World's Biggest Carnivorous Plant Catches Whole Sheep!
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after seeing her the only thing i crave is a good fat steak bloody meat xd
Cool reply though👌🏼👍🏻
Interesting! Thanks
ua-cam.com/video/ydRwNxrpc2A/v-deo.html The Bramble Plant could Really be Carnívorous according To Botanist Carolina García Luna
you should prune it and keep it outside the fence I mean
I beg to differ. Those are obviously sheep-growing trees. You haven't allowed them to ripen yet.
The MeméLord Yes, uwe trees.
The MeméLord I love you for this comment xDDD
you think they would figure that out by now...
That would make lamb a vegan diet, and wool an ethical option. I love that plant.
You think a farmer would know that.
Sheep: oh look, a dinner
Plant: no u
That flag! 👆🏽
@@RobertOfStAlbans_ Dont assume anything in islamic text is an automatic giveaway that its material of Islamic Extremism, it might mean something totally different.
@@PadecMaybeReal Yeah but he didn't say that it was muslim extremism .-.
@@toshi2623 well it does seem like it. What else would it mean?
That flag says : lā ilāha illa llāh
Which means
"There is no god but Allah"
Its a word to declare the believe to the one true god
So its has Nothing to do with any extremist activity.
*_*Sheep Eat Plants_*
*_*Plants Eat Sheep_*
*_*Vegan Eat Plants_*
*_*Food Chain has Left the Chat_*
Aldo Zulfikar ** DOES NOT COMPUTE**
Confused increase to 99%
*Plant eats vegan*
Vegan plant sheep
R
I think this plant would be put into the “proto carnivorous” category rather than just carnivorous because it does not digest the animal directly
I would have to agree with that.
@@grimmrider638 hmm yesyes agree, science
I also concur. Indubitably. Higgs boson, super conductor, bunsen burner.
Gang gang
Were it not for the inward facing thorns, I would also agree, but their directionality clearly denotes intent. Whether they directly digest the animals with enzymes isn't relevant so much as the obvious deliberateness of entrapment.
Explain that vegans
de cauchy -😂. 🏆
HAHAHAHA!!
de cauchy vegans minds would be blown if they knew what nature is ACTUALLY like
Lmao
😂😂👏
He should totally be one of those people that narrarates those nature videos.
that's what he just did
fuckin lold
Nikolas Young I know that's what he just did, but I mean, on an David Attenborough Level.
+lateblossom rhffk
But things he says are not true.
Why do people dislike this? He saved the sheep.
They dislike it because he’s wrong. Brambles are certainly not carnivorous.
The tree clicked dislikes
@@jarretdietzler7750 he did a response video to the comments. Have a look see what you think.
Vegans are the reason
Because this plant isnt considered a carnivorous plant, they cant produce digestive enzymes which carnivorous plant do, and even if that plant caught that sheep on purpose its called proto carnivorous, which are called to carnivorous plants that are somewhat carnivorous, did you know theres a flower that uses trigger systems to put pollens on insects..? How ever small insect aren't so lucky and get killed in the process, the flower will then produce digestive enzymes to digest it, but its not a carnivorous plant because the plant doesn't really need it to survive, carnivorous plant will die without a prey.
It's crazy how that plant tied it self into a harness
That was the sheep’s doing
Lmao
That moment when your food's food eats your food
oh shit it's that boi
+Krispysquare lets make a baby
+jose fermin LoL! I Think you're missing a few vital key steps for 'mating'...
Lol
Arik Kutselev hhhhhh
When you thought you had an understanding of the food chain... boom, plot twist.
But really, this has to be the most brutal plant in the world. Dang.
Rach H Edjewmacation will do that to you
You mean plant twist
@A Fucking Weaboo :(
Nova Traveller yes
Sheep: I want this plant for dinner
Plant: Reverse Uno Card
*visible confusion*
@@TheGreyFeather0707 what’s confusing??? You don’t get the joke?
He’s gives out such a great Narration,Well done man.
"they make blackberries! But they are also deadly killers"
Never thought i'd hear those words uttered in a row.
Chinese special ops?????
So make the choice. You like blackberries more than sheep or vice versa?
I'm sure there's a good way to cook mutton with blackberry sauce.
Hm, yeah, that would sound pretty random without context
Not surprising since black symbolizes death and darkness...
*Sheep caught like this stop struggling quite quickly and just stand there, calmly waiting for death to arrive.*
Peeper Gumball I was so shocked by that I had to hear him say it again :(
@@CaptainMyCaptain33 A friend of mine is a forester/hunter (as in actual profession) when he took me along his to get blackberries he told me that he often finds bones of rabbits and also even dear inside the bushes when he needs to cut them back down. He also got a dog out of a blackberry bush who went missing after their owners went to collect mushrooms. I was present with the search, tho not present when they found the dog. It was entangled in a blackberry bush unable to get out. It was a german shepherd mix, looked like a regular german shepherd to me, tho. It was in 2015, northern germany.
