Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Terrifying and Unstoppable
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- Опубліковано 18 бер 2019
- Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you-they’ll simply cause a severe headache or vomiting. Death-cap mushrooms are not like the others. As little as half an Amanita phalloides contains enough toxin to kill an adult human. Ingestion of the poison in death-cap mushrooms, known as amatoxin, is responsible for 90 percent of deaths related to mushroom poisoning worldwide. Worse still, death caps can resemble nontoxic mushrooms and are said to be quite tasty. You might not know you’ve been poisoned until days after eating the highly toxic fungi.
While the mushrooms are historically endemic to Scandinavia and parts of northern Europe, the cultivation of non-native species of trees in North America has led to a “mushroom boom” in some areas of the continent.
“We’ve opened Pandora’s box,” the author Craig Childs says in a new animated video from The Atlantic. “There is no way you can stop them.” For more information, read “Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Spreading Across North America": www.theatlantic.com/science/a...
Life Up Close is a project of The Atlantic, supported by the HHMI Department of Science Education.
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I can tell your animator loves mushrooms.
oh yeah, shrooms are the best
@@Lyle-xc9pg Lots of people love shrooms :D
Or hates them
@@Mechagodzilla128 shrooms and acid are crazy together
@@xck that one boring person
That animation was gorgeous. What a great narrative. Thank you
Check out Ilya Bilibin, russian illustrator. Really cool stuff
Why cant Amexicans speak English? Its niche not nitch!
Only a wall can protect us.
Dude stutters like a pro.
Glad to hear. Kyle father spent quite a few months researching this and did a couple of trips for his article and narration.
apex predators and the most intelligent species on earth
vs
one fungi boi
Ape eats shrooms ?
Dr. Pavel I'm CIA
one fun guy
If it's humans you're talking about, then I'm fairly certain we're not actual apex predators. And to be quite honest, judging from our actions so far, I'm starting to doubt that "most intelligent species" thing too. 🤔
Xien Tau
When we are the cause of multiple species going extinct, I’m pretty sure we should be pretty high up in the food chain.
@@@highadmiraljt5853 @The Spanish Inquisition
Not to belittle humanity's achievements throughout history, but we are actually situated somewhere around the middle of the food chain, slightly above purebred herbivores but somewhat below carnivorous real apex predators like lions, tigers and such.
The reason we have developed tools is because we don't naturally possess the means to fight off such predators.
An "Apex Predator" is by definition an animal that doesn't possess any natural predators, and I can almost guarantee that if an average human was put in a 1-on-1 tooth-and-nail fight with your average tiger , the tiger would make a meal out of the human in 9 cases of 10.
Oh good something else to worry about.
google it
@@thinkabout288 I am googling it and loads of other things to worry about. And then I googled that worrying itself is bad for you and now Im worrying about that too
@@profile1251 famous jamaican philosophy " don't worry be happy " 🤔
Imapov Soru
DONT USE GOOGLE
and stop advertising it for them
Can't hurt you if you don't eat it. The "Safety Nazis" are just trying to scare you.
Find something else to worry about.
I feel we needed a little more information from this one!! :)
I clicked because I wanted info on why they are so lethal.. not how we moved them across the planet.
@@thorwald2005Because they contain poison
@Robo Cop Always glad to help.
@@SpaghettiToaster Why is poison so lethal?
@@einexile It causes your body to stop working.
"mobilizing mushrooms" sounds like something from an tiny ant war
i love how this ends with "and there's no way you can stop them"
this is amazing
Sounds like something from Morrowind haha
HANS GET ZE FLAMMEN WERFEN
Ant 1 "SIR THE REDS ARE TAKING OVER!"
Ant 2 "WE NEED THOSE MUSHROOMS MOBILIZED, DAMNIT!"
Ant general, about to commit war crimes: release the Ophiocordyceps!
Hello i am finnish and old mushroom picker. First thing to know about mushrooms.. *clears troath* Don't eat random mushrooms!
There are old mushroom pickers, there are bold mushroom pickers, there are no old bold mushroom pickers.
