Predators with Jaida Elcock | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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  • @SciShowTangents
    @SciShowTangents  4 місяці тому +3

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  • @OrchidWine
    @OrchidWine 4 місяці тому +31

    I’M SO EXCITED FOR THIS EPISODE!!!! Waking up early for jazz band has finally paid off 😂

    • @Furcht.Fritzz
      @Furcht.Fritzz 2 місяці тому

      yooo what do you play?

    • @OrchidWine
      @OrchidWine 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Furcht.Fritzz I play trombone, what do you play?

    • @Furcht.Fritzz
      @Furcht.Fritzz 2 місяці тому

      @@OrchidWine bass drum !

  • @spacekee9071
    @spacekee9071 4 місяці тому +10

    sam is so correct about rabbits. as a domestic bun owner, these guys are so silly even when they're trying to be scary. Like oh no your sharp teeth and claws! Let me just hold you in a towel instead as I clip your nails. or the legs - they have a lot of power and most of their "scary" capacity is sudden movements, but I've watched my bun scare herself silly repeatedly this week by stepping on her shallow cardboard box of toys and flipping it.
    edit: WAIT HEY THAT'S me that's my question!!!

    • @CatBarefield
      @CatBarefield 4 місяці тому

      Awwww! Bunnies are just the best 🐰

  • @carollollol
    @carollollol 4 місяці тому +17

    Anyone who has been shown Watership down way too young: Yup bunnies are scary AF!!

    • @ToniAllen
      @ToniAllen 4 місяці тому

      I named mine Hacksaw for a reason, haha.

    • @CritterKeeper01
      @CritterKeeper01 4 місяці тому

      I have has a bunny rabbit growl at me, baring its very large teeth, crouch, and then lunge at my hand. But that is a very, very rare thing. 99% of bunnies are either big sweeties or scared and avoiding contact.

    • @Eloraurora
      @Eloraurora 4 місяці тому

      ​@@CritterKeeper01 I have a senior bun who does an 'OMG food!' lunge when he's hungry, and he'll sometimes nip my hand because his vision's getting worse and he can't see the food perimeter.

    • @amandaweires
      @amandaweires 4 місяці тому

      @Eloraurora are you sure he hasn't developed a taste for human flesh?

  • @HouseHooligan
    @HouseHooligan 4 місяці тому +13

    Omg; thank you Tangents. Off to traumatize people with stories of lagomorph carnivory!

  • @kajae7450
    @kajae7450 2 місяці тому +2

    I think it is a lot about language; in swedish all animals are called "djur" and predators are called "rov-djur" aka. 'animals' and something like 'robber -animals'.
    Love from sweden

  • @skinwalker3953
    @skinwalker3953 4 місяці тому +17

    *The ocean is not shark infested, they live there, you do not.*
    Sharks are the original ocean-puppies
    They're just curious.

  • @tullaris07
    @tullaris07 4 місяці тому +21

    I had a rabbit named Walnut who would run in fear at the smell of dog food. One day he tried a nibble instead of running. From that moment on I had to put up the dog food because the rabbit would try to eat it all.

    • @Notturna.
      @Notturna. 2 місяці тому +1

      Same! My dwarf lopp loved chilling with the dogs and sharing their dinner if we didn't intercede

  • @lisanorwoodtreefarm
    @lisanorwoodtreefarm 4 місяці тому +15

    Looking at the difference in forest understory where deer are excluded vs where they're overpopulated, deer absolutely eat the whole plants and are predatory to young trees.
    Also: alpacas are like, half the size of llamas and neither have upper teeth.

  • @IceMetalPunk
    @IceMetalPunk 4 місяці тому +3

    That grouper/eel fact is *amazing* to me! But also, I didn't know octopuses punch fish; I wonder if that's where the Pokemon Clobbopus comes from?

  • @dziooooo
    @dziooooo 2 місяці тому +1

    51:45 wait, SMOK WAWELSKI? As in, dragon from Polish legend, living under the Cracow castle?

  • @ragerequiem6323
    @ragerequiem6323 4 місяці тому +5

    Regular rabbit = not scary. Jackrabbit = spooky. They are bigger than you expect.

  • @VictoriaCaswell
    @VictoriaCaswell 4 місяці тому +12

    I am listening but also distracted by that really nice green paint swatch(?) behind Ceri.

