8 Animal Misconceptions Rundown

[@orenashkenazi9813]

Wait, hang on. Does the last one mean that if you take out a frog's brain but heat the water fast enough, it WILL jump out?

[@EebstertheGreat]

Actually, CGP got a bit lazy reporting this one. It's true that in 1869, Friedrich Goltz performed an experiment demonstrating that lobotomized frogs would not escape slowly-heated water but normal frogs would (and well before it got hot). However, follow-up studies by (Heinzmann 1872) and (Fratscher 1875) on intact frogs found that they would not jump out of water boiled sufficiently slowly, but would escape water heated quickly. No modern study has ever been able to replicate these early results, so it is not really known how they were obtained. However, zoologists are adamant that it is a myth. It's not clear, for instance, how they persuaded frogs to sit in the pot in the first place (cold or warm) without trying to escape them. In fact, modern experiments _have_ been conducted to determine various frog species' critical thermal maxima, the temperatures at which their movements become erratic and ataxic. Some of these experiments do involve slowly heating water and find that as the temperature increases, frogs become increasingly agitated trying to escape the pot until the critical thermal maximum is reached.

[@chaklee435]

if anyone wants to know why, it's cause we feel heat and not temperature. Meaning, we sense changes in temperature, not temperature itself. That's why cold metal feels colder than cold wood.

[@EebstertheGreat]

Chak Lee That's not quite right. Even cold-blooded animals like frogs maintain homeostasis, so they certainly feel the rising temperature. If their core temperature is too high, even if it is constant at that temperature, they will seek colder places. Apart from that, the temperature of the water will consistently be higher than the core temperature of the frog anyway. This is why in all modern experiments, frogs have done everything possible to escape the warming water until they are so disoriented by the heat their movements become ineffective. (And the reason cold metal feels colder than cold wood is due to its much higher thermal diffusivity resulting in a truly colder temperature of the cold nerves in your skin. It is about heat transfer in this case, but only because the wood does not draw heat away from the nerves very quickly relative to the blood supplying heat, meaning the nerves don't get very cold. When you touch metal, the nerves do get cold. It's not just about how quickly the temperature changes. (Though rapid changes in temperature also do produce more obvious sensations than gradual ones, due to a separate mechanism.))

[@LittleIslander100]

I'd say the question is moot: Are you going to get a creature like that to stay in the small pot period, boiling temperature or not?

[@EebstertheGreat]

LittleIslander If the pot is tall enough so the frog cannot jump out under any circumstances, then yes.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

The Goldfish myth was created by pet stores to justify keeping them in a small round bowl, claiming every time they made a lap it was a new experience.

[@fallenblight8000]

The Nerd Beast so ... basically SeaWorld?

[@isabellabrylewski8389]

Oh I didn't know that, thanks

[@wholeNwon]

+Frank Steven Levanduski Yes!

[@wholeNwon]

We actually tested a tropical fish in an aquarium where I once worked. It would swim over to see only me, not others even if we exchanged some clothes, glasses, etc.

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

It's ironic because knowing a little bit about animal care now (Though admittedly my knowledge of fish is lacking) I DO know that goldfish are actually pretty high maintenance, requiring large tanks to grow into that are kept meticulously, needing regular cleaning and careful feeding schedules.

[@eileenliew1364]

"It should be immediately obvious that they are not blind. Because they look right back at you with their eyes. That they use to see things". the sarcasm is real

[@TF141Scarecrow]

Eileen Liew haven't laught so hard in weeks

[@Fillduck]

+IssmaaVz especially with the expression of the bat on the right 😂

[@RumerPriestly]

Not quite sarcastic but still hilarious

[@souvikmaji1421]

+Eileen Liew this is the reason i liked the video

[@DaniPaunov]

+Eileen Liew I feel like it's: "It should be immediately obvious, that they are not blind, because they look right back at you - with their eyes - that they use to see things." The thing, that changed here is punctuation... oh well, Also, -- I'm not an expert at sarcasm, but -- I don't get why "The sarcasm is real"

[@LifeLikeSage]

That's why my dog was so stupid at finding shit, IT WAS ALL MY FAULT

[@wholeNwon]

Yup, he wasn't the stupid one. Surprise, surprise!

[@lighthouse-lh3ci]

Chase Williams Is that a Hamilton reference?