@@elimorrey7852 i used to pick and eat mushrooms while being informed of the species. I always carried an handbook of different mushroom species and their favorite living conditions and how to cook them and how deadly or safe they are and white caps can also be confused with white sheep mushroom.
@@elimorrey7852 hahah terence mckenna
Here after the Australian mushroom tragedy. This is so beautifully made and clearly explained. Thank you!
Same! What's your thoughts? You think she is innocent or guilty?
@@quinny98guilty. She's a scrag
@@quinny98Guilty
@@quinny98 guilty
Imagine if we found her name in the comments from years ago..oh she is guilty …
The animation is upright fascinating.
The animation is forthright fascinating.
The animation is birthright fascinating.
The animation is left/right fascinating
The animation is skin-tight fascinating
The animation is conquest fascinating
I for one welcome our new mushroom overlords.
Carbon stars with ancient satellites colonized by sentient fungi. Gas giants inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences. Worlds stretched thin across the membrenes where the dimensions intersect... Impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary..
They will then evolve into the Mooshroom.
praise the shrooms or die
Nice to hear from you Mr. Brockman, even if 4 years late.
Psychedelic mushrooms really healed me years back. Totally got rid of depression, anxiety and illicit pill addiction.
Psychedelics should only be used with great care and respect, I would love to feel same man , how do you source em
dr.perryshrooms is your guy. Got all kinds of psychedelics stuff. Guided me through my first ever experience
Yes, dr.perryshrooms. There's a lot of potential in psychedelics
hm. Can dr.perryshrooms dispatch to me in LA?
Sure, discreet shipping to anywhere
I got mine delivered here in North Carolina.
*The scarf under the cap* of the mushroom is a good indicator for poison.
There are exceptions, but most mushrooms with this scarf are poisonous in different amounts.
That and bright red ones. If i remember.
Caesars are bright and have "scarves", but they are not poisonous. Ceasar mushroom / Amanita Caesaria
The scariest part is the way they kill you. Bit nauseous and out of it the night you eat them, then fine for a while until you start getting severe symptoms, by which time it’s too late to do anything about it.
There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old and bold mushroom hunters.
I prefer the name of the closely related Destroying Angel.
Mind if I use that for my new screen name? It is kinda catchy!
My dad used to say that about electricians.
Brian Pan he doesn't own rights to the common name of a mushroom.. lol
My other favorite is "Every mushroom is edible. But some mushrooms are only edible once."
@@brianpan6453 isnt it a terence mckenna quote
I'm here because of the Australian case of the deathcap mushroom poison homicides. These mushrooms are so scary to think about omg
Would’ve been interesting to see at least one real image of a death cap somewhere in this piece, not that I can’t find one, just is more relevant.
No.
I've watched 3 separate videos about this and I still don't know what they look like in real life.
If I remember right they look very similar to the ones we get at stores. The whites ones.
@@Minecraftpe5 They look like a pale-brown (close to white) flat-head mushrooms, and sometimes they have a dome-like shape. If you want to be completely safe, just don't touch or eat any wild mushrooms. The pale ones are often poisonous. They're oftentimes very difficult to tell apart unless you're a skilled botanist.
Instead of writing this comment just look for yourself
As soon as I heard him say “nitch” instead of niche, I wanted him to eat an amanita salad.
I'm hearing the "nitch" pronunciation more and more, and its driving me up a wall.
@@TheAngelOfBalls in both American and British English its pronounced neesh with slightly different inflection. English language is dying.
The animation is so gorgeous I just wanna watch it on loop. Kudos and all my admiration to the animation team
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This mushroom is dominating headlines currently with the mushroom poisoning in Australia.
I have played enough rpgs to know how to solve this problem. Just give me a big sword and Ill go slay these mushrooms.
Who else is here after that Australian Woman "Accidentally" killed her in-laws?
Me lol 😂 I think she totally killed them. To get their money maybe, or revenge
Great graphics, more information please, I enjoy your videos!
The animation for this video is incredible. Beautifully done.
If you pick up and eat random mushrooms off the dirt
You're not exactly the brightest person on the planet
@dylan thoms in which then you wouldn't be the sanest person on the planet
3 people just died after being fed these (accidentally or intentionally?) mushrooms at a lunch in Australia
Yup! It's a huge case here and damn I feel bad for the kids, they're gonna be judged for their murderer mother
The Atlantic: There's no way you can stop them.
