I have a school of upside-down catfish, which also do nearly everything while upside-down. It's fun to watch them search for food, interact with each other, and rest against the underside of driftwood like a bunch of aquatic bats. If you want to get asked if your fish are dying every time someone new sees your aquarium, consider the upside-down catfish
I adore these lil guys! local specialty store keeps a tank of them and they're always so fun to watch. been thinking they'd be good candidates for my next tank actually!
@@pierreabbat6157 they're in the same family (the ones I have are synodontis nigriventris) and a lot of synodontis catfish are known for swimming upside down so I wouldn't be surprised if they do it at least sometimes
I have some too and everybody is like "one of your fish is dead!" And I'm like "look, closer, there's three of them" (And then I explain their species)
Mine are super friendly. There are about three of them, but they all respond to the name I gave to the first one (Sebastian). They like to dangle from one perch on the feeder to get at the one below it :)
The biology of a sloth is really impressive, thanks for addressing! Especially the fact that their organs are attached to their rib cage, which means they don’t weigh down on the lungs, is fascinating!
Most land animals have their organs attached to their spine, but we humans, since we have an upright posture our body has trouble with that, thats why we may get a slouched back when we are tired, and why we get problems with the spine later in life much quicker than other animals. Cause our vertical spine is trying to carry our organs that are hanging horizontal, (thats also why we have a natural spine curve near the butt, to help hold our organs) So to most other land animals we are just chernobyl monkeys, we made chernobyl so we could look like a chimp that walked into chernobyl and gave birth and made us.
@@raymondwiggins354 no i was just imagining a mc creeper, if mobs in mc were like animals and are different on biome and I'm imagining the "japanese/irish tree creeper", a brown, beige, grey creeper that hangs in trees, and drops down from them to blow up a player when the player walks around underneath the tree its in. It would be cool if the game gave creepers more variation other than "green kaboom-boom"
Interesting fact: in Greek myth, Cassiopeia was an Ethiopian queen that was punished by the Gods for her transgressions by hanging her upside down from her throne in the sky. And that's how the name got applied to a jellyfish.
the evidence sofar is excellent for life on those moons. that is true. but the scientific method dictates that one can only say they "know" after something has actually been proven to be found. so saying you know is simply not true. though i DO 100% agree with you. preliminary evidence of life there is EXCELLENT.
@@brianjensen5661 It references an image labeling meme of one person, with shades and without shades, to represent a regular idea vs. a cooler or more woke idea Basically: virgin anemone vs the chad upside down jellyfish
If a human hangs upside-down for too long, they can die from heart exhaustion and breathing difficulties; our circulatory system is built for the usual gravity situation and uses gravity to help move things around.
I haven’t watched this show in a couple years, and I can’t believe how much Michael has grown! I remember back scishow just started and he had that little blond streak. 😊 Glad to see SciShow is still making great stuff. 👍
awesome video!!! i wish you included whipnose anglers, though. they swim upside down with their esca near the seafloor, likely to attract benthic organisms. :)
Well our flattened feet are on the ground and our round head is further away from the earths centre of gravity, so no, we are not upside down. Our upside is up. Our mouths are also above the gut in the sense that gravity pulls food from our throat to our gut and eventually helps it fall out our anuses, which is more energy efficient (or indeed more hygienic) than having our mouths below our guts (or our anuses on top of our bodies).
I thought I (or the bird) was tripping the first time I saw a nuthatch. I was working at a wildlife rehab center and we had to present mealworms in these hooked hanging baskets instead of the normal presentation on the ground. Very interesting.
fun fact, the body layout of a lobster is basically upside down compared to that of a human, with the spine at the front and the digestive tract at the back
For an animal whose shell is designed to keep it from flipping over, I sure do find a ton of horseshoe crabs flipped upsidedown at one of my local beaches lol it's always a good date spot to go flipping the horseshoe crabs and finding other sea critters.
Great that we see more videos showing the thing being described. Images alone aren't that good when talking about movement and so on. So + for more video clips in SciShow!
several decades ago my friend’s sister worked a summer job at a theme park. She was bit by a sloth. It moved so slowly that she didn’t process the danger until it clamped down hard.
I am currently looking at a number 7 to your list. The Royal Garrama is a fish native to reefs in the western pacific. They often live in caves or overhangs and hunt by perching above their hunting ground upside-down on the ceiling, like a hawk on a telephone wire, but upside-down. The one I keep in my reef tank actually spends 90% of his day upside-down or at an angle not upright. He acts like a astronaut in space rotating on his own axis. I also have freshwater fish that make noise audible from their aquarium across the room
It sounds like you're saying "anenome" instead of "anemone." [edit] Confirmed with slow speed playback LOL! Hint: "A neM O Nee." It's "any money" not "an enemy."
