World's Biggest Carnivorous Plant Catches Whole Sheep!

people think I'm joking when I call brambles carnivorous plants but before you sneer just look at the evidence through them they doubt it stuck on ya if no one rescued this lab it will be dead in a couple of days now viewing you and that's not counting attack from crows or dogs you have your heavenly sheep caught like this give up struggling quite quickly and just stand there calmly waiting for death to arrive they die of thirst or starvation obviously but often they end up on their backs and die of pneumonia now you might be saying that doesn't make a bramble into a carnivorous plant just because lambs get caught in anything but again look at the evidence first the motive obviously the plant would benefit for years from the remains of a dead animal decaying into the ground around its roots secondly the means the Sheep get caught on their spines but these spines are not just defensive they don't just stick out straight like golf spikes do these are backward facing hooks they actually draw the prey in towards the middle where they get caught by more hooks the more the preys struggles the more they get caught though these are actively catching the Sheep drawing them in and then holding them tightly till they die of exhaustion and starvation and then taking in their nutrients as the Sheep rots away surely that's practically a definition of a carnivorous plant gonads one where you go and there's any sheep farmer will tell you brambles are very successful at this they can and do kill thousands of sheep every year often you see just a sad pile of wool and bones deep in a hedge all the remains of their latest victim all the sheep that are sheared annually don't get caught so often and young lambs don't have long enough wool but the ones in between are vulnerable so we have to watch out for hours every single day of course brambles are also one of our most productive and useful plants very importantly they are pioneers they can survive in grassland and are a vital first step in converting grassland back to woodland they also produce vast amounts of pollen and nectar for almost half the year at low temperatures essential food for insects like my honeybees and they provide safe habitat for many insects and birds and of course they make blackberries but they are also deadly killers there are more blackberry not quite as innocent as you might have thought

Channel: Way Out West Blow-in blog

Views: 8,403,938

Rating: 4.3572245 out of 5

Keywords: smallholding, homesteading, sustainability, blog, rural, farming, country, small scale, hands on, west, cork, Ireland, Irish, small farm, Sheep, wool, deadly, Carnivorous Plant, Catch, Kill, bramble, dead, attack, crows, dogs, death, starvation, pneumonia, lambs, eaten, animal, spines, spikes, hooks, prey, bones, victim, pioneers, blackberries, blackberry, eat, plant food, sheep farming., meat-eating

Id: RuzLXxbGc4c

Length: 3min 32sec (212 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 02 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/Psy_Kira]

Didnt know that Ramsey Bolton was into sheep farming

[u/rattleandhum]

It's also pretty much true - not only do plants, trees and fungi have a nutrient exchange in places like a forest, but fungi will actively break down animal matter and exchange nutrients with trees, leading some animal matter to nourish trees directly.

Also, that channel is goofy but quite fun. They have some pretty sweet videos showing farm life in rural UK or ireland.

[u/ianthenerd]

All these years thinking brambles were mildly pesky things you read about in english children's books, and I didn't know the following things:

• They are a real danger to adolescent sheep.
• They're the same bloody thing as blackberry bushes. Yum.

Edit: Bramble pretty much means any thorny bush, but I didn't know they usually mean blackberry bush.

[u/MyOtherAltIsAHuman]

It's a compelling argument, but the style of the video leads me to believe that this is some form of British humour that I don't understand.

[u/Pardon_my_baconess]

What I learned from this video:

Sheep are stupid.

[u/3byon23]

I absolutely love this guys channel, I hope this thread will see some people subscribe

[u/didgeridoome24]

I want that dude's sweater

[u/jaz0424]

His channel is very binge-able and it's quite relaxing. Most of his videos documents farm life. I recommend watching his channel

[u/Saiing]

I could listen to this guy’s voice for hours!