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Your brothers and sisters won't pass on all your genes. Your are not your brothers and sisters, you're only close related. Otherwise it wouldn't make a difference to be close related or far related. In the end all humans are related, but they are not close. In other words: the offspring 500 years down the line of your own kids are very different then the ones down the line from your sister.
Male lions get chased off once they hit a certain age. The females in the pride end up sticking around and yes their dad reproduce with all females in the pride until another male takes over in which he will kill all cubs from the previous male to bring the lionesses into heat sooner. In this case I don't think Nepotism applies ^^;
In free-range chickens, when it is feeding time, if their mother is high up on the pecking order, the chicks can feed with confidence and will naturally get a bigger portion of the feed. While those whose mothers are near the bottom of the pecking order, they will sadly spend more time running, avoiding to be pecked alongside with their mothers and other chickens, getting less portion of the feed.
It is not much of a concern honestly. It is only during feeding time, they can graze happily around the farm throughout the day. What they can find from the earth are much better than the processed feed anyway, for their health and for those who will eat them. 🤣🤣
There are an astounding number of people in these comments who are mad that slang exists and has apparently moved past them. SciShow has never been dry purely educational content, it's always made an effort to be entertaining and in touch with culture. Slang is part of culture and is not inherently worse than any other kind of language.
Oak trees are famous for going years at a time producing small numbers of acorns while putting most of their resources into growing. Then there will be a single year where all of the oaks in the forest hardly grow at all, but produce massive quantities of acorns. This strategy is part of the revolutionary arms race with the squirrels. The lean years keep the squirrel population down. The bumper crop years provide more acorns than the squirrels can eat. So the buried, but uneaten acorns can become the next generation of oaks. This causes a temporary squirrel population explosion. Then the cycle repeats. Evolution must have resulted in squirrels that understand the oak cycle.
I still love striped hyenas. But when an animal throws a screaming tantrum because she wants to see you, how can you not like her? And yes, I had a full Disney Princess bond with this hyena. She’d calm down when I’d sing to her. When a group of boys was taunting her from the viewing window, she charged. I ran over, shoved them out if the way and stood where she could see me. She skidded to a stop, and had the most apologetic look on her face. After comforting her and telling her she’s a lovely girl… I let one of the zoo employees scold the boys for putting one of the animals in danger and stressing her out
It's amusing to think territory is species specific. The voles, sparrows, foxes, Englishmen and Scotsman are all bickering over overlapping areas between themselves but couldn't care less about eachother.
this is a mundane concept in terms of animal behavior that parallels shitty human behavior. animals trying to maximize their success and pass that onto their progeny is hardly a fantastical concept. somewhere along the line we started to grant animals a sort of sainthood status because they haven't been tainted by humans, but animals doing really terrible things by human standards is just par for the course in reality. easy examples are cannibalism and infanticide, but there are far more sophisticated shitty behaviors in the animals that people consider exclusively human evils. for instance there are several species of slaver ants that actively seek out and raid other colonies to enslave them.
We have no right to call ourselves superior in any way.Not so long ago we ourselves enslaved our fellow human beings and the sad thing here is that,in animals atleast there is an argument that animals don't have the mental faculties to think and analyse everything as we do,but us,inspite of having the abilities to think about fellow human beings,we prioritise an material concept of money over lives of fellow human beings,even if we have enough to survive,we will throw fellow humans,environment and our own race future under the bus for a little bit of more capital accumulation.We fight amongst ourselves as countries and whatever divisions we can think of and kill each other for these reasons.We also leave our fellow humans to die,when we can help them in the means of health or food,inspite of having enough resources or capacity and thinking power to help them,if you look at it properly,we are absolutely worse than almost all animal behaviours,keeping in mind we are naturally have much more ability to think through things.Instead we use that thinking power to create suffering and propogate suffering for our fellow humans and also for other species who have nothing to do with our mistakes or greedy and selfishness.
Well, I partly agree with Saipraneeth that due to how ability to reason we should strive to do better. We should not strive towards some "Natural" order of things and view nature as inherently better. Nature is complex and because nature do not reason, there is no morality there. Also, what is considered natural is a fair bit murky. Artificiality is part of human nature. It is off humans. And humans just have to wise about how humans act, precisely because humans have that capacity. So rather than try to compare human society with an idealized natural order, we should try to compare us to what we want to be. What we want to achieve. Be introspective. Try to be the better us.