What would interest me is how the blood circulation system works for animals that spend the majority of their lives upside down. Extra connective tissue apparently solves any problems with the innards but it's not that easy to solve the same problem for liquids that need to flow through the body. Simply a stronger heart will most likely not suffice and there is a lot more liquids than just blood that need to be transported. Also how do vertebrates eat upside down without suffocating? There's a lot more to this topic than was mentioned in the video.
Whenever I think about life, the first question I ask is "what assumption am I making?" And then "why am I making that assumption?" It's delightful the insights you can make just by interrogating your assumptions. I have taken to calling assumptions "doors". In the sense of, "who many doors do I have to walk through to understand this thing?" Different doors lead you different places.
Thank you for spelling Cassiopea correctly. Yes the Greek name is spelled differently but my dad failed to check that so I have a misspelled named. When I found out there was a jellyfish spelled the same way as my name, I was very happy so thank you for spelling it that way.
It's 4am. I've been dealing with a bayt that got into my room for the past hour. I come to youtube to relax after the whole thing, and this is the first thing I see...
Bats aren't the most effective of nature's flyers, and they are too heavy to take off. Hanging from high places is the most pratical way for them to start flying. They just let themselves fall and start flapping their wings.
@@WAMTAT Well, I differentiate somewhat between megabats (flying foxes/fruit bats) and micro-bats, mostly because of size, diet and lack of echolocation - - but that really wasn't the point of my post. All bat physiology has evolved a cardio-system suitable to hanging comfortably inverted much of the time. It just seems that they would have been included on this list of upside down critters...
@@carolwilliams7052 i think they didnt put them in because it's too predictable. Too expected. I know bats exist but i didn't know nuthatches exist or that whole under ice ecosystem. Now i do.
@@brianjensen5661 This is "SCI" show - - they don't usually cherry-pick the facts. There are things that COULD have been learned about bats in addition to their cardiovascular adaptation. Such as, their feet clamp on for roosting only when they relax their body; and their weight and wing configuration is such that they're only able to attain flight because they drop with gravity. They can't achieve vertical lift like a bird can.
I'm calling you out, video editor person, whoever you are! You really REALLY wanted to rotate Michael upside down in the first clip- didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?
Video idea: I'd love a video about examples of humans being symbiotic within our ecosystems. Theres so many examples of this (especially in indigenous cultures) but I feel like it gets left out of environmentalism so much!
I am surprised that you did not include Bats on that list? Also, Horseshoe crab is a misnomer as they are not related to crabs nor crustaceans but rather are marine Arthropods more closely related to Spiders & Scorpions. They are also considered an endangered species.
I have a school of upside-down catfish, which also do nearly everything while upside-down. It's fun to watch them search for food, interact with each other, and rest against the underside of driftwood like a bunch of aquatic bats. If you want to get asked if your fish are dying every time someone new sees your aquarium, consider the upside-down catfish
I adore these lil guys! local specialty store keeps a tank of them and they're always so fun to watch. been thinking they'd be good candidates for my next tank actually!
Do you have any cuckoo catfish? Do they swim upside down, or are they just in the same family?
@@pierreabbat6157 they're in the same family (the ones I have are synodontis nigriventris) and a lot of synodontis catfish are known for swimming upside down so I wouldn't be surprised if they do it at least sometimes
I have some too and everybody is like "one of your fish is dead!" And I'm like "look, closer, there's three of them"
(And then I explain their species)
I love watching nuthatches, they're regulars in my yard and always looking for chickadee caches.
Mine are super friendly. There are about three of them, but they all respond to the name I gave to the first one (Sebastian). They like to dangle from one perch on the feeder to get at the one below it :)
Talking about upside down, some clowns turned their phones upside down.
Who'd dislike this amazing and informative video?
Wait, what?
Edit: Oh, I get it now....
The biology of a sloth is really impressive, thanks for addressing!
Especially the fact that their organs are attached to their rib cage, which means they don’t weigh down on the lungs, is fascinating!
Dude, spoilers!
3:57 anyone else imagining the minecraft creeper but with wings now?
