Why Marine Mammals Suck

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    You might think the way mammals eat is pretty simple: They open their mouths and bite the thing they want to eat. But for some marine mammals, feeding strategies can include suction or vortices!
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  • @SciShow
    @SciShow  Рік тому +15

    Visit brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription.

  • @jocatherine1400
    @jocatherine1400 Рік тому +515

    Read this as "Why Maine animals suck" and I was all prepared for an in depth look at terrible animals in Maine

  • @JLocke0113
    @JLocke0113 Рік тому +291

    And here I thought this was going to be 6 minutes of dunking on marine life.

    • @gildedpeahen876
      @gildedpeahen876 Рік тому +35

      I came here angry and ready to tussle on behalf of my sweet cetaceans…was pleasantly surprised

    • @Svensk7119
      @Svensk7119 Рік тому +8

      I, too, might so have done... yet I was saved by the thumbnail. The water spilling into the giant mouth was enough....

    • @General12th
      @General12th Рік тому +7

      Hank: "AND ANOTHER THING!"

    • @elih6087
      @elih6087 Рік тому +3

      I'm halfway through and I just realized...

    • @suviram.1901
      @suviram.1901 Рік тому +2

      @@elih6087 same lol

  • @spoopyd.8910
    @spoopyd.8910 Рік тому +616

    Because the Ocean is soup, and the sea doggos go *slurp*

  • @joonbee
    @joonbee Рік тому +81

    I completely misunderstood the title, I was like “dang what did marine mammals do? 😭”

  • @danser_theplayer01
    @danser_theplayer01 Рік тому +89

    As a human I can confirm, jetting has been observed in me when I fool around and decide to make a jet of water with my mouth just because I can.

  • @syafranmuflih7139
    @syafranmuflih7139 Рік тому +4

    This is only acceptable clickbait title and whoever came up with this deserve an enormous raise

  • @akumaking1
    @akumaking1 Рік тому +8

    Well the title certainly is eye catching

  • @dotter8
    @dotter8 Рік тому +58

    "Okay, so charging at your food face-first isn't exactly the same as chowing down on a cupcake." *LOL!*
    (although I'm sure there are two-year-olds at birthday parties who might beg to differ)

    • @emmalahenry4306
      @emmalahenry4306 Рік тому +8

      I mean, I MAY have dived at my food face first! Don't be judging.

  • @kevintan5497
    @kevintan5497 Рік тому +43

    bruh im drinking a protein shake while watching this and when he said tongue depression for suction i immediately became self aware of how i was drinking it

    • @bhami
      @bhami Рік тому +4

      Yeah, I just discovered that I can totally suck while still breathing both in and out through my nose!

    • @Blewlongmun
      @Blewlongmun Рік тому +4

      @@bhami Keep that handy if you ever develop a smoking habit lol

    • @kevintan5497
      @kevintan5497 Рік тому

      @@bhami well i mean if you drank water by breathing in there would be problems

  • @irisw8446
    @irisw8446 Рік тому +10

    I was genuinely over 4 minutes into the video before I realized that the title doesn't have the figurative meaning "why marine mamals are stupid idiots" but just its literal meaning

  • @LoveHandle4890
    @LoveHandle4890 Рік тому +15

    Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they live rent free.

  • @shaqkromah
    @shaqkromah Рік тому +41

    I am way too childish to make it through this video without laughing

    • @richardhaselwood9478
      @richardhaselwood9478 Рік тому +3

      *sigh*.... same.

    • @AureusSRB
      @AureusSRB Рік тому +3

      "It's mostly the tongue and the throat doing the suc- THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!!

    • @naufalap
      @naufalap 2 місяці тому

      yeah imagine what mermaids could do

  • @vonBelfry
    @vonBelfry Рік тому +6

    It took me a second to get the title. I was like "WHAT!? NO, SAVE THE WHA- Ohhhhh baleen feeders right right"

  • @1969kodiakbear
    @1969kodiakbear Рік тому +34

    Mammals. This is so cool. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

    • @AntoDesormeaux
      @AntoDesormeaux Рік тому +1

      oh that's recent! Have you seen Sarah Scott? Keep at it, the brain can rewire quite a bit if you're diligent and insistent with retraining it. Best wishes! and thanks, bear's wife, stay awesome

  • @digit975
    @digit975 Рік тому +27

    A fact about how marine mammals eat is literally my bumble bio because it’s so interesting to me 😆

  • @YoungGandalf2325
    @YoungGandalf2325 Рік тому +11

    Maybe they inhale their food, but do they at least have good enough manners to chew with their mouths closed?