Which proves to me that it's born out of the feeling of just needing to survive. That the nasty behaviors arise out of scarcity, or at least the feeling of it, even if it's not the case. Greed is pre-emptive against possible or assumed future scarcity, for instance. Want for control, power and dominance are a reach to try to grasp security. So it makes perfect sense that animals exemplify the same behaviors we've grown to realize that are not only barbaric, but actually not helpful in the long run. We still participate however because there isn't a human on earth that doesn't feel like scarcity isn't just around the corner. All the security the wealthy get at least subconsciously is that they're least likely to be affected, but given the accumulation to always have more wealth mindset, it shows that there's no security among any of us underneath. Animals also calm down when they feel secure. A pet or even a less domesticated animal will respond with much calmer behavior overall if they feel their needs are guaranteed to be met. The few times this also happens in nature, due to resources being plentiful and the population of various creatures in line with it, you also see more relaxed behavior. Nature is born from adapting to your nurture, both in the short and the long term. Insecurity is the root of all evil.
I wonder how human society would look without nepotism. Would we even develop civilization and strive for a better future? I mean my parents worked hard to give me education and a better life than they had, and their parents did the same.
No. Same with capitalism. People today would not even have the ability communicate and organize if not for capitalism. Nor would they even have a job or anything to protest about.
I think its hard to define a society completely without nepotism. Even in your example, helping your child to get better educated or educate them better by themself, is giving your child an advantage over other childs with parents that dont do that (enough).
Honestly the main important distinction between humans and other animals is a slightly higher intelligence, our opposable thumbs and ability to manipulate our environment, and our lack of physical and Biko logical protection, forcing us to use our tools that we made to defend ourselves and then use them to hunt, if we had other adaptations that allowed us to hunt without creating tools to do it, we probably wouldn’t have done as much toolmaking and innovation. Obviously this is an oversimplification but honestly without our tools humans are pretty helpless
Do you want people to burn down their money and mansion before they die or something? The only time i have issue with nepotism is when its used to give someone a job that they are unfit for, and there are other better and more suitable candidates available. Giving your kids all your money and wealth is completely fine.
@@ToneyCrimsonit's moreso that in order to develop wealth, you intrinsically have to take it from someone else, at least in capitalism. So by giving your children millions of dollars in generational wealth, it keeps that money from re entering the economy in a way that benefits anyone but the very rich.
@@TheCococoleyco Please explain what you mean by "in order to develop wealth, you intrinsically have to take it from someone else" Lets say i sell cookies, and everyone loves it so i earn millions by selling them. How did i take from others in this case? Also if you earned your money and payed your taxes (without cheating like so many billionairs do these days), that money is yours to do whatever you want. So if you give it to your kids i could not care less.
Lion King is incredibly inaccurate about how nature works) There is no "hierarchy" of species,first of all. Food pyramid is not a hierarchy. Predators aren't "above" herbivores. Such a false representation does a lot of damage to human perception of natural ecosystems
It confuses me that many say they dislike Nepo babies but are not against monarchy, how many of you were posting pictures of Elizabeth II when she died??? There isn't any Nepo babies less deserving than them!
me, looking at the thumbnail of this video: "how the heck are you guys gonna make this make sense??? haaaa???? HAAAAA??????" me, while watching the video: "I see...!!!"
I have a question! How does the second hand on a clock move every second? Making it go 6 degrees each time would be an easy feat with gears, but how do they make it move every second?
In mechanical clocks, its the escapement mechanism. Basically every time a pendulum swings, it allows a gear to go forward a single tooth. The pendulum is specially tuned to have a frequency of 0.5 HZ, or 2 seconds per back and forth swing.
it's funny to me how folks are so concerned with this in he world of celebrity, but not so much in areas of public life and corporate leadership where it has much more impact.
The difference to humans is: Those privileged animals might have twice as much food or a territory twice as large. But this is not the ratio we're seeing in humans lately. A billionaire has a million times the wealth of other individuals. For those animals such a ratio would basically mean, that a few hyenas would have territories spanning the whole globe. So yes...like with humans basically, a few own 99% of the wealth :D Also: "nepo babies" is a weird word to use for a science show. Never heard of it before. Maybe another title would be clearer about the content.
I mean, that seems like a self evident statement. Nepotism is the natural state of things, and unquestioned in the vast majority of circumstances. We resist it because We Live In A Society, which benefits from greater effort to get the most qualified people into positions (and is harmed when structurally high positions don't have that consideration), and because those without the benefit still have a voice. No one cares if the store owner hands it off to their kid who is competent and experienced or donates a meeting space to their D&D group.
Providing resources to your children and for their life's betterment is a normal evolutionary function aimed at guaranteeing the genetic survival of one's lineage. We should still criticize people willing to unethically accumulate wealth earned from others that go on to spread this unethical accumulation strategy to their nepo babies tho.