Most land animals have their organs attached to their spine, but we humans, since we have an upright posture our body has trouble with that, thats why we may get a slouched back when we are tired, and why we get problems with the spine later in life much quicker than other animals. Cause our vertical spine is trying to carry our organs that are hanging horizontal, (thats also why we have a natural spine curve near the butt, to help hold our organs)
So to most other land animals we are just chernobyl monkeys, we made chernobyl so we could look like a chimp that walked into chernobyl and gave birth and made us.
@@raymondwiggins354 no i was just imagining a mc creeper, if mobs in mc were like animals and are different on biome and I'm imagining the "japanese/irish tree creeper", a brown, beige, grey creeper that hangs in trees, and drops down from them to blow up a player when the player walks around underneath the tree its in.
It would be cool if the game gave creepers more variation other than "green kaboom-boom"
Interesting fact: in Greek myth, Cassiopeia was an Ethiopian queen that was punished by the Gods for her transgressions by hanging her upside down from her throne in the sky. And that's how the name got applied to a jellyfish.
I applaud you for not saying 'fun fact'.
And the Constellation Cassiopeia shows her.
I am form Ethiopia so thanks for the wisdom
+
This starts and ends in very different places.
Insert Obligatory Australia reference
See top comment
🙃
Land down under.
Australias can relate
God dammit, you beat me to the comment I was kind of thinking of!
Umm new Zealand is further down under
Excuse me I think you meant Straya
This is the type of humor the world needs
This is why we have really good toe grip
I thought sleeping bats would've made the list. Oh and I'm glad you mentioned Europa and Enceledus; I know I just know there's life on that moon.
Im putting my money on the methane lakes of titan, personally.
the evidence sofar is excellent for life on those moons. that is true.
but the scientific method dictates that one can only say they "know" after something has actually been proven to be found.
so saying you know is simply not true.
though i DO 100% agree with you. preliminary evidence of life there is EXCELLENT.
@@bazookallamaproductions5280 ok so so... I got a good feeling about life on those moons.
Anemones: Daniel
Upsidedown Jellyfish: The Cooler Daniel
Who's daniel?
@@brianjensen5661 It references an image labeling meme of one person, with shades and without shades, to represent a regular idea vs. a cooler or more woke idea
Basically: virgin anemone vs the chad upside down jellyfish
If a human hangs upside-down for too long, they can die from heart exhaustion and breathing difficulties; our circulatory system is built for the usual gravity situation and uses gravity to help move things around.
miffed they didn't even mention upside-down catfish, there's a tank at the local specialty fish store and they're absolutely adorable to watch.
I haven’t watched this show in a couple years, and I can’t believe how much Michael has grown! I remember back scishow just started and he had that little blond streak. 😊 Glad to see SciShow is still making great stuff. 👍
awesome video!!! i wish you included whipnose anglers, though. they swim upside down with their esca near the seafloor, likely to attract benthic organisms. :)
When you're a bug right side up is a bit relative
So bugs have 2 skies. Blue sky and green sky.
What if we are actually the ones who are upside down and they are the ones who are right side up
*Hits blunt*
🙃
Well our flattened feet are on the ground and our round head is further away from the earths centre of gravity, so no, we are not upside down. Our upside is up. Our mouths are also above the gut in the sense that gravity pulls food from our throat to our gut and eventually helps it fall out our anuses, which is more energy efficient (or indeed more hygienic) than having our mouths below our guts (or our anuses on top of our bodies).
@@gregoryfenn1462
I swear some people have ass holes for a mouth
Some would never know
Fun fact about bats:
The 1991 University of Florida bat house is the largest occupied artificial roost in the world, with around 400,000 residents.
And they still can't manage to put more parking garages for students
I prefer 1992
If you go to the park in the evening to see them all fly out and cover the sky, be sure to wear a rain coat and have an umbrella. 👍
This fact isn't fun :(
Hey, cool channel dude, I subscribed!
I thought I (or the bird) was tripping the first time I saw a nuthatch. I was working at a wildlife rehab center and we had to present mealworms in these hooked hanging baskets instead of the normal presentation on the ground. Very interesting.
So basically we just have to give sloths energy drinks 🤔
fun fact, the body layout of a lobster is basically upside down compared to that of a human, with the spine at the front and the digestive tract at the back
Not fun
My digestive tract is in the back also, what are you talking about lol
Lobsters do not have spines? They are invertebrates?
who is liking this
For an animal whose shell is designed to keep it from flipping over, I sure do find a ton of horseshoe crabs flipped upsidedown at one of my local beaches lol it's always a good date spot to go flipping the horseshoe crabs and finding other sea critters.
