Thank you, Hank, for bringing up that point about Bambi. My dad and I were just talking about this last week. Fawns are born in the spring, but the deer mating season is in the fall. They're pregnant all through the autumn and winter months, and deliver in the spring. Bambi's mother, apparently, was one of the last to gestate, hence his late birth. I love watching SciShow. You're so funny, and so informative!
When I as in 6th grade, my LA teacher had shown us a video showing lemmings' "mass suicide" and said it was true. I raised my hand and said it wasn't, but EVERYONE in the room believed it... They must have thought I was an idiot... GUESS WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!!!
christian ramlal About four years... I'm just happy I was proven to not be an idiot, since, when I said I learned of this from Animal Planet, nobody believed me...
200puppy7 dude we just learned about lemmings and before everyone thought that they are suicidal moronic rodents that fall from the sky. Sixth grade was weird
I'm Scandinavian, so I have encountered mass migration of lemmings. It's very fascinating, but also sad, because when they cross roads they are often crushed by cars. I have heard of places where so many lemmings have died that parts of the road would become as slippery as if it were covered in ice... Some people thought that if they got to angry they would explode, but that is false. They may die if you torment them to much, but never explode. Please don't torment the lemmings!
There's a pond near Cheltenham, with a road running a long side it. It has warning signs about frogs migrating across the road to spawn. I've been there in breeding season, there are thousands of the wee buggers.
Seriously? We dont have lemmings where I live but lots of whitetail deer, & we are taught to never swerve to miss a deer. Just brake hard & hope for the best. I cant imagine swerving to miss a rodent? Of course I dont ever want to hit a squirrel or anything like that but I would not endanger my life (or anyone else's) to save a rodent? or sea of rodents? But my friends wife is from Sweden & she is totally awesome, but she is a crazy animal lover. Like, cant even kill a mouse animal lover. Are all Swedes crazy animal lovers? I suppose not, her brother isn't like that. But is that common in Sweden? BTW your country is beautiful Sofie has shown me pictures of her home & the surrounding area & it is breathtakingly beautiful.
@@SugaryPhoenixxx Has less to do with swerving to miss and more to do with them becoming so many that the roads become slippery after a while. In some areas, the only way to not run over a lemming is to not drive for a while.
JUSTICE FOR THOSE LEMMINGS: Disney should be _forced_ to give BACK the award they won through deceit and animal cruelty, and the award for that year should go to the true winner that year, whoever that is. THANK YOU for this video, well done!
Proud to say that I knew this already for some time. But that doesn't stop me from playing the computer game "Lemmings". ;) Lemmings was one of the most played games on my Amiga.
The Amiga version was by far the best version, and had the best music as well. Sadly, I have it on my Amiga emulation (my Amiga died long ago, yet is still in my attic and likely a power issue) and the music is missing some samples. I still have the actual Amiga game, also in my attic.
Disney continued this trend in Zootopia, where Nick sets up shop outside the “Lemmings Bros. Bank” and sells popsicles to ALL the lemmings, just because the first one decided to.
'Disney continued this trend...'' At this Point isn't it more of a joke/inside joke/allusion more than 'continuing the Trend'? I am Preetty sure that at this Point everybody knows how Lemmings truly act, so that in Zootropolis was more of a Joke or a Reference to the Myth rather than 'continuing the Trend'...
Oooh, that would be an excellent video! I had always considered glass to be in that semi-solid category (like jell-o), but it would be great to see what Hank thinks about it!
They heard about the fact that they may accidentally kill themselves when crossing rivers during mass migration and exaggerated it in a way that was more dramatic and cinematic.
thanks you for mentioning the whole Disney thing! CGPgrey tried to mention it in his 10 common animal misconceptions video, but for some reason took that bit out an hour or so after uploading it!
when you started talking about the Lemmings I swore you would've shown the old video game graphics from the Lemmings game(s), now that would've been funny.
In Norway we have lemmings in the mountains, the creatures can get really pissed! And children are told that a lemming can get so pissed that it blows up... And an other thing to look at is that the last years in Norway, the population of lemmings have not got as big as it used to every 4th year, this has resulted in near extinction for our mountain foxes...
