countries have almost gone to war over islands made of bird poop(guano) in the past. The stuff was incredibly valuable as fertilizer, because its so high in phosphate. So they used to pay people to live on these islands that are just rocks that have been covered with layer upon layer of bird poop over tens of thousands of years until it created an artificial island of poop. Then these people would have to mine the stuff, all the while tolerating the awful smells and dangerous conditions of living amidst that much bird feces.
The most amazing fact about our new story is that..? (1) 🌱the world is home to around 850 species of carnivorous plant (2) 💩the bat pays for its stay in poop (3) 🤝Nepenthes hemsleyana & bat are having a mutualistic relationship
Definitely 3 for me. The fact its evolved to bounce the sonar off in a certain way and the relationship is so old that it's lost its other carnivorous adaptations is amazing
I am from Southeast Asia. Most Pitcher Plants here are poached. Which makes me sad. Some other rare houseplants like Alocasias, Philodendrons and many more are being poached in the wild. I hope they dont get extinct.
Why the fucl are people poaching pitcher plants? As that's a trade on the black market I am willing to give over to illuminate for as this would be a suprise for even her.
That toilet still digests insects that have been accidentally dropped. It's just cleverly evolved so that the bats that come every day can easily get out.
There are SO many nature channels, yet this channel is special. Absolute amazing content. I love this channel and wish this channel success and growth. They deserve it!! I'll be supporting forever. Commenting and hitting that like on every video. I started watching the videos I havent seen and will be posting comments and likes! Thank you for your amazing content!
@@lenafromterramater3690 aw :) no thank you! Haha but for real thank you and your welcome. I got nothing much going on today and just seen your comment. Going to spend next hour or 2 binging your channel, so most likely get some more comments coming from me m 😊 God bless you guys
@Mr.BadGaming420 That's right, it's the best way to get nutrients when the soil is *again* poor and depleted of nutrients. Otherwise they have no need to adapt to such a situation. This is actually mentioned in the video.(minute 00:56) If it truly was the best way, even when the soil is rich in nutrients, then most plants in the world would have already turned to this way of nourishing themselves, but it's roughly only 0.2% of flowering plants that needed to become carnivorous. The vast majority is non-carnivorous. Regardless of why the plants resorted to meat eating, however, basing what we, as humans, eat, in a plant's feeding habits is quite disproportionate, or would you say, that because the carnivorous plant has bats poop inside it to attract insects so it can eat them, we as humans should do it too, because it's the best way to get nutrients? Don't know about you, but myself and the rest of the world will meet that question with a resounding no. By the way, I am not condemning meat eaters, because I am no one to be judging others for what they eat. What we eat is a personal choice and we have full freedom to make it. However that doesn't mean meat is the food that best supports health in humans.
@@Tatusiek_1 It supports it as good survival food, but the way most meat is harvested today feeds most animals with an unnatural diet, plus the conditions in which they are raised often make for meat with traces of pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones (both human-provided and those produced by the animal due to stress, like cortisol and adrenaline). In addition to this, most cattle's current conditions also favour the development of zoonotic disease. If the animals eaten were hunted in the wild, like our ancestors did, it would be a different story, much higher quality meat. But even then, meat is dead tissue, raw living foods are much better to support life, as they contain phytonutrients, antioxidants, etc in much greater abundance. Moreover, there are many sources of high quality complete plant-based protein, such as mushrooms, quinoa, tempeh, hemp seeds, grains+legumes mixes, bread+peanut butter, not to mention a bunch of supplements similar to whey protein powders (except they are plant-based). Even when it comes to B12, this is not a nutrient inherent to meat, B12 comes from the methabolism of soil microbes wich produce methylcobalamin. The reason grass-fed cattle have it in their bodies is because they ingest traces of dirt/soil with the grass, so these microbes colonize their guts and they have their own little factory of B12 going. This same effect can be achieved in humans by ensuring a rich and beneficial gut flora population, particularly the one present in the ileum, where methylation takes place. (Or we can also just pop a B12 supplement, but the previous option makes for a more efficient and cheaper long term solution, provided one cares for their gut's health)
@@rebecarauda120 We do not graze grasses and bushes as we cannot digest the cellulose, so getting vitamin b12 cannot be acquired like that. Can we even harbor the microbes that produce b12?
