David Attenborough Investigates Bat Farmers | Nature Bites
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2021
- David Attenborough explores the weird and wonderful world of bat farmers in Kew Gardens as they pollinate desert plants.
From Kingdom of Plants 3D Season 1 Episode 3, "Survival": David Attenborough concludes his absorbing journey around London's Kew Gardens, as he discovers how some plants have evolved to shed their dependency on water enabling them to survive in the driest environments.
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Usually when people become extremely knowledgeable about something they lose that childlike mysticism on it. What I think makes David Attenborough so incredible is that he uses his knowledge and understanding to enhance the wonder of our planet, not take it away.
And he's never lost his childlike enthusiasm. 💖
I agree jonaald.....I have defending in the climate......
My mother had a night blooming cereus. When it first budded, she announced all 6 of us would stay up,to watch the bloom. It wasn’t the carrion smelling type! Well, she and I did…the rest of the family went back to bed. It’s is such a lovely succulent, one of nature’s structural works of art and the bloom just exquisite.
Did the bats come too..? 🤔
"The rest of the family went back to bed" lmao this describes my love for plants vs the rest of my family perfectly
Such a beautiful memory of a special moment! These things have the potential to shape us too
I inherited this cereus from an elderly couple several years ago. It didn’t flower for several years until I moved it next to an air conditioning unit.
I had one one too and it was amazing to watch it bloom but when I moved from Florida back to Missouri it didn't survive
I never tire of David’s voice and explanations…….I love every little incredible bit of footage…. bat nurseries, eating one and a half the bat’s weight in one night, self perpetuating night flowering corridors, insanely beautiful pregnant bats flying across the desert. Tonight is Christmas Eve. My Queen of the Night flowers will flower tonight, and close tomorrow on Christmas morning. So excited!
Dragon fruit plant...magical flowers
During our monsoon season I have a lot of bats migrating through but will stop by my garden and empty the entire hummingbird feeder. They're a delight to watch.
Lol, would you also plant some cactus for them? That would be nice.
Birds
Nature is awesome.
look at bird bath''.
A Nectar Corridor! How wonderful!
سبحانَ الذي أعطى كلَّ شيءٍ خلقَهُ ثمَّ هدى!
Quite an appropriate quote.
My mom was given this night blooming cactus, they called it a good luck plant. She had an awesome green thumb... It took years but the cactus grew to over 6 feet and after years, bloomed at night at the full moon. The flower was beautiful and bigger than your whole hand. Its fragrance was so beautiful and sweet like an expensive perfume. My mom's plant bloomed for 2 nights then it would fall down.. I will never forget its beauty associated with my mom...💖💖
that is a lovely story, it is so great to know you remember her this way
Yesss and thank you so much for your response Pepinyo33. My mom was such a beautiful person inside and out... Have a wonderful night...😊😊
Each flower opens one night only, but usually the hylocereus cactus have a blooming season of at least 4 months.
Dustin
From time to time one has to take a step back and realize what an absolute magic this place of ours is, mamals that started flying, co evolving with the weirdest plants ever for millions or years in a harsh environment. Its absurd beauty and complexity we are blessed to witness, and being adult, forget to realize its speciality which is very sad for us!
Still you people can't see how there is something more than what eyes see .. A Driving Force .. This much biodiversity can't be a coincidence , the species of different generas ,phylums actually account upto more than 50 million species . It just proves that there is something more than us egoistic people .. A creator who has driven this all , developed it so people can know that there is so much more we don't know but still we try to act like no we know everything and therefore we should come to the conclusion that he doesn't exist... Learn to appreciate the creator by appreciating the creation ...
@@sadeem5066 lol, this thinking is fundamentally flawed. Explaining something complex with something more complex cannot be true. Just as saying why did this tree fall over? Aliens came and shot it down. Its called occhams razor principle. Try spending some time studying chemistry and quantum physics and youll quickly realize the crazy complexities arising. Why there are so many species? well, 4.5 Billion years (unimaginable for us) is enough for life do get there on its own. Its not that a god is necessary but that we are absolutely diminishing, not important for anything on this planet, not even close to as advanced as nature or evolution with our technology. I guess most just dont like realizing it...