  • @uss_04
    @uss_04 Рік тому +2

    When I thought that the title was going to be about Hank bullying Cetaceans.

  • @takeshmode
    @takeshmode Рік тому +7

    Good show! I never really thought about marine animals needing to adapt from chewing to suction feeding but it was definitely very fascinating.

  • @LouforYous
    @LouforYous Рік тому +7

    Thank you again Hank. This was exactly what I needed while eating dinner. 😊

  • @Raees-Divitiae
    @Raees-Divitiae Рік тому +4

    This title rocks, and actually "sucked" me in. I had to click it, and I'm happy I did. TY for your contribution!

  • @digit975
    @digit975 Рік тому +2

    1:57 that’s what she said

  • @christopherbrand5360
    @christopherbrand5360 Рік тому +3

    I would charge straight at a cupcake face first to eat it. Drawing it in via suction is definitely an option too.

  • @jonedwards5953
    @jonedwards5953 Рік тому +5

    Well that's cool, didn't expect scishow to publish a report on the lab I'm part of today

  • @funytomato
    @funytomato Рік тому +6

    Imagine giant quadruped fish who vacuum the air for bugs

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH Рік тому

      Mudskippers use water to vacuum bugs on land (no tongue for swallowing)

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard Рік тому

      Tsar Roomba dog

  • @debralambert1353
    @debralambert1353 Рік тому +1

    As a long-time diver, I didn't find this surprising. I've been "jetting" water out of my mouth for years. I've eaten grapes under water without drinking the salt water that surrounds them using that same process. Press the grape against the roof of your mouth while your regulator sort of bobs in your mouth and water is pressed out. You do swallow a bit of air but it's not too far a stretch from what seals must be doing. And honestly, I've never met a seal with flatulence.

  • @paulacoyle5685
    @paulacoyle5685 Рік тому +1

    "charging at your food face first isn't exactly the same as biting a cupcake"... wait really? it isn't??😂

  • @hungryluma27
    @hungryluma27 Рік тому +4

    Nice title HA I was concerned you were just gonna hate on some of the coolest animals ever

  • @JennyVieve125
    @JennyVieve125 Рік тому +2

    Love this but it's a missed opportunity to show off the hyoid apparatus that allows marine mammals to really suck since it looks like t-rex arms on the skeleton, and also some crabeater and leopard seal teeth that allow them to spit the water out without loosing tiny food. So many more cool pictures. Weird looking marine mammal bones could be a whole new video.

  • @cephasagbago5509
    @cephasagbago5509 Рік тому +1

    1:54 "You might mostly be thinking about your lip when you're sucking "milkshake" through a "straw", but while those help, it's mostly the tongue and the throat doing the sucking" 😭

  • @SamBellows
    @SamBellows Рік тому +1

    Hank i love that shirt. i'm wearing a nearly identical shirt and seeing you wear it affirms to me that i've made the right decisions in wardrobe to channel that chill science dad that you inspire me to be. thanks for teaching me the coolest things for me to pass on to my kiddos! :D

  • @tneprescintr
    @tneprescintr Рік тому +1

    Loved the subtle shade throwing on crypto

  • @charlesmarkgraf5265
    @charlesmarkgraf5265 Рік тому +6

    I have a joke, a swimmer in the ocean sees a bunch of fish, swimming to the surface, just beneath him, once they get to the surface they start flopping around, and he's like hahaha oh it tickles......*GULP*, WELL, now he knows how Jonah felt, maybe he could run down the length of the whale until he's all pooped out 😂

  • @robharwood3538
    @robharwood3538 Рік тому

    @1:14 : I'm pretty sure (but can't immediately confirm) that some birds, such as hummingbirds, do exactly that when they eat, for example, mosquitos and other small insects. The beak, being wider near the base of the beak, is opened rapidly and this allows even agile flying bugs to be caught via suction.

  • @germanomagnone
    @germanomagnone Рік тому +2

    In the 2019 documentary, Amazing Dinoworld, in the second episode: "The World of Sea Monsters", show how the mosasurus (progntenhodon) could suck the prey with the jaws inherited from its ancestors similar to the Varanids (Lizards monitor). in your opinion they have "sprayed" the water into excesc.

  • @klocugh12
    @klocugh12 Рік тому

    Guessing it has to do with evolving for best energy efficiency depending on environment/type of prey, etc.