THANK YOU!! Lemmings aren't stupid. No creature is THAT dumb. Some animals may murder other animals, but they would not kill themselves. Because it is not a part of their instincts to throw themselves off a cliff once they find life too boring. If it were, there would be no Lemmings or animals left on this planet. Bravo SciShow, making people look like fools, once again.
I have depression. I want to be happy. It has taken me YEARS to be able to cope with a mixture of meds and coping skills learned from my therapist to have it be almost non-existant. I still have to see my therapist.
Terri weak argument I know, but no where does it actually say it's spring. It just says it's April. Which, in the Southern Hemisphere, is autumn (fall)
this i won't argue with, some therapists are just Rx happy. but generally the ones that don't need the help, phase out with in a few months....the really depressed patients end up either taking like 5-8 types of meds (one antidepressant, one to counteract the nausea the first one causes, one to counteract the shakiness the second one causes etc,) or they end up in rehab centers....and the idea that people can't see it as a real illness is sickening to me. no one wants to be like that.
i would suggest watching "The Misunderstood Epidemic" it is a wonderful documentary that looks at people with depression and causes and treatments. and when i say wonderful i mean saddening but accurate, i have family experience with depression and that video was highly informative.
snake698 that game just went way too quickly. I always just ended up rage quitting on the second or third level. I do puzzles. I don't do puzzles under pressure
snake698 I just felt like I didn't get a chance to learn what everything was supposed to do (plus the PS3 controls for the game) before the damn things died
Joseph Lee they offended Disney. Duh. Lol but in all seriousness, before UA-cam put in the 'not interested' option, if I found something boring I would dislike it to re-tune my recommendations. I'm pretty sure other people do, too
Once i went hiking in Norway. At the road i saw a little lemming "screaming" at me, apparently i was close to his lair. This went on for about 10 seconds when the little guy disappeard in some bushes. SO CUTE ;D My gradpa told me that lemmins sometimes to that then they become stressed.
While it's true that lemmings are not suicidal, they do occasionally fall of cliffs in large numbers - as may happen to any animal herd that passes through cliffy areas. Occasionally, the herd will encounter a cliff and attempt to find another way around it, but the mounting pressure from animals at the back will push some individuals who are closer to the cliff - and in some cases many individuals - off the cliffside. That was probably the event that Disney sought to portray in that film, though they presented it in a completely false manner, as intentional suicide.
there are more factors to it then "your state of mind" i would say it involves what you eat, how you life is goind, and other things. but if you have it you can't control it.
Absolutely. Same as 🐹. Which are actually quite intelligent critters. We people nowadays use some words without even thinking if we use it appropriately. Lemmings and hamsters are not stupid at all.😄 But we take it as a granted if we hear it, for some reason.🤷♂️🤦♂️
My understanding of hard population spikes and crashes was that they were evolutionarily dangerous because they can lead to chaotic population levels with wild unpredictable swings that can eventually include zero population, from which there's no recovery. Obviously. I think I read that in "Last Chance to See"?? Anyway, point is, this case sounds like a long-term meta-stable system, so how do Lemming populations avoid the problem of chaos and associated eventual extinction risk?
when i was in fourth grade our teacher told us the little piece of trivia that you talked about today, that lemmings are suicidal. me being the nature freak that i am was and still am today, when up to her a few days later to tell her that it was a set up that dinesy shot for a documentary. she thought i was the crazy one.she never told the class the truth and they still beleive it to this day
It's a solid. The old saw of "glass is thicker at the bottom in old houses because it's flowing" is false because it's just as likely to be thicker at the top. Old glass plates are of inconsistent thicknesses because they use to blow glass, then spin it like a pizza dough, which they then cooled and cut to make window panes.
A creature with green hair and blue clothes that walks in a straight line to its death if not guided to an exit door by a mouse cursor through various tools.