America: Hold my thousands of nukes.
Wonderful animation. This is exactly what I want from an informative video. It hardly points itself out or the platform it was posted on. Thank you.
And this Terrifyingly Unstoppable force can be avoided by NOT eating wild unidentified mushrooms like a rational human being.
It's ok to eat wild mushrooms, but only if you've identified them with certainty. Be intelligent.
@@jayfawn8478 those are psilocybin mushrooms and people eat those to get high not out of hunger and desperation 😆
That’s true. The main problem is these death caps closely resemble perfectly good and edible forest mushrooms that have been harvested and eaten in the “old country” back in parts of Europe. I believe death caps vs the perfectly edible ones they resemble have different colored spores so a spore print will ID properly but only serious mycologists generally make spore prints. Thing I don’t like is creepy/scary videos like this (with over exaggerated spidery appendages and green smoky penetrations of our internal organs) make people afraid of all mushrooms and they go around destroying all they see or frighten children (Don’t touch that!!) even over the most benign of basic grass or forest mushrooms and then people and kids are scared of mushrooms unnecessarily. Sure many will say better safe than sorry but if you applied that to everything we’d never leave the house. Education and earning is fine. Silly exaggerations and just that and rarely helpful.
@@richs4878 Problem with Death caps is that they have few lookalikes from Amanita family here in europe.
Toxins aren't destroyed by cooking, so all you need is one death cap in basket full of edible mushrooms. Creepy thing is, first symptoms are usually noticed day after ingestion which is too late.
Are you daft? He never said the issue is idiots eating this; the issue is how it may effect ecosystems.
Apparently you ignored the video and only listened to the symptoms of when it is ingested.
Watching this while on shrooms is terrifying lol
Death caps are here in Australia now too.
this is one of the most beautiful animations ive ever watched, and the way he narrates it, is amazing. I loved and enjoyed this so much, at the same time I learned a lot. Good job guys.
this made me curious enough to start researching edible mushrooms in my area (as well as other edible wild plants) so thank you for the amazing journey
(Picks the Death Cap as an alchemical ingredient. Eats it. First effect: Death) Me: "Aw, nards!"
I used to go mushroom picking like you, til i took an arrow in the knee...
I wish magic mushrooms were spreading 😩
That would be a way more fun Mushie to be on the rise.
They’ve already spread across the world.
Your wish came true
The previous commentor is right. They are everywhere. Just have to know what your picking
Bruce Silverson , how cool !! I never knew, thank you 🥰
Very well illustrated and informative video. Thanks for bringing awareness to this issue!
This was a great video. I love the almost old-english style of the art. I always enjoyed the style, and it's really nice to see it animated ^^
It was an amazing video, great quality and narration.
newspaper article for 'Mother Earth News'
>Single Species ruins everything forever
That happens a lot.
Humans
This is a beautiful video! Thanks, Atlantic.
Already knew all this, but the animation was absolutely beautiful. Very worth it just for that.
When you live in the Pacific Northwest and see this video, A N X I E T Y
Aww...it like the tree adopted alot of mushrooms
It adopted poisonous ducklings
All I have to say is I'm glad this random video was recommended to me, the animation is absolutely stunning, some of the best work I've ever seen. The narrative sounds futile, the tone of his voice is so desperate, like he's really trying to warn us about these mushrooms, and the sound effects used are gritty, and the video would not be the same without them, the gut-wrenching sound design is unbelievable. All I have to say is I'm amazed.
Amazing video, really enjoyed how its made, keep it up
Life hack don’t eat random mushrooms that can potentially kill u
Pocahontas' dad: "These white fungi are dangerous!"
the settlers and the mushrooms
Idiots
I think we owe these mushrooms a debt of gratitude for inspiring this amazing animation.
Wait, I want to see more videos like this! The graphics amazing!
They don't scare me none!