This plant is metal as fuck
CabinDoor what
@@CaptainMyCaptain33 There is no reason why it wouldn't be true, bramble bushes that have spikes that are randomly pointing inwards would naturally catch more animals by accident.
The more animals that die at it's base feed the soil with nutrients and the bramble bush is more likely to survive because it has a greater nutrient source.
So when the brambles reproduce the ones most likely to survive to reproduce would be the ones with this extra nutrient source and they are ones with the inward facing spikes.
This is simple evolution and would continue until all the bramble bushes grow with inward facing spikes.
I don't get people man. This guy demonstrates an interesting idea and people just spew shit and hate in the comments.
Clearly two very different levels of human here.
People just like arguing on YT, it's like this itch they have to "tell it like it is" or some shit.
Some do, most only watch, others never DO anything but criticize the do'ers as say how they "would've done it better."
But they are merely annoying loud mouthed frauds. They could never do it better, because they'd never start to DO anything in the first place.
Some watch to be entertained, and act so; others watch to be informed - and aren't, simply don't understand, or are. So, of four, generally speaking only one out of four come for the purpose of the video. Such is cyberspace...
Such a pleasant voice and accent.
Are you criticizing people for being rude or for disagreeing? If it's the latter consider the following: "Haters" is a convenient internet colloquial used by ppl referring to those who say things they don't like, whether or not hate is actually involved. Is disagreement hate spewing?
Brambles really don't kill that many animals, so it's debatable whether there's a niche of carnivorous rose bushes that gets a significant amount of nutrients from decaying animals. There aren't that many animals other than sheep which can be entangled by these bushes. Further, rose bushes grow in all sorts of environments, and plenty of people who grow them have noted they grow fine in the absence of dead, decaying animals.
As one person pointed out on a stack exchange thread (biology.stackexchange.com/questions/58569/is-bramble-blackberry-bush-carnivorous):
1) domestic sheep with thick wool are a relatively new evolutionary phenomenon, not leaving wild organisms enough time to adapt.
2) it's not clear that rotting meat provides nutrients to these particular plants.
3) these plants aren't usually accompanied by dead animals.
Many people on quora and stack exchange pointed our that brambles don't secrete digestive enzymes. If this is indeed a developing evolutionary niche the brambles that systematically "trap" animals are at most "proto-carnivourous" plants they do not digest dead animals. But they may through highly inefficient means absorb some of the byproducts of decay.
Glad to see you listed the positives of the bramble plant as well! Not many people take into consideration how “pest” like thorny plants can be crucial in the conversion of a landscape
Lots of people seem to miss one of the main points in this - the thorns face backwards. So they're not like vines/nettles/trees, ok?
Also, look at the damage done to the plants by the sheep - if the thorns are purely defensive, then they aren't working very well, are they?
Lastly, to all those people who automatically repeat the mantra that sheep are dumb/stupid - you obviously haven't spent much time with sheep. They are funny and intelligent. They have been bred to be calm and compliant - but that isn't the same as stupid.
+WayOutWest Blowinblog very interesting observation. glad to see you haven't demonized the plant either, nice one.
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the man was just showing a sheep caught in the brambles, its not to say sheep are the only ones effected by these plants and that the plant has evolved to catch sheep only.
lol yeah multifloral rose us a bitch fell in it as a kid but get thrashed by it all the time
they stop the sheep and animals from fucking eating them and tearing them apart intentionally
+David R
This is a none scientific video presented by a none scientist using no scientific methodologies on a none scientific forum and your commenting about it being unscientific....take care David R.
the narrator's voice is so calm and monotone that now as I read each comment below in my head, his voice is there reading them for me.
Same
milky teaway your voice also might be angelic and i m felling for you
Creep^
Plant really was like “I mean you guys weren’t gonna eat it and I was hungry “
“You look a bit stuck, don’t ya?”
*”OH I’M DEFINITELY NOT STUCK DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME”*
I don't know how I got here but it was quite interesting and informative.
Don't take this video as fact. This is 100% speculation
vivelajonny
Well yeah. Still interesting nonetheless.
+vivelajonny, Well a scientific theory states that first one must observe then one can test one observation. Make a theory on one's observations. Then said data needs to have viable testable data that can be tested by another. then document your observation and then one has a workingTheory.
