True Facts: Deception in the Rainforest
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Zefrank1 please do a deep sea episode covering all of the freaky freaky fish. It's such a rich resource for someone as funny as yourself 👍 it would make my year complete lol
Sources?
What was the name??? bugey barfin butterfly??? 4:40
Anything you say. I love your videos!!!
Technically, the best hiders in the rain forest are the one's we haven't found.
Best comment ever…
Best comment ever
That is the theory of the perfect hider. Technically if there was an animal that evolved to be the perfect hider, there would be no way for us to know.
#anonymous offbrand Theories?
Simplistic one: we seem to discover new things even when we think we have found everything there is to be found? 😜⁉️ Humbleness may need to be key to discovery.
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Note to self: never casually put my hand on a tree trunk in the rainforest.
Note to self...don't even go to a rain forest.
@boats gosh you sound like my mother
she said on not in
Generally a good idea to not casually rainforest
Shout-out to the Margay, a species of mostly arboreal cat that has learned to mimic the distress calls of baby monkeys, so it can lure in and eat the parents.
That is metal as fuck 😂
that's some slasher movie crap.
“Jokes on you. Bet you puke up my lifeless body in 5 minutes. Burn.” That line was great.
@Alexander Alford sometimes they don’t even die. Birds in my area usually have to eat a butterfly and get sick once before learning not to do it again.
I’m glad he addressed what the point of that was because I’d been wondering about that ever since learning about poisonous animals as a little kid. Like what’s the point of killing the predator after it already ate you?
"It is called Gilbertian Mimicry, after Lawrence Gilbert, who is NOT dead"
He had me in the first half, ngl XD thought poor Lawrence had met his end
Someone should warn him to look out
Even though my biology teacher (who is dead) taught me this, I am grateful to watch all of this amazing video footage. Thanks for putting it all together, zefrank1 (who is alive).
Zefrank: **mentions scientist**
Zefrank: “who is dead.”
"Science Hippies"
Laughed too much when he says that 😂
I had a history teacher who, on Monday's, would tell us about some important event as though it was written up in Mad Magazine. The rest of the week, we delved into the facts of the real story. But, we never forgot the facts because of the wacky metaphors he told us about on Monday. Rest in peace, Mr. Eggers. Yeah. He's mega dead too.
7:30 Fun fact: male Papilio dardanuses don't do this, they always look the same, and some females have evolved to look like males to avoid sexual competition. It's like dressing in drag to keep from being harassed, lol.
@Elle Rose I'll admit it, this made me laugh
this is why we need interINSECTional feminism smh
It's actually very impressive how well he balances the humour with actually being educational
@Jeff W Try ballancing your work and personal life. It's just work, then life, repeated.
@jeanne ratterman well said
#al stone Agree! It is HOW he does and HOW WELL he does it. His voice, his humor, his ‘slips’ quickly recovered, his pace, his teases, the complete gifted package.
The dry ‘fact/joke’ algorithm for imparting knowledge is not accurate. Not even. Nope.
Some may seek to imitate, but only a gifted innate intelligence can pull it off THIS well!
Zefrank rules! 👏👏👏😘
@Jeff W because a lot of people would lean too hard one way or the other, he strikes the balance perfectly. And jumping between facts and jokes with it still feeling natural and unforced is probably harder than you think.
@Al Stone Yes, I like his style also, and it makes the video way more interesting to look at and LISTEN to.
I'm one of those roommates with dietary restrictions (tree nut allergy). :(
Great video once again, sir!
@WheezyWaiter are you also allergic to these?
Have you tried restarting your computer
Do you mean we can’t eat you? Instructions unclear. Please clarify.
I need you to narrate a full nature documentary series 😂 you're so good
I love how educational these videos are! Like, if you've got a mimicry technique named after you, you'll die.
So, the best way to avoid death by mimicry naming is getting yourself a cozy lil' pseudonym, just like how a rockstar do.
Friend: "What did you do today?"
Me: "I watched butterflies pee"
Friend: "Oh, you saw the new zefrank video?"