@Avery the Cuban-Anerican No dumb. Human are the destroyer of Earth and all species of Earth including insects and human also. Human kill more insects by gases, pesticides, and pollution etc....
"the biggest meat eater plant" sound scary but its actually a bar and a toilet mix, where they serve their costumers some honey and the costumers paying it with poo
Another informative video, let the information keep flowing 🤩. Thank you Terra Matter, I am a student and this channel provides a great amount of educational info.
Technically, plants such as rose bushes and other thorny plants can be considered carnivorous. If a mammal becomes entrapped in the thorns by getting them tangled up in their fur then they can die and decompose at the base of the plants where all the nutrients from the animal will be absorbed by the soil around the plant.
Actually a good documentation. BUT unfortunately, as so often, with a lot of errors and incorrect information. First, catching and digesting insects costs energy, but far less than what was shown in the video. The plants have perfected themselves. The energy expenditure is very low and the benefit per prey is great. Probably there were also temporary carnivores in the millions of years, but they were more inefficient and thus became extinct. Second, the largest pitcher plant is NOT Nepenthes rajah. They are Nepenthes attenboroughii and Nepenthes merrilliana. There are even pictures on the Internet of Nepenthes merriliana, whose pitchers are the size of cats. Nepenthes truncata can even dissolve / digest bones. Mice that are in the cans dissolve completely. The Nepenthes even digests the skull.
OMG! Back in 2018 I went to a UNESCO World Heritage mountain here in my country called Mt. Hamiguitan and it has pitcher plants of all shapes and sizes. I was always curious about these plants that I picked one and poured the juices in my hand. It stank! It was a horrible smell that I couldn’t explain and I always wondered if it was because of the dying insects. This video explains all of it. I majored in Biology and did my internship there but we didn’t get the chance to go in-depth with these plants because we focused in studying the animals. I’m glad to know places like the ones I’ve been to are highly protected so as not to break the chain of symbiosis.
Wow! The Pine Barrons Treefrog often calls from inside pitcher plants in Western Florida; maybe the plant has a way to trick the frog and feast on its scat.
Respectfully, it didn’t evolve, it was designed by God. If plants can’t get enough nutrients from the soil they don’t evolve into meat eaters, they die. Cool images tho 😎
@@poliincredible770 one option is they are alien plants. But most likely it is evolution. However it had to be a gradual change. A quick change and yes they die, but slow enough and they evolve. Which is why rapid global climate change is bad. Animals and plants don't have enough time to evolve so they go extinct.
I knew where this was going really early on. It's kind of funny, but also really cool. There's not really any other examples I can think of where animals live inside plants, with out harming them in some way. That's pretty cool.
Expectation: wow!! This flesh eating plant is so big, it must be all those small vertebrates.. Reality: come here mate, answer your nature call and give something in reward..
as a kid i always thought that venus flytraps had razor sharp teeth and it can easily cut your finger off. but im a bit older now and i know that the teeth doesnt really hurt
Cool! A bat came to visit my balcony The other day and I figured it had to do with my carnivores somehow. Now this vídeo randomly appears to me on my recommendations 😆
So bat poop is so valuable that it can be used to pay rent. Now I know why Batman must be a rich man.
🤣
@beverlyhills Woah
And Poison Ivy might have a very peculiar kink...
countries have almost gone to war over islands made of bird poop(guano) in the past. The stuff was incredibly valuable as fertilizer, because its so high in phosphate. So they used to pay people to live on these islands that are just rocks that have been covered with layer upon layer of bird poop over tens of thousands of years until it created an artificial island of poop. Then these people would have to mine the stuff, all the while tolerating the awful smells and dangerous conditions of living amidst that much bird feces.
🤣🤣🤣
They take the phrase "Eat shıt" quite literally
You mean eat scat or grit or poop.
"Shit"?, "Grit"?, "Scat"?, "Poop"?
You mean
"Hanky Muck Poo poo Arsefire Crap Scat Dung Feces Slooping Gruel in Oliver's Bowl
Down the Brown Load Excretion Excrement Defecation Brown Waste Stool Manure Ordure Enlightenment Rock-a-deuce Pop-a-squat Bowel Relieve Product Brownish Thingy"?
That's rather bit cringe innit bruv?