As a person who used to go deer hunting with my dad as a teen I was rather pleased when you mentioned the mating thing. deer hunting season is the week before mating season. if I remember right late September early October in Oregon
AHHHH! God dammit! I'm so anxious!!! I want SciShow to reach 1,000,000 subscribers! I've been with SciShow since they had 220,000 subscribers and I still can't get enough! Go Hank! Go SciShow!!!
Bambi was a late spring baby, but he was conceived in the fall. It would be hard for the mother deer to find enough food for her and the fawn or fawns if they were born in the fall.
Ask a local glass blower. It has more to do with the fact that old window-making techniques (like spinning or just center-pouring a pane of glass and then cutting squares out of it) left panes thicker at one end. Competent glazers would install the panes thick end down so the stress of the weight would be on the thicker part.
I like this. You troll depressed people. They respond to counter trolling. You tell them you're too good to experience what they did. However, this doesn't displace the claim you made about not believing in it. It just makes you a troll.
Seeing as there is already a debate - I think this is a very good idea for a video! (I was under the impression it got wider at the bottom over time but am very open to be proven wrong)
Lol, I had my volume up kind of high because the video I watched before this was a bit quiet, and then I clicked on this video and heard "LEMMINGS" so loud it was hilarious.
I find it amusing that what I always, always hear about lemmings is (and is by now stuck firmly in my brain): "They are small rodents living in the Arctic who are, contrary to the popular belief, NOT suicidal" - even though I've never actually heard anyone say anything like: "Lemmings are suicidal and will even jump off cliffs in great numbers" xD
I saw the title, "3 Facts About Lemmings", on my youtube homepage and i thought, "hmm, I wonder what lemmings are." So I clicked on it and instantly found out. How nice, life can be.
While we are on the topic of animal misconceptions, goldfish are some of the hardiest fish around. Once, a goldfish was left on a stone floor for 7 hours and it was found alive.
Not really related to Lemmings, but I've been meaning to suggest this for a while. How about an episode about the "is glass a liquid or solid" debate, and other strange materials?
the fact that old glass is thicker at the bottom has got nothing to do with glass flowing. old mouthblown glass sure was flowing before it set , its also uneven, and while its cooling it has a tendency to bend. the thicker part usually remains straight and is installed down, while the curvy thin part is then pressed against the frame with a runner. its an installing technique that causes the thick bottom of old glass - glassworker that has done work at museum buildings
One more thing about lemmings, or specifically, the Norwegian lemming. These little creatures are EXTREMELY brave and skilful fighters and uses their aggression as their primary defence against predators. Like bees and wasps, Norwegian lemmings are brightly coloured and uses aposematic coloration to ward off potential predators. And they have the punch to back it up - a study shows skuas only succeed in killing a Norwegian lemming 1 out of 6 times, and there is a record of a Norwegian lemming killing a weasel.
+5 points to Ravenclaw because I already knew the fact that they're not suicidal. Though I notice you didn't say anything about whether or not they can willingly explode into confetti if they think about it for 5 seconds.
In the novel the Bambi movie was based off of, Bambi is a roe deer. Roe deer are a small European species that has it's rut in the spring. Hense, there are springtime shenanigans in the book. When Disney created his movie however he and his animators decided to model the animals after the North American white-tail, which is tall and graceful looking and has much bigger antlers. Unfortunately, they forgot to take account of the difference in breeding times between the deer species.
Ever played "The Adventure of Lomax"? It's an adventure game based of the Lemmings characters with Lomax being a hero that saves them from monsters, it was really fun.
You forgot the funniest fact, if you scare a lemming is screams for about 10 sec and die. No idea if it's a harth attack or too much adrenalin, but it's funny as hell to watch.
I wonder where the meme of "disney faked lemming behavior" originated from ? There must have been one particular writer or documentary that shockingly exposed Disney and ever since, whenever lemmings are mentionned, Disney is mentionned too. So much so that the first time I heard about lemming jumping off cliffs was from someone telling that they didn't do that.
I was depressed once. I was was coming to grips with my mortality and the fact that everyone I knew and loved would die, and how eventually humanity would end as well one day far far in the future. I thought about all of the humans through out history who have struggled to push human civilization forward and how one day all of our effort would be wiped way. I also went through a similar line of thought regarding God and the after-life. Then one day I watched TTGL and I shrugged off my despair.