Me: .... at least I'm not alone in the madness.....
“A shitty day versus a very shitty day”
The only comparison needed.
2020 vs 2021
The only line that might keep this from being the mainstay of school biology classes it RICHLY DESERVES to be.
The only comparable I understand
Now officially known as “The 2020+ Comparison” 🤪
Is that a 2020 summary?
We need a “true facts” about the potoo bird.
@JoJonoMuskets I can IMAGINE!! They are SO FREAKY LOOKING!!
@Breshannon Devereaux You should hear them, too! They sound haunting, like birds straight out of Legend of Zelda
@Jan TheXvidr 2 pisał krótkie komentarze HOLY COW, Kickiusz! You weren't kidding! Someof these birds look aa if their cheese has PERMENANTLY slipped off of their cracker! OR they look as though they were goosed in the bum right before someone snapped the picture! Crazy looking birds, DANG!
Just looked them up. They look like living Funko Pops.
@Bliss Opulence utube royal family
Just discovered this channel & I absolutely LOVE it! Innovative & fresh!
Diverse, exceptionally educational & wildly humorous! Breaking the dry monotony of the typical nature vids across the board. THANK YOU!!!
" Gilbert is not dead, but based on the previous two I'd be worried" .... I am laughing soooo hard at this
"All warfare is based on deception."
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I appreciate Jerry going out of his way to show bugs pooping.
Also the bee doggo
@GrassPossum thanks :)
@Yi Wu Doesn't exist. Sorry. For an encore I'll mention that nor does Santa, If it's any consolation though, the Easter Bunny is real.
@Sugendese Salute!
Salute to Jerry
"It probably exists, like Rule 34"
Made me double-take there
@Av Zed the video on the bolas spider has them mimic the smell of female moths, so that's something
@Av Zed Actually yes. Certain predatory fireflies flash mating displays of smaller firefly species that they eat. Similar bioluminescent sexy traps are done by deep sea fish as well.
@Av Zed succubus
Now I wondering if there's a predator out there that mimics the opposite sex of their prey, imitating their readiness to mate so they get closer...
I love hoverflies! They don’t sting and they keep other stinging bugs away when they are hanging around you. Like little fairies. My old coworkers used to call me the bee whisperer because when I found a hover fly I would reach out to it and it would land on me and hang out around me.
This is amazing!! The writing is hilarious and the voice acting is just perfect! You have an incredible voice. As a creationist, I did disagree with the science, but hey, we can all agree that the rainforest is a horrificly beautiful place!! Love your channel!!
I was actually wondering what a creationist would think of this as he went over the evolution stuff! I'm glad you still liked it.
I really get my mind blown when I try to comprehend how genetics 🧬 and evolution of DNA can perceive, sense, work out what works best for camouflage, like what is stopping a creature just constantly reproducing into the wrong color, or the same color, or idk. See this in mind boggling. 🧬♻️🌎
I once went to a beekeeping convention and, to my surprise, the winner of the bee photography competition was the photo of a hoverfly. When I mentioned it to one of the judges he told me they would open exceptions to good pictures of wild bees. I said nothing about the unusual number of wings and the shape of the back legs because my invitation to the closing banquet was hanging on a thread by that time.
@Hibiscius Free food is always worth it!
I'm gonna hazard a guess and say that said judge wasn't well versed in Batesian Mimicry when it came to the multitude of bee mimics? Was the banquet worth it at least? 😅
I love the way you say "Who is dead" after all the biologists names, as if camoflage didnt work for them lmao! Jerry cracks me up too! I would have never noticed the dog in the yellowjacket...thought it was a wasp!
I hope there are high school teachers out there who use your videos to educate students - because they are EXTREMELY informative!
I’m somebody who takes a lot of time learning about insects, and all other different animal biology and behavior, you’re sharing info I never knew!
my husband and I love your content to much. I like how it's more of a lecture than a nature show, especially the stuff you don't often see in a nature doc. :) I think this the seasnails, and the hummingbird episode are my favs.
