explaining the hotwheels sisyphus spider

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  • @Northflowo
    @Northflowo  6 місяців тому +2398

    I've read your comments and gotta say I had no idea about the ducks

    • @Marx_D._Soul
      @Marx_D._Soul 6 місяців тому +218

      What a beautiful top comment, as someone who knows.

    • @zarnox3071
      @zarnox3071 6 місяців тому +168

      There are certainly a lot of weird and wonderful things when it comes to reproductive organs.
      And also several horrifying things, like that one species of bug or something that literally stab their parts into a female's abdomen, rather than use the already existing hole.

    • @Northflowo
      @Northflowo  6 місяців тому +194

      @@zarnox3071 Certain spider species have similar stuff going on as well, but I don't think it would make for a very fun video :D

    • @chlorophyll1415
      @chlorophyll1415 6 місяців тому +2

      Aahhahaahha

    • @synthwav_
      @synthwav_ 6 місяців тому +28

      if you and any other people want more odd information on creature reproduction, a youtube channel named "Clint's Reptiles" has a GREAT video with this topic

  • @perrisavallon5170
    @perrisavallon5170 6 місяців тому +3831

    I love the contrast of "Oh! it's loopy! Like Hotwheels :)" and "Oh! it's loopy! like Sisyphus :( :("

    • @feature.of.jarjar24
      @feature.of.jarjar24 6 місяців тому +363

      Male private happy?? Female private sad?? This is arachnomisogyny manifest.

    • @williamomalley6081
      @williamomalley6081 6 місяців тому +410

      ⁠@@feature.of.jarjar24 one must imagine sisyphussy happy

    • @logc1921
      @logc1921 6 місяців тому +95

      ​@@williamomalley6081 you didn't have to say that

    • @nietzschebietzsche
      @nietzschebietzsche 6 місяців тому +19

      Ah, but if you're Albert Camus, you like pushing a boulder over and over again for eternity! So you can be :)

    • @nietzschebietzsche
      @nietzschebietzsche 6 місяців тому +15

      ​@@logc1921they did have to say that. The universe demanded it be said 😅

  • @ThunderKnightSilver2
    @ThunderKnightSilver2 6 місяців тому +2441

    In a weird case of convergent evolution, ducks also have a similar thing going on with the whole "labyrinthine vagina to counteract a stupid long penis"

    • @toryumau6798
      @toryumau6798 6 місяців тому

      … “Barbed explosive projectile penis that falls off and regrows every year.” Has got me trembling every time. No amount of human madness can match “Nature’s Fury”. D^B(

    • @armancochranwhite-wb4vb
      @armancochranwhite-wb4vb 6 місяців тому

      i believe that ducks also have cork screw shaped penises right?

    • @Fahrenheit4051
      @Fahrenheit4051 6 місяців тому +222

      Imagine the same stupid thing happening in the world of duck science...
      _The species_ Anas fischeri _can be distinguished from its close relative_ Anas bleedingi _by the counterclockwise orientation of its... you know... the thing_

    • @sephikong8323
      @sephikong8323 6 місяців тому +141

      ​@@Fahrenheit4051"Anas Bleedingi" damn, just we need to change just one vowel and remove another and we're at peak funni

    • @garlicwaffle6146
      @garlicwaffle6146 6 місяців тому +34

      Well I'm closing the internet for today, brain full

  • @denpadolt9242
    @denpadolt9242 6 місяців тому +8062

    The biggest win here is the knowledge that _Hotwheels_ is a recognized genus. Not species, genus. That means that we could hypothetically see more species of _Hotwheels_ spiders than just _H. sisyphus._

    • @Northflowo
      @Northflowo  6 місяців тому +1766

      YEAH any subsequent spiders in this genus will also be named hotwheels and i think that's beautiful

    • @Unfortunate_developement
      @Unfortunate_developement 6 місяців тому +333

      Time to collect all the hot wheels!