I assume that you must speak very clearly. I am using the automatic captions (which are normally terrible) and it makes sence. I'm probably the only person who cannot hear your voice, but I'm probably the one who is most appreciative of how clear it must be. DFTBA
How do fossils form? It was very interesting to hear that lemmings were around 2 million years ago. It would be nice if scishow made a paleontology episode, fossils and spinosaurus and chicken raptor carnivore turkeys. Maybe Emily could do one.
because it kinda is and is not, if you measure the energy of glass you will observe that it it keeps getting lower and lower because it is slowly going towards theoretical solid equilibrium state that is never reached, liquids go all over the place and solids have 'constant' energy... glass does not have either characteristic :)
Thank you, Hank, for bringing up that point about Bambi. My dad and I were just talking about this last week. Fawns are born in the spring, but the deer mating season is in the fall. They're pregnant all through the autumn and winter months, and deliver in the spring. Bambi's mother, apparently, was one of the last to gestate, hence his late birth.
I love watching SciShow. You're so funny, and so informative!
It got an academy award for best documentary and it was filmed in a place where lemmings don't even live. Amazing.
Its a speaker profile :)
Dis ney has only gotten worse in recent years.
@@HighlanderNorth1 Killing animals is worse than having trans actors
When I as in 6th grade, my LA teacher had shown us a video showing lemmings' "mass suicide" and said it was true. I raised my hand and said it wasn't, but EVERYONE in the room believed it... They must have thought I was an idiot... GUESS WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!!!
Them, who would care so much about this. How long ago was this even, no one would remember.
christian ramlal About four years... I'm just happy I was proven to not be an idiot, since, when I said I learned of this from Animal Planet, nobody believed me...
Yeah I know what you mean.
i have an idea, DONT TEACH CHILDREN WRONG MYTHS.
200puppy7 dude we just learned about lemmings and before everyone thought that they are suicidal moronic rodents that fall from the sky. Sixth grade was weird
I'm Scandinavian, so I have encountered mass migration of lemmings. It's very fascinating, but also sad, because when they cross roads they are often crushed by cars. I have heard of places where so many lemmings have died that parts of the road would become as slippery as if it were covered in ice...
Some people thought that if they got to angry they would explode, but that is false. They may die if you torment them to much, but never explode.
Please don't torment the lemmings!
There's a pond near Cheltenham, with a road running a long side it. It has warning signs about frogs migrating across the road to spawn. I've been there in breeding season, there are thousands of the wee buggers.
Lemmings are also extremely annoying!! Car accidents multiply during lemming explosion years in Sweden. They are very cute, though.
Seriously? We dont have lemmings where I live but lots of whitetail deer, & we are taught to never swerve to miss a deer. Just brake hard & hope for the best. I cant imagine swerving to miss a rodent? Of course I dont ever want to hit a squirrel or anything like that but I would not endanger my life (or anyone else's) to save a rodent? or sea of rodents?
But my friends wife is from Sweden & she is totally awesome, but she is a crazy animal lover. Like, cant even kill a mouse animal lover. Are all Swedes crazy animal lovers? I suppose not, her brother isn't like that. But is that common in Sweden? BTW your country is beautiful Sofie has shown me pictures of her home & the surrounding area & it is breathtakingly beautiful.
@@SugaryPhoenixxx Has less to do with swerving to miss and more to do with them becoming so many that the roads become slippery after a while. In some areas, the only way to not run over a lemming is to not drive for a while.
Don't say that lemmings are anoing
Um explosion years? What. Do you mean breeding, or do they explode?
@@MAJ-Lange Well... there is the massive breeding part, but also people giving up on swirving after a while.
Lemmings are also video game characters which look nothing like the animal and instead look like little green haired people who wear blue.
lemmings you are a lemming
What game?