Those mushrooms I got from Tyrell however... There are no words to describe the terrible feeling of dread that persisted for the rest of my waking hours.
they dont have to scare you. but either way they're killing you
Hey at least they are helping the tree with nutrients
BY FAR the best animation EVER seen on youtube...what the hell ! Wow.
This animation is amazing, I could watch it all day for any topic and be happy
Its like the evil flowers growing around a totally normal tree in dont starve
Please show an actual picture of the mushroom..gawd
Do a google image search for death cap mushrooms.
funny thing is there are like five different death cap species, which all look almost completly different.
amanita phalloides
Or God forbid you actually research by yourself right?
really why can't you just search it up you lazy person.
The illustrations in this are beautiful !
Wow this animation is so beautiful and the narrator has a lovely voice
I
They had a couple good songs
Back in what? 2004?
During an episode of Kenny vs Spenny, in a forest, Kenny holds up a death cap without knowing what it is and instead of eating it, errs on the side of caution and throws it away.
I honestly wonder how many other people noticed and if Kenny ever learned just how close he was to potential death.
Or was just not eating random mushrooms whenever he found them. Grab a brain bud
@@OgJusttrippin Watch the episode in question before you decide to put your foot in your mouth again, "bud".
I'm not your "bud", "guy".
@@yukowolfang8645 I'm not your guy, friend.
@@MilesLougheed I'm not your friend, buddy. (mb, when I read Kenny I thought you were talking about South Park xD )
Please keep animating like this for every video
What a work of art. Stunning.
This only serves to our inevitable travel by spore drive 😂
Wait, don’t Truffles also grow near roots in the Pacific Northwest?
(My hopes of more truffles coming from Oregon are now dashed)
Beautifully illustrated and animated!
There really is no need to stop them, just learn to recognize them and leave them alone. They are in fact great mushrooms for the environment, as they help the trees quite a lot, and yes, other, edible mushrooms that grow off of the same roots. I picked up delicious boletes more than once that were growing less than three feet away from death caps and guess who helped them grow big and delicious like that. The slugs love the death cap too and they get no poisoning from it and we gotta leave something for them to munch on too, in this case we have no choice but leave something for them.
I’m here because…..Australia 🇦🇺 😂
Hahaha! Pandora box they call it!! I checked what kind of mushrooms you were talking about it sounded so mysterious. They grow all over the place here in Poland. Every child is taught from earliest years not to touch them. They're very common. The easiest way to recognize if a mushroom is poisonous is to look for gills under the mushroom cap. If a mushroom has tubes and pores it probably is edible if gills better leave it if you're not a specialist. Better yet, not to eat species you don't know.
Many gilled mushrooms are edible. It is not helpful to categorize mushrooms this way. Some tube (pore) mushrooms are not edible. Much study is needed if you want to eat wild mushrooms. I have 30 years experience and I always have an expert identify any new (to me) mushrooms for three years before I eat them.
Eileen Belanger Wow that’s dedication..I just go to the supermarket to source mine lol
No seriously, they are fascinating & you seem to have vast knowledge. Have a great day 😀
this was one of the most beautiful animations I've ever seen on youtube and I don't know what to think about that
I love the art work in this video and how fascinating about these mushrooms.
all hail our fungal overlords!
Was hoping for an actual picture of one
If only there was a way to find something like that. They could call it a search engine or something.
@@aluisious the passive aggressiveness in strong. Who hurt you, baby?
@@yviesunshine8176 Stop being lazy and use Google. There, now it's not "passive."
@@aluisious I like it!!
@Dark Star there's a thing called Google? GTFO!!! Never heard of it, I'll have to Google it.
The animation was amazing ⚡️
The video was also so informative and scary.
Makes a great video on the dangers of death caps. Doesn’t take time to show us what they look like
Before watching the video: excellent. I get to see how these things spread. Air? Through animal fur/waste?
After watching: Oh. Those humans did it again. How expensive is real estate in Mars? Earth was doomed from the start.
But then we'd just destroy mars, and that shit is not epic
Andperson, who said someone’s joining me over there?
Someone info on what to look for, how to identify them would probably be helpful...
go to the freaking library. geez.