    • @RailfoxStudios
      @RailfoxStudios 6 місяців тому +763

      "You wanna see my hotwheels collection?" I ask, reaching to open the door to my room in which thousands of spiders are kept. My date tries to run, but it's too late. His human physique could never hope to outrun the skittering mass advancing upon him. He is engulfed by spiders and consumed in mere moments. Only his nerdy glasses remain. I have already stolen his wallet.
      The Hotwheels Spiders have been fed. I live another day completely of pests, but at what cost?

    • @Exquailibur
      @Exquailibur 6 місяців тому +110

      Now I have goal in life, to catalogue all the extant species of hotwheels.

    • @Exquailibur
      @Exquailibur 6 місяців тому +110

      @@RailfoxStudios I already own 10 tarantulas so whats a few thousand hotwheels?

  • @Callie_Cosmo
    @Callie_Cosmo 6 місяців тому +373

    There’s something aesthetically blunt about a stock photo of a man who’s face is covered by a picture of a woman, who’s face is covered by an ms paint drawing of a cat, it’s like a stacking debuff to my central nervous system

    • @brain_snakes
      @brain_snakes 2 місяці тому +7

      I love it. Achieve desired result with maximum efficiency and zero pretense.

  • @inschaal8454
    @inschaal8454 6 місяців тому +5639

    One must imagine hotwheels happy.

  • @theencolony5595
    @theencolony5595 6 місяців тому +1995

    Today I learned that there's a genital cold war going on between spiders

    • @Shane-el7wy
      @Shane-el7wy 6 місяців тому +152

      Ducks have a similar thing going on.

    • @TABSman1
      @TABSman1 6 місяців тому +52

      r/BrandNewSentence

    • @gord3588
      @gord3588 6 місяців тому

      Genitals race

    • @Smokecall
      @Smokecall 6 місяців тому +16

      Sorta like the length battle happening with Ducks

    • @SanguineDoe
      @SanguineDoe 6 місяців тому +14

      Really its going on in any species

  • @GermanMR
    @GermanMR 6 місяців тому +3611

    I love how all kinds of scientist are a bunch of silly nerds that name things just to be funny

    • @Zedryx69
      @Zedryx69 6 місяців тому +2

      Like whoever named the famous bird species “Blue-footed Booby” and the “Great Tit”

    • @jamesbrooks2179
      @jamesbrooks2179 6 місяців тому +101

      *Boops Boops* *That one spongelike fungus*

    • @TrixterTheFemboy
      @TrixterTheFemboy 6 місяців тому +57

      @@jamesbrooks2179 Supposedly it's "bow-ops bow-ops" but c'mon no one calls it that

    • @Exquailibur
      @Exquailibur 6 місяців тому +77

      I mean there is a trio of beetles named after the legendary bird pokemon

    • @BiggestBigBoy
      @BiggestBigBoy 6 місяців тому +75

      Not all nerds are scientists, but all scientists are nerds.

  • @CobaltIngot
    @CobaltIngot 6 місяців тому +453

    >makes tons of fandom content
    >mostly art and animation
    >makes an incredibly educational video on fucked up spider evolution
    >refuses to elaborate
    bless you. this channel is the best

    • @thenonfurry
      @thenonfurry 5 місяців тому +2

      she didn’t sneeze /j

    • @5frogfrenzy
      @5frogfrenzy 5 місяців тому +2

      Imagine meme arrowing on youtube

  • @nonexistence00
    @nonexistence00 6 місяців тому +1230

    One must imagine _Hotwheels sisyphus_ evolving longer PPs and Spidussies in an existence defined by futile mating

    • @piopio6266
      @piopio6266 6 місяців тому +28

      This comment changed my life

    • @RaffyMaBoi
      @RaffyMaBoi 6 місяців тому +34

      r/BrandNewSentence

    • @vaquri
      @vaquri 6 місяців тому +5

      😐

    • @MajinObama
      @MajinObama 6 місяців тому +4

      „futile mating“? Tell that to the only one of those 3 spiders in the video that has lost the battle since birth… bad genes. Poor fella! The female can choose and the „Chad“ spider has good chances… only 1 has futility.

    • @Adriano_Brl
      @Adriano_Brl 5 місяців тому +3

      ​@@MajinObamawhat are you even talking about? Chad spiders? What the fuck

  • @catincorporated5131
    @catincorporated5131 6 місяців тому +516

    One must imagine sisyphus playing with color changing hotwheels at the pool during his summer break.