@@Mediocreinput Lmao
Demn it. Someone got here firsr
Eat shit is a popular insult here
so the biggest pitcher plant is basically a toilet
Yes
A deadly toilet that eats you if you fall into it.
And it's basically a nightmare come true cause the toilet can eat you out
@@Nah_no_cap Thats not a nightmare... Not if rule34 has taught me anything anyway.
Latrine eater
Vegetarian: we dont eat animals
Plants: well I do
@Mullerornis Nobody mentioned vegans though. You're the insecure one.
@Mullerornis no one is talking about stupid vegans
@Mullerornis cry some more.
@@djbubblegum9975 I hate vegans
@Mullerornis it's a job, smh
High rise apartment of 1 bedroom ,1 bathroom available for 30 pieces of poo & farts a month.
In that case, I'm rich!
Classic lmfao
The most amazing fact about our new story is that..?
(1) 🌱the world is home to around 850 species of carnivorous plant
(2) 💩the bat pays for its stay in poop
(3) 🤝Nepenthes hemsleyana & bat are having a mutualistic relationship
This channel is my favorite on UA-cam. Thanks to Terra matar for such informative videos. Really terra matters.
Definitely 3 for me. The fact its evolved to bounce the sonar off in a certain way and the relationship is so old that it's lost its other carnivorous adaptations is amazing
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I had used to be carnivorous plant hobbyist,it totally most magnificent plant to grow and there are probably thousands crossed breeds
I guess you could say that the last plant is batshit crazy
you gave me a good laugh
🤣🤣🤣 that's a good one
Lol
I just want to applaud you , from where do you get those perfect shots
Thank you! Kudos to our amazing filming crew!
These are literally the best shots I have ever seen, and I bet a lot of people can agree on that.
@@upsettingrock1 better than tequila?
@@massinakmin8340 nothings better than that
They recreate few dramatic shots Which can't be usually seen in nature,
this plant to a constipated tenant - "where's my rent?!?!!"
Here ya go 💩
This is the most joyful joke-like comment from UA-cam
@@leviszhou711 thanks 😁
You'll get your rent when you fix this damn door
@@Marius-ti9es 😳
*being a lazy landlord who doesn't want to fix the door* 😒😒
*continues watching 2 girls 1 cup * 👀💩
Thats a very clever way of adaptation.
Both the bats and the plant.
They have found a good symbiosis!
Adaptation is just so mind-blowing. The plants turned into TOILET SEATS TO COLLECT POOP I- 😭😭
Can’t tell me there isn’t a God out there with a sense of humour 💀
I am from Southeast Asia. Most Pitcher Plants here are poached. Which makes me sad. Some other rare houseplants like Alocasias, Philodendrons and many more are being poached in the wild. I hope they dont get extinct.
That is so sad - we really have to take care of our planet and all of it´s creatures and plants 🌍#terramatters
Some of them may be poached but many more are cultivated and bred to use as a housplant. Although it's a little harder than most plants
Why the fucl are people poaching pitcher plants? As that's a trade on the black market I am willing to give over to illuminate for as this would be a suprise for even her.
That will eventually be detrimental to that native ecosystem. Humans can be so selfish.
Why tf would they poach those plants?? The literary do nothing but eat tiny animals
interesting how evolution got this particular species of carnivorous plant to not be very carnivorous at all....
At least not for it´s furry visitors 🦇
If I eat meat and someone eats my shit, are they carnivore?
@@mikjnomis No, they would be a decomposer.
@AndrewWithEase11 11 yo dada
That toilet still digests insects that have been accidentally dropped. It's just cleverly evolved so that the bats that come every day can easily get out.
The sundew plant is like: Oh u like me? Now ur mine forever
Jumping spider: *sike*
Therapist: "Nature's veiny plant toilet doesn't exist, it can't hurt you."
Nature's veiny plant toilet:
Remind me not to use it as a drink cup if i get lost in the jungle
5:23 strange relationship discovered? Thought that was called symbiotic 🦇
*A wild Victreebel appeared!*
I honestly thought this comment would blow up. Weird
@@DJ-pp4mt give it time.
Zubat used rest
Ratatta used lick
They're homes are literally grown just for them. Wild!
Wow it is unique situation ever ''Thank you and here take my shit!'' is not impolite.
