Maybe Mr Robbins was stuck in the bird division because of his name (despite being a lepidopterist) and then when she showed up, he said “her last name is also a type of bird- may I please move over to butterflies? Please?” And they finally let him Maybe Ms Dove is actually a geologist
This made me smile. I currently work at this museum, for many years in the botany department. The collection is so massive, people have no idea what we have. And yes, it is so awesome to work there.
I agree but one thing that I noticed and was bothered by was for everybody else but Dr. Floyd Shockley they seemed to zoom in at eye height. But for him they seemed to have the camera about waist height. and that seemed a bit rude
This deserves way more views and likes...like seriously this is just so fascinating you're giving us a look into the different departments and their curators (which we might not get the opportunity to do ourselves) and for free. Ya'll are the real heroes. Keep doing it because there people who fascinated by your videos like me. One day this channel will be huge!
Just image this.. The world practically destroys itself and some how the Smithsonian survives and the people of the future find all of this stuff that would be crazy
I've been going to the Smithsonian since the age of 6 and it's one of my favorite places, but finding parking is quite a hassle since it's in Washington DC😂 I live around the area
Elaine Warren Aaah the smithsonians..........Yeah the only institute fully responsible for the giants skeletons that have gone missing since the late 1800s. I would like to see it’s destruction. The smithsonians do not have my respect.
I was getting teary eyed a little bit... all these experts really dedicating their life to one thing, taking care of it for 8+ hours a day and generally just going hard for the planet and our future :'( someone pass me a tissue
You don't need to be sad. There's a very high chance that this is their passion. They wouldn't last in this kind of job if it's not their passion. If it's your passion you don't feel really bored.
WHERE are the giant skeletons documented in many newspaper articles found in mounds across America in the 1800s and early 1900s? The discoveries are well documented and the Smithsonian was noted in these articles as receiving them & displaying them. Nowadays, nobody at the Smithsonian has ever heard of them. why? Where did they go and how come America is deprived of this knowledge of its history?
Great channel, great video, great comment section. No arguments, no childish behavior, no trolls, nothing annoying. I can actually enjoy reading through comments for once.
i stayed in the insect exhibit for so long a kind man showed me the room with all their spiders !! they said they never do that for people and i hope to work there one day !
For the video they just changed the color scale. For audio they probably ran it through a filter. Both are easy to come by. As a filmmaker I found their “antique” footage humorously unimpressive!
The Smithsonian natural history collection is the largest in the world. SI's Natural History collection is approximately 144 million. Field Museum's collection is approximately 32 million objects. That being said, ALL natural history collections are part of one global "library" of biological, geological and anthropological data. Or as we say here at NMNH, our mission is "Understanding the natural world and our place in it." And we are all working together to that common goal to preserve these objects and make them accessible for scientific research and public education.
Thank you for your dedication towards the cataloguing and advancement of understanding of our home, Floyd. Although considered small by most standards, our planet is still an immensely wondrous one.
I couldn't agree more. And it's up to all of us (not just those of us working in the natural history museums of the world) to work and fight to protect it and preserve it for future generations.
i drop my jaw cuz this place looks like where i belong... WOOOW JUST LOOK AT ALL THE DIFFRENT SPECIES OF BUTTERYFLYS GLASS WINGED , BIRD WING AND EVEN LEAF WING OMG OMG OMG AND EVEN SHELLS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SOO GOOD AND THE BEST PART IS MINERALSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG AND THEY ARE ALL ORGANIZE IN DRAWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG MY HAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why is there a whole department for butterflies outside of entomology? it seems like just a small splash when compared to the study of the entire insecta group.
I was looking for something about the smithsonian stuff, if that also includes the channel, because I watched something which mentioned them buying/taking certain historical things but this would actually make sense...
Its called specimen preparation. A number of techniques can be used to make it so that the tissues are strongly resistant to degradation while maintaining color relatively well. One part of preparation involves removing all the internal organs, because they are so vulnerable to rot. Inside the larger specimens (birds, mammals, etc.) is probably a wire frame and bulk cotton. Though I've heard that it's not strictly necessary to remove the wing bones of birds, so sometimes you get a combination of bone and framing. Insect skeletons don't degrade very quickly in dark, dry conditions, so they may have just been killed and pined quickly after to reduce the risk of cracking the skeleton if it dries out.