This guy NEEEDS to wright this up. I do belive he is on to something very important!! :-)
+vivelajonny How, precisely, is it speculation? Have you watched it? Because stating that they have backward-facing spikes that draw anything caught in them inward (think of a ratcheting chain drive, or something similar) is certainly not speculation. Saying that the plants would benefit from the nutrients of the dead animals for quite a while is not speculation... People in the comments support the notion of finding animal remains in and near bramble patches... So either I'm missing how this video is "entirely speculation", you misunderstand what speculation means, or you didn't watch the video.
William Bostedt Saying that the plant "actively hunts animals" is completely speculation, its a theory based off the facts that he presented, but it is a theory, it is a SPECULATION.
Apparently you don't know what it means.
Speculation definition: ideas or guesses about something that is not known
There is no concrete proof these plants actively hunt anything
To all the people who don't seem to understand this: A carnivorous being purpousfully consumes other living beings like lizards or mammals (essentially everything that has a blood flow), it does that either by feasting on a corpse or by killing / luring it's prey in to a trap. If a sheep happens to die next to an oak tree it does not necessarily make the oak tree carnivorous, it simply happens to use the sheeps nutrients, however if a plant is designed to function like a trap and as a result of that efficiently consumes it's prey then it is in fact carnivorous. A carnivorous being does not have to chew on it's prey with a mouth, it simply has to consume it and normally has a tactic that allows it to get to said meat. Great video and very fascinating topic, i never would have thought of that. Also it was so nice to see how you freed those sheeps :)
(By the way by the dictionary's definition "carnivorous" simply means "flesh-eating" or "feeding on flesh", so it's actually even easier than i described it, still with my previous description there should be no doubt left)
'Carnivorous plant' it's has its own SEPERATE definition in the biological world. Darwin even studied carnivorous plants and there is many species and not all look like the flute bowl of fly trap, some release resin which insects get stuck in and decay.
HellsGun if you are talking about the sundew or as its also known the starfish plant it actually applys more resin to the insect once capured by the rest of the hairs on the leave next to the insect move twords the insect before the leave folds around it the starfish plant the one that looks like a succulant uses the same sticky resin but once an instect is caught it folds the outter parts of its leaves into a tight roll around it
thats the difference from carnivorous they actually ATTEMPT to capture prayer unlike bramble here that just happened to have its thorns get caught in the sheeps unnatural fur and the sheep struggles and further tangles ITSELF the plant does nothing
.......That is a sheep's natural fur. The unnatural shorn sheep don't get caught in the brambles.
+hzuiel sheep have been bred so they have an unnatural amount of fur
The term is "proto-carnivorous". They are on the evolutionary path to being full blown carnivorous plants.
plant: *catches sheep*
sheep: "guess i'll die"
Interesting hypothesis! Glad to see you know your farm and humanely check your sheep. When we lived in Kent, we would go for walks and regularly found sheep caught up. So much so, we started taking secateurs and gloves with us so we could get the daft (and often ungrateful) creature free! Nice vid and keep up the good work.
Hate to see a herd of sheep let loose in a Velcro factory
Where's the kickstarter for this?
AdirondackNY herd of sheep loose in a Montana town. instant riot as all the horny guys start chasing them down. couple months later all you here is daa aady!!!!
this XD
Daniel Alvarez What a disgusting bigot you are!
CaptainLumpyDog m
I thought this was gonna be a clickbait video with a sheep stuck in a large fake Venus fly trap but it actually turned out to be informative. Good job.
123457474869 do you know what a Venus flytrap looks like lol? And it's clearly not fake.
This is the first thing you learn while working with sheep, they just wanna die
😂😂
How does it even catch an animal? Do the vines just move and grab them or somethin'?
@@musahaque2000 the sheep walk into it while eating it.
sheep eat plant, plant grab sheep
@@Boreas- Oh yeah I see, thanks for explainin' it.
So kinda like most of us
When I was in high school "debating class" was a mandatory subject. I wish we could've debated on this. This topic holds one's attention.
dear vegans,your food is eating my food
Vegans don't eat carnivorous plants, because they're non-vegan. They only eat herbivorous plants lol
a green plant by any other name still wants to eat a sheep. and what the heck is a 'herbivorous' plant,FAITH? I thought the sheep was
@alphaxard1 there is actually some plants that do indeed "kill" other plants. Sometimes you see some plants wrap themselves around others like a tree "suffocating it" and taking it's sunshine :C
:x I'm bad with words.
Rom Kin they are called vines
alphaxard1 It isn't just vines :x
This was actually an interesting insight that I had not considered before - that some plants like this may be indirectly carnivorous - in that they don't digest the animal inside specialized plant parts, but rather trap the animal, to have it's carcass fertilize the soil in which they are rooted. Very interesting!
You understand this insn’t a carnivorous plant. It’s just a sheep stuck in a bush
@@Anyayowoki agreed ,its fake those plants dont move
Protocarnivorous is the term a Bramble Bush falls under.
