Anchovies Stir The Ocean By...Doing It

[@BizarreBeasts]

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[@user-zk1zy1fy7o]

I would argue that krill would still cause biomixing because of how many other creatures feed on them

[@makebreakrepeat]

"It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the ocean" ~ the Anchovies

[@zzzubmno2755]

That was funny, good one.

[@swedneck]

anchoves anchoves swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion, owing to their motion

[@wombat.6652]

Somewhere I read approx " the most exciting sound in science is not 'Eureka' but 'that's weird?' " pretty you all just proved that.

[@MiddlePath007]

No. Look at extreme examples. Finding out there's a lottery vs winning the lottery. Making home made cookies that taste odd vs making the perfect batch.

[@Beryllahawk]

Gotta say, I was definitely not expecting to hear "ANCHOVY SEX" this early in my morning.... and I also think it's absolutely wild that anchovy eggs develop in SIXTY HOURS?!??! Talk about life on the fast track??? I didn't think any macro-sized organisms could develop that fast!

[@LuisAldamiz]

Calling anchovies "macro-sized" is hyperbole on your side. But they're definitely macro in flavor.

[@Beryllahawk]

@@LuisAldamiz They're not microscopic, was what I meant, haha. I don't think I've ever eaten them.

[@SaruCharmed]

@@Beryllahawk Have you ever had a Caesar salad?

[@Beryllahawk]

@@SaruCharmed Nope! I've seen the American version, which doesn't involve any fish, but I do know of the "actual" version, and also the Nicoise salad. Just never tried them. I might go look for anchovy filets soon though!

[@SaruCharmed]

@@Beryllahawk Even in America, the dressing is made with anchovies. I think most people who have them don't even realize they're eating fish. It doesn't taste fishy, just salty.

[@askthebubble28]

Fun Fact: When Hank said that the early relatives of the anchovies had saber tooth, he referred to the Saber-Toothed Salmon, which was quite large, **and yes, everything in the Ice Age had to have huge teeth and ivories totally not to dig up stuff or use em as knifes :]**

[@briseboy]

Since i have consorted with sabre tooth kitties of up to 30 million years of age, may i suggest that your presumption of ivory tickling's limited existential span, similarly to pretensions of many youtube commenters on music, may be woefully limited.

[@Wolfie54545]

I really hope your last claim is fake. Cause big teeth does not equal saber. Also it isn’t true.

[@Platt-s8c]

I actually shouted "What?!" when the Bizarre Beast's name was revealed - I was not expecting that all! A very good video about a bizarre scientific theory that I would have never guessed in a million years!

[@salaltschul3604]

Lol me too!

[@Chrismas815]

Season 0 was fun and necessary for factual accuracy reasons, but im glad were back to regular Bizarre Beasts, the production is pristine

[@morg630]

I'm new to this channel. What's this mean?

[@Chrismas815]

@@morg630 season 0 was a recap of all the animals Hank originally talked about on the vlogbrothers channel, with scientific accuracy updates

[@morg630]

@@Chrismas815 i see, ty

[@TheAttilia]

Hank saying "anchovy sex" right as I took my first bite of a Caesar Salad was perfect.

[@briseboy]

Unless spelled out: Seizure Salad? or Seize Your Salad? Quite different outcomes among the illiterati. Spelled out, we DO retain some difficulty in discerning whether Dog Whisperer, or some "I et, too, Brute" composed or consumed salad.

[@kaiyote7924]

I was eating chocolate chip waffles 😂

[@mariannetfinches]

In front of your salad!?!

[@TheAttilia]

It's even funnier if you know that Ceasar dressing has anchovies in it... so I was literally eating them while watching this episode.

[@jdrmanmusiqking]

Ceasar salad is made with anchovies... Thats the fitting irony of the situation​@@briseboy

[@crackedemerald4930]

I've never seen an anchovy, i thought it was a weird vegetable people don't like on pizza. I didn't know it was a silvery European fish!

[@addysraccoonnest]

Check out the Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs movie lol there's a famous anchovy

[@tinkergnomad]

But people *do* like it on pizza. We're just scared to say so in public because the haters are so militant.