...Well, now I'm wondering how the different variants of that Papilio butterfly are inherited. And how they're distributed geographically, compared to the species that they mimic. And how that might affect each species' success if certain variants died out, or became more dominant.
Thanks for all the new questions, *science.*
This episode of True Facts mimics the usually jokey-jokey version of True Facts but is really more of the educational, thinky-thinky variation. Well done good sir.
@RedHot Moon what part is fake?
I read in ZeeFrank's voice
Yeah I appreciate that it's still very funny, but not something I'm too embarrassed to share with others.
@NHMO OYTIS ummm. No. The hedgehog one is not real.
Yep, the first one that I'm sending to my parents
Well it's about time! Some of us who have no lives, or no exciting ones anyway, actually sit around waiting for a fresh new zefrank1 documentary short so that we can be educated, as well as enjoy a giggle or two at your unique brand of teaching. I can probably speak for a lot of your audience too when I say that i absolutely remember details about your documentaries regardless of how unfamiliar the species is to me, because your hilarious approach to the subject makes me laugh out loud 😆 whenever I remember some of the things you said. Please keep up the good job because if any of your other audience members feel like i do about your work, the joy it brings during these tough times is so precious and definitely needed right now. Thank you Mr zefrank1
The deception level is 100% I had to stop at the tarantula caterpillar, that was amazing!!
"Who's buying all of our pooping insect stock footage?" - Nature photographers
They'd rather ask " why is somebody even buying them!? "
Showing the Dennis Ray mimicry ring of butterflies at 5:25 is interesting because a lot of this mimicry occurred at too fast a rate to be explained by just convenience alone, in fact there is a lot of inter species breeding seen between these butterflies in order to quickly develop and maintain the similarity of the mimicry ring
You are the best science teacher ever. I guess that’s just how a zefrank do.
Good one
Bebehs.
@Niles Phoenix Why did you just say biology....
How a zefrank, do. OwO
@Z7Sakari I think I've finally watched all of zoos videos now😂
Educational, magical and hilarious... love your work ♡
I would love to see you do one of your wonderfully comical true facts videos about turtles! Because they can breathe through their butts! I love your commentary ❤
You, Sir, are a gentlemen and a scholar. Also, you made my day.
It amazes me how plants themselves have evolved to mimic something visual, without knowing the visual aspects. Plants are much smarter than we give them credit for.
Recap time then: Müllerian mimicry = various toxic animals all adopting the same look; Batesian mimicry = tasty animals being cheaty and cosplaying the look of toxic ones; Gilbertian mimicry = looking like the predator who's trying to nom you. And there's a two-thirds chance you die when naming a new method of camouflage?...
On my way to a SAT test, thank you very much sir
@Kayla A. Stephen that's also batesian mimicry, of note is a species of firefly that mimics the mating call of females of other species and grabs and chomps any male that approaches
What about pretending to look like your prey? A lot of spiders, parasites, and beetles tend to do that. But I guess that's just a type of camouflage at that point.
My grandpa died without naming anything. Grandpa totally got screwed by death
@Pie Rat Is it really artificial, though? I mean, it's nature trying to mimic what we like, rather than us actually creating it.
This was one of my favorite, I knew most of these thing but hearing the technical words I didn't know was really interesting.
1:57 WHAT THE FRICK IS THAT? This has been haunting me for years - from the time I felt tiny rain drops hitting me and saw they were coming from a tree, and saw this strange insect looking thing spouting pee(?) droplets on me. Please if anyone knows the name if this thing let me know
This is a great in depth video about mimicry that would be a great follow up for anyone interested in a more information about mimicry.
I love this video! The perfect level of informative and funny. A++
I hope that “who is dead” continues to be included for all name references where the person is in fact dead.
They are just playing camouflage at the next lvl
Another phrase for the Ze Frank drinking game!
I love how they can record them so close because the creatures are trying to stay so still!
whether you're on the side of evolution or Creation there is no denying how incredible "nature" can be when you see the level of these different camouflages.
