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"Which they argue is explained by that decrease in reproductive success" Ah yes, as opposed by the stellar reproductive success when eaten by the predator that grabbed them by the tail. ..Which craigslist scientists came up with that explanation..
[0:47] I've seen lizards eject their tails before, but I've never seen one choose to wear it as a scarf after doing so. What an interesting little fella.
@@sinisterhipp0 I mean I agree, but with information vids like this it's not all bad this one is only 10 mins and when you sleep and rest your neurons repractice the signals you learned that day so I mean not the worst idea in the world to watch the informative stuff close to bedtime.
I live in the south. Cicadas are summer music! I missed them most when I moved away. I even recorded about 2 hours of them and sent it to my daughter that was stationed in England. Nothing makes you homesick like cicadas. And biscuits and gravy....
Cicadas are my favorite insect. as a kid, we had a bunch that lived around our house. their lifecycles were also really interesting, and seeing the shells left on the trees gave you a really neat representation of how many lived in that area. the only sad thing is, there aren't any cicadas where I live now :( I hope to see them again when I visit my grandparents.
You should plan a vacation to Illinois this year. A 17 year and 13 year brood are both up. Last time was 1803 and next time is 2245 so 2024 is definitely the year for a cicada lover.
Cicadas are a special kind of awesome. Knowing that they have a zombie fungus that makes them so high that they don't care that their butt is missing just adds to how cool they are 😂
Cicadas 100% rule! I have adored Cicadas since I was in 2nd grade, and I’m in my late 40s now. We had hardly any cicadas in my area last summer/early autumn. I really missed having them around. Did you have many last summer?
@@ChaosMagnet we don't usually have them at all in my area of eastern Washington state. I learned about them in my entomology class in college, then heard them buzz sawing the trees when I took a job in Ontario after graduation. But I've never seen a live one in person.
I find them rather adorable when they're just hanging out on the ground and you lightly tap them with your shoe and they go "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" It's like they're trying to say "STAHP EHT!" but also "HELLO!!!!!!"
@@GardenUPLandscape what part of Ontario? I live in southern Ontario, kind of near Waterloo. The buzzsawing of cicadas is something I associate strongly with memories of the late summers of my childhood. It seems like we’ve had fewer and fewer cicadas every year, and I haven’t heard them rasping loudly away in the same numbers as they used to. Last year, there were barely any at all, and late summer just didn’t feel right without their almost mechanical sounding calls.
@@maolcogi yeah, or when you find a newly emerged cicada just hanging out on the trunk of a tree, and it just lets you give its cute little snoot a very gentle little boop. For insects, they have big personalities.
I lost my butt. Literally! I've got 'farmer's butt', according to my ortho spinal surgeon. Since I can remember, I haven't been able to activate the gluts which make up a person's butt. I'm not alone. There are millions of us. The 'cure' is to relearn how to activate the gluts, which I'll tell you, isn't an easy straightforward thing to learn. My pants fall down all the time, even with a belt, because there's nothing to hold them up. Here's to being 'Buttless'!
As a nerd of phyisiology, I find that strangely interesting. I am very aware of peoples proprioception and coordination. So much of human physiological aspects are NOT functional/anatomically optimal, rather they are mostly social and demonstrative.: akin to overt displays (e.g. peacocks, to specify an extreme). Form and function don't always coincide.
Even nature knows that when life's really bad, getting high will help you get through it. & It's so bad that you don't care if it ends, as long as your high.
You... might just want to reconsider the casinos you frequent if a loss of a body part is a routine outcome for a loss. Maybe ones with the regular kind of mafia, not the cannibal ones.
Wait... why would not having a butt make it impossible to poop? Surely the poop would just come out wherever the intestine ends? This feels like a detail that should really have been covered.
I imagine the body would automatically try to heal over the wound, thus blocking the waste from exiting the body after some time. That's my best guess.
@@nerfworthy112 That is pretty much what happens. The anus is an actual physiological structure, and lopping it off means whatever is left seals the whole end off. To attach the end of the intestine to the outside of the body, in a mammal, you would have to carefully tack the tissues in such a way to keep the opening viable. The scorpion doesn't have a tiny surgeon helping them make sure things heal with an opening in the right spot, so BLOOT the body just ends.
