xQc Reacts to Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder | Mark Rober | xQcOW

this is a bird if they want the birdseed they will first need to pass through what is basically an eight part Ninja Warrior obstacle course for squirrels this course is extremely challenging it is not for the timid of heart but a trunk that I completely underestimated my adversary now if you're wondering why I would go through all this trouble we need to go back two weeks ago when I found myself stuck at home and very bored so I installed a bird feeder and decided to become a bird watcher the only way to check for no heartbeat jasio I was young dude akin we really like a man okay for the birds to slip inside but small enough to prevent the squirrels from getting the food and that worked really well until right here for me this was like the moment in Jurassic Park when they realized the velociraptors can open door handles and once the door was open it was clear this wasn't their first guys not Victoria Kim it was like it was exactly like this right it was more like there was no none of that and then like a why you're around it right that was wired but a switch and it always be on because the birds couldn't ever get fed because all the [ __ ] scroll would walk up to it and eat all of it right so they wired it up did and a little bit of voltage so then something the scroll would walk up and they they get zapped and they would get the [ __ ] out it basically cleared this and then they don't get along anymore to the end of the day mind you this bird feeder was advertised as being squirrel proof so I bought another squirrel-proof birdfeeder to replace it it's got this outer cage suspended by some Springs and so if a bird comes in lands here it doesn't weigh that much and it has access to the seeds however a squirrel comes go grab on to this cage its weight will force the springs down thereby preventing access to the seeds I have no idea how the squirrels could possibly outsmart this but let's see and this would worked exactly as intended you can see the birds love it but when the squirrel comes along the cage shifts down now all the seed ports are covered up every time they tried it was the same results how this morning this guy manages to unclip the springs that hold the cage up which means the cage stays in the lowered position where blocks all the seat openings problem with that is now they can get to the lid but this bird feeder lid doesn't hinge open to give direct access so he goes with a different tactic where he now has access to all the birdseed he wants and so I decided I would try one more bird for your design okay Wow they blew out those feels intentional at this point this one is supposed to work well because it's got this baffle which is supposed to keep the squirrels from just coming straight down and getting to the seeds and more importantly load out the nuts way for them to rip this off like content yo this one debuted two similar results as he hangs by a few toes this is what I really started to gain an appreciation for what they were capable of it definitely seemed like this bird feeder was their favorite okay yeah they're flexing on me for sure and at this point a plan was forming in my head but just to be thorough I moved the post away from the fence and I can't say the screws are so sneaky didn't it nor was I surprised to see they could shimmy up and down a small metal pole or even a large one for that matter and whether they could climb a certain pole material was a moot point anyways because of this holy [ __ ] basically freakin routine sighs Simone biles and on some level this is what it felt like when someone stole a package from my porch that didn't belong to them and I harnessed that indignation spending a year designing the glitter bombe package complete with special fragrances if I could design a package to deter thieves could I design a bird feeder to deter squirrels and so after a couple weeks of brainstorming designing and built a news cake ona put it all together in this twenty second page [Music] here are the basic elements for starters here's where I've placed their favorite bird feeder at the end of the course and to sweeten the deal right below that there's a trapdoor and if they step here it releases a butt ton of walnuts and unfurl some celebratory dinners why walnuts I'm glad you asked I'm using walnuts because over the course of the week I put out of a Fae of seven different nuts and seeds and all four times I repeated the experiment walnuts were always the one they ate first it's not mostly thing this here is it levels the playing field as the birds can fly up and get as much food as they want anytime they need it the squirrels however will have to work for it because the only way to make it to this platform is if they work their way through my eight-part Ninja Warrior obstacle motion starts right here this is the only platform on the course that has a pole that isn't covered in slippery stuff which means this is where they have to climb up to enter the course if they try to really do the way they can't keep a good grip and they just slide back down so the first challenge I make a parkour of instability now this may look