BTW, don't think animals directly want to mimic things around them, they do this through generations and generations of very helpful accidents.
Been a fan of your channel for a while now I have to say your approach to educate is extremely entertaining.
Please don't ever change a thing.
I used to thing that whole “mimic a dangerous animal and things won’t eat you” was crap but then one day a bug I’d never encountered before flew at me flashing black and yellow stripes and i ran as fast as I could and was maybe 15 feet away before I realized it hadn’t looked like a wasp. Guess they’re not so dumb.
#inori yorita Thank you! 👏👏👏👍👍
@Ui makes sense.
@The MockingDragon the appendix and tonsils are both also not vestigial as they are two of your many lymph nodes. However, both your tonsils and appendix are more prone to problems than other lymph nodes. They are not essential to your survival, because the human body plan is designed in a way that you have a surplus of needed lymph nodes to generate white blood cells at birth. For cases where one or two become become compromised, you will still able to function as a relatively healthy person.
@PendleraIt's believed to have been a single person because it's a recessive gene, and the probability of it occurring not only more than once but in the exact same way (rather than having different variations that result in the same outcome) is low.
Since blue eyes are recessive, a genetic male only needs one copy while a genetic female needs two. The likelihood of the exact same gene on both copies of the X chromosome mutating in the same individual in the same way is basically nonexistent, so it's not very likely that a woman developed it. Genetic mutations that aren't immediately harmful or even fatal in reproductive cells are extremely rare compared to ones that end in cancer or a non-functional copy of a gene. There's also the fact that eye color is tied to a single gene on the X chromosome, compared to things like skin and hair color which are much more complicated. So if it occurred in more than one person, it would have to be the same exact mutation multiple times over a relatively short period of time since it only appeared around 6 to 10 thousand years ago.
Because any given base pair in the human genome has an average rate of mutation at 0.5e-9 (0.0000000005%), the chances of the exact same gene mutating in the exact same way is astronomically small even over thousands of years. Taking even the most conservative current estimate of 10,000 years, the chance of that same gene mutating in the same exact way in another individual independent of the first is 0.000005%, or roughly the chance of dying due to the effects of space debris.
It's not really being blown out of proportion, the statistics of it check out. But that doesn't necessarily mean in didn't happen multiple times either, because unlikely things do occasionally happen. Sometimes that's just how the dice land. But that's the thing, science isn't "this is how things happened," it's "this is how we think it happened because a lot of people looked over the numbers and at least somewhat agree it makes logical sense."
@potaterjim The aversion to certain colors or patterns has a few different contributing factors, some of which are instinctual and tied to genetics. But animals also learn from their parents, so bebby byirds might find out not to go after a certain bug or frog because their mothers won't go near them as well.
0:20 this bird can be found in my country! Exactly in the Coastal region in Bucay! I love birding :) thanks @zefrank1 to make this videos
Fun Fact: We learn stuff from this guy and we get a little humor in between😅
What’s interesting is the paint on battleships and other naval vessels during world war 1 and 2 followed the same type of pattern of camouflage talked about at the beginning by using false edges and contrasting colors
'But in the rainforest, some of your roommates want to eat you.. '
Words to live by.
"When threatened it waves itself around like a dangerous..... third of a snake" 😂😭😭
@12mjk21 *rattlesnake noises*
@Windigo uncanny valley: snake edition
So true 😂🤣
@Windigo well it looks like a decapitated head is moving by itself. That would be so terrifying.
That thing teryfies mé because it makes me uncomftrable and I fucking like snakes so I don't know why
So now I've seen a butterfly and a caterpillar pee thanks to this video. It's the little things that are precious, ya know?
I was ABOUT to mention the swallow tail butterfly right before he mentioned it 😂
In person, on a bush, they really do look like bird shit.
This video made me so surprised that there aren’t more animals like the chameleon. Able to change colour and camouflage almost anywhere
I mean, octopodes can do it. Last I heard.