@@slwrabbitsI think the way that they were using butt in this video was in place of the word anus but yet they are very different things. The crazy thing is there's actually quite a few animals that can basically repair and regenerate the anus and there are humans that get born without a proper one but there's still an exit hole. Thankfully that doesn't happen very often but yeah I'd imagine it's a bit rough on the ones who end up with that condition I've never heard one actually go into detail about it for obvious reasons.
@@darcieclements4880 When I was in school, we found a pig that didn't have an anus. She had a diverticulum to the vestibule and poop and pee were coming out the same way, so at least she didn't die from constipation. Sometimes two wrongs do make a right?
I think this is unironically my favourite SciShow video. It's a pretty good mix of amusing and genuinely interesting, in a topic I wouldn't have thought of off-hand.
I think Cicadas must have some distributed borg-like redundant systems which allows them to both survive dormant for many years, and have an astonishing amount of their body lost to fungus.
"But other animals can, and sometimes DO, lose their butts, and that isn't always a bad thing." your voice is perfect for this content :D Also reminds me hardcore of a Ze Frank True Facts bit. Also love any Aliens references thrown in.
10/10 video, no notes. Well, one note: I feel like this was a missed opportunity for a Collab with Ze Frank or Casual Geographic. Maybe a cordyceps deep dive with the Brain Scoop?
2:47 Reid enjoyed that little moment of fueling our nightmares, you can tell by the mock-innocence in his eyes. *waves fist threateningly (yet futilely) at him*
@alden1132 -- Right! That's only their *first* form; we all know they get much bigger! If Alien and DBZ taught me nothing else, it's that no matter how non-threatening or containable things may appear, they can always get worse.
I started laughing because I thought about the South Park episode when people started pooping out of their mouths. I love science! I know some of them must have laughed making this. Because we are all weird.
Speaking of cicadas! I wonder if SciShow is going to do an episode on the Brood XIX and XIII emergence later this year. The last time these two broods emerged at the same time was in 1803, so I expect this will be a beautiful and rare occurrence.
I do know that if a fungus causes my lower half to fall off and be replaced with a mass of white spores, I would REALLY appreciate being drugged out of my mind at the time. That's just basic decency on the part of the fungus if you ask me
I was fully expecting to hear about insects (wasps iirc but I may be wrong) that lose their rear end when they sting, and die shortly after. Surprised it wasn't brought up.
Sea anemone also don't appear to have a digestive 'tract' as such. They seem to eject waste the same way it came in, which probably figures given they tend to remain stuck to a rock.
There are some notable exceptions to the general rule that humans usually don't lose their butt. There are at least 4 or 5 UA-camrs who spring immediately to mind. Loren of the channel lorenandsabia, Spencer West, Zion Clark, Kenny Easterday just to name a few. Strong, funny, resilient and capable human beings all. ❤
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Boofus
"Which they argue is explained by that decrease in reproductive success"
Ah yes, as opposed by the stellar reproductive success when eaten by the predator that grabbed them by the tail.
..Which craigslist scientists came up with that explanation..
What I love with this channel ? That kind of titles isn’t clickbait.
"Hold on to your seat!" A good pun.
"...and lets get into it." A rather threatening pun.
No ifs, ands or _butts_ about it
Missed opportunity to include that single line from Jurassic Park: "Hold onto yo' butts."
This sounds like topic for a ZeFrank video.
"But less cicadas- oh sorry, butt-less cicadas..."
I was honestly waiting for a 'Butt for' homage the whole time... sadly, it never arrived.
i was straight up hoping for a zefrank cameo :(
There is one, it’s in the fungi episode
They have no butts that they can't deny
😂
[0:47] I've seen lizards eject their tails before, but I've never seen one choose to wear it as a scarf after doing so. What an interesting little fella.
Also, I would add that unlike for the scorpions the tail is not the lizard's butt. Their butts are under their tails, just like a dog or cat's.
Yeah, I loved that. Hiding from the predator? Tough life when you're that small ...
Years later, I finally know why that cicada I once saw had no bottom.
Learning all the time 😁
I was going to go to sleep, then I got a notif for this video. How am I supposed to sleep without knowing what this video is about??
That’s why you shouldn’t have notifications off. Protect your health and shitty video can wait till tomorrow.
@@sinisterhipp0 I mean I agree, but with information vids like this it's not all bad this one is only 10 mins and when you sleep and rest your neurons repractice the signals you learned that day so I mean not the worst idea in the world to watch the informative stuff close to bedtime.
You mean, “what’s it a butt”?