easy but the trick is it attaches at a single point on each end and from a physics standpoint that makes it no different than trying to crawl across the tightrope it's the same deceptive principle with that one carnival game that's so impossible I broke it down in another video where I use physics to show which carnival games were basically scams and the science on how to beat them next up the maze of a thousand corridors this one's a bit more similar chat this is almost nearly impossible that's the [ __ ] game it's done make it through that so I can do it ideas which are inspired by the show wipeout but unlike wipeout I should point out that all these contraptions are squirrel friendly and even with a little back force they will break away and stop just now if they can make it past the pitchfork tumblers of treachery they come to one of my personal favorites the homewrecker furries I put her in the temptu squirrel to lose focus on the real prize at the end of the course because this pad has a pressure sensor underneath it and it connects to a microcontroller that has a relay that connects to a solenoid that connects to a pneumatic piston that connects back to this platform with the pressure sensor and so if they stand here for more than three seconds I'm gonna start the course all over again next up is the sneaky bridge of deception I'm suspended a juicy walnut right in the middle but there's no way this bridge will support their weight so it'll be interesting to see how they approach it the sixth challenge is called the tourist trap it's actually a bit of a reward for making it this far if the squirrel sticks their head through this board my wife painted it's just a photo-op they can hang on the wall of their tiny squirrel nests I'll place a walnut here as an incentive for them not to miss this unique opportunity the penultimate challenge are the quad steps of great elevation this is taking street boy told you because these pads are all totally smooth and placed at a 45-degree incline and now for the last challenge at this point they are a mere few feet away from their ultimate goal but if they're not careful they'll have to deal with the orbital assist platform aka the final countdown aka it's not a catapult it's a squirrel of bolts which means they now have to go back oh my my liver from the beginning now if they want to avoid that fate they just need to stand on this pad for less than three seconds but once again I've placed a diversion here this will projects an optical illusion of anything you place in the bottom of this dish it's actually super trippy and looks like a mess in your life because the projected image is 3d they're like 9 bucks on Amazon and I put a leak that explains the juicy physics of how they've that's crazy rip [ __ ] now with regards to squirrel safety I always seem to have this reputation of [Applause] improvised high-speed projectiles and so this one might worry a few animal lovers out there including my wife we have five pets and one child and the child was the only one I had a say in so rest assured I can adjust the pressure on the piston and we'll be saying way below any launch force that could hurt any of our adorable backyard contestants but Jill thank you all that we're back here at the world's most satisfying bird if they make it here they've earned the right to gorge next to the birds for as long as they want and so after nearly a month of prep work the course was officially open for business because I'm calling it nothing to make at the station and you could see the gears turning because right above that was their favorite bird feeder and so before long you I'm into the carnival speaking of which that's Rick there are a total of four competitors that will be attempting the course first up is Rick and he weighs 500 grams I know this because he's actually standing on a custom-made scale Rick is very clever as you'll see here in a minute but he also gets spooked easily next up is Marty he's basically indistinguishable from Rick Rick and Marty are inseparable and pretty much spend all their time together as a pair Cory also coming in around 500 grams goal he's very gutsy he's also kind of down finally we've got my personal favorite fat Gus he's just really charming and will strike a pose if he sees a camera he also really likes to eat any tips of scales and an impressive 800 grams well most of the squirrels are kind of particular before making a selection and then gracefully leaping away that Gus just goes for it hands-free just makes himself real comfortable here he is laying out with a light snack from the bird feeder I mean you can't fault the guy for just clearly appreciating a good meal so now that you know how four contenders let's get back to Rick so he got back on and he's actually doing better than his first attempt just barely so bad the best because he's like okay I got this never well maybe I know I definitely don't then that's a really good balance I realized I just might be outmatched here holy [ __ ] he was watching Rick and after a quick tip of his toes in the water adopts a strategy right advocate so close but an excellent recovery in fact gasps perhaps predictably comes up a little short which brings