Is "Nepo baby" really a thing? I've never heard of the term. I mean I obviously get it, but those would always just be "trust fund babies" or something...
As all the males in hyena packs are below the females I always wonder how they ever manage to be picked to mate and even that act is incredibly hard due to the genetals being so weird. So a male has to leave his pack of incredibly mean hyenas and get accepted in a new pack with mean hyenas who he doesn't know.
It’s actually a misconception that male hyenas are always the lowest rank. It’s just that (as mentioned in the video) rank is hereditary, and newcomers are always lower ranked, so because males are the one who leave home, they are lower ranked in the clans they move into than the hyenas who were born there.
@@stupendemysgeographicus5009 But that would imply the sons of the high ranked females are higher ranked at home but I don't think that's the case, just the sisters.
@@Iflie I don't think their rank system would be gender discriminatory prior to sexual maturation. They'll probably wait for their scent to change before treating male & female young differently, like dogs & wolves discriminate between adult humans but not so much with children.
@@salemsaberhagan Hynenas battle for dominance from birth already, the baby girls are born with mad testosterone so they dominate their brothers. So while I think mom will feed her kids better than others I think boys learn about the pecking order before sexual maturity.
Nature isn't nice LOLOLOL. Also, these behaviors always happen under conditions forced by environment, usually based on survival concerns. So a mother favoring her offspring is probably less emotionally driven, like it is in us and more based on assessing if a child is more likely to survive and prioritize the survival on that child rather than distribute resources between all of them when the others are less likely to. This is the biggest difference in humans to other animals. We consider that cruel. We're advanced enough to realize that survival isn't the ONLY thing that matters, though plenty of our behaviors and social concerns reflect that survival first mindset, proving that we're not really thriving.
Wait, 'nepo' is a term people know? If you're going to talk science, please use scientific terms. Good communication should always be more important than trying to appeal to some group terminology I didn't know existed. I almost didn't watch, I feel the dumbing down of language to be a stumbling block to clear communication. All I get from 'nepo' is some type of familial connection, but it's just a prefix- not to be used alone. So, from your video title- animals have babies that are related to them. Thanks?
I still don't understand how people think this is wrong I work hard to give my kids a head start, if some decides to smoke crack all day why should they have the same advantages???
"Territory is the most important thing an animal can inherit." You don't say. That makes it looks like there is really no difference. We are exactly the same where it matters. If you inherit a lot of territory, let's say territory containing an emerald mine or a hotel in a big city. Just purely hypothetically no specific examples. Not wanting to point at specific people. Let's call our fictional examples: Musky Boy (a hyena, because of the diet related smell) and Hamster Head (obviously a hamster, they have hamster fur on their heads). So Iam very clearly not talking about people, just anthropomorphized animals like in Donald Duck or Aggretsuko.
this is only the 2nd time ive ever heard the phrase nepo babies after mental floss did a video about some last year. doesnt seem to be a common phrase over here if ive avoided it for over 40 years
Saw the title in my notifications, instantly thought African Hyenas. They had better be in this video. They're a perfect example of nepotism in nature. Also, those macaques in Asia that bathe in the natural hot springs during winter. 2 just off the top of my head. I bet I could think of others if I sat down and tried
So this is the definition that people think Privilege means. It's not correct. But hey, at least I know now. People need to start using Google for their dictionary instead of spouting a word without knowing the meaning.
I strongly disagree with the premise of this video. You cannot compare these animals' behavior to the compulsive hoarding of socially produced wealth that we see in humans. This is just another example of how science is used to justify our present social structures as "inevitable" and "natural" rather than imposed by the nature of our social order.
I fail to see how the premise here is justifying our present social structure... Can you explain what you mean by "imposed by the nature of our social order?" I guess I'm struggling to understand why someone would assume anything other than the most parsimonious explanation: that humans are animals, and kin selection is a well-documented and powerful force that results in a variety of interesting behaviors across the animal kingdom, to which humans are no exception. We're finally deconstructing a lot of "human exceptionalism" in the realm of animal behavior research, and I think this is a really good thing for the field overall. Humans are animals that are not immune to evolution; that sentence justifies our "present social structures" about as much as it justifies the junk science done by evolutionary psychologists... We aren't immune to evolution as humans, but that doesn't mean everything we do is adaptive or the result of some kind of genetic determinism when our environment, especially our culture, influences us greatly as well.
this is not a criticsm at all, especially because i'm pretty sure it was in my head, but when you first said "skinks" i head "skanks" and then warbler i heard "warbler" as like War-Blar, as if the second syllable were pronounced using the same consonant as the first, which sounded like a pokemon name lol
Genes mean nothing if a creature doesn't have the resources to reach reproductive age. In human terms Bill Gates' children will be more successful thanyours even though you could do more push-ups.
