepethes attenboroughii in cultivation for more than two years now.. It is producing beautiful pitchers, but only about 1 to 2 inches in length. Along with my sprawling Nepenthes tenuis, it is my favorite pitcher plant. looking forward to receiving Mr. McPherson's three volume set on Nepenthes, which is reportedly now at the printers.
this is lovely!
Spectacular plants for an amazing video. Great job and thanks.
Foozil I wpwlcpl bj
Grettings from Germany and thanks for your fantastic videos
Wow. What an adventure!!!
Well made! Thanks for sharing this great adventure and documentary. Better than many actual broadcast and not-for-fun documentaries. ;-)
And BTW: Congratulations for discovering this enormous plant!
love the vid love plants I saw small pitcher plants in South Carolina love them
TheHellbillyx they’re in South Carolina and Oregon. Also Venus fly traps. They must have similar bogs and climate
@@MatanuskaHIGH seen them too was working in the swamps
Very informative, thank you
Hello there,
For a few years this has been a favourite video of mine, as well as all of the expedition videos you've ever shared. Though, I do remember that a few years ago I watched a video in which you've described the expedition where Nepenthes palawanensis was discovered. I tried to search for the video again, and couldn't find it anywhere. Has it been deleted? Could you please re-upload it if so?
Thank you very much.
Thanks for naming this after my idol, Sir David!
I'll admit the site of "Nepenthes attenboroughii" was excellent click bait and made me watch this vid. Very enjoyable, thanks!
Nepenthes, you've got my attention
So beautiful
Very interesting!!!
Amazing.
great vid cheers
Perfect Discovery 🌱🇧🇷
Wow. Very interesting.
If he comes to NZ I want to be one of his guides. I know a few secret spots for drocera.
This video was really interesting and entertaining. I wish i was there too haha.
Fantastic
This is inspiring
amazing
Absolutely lovely video! FYI, Palawan in Tagalog is pronounced "Palaawan", with the double aa being a long vowel.
2007 was the year when born :)
Incredible story I have 2 different kinds. Don’t know there names , 1 is huge pitchers red spotted with hairs on side and long big 12 inch leaves Ive only had it a couple months. Can’t wait to see what it does😁 I live on the big island of Hawaii at about 1500 feet lots of rain , heat and humidity
Good job I want to go there
Great video, Great editing and content! I want to know the freshwater fish out there! Cypranids, specifically.
i thought about fish as well ...salamat
16:10 *N O G L O V E S*
Well Remember Being Stunned as a Child at Pitcher Plants In NC
Tbh sundews are my favorite speces of carnivorous plant or even my favorite plant.
4:20 what a gesture. I assume Stewart learned this gesture in Sumatera. (touching your heart/left chest after a hand shake)
It's a Victreebell 😊, but seriously though cool plant.
Those missionaries discovered this plant should be recognized Stewart.
thank you for visiting Palawan we love you
did you ever get to name any of these plants?
i really want that plant...
You can buy pitcher plants from Amazon but predatory plants is a better website to buy them from
At 17:55 you can see the guides hand all wrapped up. He's a mans man!
I wish i could do stuff like these....
Amazing experience! Too bad the nepenthes isn't a lowland species, or I would be tempted to buy one!
There are plenty of lowland species! Just make sure to get yours from a proper grower that's not engaged in poaching.
How does it even evolve like that? Like what made it look the way it did?! Did a bug poop on the middle of a leaf and evolved like that?!
I always wanted to b a botanist ...it was my childhood dream...
I also want to explore forest mountains...😑
Nepenthes? Yes please!
Why did you cut the shrew pitcher open???
Expeditions are done to strip the world of its beauty ,the king will turn the world into world of wonders and amazement
Do they stampede themselves off cliffs ?
Omg is that nepthes plants?
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it would be a dream to go out recherche and go on expeditions and discover more insectivorous plants its a dream to go to Borneo.
the wild banana we make pickle the taste is sour like cucumber. so many cucumber in my village tambunan north borneo.
shrews eat bugs, it isnt a stretch to believe they occasionally try to eat the bugs they chase into the flowers. with such large blooms I'd say it's a lot less rare than you think. maybe hasnt been seen a lot. but I'm sure it happens.
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um yes I started off at growing potatoes and then I ended up here. I think it'll bring me around to Trixie Mattel and Li ziqi
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The guide that accidentally cuts himself was very manly to continue the journey.
Stewart do you have any ties with Weirdest Plants? They had one of your videos online about cactus in South America.
Rise of the Nepenthes genus is pitcher plants!
i want those beautiful dracaena's in my house lol
Most are unexplored because most of the mountains and islands on Palawan is protected by their local tribes. They rarely allow anyone to step foot there to protect the forest and its habitat. Even people from surrounding cities there has never been that place for the same reason.
Bug eating plants can also be used in farms.
Did the locals have a name for this pitcher? Surely they had come across it before 2008
Daaayum
The pitcher obviously DID evolve to catch vertibrates, because it caught one pretty easily. A bucket of water is the best mouse-trap.
It's definitely hard to imagine the plant evolved to have very large, wide pitchers for any other reason than to catch large prey, such as rodents and lizards
@eyesclosed3709 not necessarily a lot of the big nepenthes pitcher plants are used as toilets and have the pitchers that size so that small animals can eat the nectar and deficate in the pitchers. Some Sarracenia pitchers are huge but they definitely are not made to catch vertebrates.
Wait, wait, wait.... Leeches on trees... FREAKING LEECHES ON TREES!?!? I tought the 30cm long one we have in some lakes and meadows around where i live were nightmares... BUT THIS!?!?!
And here we are in 2021 where u can find nepenthes in my apartament🙈
THE GUIDES are TRUE MEN of the Forest
Omg, and they r wearing flip flops!
Awsome
14:04 Nepenthes attenboroughii
I thought this was gonna be a Sir David Attenborough meme, where the nepenthes lure animals in as the narrator.
I can buy most of these on Amazon prime
Such a spoiled brat