    • @vaquri
      @vaquri 6 місяців тому +3

      😐😐😐😐

  • @gustavo_gamer5177
    @gustavo_gamer5177 6 місяців тому +1399

    Help, I came here for funny slugcats, and now I'm having a biology class on spiders. This is the second time this year...

    • @l00p_de_L00p-n1h
      @l00p_de_L00p-n1h 6 місяців тому +29

      What was the first??????

    • @ack7
      @ack7 6 місяців тому +32

      How do you get Rainworld from hot-wheels Sisyphus spider?

    • @ChronologicalFern
      @ChronologicalFern 6 місяців тому +59

      @@ack7 This channel usually makes Rainworld content.

    • @ack7
      @ack7 6 місяців тому +5

      @@ChronologicalFern ah

    • @sparrowwing5347
      @sparrowwing5347 6 місяців тому +32

      welcome to the real northflowo

  • @foxcaty
    @foxcaty 6 місяців тому +101

    I love how many spiders are pretty much only identifiable by their weird junk differences, very powerful of them.

    • @Northflowo
      @Northflowo  6 місяців тому +25

      Yeah! The epigyne in particular is apparently often used to distinguish species from one another.

  • @masterzoroark6664
    @masterzoroark6664 6 місяців тому +711

    About the "unworthy sperm" you reminded me how birds deal with that, especially chickens- hens can "cockblock" a rooster by basically squirting out their load if they don't want it, without issues of getting fertilized.

    • @Freecell82
      @Freecell82 6 місяців тому +81

      And then they put it on the rooster's salad and rule Egypt

    • @jessehunter362
      @jessehunter362 6 місяців тому +43

      Guppies have selective glue for similar purposes!

    • @violetskiy854
      @violetskiy854 6 місяців тому +29

      birds also have a cloaca and most dont have a penis so cool

    • @zarnox3071
      @zarnox3071 6 місяців тому +34

      ​@@violetskiy854 And the few birds that do have very interesting shapes.

    • @violetskiy854
      @violetskiy854 6 місяців тому +18

      @@zarnox3071 they do indeed, for the same reason spiders have complicated embolus's. ✨ parallel evolution ✨

  • @tinoduran4557
    @tinoduran4557 6 місяців тому +203

    Hot Wheels Sisyphus is probably the most existentially nightmarish name I've ever heard

    • @Sanguivore
      @Sanguivore 6 місяців тому +16

      The more you think about it, the worse it gets. Truly Kafkaesque.

    • @meltingmug
      @meltingmug 4 місяці тому

      It is directly adjacent to Minos Phrime, the immortal bacteriophage that is chronically alcoholic.

    • @zja3746
      @zja3746 3 місяці тому +2

      Fu c king real

  • @raven5295
    @raven5295 6 місяців тому +119

    the spiders really found a way to make unwanted pregnancies a sisyphean task, love that for her

  • @Ezekiel_Allium
    @Ezekiel_Allium 6 місяців тому +218

    "Double Spitting Spiderussy" is such a beautiful arrangement of words. True Poetry

    • @a.charles8080
      @a.charles8080 5 місяців тому +4

      say it to the tune of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme for extra comedy

  • @-Foxytato-
    @-Foxytato- 6 місяців тому +274

    am i horrified of spiders? yes
    do i now know how spider reproductive systems work? yeah.

  • @sapphanimates
    @sapphanimates 6 місяців тому +331

    i love how this channel went from leafpool wondering 'how does prengan?' to north just casually explaining how spidussy works

  • @WingsAboveCS
    @WingsAboveCS 6 місяців тому +28

    Spiderman's been real quiet since this video dropped.

