True Facts Animal Awards: Best Worst Jumping and More

this episode sponsored by Hunter Killer welcome to the true facts animal Awards celebrating animals with Awards Jerry that didn't add gravitas whatever in the category of best worst jumping there were quite a few entries I mean come on it's not rocket science to be awesome at being terrible at jumping in fact rocket science would really screw you in this category the notable entry was the globular springtail it's a great launch and looks quite acrobatic all tucked in like that full rotations and then he takes it right on the face look at him Sliding Away keep cool they'll think it's on purpose but if you want to win this category you have to go up against frogs in the genus brachycephalus look at it it's not dead I mean these guys are famous for bad jumping they're not happy about it you know some of them have glow-in-the-dark bones why not be famous for that but the deal with brachycephalus is that they really went all in on the miniaturization thing they're tiny some of the smallest vertebrates on Earth so Bravo but to get that small there's sacrifices they lost some toes and fingers along the way there's a couple species that seem to have lost the ability to hear their own mating calls which is a bit poetically heartbreaking I mean the deal is that some equipment just doesn't scale down all that well in particular there's this little organ that vertebrates have made of three Loops that stick out in different directions it's inside the ear when accelerated fluid inside those Loops slosh around and Trigger little sensory hairs which help the brain figure out how to balance and maintain posture turns out there's a limit to how small you can shrink this before the system breaks down so when they jump Their little bodies aren't getting information about what the hell is happening so the best strategy seems to be stiffen up and stretch out staying big helps reduce the rotations but it turns out that brachycephalus isn't the only group of frogs that have a complicated relationship with the jump first let's remind ourselves what normal frog jumping looks like this here is Bambina orientalis a nice looking jump and then the arms come forward the brace for impact and the hind legs kind of follow through the end result being that it's ready for the next jump very soon after landing alright so you've seen how it's supposed to be done now there's a group of frogs in the genus Lia Pella that split off from other frogs about 200 million years ago let's take a look at their form see if you can spot the difference wait for it [Music] it's amazing here's another one just so you don't think it's one drunk frog oh that's a tough one Alright you're probably wondering what the is wrong with them so it's thought that the taking off part of jumping Evolved first as an escape mechanism into water The Landing bit evolved later when frogs became more terrestrial these old school frogs never really got into jumping and never evolved away to gracefully land but still no 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wearing a coat made out of a sunburned peel others use their own feces to create a sort of defensive Shield it's like Captain America reimagined by a fetish pornographer what you want to see how it's done sure this is the larva the tortoise beetle in the process of adding excrement to those two things that sort of arch over its body sometimes referred to as an anal Fork to words that should not be that close together anyway these shields grow over time and you have to learn how to maneuver them it's like trying to walk down Fifth Avenue with an umbrella they say if it's like oh that's a cool hat where'd you get old for the love of God you're wearing and you can imagine that once this becomes a fashion trend everyone wants in tries to help each other outdo each other and it gets a bit out of hand to be honest really smacks against most of the current conventions in fashion I mean there are some classier presentations hemisphere out of cyania for example creates a fecal thatch which looks like a pile of shoestring potatoes I'd be happy to have next to my rib eye The larva is hidden underneath it and it creates those long strands of feces using what is called an anal turret and look at that its anal Fork is actually a stack of anal forks from its former bodies butt beetles in the sorry but beetles in the genus neoclamizes went all in on this strategy of looking like crap this right here is a mummy Beetle and she's laid an egg underneath a leaf then she carefully encases it in a little onesie made out of her own feces when the egg hatches the larvae emerges then it flips over and carries its mummy's poop house on its back but the larva needs to grow so it starts to add its own feces to its surroundings how does it do that well they figured that out to see where the poop was being added a science hippie painted that little turd hat a few hours later you can see where the new stuff was added keep doing that over and over again and you can put a little element of surprise for the kids on Easter morning anyway this goes on until they pupate inside of a ball of their own crap and what emerges is a warty Leaf Beetle and warty Leaf beetles have evolved to mimic caterpillar poop here can you tell which one's the beetle you can't because they hide their arms and legs like little Transformers except they don't transform into cars they transform into Shia you can see the little antennae peeking out I know what you're thinking there must be a lot of caterpillar poo if things evolve to look like it well unlike The Beetles the caterpillars want nothing to do with their excrement this right here is a skipper caterpillar and it's just about to poop ready it's like a magic trick I mean that clown would get arrested but still for years it was assumed that the poop was sort of flicked by something called an anal comb it turns out this structure is more of a latch allowing blood pressure to build up behind it and deform anal plate enough pressure in the latch trips and the whole thing sort of squeeze pops off like a Tiddly wink and they figured some of this out by painting spots on the butt of a caterpillar and then seeing how the paint was transferred to the poop pellet that's what happens when your parents don't let you go to Art School charm Shooters in the family psychedelada have a similar thing going except with urine they eat plant juice which is essentially 95 water and that means they have to pee a lot a lot like 300 times their body weight and you want to put some distance between you and that puddle so they have something called an anal stylus which has some hard parts to it and some springy parts they squeeze out a little droplet onto that stylus and then the stylus springy Parts load up like a spring and then pop the whole thing goes off the cool thing is is that the water droplet moves faster than the stylus flicked and that's because the Sharpshooter takes advantage of the fact that water droplets can act like little rubber balls if you accelerate them just right the droplet will have time to compress us and expand exerting an additional force on the pushing surface and this allows the droplet to fly faster than the flicker flicked which is great because it gets the P far away and it also requires less energy from the Sharpshooter compared to like you know peeing in a stream not in a stream like in the form of a stream like we do it unless you do it different no judgment finally in the category of most creative home security system the winner is this Asiatic honeybee apis Serrata these bees have a problem their hives often get attacked by groups of these giant hornets so they decided to do something about it here's one of those bees out on a big pile of animal feces I know what you're saying so what everyone's got their thing but this bee is collecting that feces here you can see one with a little nugget tucked between its mouth Parts it's not just that one either they're all doing it and so what happens is they bring it back to the entrance of their hive and do a little Plastering job lo and behold if you smear a bunch of around your doorway you get fewer visitors it's brilliant I'm sure they laughed at the first bee that came up with it Benny what you doing there sorry I can't understand you Benny your mouth is full all right I'll leave you to it okay Benny weirdo [Music] foreign [Music] oh here comes one oh it's Helen hi Helen I wish you had my tits well she heard me yeah that's right keep walking you're stuck up full years no I'm not saying anything

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Length: 11min 8sec (668 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 15 2023