Imagine bring all these people to a forest and all of them are like "i know this species" "i know where this originated from" "i know the scientific name for this" "this one might be around 10 years old". Wow.
So dr. Carla dove examine these birds but the birds weren't killed by hand they were already dead but that's when these researchers collected these dead bird bodies so they can examine them and testify what type of skill these birds do or what they should do that keeps them what they're supposed to be doing am I right?
what about the july 1919 giant skeleton found by oil prospector can you convert to 3d printer file....maybe the whole collection (someone just got a new job)
Imagine the time it takes to edit a video like this... jeez man.
not an extreme amount of time. 3d animations for even a short take years.
Dude... don't compare this to 3D animations.. Compare this to your normal UA-cam video.
Don't be that dick.
What?
Nice job. A woman who works with birds with the last name "Dove"
I find it's pretty common that people surnames match their profession.
Maybe Mr Robbins was stuck in the bird division because of his name (despite being a lepidopterist) and then when she showed up, he said “her last name is also a type of bird- may I please move over to butterflies? Please?” And they finally let him
Maybe Ms Dove is actually a geologist
I should become an ornithologist then 😂
(My name means dove in Hebrew)
@@nemo9396 i dont see Smiths working in factories or smithing any kind of thing
@@91010186 Why not?
This made me smile. I currently work at this museum, for many years in the botany department. The collection is so massive, people have no idea what we have. And yes, it is so awesome to work there.
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HOW MANY SASQUATCH/RELICT HOMIN BODIES/SKELETONS ARE CURRENTLY HOUSED THERE ?
You're living my dream job.
Camera work in this video was awesome. Keep it up guys
Tian Wu editor is also the hero!
Tian Wu _
Tian Wu yeah
Thanks!
I agree but one thing that I noticed and was bothered by was for everybody else but Dr. Floyd Shockley they seemed to zoom in at eye height. But for him they seemed to have the camera about waist height. and that seemed a bit rude
Imagine there's a hidden department headed by the Curator of Humans.
Chris H. The anatomy collection, yeah, pretty much
😐
Chris H. Be careful of what you say, you might be actually right.
Maybe human deformity. I'll believe that.
Chris H. Giants 😉
Proud son of a marine biologist working at Smithsonian Institute in Panama :D
Kirk G what do they do?
marine biology, i'm guessing
Aniket Mondal maybe marine biology but idk just a wild guess
Kirk G woah, I'm from Panama, that's amazing!
I am from panama! We go to the Smithsonian for field trips!
Never knew I wanted to know these things lol. Great video
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So fascinating! These people have really awesome jobs!
really
indeed
Taking it really seriously.
This deserves way more views and likes...like seriously this is just so fascinating you're giving us a look into the different departments and their curators (which we might not get the opportunity to do ourselves) and for free. Ya'll are the real heroes. Keep doing it because there people who fascinated by your videos like me. One day this channel will be huge!
Dr Dove= the bird one lol
Lei I know that seems so perfect right?! haha
First i thought he says it for dramatic effect
I almost cried, those collections are beautiful! I would do anything for an opportunity to look at their fossil collection.
So impressive!
I know .... Floyd has a huge belly ❤️
hey! I love your channel- keep up the great work!
Just image this..
The world practically destroys itself and some how the Smithsonian survives and the people of the future find all of this stuff that would be crazy
Amazing place...love to see it in person!
Lol you said in person
I've been going to the Smithsonian since the age of 6 and it's one of my favorite places, but finding parking is quite a hassle since it's in Washington DC😂 I live around the area
Elaine Warren Aaah the smithsonians..........Yeah the only institute fully responsible for the giants skeletons that have gone missing since the late 1800s. I would like to see it’s destruction. The smithsonians do not have my respect.
"Jeff, u got another rock?"
"THEY´RE MINERALS, MARIE, GODDAMMIT!"
Top tier comment
I just viewed your channel in an online commercial, and I absolutely loved it. These are one of the channels who can make a difference in the world.😉
This Chanel content is amazingly good I don't understand how it doesn't have over 1 million subscribers
Alle Mik They r not a part of illuminati
It was oddly satisfying seeing everything all organized and categorized.
wow it was like playing a video game and choosing which class i want to be
so i just realized i like knowing all sorts of stuff, but only if you guys tell them to me.
the mineralguy does he have kryptonite
no, batman bought them all
Von Chacal damn batman he was my bae😭
Two things I love about America is its wildlife and the science community. Much respect for folks like these!