[@TheDarkMessiah]

@@tinkergnomad You haven't seen the futurama episode, have you?

[@colbyr7811]

I grew up watching spongebob and Futurama, so of course I know what anchovies are 😂

[@craigpardy6204]

Wait till you see iceberg lettuce, it's gonna blow your mind. Spoiler * it's nothing to do with ice. 🤯

[@3personal5me8]

REAL TALK: How many different science-communication channels am I going to click on only to be greeted by this man once again? YOU'RE EVERYWHERE

[@mcpudd-20k]

Hank Green or Simon Whistler, you’ll never escape them

[@victoriaeads6126]

​@@mcpudd-20k were you trying to? I mean, you're right, but it's GOOD copious content. 😂❤

[@seeing8spots]

It's either him or Simon whistler 😂 I'm not mad though!

[@felipegx4495]

"The physics of the ocean is about to get freaky" Some Anchovies probably

[@tatecore]

The thought that this is how the ocean mixes makes makes the implications of overfishing and habitat loss even more terrifying than usual. And here I was hoping it was geothermal or hydrothermal vents 🤦🏽

[@Kibato123]

''K'nuckles! You're drinking the entire ocean! Stop it, don't you know what fishies do in there?!''

[@Greendawn-di3dl]

I see candied island boy

[@Texzor]

Frank?

[@brendakrieger7000]

Bwahaha

[@PastaEngineer]

My bad, I have bad form when swimming

[@KeelyIleanBaker]

“It was you!” -Dracula

[@kurocknotabi]

You've had your fun. Now it's my churn.

[@rebeccawood122]

That is some epically bad form their, my friend!

[@davidgriffin9247]

Yo mama so fat she dove in the ocean and now the layers are mixing

[@PastaEngineer]

@@kurocknotabi 10/10 :D

[@Algrenion]

nothing - and i mean NOTHING - prepared me for the reveal at 0:49 Hank really said "anchovy sex" with such strong, consummate professionalism i had to pause and let it echo in my brain

[@KxNOxUTA]

This is hilarious and indeed bizarre and you've significantly contributed to my mood. Thank you so much for that!

[@gurkdoinwork]

thats incredible. would never have thought such a small fish could have such a big impact

[@Tser]

This IS going to be one of the best pins you've ever made. It will have such a place of honor on my ocean pin banner, amongst the sharks and kelp pins, and of course, my favorite of all time -- the Bizarre Beasts hagfish pin.

[@backpacker3421]

Let's not forget that there IS a significant source of heat energy at the bottom of the ocean - geothermal vents. I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt and assume that this was taken into account in modeling because it seems too obvious to miss.

[@LuisAldamiz]

Not where the data was collected. Geothermal vents are in the mid-Atlantic Ocean ridge, i.e. between Iceland and Azores, not so close to the coasts.

[@WrenStuart-y9h]

There are plenty of people taking thermal vents into account, but iirc they're not a significant source of mixing globally (I would guess just because there aren't enough of them, not quite my area). It's actually been proven since Sandström that you don't need the heat source to be below the cooling to achieve convection anyway

[@backpacker3421]

@@LuisAldamiz Google "map of geothermal undersea vents for the fastest proof of how wrong you are. Not to be a tool, but that was just very wrong. They are literally everywhere there is a fault line at sea, which is all around the world, and MANY of them are quite close to shore.

[@backpacker3421]

@@WrenStuart-y9h There are over 500 KNOWN vent fields, each with many many vents spread over hundreds of miles. But they absolutely ARE a significant convection source anywhere they are. Most of them were discovered because of the large plume of warm water they sent toward the surface. Can you cite a source that says they are not a significant source of mixing? Not my field either, but that is truly counterintuitive. If you've ever seen one in action in person, just one vent in a field can be sending tens of thousands of gallons a minute from the floor to the surface...... but that's less significant than fish swimming up and down a few meters at a time?

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@backpacker3421 - I did search for those maps (Startpage rather than Google, I've been trying to de-Googleize for very long now) and they totally confirm my previous beliefs: hydrothermal vents are along the mid-Atlantic ridge (the "wound" as Afro-Eurasia and America(s) pull apart from each other) and NOT near the coasts.