@@eskimo9754, neither do Sarracenia move.
@@Anyayowoki You would be wrong. Many plants have adaptations to kill animals to enrich the soil. Not every carnivorous plant is one that eats flies. Ever heard of plants benefitting from having bonemeal put in the soil for farming?
I fell asleep on my living room floor barefoot while my kids were playing Legos.... I was trapped for 3 days
Imagine how many Rabbits and birds they get?!
Little to none. Sheep have thick curly wool that's unfortunately easily caught in brambles. Rabbits and birds aren't like that.
@@yerman0564 they still do get some rabbits although less
Huh. That’s very interesting. The plant doesn’t “eat” the sheep as one would think, but rather they trap the sheep until they cannot escape and eventually die, then feed off the dead sheep, which provide nutrients to the plant as they die and decompose.
Brian Lin all carnivorous plants or rather insectivorous plants doesn’t technically eat their prey... they just trap it and kill it either by starvation or drowning...
apdroid geek Most carnivorous plants produce digestive enzymes after the prey is trapped to digest the prey.
Brian Lin yes but dont exactly eat them...
the very definition of “eat” is the ability to chew...
apdroid geek I suppose you’re right. But at least carnivores plants digest their prey
he sounds like Salad Fingers before he went insane
😆😆😆😆😂
LOL YES
Joker Deadman Speaking of salad fingers has David firth released any new weird shit yet? He did a tour or something but hasn't uploaded any sketches in ages
Joker Deadman was just about to say this
gif must have*
I’m really in trouble if I can’t tell whether a video about a carnivorous blackberry bush is serious or not.
It is.
The plant just traps them it can't actually kill them it just waits for it to die then get its nutrients from the ground
@@banditdoggo Lmfaoo
@@banditdoggo Idk if I trapped you in my basement until you died of dehydration, I think most courts around the world would agree that I directly "killed" you, no?
While studying horticulture the question "what is your favourite plant?" often came up. I always said the one I admire most was the Blackberry, not that I like them, just that they are so resilient, so well designed. Now I'm even more impressed!
Do you believe in God?
@Axxxel_in_Harlem Studying plants tend to make you see evolution for the very real thing it is, so they probably dont
Your voice sounds so.... Classic, like a storyteller, maybe fairy-tale story telling, love it!
I just realised its Ramsay Bolton!
Agreed
WingMeTips Llama?
He reminds me of everyone in Hot Fuzz. "Mornin' Angle, no luck catching them killer plants then?"
Agreed
a plant eating a sheep - seems like reverse food chain ....good example of parallel universe.
dextor0000 wouldn't a parallel universe be in another dimension?
The plant doesn't eat the sheep. It traps it so that it dies there, and then the plant can absorb the nitrogen and things like that from its decaying body. Just like venus fly traps.
Ariyan Ahmed CARNIVOROUS PLANES!
MANDELA EFFECT
it makes a strange kind of sense. its not something one would expect at first glance.
This was actually how me and my girl friend first met
I don't think your relationship is legal
You’re Welsh?
Were you or her stuck?
Ah, a fellow welsh man.
I'm concerned that brambles have become sentient and are commenting on UA-cam videos. 😳
Now I know where to send my mother in law to go berry picking.
Jebus Christ HaHaHa😀
lmao not if you want blackberries
make sure she's wearing a big wool sweater ^^
Jebus Christ I died!!!💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Laila Brown actually he was forced to wear a crown of thorns...hmm black berries had a hand in killing Jesus.. Jews mainly..
Solution: Clear the hanging brush around your fence line. Problem completely solved.
I have been looking a lot at thorned plants lately because of this. I wonder if all the rose family have this adaptation... was looking at some tea roses the other day - vicious great thorns on it and all facing backwards to permit some inward access to the stems but resist drawing back out again.The thorns even have an asymmetrical form which gives a buttress re-enforcement against forces acting in the outwards direction... looks very sus
They defiantly didn't teach us everything in school. lol stay woke !
Maybe they're there so it hurts to eat them and they won't get eaten, sometimes you can't teach people
@@flutedscissors9655 Not really. If the plan was to repel & discourage Browsers, the barbs would grow outward & away from the plant in a defensive posture. Inward facing thorns face that way for one purpose - to draw inward.
@@bobbofly if you get stuck in the rose bush it'll hurt like a bitch and then you won't want to go near roses again, if you eat a thorn it'll also hurt. Just cause it happens to face a way doesn't mean it isn't for whatever purpose
@@flutedscissors9655 I don't think this idea for the thorns' applications apply in the the smaller plants because the smaller plants aren't big enough to catch something with the type of hair that would get entangled like a sheep's would.