[@goRoberth]

accually your dog is still "stupid" since it should be able to smell the ball

[@icemanjr.5819]

But I would think they could smell it

[@Zero_Is_Stopping_Time]

@@chaseis1badmonkey FOR THE REVOLUTION

[@djninja555]

big bird touched me and my mom abandoned me

[@bert7109]

f

[@godlygamer911]

its because nobody likes a slut

[@m_i_g_5108]

@@godlygamer911 you know from experience, right?

[@KurenaiYuugure]

Oooffff

[@Travisbig7]

I'm deceased 😂😁😁💀⚰️

[@Zeturic]

"With their eyes. Which they use to see things."

[@yahyaelmi7595]

That part and the dog part made me laugh

[@keesalemon]

I went back and watched that sentence like three times. The sass level was so high... XD

[@MartinWillett]

Please don't restrict this free caption service just to punchlines, how else can people with text-only browsers enjoy KZbin?

[@jadpole]

Martin Willett lynx N' wget? :P

[@MartinWillett]

Jessy Pelletier-Lemire Yes, they can't see the content of the videos though, so they need public spirited people to post captions in the comment sections but these selfish people seem to restrict themselves just to the punchlines with no context.

[@sharvapotdar3257]

"If you're lucky, it'll run away at about 40 miles an hour. If you're unluky, it'll run towards you at about 40 miles an hour."

[@FrozenBusChannel]

Yes I was hoping he say that

[@caynebyron]

Suddenly the Dinosaur Attacks cards make a lot more sense.

[@connierobinson1090]

There they are!!! Had no idea they showed up in this video XS

[@justheretosaysomething475]

Context?

[@jeffwhite7158]

In 8th grade, I was adamant that my dog could see colors. I tried to make my science fair project "Do dogs really see in only black and white?" My teacher said "You can't do that, you already know the answer." because she 'knew' that dogs only see in black and white.

[@Thomaswake]

Time to go slam this in her face

[@babyboi3910]

Wow what a bitch she could have easily not been such a bitch about it but she decided "no im gonna shame this young child for no reason at all cause he didn't want his dog to be SAD"

[@dinamosflams]

Your teacher didn't knew science is made by tests that are measurable and repeatable?

[@brianlam5847]

That goes against science

[@doddermodd]

I want to slap that teacher

[@bibbityboppityboo5034]

2:09 "It's easy for you to see" I'm red-green colour blind :'-(

[@andrewpaul2716]

+bibbity boppity boo Damn. Feel my pity.

[@pandaabro5484]

"Feel my pity."

[@andrewpaul2716]

Pandaa Bro Welp. I guess I don't have so much pity for him after all.

[@Schizotypic]

+Andrew Paul your profile pic must look like shit to him.

[@andrewpaul2716]

Hadrianus Gordon I feel more and more like a villain.

[@angrypineapple1]

I once found a baby bird before a huge storm hit and my mom said i couldn't put it in its nest because then the mom wouldnt take care of the other birds. It died. Now I feel dead inside for realizing it died when i could have easily saved it. :/

[@spacecadet1393]

Yeah like we all care about your pathetic attention seeking thoughts. 'Omg I feel so bad, I could have saved a bird'. If you actually fucking cared about birds, create your own bird shelter and charity instead of wasting all of our time with your filthy comments.

[@mikskywalker]

Asif Arshad I think you need a hug...

[@ilmisteriosofranceseradene7548]

Asif, get out of KZbin

[@siyacer]

teletubbies

[@angrypineapple1]

Noob Niceston Nazi Robloxer.

[@lonagen9340]

1:04, holy hecc, those are dinosaur attack cards! After listening to the newer H.I’s this one part has SO much more context.

[@asandysoldier3164]

Bryn R I know! I got so exited when i saw those.

[@Kennadien]

Great vids CGP. FYI: the Lemmings myth is from a Disney documentary that was filmed in my home province of Alberta Canada in the 70s I think. Lemmings are not native to our province and the film-maker has been said to have paid Inuit children north of Alberta to capture the Lemmings for use in his film. He then used tight camera angles and other video trickery to make a small amount of lemmings seems like many and then he pushed them off the cliff from behind. This was because he truly believed in the myth of suicidal lemmings but couldn't capture the behaviour on film. His solution was simply to fake his belief. As I understand it, the original belief in lemming suicide was based on some accurate field observations but as more observations of lemming were made it became apparent that they do indeed have population explosions and many of them to venture out into new territory and this has on occasion led to situations where a pack of them are close to a ledge or something equally deadly and the pushing from the back of the crowd pushed the front lines to their deaths. No indication of them just being suicidal. Just a bunch of mammals pushing into one another like when we humans go to sports stadiums. Put the stadium's edge on a cliff with no walls and the guys pushing to the bathroom would cause other humans to fall to their deaths in the same manner. That's what I've heard here in Alberta where it was filmed and Snopes says almost all the same stuff. I'm pretty sure this is where the myth was born. Cheers.