Hahaha this is truly the only situation where it is not impolite 😄
Vegans: we are herbivores we only eat plants
Plants:
This channel brings me nostalgic memories of old discovery and nat geo videos 🥰, more power to your channel sirs and madams :)
Thank you so much for your kind words 😊Glad you like our videos!
How come this channel doesn't have millions of subscribers the content quality and the footage is breathtaking... And the voice over is amazing too.
There are SO many nature channels, yet this channel is special. Absolute amazing content. I love this channel and wish this channel success and growth. They deserve it!! I'll be supporting forever. Commenting and hitting that like on every video. I started watching the videos I havent seen and will be posting comments and likes! Thank you for your amazing content!
Wow thank you so so much for your kind words! This means so much to us! Happy to have you as our Subscriber! 😊
@@lenafromterramater3690 aw :) no thank you! Haha but for real thank you and your welcome. I got nothing much going on today and just seen your comment. Going to spend next hour or 2 binging your channel, so most likely get some more comments coming from me m 😊 God bless you guys
Lol, Zefrank narrated that Nepenthes and Shrew mutual relationship pretty hilariously.
These kind of plants makes vegans cry. Even plants eats meat lol.
Yes, but they evolved to do that only as a last resort when the soil is poor and depleted of nutrients
@Mr.BadGaming420 That's right, it's the best way to get nutrients when the soil is *again* poor and depleted of nutrients. Otherwise they have no need to adapt to such a situation. This is actually mentioned in the video.(minute 00:56)
If it truly was the best way, even when the soil is rich in nutrients, then most plants in the world would have already turned to this way of nourishing themselves, but it's roughly only 0.2% of flowering plants that needed to become carnivorous. The vast majority is non-carnivorous.
Regardless of why the plants resorted to meat eating, however, basing what we, as humans, eat, in a plant's feeding habits is quite disproportionate, or would you say, that because the carnivorous plant has bats poop inside it to attract insects so it can eat them, we as humans should do it too, because it's the best way to get nutrients?
Don't know about you, but myself and the rest of the world will meet that question with a resounding no.
By the way, I am not condemning meat eaters, because I am no one to be judging others for what they eat. What we eat is a personal choice and we have full freedom to make it.
However that doesn't mean meat is the food that best supports health in humans.
@@rebecarauda120 Meat supports human health. What makes you think it doesn’t?
@@Tatusiek_1 It supports it as good survival food, but the way most meat is harvested today feeds most animals with an unnatural diet, plus the conditions in which they are raised often make for meat with traces of pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones (both human-provided and those produced by the animal due to stress, like cortisol and adrenaline). In addition to this, most cattle's current conditions also favour the development of zoonotic disease.
If the animals eaten were hunted in the wild, like our ancestors did, it would be a different story, much higher quality meat.
But even then, meat is dead tissue, raw living foods are much better to support life, as they contain phytonutrients, antioxidants, etc in much greater abundance.
Moreover, there are many sources of high quality complete plant-based protein, such as mushrooms, quinoa, tempeh, hemp seeds, grains+legumes mixes, bread+peanut butter, not to mention a bunch of supplements similar to whey protein powders (except they are plant-based).
Even when it comes to B12, this is not a nutrient inherent to meat, B12 comes from the methabolism of soil microbes wich produce methylcobalamin. The reason grass-fed cattle have it in their bodies is because they ingest traces of dirt/soil with the grass, so these microbes colonize their guts and they have their own little factory of B12 going. This same effect can be achieved in humans by ensuring a rich and beneficial gut flora population, particularly the one present in the ileum, where methylation takes place. (Or we can also just pop a B12 supplement, but the previous option makes for a more efficient and cheaper long term solution, provided one cares for their gut's health)
@@rebecarauda120 We do not graze grasses and bushes as we cannot digest the cellulose, so getting vitamin b12 cannot be acquired like that. Can we even harbor the microbes that produce b12?
The Pitcher plant
destroyer of insects....and apparently nature's toilet
@Avery the Cuban-Anerican
No dumb. Human are the destroyer of Earth and all species of Earth including insects and human also. Human kill more insects by gases, pesticides, and pollution etc....
@@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857
R/whoosh
@@larrytherustyboii7442 lol thats a reddit moment. Big chungus Keano Reeves
@@TurkeyOW ugly sermons
My dad used to say...''.If your hungry enough..you'd eat shit''.well..they must be
hungry ''''
Vegtarians: Plants don’t eat animals!