What interesting dreams you may have considering the topic haha 😆
Same!
I was horrified by all the buttless cicadas I saw a couple years ago. They were walking around without their entire abdominal region.
I live in the south. Cicadas are summer music! I missed them most when I moved away. I even recorded about 2 hours of them and sent it to my daughter that was stationed in England. Nothing makes you homesick like cicadas. And biscuits and gravy....
Ever since I've moved to France from tropical Mauritius, I've never been homesick about mosquitoes
Cicadas are my favorite insect. as a kid, we had a bunch that lived around our house. their lifecycles were also really interesting, and seeing the shells left on the trees gave you a really neat representation of how many lived in that area. the only sad thing is, there aren't any cicadas where I live now :(
I hope to see them again when I visit my grandparents.
Yeah its depressing af that i used to have a favorite praying mantis bc a bunch used to be at my grandma's. But i haven't seen a single one in years
You should plan a vacation to Illinois this year. A 17 year and 13 year brood are both up. Last time was 1803 and next time is 2245 so 2024 is definitely the year for a cicada lover.
they’re my favorite, too! i enjoy hearing them sing, and they have beautiful patterns on them.
@@fishainsley nice 😄♥
Cicadas are a special kind of awesome. Knowing that they have a zombie fungus that makes them so high that they don't care that their butt is missing just adds to how cool they are 😂
Cicadas 100% rule! I have adored Cicadas since I was in 2nd grade, and I’m in my late 40s now.
We had hardly any cicadas in my area last summer/early autumn. I really missed having them around. Did you have many last summer?
@@ChaosMagnet we don't usually have them at all in my area of eastern Washington state. I learned about them in my entomology class in college, then heard them buzz sawing the trees when I took a job in Ontario after graduation. But I've never seen a live one in person.
I find them rather adorable when they're just hanging out on the ground and you lightly tap them with your shoe and they go "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" It's like they're trying to say "STAHP EHT!" but also "HELLO!!!!!!"
@@GardenUPLandscape what part of Ontario? I live in southern Ontario, kind of near Waterloo. The buzzsawing of cicadas is something I associate strongly with memories of the late summers of my childhood. It seems like we’ve had fewer and fewer cicadas every year, and I haven’t heard them rasping loudly away in the same numbers as they used to. Last year, there were barely any at all, and late summer just didn’t feel right without their almost mechanical sounding calls.
@@maolcogi yeah, or when you find a newly emerged cicada just hanging out on the trunk of a tree, and it just lets you give its cute little snoot a very gentle little boop. For insects, they have big personalities.
The writer was on fire on this episode. Good science and good jokes galore.
I lost my butt. Literally! I've got 'farmer's butt', according to my ortho spinal surgeon. Since I can remember, I haven't been able to activate the gluts which make up a person's butt. I'm not alone. There are millions of us. The 'cure' is to relearn how to activate the gluts, which I'll tell you, isn't an easy straightforward thing to learn. My pants fall down all the time, even with a belt, because there's nothing to hold them up. Here's to being 'Buttless'!
Hank Hill, is that you?
Do you sell propane, and propane accessories?
“We’re here, no rear, get use to it!”
This seems like it would make it difficult to walk, never mind run or swim. Does it affect mobility?
As a nerd of phyisiology, I find that strangely interesting. I am very aware of peoples proprioception and coordination. So much of human physiological aspects are NOT functional/anatomically optimal, rather they are mostly social and demonstrative.: akin to overt displays (e.g. peacocks, to specify an extreme). Form and function don't always coincide.
Even nature knows that when life's really bad, getting high will help you get through it. & It's so bad that you don't care if it ends, as long as your high.
"Hold on to your butts!"
Best line from Jurassic park
As an avid viewer of scishow, coming across a video dedicated to butts isn't a matter of if, but when.
"Most people don't lose their butts." I dunno about that. If you visit a casino, you're likely to see many people losing their butts.
You... might just want to reconsider the casinos you frequent if a loss of a body part is a routine outcome for a loss. Maybe ones with the regular kind of mafia, not the cannibal ones.
Divorce...
Wait... why would not having a butt make it impossible to poop? Surely the poop would just come out wherever the intestine ends? This feels like a detail that should really have been covered.
Right? I had the same thought.
I imagine the body would automatically try to heal over the wound, thus blocking the waste from exiting the body after some time. That's my best guess.