  • @WiggumRalph
    @WiggumRalph Рік тому +2

    Hank, you're a champ 💪

  • @NeonVisual
    @NeonVisual Рік тому +2

    I will remember this next time McDonalds doesn't give me a straw with my milkshake.

  • @eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812

    Cool, thanks!

  • @CarleyGoshaw28
    @CarleyGoshaw28 Рік тому +2

    If I didn’t see the Humpy in the thumbnail & immediately know this was about feeding habits, I woulda been salty so quick 😂💜🐋 There are also a few sharks that suck(tion feed) as well 😊

  • @aellalee4767
    @aellalee4767 Рік тому

    We use jetting, just usually with hot food.

  • @bloodandempire
    @bloodandempire Рік тому +3

    Haven't seen most of the vid yet but I'm guessing it's because they don't have thumbs

  • @dwaynewilliams3077
    @dwaynewilliams3077 Рік тому

    Thanks... You figured out how to clear my pen when it's clogged...

  • @luckyrashes
    @luckyrashes Рік тому +1

    Ramming directly into your food is not the same thing as eating a cupcake? Challenge accepted

  • @isaiahwall3689
    @isaiahwall3689 Рік тому

    I don’t know, I thing running face first into a cupcake is proper etiquette!

  • @kilometer214
    @kilometer214 Рік тому

    Nice video

  • @kalimer0968
    @kalimer0968 Рік тому

    01:47
    Pygmy Sperm Whale: "Are you done? Can I move?"
    Biologist: "Dude, I'm not taking a simple picture here. I'm sketching you!"
    Pygmy Sperm Whale: *heavy sigh*

  • @blaidddrwg-ye9dy
    @blaidddrwg-ye9dy Рік тому +1

    I like the crypto to casino analogy

  • @AbbreviatedReviews
    @AbbreviatedReviews Рік тому +1

    Always good to learn more about sucking.

  • @erikallen863
    @erikallen863 Рік тому +1

    My nightmare is being vacuumed by a whale shark's mouth.

  • @HaelyO
    @HaelyO Рік тому

    what a brilliant title!

  • @TragoudistrosMPH
    @TragoudistrosMPH Рік тому

    This video title sparked the cetacea-sapien war.
    The treaty was broken...

  • @omegahaxors3306
    @omegahaxors3306 Рік тому +3

    Mentioning crypto and following it up with gambling was a pretty good subtle dig.

  • @MrMighty147
    @MrMighty147 Рік тому +4

    My heart broke when Hank started promoting crypto currencies.

  • @vladtepes97
    @vladtepes97 Рік тому

    hydraulically jetting facts

  • @i.am.not.herbert
    @i.am.not.herbert Рік тому +1

    That's what you do when you see a cupcake is it?
    I think we've identified and isolated the problem.
    Now the next step is to work on it, tubby.

  • @suicune2001
    @suicune2001 Рік тому

    Interesting!

  • @Robert-Peterson
    @Robert-Peterson Рік тому

    I'm quite certain that, given enough time, that there'd eventually be multiple species with an evolutionary solution to eating a cupcake.

  • @General12th
    @General12th Рік тому

    Hi Hank!

  • @nathanandsugar5252
    @nathanandsugar5252 Рік тому +1

    “It’s mostly the tongue and mouth doing the sucking.”- Cardi B

  • @EMNstar
    @EMNstar Рік тому

    Now how do they handle straws?
    Also smoothies and boba

  • @mikehayden7691
    @mikehayden7691 Рік тому

    1:18 Excuse me? When you say that actinopterygian fish make up half of all vertebrates, I certainly hope you meant in marine life!

  • @JadianRadiator
    @JadianRadiator Рік тому +1

    I know that drinking truly pure water will sap the nutrients out of your system.
    But what's the science behind how/why that happens?

    • @Blewlongmun
      @Blewlongmun Рік тому

      Industry myth to sell mineral water, if something sounds fishy google it!

  • @Jumper1155
    @Jumper1155 Рік тому

    Love the video, but by God that cupcake clip in the beginning made me uncomfortable on a level I wasn't expecting.

  • @cynnicysm
    @cynnicysm Рік тому

    you sir have clearly never been in the same room as me and a cupcake!

  • @purplealice
    @purplealice Рік тому +2

    Well, isn't the filter-feeding of sperm whales (plankton being strained out by baleen) a type of suction feeding?

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH Рік тому

      Sperm whales eat squid, primarily.