    • @anarchyneverdies3567
      @anarchyneverdies3567 4 місяці тому +2

      Dang it, did you have to mention it? 😂 I guess if the room is green a few videos from now we'll know it's a swatch

    • @VictoriaCaswell
      @VictoriaCaswell 4 місяці тому +2

      @@anarchyneverdies3567 its a lovely colour!!

    • @shannona2517
      @shannona2517 4 місяці тому +2

      There was an episode recently where Ceri had her green swatch and another had a blue swatch!

    • @VictoriaCaswell
      @VictoriaCaswell 4 місяці тому +1

      @@shannona2517 ahh I missed those, maybe I was listening more than watching!

    • @shannona2517
      @shannona2517 4 місяці тому

      @@VictoriaCaswell I think it was the gay animals one, but I could be very wrong as I didn’t check again lol.
      I found it amusing because I generally listen without watching as well but I believe Ceri has had it since the move, and then randomly the guest did too!

  • @Levacque
    @Levacque 2 місяці тому +1

    10:43 if anything, people used to assign HIGHER morality to predatory animals. Like, we related to other animals that were capable of killing. We saw our own martial tendencies in them and made cultural connections between ours and their behaviour because human leaders used to value violence so highly. We would use language like "lesser beasts" to describe prey animals. And we used association with predators to amplify the standing of powerful families by associating lions with nobility, foxes with cunning, for some examples.
    I think Hank has it backwards only because he's thinking with a modern mind, but back when predatory animals had a significant impact on everyday lives, they imprinted on us a highly impressive stature, and we considered predatory animals to be of the highest class below humans for many centuries (the phrase "King of the Jungle" comes to mind).

  • @DominikJaniec
    @DominikJaniec 4 місяці тому +9

    22:22 you're not afraid of charging rabbit? it shows that you didn't watch the holy grail form great monty python movie ;)

  • @abigailsmith6000
    @abigailsmith6000 4 місяці тому +9

    Disappointed no one pointed out the cat on Ceri's couch the whole time

    • @CatBarefield
      @CatBarefield 4 місяці тому +1

      I thought it was part of the mic ahahhahah

    • @storey662
      @storey662 3 місяці тому

      @@CatBarefieldSAME! Only noticed it after this comment!

  • @EmilySmirleGURPS
    @EmilySmirleGURPS 4 місяці тому +9

    Re: eating land carnivores, and Hank's example of polar bears - bears are one of the exceptions, although they're (typically) eating many more plants than meat.
    Polar bears are the exception; for arctic peoples, who by necessity have a very meat heavy diet (due to there not being much plant food). Polar bears are only treated differently from other aquatic/semi-aquatic mammals because there's kill caps for them, not because anyone's shy of eating them.
    Although I suppose since they're pretty darn aquatic, possibly that just puts them back into the way we eat fish.

  • @pirahna
    @pirahna 4 місяці тому +6

    I would argue that the land animals we eat most, chickens and pigs, are both omnivorous predators.

  • @user-li9vt5mi2n
    @user-li9vt5mi2n 4 місяці тому +4

    All sharks are great!!

  • @CindiKn
    @CindiKn 4 місяці тому +5

    Moray eels are grouper groupies?

  • @unicornep1818
    @unicornep1818 4 місяці тому +5

    Inky is back, I'm so happy

  • @Conus426
    @Conus426 4 місяці тому

    Yay this show is my favourite thing on the internet, you are all amazing! Happy that Jaida is joining for this one, her scishow stuff was very cool

  • @cloud_appreciation_society
    @cloud_appreciation_society 4 місяці тому +6

    I'm glad Sam was there to complain about the technical definition of predator, it made me so mad 😆

    • @sarahcopel5874
      @sarahcopel5874 2 місяці тому

      Right?? Also there are plenty of animals we traditionally think of as predators that kill an animal but then don't eat the whole thing, like a lion leaves some of the carcass and then scavengers come and finish it. Does that mean that under the definition they used, lions wouldn't be predators??

  • @ScienceisRadAF
    @ScienceisRadAF 2 місяці тому

    12:40 BlueSky taught me that turtle blood is RANK! So, extra sympathy.

  • @blessedveteran
    @blessedveteran 4 місяці тому +5

    Jaida is great🎉

  • @lanuitbleue640
    @lanuitbleue640 4 місяці тому +1

    17:37 @Hank Green, nonchalantly: I could do it 😂

  • @thekatsup
    @thekatsup 4 місяці тому +4

    Anyone else just staring at The April Story on Hank's desk???