[@krose6451]

things were said in this video that kept having me thinking "well I didnt expect to hear that today... or ever"

[@ericvilas]

I did not expect that reveal. I had to sit down from giggling too much

[@GringatTheRepugnant]

Spanish researchers: Do you smell it? That smell. The kind of smelly smell. The kind of smelly smell that smells... smelly… ANCHOVIES

[@Caterfree10]

Took too much scrolling to find this tbh

[@katyungodly]

Spongebob reference? 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@LuisAldamiz]

Call them anchoas, call them boquerones, all them will fall for the taste (they don't smell that much but the taste is very intense).

[@LindysEpiphany]

It seems to me that every creature in the ocean would help to do the mixing, with some doing more work than others. The ocean has a lot of thermal vents that create the convection from the bottom that helps to mix things. The salt content may also be a factor for mixing things, different densities different movement. All in all I think its the entire biodiversity of the ocean along with tectonic shifts under it and of course the tides that gives us our beautiful oceans instead of giant lakes of stagnant water. And that, my friends, is a very good thing!

[@LuisAldamiz]

Not at those locations.

[@billfarley9015]

I believe there are underwater currents too. And icebergs .

[@WilhelmvonFahrvergnugen]

6:55 Starry Night

[@askthebubble28]

1:09 to 1:11 we all agree it’s so good

[@jcanizales]

The fact that ice floats means there's convection even when the heat source is from above. The temperature cannot stratify when the coldest part is forced on top.

[@brie1987]

I haven’t heard thee expression for “It” as “doing it” for a very long time. That was a clean way to say “it” back-in the day and everyone knew what you meant. I said it quite often . Thanks for letting know I can still use it for “It” 😂

[@ThatJaymsWisdom]

Still the best video series on the internet. And the best day of the month. I truly love you guys.

[@TnT_F0X]

Gotta remember, different species spawn at different times of the year and different locations, so even if the anchovies alone dont explain how it works globally, it's a new route to look for.

[@GrinninPig]

Poseidon, of course

[@thekaxmax]

Though his anchovies, of course.

[@pamsuepmnos2371]

​@@thekaxmax Olympus works in mysterious ways

[@Kurtlane]

Thank you, anchovies. Keep mixing ... work and pleasure.

[@Park-ll6mj]

Step aside, Butterfly Effect. It's the Anchovy Effect's time to shine.

[@solsoman102]

I subscribed to the pin club last month especially for the hyrax and i got the rare one with pink sparkles! i love hyraxes!!

[@FlintSparkedStudios]

The brine shrimp time lapse looks like a Van Gogh

[@diggoran]

I had this on my watch later playlist before you changed the title and thumbnail, so I had the question raised and answered before even watching it

[@Notrealmagic]

I thought anchovies were vegetables when I was a kid. I know they're not, but my brain always autocorrects when I hear the word. So vegetables mixing the ocean.

[@CavemanProductionz]

My brain always thinks of green olives when i read anchovies

[@bellesbooks7782]

We love you, Hank. We love you

[@caitlinfrank6206]

I learn more from Hank Green than my Oceanography professors

[@carollollol]

Anything Hang Green - Never a disapointment. :)

[@daverohrich8518]

Ruling out heat from below is a wild move. Especially with the extreme sea temp spike that can't be explained by greenhouse or solar activity.

[@stealdst]

Shout out to anchovies. I love anchovies, sardines, and all types of canned seafood. A lot of people think they’re gross but that just means more for me!

[@AccidentalNinja]

Animals unintentionally maintaining their environment.

[@Chef_PC]

+

[@juanantelo9451]

The opposite to humans

[@ekbergiw]

Instant classic fish video 😄 right up there with the deep sea anglerfish

[@leightonolsson4846]

I still love Hank's new hair - I know it came at a great cost but it rocks ❤

[@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13]

Anchovy paste adds depth of flavor to food.

[@YochevedDesigns]

WHOA, I was not expecting that right out of the gate! 😮

[@NewMessage]

Just keep swimming... just keep swimming... Or the ocean dies.