You guys easily became one of my favorite UA-cam channels
I was getting teary eyed a little bit... all these experts really dedicating their life to one thing, taking care of it for 8+ hours a day and generally just going hard for the planet and our future :'( someone pass me a tissue
You don't need to be sad. There's a very high chance that this is their passion. They wouldn't last in this kind of job if it's not their passion. If it's your passion you don't feel really bored.
620 thousand birds, 20 million mollusks, 35 million insects, 2500 minerals. Just seems like the mineral guy needs to step it up.
Redvines69 the minerals are quite expensive though
@Maribelle Sallway, lmao no excuses, mineral guy needs to step it up lol
They need Hank
@@hayzmation5354 no
Anyone Got Really Anxious When All Drawers Were Pulled Out?
The most impressive place in the world..
MrToasty222 you should visit, it's quite enormous and very interesting, of course if your around virginia
WHERE are the giant skeletons documented in many newspaper articles found in mounds across America in the 1800s and early 1900s? The discoveries are well documented and the Smithsonian was noted in these articles as receiving them & displaying them. Nowadays, nobody at the Smithsonian has ever heard of them. why? Where did they go and how come America is deprived of this knowledge of its history?
Wow! Never expected such large collections at the Smithsonian! Very impressive!
Who knew?! Great video!
I did :)
Great channel, great video, great comment section. No arguments, no childish behavior, no trolls, nothing annoying. I can actually enjoy reading through comments for once.
These men and women are quite literally archiving our planets history... the Smithsonian is just one big time capsule!
wow! I never knew museums had more storage full of this stuff, but why keep it all in storage and why soo much? what are you doing with it all?
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I really love the video☺. It shows the real beauty of the world and creatures living in it. ☺keep it up guys!!
I wish I could see them all, my grandmother helped do some of the animal stuffing/documenting
THE BIGGEST BOI FOR THE SMALLEST SPECIMEN OH MAN DO I LOVE HUMANITY
I was lucky enough to do some training at the Smithsonian in the late 70's . It was a real delight.
i stayed in the insect exhibit for so long a kind man showed me the room with all their spiders !! they said they never do that for people and i hope to work there one day !
I wonder how do they manage to preserve those dead living things without any sign of decaying??
Great video indeed (:
They're dried. Just like how we dry fish by exposing it into the sun and rubbing some good amount of salt and it stops decaying,
those crystals were beautiful!!! I loved the malachite ♡
this channel is amazing, i hope this channel will get even more popular
It would be a once in a lifetime opportunity to view the collection on gems and minerals... so fascinating.
The passion in these people makes me smile.
this video helps me realize how beautiful our planet is, and yet we are destroying it every single day
this is what youtube is all about where.info and education for all the people... i love this channel... very good editing!!
Anyone else want to know where the bird department keeps the ostrich?
I was fortunate to get a behind the scenes look at the bird collection... I was amazed and impressed...
i really want a full detail of each department/section. believe that there are tons of stories behind each dept./sect. this is way too short!!!
I really want to see a documentary on their lives and how they got to where they are!
Do they perserve them after they die naturally or do they kill current species? Just curious
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i love how this was filmeddd
That blue stone at 2:14 what is it's name? I must know!
birds, butterflies, mullosks, insects & rocks. pretty cool. sooooo what else you guys have?
Is there a reason the lepidotera collection is separated from the entomology collection? Just for the video or some other reason?
Video: Smithsonian
My brain: PeRcy JaCKsOn
Anyone knows how they edit to make a vintage scene in the first part? :( especially the audio
For the video they just changed the color scale. For audio they probably ran it through a filter. Both are easy to come by. As a filmmaker I found their “antique” footage humorously unimpressive!
Who has a bigger natural history collection the Smithsonian or the Chicago Field Museum?
The Smithsonian natural history collection is the largest in the world. SI's Natural History collection is approximately 144 million. Field Museum's collection is approximately 32 million objects. That being said, ALL natural history collections are part of one global "library" of biological, geological and anthropological data. Or as we say here at NMNH, our mission is "Understanding the natural world and our place in it." And we are all working together to that common goal to preserve these objects and make them accessible for scientific research and public education.
Thank you for your dedication towards the cataloguing and advancement of understanding of our home, Floyd. Although considered small by most standards, our planet is still an immensely wondrous one.