So, then; you think that animals know that they have genes, and they worry about their family lines? Interesting? Adding to this, you think they know who is related to who, and keep track, to keep out the riff-raff. Do you think humans can learn from this, cuz in today's society, mating is pretty much quantity, not quality?
Evolution will naturally favor genes that code for "protecting their own", because genes that cause their carriers to aid other carriers of the same genes are going to, unsurprisingly, survive and get passed down more often. The animal in question doesn't have to know that's what's happening for it to happen. Some animals do know who is related to whom and how, especially in more social species like elephants and primates. Unclear what you mean by riff-raff, since animals have neither a class system nor social prejudices based on one. If you mean social hierarchies, then yes, animals at the top generally produce more offspring as they are both 1) healthier, and 2) recognized by other animals as being healthier and therefore being good mates. As for your comment about human society, would you like to provide any evidence for the claim in your premise?
They don't know how DNA works, but they can recognize their young and at least mother for the most part, and from there they don't care until you get into the most intelligent species like crows, parrots, and orcas, then they probably know more of their family line because of the social structure
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Buen video, se complementa con tier zoo dog list de el african wild dog sobre los cachorros.
Your brothers and sisters won't pass on all your genes. Your are not your brothers and sisters, you're only close related. Otherwise it wouldn't make a difference to be close related or far related. In the end all humans are related, but they are not close. In other words: the offspring 500 years down the line of your own kids are very different then the ones down the line from your sister.
not a good defination of privelege.
Simba, everything that the sun touches…….will be yours one day
eat the rich
Male lions get chased off once they hit a certain age. The females in the pride end up sticking around and yes their dad reproduce with all females in the pride until another male takes over in which he will kill all cubs from the previous male to bring the lionesses into heat sooner.
In this case I don't think Nepotism applies ^^;
Just for the people who are confused: Nepo is short for Nepotism which essentially means unearned privileges from family connections
"Unearned" specifically because of social connections. Usually familial.
Specifically those gained by family connections. From the Latin “nepos” meaning grandchild or nephew, and is etymologically related to “nephew”
Thank you! 😂
I'd be willing to bet literally anything that "nepo baby" is twitter speak.
Nepotism
In free-range chickens, when it is feeding time, if their mother is high up on the pecking order, the chicks can feed with confidence and will naturally get a bigger portion of the feed. While those whose mothers are near the bottom of the pecking order, they will sadly spend more time running, avoiding to be pecked alongside with their mothers and other chickens, getting less portion of the feed.
Unless you make sure your chickens all get almost equal feed. Except the roosters. Screw them.
It is not much of a concern honestly. It is only during feeding time, they can graze happily around the farm throughout the day. What they can find from the earth are much better than the processed feed anyway, for their health and for those who will eat them. 🤣🤣
How about spreading the feed further? Then the bigitch will have her work cut out?
Would love to have a nepo baby hyaena as the sci show pin of the month 😂👍
DOLLIGHTFUL??? OMG 😭😭😭😭
There are an astounding number of people in these comments who are mad that slang exists and has apparently moved past them. SciShow has never been dry purely educational content, it's always made an effort to be entertaining and in touch with culture. Slang is part of culture and is not inherently worse than any other kind of language.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
As an Indonesian who just had an election this week, this video couldn't have a better timing. 👍
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That timing though
Hold up, are you telling me that SQUIRRELS can predict whether or not there’s gonna be a good harvest next year??
Oak trees are famous for going years at a time producing small numbers of acorns while putting most of their resources into growing. Then there will be a single year where all of the oaks in the forest hardly grow at all, but produce massive quantities of acorns.
This strategy is part of the revolutionary arms race with the squirrels. The lean years keep the squirrel population down. The bumper crop years provide more acorns than the squirrels can eat. So the buried, but uneaten acorns can become the next generation of oaks. This causes a temporary squirrel population explosion. Then the cycle repeats.
Evolution must have resulted in squirrels that understand the oak cycle.
@hamjudo yup its usually a 3-7 year thing. They make a few every year but drop a ton only here and there
"The skanks are pretty competitive" 😂 thanks I needed the stress release!
skinks
The more I learn about hyenas, the more I'm glad I'm not one.
Especially a female 😬
Contagious mouth cancer doesn't sound fun to you?