us to the maze of a thousand corridors which to be honest they mastered this one pretty quickly here's a solid run from fat Gus then the one well are the pitchfork tumblers of treachery Marty was like yeah that's a hard pass bad Gus is just like abort Frank is just like nope he's like wait a second mmm still nope then Marty flies in real hot over the top he didn't make it through but that's partial credit as far as I'm concerned and then here's bad guys with my favorite attempt by far and then Frank shows no fear which helps them pull up this near-flawless Ron oh and finally smart Rick surgically weaves his way through the untouched and I should mention the squirrels are most active from 6:00 to 10:00 a.m. so every morning I've been getting up before the sunrise to start filming from in my house like one of those camouflage nature photographers only like a suburbanite version I've also had a handful of streaming cameras rolling 24/7 which has allowed me to make such discoveries as we have the world's worst guard dog thanks for the help pal now back to the home wrecker you could see Rick is instinctively suspicious of this gold digger and only for a brief moment puts his full weight on the platform I told you is smart his buddy Marty on the other hand she is a cruel mistress rude and because I know my wife is going to ask me no this will not hurt the squirrel for two reasons number one they are amazing like cats and always land on their feet and two they themselves were jumping from this height all the time no Nestor case is much higher in fact squirrels are one of the few mammals that can survive a fall from any height because they make their terminal velocity so low you can see it right here they make their body as flat as possible then put their tail back to increase drag they basically become their own parachute and then right before they land they pull in and fully extend their arms and legs to act as shock absorbing landing gear this is so cool now back to the course we're even smart Rick eventually lets his guard down which is exactly when she strikes but just like all the other obstacles so far after a day or two they'd mastered it in this case even disregarding her offering of a fresh walnut now on to the slinky bridge of deception and this was the sleeper obstacle in my book that is not a large gap which they can easily jump but having the slinky there just threw them off somehow you can see how much Frank is struggling here and he's the brave one and Ric only jumps about in Marty's top for emotional support but like all the obstacles so far after a day or two they'd mastered it now on to our third to last obstacle the tourist trap and this one was just a freakin delight a little peanut butter freak here that's sweet now here comes fat Gus and I mean how the head isn't fit the camera and he's like hates me like one of your french squirrels yeah no no takers here's another classic Gus where he looks at the camera wait a second play that back and freeze enhance his balls well turns out that Gus is not a dude and he's pregnant which meant I was suddenly feeling real uncomfortable about all those weight comments so after a bit of a pivot to smooth things over get on to the quad steps of great elevation freak comes and rather confident almost to his demise but he pulls off the smooth recovery smooth didn't much time at all they were looking pretty good here in fact one morning I notice Marty totally skipped the last step altogether which I took as a challenge and so I removed the middle step to see what they would do and who else but fantastic Gus let's slow that down a bit there's such amazing jumpers so I suppose the quick master here wasn't a surprise I mean this right here is probably a 10-foot jump and here's some classic brave but dumb Frank he already entered the course normally and made it to the homewrecker at least a dozen times by this point and if for some reason he decides this 12-foot jump is his best action smart Rick was the first one to enter the course so in the end after about a week of effort it was fitting he was the one to make it to the jackpot first and he's so stoked he apparently wants to run the whole course in Reverse the nitesite we probably should have made the jackpot a little quieter here's Marty as always not far behind [Music] flighty as you know which worked against him here because down below fantastic us ever the opportunist comes through with the real stroke of brilliance but pretty soon Marty comes back like testing us is like you lose and might I just say fantastic us when you sit like that you don't look at how it's over 700 grams eventually they learned that sound was a good thing and they quickly returned for the reward before fantastic Gus got any ideas so here's a single camera shot of a full run and by the end all of them could do the full course in less than 40 seconds and while we're watching you might be wondering what happened the squirrel applet unfortunately they didn't really fall for my illusion much but I'm about to show you the two times they did and as a promise to my wife I turned the pressure to only 40% full power so the acceleration the squirrel would feel is about half a G which is ten