Those plants: we do
*ultimate betrayal*
Well they have one dirty relationship! 😂,
hahaahaha lul
Wow!!! This is Blackbelt Work!!! Very Well Done. So much information in a short video, I really didn’t know I NEEDED... 👍🏾👊🏾✌🏾🇳🇬🇺🇸
Wow thank you for your kind words! We are glad you enjoyed the video 😊
The pictures are beautifully taken and the narrative is even better which gives better insight into these creatures
Those Shots are Captivating . Super Detailed.
I love this group of plants. Some people grow these like people grow orchids.
They are really amazing 🌱
"the biggest meat eater plant"
sound scary
but its actually a bar and a toilet mix, where they serve their costumers some honey and the costumers paying it with poo
The dude who narrates other videos on this channel is a league above this voice actor; he should do more of them. Really great channel btw!
so the plants knew animals existed without having eyes or ears thats amazing
The videos are highly informative and well produced. This channel definitely deserve more likes and subscribers. Everyone please support. 😀
Thank you so much! It is due to subscribers like you that we can keep growing! 😊
Another informative video, let the information keep flowing 🤩. Thank you Terra Matter, I am a student and this channel provides a great amount of educational info.
Thank you Krishna! We are happy to hear that 😊
Her voice is great for narration
Yeah we love Sophie (our narrator) as well! She´s great!
This is amazing. I just found your channel and I'm subscribing!
most underrated channel
Thank you for your support!
Beautiful video definitely subscribing
Thank you so much! Welcome aboard! 😊
Amazing videos ❤️ I can't stop watching, great channel 🤗
Technically, plants such as rose bushes and other thorny plants can be considered carnivorous. If a mammal becomes entrapped in the thorns by getting them tangled up in their fur then they can die and decompose at the base of the plants where all the nutrients from the animal will be absorbed by the soil around the plant.
At the end, I couldn’t help but laugh at the bat. I can’t stop thinking, “lol, you live in a porta-potty.”
"where' the rent?" -Plant
"EAT SHIT" -The bat
"Thank you!" -Plant
😂😂
I hope my landlord would see this video!
This channel make videos look like a tv documentary on how good it is keep up the good work 😁👍
Actually a good documentation. BUT unfortunately, as so often, with a lot of errors and incorrect information.
First, catching and digesting insects costs energy, but far less than what was shown in the video. The plants have perfected themselves. The energy expenditure is very low and the benefit per prey is great. Probably there were also temporary carnivores in the millions of years, but they were more inefficient and thus became extinct.
Second, the largest pitcher plant is NOT Nepenthes rajah. They are Nepenthes attenboroughii and Nepenthes merrilliana. There are even pictures on the Internet of Nepenthes merriliana, whose pitchers are the size of cats.
Nepenthes truncata can even dissolve / digest bones. Mice that are in the cans dissolve completely. The Nepenthes even digests the skull.
Love this channel. Got my mother watching too
Good 👍idea 💡!
Bats must be very Eco-friendly because they have Eco-location...
(It called Echolocation...)
Regardlessly, nice video
Thanks for nitpicking, now go quarantine back in your double wide.
At least, that bat have eco - bed
Do you have the reports or essays on these discoveries! These are some crazy finds!
I can't believe I'm watching this for free! TY!
Such a cool discussion of carnivorous plants
OMG! Back in 2018 I went to a UNESCO World Heritage mountain here in my country called Mt. Hamiguitan and it has pitcher plants of all shapes and sizes. I was always curious about these plants that I picked one and poured the juices in my hand. It stank! It was a horrible smell that I couldn’t explain and I always wondered if it was because of the dying insects. This video explains all of it. I majored in Biology and did my internship there but we didn’t get the chance to go in-depth with these plants because we focused in studying the animals. I’m glad to know places like the ones I’ve been to are highly protected so as not to break the chain of symbiosis.
Wow! The Pine Barrons Treefrog often calls from inside pitcher plants in Western Florida; maybe the plant has a way to trick the frog and feast on its scat.
dude the light is so consistent in these videos makes wonder if they have a giant green house for photo shooting
So many different carnivorous plants love IT will be collecting those soon
I wish your channel videos were long enough like a documentary. This video presentation was great!