Chameleons don't change color to camuflage, they change it in order to communicare with other chameleons(which if you ask me is pretty dumb) Anoles on the other hand are lizards that can change betweet grey,brown and green tones in order to blend into their sarroundings and not become...well eaten.
Hope this helped.
Good rest of the day
😌😁
Tried watching “Absurd Planet” on Netflix, pretty mediocre narration, was wishing it would be anything close to yours.
Got me thinking, why arent you on Netflix yet 🥴😭
The lesson to be learned from this video is this: Do not try to camouflage yourself like Fritz Muller or Henry Walter Bates, because they are dead.
@Laird Cummings: Good point. I hadn't thought of that. Mebbe a quick movement, and a cry of "Bugger off!" would be enough to scare them off, but you'd have to be pretty sure of yourself and the lack of any predators around to attempt that.
@sdfkjgh I wasn't thinking so much of the vultures doing harm, as that they'd force you to break cover, giving yourself away to things which can turn you into *real* carrion.
@Laird Cummings: Yeah, but vultures are pushovers, and won't really go so far as to create more carrion. I actually had vultures in mind when I typed "most of those that do aren't all that aggressive".
@sdfkjgh But if carrion are bigger than 24 inches, they have to be checked.
(Read it out loud.)
"... pretty viable."
Until the vultures show up.
I got 9min deep thinking, I’m so happy you made some kid friendly ones so I can enjoy these with my girls. Then “shitty or very shitty day.” Keep workin on it! More viewers = more views. I guarantee there are other parents in the same boat that would love to share these with their kids!
Can't get enough of these, please do one on the ant lion. the antlion's digestive tract lacks an external opening for solid waste, so feces accumulate within its body for the entire larval stage-up to three years!
I watch your videos over and over. I'm forgetful in my old age. But the videos are great every time!
These videos honestly just always brighten my day when I see a new one
I could watch/listen to Frank's True Facts all day. He's such a giggle.
Yes he is
Amen to that!
S I L L Y G O O S E
Ikr
Lallie Hayes? Hi & howwarya? Hes a cutiepie right? hmmm nyeh I dont share there chickie. Sure dont. 😁🤣😋
After all these years, I barely notice the legendary background music that gives these videos the gravitas to truly burrow into you brain.
National geographic or animal planet need to hire this man.
He is a priceless gem 💎 hidden in plane sight
I would watch literally anything he narrates
"Getting a predator to strike away from vital organs can be the difference between a shitty day and a VERY shitty day."
Would you possibly consider doing a video on the carnivorous death balloon better known as the caravela? That would be amazing! :3
I wish my science teachers taught this way, I feel like I would have retained more information in my school days
This is one of the most amazing True Facts episodes.
Mother nature is so amazing, the universe, every living creature and how they have evolved throughout the millennia's often blows my mind.
These shows are an endless gold mine of catchphrases! Kinda like Spitting Image...
“Better to be bit on the butt, than dead.” Words to live by.
@Christine C. I was asking because I thought getting bit on the butt would be too rare to know you like it. Also, "into it" makes it sound like something a little more xd
@Blizzard Kiehn Some people are into that.
always good advice
Jerry is a master of camouflage of his voice. He talks in almost every video, but we can't hear him.
Your channel is what I needed in my life! Thank you for all your work. Subscribed😍
I always love zefrank, he is informative hilarious 😂
Sometimes I forgot how incredible nature is but this video reminded me cause I said “whoa” in response to A LOT of the clips in this
Don't act like we didn't see the dog wearing a bee costume.
Or the one in the leaves...
I came here for this comment 👏🙏😂
I thought I was going crazy 😂
@46raulfull Look at the dozens of replies that tell you exactly what time stamp to look for.
What dogs? All i seen were bees
Seeing insects make me itchy and paranoid but, these vids are too funny and addictive.
Caterpillar: *evolves to imitate a snake to scare off predators*
Hawks and Eagles: "Jokes on you I'm into that shit"
Also Caterpillar: "Years of academy training wasted"
Lmfgdao 😂😂
I have just the best education I could’ve ever asked for!!