@@nerfworthy112 That is pretty much what happens. The anus is an actual physiological structure, and lopping it off means whatever is left seals the whole end off. To attach the end of the intestine to the outside of the body, in a mammal, you would have to carefully tack the tissues in such a way to keep the opening viable. The scorpion doesn't have a tiny surgeon helping them make sure things heal with an opening in the right spot, so BLOOT the body just ends.
@@slwrabbitsI think the way that they were using butt in this video was in place of the word anus but yet they are very different things. The crazy thing is there's actually quite a few animals that can basically repair and regenerate the anus and there are humans that get born without a proper one but there's still an exit hole. Thankfully that doesn't happen very often but yeah I'd imagine it's a bit rough on the ones who end up with that condition I've never heard one actually go into detail about it for obvious reasons.
@@darcieclements4880 When I was in school, we found a pig that didn't have an anus. She had a diverticulum to the vestibule and poop and pee were coming out the same way, so at least she didn't die from constipation. Sometimes two wrongs do make a right?
Reminds me of the kids book "The Day My Bum Went Psycho". My fifth grade teacher read it to our class during DEAR time! Loved that series as a kid
SciShow writers: Get in Reid, we’re doing butt stuff
That second "mostly" made me laugh. Nice, Newt.
i audibly yiped which i never do
I think this is unironically my favourite SciShow video. It's a pretty good mix of amusing and genuinely interesting, in a topic I wouldn't have thought of off-hand.
So this is what happens to the leftover coda bits on Tangents. Congratulations Reid on winning the draw to get to present this coveted episode.
I like how scientists motivate other scientists to do butt stuff.... 🤣🤣
Each segment of this episode gets more unsettling than the previous one.
I wouldn't have been able to resist assessing the use of assassinate in this script.
No butts left behind!
I'm surprised that there aren't comments about all of the ways that humans do actually end up without a proper butt.
Ok, but the real question is, has anyone tried to trip/get high from the cicada butt fungus?
I will neither confirm nor deny that I wondered the same thing! 😂
I think Cicadas must have some distributed borg-like redundant systems which allows them to both survive dormant for many years, and have an astonishing amount of their body lost to fungus.
Nope, even plants can coordinate blooms.
"But other animals can, and sometimes DO, lose their butts, and that isn't always a bad thing." your voice is perfect for this content :D Also reminds me hardcore of a Ze Frank True Facts bit. Also love any Aliens references thrown in.
Great, now I'm gonna have nightmares about zonked-out butless zombies.
"...mostly." I love it! Your writing is the best.
10/10 video, no notes.
Well, one note: I feel like this was a missed opportunity for a Collab with Ze Frank or Casual Geographic.
Maybe a cordyceps deep dive with the Brain Scoop?
Lindsay Nikole would have also been a GREAT addition.
“They mostly come out at night. Mostly.” - Eric Cartman
2:47 Reid enjoyed that little moment of fueling our nightmares, you can tell by the mock-innocence in his eyes. *waves fist threateningly (yet futilely) at him*
oh great, now a bunch of people are going to go and and eat cicada butts
The weirdest thing about this video is that Hank isn't the one presenting it.
At 2:50 The "Aliens" reference was not missed.
I don't understand why not having a but means waste builds up like... I guess they heal closed??
"That special someworm" 😂😂😂
I was expecting a butt-related ad such as Cologard (spelling?) And as such, I was not expecting such a smooth transition to a Brilliant ad, lol
They actually found the missing sea spider! It was...ON YOUR NECK!
When you find out most of them are the size of a dime or smaller it kind of diminishes the horror factor a bit
@@darcieclements4880 That's just what they WANT you to think! 😮
@alden1132 -- Right! That's only their *first* form; we all know they get much bigger! If Alien and DBZ taught me nothing else, it's that no matter how non-threatening or containable things may appear, they can always get worse.
Thank you for working your butts off for this one!
6:28 It's like sending your junk to the bar while you binge watch Netflix at home. Win-win.
That annelid stolon sounds like a horror sci-fi story
Samuel L Jackson in Jurassic Park: “Hold onto your butts!”
I give you credit for literally doing this whole episode with a straight face 👌🏻🙏🏻 I don't think I could have done it. Well done 👍🏻😁
Oh wait as a human I guess I would have been at a " loss" for words 😂
And here I thought it was hard to get research grants...
0:35 Reid really missed the opportunity to say "Hold onto your butts."