  • @jaydhd_lmnop
    @jaydhd_lmnop 6 місяців тому +185

    When I woke up, I did NOT think I’d be learning about spider genitals.
    Low key glad I did- this was oddly interesting

  • @grande1900
    @grande1900 4 місяці тому +8

    The fact that the name of the answerer of the original YA question was Sisyphus makes this even better

  • @thatweirdo35
    @thatweirdo35 6 місяців тому +718

    North, I think you accidentally maybe have kickstarted my journey into being obsessed with spiders

    • @Northflowo
      @Northflowo  6 місяців тому +208

      Good :3

    • @epic_burger_3000
      @epic_burger_3000 6 місяців тому +44

      I am scraded of spidr :(

    • @cmmpr111
      @cmmpr111 6 місяців тому +81

      ​​​@@epic_burger_300027 megatons of spiders are being shipped to your house.

    • @jamesbrooks2179
      @jamesbrooks2179 6 місяців тому +15

      @@cmmpr111 What in 9mm are you talking about? We only use megatons when we are measuring our nuke sizes.

    • @eddieflorio535
      @eddieflorio535 6 місяців тому +45

      @@epic_burger_300027 megatons of spiders are being shipped to your house.

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean 6 місяців тому +79

    "Actually, you can apply the notion of 'most of the time' to everything I say, because there's lots of spider species and they're very diverse and there are probably exceptions to everything."
    Honestly, that's true of pretty much everything in biology. Rules without exceptions are themselves exceptional.

  • @adrianscheffler1323
    @adrianscheffler1323 6 місяців тому +217

    Very interesting video, even though it's definitely not even close to anything I would have ever expected from this channel.
    Keep being random. It's quite refreshing to see a youtuber post whatever they like without too much concern about appealing to their regular audience :)

    • @The_Sweet_Res
      @The_Sweet_Res 6 місяців тому +4

      Keeping being random comes with the risk of the randomness itself becoming a constant, defying its original point. Watch it there

  • @LesterThompson-o6m
    @LesterThompson-o6m 6 місяців тому +62

    I think out of all biologists arachnologists give the funniest names to species, a while ago I saw a species called Papuamyr omhifosga, "omhifosga" being an acronym for "Och, my head is full of spider genitalia" which I imagine is a common problem for arachnologists.

  • @zenn9836
    @zenn9836 6 місяців тому +227

    Hotwheels spider. Oh yeah. Oh heck yeah.

    • @CptnMango9108
      @CptnMango9108 6 місяців тому +6

      10 y/o me jumping and kicking

  • @kratangg-arang
    @kratangg-arang 5 місяців тому +6

    5:10 “Spitting Double Spiderussy” is a pristine description that definitely wasn’t on my list of top ten phrases I expected to be hearing today.

  • @Kittygameplayz
    @Kittygameplayz 6 місяців тому +78

    hotwheels sisyphus is such a silly name and the stock images are so funny
    and then it's a super serious video
    good job 👍

  • @fahdrightone7428
    @fahdrightone7428 6 місяців тому +35

    I not joking when I say I want to see more of Northflowo doing fun anatomy/physiology lessons of random, obscure or unique animals in this same format.
    It's so incredibly different from her usual style and I love it to death.

  • @JustaFloatingEye
    @JustaFloatingEye 6 місяців тому +49

    As someone who has a pet tarantula, today I realised I am not very good at spider anatomy.

    • @derpychicken2131
      @derpychicken2131 3 місяці тому +3

      After you keep enough spiders you start to realize that a ton of the closely related species are only able to be differentiated by genitalia and that’s how you already know all the information before watching the video lmao

  • @JackRackam
    @JackRackam 3 місяці тому +3

    This title did *not* disappoint. Between this and Hank Green's video on worm cuppellation I might soon have a new research hobby on my hands

  • @averagejoe2933
    @averagejoe2933 6 місяців тому +127

    That was interesting to say the least Spiders are indeed funky little fellas I find them quite neat 👍

  • @biornicles
    @biornicles 6 місяців тому +13

    You know, I had no idea about the hotwheels sisyphus spider, but I couldn’t scroll past this video

  • @greenboi8690
    @greenboi8690 6 місяців тому +748

    As someone with arachnophobia, I see this as an absolute... loss

  • @ravensquote7206
    @ravensquote7206 6 місяців тому +24

    0:15 Last time I saw that graphic, TurboAutism was adding trumpets.