[@DeepSeaKirk]

I'm doing phd at the place where the study was conducted (very unrelated topic) and I had no idea this happened! I´m gonna have to go pester some people at the institute

[@altejoh]

When i first heard about this problem, my immediate reaction was "well, animals exist, surely that should play some part in mixing". Was not expecting specifically mating to be the answer xD

[@pattheplanter]

The fish in your deepdish makes the motion in the ocean.

[@finalmage6]

Once again petitioning for an episode on flying squirrels!

[@BurchellAtTheWharf]

As a commercial fisherman, all the fish in the ocean, stir the ocean just by swimming

[@LilMarine718]

Here is my comment for support

[@hugotavaresgomes9539]

that was not in my mind when I opened my KZbin for tea today, but well...

[@christopherbrand5360]

Mixing it up and getting it on

[@Bearry_da-Bernese]

Pls, do one about the sea bunny. 🙏 I know you did one about the leaf sea sheep, but it is sooo cute and "fuzzy". ❤❤❤🐰 I think people would also love it.

[@askthebubble28]

I agree

[@bettyswallocks6411]

So love really does make the -world- oceans go around.

[@missydarnell3933]

I feel like Hanks vibe is different in this video. I like it. Might be the curls.

[@fingerstyleguitas9046]

I'm watching this while eating a fish sandwich. What a time to be alive.

[@LagiacrusHunter]

Out of curiosity, wouldn't "...energy was lost as heat before moving much water" contribute to convection currents? I know it takes a considerable amount of energy to warm up water, but could even those small amounts meaningfully contribute?

[@TnT_F0X]

So... Zoidburg's people making them go Extinct would have messed up the oceans?

[@hjalmarnilsson1756]

my theory on chins is just our teeth being so sunken into our face but the rest of the face did not keep up, sort of like our nose is part of a muzzle that did not get shorter in length and just had to curve along being pulled by our jaws inwards, there is no reason to really evolve away a chin so it stays there its also as a expressive and acts as more protection for our teeth it takes the hit, it also makes beards look bigger due to the curved surface angle

[@Scaggler]

5:10 the team had a what... I'll see myself out

[@dragonchii]

It'd be nice to quantify how much energy is needed to make for mixing in the ocean. Upwelling and under volcanoes should be bigger contributors to mixing?

[@earlgrey4976]

0:52 i almost choked on my food

[@austinshoupe3003]

You guys should team up with strangest thing I learned this week.

[@sarcasmo57]

Love makes the world go around, for now at least.

[@ausgruenden1590]

Hey Hank, as you mentioned SciShow: Eight days without new videos, what's up over there (or isn't)?

[@LuisAldamiz]

Fascinating. Anchovies are God... or at least Neptune. Let's not overfish them, OK?

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

I'm surprised we didn't talk about like... the rotation of the earth, or the constant movement of the tectonic plates. It seems to me that new materual coming up out of a fault is Quite Hot and shock cooled upon contact. The substrait beneath the water itself is constantly edging along microns at a time. I imagine that's gotta send some energy into the water that causes churn. I'm not saying the anchoveys don't help, I'm just surprised that in looking for the cause of motion for a large mass of water, we don't look at the proverbial container its sitting in and what forces its contributing from below. Like... idk, the kinetic energy from the entire mass of the planet spinning?

[@alembicsystem]

in the ocean streaight up "doing it." by "It" lets just say. My Chovies

[@xRollermaniacx]

This has serious ramifications for the Futurama universe.

[@mellissadalby1402]

It sould be due to the daily migration of tiny creatures coming up from the deep at night and returning to the deep in the morning. Oh, you cover that ((Diel Vertical Migration). The collective effect on ocean mixing of all sea life practiing the DVM is reminiscent of humans' collective effect on the world climate as a result of our daily actions, especially those involving fossil fuels.

[@Dead.garden]

You should ask how are we fixing the dead zones fishing ships have made

[@ShadowDrakken]

love that the anchovy pin doubles as a poly pin 😂

[@iriandia]

They had ONE fang back in the day?!? I need to know more about this! *runs to internet* Asymmetrical animals are so fun. You should look up huia birds (well you can’t since they’re extinct, but very cool flappers)

[@TheElectra5000]

This is a literal case of the butterfly effect

[@askthebubble28]

The anchovy effect

[@HidekiShinichi]

Its not. Butterfly effect is a different idea entirerly.