Thank you so much for your kind words 😊
We are actually producing full length documentaries for TV and Cinema - check out our website 😉
Can I filled it all the way with water? 🤔 and wait bat pays it with POOP? 😂😂😂😂😂
Wow i love your video's I learn so much. Thank you❤
Thank you so much for your kind words 😊
So that pitcher plant has pretty much evolved to be a toilet for small mammals? Cool,cool,cool
Its even shaped like a toilet!
Respectfully, it didn’t evolve, it was designed by God. If plants can’t get enough nutrients from the soil they don’t evolve into meat eaters, they die. Cool images tho 😎
@@poliincredible770 huh? I don't get it ;-; I'm dum
Wait I get it now....
@@poliincredible770 one option is they are alien plants. But most likely it is evolution. However it had to be a gradual change. A quick change and yes they die, but slow enough and they evolve. Which is why rapid global climate change is bad. Animals and plants don't have enough time to evolve so they go extinct.
Nature is amazing. This channel provides new content that most people don't know even exists. Thank u yet again for making a great video.
Wow thank you for your nice words Steve! highly appreciated 😊
so dying to the pitcher plant is basically like dying on the toilet
First carnivorous plant: I'm done drinking, i wanna CHEW
Soo incredibly cool. Wish we could grow these outdoors here in Colorado for natural bat housing.
Hi Bill!
We're happy you like it! Thanks for watching it!!
Imagine paying rent with your poop
I knew where this was going really early on. It's kind of funny, but also really cool. There's not really any other examples I can think of where animals live inside plants, with out harming them in some way. That's pretty cool.
Excellent channel! Thanks for the upload.
Hi giovanna!
Thank you and thanks for watching it!
What was more surprising for you about this story? 😊
Wow good to have around the house!
Thanks 😊alot for these wonderful information!You are creative.
We are glad you enjoyed it! 😊
NEW SPECIE! *THE TOILET BOWL PLANT!* 😂🤣
Expectation: wow!! This flesh eating plant is so big, it must be all those small vertebrates..
Reality: come here mate, answer your nature call and give something in reward..
Some nepenthes does eat small mammals like small monkeys and rats, but those were never its intention all those mammals were eaten by accident.
Love your videos!!!
Wow! plants too can adapt
Does that mean if i take a huge dump in one of those, it will take in a bunch of nutrients??? Damn, a natural toilet!!
Thank you for this videos
Thank you for watching them 😊
we have this planted, at every home. the difference is, what we at home doesn't consume our waste, but delivering it to the sea
This is batshit crazy.
A dream toilet could be someone else dream bed
"Feed me Seymour, feed me" .
Millinials will never get it.
At this point alot of carnivorous plant owners get the joke
Little shop of horrors
the video we never knew we needed
😅You´re welcome then!
@@lenafromterramater3690 you guys are brilliant ❤️❤️
@@uroobanadeem5421 🥰
Great videos! Carnivorous plants or an eco toilet? That was a twist i didn't see coming
Thank you! Yeah that is definitely a fun twist 😊
Some value gold, some value poop. It’s all subjective.
No, Tera Mater you guys deserve more subs, the animation and videography is underrated...
Thank you so much for your kind words! 😊
Another great video
Thank you so much Gabriel...we´re glad you liked it!
Your channel is better than NatGeo at this point, love it so much!!!
Wow thank you so much for your kind words! Glad you enjoy our videos 🥰
It’s crazy how plants adapted to become toilets in such conditions
Very Good documentary 👍
Carnivorous plant: where's my rent?
Bat: haven't you heard about the eviction moratorium? So no poop for you.
Amazinggggg
Nice video, thanks 😄
We are glad you liked it as much as we do!
I like how only the last 2 minutes of the video talks about the bat.
as a kid i always thought that venus flytraps had razor sharp teeth and it can easily cut your finger off.
but im a bit older now and i know that the teeth doesnt really hurt
i love this kind of videos hahah
Cool! A bat came to visit my balcony The other day and I figured it had to do with my carnivores somehow. Now this vídeo randomly appears to me on my recommendations 😆
... bring me that plant...
I have one, it’s amazing, kills loads of bugs.
I want Bats Motel as a horror flick