@@homo-sapiens-dubium My brother,the person you are speaking to is currently doing post doctorate Neuroscience , so i have studied chemistry which isn't mentioned in your chemistry books and neuroscience is all chemistry if you look closely.. And the sir David you are listening to actually asks the same question if you want to search on UA-cam .. Even he and the scientists know if we give these millions and billions of years still the rate on which changes and the diversity we see don't actually answer the biodiversity we have on this earth and it is a well known fact in scientific community , your athiestic ones also , ofcourse not in the youtube community where people like you start to act like they know something.. It is actually Very simple if you know maths , leave the Maths it will be too much for you.. There is a concept called Probability oearn that and than you will know how these billion years are not even enough for this to happen.. In our studies, constantly things change, sometimes we understood things in a way which weren't actually like it was to be understood and it keeps on changing and it always teaches ys how little we know but how abruptly we come to conclsions. Now i don't want to debate in this matter with you .. once you realise the science gives you truth with small 't' and not the Capital"T" .. You will start to contemplate on your thinking ..
@@sadeem5066 thanks for the input, apprechiate it really! but now, it wont change my thinking, I do science just not to have to believe in anything but know things. Sorry fella, but empiria is my only godess if you will haha
@@homo-sapiens-dubium only love brother man.. Peace ❤️
Thank you Mr.David Attenborough for showing us these beautiful
secrets of nature!🦇🦅🐝
Nature I have look
Sir! David!
@@jordanbabcock9349 look at my birds
I caught a bat once... It flew into my house in Menan, Idaho during the summer Olympics while Phelps was winning a gold medal. It was like a little tiny, flying Chihuahua. It was so adorable! Since I homeschooled, I gave the kids a quick lesson on bats and released the little guy. It was one of our favorite impromptu homeschool lessons! Lol
That's such a clever idea to use the opportunity to educate future guardians of our precious animals . Love that
@@nikkid4890 Can't imagine doing it any other way 😊
Should have made soup with ot
Lol, look at my bird
I had a night blooming cerus. I can tell everyone it was a SPECTACULAR sight. Got mine to open and before long large moths and bats were flying into my greenhouse to get at it. Very cool to see. And the fragrance was incredible.
My nephew think his video is like cinderella story, so he keeps on asking his mom to play whatever his video before sleeping
These are just so beautiful. Here in California ours blossom at night and then stay up into the morning.
Such amazing beauty in our natural world ❤❤
End sound is hilarious.
Bats have never been displayed this majestic ✨..
Once a year? We have them in South East Asia (probably bot endemic). They grow the flowers all year long and only bloom during the night.
We call them Sedap Malam (Indonesian for -direct translation: Night Yummy/Fragrance, referring to its fragrance during nightime while the word is usually used to describe food).
Sir,David Attenborough,you are simply great to hear such knowledge worthy content,always.I have been watching & listening to you since the series "Life on Earth",which I watched during 1978.
You appear as young as the then Sir Attenborough.
What brilliant photography! Gorgeous!
I love D. A. so much ❤
He makes learning so much fun!
David, do not stop doing these!!!! March 9, 2022
Fascinating and beautiful. Love David Attenborough ❤
Iove this video. I've watched it twice because I liked it so much.
David Благодарю Вас за труд.Очень красивые растения.♥️🥰
His voice is very calming. I love the content of the videos.
Moon flowers are cool too….
Such a delicate balance of nature
Mmmm
God Bless you Mr. Attenborough . I have much respect and love for You . Your kindness and Intelligence will always be your trademark . Thank You !
Similar plant found in India mostly in the Himalayas is 'Saussurea obvallata'. Had this in my home in South India. We call them Brahma Kamala. "Lotus of lord Brahma" translated literally. Once a year, one night, probably one or two flowers per plant.
0:14 Pitahaya. I just hand pollinated several flowers a couple nights ago.
Bats...not only cute but A FLYING MAMMAL!!!...can you imagine if you could fly?!!
Had one. It filled the room with its perfume!
What a beautiful story. I loved the ending. ❤️🌹
Somnyad
Grandma had one of those, I don't remember the species or ever seen the flower, but I remember the fruit... my siblings had never a taste for our regular cactus fruits, too seedy, so they had to be tricked to at least try it, mom told them it was a red kiwi since it lacked spines and the big seeds.