I live mostly horizontal.
:D me too!
Anybody else super sad they didn't talk about bats?
Nope
@@brianjensen5661 I hate them in person, but love what they do. Is that wierd?
Yes v sad! Bats are so important and their evolution is fascinating
@@silentwisdom7025 not really. They eat mosquitoes and such which good.
Great that we see more videos showing the thing being described. Images alone aren't that good when talking about movement and so on. So + for more video clips in SciShow!
You forgot Spider-Pig.
Can he swing, from a web?
No he can't, he's a pig.
WATCH OUT !
Here comes Spider-Pig.
He's not Spider Pig anymore, he's Harry Plopper.
Great going through backwards, flips, loops, and twists
Sloths look like they smile before killing. 😅 But then they just keep staring and are like "go on! I'm gonna eat some delicious leaves"
They're saving energy for one unexpected sprint towards you
several decades ago my friend’s sister worked a summer job at a theme park. She was bit by a sloth. It moved so slowly that she didn’t process the danger until it clamped down hard.
God bless! Thank you for being so kind! 😘💖
i just noticed michael keeps saying "anenomes" instead of anemones and now i can't unnotice
Same
Well, with friends like him you don't need anemones.
I'll let myself out.
i mispronounce it like he does and i can’t seem to break the habit
Someone to help! My jellyfish is broken, it floats upside down!
i see nuthatches all the time at my backyard birdfeeders. theyre easy to spot among other birds since theyre just hanging out upside down
I am currently looking at a number 7 to your list. The Royal Garrama is a fish native to reefs in the western pacific. They often live in caves or overhangs and hunt by perching above their hunting ground upside-down on the ceiling, like a hawk on a telephone wire, but upside-down. The one I keep in my reef tank actually spends 90% of his day upside-down or at an angle not upright. He acts like a astronaut in space rotating on his own axis. I also have freshwater fish that make noise audible from their aquarium across the room
You should totally check out the Upside-down Catfish (Synodontis nigriventris) Their belly is even darker than their dorsal area. They're a trip
wow, that ice shelf ecosystem sounds so fascinating! i love learning about extremophile life!
It sounds like you're saying "anenome" instead of "anemone." [edit] Confirmed with slow speed playback LOL! Hint: "A neM O Nee." It's "any money" not "an enemy."
Exactly! I couldn't figure out what "enemies" he was talking about! :D
@@gogo311 idk my online disctionary's way of pronunciation matches hers
People really struggle with anemones
Both the horticultural and the pelagic ones
Pity, it's a pretty simple word, it comes from "anemos" - wind
this drove me nuts. because I'm a pedant 🤓😜
Three toed sloth should be a work strategy for Mondays lol
I came here thinking i'd hear about bats. But instead I got an ecosystem! xD
I love nuthatches :D they’re so cute.
Repeat after me: a-Ne-Mo-Nes. First N, then M, then N again.
This whole video : aNeNoMes
8:39 "how an enemy survive in this habitat" 😂
What would interest me is how the blood circulation system works for animals that spend the majority of their lives upside down. Extra connective tissue apparently solves any problems with the innards but it's not that easy to solve the same problem for liquids that need to flow through the body. Simply a stronger heart will most likely not suffice and there is a lot more liquids than just blood that need to be transported. Also how do vertebrates eat upside down without suffocating? There's a lot more to this topic than was mentioned in the video.
...and poo as well, as much as I don’t want to think about it
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. I especially liked the Antartic ice ecosystem.
Whenever I think about life, the first question I ask is "what assumption am I making?" And then "why am I making that assumption?" It's delightful the insights you can make just by interrogating your assumptions. I have taken to calling assumptions "doors". In the sense of, "who many doors do I have to walk through to understand this thing?" Different doors lead you different places.
Every photo of a nuthatch I found in my bird guide book is either upside down or 125 degrees sideways.
I live in Australia. My whole life is upside down 🤣🤣🤣
wake up babe new scishow
Animals that live their life in the upside down.
In hermitcraft?
It's all about perspective!!
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned...
... upside down
And I liked to take a minute and sit right there
...
Nice thought about Europa.
In this episode you called horseshoe crabs... crabs when they're actually arachnids
Thank you for spelling Cassiopea correctly. Yes the Greek name is spelled differently but my dad failed to check that so I have a misspelled named. When I found out there was a jellyfish spelled the same way as my name, I was very happy so thank you for spelling it that way.
see thumbnail, think bats... SciShow, we are leaving bats in 2020 but we know how the human brain works..