To those who are saying this isn't a carnivorous plant: There is a youtube video floating around that came out recently about an archaeological dig. In it they are digging up a mass grave from WW2. They were pulling skulls out of the ground and some of the skulls were broken, with roots coming out of the eye sockets and neck, so they opened a skull to reveal that roots had taken the place of brain matter a long time ago. They removed an entire chunk of roots that literally was the shape of a brain. Other videos showing experiments floating around buried animal carcasses at the base of trees and came back later to discover the roots had grown in the exact shape of the carcass when the animal was later dug-- they only found roots in the shape of the body, and the bones were gone. Plants will benefit from carcasses. Certain types of plants, the ones that can produce salicylates, are highy toxic to animals as well, and the chemicals are produced as anti-animal toxins specifically. Bonemeal is a soil amendment for growing vegetables for a reason; plants benefit from it, and some plants have adapted to take advantage of it. Not every carnivorous plant is one that eats flies.
What Is the name of the Video?
This plant strategy has been documented in trees of the Pisonia genus a.k.a "bird catcher trees". They secret a sticky substance that usually is only annoying to the birds, but now and then birds get covered in it and can't fly and so they fall on the ground and die on the forest floor. This typically happens to fledgelings. These trees are found in tropical islands like in the Caribbean and near Australia.
I think you mean " secrete " . 😊
Of course one has to be in Australia...
Thankfully we have hands!
And knives
CHAS1422 and brains
And chicken
TR EA not all humans have penises so your comment is invalid
Lazy Filmer everything living has a brain
plant be like: whats for dinner?
*a small hungry lamb appeared
plant: rotten steak seems delicious
The sheep rescue is so heart warming. Also, it's adorable how he calls them lads.
"Stand there patently waiting too die"
Sounds like a highschool
DimWinterss sss how about middle school
How about the military
How about human trafficking
Definitely me in high school 😂
LOL
And that's why blackberries taste so damn good
But then iphones come out. (Bad joke I know 😂)
fuck i’m a vegetarian
You’re not if you eat blackberries.😊✌️
Indeed, because it has shoarma mixed in it.
@@bluebloodcell9420 *apple
That’s freaky , this plant thinks very long ahead , nutritions for years to come 😱😱😱
Sheep: *tries to eat this plant*
The plant: oh no, call an ambulance, *BUT NOT FOR ME*
Damn this guy sounds like Ramsay Bolton.
Samuel Hoh haha That was this first thing I thought too!
The Boltons took back Winterfell when those naiive starks lost it. put some respeck on their name boi
Samuel Hoh Exactly what I thought!!
"Ahhhhh *evil smile* Anotha sheep caught by the merciless brambles....let's have a look shall we? Oooo I'll snip this one, and maybe even that one.....but I get such pleasure seeing you struggle Mr.Sheep ...I think your new name shall be ....... REEK. yessssssss dance for me REEK muah HAH HAHAHAaaaa
His voice reminded me of Francis in the channel Cooking with dog. But with slightly better English.
I want this guy to read me bedtime stories 😴😪🙃
I dont, ever
Dont want him in my bedroom 😂
C Sparklingeyes he has an amazing animal planet voice
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hahaha
Me: All carnivores plant only eat insects
This plant : Hold my sheep
Some mice have fallen into carnivores plants too.
It doesn't eat it
@@user-ik2yi4fm1u whatever its a joke
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@user-ik2yi4fm1u Oh yes it does.
1. Animal gets trapped in the brambles.
2. Animal dies in The brambles.
3. Animal decays in the brambles.
4. Brambles feed the juices of the decayed animal that seeped into the ground.
Very simple and ingenious process.
Sheep: I'ma eat you!
Plant: UNO REVERSE!
Sheep: 👁️👄👁️
Lame
@@manchesterunited8390 uno reverse ACTIVATED. Infinity. Looks like the tables have turned.😌🙃
@@allmight9646 lame
@@manchesterunited8390 Uno Reverse Reactivated!! WITH TENFOLDS OF INFINITE POWERRR!! Tables were once again, turned...😌😉
@@allmight9646 lame
I love this guy's voice.
uxtalzon it's called Asmr
uxtalzon search it up
uxtalzon search it up on UA-cam
At first I thought this was a joke but it actually makes sense.
I thought the same thing
Jadin Andrews Why would it be a joke, didn't everyone learn about carnivorous plants in school? I didn't but didn't everyone else?
It makes tons a sense! Im still being in awe.
How does it make sense? Brambles have been around for a very long time, much longer than sheep have due to sheep being bred by humans. There is no other animal that has hair, fur, or wool that make it susceptible to being caught by brambles. Brambles did not evolve to kill sheep.