  • @Stimpaec
    @Stimpaec 6 місяців тому +50

    A video about spider sex was NOT what i was expecting from this channel. Great video tho

    • @Streetcleanergaming
      @Streetcleanergaming 6 місяців тому +1

      The topic would be something I would expect form some less than SFW site like a NH monster girl Dojin
      Although why is this interesting to me it's just so random? It's also nowhere near what I watch

  • @tikimillie
    @tikimillie 6 місяців тому +64

    I love when my babies dont dry out and die

  • @iclynnx
    @iclynnx 6 місяців тому +66

    Not the video I expected but one I actually ended up listening to in fascination. Thanks for the educational content, Miss Northflowo 👌

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606
    @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 6 місяців тому +6

    Imagine having groins so freaky that your entire species is named after them

  • @guydudething2795
    @guydudething2795 6 місяців тому +19

    Now i understand the "Keep em' coming" line

  • @kratangg-arang
    @kratangg-arang 5 місяців тому +9

    As someone that understood spider reproduction, but had never heard of this species this the exact content I needed in my life.

  • @Si1verWings
    @Si1verWings 6 місяців тому +42

    Honestly i dont have any significant interest in spiders or even biology BUT it was really interesting to listen to this infodump and I DID end up watching the whole thing lol

  • @mlgproplayer2915
    @mlgproplayer2915 5 місяців тому +18

    The funny thing is that the meme "Does the spider have Pusspuss?" had someone called Sisyphus in the response.

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard 3 місяці тому +2

      That's an ancient one lol

  • @gisc1690
    @gisc1690 6 місяців тому +20

    This was genuinely one of the most interesting videos I've ever watched

  • @MoonFlower_Doodles
    @MoonFlower_Doodles 6 місяців тому +12

    Spider 1: "Alright, so what did the humans name you?"
    Spider 2: "Hotwheels Sisyphus spider."

  • @CristhianMosquera-zr9wj
    @CristhianMosquera-zr9wj 6 місяців тому +4

    I just woke up it 7 AM, sunday and the build up to the video onto why Hotwheels and Sisyphus made me jaw open in awe as you had correctly taught me why the name and information about spiders that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise

  • @nasgor22
    @nasgor22 6 місяців тому +7

    hotwheels sisyphus spider was not a string of words that i was expecting today

  • @slajmekpl83
    @slajmekpl83 6 місяців тому +5

    As a man who's deeply afraid of spiders, I feel like I got a little bit closer to not being scared of them with this new found information.
    Thank you.

  • @dazc9965
    @dazc9965 6 місяців тому +16

    oh my god i'm not joking, spiders are one of my favorite things ever and i was grinning the whole time watching this video, it's so good! you're actually super talented at explaining things in a silly and easily digestible way and i'm glad you're using your powers for good (distributing spider mating knowledge to the masses). would be THRILLED to see more content like this in the future just about random interesting things (but more spiders would be extra cool oOwOo)

    • @Northflowo
      @Northflowo  6 місяців тому +8

      I have found my target audience i see
      I love talking about spiders

  • @nyuh
    @nyuh 6 місяців тому +12

    i for one support this channel's new science communication endevours very much genuinely

  • @trentonbowen9071
    @trentonbowen9071 6 місяців тому +4

    So glad this is the first video I found from your channel. Thanks for finally answering the age old question.

  • @CherryBlossom-rs7lm
    @CherryBlossom-rs7lm 5 місяців тому +3

    Desperately need more videos about spider and other bugs or animals that have neat and funny little things about them. Your delivery is phenomenal and I felt a part of my soul detach when I found you have no other videos like these.

  • @eur0be4t3r
    @eur0be4t3r 5 місяців тому +7

    1:55 that polar bear is looking quite zen

  • @Kufunninapuh
    @Kufunninapuh 6 місяців тому +5

    One of the strongest video titles on the internet.

  • @salamandersharp
    @salamandersharp 3 місяці тому +2

    i think tantalus would be a more fitting name. his punishment in hades was to sit in a pool with a fruit tree hanging over him. whenever he tried to drink from the pool, the water level would lower, and when he tried to reach for fruit, the branches would bend out of reach

  • @subi-prime
    @subi-prime 6 місяців тому +14

    Northflowo arachnology content is not something I knew I needed

  • @roninjasper
    @roninjasper 5 місяців тому +2

    Watching this whole video at 3:23 am is such a mental flashbang

  • @teamkilled1227
    @teamkilled1227 6 місяців тому +107

    THIS PRISON… TO HOLD ME?