I still love striped hyenas.
But when an animal throws a screaming tantrum because she wants to see you, how can you not like her? And yes, I had a full Disney Princess bond with this hyena. She’d calm down when I’d sing to her. When a group of boys was taunting her from the viewing window, she charged. I ran over, shoved them out if the way and stood where she could see me. She skidded to a stop, and had the most apologetic look on her face. After comforting her and telling her she’s a lovely girl… I let one of the zoo employees scold the boys for putting one of the animals in danger and stressing her out
@@Other_People I believe you're thinking of Tasmanian devils with the transmissible mouth cancer.
Oh yeah, being human is so much better. I think we might possibly be the worst species to ever exist.
It's amusing to think territory is species specific. The voles, sparrows, foxes, Englishmen and Scotsman are all bickering over overlapping areas between themselves but couldn't care less about eachother.
And then there's that one time that humans tried to get rid of emus
The thumbnail is so unhinged lmao
this is a mundane concept in terms of animal behavior that parallels shitty human behavior. animals trying to maximize their success and pass that onto their progeny is hardly a fantastical concept. somewhere along the line we started to grant animals a sort of sainthood status because they haven't been tainted by humans, but animals doing really terrible things by human standards is just par for the course in reality. easy examples are cannibalism and infanticide, but there are far more sophisticated shitty behaviors in the animals that people consider exclusively human evils. for instance there are several species of slaver ants that actively seek out and raid other colonies to enslave them.
Toads.
ok.
We have no right to call ourselves superior in any way.Not so long ago we ourselves enslaved our fellow human beings and the sad thing here is that,in animals atleast there is an argument that animals don't have the mental faculties to think and analyse everything as we do,but us,inspite of having the abilities to think about fellow human beings,we prioritise an material concept of money over lives of fellow human beings,even if we have enough to survive,we will throw fellow humans,environment and our own race future under the bus for a little bit of more capital accumulation.We fight amongst ourselves as countries and whatever divisions we can think of and kill each other for these reasons.We also leave our fellow humans to die,when we can help them in the means of health or food,inspite of having enough resources or capacity and thinking power to help them,if you look at it properly,we are absolutely worse than almost all animal behaviours,keeping in mind we are naturally have much more ability to think through things.Instead we use that thinking power to create suffering and propogate suffering for our fellow humans and also for other species who have nothing to do with our mistakes or greedy and selfishness.
Well, I partly agree with Saipraneeth that due to how ability to reason we should strive to do better. We should not strive towards some "Natural" order of things and view nature as inherently better. Nature is complex and because nature do not reason, there is no morality there. Also, what is considered natural is a fair bit murky. Artificiality is part of human nature. It is off humans. And humans just have to wise about how humans act, precisely because humans have that capacity.
So rather than try to compare human society with an idealized natural order, we should try to compare us to what we want to be. What we want to achieve. Be introspective. Try to be the better us.
Which proves to me that it's born out of the feeling of just needing to survive. That the nasty behaviors arise out of scarcity, or at least the feeling of it, even if it's not the case. Greed is pre-emptive against possible or assumed future scarcity, for instance. Want for control, power and dominance are a reach to try to grasp security.
So it makes perfect sense that animals exemplify the same behaviors we've grown to realize that are not only barbaric, but actually not helpful in the long run. We still participate however because there isn't a human on earth that doesn't feel like scarcity isn't just around the corner. All the security the wealthy get at least subconsciously is that they're least likely to be affected, but given the accumulation to always have more wealth mindset, it shows that there's no security among any of us underneath.
Animals also calm down when they feel secure. A pet or even a less domesticated animal will respond with much calmer behavior overall if they feel their needs are guaranteed to be met. The few times this also happens in nature, due to resources being plentiful and the population of various creatures in line with it, you also see more relaxed behavior.
Nature is born from adapting to your nurture, both in the short and the long term.
Insecurity is the root of all evil.
That is a wild title that I didn’t expect to pop up in my notifications
I wonder how human society would look without nepotism. Would we even develop civilization and strive for a better future? I mean my parents worked hard to give me education and a better life than they had, and their parents did the same.
No. Same with capitalism. People today would not even have the ability communicate and organize if not for capitalism. Nor would they even have a job or anything to protest about.
@@tapewerm6716 Hard disagree, capitalism is not needed. Its just a economic system and nothing more. We did fine before it and will do fine after it.
I think its hard to define a society completely without nepotism. Even in your example, helping your child to get better educated or educate them better by themself, is giving your child an advantage over other childs with parents that dont do that (enough).