  • @minibeefcake
    @minibeefcake 4 місяці тому +1

    27:50
    I'm sorry whenever that question is asked, the ONLY correct answer is: "they see dead people" 🤣

  • @shannona2517
    @shannona2517 4 місяці тому +4

    Shout out to Rotting Turtle cologne from the Simon Whistler YT-iverse :)

    • @thepiper5522
      @thepiper5522 4 місяці тому +1

      I live next to a brook and one year a dead snapping turtle appeared on the shore, and took weeks to finally rot and get carried away. It smelled awful!

    • @shannona2517
      @shannona2517 4 місяці тому +1

      @@thepiper5522 I believe it! Turtles have all that meat tucked in there that I’m sure heats up with the shell, trapping the stench! (That’s probably not why at all but that’s what I imagine)
      This cologne actually exists, but smells nice. The joke was that naming a cosmetic like this would never sell.

    • @thepiper5522
      @thepiper5522 4 місяці тому

      @@shannona2517 I think you're right about the meat being tucked in. Blech. I wouldn't buy the cologne unless I already knew I liked the smell of it. LOL

  • @DominikJaniec
    @DominikJaniec 4 місяці тому +1

    51:42 smok wawelski (vavelsky)? aka. @wikipedia: wawel dragon
    that one from #Kraków castle in Poland?

  • @osmia
    @osmia 4 місяці тому

    Thank you patreon Garth!

  • @rhov-anion
    @rhov-anion 2 місяці тому +1

    My family raised rabbits. They'd eat the birds my cats killed. And eat each other. My brother named one Monty, another Python, and I named a third Grail. Nothing Holy about it.

  • @_andrewvia
    @_andrewvia 4 місяці тому +3

    If you know a teenager who has a snarky attitude, you can sing "Baby Snark" to them. You can also call them "The Snark Ness Monster."

  • @corpsin123
    @corpsin123 4 місяці тому

    4:04 is it possible for a taxonomic rank to 'surround' its more specific or common name?
    'Elasmobranchii, or the subclass of the
    'Great ___ Sharks, Excellent___sawfish, Fabulous___ Skates and
    Superb___Rays'

  • @Notturna.
    @Notturna. 2 місяці тому

    I had an albino rabbit as a child - spitting image of the monty python skit. He lived in a huge fenced off area in our front yard and we would have to go in there in pairs because Charlie would circle you, charge when you looked away, and latch onto your ankle or hand and not let go until you bled. All other pet rabbits across my life were lovely, so it seemed to be a nature instead of a nurture thing. My friends who had an albino rabbit have similar stories of rabbit cunning and evil.

  • @SirWonkotheSane
    @SirWonkotheSane 4 місяці тому

    4:00 the Great Great Hammerhead?

  • @astrocoastalprocessor
    @astrocoastalprocessor 4 місяці тому

    7:12 deer and elephants do predate upon a lot of vegetation

  • @KebaRPG
    @KebaRPG 2 місяці тому

    Candy Corn the scariest of Halloween things.

  • @ElvesofZion
    @ElvesofZion 2 місяці тому

    Fish are way smarter than people give them credit for.
    I have a bunch of Bosemoni Rainbow fish in a tank and they not only know what time dinner is, they specifically line up at the corner of the tank as the time approaches and then when we stand up from the couch to feed them change to a different swimming pattern while they wait for the food

  • @viennadel5445
    @viennadel5445 2 місяці тому

    calling the bit munch squad is very good as a mbmbam superfan

  • @jayroger7612
    @jayroger7612 3 місяці тому

    I heard munch squad and my brain immediately added justin mcelroy guitar sounds

  • @kyleward3914
    @kyleward3914 4 місяці тому +1

    You said "barnacles." Nice.

  • @VoloKnits
    @VoloKnits 4 місяці тому

    Just rewatched the Re:Zero Bunny ep with a friend who's never seen it before (if you know, you know) and so there's another bunny predator confirmation XD

  • @jaqihegland6232
    @jaqihegland6232 4 місяці тому

    You could change it to the Awesome White Shark!

  • @Azoth011235
    @Azoth011235 28 днів тому

    Can confirm deer will eat absolutely all the foliage off your newly planted trees and those trees will often die.