[@Henpitts]

Never heard of the poison myth about daddy long legs. They are everywhere around my house.

[@chakriyvs9847]

"They can actually be trained and will remember what they learnt for months, which is more than can be said for many humans". BEST BURN EVER

[@whyareyouexisting7285]

And the last one!! We are brainless

[@crimcrammoo]

Lemming myth was created by Disney documentary “white wilderness” where they threw lemmings off a cliff.

[@Pennywise12528]

IIRC the myth was already around, which is why they threw those lemmings off a cliff. They wanted footage of it happening, but got fed up with waiting and staged it when wild lemmings stubbornly refused to end themselves like everyone "Knew" they did. It did wonders for _solidifying_ the idea, though, since now there was totally-legit-trust-us-guys visual evidence of it happening anyone could look up.

[@williamclarke8732]

They made the lemmings dizzy before pushing them into the direction of the cliff

[@benwilliams5457]

@@Pennywise12528 I was once told (no citation, sorry) that the myth began when members of a colony of lemmings in northern scandinavia was seen to leap off a cliff one after another, much as the Disney film shows. Little was known about these creatures at the time but subsequent study of this strange behaviour indicated that they instinctively followed well worn paths from their nesting to their feeding areas. It seems that there had been an earthslip which dropped a large segment of the cliffside into the sea and that the animals of this colony persisted in following their instinctive behaviour even though the path had disappeared.

[@159tony]

humans can actually develop echolocation as a study was done specifically on that front, people that go blind and focus solely on sound, on occasion the parts of their brains responsible for registering vision is triggered. and humans can get pretty good at it too, such as determining the density of objects based on clings and clangs when they try it out and even their size.

[@159tony]

TheRealestEver except it isn't. simple google search would tell you that it's a thing

[@pisser98]

+John Blood humans dont develop echolocation. every stock human comes with a set of two auricles which allow echolocation through their quantity and shape. our visual sense is just that damn good, that larger ears never meant a huge enough advantage to further walk down that evolutionary path

[@Bumpus07]

That's technically true (the best kind of true) But I've tried to find my brother in a room with a blindfold on, and it's really hard to find a moving person, because it's delayed due to the fact that you have to guess where the sound is coming from.

[@viysnjor4811]

You aren't blind, so your brain hasnt adapted the processing power normally used for your sight into further audio processing. Think about it this way, our eyesight is superior to every other sense, so most of our sensory processing is for eyesight, without it, all that processing power goes straight to hearing and smell, making those senses far superior to a normal human

[@NoriMori1992]

I once saw a documentary that showed a blind man who does this. What's interesting is that they also tested his preteen son, who _isn't_ blind, and he performed better than expected at acoustic wayfinding. Didn't verify any sources, so don't know how significant that is or what could've caused it, but it was interesting. In another documentary, a blind man actually demonstrated how accurate this skill can be, by drawing his surroundings based on what he sensed with his hearing as he traversed an outdoor area. He was able to tell when he was walking under a slatted roof, for instance. The accuracy of the drawing was impressive.

[@oris1766]

2:54 "Goltz cut out the frogs brains before placing them in the pot wich rather puts them at a disadvantage" 😂 😂 😂

[@Danification9]

1:31 That short caption was actually very dark.

[@absoluteanarchyproductions8432]

"though they may be tempted to do it as an excuse"

[@DoctorTex]

The main reason for the "Bats are blind" misconception is, while yes, they can see things, they are notably nearsighted, and use echolocation to make up for it.

[@TornadoHarry]

2:30 this is a cuteness overload

[@Indubitably14]

Didn't the Lemmings myth derive from an old Disney documentary where the film maker, controversially threw lemmings off the cliff? Correct me if I'm wrong - too lazy to google.

[@greg.sym.4115]

No, the film makers did that specifically because they had already heard the myth

[@TheASDF3600]

+Indubitably This video was re uploaded with a section of that cut out, it talked about Disney for a sec but cant remember what it said.

[@allmightypuffn]

+Indubitably actually yes. but he didnt throw them of, they were driven off the cliff. its a well known disney secret, it was also the very first nature documentary ever

[@Schizotypic]

I shit you not, in sixth grade we watched a documentary showing lemmings jumping off of a cliff into water.

[@Schizotypic]

+Neal Didriksen just read your comment, SO why the fuck would they show us that shit? I believed that for so long.