[@Boxygirl96]

Munk has had a taste of what Schrodinger’s cat went through, though his intention was humor as opposed to Schrodinger‘s mockery of what he’d thought to be a ridiculous concept

[@InimicalWit]

Things like whale fall surely contribute, but not compared to this lol 💙

[@briseboy]

For those who may never havr swam (swum, i believe is the correct participle, or whatever, but i've never heard anyone use it) just above thermoclines, especially wearing fins, biomixing can become very clear - just pass again over areas you have disturbed, and shiver at the no longer warm changes . When one sees a relatively nearby giant whale breaching half its body from the water, you also get a sense of concentrated biomixing, if isolated. Due to the immensity of human destruction in US waters, and certainly the crazed tropical overfishing, you may also have never experienced the vast, racing, exploding shoals of small fish followed by cetaceans and other large predatory species, with attendant clouds of birds so thick, tht you cannot see brightly colored sails of fellow windsurfers only a few hundred yards away. While i have difficulty controlling my nausea at human and freeway densities, whether favelas or unrelieved buildings from a local elevated viewpoint, such truly rich sights as i described are awe-inspiring. I recommend your support for legal birth control. You also might just learn to prefer diverse biomixing, rather than COVID.

[@tomholroyd7519]

Fish are efficient swimmers, they don't want to affect the water much, they want to use as little energy as possible to move through it. Look up "salt oscillator". Quite a lot of mixing is due to salt, which is very important as Greenland melts and makes the water more fresh, it's messing with the mixing. Also marine snow might drive some convection

[@LuisAldamiz]

But they can't help it: water is a very dense material which has to be displaced (as efficiently as possible but still needs displacement) as you (or your pet anchovy) swims.

[@stevengill1736]

Uh-oh, guess no more anchovy pizzas, LOL! Seriously, that's totally cool!

[@secondbeamship]

No matter what we breed we’re still made of seed.

[@little-wytch]

"Lost as heat..." so even if the motion of swimming is diminished, they are still warming the water around them, warmth that can help convection. Just saying, it's not usually just one thing, but a combination of things.

[@lupusexperience]

thank you for such an amazing content. channels like these enormously increase bioconscience

[@darkwolfe6986]

Then the Decapodians come and the anchovy mysteriously vanishes 👻

[@mikado_m]

At first the 'anchovy sex' was a bit funny.. Then after reading comments it was quite funny :D Then i realized im currently eating fishsticks.

[@rodrigorocha5586]

My question is, ocean predating complex life on earth, was the ocean still then or having more distinct layers ? And is it necessary in this case to have relatively still oceans to see life develop in a meaningful way?

[@Iambored1com]

losing my mind at the image of a dead salmon in an mri

[@salt-emoji]

Lantern fish tho. They ascend and descend every day. And they're so abundant that they initially altered ocean floor readings.

[@RCSVirginia]

People will never look at pizza the same way again.

[@nancyadams9228]

My favorite snack!

[@leoornstein3963]

"It was a joke guys" *Munk*

[@poiwytlee]

ARE THOSE PRIDE ANCHOVY PINS?? I WANT TWELVE!

[@southsidesky]

There is heat at the bottom of the ocean at the mid ocean rifts........................................

[@dfeuer]

What about deep sea vents and volcanic activity?

[@robsycko]

How about under water volcanoes of witch number in the thousands?

[@LuisAldamiz]

Not in those locations. Know your planet, Earthling.

[@thekaxmax]

Only thousands-- they are a tiny part of the sea bottom. And were included in the study

[@Lolibeth]

underwater volcanoes pale in comparison to how big the oceans are

[@FloozieOne]

Now I'm going to feel guilty when I open a tin of anchovies for lunch.

[@HankGreenHankGre]

Whoops, sorry about that. Accidentally sunk a boat full of immersion blenders

[@guillaumebabey4484]

New pick-up line for the sexy science nerds: "honey, our love making will be worthy of the anchovies: powerful enough to stirr up the oceans!"