I’m laughing so hard…. And still learned so much!!
Thank you!!
2:55 that tail evolved into a leaf is just amazing. Isn't it incredible what millions of years of evolution can make?
As someone who loves and studies butterflies his whole life I really enjoyed how accurate this video is. Great job Zefrank!
@[Minutos Desapercibidos ESP-ENG] Preferable to, let’s say, whole life to cleaning toilets.
@lemon93 lol no
@Anthony Damiani are you building the flying cacoon yet?
@[Minutos Desapercibidos ESP-ENG] I'm only 23 so it's no big deal. Plus I'm also fascinated with amphibians and reptiles.
But good for you if you enjoy it!
Thank you for giving me the ability to brag to my freinds that i listen to a documentary everynight before i sleep. Because i love the way you narrate things lmaooi
Who would've known there were so many different ways that an animal can disguise itself...
So glad that this channel came back from the dead.
when you climb up a mountain and grab a branch to help you climb, but that branch was full of weird alien insects that looked just like bark, and then you wish you could go back in time like 30 seconds before that happened
Yay, someone explained evolution correctly for once. Good job zefrank
“If nature finds a hole, it’ll put an animal in it”
This is actually accurate. I dare anyone to name a single hole life hasn’t been found in.
@Dr Bright True, but the pools in Ethiopia don't have any life within. However, if you do want to be more direct the holes on the moon and Mars hold no life let alone the other planets with large Craters.
@Zeivon Bradshaw There are extremophiles directly inside the mouths of volcanoes.
@Dr Bright Yeah but there legit is no life in those holes, you pointed to the fact that they're might be life next to a volcano, okay? Next to it doesn't count for within the hole there's no life, just as your original post stated otherwise.
@Dr Bright I never said a hole is only a hole when nothing is in it, Doctor. I said a hole is an absence. And technically that is correct. If you dig a shovel into the ground, you are removing the "something" that was formally there, a.k.a. the dirt. Now a gopher could come along and be a life living at the BOTTOM of the hole, a worm could be living in the side of the hole. But the absence, aka the dirt, is now a pile somewhere, and not a hole.
@Dylan Elliott No, but to say a hole only being a hole when nothing is in it is fundamentally inaccurate.
Learned more from this than a year of bio class.
Oh I know officially love this series not even joking it is hilarious educational and wholesome I love it
I love this, and all the True Facts videos....however, some of these animals (Monkey Slug, Gray Hairstreak, etc.) also live right in the temperate zones (ie- here in the US where I live). And also a Giant Swallowtail that looks almost just like King Swallowtail. What's my point? Get out there and look around...fascinating things are everywhere, not just in the rain forest.
I love this. I use these videos to educate my son who loves animals
“Getting a predator to strike away from vital organs can be the difference between a shitty day and a very shitty day.” Words of wisdom. Lol
6:58 zefrank trying to trick us by putting a normal bee in with the fakers
@2nd Littlekingryan 🤫
He just puts a dog there hoping noome would notice
Wow that was amazing. Thank you, I was always wondering about this specifically.
3:55 what is that its amazing how these animals and bugs look just like the plants 😮
That was super amazing. I learned so much thank you.
I like camouflaged animals when there literally aren’t any in a picture shown so people get stuck trying to find it.
That would be a great prank to forward to friends mwahahaha
@J D Because that’s exactly what I said. I like them when they aren’t there. Which means there aren’t any. You seem to be confused.
The joke is that if you were shown like 4 different images and 3 of those images had a camouflaged animal that you could see, the 4th image that you’re under the assumption also has an animal hidden in it, doesn’t actually have an animal hiding in the picture.
The joke is that time is being wasted, similar to how I have to explain this foreign concept to you.
I mean, the only way you misread what I said is that you didn’t understand it. There is nothing to argue over. Go home.
@Oh Larwdy Then why did *YOU* start your comment with "I like camouflaged animals..." if there aren't any?? Tf you even talking about...?