If we'd been loosing our butts like this from the begiing, it would be normal and you would know no different.
I don't know if it was intentional but I was really expected a "hold onto your butts" quote from Jurassic Park
Gives new meaningng to wrectum. 😁
Whoever came up with the idea of this list video: thanks^^
This video is a new favorite of mine. I love learning interesting and weird facts. I can't wait to impress my friends with this! Thanks SciShow!
A sea spider disappears after molting in a room full of starving sea spiders. Wonder where it went?
georg paid them a visit
Brings new meaning to "I lost my butt"
Seeing Cicadas art the the end of this process walking around with half their body missing is one of the craziest things I've ever seen on video!
This was an unexpectedly fabulous episode! I knew none of this stuff!
Disappearing butts in the animal kingdom was first recorded with the discovery and study of the Oozlum Bird.
Great. A simi-aquatic spider lab specimen has gone missing. Now I won’t be sleeping
Those losing butts have butts at the end of their bodies humans have in the middle of their bodies so losing it is losing life and everything.
I started laughing because I thought about the South Park episode when people started pooping out of their mouths. I love science! I know some of them must have laughed making this. Because we are all weird.
I have no butt and I must poop.
This is wild. I was not expecting this. I'm laughing too damn hard...
You mean laughing your [butt] off
Speaking of cicadas! I wonder if SciShow is going to do an episode on the Brood XIX and XIII emergence later this year. The last time these two broods emerged at the same time was in 1803, so I expect this will be a beautiful and rare occurrence.
7:19 cicadas are legendary no matter what
I do know that if a fungus causes my lower half to fall off and be replaced with a mass of white spores, I would REALLY appreciate being drugged out of my mind at the time. That's just basic decency on the part of the fungus if you ask me
Great writing, guys 👍🏾👍🏾🤜🏾🤛🏾
Are those thumbs up and fist bumps or a dirty joke?
Reid, what a legend
Syllid worms constitute the stolon generation.
I was fully expecting to hear about insects (wasps iirc but I may be wrong) that lose their rear end when they sting, and die shortly after. Surprised it wasn't brought up.
3:40 BURKE! ...It was Burke! 😩
Sea anemone also don't appear to have a digestive 'tract' as such. They seem to eject waste the same way it came in, which probably figures given they tend to remain stuck to a rock.
Thanks
I feel bad for those scorpions... To live 8 weeks unable to take a crap, I mean sure it's a fun 8 weeks but it can't be very comfortable
Poor Cicadas. They are one of my favourite insects. 😢
"They mostly come at night, mostly."
For a better horror effect, this should be watched mostly at night. Mostly.
there's a butt of a joke somewhere in here
Humans with ileus may also womit up their poop. A rather miserable situation.
Somehow it was all the "but"s that caught my attention among the sea of misplaced butts.
Aaah... Just imagine there is a species out there that's as far above us as we are to spiders and then they do their funny little research with us.
Fully expect a video on "Bottom feeders" next
MOST people. So there is atleast one person somewhere who has lost their butt.
2:48 Nice nod to Aliens! 😂👌
3:30 - "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to have an anus" - An ancient Sea Spider saying. 😉
LMBO!!!
Also, we should let those Adas be sick. We should start a campaign and save the sick Adas!
Imagine the 'pull my finger' joke not being a joke but just a day to day activity
There are some notable exceptions to the general rule that humans usually don't lose their butt. There are at least 4 or 5 UA-camrs who spring immediately to mind. Loren of the channel lorenandsabia, Spencer West, Zion Clark, Kenny Easterday just to name a few. Strong, funny, resilient and capable human beings all. ❤
Expected: Butt science and butt jokes.
Received: LOTS of creepy crawlies, butt science, and butt jokes.
Notes: Refund not required. Will not be returning it.
Enough research.
Time to butt out !
i will now forfreit any intentions of learning to dive to any extent ... i dont want to have to deal with facehuggers.
3:41 I bet the others ate it...
3:19 "[...] wich ... is handy." killed me. XD
Such hard-working critters.
"He touched the butt!"
This video should have been a collab with @carlaulbrich and her "What if your butt was gone" song!
Love the nods to "Aliens". 👍♥️🤣
"Disappearing anuses" could be a band/song name.
I need an adult version of this video replacing butt with a** every time he says it 😂
I love the Aliens ref ... "Mostly". LOL