    • @karma40723
      @karma40723 6 місяців тому +17

      A visitor?

    • @teamkilled1227
      @teamkilled1227 6 місяців тому

      @@karma40723 hmm… indeed, i have slept long enough.

    • @kirbmaster9405
      @kirbmaster9405 5 місяців тому +7

      Indeed. I have slept long enough

    • @chocolat5883
      @chocolat5883 5 місяців тому +7

      The kingdom of heaven has long since forgotten my name, and i am EAGER to make them remember..

    • @connorgeorg4175
      @connorgeorg4175 5 місяців тому +5

      ...But I must admit, the blood of Minos stains your hands...

  • @the_real_Kurt_Yarish
    @the_real_Kurt_Yarish 6 місяців тому +4

    my initial assumption given the title was of a spider that evolved to speedrun some kind of torturous, sisyphean task so quickly that only the term "Hotwheels" could suffice.
    That, or some INSANE Hotwheels lore.

  • @MarlettesStorm
    @MarlettesStorm 6 місяців тому +102

    i literally watched an ultrakill video (edited 5 months later to not cause confusion)

    • @MarlettesStorm
      @MarlettesStorm 6 місяців тому +39

      this prison... to hold.. ME???

    • @FiSH-iSH
      @FiSH-iSH 6 місяців тому +25

      A visitor...? Mmm, indeed. I have slept long enough.

    • @MarlettesStorm
      @MarlettesStorm 6 місяців тому +18

      @@FiSH-iSH the kingdom of heaven has long since forgotten my name, and i am EAGER to make them remember

    • @ferro9926
      @ferro9926 6 місяців тому +37

      I don't personally find the characters there all too attractive, but i don't have much room to judge either

    • @nonexistence00
      @nonexistence00 6 місяців тому +15

      However, the blood of Minos stains your hands. And I must admit... I'm curious about your skills, Weapon.

  • @Anpedu
    @Anpedu 6 місяців тому +6

    The evolution of this channel is immaculate

  • @ostronouto6869
    @ostronouto6869 6 місяців тому +7

    YES YES YES!!!! I LOVE BIOLOGY INFODUMPS!!! THANK YOU NORTH :D
    Among my friends, whenever there is a weird bug or any other animal, I'm the one they look at for information about it (and normally I have said information lol)

  • @scarymonsterzz
    @scarymonsterzz 6 місяців тому +2

    I saw "hotwheels sisyphus spider" and honestly thought this video was going to be about a spider pushing a hotwheels car up a track and it repeatedly failing.

  • @pastrapatur1034
    @pastrapatur1034 6 місяців тому +14

    ooooh so thats how hotwheels are made

  • @matayaburroughs787
    @matayaburroughs787 6 місяців тому +4

    when i first read the title i thought the spider was discovered in some kid's hotwheel track, forever pushing a toy car up the neon plastic for the rest of eternity for tricking their arachnid higher power

  • @Feezee223
    @Feezee223 6 місяців тому +8

    Yay new random animal lore to add to my collection that i make my parents here about randomly

    • @collinbeal
      @collinbeal 6 місяців тому

      It's going right there with crossdressing cuttlefish, egg-bearing organ displacement in kiwis, hyena pseudopeni, giraffe fights, the dolphin LSD house study conducted with a grant from the US government that ended after it was found out that they were jacking dolphins off, trans lions, sea otters doing unspeakable atrocities to dead infant seals, the censored report on the sexual proclivities of the Adélie penguin, barbed cat penises, alpha wolves not being a thing, how terrifying hippos are, infanticidal cannibalism to provoke estrus in dolphins and chimpanzees, penguin kidnapping, orcas intentionally beaching themselves to hunt and working with whalers to find sperm whales, canine-human co-evolution, hominid expansion to the new grassland biome during the Myocene epoch, and crows in Japan reading road crossing signals.

