True Facts : Carnivorous Plants

five years ago I'm sorry millions of years ago a number of plants went through a remarkable adaptation these photosynthetic plants live in nutrition poor environments often lacking insufficient nitrogen and so they evolved the capacity to supplement their diets by trapping and eating animal flesh like my mom used to say if you need calcium eat a milkman yep that's what she said perhaps the most well-known of these carnivorous plants is the Venus flytrap its leaves are divided into two lobes hinged along midrib small trigger hairs on each lobe are extremely sensitive to touch when these hairs are bent ion channels at the base of the hairs open this generates an electrochemical signal which then changes cells in the midrib and allow the lobes which are held under tension to snap shut it is truly as if we are watching a subtle gears tick of nature's exquisite bark why did you bleep that I said God you're making it sound like I'm saying oh okay the leaves shut in two phases at first the closure is fast but only part of the way trapping larger prey but allowing smaller less nutritious animals to escape hey I saw that that is soaked up as if the fly doesn't have enough to worry about if the right sized insect is captured the finger like cilia that lines the top of the leaves laced together eventually forming an airtight seal so that the plant's digestive juices don't leak out and bacteria can't get in over the next five to 12 days the insect or very unlucky frog is digested after which the flytrap will open again if this seems grotesque to you they imagine what a salad looks like to a plant think of this is revenge for your mixed greens of horror if the flytrap is like getting your arms chopped off by the sneeze screen at a Chili's salad bar the drosera is dead by lollipop hugging the drosera is also called the Sun dear it's tiny tentacle hairs glisten as though tipped with a drop of dew it is in fact not deer but rather Musil arse secreted by the Sun deers Musil arse glands know this musa large is not like that peanut buttery lung cookie throat it up on the subway this new Solange is a thick sticky glue-like substance that both in snares and digests its prey the tentacles respond to the slightest touch causing other tentacles to slowly bend towards the prey and downwards the more the animal struggles the more they are entangled in this external stomach except if you are this spider this spider does not give up some of the largest carnivorous plants employ a different more passive strategy nepenthez or pitcher plants have modified leaves that act as pitfall traps sugary nectar is secreted near the pitchers parastone or rim drawing insects towards a slippery inner wall which causes prey to fall into and eventually drown in the digestive juices below what the hell angle is this for a shot the inventor of the Kickstarter toilet cam finally caught a break yeah doughnuts for nature videos just be hashtag blessed that you don't have to worry about falling into a stomach in Borneo three species of nepenthez engage in a mutualistic interaction with the mountain tree shrew these plants produce toilet pitchers which is already two words that should not be that close together they exude a nectar in a way that is only readily accessible when the shrew places its butt over the pitchers orifice it's like a form of payment like a restaurant with toilets as seats it's a lot to take in mutualism is the way to organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits from the activity of the other the Shrew benefits from eating the exuding nectar while the pitcher plant benefits because some puns in its mouth win-win the feces of the shrew is in fact a simple inefficient way for the plant to receive nutrients and it is a perfect example of one of nature's most fundamental rules if there is a hole something will crawl up in there and poop in it you can try this by the way fly down and put some honey on your nose and open your mouth it's so hey Bob Bob Bob seriously Bob Bob

Channel: zefrank1

Views: 11,763,217

Rating: 4.9002604 out of 5

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Id: Hzk1bM2vVFU

Length: 4min 58sec (298 seconds)

Published: Mon May 07 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/voksul]

I, for one, am glad that my evolutionary niche isn't using my tasty juices to entice small animals to shit in my mouth.

[u/Daktush]

Ze is back babyyyy

[u/Petfinch]

The SUNdewrrrr

This video missed the mark for me in almost every joke except how he pronounced that.

[u/mmatessa]

But what was the first plant to become a venus fly trap?

[u/VamaVindicate]

The way he says dew gives me a reason to live

[u/KoreanWarlock]

This is better but still feels like it misses the magic of the original series to me.

DEWrr

[u/ktbonefish]

Join us over at /r/savagegarden if you want to learn more and get info on how to grow your own carnivorous plants! They are really cool plants to have around.

[u/[deleted]]

Still not as good as his old content, but a whole lot better than his "we're back" video.

I really miss the "That's how the ... do", though.

[u/chrisrus65]

Is it true that Zefrank is in charge of all those BuzzFeed videos?

Because ZFrank was always one of my favorites but I hate BuzzFeed videos.