Did it taste good? I've heard that some cactus fruit csn be delicious.
It's a dragon fruit. There are many varieties and many flavors. I don't care much for the white ones, but the rest are delicious. You can often find white and yellow ones in grocery stores now. Try a yellow one.
@@hizzlemobizzle That sounds a lot like what I hear about the prickly pear cactus that grows in Texas US. Apparently there are many kinds and some are delicious and some are not. Apparently none of the prickly pear varieties have poisonous fruit so I tried one that grew near me when I lived there. It was awful. 🤣
@@anyascelticcreations Yes I don't like most cactus fruits, but dragon fruit are much better.
@@hizzlemobizzle If I ever get the chance I'll have to try one. I don't know if there are available where I live now, in Arkansas. But they were probably in the grocery stores in Texas.
Their incredibly ancient flowers I can’t believe how healthy and beautiful they are, l wonder when the world was healthy did they bloom more often? Thank you for sharing them on your video
Errolia
@@BirdBath1 what Jasepy what👏🏼
@@erroleabrown4317 look at my birds
I'm... Not sure to understand you question
Blooming costs a plant loads of energy, so in a perfect world, they'd bloom once in their life, as many plants still do.
You seem to think the world isn't healthy anymore? Well the conditions have changed for sure, but they changed so fast, most plants haven't had the time to adapt, evolution takes time.
Bat's flight is so very different to birds....
It lives in all central america.here in puerto rico we call it the lady in the night. “La dama de noche”
This documentary is not only knowledge but also art 👏
Fascinating!
I had one of these once. The blooms are very fragrant
These cactus are fairly common in Nicaragua’s interior. I remember going to my dads farm in my childhood and seeing them all over the guanacaste trees they hang off trees like vines and some would be bloomed
Absolutely beautiful I think they even smell wonderful. I love all things nature it’s in my hart and soul .Thanks for this.
So amazing how all Plant life and Animal life are all connected, by a natural cause... Besides humans..
what a wonderful story. and all this is done devoid of man.
Beautiful flowers, and animals. Very interesting, and very informative. Thank you.
Nature is so beautiful and mysterious!
Beautiful
Nicky
There are deep lessons embedded in this...beyond the obvious...if we are to sustainably evolve ourselves we need to understand & emulate these kind of symbiotic relationships embracing & protecting diversity of all kinds understanding that no species & even emergent groups within one are not meant to exist by themselves but in harmony with one another, that's not a choice..its the law..law of nature...its built into the mathematics of our universe...fight it if you will..but you can't win....eventually we will understand...question is when & at what cost...that's the only choice we really have..
Amazing 🤩
They really need to get someone in there to take care of those ghost bats...
Od centralnog Meksika do Arizone..neverovatno...
Jako bih volela kad bi snimili jednu epizodu o pčelama i njihovom životu i koliko su one korisne, a ako već imate snimljenu epizodu, molila bih vas da je prikažete...moje poštovanje za ove divne i poučne emisije i takođe za gospodina interpretatora koji je odličan, najbolji na svetu..🤗💖
My mom have a few of this beautiful plants in Puerto Rico also have the other one that opens during the day. Is the same but the flower is smaller.
Very interesting indeed. But does not mention the marvelous fruit behind another wondrous flower (hylocereus undatus), much beloved in Asian countries. A marvelous fruit full of vitamin C and E, antioxidants and with excellent probiotic effects to the gut.
Originally from Meso America, the dragon heart fruit called pitaya, or pitahaya the name it was called by Puerto Rico's first inhabitants.
Is pitaya the same plant as night-blooming cereus?
Plants nice
Nightqueen 🥰
N the smell🥰🥰😌😌
Found it! Mimosa pudica 😃
Ive got two of these plants one white and yellow and a red and yellow variety...
It's called Nishagandhi in our place 👍👍
Magnificent
Cool video
4:50 Looks like they're smiling
Love
Bats pollinate the blooms of the giant saguaro cactuses here in the Sonoran Desert.