Had me thinking about it logically.
Plant: Call an ambulance, call an ambulance...
But not for me
Sheep: cool, a source of food
Plant: right back at ya buckaroo
A lot of people don't know that tomato plants are also carnivorous plants. The fuzz on their spines and leaves actually tangles flies preventing them from escaping. The dead carcasses of flies will then fall to the ground and fertilize the plant.
Dont Afk like many plants yeah. I'd say so
Morbidly efficient. EEEEW!
That doesn't make them carnivorous.
"Carnivorous plants release digestive enzymes to digest their prey or have other adaptations specifically to pull nutrients from the things they kill. Brambles would have to rely on something else to rot the carcass and pick up whatever trace nutrients that get released into the soil like any other plant. Brambles tendency to tangle could just as easily be a defensive adaptation meant to encourage herbivores to avoid it. Without any specific adaptations to uptake the nutrients from killed animals, classifying them as carnivorous would be premature."
The same applies to your statement here. The fuzz is actually meant to protect the plant from creatures like caterpillars that consume the leaves.
The nutrients are added to the soil, which is where they get them from in the first place. They don't need to have additional adaptations as these would be superfluous.
Another example of this kind of thing happening with plants is a certain tropical tree that produces seeds that stick to bird feathers. They can get to the point where so many seeds are stuck to a bird that it can't fly and eventually dies on the ground, providing nutrients to the plant. I think it would be more correct to say they are not carnivores by necessity. but opportunists. The adaptation of the brambles means that while they don't actively capture prey, if an animal just happens to get stuck and decompose into the ground around their roots that is all the better for them.
While technically correct you do realize that is only TECHNICALLY correct right? I mean the fact that the brambles probably are evolved to bring this eventuality to pass is undeniable. I'ts probably one of the reasons they are so prolific. How many rodents or birds get caught in them that we don't really find out about? Brambles might not be carnivores by the way humans have defined carnivores. But if that's the case tell that to the bones of the dead sheepies? Time to revise the definition I say. Don't get so caught on definitions my friend. They move .. That's why it's SCIENCE. And not say religion.
How did you get Ramsay Bolton to do the voiceover?
loool
Funny rafael!!! :D
My first thought aswell!
It does tho
rafael lewis sounds just like him!!!
Your logic is sound and makes quite a lot of sense when you think about it
Once you explained of backwards pointing thorns ,yes! definitely carnivorous :-) Thank you for taking the time to share
Nah. We have native brambles here in Wisconsin with backwards facing thorns, but we don’t have any native animals, like sheep, that would get caught.
if u pat sheep do he bite
if the sheep have a liking towards you,no they shouldn't,but it varies when sheep may like you enough
Generally sheep are pretty docile animals. But like any animal, you piss it off, it'll probably try to take a chuck out of you. heh
Rams can be grumpy and some headbutt, especially if ewes are in season. The big breeds can be dangerous.
......
yes
I don't care about the debates and arguments people are having, I just love how calm this entire video is, it just makes me happy
IT'S NOT CALM AT ALL WERNT YOU EVEN WATCHING!?!
He's talking about the farmer's voice. I'm pretty sure anyway. It's naturally calm, which induces a feeling of calmness. Not sure why you felt the need to type in all caps, though.
Calm down. :^)
aMARKan comment Would you like to type that out again so that it makes sense? I think you missed some words out bud :)
Jen Donally good job on correcting someones writing mistakes when you made some yourself in your comment. what a dumbass
@ Jen Donally
Just Ew, Get a life hun. 😂
At first, thought video was pulling my leg but as narrator explained, I became convinced. Good video!
Teacher in class: plants are at the bottom of the food chain
Plants: 😐->😠
...actually, mate, I get you. Completely. It makes perfect sense! No joke. Your thesis is sound.
Cal Anon
Same. I don't know if you'd classify them as carnivorous, but the idea of the brambles being turned inwards as an adaptation to capture animals and use them for nutrients doesn't seem that far-fetched at all.
Perhaps, then, we should not call them "carnivorous" but "predatory" and, as they "feed" on the rotten meat, "predatory carrion feeders"?
You killed your sarcasm. And yes I agree they shouldn't be called carnivorous. But his thesis IS sound. Compare his observation process to researchers on other topics.
It's more defensive than anything. Here's why: Carnivorous plants release digestive enzymes to digest their prey or have other adaptations specifically to pull nutrients from the things they kill. Brambles would have to rely on something else to rot the carcass and pick up whatever trace nutrients that get released into the soil like any other plant. Brambles tendency to tangle could just as easily be a defensive adaptation meant to encourage herbivores to avoid it. Without any specific adaptations to uptake the nutrients from killed animals, classifying them as carnivorous would be premature.
plus- they grow (and most importantly) spread perfectly fine without the need of catching sheep.