You don't know how God created lemmings
@@PayGorn It's from the video game also called Lemmings
JUSTICE FOR THOSE LEMMINGS: Disney should be _forced_ to give BACK the award they won through deceit and animal cruelty, and the award for that year should go to the true winner that year, whoever that is. THANK YOU for this video, well done!
#4 Lemmings don't have green hair.
+Schwarzer Ritter And hedgehogs are not blue! At least, my hedgehog isn't, nor do I want him to be....
Chihirolee3 And horses don't come in any color you can think of. Sadly.
='(
And don't where robes
#5 Lemmings do not explode when they get angry (sorry to those same "scientists" who thought they fell from the sky)
Proud to say that I knew this already for some time.
But that doesn't stop me from playing the computer game "Lemmings". ;)
Lemmings was one of the most played games on my Amiga.
SysGhost same here, but I still listen to Synchronicity 2 by The Police...
The Amiga version was by far the best version, and had the best music as well. Sadly, I have it on my Amiga emulation (my Amiga died long ago, yet is still in my attic and likely a power issue) and the music is missing some samples. I still have the actual Amiga game, also in my attic.
Disney:
Is throwing lemmings off a cliff REALLY more disturbing than them choosing the rat for its mascot?
*A mouse.
Mice are cute
Rats are good pets
yes. And his name is literally Mickey MOUSE
@@andyrevan "... good pets." And highly intelligent. :-)
Lemmings do well if you give them umbrellas when they fall off cliffs, otherwise, oh no!
scifirocks haha. I hated that game
They are good at building bridges though.
Disney continued this trend in Zootopia, where Nick sets up shop outside the “Lemmings Bros. Bank” and sells popsicles to ALL the lemmings, just because the first one decided to.
'Disney continued this trend...'' At this Point isn't it more of a joke/inside joke/allusion more than 'continuing the Trend'? I am Preetty sure that at this Point everybody knows how Lemmings truly act, so that in Zootropolis was more of a Joke or a Reference to the Myth rather than 'continuing the Trend'...
But to they scream "oh no!" in cute fashion before they explode?
Oooh, that would be an excellent video! I had always considered glass to be in that semi-solid category (like jell-o), but it would be great to see what Hank thinks about it!
but why did they do that to the lemmings? what were they trying to accomplish??
They heard about the fact that they may accidentally kill themselves when crossing rivers during mass migration and exaggerated it in a way that was more dramatic and cinematic.
Sensationalism
thanks you for mentioning the whole Disney thing! CGPgrey tried to mention it in his 10 common animal misconceptions video, but for some reason took that bit out an hour or so after uploading it!
when you started talking about the Lemmings I swore you would've shown the old video game graphics from the Lemmings game(s), now that would've been funny.
In Norway we have lemmings in the mountains, the creatures can get really pissed! And children are told that a lemming can get so pissed that it blows up...
And an other thing to look at is that the last years in Norway, the population of lemmings have not got as big as it used to every 4th year, this has resulted in near extinction for our mountain foxes...
THANK YOU!! Lemmings aren't stupid. No creature is THAT dumb. Some animals may murder other animals, but they would not kill themselves. Because it is not a part of their instincts to throw themselves off a cliff once they find life too boring. If it were, there would be no Lemmings or animals left on this planet. Bravo SciShow, making people look like fools, once again.
Abbie AR "No creature is THAT dumb" wrong. Humanity. 😐
I have depression.
I want to be happy.
It has taken me YEARS to be able to cope with a mixture of meds and coping skills learned from my therapist to have it be almost non-existant.
I still have to see my therapist.
Deer mate in the fall. Disney lied to me?!
Well i mean they have babies in the spring so it sounds reasonable if you think about it.
But that part with Bambi and Faline during the springtime, though.
Terri weak argument I know, but no where does it actually say it's spring. It just says it's April. Which, in the Southern Hemisphere, is autumn (fall)
this i won't argue with, some therapists are just Rx happy. but generally the ones that don't need the help, phase out with in a few months....the really depressed patients end up either taking like 5-8 types of meds (one antidepressant, one to counteract the nausea the first one causes, one to counteract the shakiness the second one causes etc,) or they end up in rehab centers....and the idea that people can't see it as a real illness is sickening to me. no one wants to be like that.
oh hank, next thing you're gonna tell me is that they don't have Green hair, and do not walk on 2 legs.
i would suggest watching "The Misunderstood Epidemic" it is a wonderful documentary that looks at people with depression and causes and treatments. and when i say wonderful i mean saddening but accurate, i have family experience with depression and that video was highly informative.