Yea. living a life where you are constantly Jealous of the next is no way to live.
The important distinction between animals and humans is the unnecessarily extravagant extent we go to
Honestly the main important distinction between humans and other animals is a slightly higher intelligence, our opposable thumbs and ability to manipulate our environment, and our lack of physical and Biko logical protection, forcing us to use our tools that we made to defend ourselves and then use them to hunt, if we had other adaptations that allowed us to hunt without creating tools to do it, we probably wouldn’t have done as much toolmaking and innovation. Obviously this is an oversimplification but honestly without our tools humans are pretty helpless
Do you want people to burn down their money and mansion before they die or something? The only time i have issue with nepotism is when its used to give someone a job that they are unfit for, and there are other better and more suitable candidates available. Giving your kids all your money and wealth is completely fine.
Humans are animals.
@@ToneyCrimsonit's moreso that in order to develop wealth, you intrinsically have to take it from someone else, at least in capitalism.
So by giving your children millions of dollars in generational wealth, it keeps that money from re entering the economy in a way that benefits anyone but the very rich.
@@TheCococoleyco Please explain what you mean by "in order to develop wealth, you intrinsically have to take it from someone else" Lets say i sell cookies, and everyone loves it so i earn millions by selling them. How did i take from others in this case?
Also if you earned your money and payed your taxes (without cheating like so many billionairs do these days), that money is yours to do whatever you want. So if you give it to your kids i could not care less.
Maybe the squirrel is being a good mom. Maybe she just doesn't want those lazy kids to eat all her food.
Mama squirrel: don’t become overweight like the squirrels next door.
Nepotism is the natural state of [living] things.
Yes, yes, I know this I’ve seen the Lion King.
Lion King is incredibly inaccurate about how nature works)
There is no "hierarchy" of species,first of all. Food pyramid is not a hierarchy. Predators aren't "above" herbivores. Such a false representation does a lot of damage to human perception of natural ecosystems
I finally know what Hobo Hobo was talking about...
Yay. I watched Hobo Hobo before!
It confuses me that many say they dislike Nepo babies but are not against monarchy, how many of you were posting pictures of Elizabeth II when she died???
There isn't any Nepo babies less deserving than them!
Yall are getting better with the titles, play that algorithm!
Unlike a clickbait title, this title was spot on and succinctly says exactly what topic is covered including the outcome.
Great title!
Hyena lore let's gooooo
me, looking at the thumbnail of this video: "how the heck are you guys gonna make this make sense??? haaaa???? HAAAAA??????"
me, while watching the video: "I see...!!!"
I have a question! How does the second hand on a clock move every second? Making it go 6 degrees each time would be an easy feat with gears, but how do they make it move every second?
In mechanical clocks, its the escapement mechanism. Basically every time a pendulum swings, it allows a gear to go forward a single tooth. The pendulum is specially tuned to have a frequency of 0.5 HZ, or 2 seconds per back and forth swing.
it's funny to me how folks are so concerned with this in he world of celebrity, but not so much in areas of public life and corporate leadership where it has much more impact.
That title caught me off guard.
The difference to humans is: Those privileged animals might have twice as much food or a territory twice as large. But this is not the ratio we're seeing in humans lately. A billionaire has a million times the wealth of other individuals. For those animals such a ratio would basically mean, that a few hyenas would have territories spanning the whole globe. So yes...like with humans basically, a few own 99% of the wealth :D
Also: "nepo babies" is a weird word to use for a science show. Never heard of it before. Maybe another title would be clearer about the content.
Squirrels are just tree rats on crack.
#DefinitelyScienceFact
Tree rats with better PR - that's how I describe them.
Not crack. They'd be sleeping in an hour. More like meth
Best thumbnail evvveeerrr 😂😂😂😂
I mean, that seems like a self evident statement. Nepotism is the natural state of things, and unquestioned in the vast majority of circumstances. We resist it because We Live In A Society, which benefits from greater effort to get the most qualified people into positions (and is harmed when structurally high positions don't have that consideration), and because those without the benefit still have a voice. No one cares if the store owner hands it off to their kid who is competent and experienced or donates a meeting space to their D&D group.
I love the thumbnail!
Inequality is a fundamental force of nature
Almost choked on my dinner when I saw the title lol
This was actually a super interesting watch though even without the title
Weirdo
??? Why
Providing resources to your children and for their life's betterment is a normal evolutionary function aimed at guaranteeing the genetic survival of one's lineage. We should still criticize people willing to unethically accumulate wealth earned from others that go on to spread this unethical accumulation strategy to their nepo babies tho.