  • @wvplasticspoon
    @wvplasticspoon 5 місяців тому +2

    I thought this would be about a hotwheels car that's Sisyphus Prime with spider legs but learned how spiders get freaky.

  • @lucyfer_the_bat
    @lucyfer_the_bat 6 місяців тому +22

    so basically spiders have sex 2
    also this was a banger video

  • @ValToadstool
    @ValToadstool 6 місяців тому +1

    When I saw this video I first assumed it was about someone putting a spider on a hotwheels track and forcing it to do some task over and over again

  • @anjoliebarrios8906
    @anjoliebarrios8906 6 місяців тому +10

    4:30 the way you describe this seems like the female spider is making conscious decisions and planning for the future, especially the 'perfect time for the safest babies' part. Are spiders truly capable of logic and planning?? Or is it just an emotional / hormonal thing thing where they feel safe?

    • @Northflowo
      @Northflowo  6 місяців тому +9

      You could ask that of any animal, really! Impossible to tell whether things are done due to intention or some kind of hormonal cue. Even in more complex animals like dogs or birds or humans, the decisions we typically attribute to conscious choice can be tracked back to chemistry.

    • @gracenantaya8394
      @gracenantaya8394 3 місяці тому +4

      I mean you may not like to hear it but a lot of human actions are mostly hormonal

  • @IamSans_
    @IamSans_ 6 місяців тому +2

    My brain read the tittle as: “explaining hotwheels to sisyphus spider”

  • @AmberAxo
    @AmberAxo 6 місяців тому +7

    ...I woke up and have no regrets seeing this video.

  • @nintendofan707
    @nintendofan707 6 місяців тому +1

    Anyone else imagine a slug cat with professor glasses giving the class a lesson about spiders? Pay attention it will be on the test!

  • @s.s.r.s2641
    @s.s.r.s2641 6 місяців тому +9

    "a visitor hmmm indeed"

  • @ChatoyantHyena
    @ChatoyantHyena 6 місяців тому +2

    This entire video is such a vibe and im here for your random info dumping

  • @daan804
    @daan804 4 місяці тому +12

    6:16 oooh so size does matter

  • @SilverZenCompass
    @SilverZenCompass 6 місяців тому +2

    You know... I was not expecting these particular reasons for the bizarre nomenclature.

  • @emanuelvendramini2045
    @emanuelvendramini2045 6 місяців тому +15

    A visitor? Hm, indeed

  • @SuperJgiu
    @SuperJgiu 6 місяців тому +1

    I thought I found the best biology channel and wanted to binge watch this type of videos. Please make more of this content, I already subscribed

  • @PixlsInPain
    @PixlsInPain 6 місяців тому +17

    I love this video. Very informative. AND I LOVE SPIDERS!!!!!! Maybe I just love them a lot cause I’m Australian, AUSTRALIA! 🕷️🕷️🐨🐨🇦🇺🇦🇺🪸🪸🦘🦘🏉🏉!! Also my favourite spider is definitely the Lettered Peacock Spider, I get them near my house, very cute. I’m rambling to much

  • @Churrb
    @Churrb 6 місяців тому +1

    the last time I watched this channel was years ago when I was still into Warriors, you’ve come far

  • @nechronom8269
    @nechronom8269 6 місяців тому +62

    '...evidence of an evolutionary battle over Reproductive Rights'. That is so funny. And feels like a perfect way of describing it. Though I can't well imagine how female spiders would knowingly evolve longer reproductive tracks.
    Anyways thanks for the spider facts

    • @silvermoon6175
      @silvermoon6175 6 місяців тому +51

      Maybe the females with shorter tracks end up forced to have a clutch in bad conditions when a male by passes the storage system. Thus the spiders with shorter tracks get picked off sooner than the females that can choose the fertilization date.

    • @povilasbuda6490
      @povilasbuda6490 6 місяців тому +1

      How do the the male spiders evolve longer PPs? The kid spiders decide they don't want to end up like their momma's ex?