I thought lemmings were green-haired people that you had to save solving puzzles
snake698 that game just went way too quickly. I always just ended up rage quitting on the second or third level. I do puzzles. I don't do puzzles under pressure
Nae Harris Hahaha well it's not like you get any penalty for loosing, but you gotta stand the "retry" word
snake698 I just felt like I didn't get a chance to learn what everything was supposed to do (plus the PS3 controls for the game) before the damn things died
Nae Harris Huh, I used to play it in computer. Before CD's were a thing LOL
snake698 haha. Cool. I had the demo version downloaded onto a PS3. Good thing, seeing as I ended up rage quitting before I even finished the demo
This was really interesting, I didn't know one thing about Lemmings...well, there was that video game.. :)
who actually takes time out of their lives to dislike videos that don't offend anyone rofl
I am offensive. You are offensive. Everything and everyone is offensive. Deal with it.
Miranox ok guy
Joseph Lee they offended Disney. Duh.
Lol but in all seriousness, before UA-cam put in the 'not interested' option, if I found something boring I would dislike it to re-tune my recommendations. I'm pretty sure other people do, too
I didn't even know that Lemmings are real until right now! I learn so much from SciShow! :)
I'm glad that my city is now commented with "lemming suicides..."
Thanks Disney.
Once i went hiking in Norway. At the road i saw a little lemming "screaming" at me, apparently i was close to his lair. This went on for about 10 seconds when the little guy disappeard in some bushes. SO CUTE ;D My gradpa told me that lemmins sometimes to that then they become stressed.
While it's true that lemmings are not suicidal, they do occasionally fall of cliffs in large numbers - as may happen to any animal herd that passes through cliffy areas. Occasionally, the herd will encounter a cliff and attempt to find another way around it, but the mounting pressure from animals at the back will push some individuals who are closer to the cliff - and in some cases many individuals - off the cliffside. That was probably the event that Disney sought to portray in that film, though they presented it in a completely false manner, as intentional suicide.
there are more factors to it then "your state of mind" i would say it involves what you eat, how you life is goind, and other things. but if you have it you can't control it.
Disney, you've DONE IT AGAIN!!! >:(
this is a good reminder to always check facts, even on documentaries
So does this mean that we need to start a Lemming Anti-defamation League?
Absolutely. Same as 🐹. Which are actually quite intelligent critters. We people nowadays use some words without even thinking if we use it appropriately. Lemmings and hamsters are not stupid at all.😄 But we take it as a granted if we hear it, for some reason.🤷♂️🤦♂️
Almost 1 million subscribers. Getting close! Great job Scishow.
"Boom hard and bust fast" hehehe
My understanding of hard population spikes and crashes was that they were evolutionarily dangerous because they can lead to chaotic population levels with wild unpredictable swings that can eventually include zero population, from which there's no recovery. Obviously. I think I read that in "Last Chance to See"?? Anyway, point is, this case sounds like a long-term meta-stable system, so how do Lemming populations avoid the problem of chaos and associated eventual extinction risk?
I want one
Bambi getting twitterpated in the spring wasn't nearly the worst thing Disney did to that great book.
Lemmings exonerated; great. Cynical, dishonest & greedy filmmakers exposed: supercalifragalisticexpealidocious!
LOL I loved the deer don't get twitterpated in spring fact! just the fact that you remembered the word twitterpated was totally awesome!!!! lol
Fuckin Disney. Fuckin.
How much research and preparation do you guys have to do for every episode?
No other channel gives me so much joy and entertainment :P
Disney Killed The Lemmings
OMG REALLY?
yes
and the radio star! Look at southpark on the Jonas bros.