There mushrooms are hard to distinct. This mushroom originates from Europe, it can also be found here in my country. Don’t try to identify it because it looks exactly like another very delicious and popular mushroom. In my country after you have found mushrooms you take them to a market where there are specialists who tell you if it’s edible or not. Even with the specialist controlling them there is one dead cap mushroom poisoning per 10 year
@@finglavina5804 how do the specialists identify them?
The animation and sound design here was top-notch
Very good video.... I was afraid of getting death cap while picking wild mushrooms... now that I know they are not in the field but around the roots of trees and stuff then I will try to pick some with out getting any death caps...
It is somewhat saddening that mushrooms like the Amanita phalloides are something to be feared. You should definitely avoid this mushroom at all costs, but it's also important to understand its purpose in the ecosystem [in Europe] as a mycorrhizal fungus (having a symbiotic relationship with trees). Just learn how to identify it and move along. Education is key.
It sucks that people are the root of the problem, but the name is growing on me... death caps
I didn't know about this, very interesting!
Such a beautiful video 😮 well done
The narrator's voice caused my liver to shut down.
First, Killer Bees and now… Death Caps! What’s next, cigarettes are bad? Great.
evolution: *designs highly effective killing machines like poison dart frogs and bubonic plague, capable of nightmarish levels of death and destruction*
humanity: You are like a little baby
Hey, remember that time some coal mining town was set on fire, *forever* ?
just imagine smoking death caps instead of tobacco
Nicely illustrated!
Beautiful animation and explanation of the science behind amanita phalloides. I wish to also name that this mushroom is only potentially fatal to those that eat this mushroom (1/7 fatality rate.) As a Nature Educator that has found and unearthed this gorgeous specimen in areas with heritage trees, I have witnessed the fear that fruits with its fall arrival. Best to stay informed and aware of how to keep yourself and others safe, while enjoying the microvisionary wonders that these curious beings offer
I read an article a couple of years ago, maybe 2015 or 2016, an American family "accidentally" ate death cap mushrooms and the doctor had them on morphine for a couple of days even a week and their chances of survival was slim. So the doc made a last ditch effort and did some RESEARCH on natural stuff from a similar experience in Germany and the doc over there gave them milk thistle (extract) and they survived...
They are the ones to blame not the mushroom
Need some milk thistle in Australia atm
I used to live in Seattle, and they were everywhere. They are gorgeous mushrooms, and look quite tasty to children. You have to be extra careful.
The art is so stunning ! So amazing
The animation is just fantastic!
Good animations but honestly a lackluster video. It's too short and not much is explained considering how clickbaity the title is.
Warning: Don't watch this video on shrooms.
Ton I was thinking the opposite, this would be an amazing animation (w/the added sound effects) to watch while trippin✌🏼️
The Death Caps own this hood now son!
YOU BETTER WATCH YO BACK!!
I can not remember the last time I saw such a great and informative animation.
Sounds like a challenge! 👀!
Deathcap exterminator at your service !
/srsly tho, widespread education of these are probably a big help in dealing with them.
Why exterminate them? They're vital to our ecosystem
A few notes on this piece from a novice mycologist: this is not some issue unique to Death Caps. Many mushroom species have traveled around the world by riding on human activity (some literally, in the case of spores). It's just that Death Caps are a species which is deathly poisonous to humans, and easily mistaken for something edible. One this note, it would've been nice to have included a brief note on identification.
The illustrations were also a bit misleading. The mushrooms you see above ground are just a temporary fruiting body (for spreading spores). The actual organism is a dense network of threads known collectively as "mycelium", and this exists under the ground, collecting nutrients and water for itself and its host's roots. Mushrooms don't have roots like a tree, mushrooms ARE the roots, and the thing we call "mushroom" is just a reproductive organ, like a fruit.
The art form they used on this is so wonderful
The animation is quite nice, the narration gives really very much information at all though.
A serious talk about poisonous mushrooms doest not require a psychedelic themed animation to go along with it...but it doesnt hurt either
So, is this a problem if we just tell people 'don't eat mushrooms you don't 100% recognize'? Where I live, all the kids get told not to touch fly amanitas or death caps.
This was very pleasant to watch and listen to!
Who made this animation!!! This is so beautifully made