    • @codeninja3295
      @codeninja3295 6 місяців тому +20

      @@povilasbuda6490mutation leads to spider with longer pp, which is able to pass on its genetic material more effectively, so it ends up having more children than shorter pp spiders, so the trait becomes more common and spreads thru the population generation by generation; in other words, natural selection and survival of the fittest

    • @whatisthisayoutubechannel
      @whatisthisayoutubechannel 6 місяців тому +5

      They don’t, it’s just that having longer pp/pusspuss is evolutionarily advantageous so individuals who do end up having more babies

    • @gorway6807
      @gorway6807 6 місяців тому

      why did you capitalize "reproductive rights"? it's not a proper noun

  • @shadesofvioletcat
    @shadesofvioletcat 5 місяців тому +1

    Once upon a time when I was killing time at my university library, I read about spider mating and that the males sometimes break off their genital bulb within the female’s duct to prevent her from mating with another male

    • @Northflowo
      @Northflowo  5 місяців тому +2

      This is true! Not every species does this, but some of them do
      There are also some species that have genital bulbs so large that they need to shed one just to be able to function.

  • @conspiracypanda1200
    @conspiracypanda1200 6 місяців тому +5

    She Sisyphus on my Hotwheels 'till I Spooder

  • @Aznackdreampower
    @Aznackdreampower 4 місяці тому +1

    i clicked on this physically saying out loud 'what the fuck is a hotwheels sisyphus spider' and now I know, thank you Northflowo!

  • @ahdrjjgvc
    @ahdrjjgvc 6 місяців тому +5

    Welp, I sure did learn something today

  • @angstydoodles1101
    @angstydoodles1101 6 місяців тому +1

    I was really hoping this was gonna be about a scientific study wherein a spider doggedly tries to roll a ball up a Hotwheels track despite it falling down every time it gets close to the top. This is cool too.

  • @Sepi-chu_loves_moths
    @Sepi-chu_loves_moths 6 місяців тому +32

    BIOLOGY INFODUMP TIME YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
    Oh also, spiders may not have two penises but sharks and rays do (sort of)

  • @Someguydraws
    @Someguydraws 6 місяців тому +1

    Its a wierd fact how this is probably the most educational Northflowo video (so far). But I am all for it, I adore neiche stuff like this

  • @addmesser5379
    @addmesser5379 6 місяців тому +3

    Imagine a more intelligent species discovers humans and name us “Stick Berry Demon Goat”

  • @Aethemix
    @Aethemix 6 місяців тому +1

    I'm bookmarking this video for whenever someone says that anything about human behaviour is "unnatural"

    • @Northflowo
      @Northflowo  6 місяців тому +1

      Pointing out the unnaturality of glasses can help too in that regard

  • @The_Sweet_Res
    @The_Sweet_Res 6 місяців тому +16

    Why has this channel suddenly turned into a biology class?

  • @Lonewolf360gaming
    @Lonewolf360gaming 6 місяців тому +1

    This is how i find out that there's a whole spider species named after hotwheels track which is both fascinating and hilarious

  • @TheOneTrueNothing
    @TheOneTrueNothing 6 місяців тому +51

    The concept of a species of spider locked in an evolutionary battle over the bodily autonomy of the female is incredibly raw in the current sociopolitical climate

    • @user-wb8iu1hl6i
      @user-wb8iu1hl6i 6 місяців тому

      All life is warfare, even between the same species. Males and females are not complementary, they are adversarial. It’s an unfortunate quirk of evolution that the gametes you need to reproduce are trapped in the other sex’s body.

  • @arnaskomka4625
    @arnaskomka4625 6 місяців тому +1

    This has to be one of my favourite rainworld animations

  • @1KiloDepartment
    @1KiloDepartment 6 місяців тому +4

    4:05 Noh, this is disgraceful against jumping spiders >:(
    Not only are they cute, they are smart. They can even track their target and navigate their surroundings like we do.
    No I'm not held hostage by hundreds of jumping spiders?

  • @someoldcliche
    @someoldcliche 5 місяців тому +1

    after all these years I can't believe that spiders do, in fact, have puss puss

  • @chikii270
    @chikii270 6 місяців тому +9

    Super interesting, but uh…very random?

  • @DreamseedVR
    @DreamseedVR 6 місяців тому +1

    This video is just filled with way too many gems