Cool fact #4
Lemmings was a wicked cool game on the SNES. S'true!
It's funny. Today at school my history teacher teacher called us all Lemmings. I corrected him on every thing he said... Thanks Scishow!
when i was in fourth grade our teacher told us the little piece of trivia that you talked about today, that lemmings are suicidal. me being the nature freak that i am was and still am today, when up to her a few days later to tell her that it was a set up that dinesy shot for a documentary. she thought i was the crazy one.she never told the class the truth and they still beleive it to this day
It's a solid. The old saw of "glass is thicker at the bottom in old houses because it's flowing" is false because it's just as likely to be thicker at the top. Old glass plates are of inconsistent thicknesses because they use to blow glass, then spin it like a pizza dough, which they then cooled and cut to make window panes.
:) Thanks for that.
To the other guy: For someone who goes through depression, you can't say "I'm happy," and it magically changes your state of mind.
A creature with green hair and blue clothes that walks in a straight line to its death if not guided to an exit door by a mouse cursor through various tools.
As a person who used to go deer hunting with my dad as a teen I was rather pleased when you mentioned the mating thing. deer hunting season is the week before mating season. if I remember right late September early October in Oregon
AHHHH! God dammit! I'm so anxious!!! I want SciShow to reach 1,000,000 subscribers! I've been with SciShow since they had 220,000 subscribers and I still can't get enough! Go Hank! Go SciShow!!!
i havnt heard much about lemmings before, ive never seen one and never seen that documentary before, but they do look adorable
Keep those nice illustrations comming in the next episodes too, Hank
Bambi was a late spring baby, but he was conceived in the fall. It would be hard for the mother deer to find enough food for her and the fawn or fawns if they were born in the fall.
Ask a local glass blower. It has more to do with the fact that old window-making techniques (like spinning or just center-pouring a pane of glass and then cutting squares out of it) left panes thicker at one end. Competent glazers would install the panes thick end down so the stress of the weight would be on the thicker part.
The thought of lemmings being blown everywhere ha made me laugh more than I should have
I like this. You troll depressed people. They respond to counter trolling. You tell them you're too good to experience what they did. However, this doesn't displace the claim you made about not believing in it. It just makes you a troll.
I'll always have a great fondness for the 1991 video game Lemmings.
Every time a lemming picture popped up my brain threatened to explode from the squees I held inside.
That seems like an Idea. A very articulate and thought out one.
Seeing as there is already a debate - I think this is a very good idea for a video! (I was under the impression it got wider at the bottom over time but am very open to be proven wrong)
i've seen SO MANY references to lemmings jumping of cliffs while growing up, it's always the first thing i think of whenever i think of them
Lol, I had my volume up kind of high because the video I watched before this was a bit quiet, and then I clicked on this video and heard "LEMMINGS" so loud it was hilarious.
Another great video Hank.
I find it amusing that what I always, always hear about lemmings is (and is by now stuck firmly in my brain):
"They are small rodents living in the Arctic who are, contrary to the popular belief, NOT suicidal"
- even though I've never actually heard anyone say anything like: "Lemmings are suicidal and will even jump off cliffs in great numbers"
xD
I saw the title, "3 Facts About Lemmings", on my youtube homepage and i thought, "hmm, I wonder what lemmings are." So I clicked on it and instantly found out. How nice, life can be.
While we are on the topic of animal misconceptions, goldfish are some of the hardiest fish around. Once, a goldfish was left on a stone floor for 7 hours and it was found alive.
If you go to certain pubs in north Norway,they ask you "Would you like a twist of Lemming in your drink".
I love the angry deer fact thrown in there hahah :)
Not really related to Lemmings, but I've been meaning to suggest this for a while. How about an episode about the "is glass a liquid or solid" debate, and other strange materials?
the fact that old glass is thicker at the bottom has got nothing to do with glass flowing. old mouthblown glass sure was flowing before it set , its also uneven, and while its cooling it has a tendency to bend. the thicker part usually remains straight and is installed down, while the curvy thin part is then pressed against the frame with a runner. its an installing technique that causes the thick bottom of old glass - glassworker that has done work at museum buildings
Awesome vid! Lemmings are adorable!