I couldn't agree more. And it's up to all of us (not just those of us working in the natural history museums of the world) to work and fight to protect it and preserve it for future generations.
Any Grand Canyon artifacts in there from the cave above mile marker 59? Asking for a friend
So basically a mass grave for animals
Ayame Haruka can u imagine if there was one for humans
Ella Orisho 0_0 that's some deep Web shit...
Ella Orisho there are. in medical museum.
Ayame Haruka and Tony Hawk's first skateboard!
A highly ORGANIZED cemetery, pretty much (not to suggest I'm against them collecting specimens)
Where are all the '"Giant's skeletons" you confiscated, Smithsonian institute??
Give us the truth
@0:33 Did anybody else think about the toy story scene where the old man was fixing Woody and he opened the drawers of his tool box thing
Great job! You have truly Aristotelian approach to the nature.
Wow. Love the butterflies!
i drop my jaw cuz this place looks like where i belong...
WOOOW JUST LOOK AT ALL THE DIFFRENT SPECIES OF BUTTERYFLYS GLASS WINGED , BIRD WING AND EVEN LEAF WING OMG OMG OMG AND EVEN SHELLS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SOO GOOD AND THE BEST PART IS MINERALSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG AND THEY ARE ALL ORGANIZE IN DRAWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG MY HAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i am so drama and nerdy :p
Anan Zhang I admire your wholesomeness
This channel is slowly blowing up :)
I'm just wondering, when I'm older of course and have the money, could I buy some of these for decorations in my house?
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how long it takes to collect them all? such a great museum
I'm the curator wine bottle corks. I have just over 9 of them, and I keep them in a jar for posterity and study.
now this! is what I call quality content!
why is there a whole department for butterflies outside of entomology? it seems like just a small splash when compared to the study of the entire insecta group.
make a tour video of every draw and closet in this place
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I was looking for something about the smithsonian stuff, if that also includes the channel, because I watched something which mentioned them buying/taking certain historical things but this would actually make sense...
Omg I need to work with them, let me study fish all day ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Amazing collections..
I absolutely love all of these people.
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CAN I LIVE THERE OMG
i dont understand why thay have to collect multiple of the same species or specimen?
Honestly, I think that working with mollusks was the best job shown
Definitely one of my bucket list places to visit!!
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Does anyone know the song in the back ground it's very beautiful orchestra
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL
Why dont those animals/insects rot away? how can they stay so "perfectly" preserved?
Its called specimen preparation. A number of techniques can be used to make it so that the tissues are strongly resistant to degradation while maintaining color relatively well. One part of preparation involves removing all the internal organs, because they are so vulnerable to rot. Inside the larger specimens (birds, mammals, etc.) is probably a wire frame and bulk cotton. Though I've heard that it's not strictly necessary to remove the wing bones of birds, so sometimes you get a combination of bone and framing. Insect skeletons don't degrade very quickly in dark, dry conditions, so they may have just been killed and pined quickly after to reduce the risk of cracking the skeleton if it dries out.
Did they kill the animals or collect them when it died? For the animal ones?
this is so satisfying wtf
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This is magnificent! Thanks for sharing. 🙏
Very nice! Thank you!
Imagine bring all these people to a forest and all of them are like "i know this species" "i know where this originated from" "i know the scientific name for this" "this one might be around 10 years old".
Wow.
I love this channel a lot😉😉😉
The Fortified basement vault contains Nephilim skeletons department
Entomology is definitely my department lol 😂 so cool would love to visit
thank you, you guys doing great
This video was such a flex for the Smithsonian. Like they weren't cool enough already
So much to learn. Not enough time.
why do I find it so funny to imagine the entomologist secretly munching at the beetles..
Okay now make an hour long video so I can see all their stuff
So dr. Carla dove examine these birds but the birds weren't killed by hand they were already dead but that's when these researchers collected these dead bird bodies so they can examine them and testify what type of skill these birds do or what they should do that keeps them what they're supposed to be doing am I right?
My favorite museum among all the Smithsonian museums
They're basically creating earth's pokedex
Dr. Jeff Post looks like Cyril from Archer :/ 1:56
what about the july 1919 giant skeleton found by oil prospector can you convert to 3d printer file....maybe the whole collection (someone just got a new job)
Does anybody know where they get their birds specimens? Are they alive and then the curator kills them? Or they just order them Dead on line?
This is very neat and awesome