But how bats evolved to hang upside down is so interestinggggg
Good video. Clear, interesting, no politics :)
* annoyed australian sighs in the distance *
Good one! Thank you!
Is this the inspiration for the movie Inverted? I stan
It's 4am. I've been dealing with a bayt that got into my room for the past hour. I come to youtube to relax after the whole thing, and this is the first thing I see...
All of Australia: Am I a joke to you?
Here is a good idea for a video, why do trees on the pacific coast grow so big?
Where are the bats?
Dead
In soup
In a locker room somewhere.
This video:**exists**
Australians: **Confused Screaming**
Wow! Cool news about the anemones! Just try saying it a few times! Now I'm upside-down...
I watched this video upside-down.
I watched this video from Australia.
I was asleep when I Memory Video'd this video.
Awesome.
Oooh! The ice ecosystem is exciting
I hope you revisit this topic and cover upside-down catfish. They're incredible.
Life finds a way!
Cool upload 😎 thanks
You left out demigorgons
Dear Scishow,
Why Bats sleep upside down?
Bats aren't the most effective of nature's flyers, and they are too heavy to take off. Hanging from high places is the most pratical way for them to start flying. They just let themselves fall and start flapping their wings.
How can this list be legit without including bats? 😆
Me: Reads title.
Also Me: (Giggles) Australia.
@3:48 Of course striking at food is faster with gravity than against it.
I really expected bats and flying foxes to be on this list ???
Flying foxes are bats
@@WAMTAT Well, I differentiate somewhat between megabats (flying foxes/fruit bats) and micro-bats, mostly because of size, diet and lack of echolocation - - but that really wasn't the point of my post. All bat physiology has evolved a cardio-system suitable to hanging comfortably inverted much of the time. It just seems that they would have been included on this list of upside down critters...
@@carolwilliams7052 i think they didnt put them in because it's too predictable. Too expected. I know bats exist but i didn't know nuthatches exist or that whole under ice ecosystem. Now i do.
@@brianjensen5661 This is "SCI" show - - they don't usually cherry-pick the facts. There are things that COULD have been learned about bats in addition to their cardiovascular adaptation. Such as, their feet clamp on for roosting only when they relax their body; and their weight and wing configuration is such that they're only able to attain flight because they drop with gravity. They can't achieve vertical lift like a bird can.
I'm calling you out, video editor person, whoever you are! You really REALLY wanted to rotate Michael upside down in the first clip- didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?
Nice sharing
When my brother and I were kids we used to get upside down sometimes, but yeah never for more than a few minutes!!
Nice video,lots I found out
I remember seeing a nuthatch for the first time. I was soooo confused!!!
laughs in upside down catfish and hanging parrot
Another interesting upside-down animal: hanging parrots. They are very cute and sleep upside-down
@Jetti Rabbit: What, you mean the Norwegian Blue? Beautiful plumage!
Now you owe us at least one episode all abouts bats. Please
Grian does thrive in the upside-down, though he isn't there often anymore.
So you're telling me horseshoe crabs generate downforce? Horseshoe crabs are the supercars of the animal kingdom
neat stuff
Sick vid
I relate to the jellyfish, because I may look broken or confused.
I don't see how translucent meter or so thick Antarctic ice compares to the miles of solid ice on Europa. Still really cool, no pun intended.
Video idea: I'd love a video about examples of humans being symbiotic within our ecosystems. Theres so many examples of this (especially in indigenous cultures) but I feel like it gets left out of environmentalism so much!
flatfish next? eg mackerel?
I just came here for the australia jokes. And to learn something. But mostly Australia jokes.
We have nuthatch birds around me in pa
I always had vertigo dreams where I would feel like everything should be on the ceiling
How neat
I hang and nap upside down for an hour everyday using my inversion table.
7, if you count whatever species my ex-mother-in-law was...
Haven't watched this yet, but I hope it includes the upside down catfish
I am surprised that you did not include Bats on that list? Also, Horseshoe crab is a misnomer as they are not related to crabs nor crustaceans but rather are marine Arthropods more closely related to Spiders & Scorpions. They are also considered an endangered species.
“Broken Jellyfish” would be a great band name.
No
Downside Up Broken Jellyfish* (sounds better in the cat brain...)
Edit: sorry can't spell . . . half awake . . . sue me.
@@hdezn26 you'll be hearing from my frivolous lawyer.
#6!