Free Diugh and you take the definition of a carnivorous plants as proof for it to be none... which is pretty premature, how do you think carnivorous plants began to exist in the first place, that's the actual question, maybe it's just another kind that is passively carnivorous and the animal corpses would even attract more animals (even tho I think that sheeps are the most endangered ones because of their wool, it's like velcro fastener lol
trees in the hood have guns and will mug you if they catch you lackin
+Dick Trickle There are some trees in Australia that come close. They look like a good place to sleep under and when a person or animal does, they detach their dead and heavy limbs and crush their prey.
orlock20 dude fuck australia fucking 6 ft lon spiders and now zombie trees
Dick Trickle
home.exetel.com.au/gregs_homepage/Reduced%20Photo's/Falling%20Branch%20Risk.JPG
The sign is slightly wrong in that the falling limbs are random events.
This guys a natural storyteller
Can't say I'm 100% convinced but it's a very interesting hypothesis. Going to watch your followup video now...
Poor Sheep ;(
why?
it doesn't take a lot of intelligence to be able to bond with another animal.
Sheep are like the SWEETEST animals ever. I get a bit triggered when people speak of them because when i was little, and at a zoo, i threw the sheep food right in a sheeps eyes and it was just stuck there. 😥😥 The sheep didnt freak out or anything. It just still waited to be fed. This memory haunts me for some reason. I just feel so terrible.
Actual footage of Abraham finding a substitute for Isaac
🤣💀💀 na this sent me
@@desiree7633 😐😐
Ishmael not isaac
@Sanaa Baht Israel your first son!!!
Not second read your book
@Sanaa Baht Israel in all culture father is called under his first son
Your book mention it many times when God speak to a prophet's son
This is a great depiction of that plant. Every other video I saw didn’t show them effectively.
I've never thought about brambles as carnivorous before but you make a sound argument. Animals dying in their clutches sure isn't doing them any harm.
Brilliant insight!!
After seeing how tightly those sheep were trapped, I tend to agree with WayOutWest's theory. Simply fascinating.
+danh5150 It's false.
+El rey No, El Ray, it isn't false. It's a theory based on observation. You can argue against it, and others can judge the arguments and the evidence, but just stating something is false is just silly.
WayOutWest Blowinblog
As silly as stating that something is true without major evidence than a sheep entangled.
+WayOutWest Blowinblog I think it's false too. Or rather, simply inaccurate. There's more evidence to indicate they're not carnivorous than evidence to suggest they are. European blackberries were imported to the USA, and on the farm I grew up on, there was a large bramble hedge. There was a wide array of large wildlife present; raccoons, deer, coyotes, opposum, badgers, even black bears and the occasional mountain lion to name just a few. Not a single animal, not even our large dogs, were caught on this 1.5 mile long hedge. Thus, blackberry brambles couldn't have evolved with species upon which to regularly feed on. Even in the UK only sheep appear to be caught in brambles - NOT the native wildlife. The reason sheep fall prey so often to them is simple: They're domesticated. They're selectively bred to lack survival instincts and to have unnaturally long wool.
+MetalSlugzMaster He stated sheared lambs don't get caught, only the thick coated ones do. Can you state any animals on your list that have a curly coat of wool? There might not be those kinds of animals in USA because the bramble killed them all!
11/10 expected the sheep to get eaten alive but this its still pretty good
AuroYugen lol
吸う Tofu if it can do that, then we humans would be an epic food source for them.
immobile predator wont pose much challenge for human..
the bigger the threat ....there more human wants to hunt them down.
ikr
Plant: *eats sheep
Sheep: *eats plant
Human has entered the chat
Plant and sheep: *nervous sweating
😂😂🔥
I really think you have the perfect voice for narrating this video, and a great voice for story telling ^^ if it ever tickles your fancy .
That’s the biggest Venus sheep trap I’ve ever seen😲 . Dirty plants get away from me sheep.
FPV FREAKY
Venus is a planet
Massa 10/10 for that one 👍🏽
Massa ever heard of 'venus flytrap'?
Massa I hope you're joking...
Whooooosh
Started expecting total bullshit, but you totally convinced me.
NGorso1 you're top comment
OMG I love you're voice so calming
This demonstration is really interesting, makes totally sense.
Vegans: Eating animals is wrong! Eat plants instead!
Plants: Eating plants is wrong! Eat animals instead!
Plants don't have brains they can't think that XD
This is why I’m a cannibal.
@@immersiveparadox haha brother where are you from are you from asia
You finally figured it out. Vegans are animals
@Cordon Kalis have you see lion eat their prey? they hunt it, give worse despair, than that video, and they start eating them half dead... i don't see much different from other carnivorous being...