People who put out hummingbird feeders will get bat visitors at night, too.
3:37 the bats back is jacked!! I never viewed a bat as muscular til now. Muscular, but only the essential muscles
4:31 also! The little guys have biceps and abs lmao
Are its fruit edible? I was able to get mine to start fruiting and I'm wondering if they're safe to try. They *seem* like they would be similar to dragon fruit. Very hard to find info about this fruit online though!
Didn’t realize how shredded bats backs were 💪
evolution and nature are unbelievable. to think that we have mammals that look like a fox and fly with wings...thats crazy (i could see how a lesser mind might be tempted to attribute all this biodiversity and variety of design to a deity )
Lesser mind? Isn't that a bit insulting don't you think?
@@ambergris5705no. but you know what i DO think is insulting? what i find insulting is that some desert dwelling savage charlatan from 2000+ years ago who wiped his rear with his bare hand and didnt even know where THE SUN went at night, has the audacity of trying to tell "chemists, geologists, evolutionary biologists, microbiologists, physicists and other professionals AT THE TOP OF THEIR RESPECTIVE FIELD who spent their entire lives studying, researching, experimenting and pouring over an endless ocean of scientific papers that other likeminded individuals wrote before them" that the earth is 6000 years old! and that god "created" the universe and everything in it (and on the 7th day he rested???an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being that transcends time and space itself RESTED???not to mention he fked the whole thing up and flooded the earth to start from scratch???i repeat AN ALL POWERFUL AND ALL KNOWING BEING made a mistake when he made humans...so he punished THEM by killing them in a global genocide)....it really takes a special kind of r-tard to fk up this bad....and THAT is what i consider *INSULTING* (especially in the year 2022).
In the Philippines, some of us call it "A Night flower" because it only bloom when it's night.
The price of this Night flower if you're going to sell it, let's say up to 1 million or higher than this. You're so lucky if you have a plant like this. Because my Grandma and auntie also had a Night flower. But, they're not going to sell it. Lot of people get interested with this flower. It's one of a Rare type of flowers in the world.
Bat farmers had me thinking of bat soup ngl
These are in Jamaica as well.
Very good and great 👍👍👍👍 your video report live 📷📷📸 the about forest animals 🐋🐋🫏🫏🫏 information
I had a “shy Willy” plant once… amazing plant! I don’t know the correct name for it. When you touched the fern like leaves, they would fold back into a stick like form. The mauve round flower was beautiful… it only bloomed once for me, but it transformed so quickly! Anyone know the real name for this plant?…. Suggest a documentary on this plant?
It is more risky, if Lunar eclipse occurs on same day. It wouldn't be brighter on a Lunar eclipse. So, it is highly likely that pollinators would miss it and it would go without pollination.
Pitahaya ♥
Oh!
Beautiful and fragrant but highly invasive in my property here in Australia climbing rees and overburdening it with enormous weight eventually destroying the host tree, not sure how they integrate into the ecology here ?
isn't this dragonfruit tree? They flower many times a year.
Looks like a dragonfruit
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Its dragon fruit. I have in my rooftop garden. I am Bangladesh
I had another type that did the same thing! Epithelium. Not sure if I spelled it right.
Dragon fruit! thats is dragon fruit, oh my gosh !
Bats helps Cactus and vice-versa.. Nature always exites... Hope humans won't interfere
queen of the night
Here in India also there is some related species
Ahhh a dragon fruit. That's why
Me like, please make a video on honeybees
Same as dragon fruit tree right?
Dragonfruit Cactus?
Dragonfruit
Question, is this filmed inside a studio or on location? He would have to go tonso many places at the right time to get these shots.
My guess is it's a garden or a greenhouse.
@@cirque2452 yeah that's what it looks like. I just can't see him at his age traveling to 30 or so places to film a new series and hiking 30 miles through the jungle to watch butterflies mate. I think they br8ng them to him.
The music sounded a lot like legen of zelda breath of the wild
And then, a dragon fruit comes out.
I thought they were dragon fruit flowers
dragon fruit is closely related to these cactus
HEY MISTER WILSON!
Bats are werewolves with wings. Change my mind.
It looks a lot like dragon fruit.
SubhanAllah
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