So your telling me that there is probably a Hyena equivalent of Taylor Swift? That's kinda comforting I guess.
nature is so cruel... and we are no different.. makes me depressed :(
@@ConontheBinarian well yeah, you described it better - indifference. I dont know...
Almost sound like you said Skank than Skink.
Roger has the best nepo baby. Roger from that youtube channel that ruins stuff on purpose.
I think all the primate species have easy examples of this.
So evolution. How do I make my offspring succeed.
Check out the middens in skyrim.
yep, you shared that word with me. I guess it is a cool word. I will NEVER forget it. So... thank you for that...
Love your content.
with a thumbnail this good this video has to do well
The termite example is a bit confusing. As polygyny is more common than monogyny.
yo that’s nuts
I think I need a translator for most of this video, I'm not american enough to understand the comparatives.
Damn nature you scary!
Maybe we should give the animals communism, see if it works there
Nepo babies. !!
Wolves?
This title 💀
Omg Physogastric. I’ve learnt so much this video but this word is the best lol
Crap. Skinks are monogamous now?
Fascinating information and very funny too! THANKS, YOU ARE GREAT AT THIS!
Is "Nepo baby" really a thing? I've never heard of the term. I mean I obviously get it, but those would always just be "trust fund babies" or something...
Nepo baby seems to have caught on in the past few years specifically to describe multiple generations in the entertainment industry
Describing inherited positions and social clout rather than just inherited wealth.
Heh..heh…she said skanks…
They Learn from human 😂😂 and apply real life
Tsss. Skanks.. 🤣
As all the males in hyena packs are below the females I always wonder how they ever manage to be picked to mate and even that act is incredibly hard due to the genetals being so weird. So a male has to leave his pack of incredibly mean hyenas and get accepted in a new pack with mean hyenas who he doesn't know.
It’s actually a misconception that male hyenas are always the lowest rank. It’s just that (as mentioned in the video) rank is hereditary, and newcomers are always lower ranked, so because males are the one who leave home, they are lower ranked in the clans they move into than the hyenas who were born there.
@@stupendemysgeographicus5009 But that would imply the sons of the high ranked females are higher ranked at home but I don't think that's the case, just the sisters.
@@Iflie I don't think their rank system would be gender discriminatory prior to sexual maturation. They'll probably wait for their scent to change before treating male & female young differently, like dogs & wolves discriminate between adult humans but not so much with children.
@@salemsaberhagan Hynenas battle for dominance from birth already, the baby girls are born with mad testosterone so they dominate their brothers. So while I think mom will feed her kids better than others I think boys learn about the pecking order before sexual maturity.
@@Iflie Yep, rank is determined by the rank of the mother, not by sex (like is commonly stated).
Nature isn't nice LOLOLOL. Also, these behaviors always happen under conditions forced by environment, usually based on survival concerns. So a mother favoring her offspring is probably less emotionally driven, like it is in us and more based on assessing if a child is more likely to survive and prioritize the survival on that child rather than distribute resources between all of them when the others are less likely to.
This is the biggest difference in humans to other animals. We consider that cruel. We're advanced enough to realize that survival isn't the ONLY thing that matters, though plenty of our behaviors and social concerns reflect that survival first mindset, proving that we're not really thriving.
Wait, 'nepo' is a term people know? If you're going to talk science, please use scientific terms. Good communication should always be more important than trying to appeal to some group terminology I didn't know existed. I almost didn't watch, I feel the dumbing down of language to be a stumbling block to clear communication. All I get from 'nepo' is some type of familial connection, but it's just a prefix- not to be used alone. So, from your video title- animals have babies that are related to them. Thanks?
Agreed!
Why does that hyena reminds me of andrew tate?
I still don't understand how people think this is wrong I work hard to give my kids a head start, if some decides to smoke crack all day why should they have the same advantages???
Thank you.
Wait, so, in the face of anarchy, termites just spontaneously/hormonally run for king/queen? What?
"Territory is the most important thing an animal can inherit."
You don't say. That makes it looks like there is really no difference. We are exactly the same where it matters.
If you inherit a lot of territory, let's say territory containing an emerald mine or a hotel in a big city. Just purely hypothetically no specific examples. Not wanting to point at specific people. Let's call our fictional examples: Musky Boy (a hyena, because of the diet related smell) and Hamster Head (obviously a hamster, they have hamster fur on their heads). So Iam very clearly not talking about people, just anthropomorphized animals like in Donald Duck or Aggretsuko.
Do you know what a share is? As used in the phrase "he owned a partial share of a single mine among hundreds."