  • @Headquarter84
    @Headquarter84 4 місяці тому +1

    #AllSharksAreGreat 🦈

  • @bludrak1301
    @bludrak1301 3 місяці тому

    We may be scavengers, but my wife said she's definitely a scavenger. I do all the cooking...

  • @Logan.Winter
    @Logan.Winter 4 місяці тому

    Jaida is the best

  • @shawnholbrook7278
    @shawnholbrook7278 4 місяці тому

    Yay!

  • @amandaweires
    @amandaweires 4 місяці тому

    There are people who eat land predators like snakes, crocodile, dogs and cats. Also, chickens and other common food birds eat a lot of bugs, so...we non-vegetarians do eat land predators.

  • @markedis5902
    @markedis5902 4 місяці тому

    We’re gonna need a bigger boat

  • @ArtichokeHunter
    @ArtichokeHunter 4 місяці тому

    wow literally working on toxic contaminants at work today

  • @_andrewvia
    @_andrewvia 4 місяці тому

    Is Ceri going to remodel? Is that a paint patch on the wall?

  • @thepiper5522
    @thepiper5522 4 місяці тому

    A beaver would kill you, but probably not eat you afterwards. LOL I've been chased away by them more than twice.

  • @willalogicalwf
    @willalogicalwf 8 днів тому

    Full grown beaver are a little bigger than a corgi

  • @Jinsei13
    @Jinsei13 2 місяці тому

    I'm surprised no one mentioned the story of The Napoleon almost getting assassinated by a horde of rabbits. Don't underestimate a rabbit when they get serious.

  • @Salomaeful
    @Salomaeful 4 місяці тому

    Rofl omg you need to meet some of the pet rabbits that have been released in Australia - I stupidly caught a big red buck that tore me to bits

  • @warriorwaffleiron
    @warriorwaffleiron 3 місяці тому

    Some of the best meat I've ever had was mountain lion steak and bear sausage

  • @mallen6783
    @mallen6783 3 місяці тому

    7:23 literally yesterday, my plant garden, got demolished by those predatory deer
    And that was with a net that they ripped out,
    Bottom line deer are predators.

  • @williamlee3890
    @williamlee3890 4 місяці тому

    Waits seed eggs hmm exeggcute!

  • @MissingTiramisu
    @MissingTiramisu 4 місяці тому

    Not sure why they would put a domestic rabbit in a raptor cage? But some rabbits are pretty large. The size is a medium sized dog. Those raptors must be small since rabbits can be around 20-lbs or more and the only the way they could survive.

  • @rodefshalom
    @rodefshalom 3 місяці тому

    Why were the raptors afraid of the rabbit? ISS GOT GRRRRRREAT NASTY TEETH!!!

  • @catherinebaldwin6580
    @catherinebaldwin6580 4 місяці тому

    How? How? How does a rabbit eat meat? I guess they will and do eat anything in their habitat. But like, they can get sick and die from cabbage. Not likely but possible. Looking up what to feed my future bunny is hard because almsost everything but hay and lettuce can cause GI stastis in large amounts. I just wondering how meat doesn't cause bad digestive problems.

  • @Lardzor
    @Lardzor 4 місяці тому +1

    Obligatory:
    ua-cam.com/video/XcxKIJTb3Hg/v-deo.html

  • @nono_noxx
    @nono_noxx 4 місяці тому

    white sharks are soooo cute

  • @dstinnettmusic
    @dstinnettmusic 4 місяці тому

    Nobody asked me, at least that I remember, if I wanted to be a whale shark....

  • @shannona2517
    @shannona2517 4 місяці тому

    Viable fertility.
    A fertilized egg alone is not life.
    Or, perhaps it is life even without viability…but animals and humans are both, in fact, animals, so we ought to use the same definition.

  • @footshotstube
    @footshotstube 4 місяці тому

    FKmee 8 dollars!! , but youtube ,...hmmm🤔

  • @teamextremepk
    @teamextremepk 3 місяці тому

    I feel like the way she described predators was extremely redudent. Ig the word predate could literally imply to everything alive everybody and every organism is getting nutriants from somewhere and predating on something. I feel like when most people talk about predators they are talking animals at the top of the food chain. Nobody refers to deer as predators because they eat leaves lmao. or bottom feeders as predators because they eat algae if anything they are extremely more likely to be eaten. I love this podcast, but she took that question way too literally. Im pretty sure the point of this pod cast was apex predators, not birds eating seeds😂