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard Рік тому +2

      I think you mean baleen whales. Sperm Whales eat mainly squid

  • @ThatFreeWilliam
    @ThatFreeWilliam Рік тому +1

    I suspect many of us would prefer to suck food into our mouths from several inches away were we given that option.

  • @icollectstories5702
    @icollectstories5702 Рік тому

    I blame evolution for connecting the food tube and the breathing tube to the same throat: doesn't matter as much when you are a fish, but can be problematic when you leave the water.

  • @gingerLad
    @gingerLad Рік тому

    I hope the harbour seal test checked the seals weren't aware of the test... cause they'll just mess with you. Maybe you'll need to retest and give them more food, good enough excuse to screw results

  • @NinetiesBB
    @NinetiesBB Рік тому

    My precious sea otters better come out well on the other side of this video!

  • @Nick-Lab
    @Nick-Lab Рік тому

    Question: Do all marine mammals have to drink fresh water? I know manatees do but what do whales and dolphins do?

  • @LordBrittish
    @LordBrittish Рік тому

    Oh my! What a dork!!!
    I mean that in the best way possible.

  • @uss_04
    @uss_04 Рік тому

    Alt Title: Why Marine Mammals go from Suck to Blow.

  • @theperfectbotsteve4916
    @theperfectbotsteve4916 Рік тому +2

    are you assuming I don't suck food in like a vacuum cleaner

  • @JustThatGuy95
    @JustThatGuy95 Рік тому

    Aint u da guy from crash course😃

  • @johnnybadboy3475
    @johnnybadboy3475 Рік тому

    3:56 I think this is a sea lion

  • @Svensk7119
    @Svensk7119 Рік тому

    The kid eating the cupcake was cute.

  • @justayoutuber1906
    @justayoutuber1906 Рік тому +1

    Any mammal in the USMC is a Marine mammal.

  • @Yan-jv6xe
    @Yan-jv6xe Рік тому

    With a title like this, I was expecting a whale diss track....

  • @aliduran2542
    @aliduran2542 Рік тому +1

    Alriiiiight

  • @thewatcher8773
    @thewatcher8773 Рік тому

    Are hippos land mammals at the early stage of evolving back into marine mammals, or are they in the late stages of evolving into land mammals? Hmm…

  • @thefreedomleague7259
    @thefreedomleague7259 Рік тому +4

    the marine mammals ain't gonna like this one

  • @travisbrewer5391
    @travisbrewer5391 Рік тому

    Science never sucks

  • @Andrea-rw9tf
    @Andrea-rw9tf Рік тому

    It’s like smoking a cigar.

  • @alicecain4851
    @alicecain4851 Рік тому

    Am I the only one making crazy faces and strange breathing types while watching this video?

  • @robertneal4244
    @robertneal4244 Рік тому

    How many takes on this video, Hank? Did you make it straight through without laughing? I didn't.😉😁🤣

  • @801leggy
    @801leggy Рік тому

    1:59 Take notes.
    You know who you are...

  • @nakrul987
    @nakrul987 Рік тому +1

    or you can throw your mouth at food like the slingjaw wrasse

  • @ashleycross7593
    @ashleycross7593 Рік тому +1

    They don't suck they filter 😏

  • @_mortiam
    @_mortiam Рік тому

    Probably the most animal friendly science experiment there is 😂

  • @krishnapandeyrock6797
    @krishnapandeyrock6797 Рік тому

    SciShow

  • @maxmusterman3371
    @maxmusterman3371 Рік тому

    😂 hydraulic jetting

  • @Praisethesunson
    @Praisethesunson Рік тому

    Whales are beasts of the ocean. We can't study them when we store them in tanks smaller than SeaWorld's parking lot.

  • @Ryarios
    @Ryarios Рік тому +1

    Hey! At least some of them blow…

  • @wymans668
    @wymans668 Рік тому

    Jello shots.

  • @RobCabreraCh
    @RobCabreraCh Рік тому

    Don't you dare say that my beloved marine mammals suck!

  • @mikebeatstsb7030
    @mikebeatstsb7030 Рік тому

    Yeah ,
    That and they don't have hands👐🤗

  • @jeryuen6563
    @jeryuen6563 Рік тому

    I suction feed popcorn

  • @LordoftheGrunts
    @LordoftheGrunts Рік тому +4

    Wait did Scishow just advertise crypto currency as a side hustle? Wow I expected better from you guys.

  • @zackjohnston-watson4874
    @zackjohnston-watson4874 Рік тому

    I find this very landist