*only if you're a female baby
White's rock skink is my new spirit animal.
what are nepo babies
nvm
this is only the 2nd time ive ever heard the phrase nepo babies after mental floss did a video about some last year. doesnt seem to be a common phrase over here if ive avoided it for over 40 years
It's a more common phrase in some circles.
“Just as much as we do” is wildly inaccurate
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Saw the title in my notifications, instantly thought African Hyenas. They had better be in this video. They're a perfect example of nepotism in nature.
Also, those macaques in Asia that bathe in the natural hot springs during winter.
2 just off the top of my head. I bet I could think of others if I sat down and tried
So this is the definition that people think Privilege means. It's not correct. But hey, at least I know now. People need to start using Google for their dictionary instead of spouting a word without knowing the meaning.
to everyone watching this rn, wyd? why u got free time to watch this rn? lol
What do you call Nepo babies that qualified and competent?
A myth.
*bows* I'll see myself out.
I strongly disagree with the premise of this video. You cannot compare these animals' behavior to the compulsive hoarding of socially produced wealth that we see in humans. This is just another example of how science is used to justify our present social structures as "inevitable" and "natural" rather than imposed by the nature of our social order.
Here here!
I fail to see how the premise here is justifying our present social structure... Can you explain what you mean by "imposed by the nature of our social order?" I guess I'm struggling to understand why someone would assume anything other than the most parsimonious explanation: that humans are animals, and kin selection is a well-documented and powerful force that results in a variety of interesting behaviors across the animal kingdom, to which humans are no exception. We're finally deconstructing a lot of "human exceptionalism" in the realm of animal behavior research, and I think this is a really good thing for the field overall. Humans are animals that are not immune to evolution; that sentence justifies our "present social structures" about as much as it justifies the junk science done by evolutionary psychologists... We aren't immune to evolution as humans, but that doesn't mean everything we do is adaptive or the result of some kind of genetic determinism when our environment, especially our culture, influences us greatly as well.
Can you not see the similarities?
What an ugly combo of words. "Nepo Baby"
this is not a criticsm at all, especially because i'm pretty sure it was in my head, but when you first said "skinks" i head "skanks" and then warbler i heard "warbler" as like War-Blar, as if the second syllable were pronounced using the same consonant as the first, which sounded like a pokemon name lol
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NEPO.. Naturally Enduring Preferred Outcomes?
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Neprophiliac???
Nepo as in nepotism! 🤦♂️
Well this is a dumb video… the most important resource is genes!!
Genes mean nothing if a creature doesn't have the resources to reach reproductive age.
In human terms Bill Gates' children will be more successful thanyours even though you could do more push-ups.
you either didnt watch the video or dont understand it.
So, then; you think that animals know that they have genes, and they worry about their family lines? Interesting? Adding to this, you think they know who is related to who, and keep track, to keep out the riff-raff. Do you think humans can learn from this, cuz in today's society, mating is pretty much quantity, not quality?
Evolution will naturally favor genes that code for "protecting their own", because genes that cause their carriers to aid other carriers of the same genes are going to, unsurprisingly, survive and get passed down more often. The animal in question doesn't have to know that's what's happening for it to happen. Some animals do know who is related to whom and how, especially in more social species like elephants and primates.
Unclear what you mean by riff-raff, since animals have neither a class system nor social prejudices based on one. If you mean social hierarchies, then yes, animals at the top generally produce more offspring as they are both 1) healthier, and 2) recognized by other animals as being healthier and therefore being good mates.
As for your comment about human society, would you like to provide any evidence for the claim in your premise?
They don't know how DNA works, but they can recognize their young and at least mother for the most part, and from there they don't care until you get into the most intelligent species like crows, parrots, and orcas, then they probably know more of their family line because of the social structure
Comparing this to nepotism under modern capitalism seems counterrevolutionary.
You think there is more nepotism now than in previous eras? Any source?
Mountain gorillas should be treated as people, not as wildlife.
why stop at mountain gorillas?
@@krehnah7541 all apes should be given personhood status as we too are apes
So... science justifying nepotism? Where have I seen that before?
Nature doesn't have to justify anything to you.
What the hell does that title even mean?
A nepo kid is a rich, "daddy's money" kinda kid
Think "my dad's a lawyer" but for the animal world
This felt like a very negative presentation.
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Congrats no one cares ^_^
@@Tigermund3 Plus untrue
@@Tigermund3 thank you for your stern and meaningful opinion!
Brilliant social commentary science communication
Man or woman?😂😂
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Is this supposed to be some sort of edgy joke? Because you're failing at even making it comprehensible.