Holy crap you're right, the automatic captions are like 95% accurate
Thank goodness someone is getting this done and right, ... bout time, !!!
"Oh Bambi memo. Deer don't get twiterpated in the spring they made in the fall!"
Best line. XD
One more thing about lemmings, or specifically, the Norwegian lemming. These little creatures are EXTREMELY brave and skilful fighters and uses their aggression as their primary defence against predators. Like bees and wasps, Norwegian lemmings are brightly coloured and uses aposematic coloration to ward off potential predators. And they have the punch to back it up - a study shows skuas only succeed in killing a Norwegian lemming 1 out of 6 times, and there is a record of a Norwegian lemming killing a weasel.
THANK YOU!! someone who actually understands that some of us cant help it.
+5 points to Ravenclaw because I already knew the fact that they're not suicidal. Though I notice you didn't say anything about whether or not they can willingly explode into confetti if they think about it for 5 seconds.
In the novel the Bambi movie was based off of, Bambi is a roe deer. Roe deer are a small European species that has it's rut in the spring. Hense, there are springtime shenanigans in the book. When Disney created his movie however he and his animators decided to model the animals after the North American white-tail, which is tall and graceful looking and has much bigger antlers. Unfortunately, they forgot to take account of the difference in breeding times between the deer species.
Ever played "The Adventure of Lomax"? It's an adventure game based of the Lemmings characters with Lomax being a hero that saves them from monsters, it was really fun.
That would be an interesting episode, although there's not much of a debate on whether glass is a liquid or a solid any more
You forgot the funniest fact, if you scare a lemming is screams for about 10 sec and die.
No idea if it's a harth attack or too much adrenalin, but it's funny as hell to watch.
Still one of the best puzzle games ever made.
Hank, saw your SciShow about electric airplanes from last year, and I think you look great with a beard. Jus saying, since winter is coming.
Yay!! Hank is back!
I wonder where the meme of "disney faked lemming behavior" originated from ?
There must have been one particular writer or documentary that shockingly exposed Disney and ever since, whenever lemmings are mentionned, Disney is mentionned too.
So much so that the first time I heard about lemming jumping off cliffs was from someone telling that they didn't do that.
I remember my father in Norway telling me that when there were a lot of flies in a year it was because of the bumper crop of lemmings dying off.
I was depressed once. I was was coming to grips with my mortality and the fact that everyone I knew and loved would die, and how eventually humanity would end as well one day far far in the future. I thought about all of the humans through out history who have struggled to push human civilization forward and how one day all of our effort would be wiped way. I also went through a similar line of thought regarding God and the after-life. Then one day I watched TTGL and I shrugged off my despair.
lol, I just saw one of your comments on hank's Brother's channel Mental floss, and now I see you here. What is this madness!
You should do a video on Disney movies' ecological factors. Ex: Nemo, Lion King, lady and the tramp etc.
All i could think of is the lemmings strategy video games. I didnt even know that they were a real thing 😂
Please please please do a video on Cold Fusion . . . the legitimacy of it, the theory, and the possibilities of it . . .
the greatest natural predator of Lemmings, Disney!
I assume that you must speak very clearly.
I am using the automatic captions (which are normally terrible) and it makes sence. I'm probably the only person who cannot hear your voice, but I'm probably the one who is most appreciative of how clear it must be. DFTBA
Has Scishow had an episode on the spectrum crunch yet? That seems like a pretty cool topic.
3:38 When you have done so many times that you get to the point you do the whole ending in one breath
How do fossils form? It was very interesting to hear that lemmings were around 2 million years ago. It would be nice if scishow made a paleontology episode, fossils and spinosaurus and chicken raptor carnivore turkeys. Maybe Emily could do one.
because it kinda is and is not, if you measure the energy of glass you will observe that it it keeps getting lower and lower because it is slowly going towards theoretical solid equilibrium state that is never reached, liquids go all over the place and solids have 'constant' energy... glass does not have either characteristic :)