times less than the typical rollercoaster additionally I never turn on either the homewrecker trapdoor or the launch platform when I wasn't actively watching from inside my house where I had a manual override button because as safe as it was something about launching fantastic Gus just didn't feel right now what you're about to see is gonna look pretty chaotic but when we check the slow-mo amazingly I'll show you how the squirrel is totally in control pretty much the whole time all right now here's a second angle launched also even if you don't trust my calculations I can assure you that the squirrels did not care in both launch cases they were back up on the course in like five minutes here's the slow-mo and see if you just bought the two critical things he does to make sure he lands feet down holy [ __ ] there to catch it the first critical moment is right here he's already done the predictive math and he's locked his head on the spa where he plans to land and now his head will not lose that lock the whole way down what's crazy is the time it takes him to do all the predictive math to know exactly where he will lay in and to lock his head is 300 milliseconds that's exactly this long literally less than the blink of an eye that blows my mind but if you think about it it makes sense these reactions would have evolved to be razor sharp if you live your life in the trees constantly making split-second decisions and besides picking the landing spot with his head of gymnastics his upper body from rotating so I never let on your head but the moment he wants to realize not eternally he tucks them in and then when he wants to stop rotating he extends them out again this is straight-up conservation of momentum it's the same trick ice skaters use basically bring your lives in if you want to rotate fast extend them out if you want my secrets mark yo it's time for smarter every day also made a video analyzing how cats always land on their feet and they do the exact same to true stuff question mark you [ __ ] and bringing Lynde's in to rotate and out to stop rotation here's the second launch and this may look like pure luck in real time but the slow-mo tells a different story in that amount of time he's already made a slight lateral push in that direction and locked his landing target with his head we know from the previous clip he can rotate his body to any orientation but he doesn't in this case because he sees his small push has already aligned him for the perfect landing that's just so cool and so after those two physics demonstrations I disabled both the launcher and the homewrecker trapdoor and just let them enjoy the course in peace as far as I was concerned they had earned it Plus after spending a month together we were sort of Bros by this point if they saw me coming out to work they would certainly jump away but then they just quickly be right back and sadly all good things must come to an end and because I didn't want them to develop an unhealthy dependence on my handouts after about a week of free reign I took down the course but in its place I put a bell playground in a warm picnic table every morning the store opens to release just a few walnuts as a little treat to remind them of our good times together although I had to laugh that after all this somehow I didn't anticipate on day one Franklin young to wonder your out and partially succeeded finding a way to beat the system like everything else so they quickly caught on and now on some mornings I'll catch them just waiting for the daily ration chilling patiently on the bench seat that is everyone but fantastic Gus not again when I started this two-month long adventure trying to birdwatch I had no idea I would enjoy squirrel watching so much more it's also made me realized that even amongst the structures and pavement and powerlines how interesting nature can be in a single suburban backyard what the [ __ ] oh the plates are amazing I had no idea that his vines grow they spin around looking for something to grab on to I didn't anticipate the wide variety of animals that use fences is inner yard highways to get around as a substitute for all the chests I've never seen any of those what the [ __ ] are those grab on to I didn't it's an opossum opossums the wide variety of animals that use fences is inner yard highways to get around as a substitute for all the trees that existed before we got here even little interactions like this spider extending his life with this very timely leap into the unknown we're just so delightful to see but of all the animals I could I enjoy like dog sighs rats they're kind of adorable incredibly crafty curious by nature athletic and persistent turns out squirrels can live to be 20 years old and so I like to think that someday fantastic Gus will bring his grand squirrels to the fence and regaled them with tales of cowboys and courage and the legendary walnut pie actually enjoy chatter listen Joe this is very long actually very very long but um it was pretty chill did you know we only watched like two videos as per pod let's give it a did project [Music] you

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Length: 21min 40sec (1300 seconds)

Published: Tue May 26 2020