Even tho this plant may not have digestive acids that put the sheep directly into the plant, I find it totally believable that a plant can adapt to trap and kill things around it to create fertile soil for itself. Having rotting animal corpses surrounding a plant would be VERY beneficial in the right circumstances, creating tons of nutrients to go right into the soil for the roots. Seems like a very balanced, natural feeding system for the entire ecosystem
+Al Capone sounds like intelligent design to me.
commenter78 Was that sarcasm? I really hope so. What does intelligent design have to do with this plant? It adapted overtime to survive more when it happened to lure in and kill more animals. These dead animals provided nutrients, thus causing the plants that "kill" the sheep to survive more and breed more. Fast forward a few million years and you have a plant that murders sheep
Al Capone the invisible guy in the sky of the intelligent design and the magical primordial soup of the evolutionary theory are similarly logical. but i think it would have been more logical if a car naturally evolved over millions of years to become a car out of the soup than the infinitesimally complex animal organisms. our existence doesnt make much sense.
Eli G invisible guy in sky may be alien scientists. it is easy to imagine that if human technological advancement keeps its present rate of advancement in a couple thousand years it will be able to design whole ecosystems and creatures from scratch. i mean currently it is starting to happen with genetic modified organisms. so intelligent design is a very possible origin of life on earth.
Eli G Actually if you look deeper into it, you could build an argument for humans being "designed" and not fitting in with all other earth creatures. From our DNA, body design, brains, everything. I dont believe in a religious god at all, but I believe the best two theories for humans is random occurrence and evolution, or some "super aliens" designing us for one of many different reasons.
DUDE IS ACTUALLY GRABBING BRAMBLES WITH HIS BARE HANDS
i thought the plant was goint to devour the sheep like sucking blood through thorns😂
The humble blackberry: not quite as innocent as you might have thought. :D
Java Jones dude, I swear that I read that as soon as he said it
Same!
Right now it's only small wooly barnyard animals...next it'll be hipsters getting their beards caught as they attempt to steal the fruit from this savage killer.
this needs a ytp
i just did the same that was weird!
I was almost eaten by my wife's bush. It was only a close shave that saved me. Lol
White Van Man and here i thugt That you are ment to eat her Bush 😂 i guess it works both ways 😂
Lmfao 😂💯
White Van Man giantess vore
White Van Man nah, you screwed it up. Fail.
slow clap
Sheep: oh look, dinner
Plant: *Pulls out Uno reverse card*
Truck-sama speaking of uno, my friend went missing who I play uno with everyday
Sorry, Triffids - you used to be the scariest carnivorous plants on the block, but THIS is our new champion!
I opened youtube for a quick search about the current affordable CPU's, and twenty minutes later I ended up here. Now I'm going to search for a field to buy, and get some sheeps so I can save them from these silent killers. I'm a farmer now.
Andrew Spud Next time, you search for blackberries to get 'affordable CPUs', yeah that should work.
Hahaha!! 😂😃😄
Andrew, I did my chores with my goats, cooked delicious food, and sat down to look up a video on cold frames, to find these lovable sheep being attacked by brambles. My next video is, "World's Hairiest Baby...(Gordon...a miniature donkey foal)." That's where I am headed......... Boy, that was great. Now I want a mini donkey.
YES after watching this, Im a farmer now too! (Although I did bloodwork a few years back my doctor told me that I was allergic to sheep...?)
Maria, You made me laugh. I have goats and I am allergic to hay. Well, probably a particular plant sometimes found in hay. If you want to dream, look up pygora goats. They look like fluffy sheep. Maybe you would not be allergic to fiber goats. I have two. Lint Eastwood, and Dirty Hairy..
They're not strictly carnivorous. But you could argue they're protocarnivoros. They cannot directly digest protein from the animal instead relying on the carcass to rot and provide the nutrients. However this is NOT a primary source of food meaning you'd be hard pressed to call them carnivores.
how about omnivores?
scavenger?
he means they are getting food via photosynthesis, so obviously they're are not an actual carnivorous plant. Big difference between us surviving on rice. It's a plant, it turn energy from the sun into its food. The only thing a dead animal seeping into its roots would do is provide fertilizer for it, but it could not survive on that fertilizer alone.
+Lusifer Sofia No you can't live on just bread or rice.
You can live like that, but you'd be extremely weak which isn't ideal in the wild. you need energy to hunt, walk and think properly.
Interesting take; I never thought of it that way!
Plant: Call an ambulance but not for me.
saved a horse many moons ago that was wrapped in this bramble
" . . . not quite as innocent as you might have thought" :)
That was very well done! Excellent presentation and theory! Thank you!