[@Peterowsky]

Turns out that in spite of what we thought for decades: that bats have amazing reflexes and use echolocation and their vision to gracefully avoid hitting other flying animals and generally...stuff, modern night vision cameras have shown... they hit stuff and other bats basically all the time.

[@JohnHudert1]

I re-watch all Grey’s early videos every few years! They are so great, just gotta remember to pace myself and not bin- ...crap did I just watch 12 in a row?!? 🙄

[@josephdouglas5242]

Maybe the mother bird won't abandon their babies if you touch them, but one time we found a baby bird that had fallen out of it's nest, and for some strange reason, it imprinted (or at least took a very strong liking to us) and followed us around. The mother bird couldn't find the baby after it followed us for a while (despite our efforts to make it stay), and we found the bird dead from cold the next morning. :'(

[@alexcoffey8804]

That comment was so cute...till the shotgun to the chest ending there.

[@guttfunk]

+Joseph Birch that's basically how you raise geese. Except you don't let them die from exposure of course, that's bad economics

[@nastrael]

+Alex Coffey Brutal

[@T-Bo.]

Maybe the mother had died and that's why its baby was unattended and could fall off

[@T-Bo.]

Maybe the mother had died and that's why its baby was unattended and could fall off

[@mogotecoyote]

Daddy Long legs aren't spiders?!? Then wtf are they? "OK Google..."

[@karn33333]

I've actually looked this up in actual encyclopedias twice now. Daddy long legs are most certainly spiders, they are however NOT arachnids.

[@karn33333]

sorry strike that... reverse it. there ya go...

[@Lagiacrus1996]

karn33333 Not necessarily. Here in Australia, it is the "cellar spider" which we call "Daddy Longlegs". So ours is an actual spider.

[@karn33333]

***** I'm sorry but thats wrong. a daddy long legs scientific name is Opiliones, while the cellar spider is a Pholcidae. One is a spider the other is not. the main differences is that a spider has two body masses the head and the abdomin are seperate, which you can see in Pholcidae but not in the Opiliones. daddy long legs are also called harvestmen......"Harvestmen are an order of arachnids. Although they are often confused with spiders, the two orders are not closely related. Research on harvestman phylogeny is in a state of flux. While some families are clearly monophyletic, that is share a common ancestor, others are not, and the relationships between families are often not well understood."

[@Lagiacrus1996]

karn33333 I know everything you just said. In Australia, the cellar spider is called a daddy long legs.

[@JackDeHearts]

I thought lemmings suiciding was because of that old piece of film where they're jumping off a cliff. What is not shown is just off camera is a guy with a flamethrower. BTW that piece of film was funded by Disney.

[@parkerwilkins5495]

Ik that I am ridiculously late, but that is true

[@chad5115]

@@parkerwilkins5495 damn a reply 6 years later

[@2videosilike]

@@chad5115 7 now

[@LittleRedRidingHoodedMercenary]

0:31 if it bites you and you die, it's venomus If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous

[@dailyliongaming9003]

one kid used ecolocation and it workd but he was blind

[@impguardwarhamer]

I heard that but I get the impression it wasn't actually echolocation

[@MattD529]

people use echolocation every day on submarines and its called sonar

[@dailyliongaming9003]

Matt D but we need maciens the kid maded the click noise himself

[@impguardwarhamer]

DailyLionGaming I get the impression thats not possible with human ears

[@mikumutual]

impwarhamer Actually, it is. There was a teen named Ben Underwood. He became blind at a young age after having his eyes surgically removed. He was able to make a repetitive clicking noise with his mouth to use something similar to echolocation to make a map of where he was. People who lose a sense have their other senses enhanced, so it was possible that it was easier for him to hear the clicking than others. But the cancer that took his eyes came back, so he died recently :(

[@chrishsmith451]

Spiders aren't poisonous they're venomous

[@OutsiderLabs]

+Robert Kuntzman Word

[@OutsiderLabs]

+Robert Kuntzman Word

[@Babylauncher3000]

+Robert Kuntzman The only difference is the delivery method. If you Eat them they technically are poisonous.

[@chrishsmith451]

+Babylauncher3000 However, he was talking about the bite of spiders as seen a couple of seconds later when he debunked the myth that they can't bite because they have short fangs, because they aren't spiders. So when he said the myth that they were the most posionous spiders in the world, he meant the amount of poison they send through they're fangs which because they send it through their fangs they are in fact venomous. After all, all spiders are posionous if eaten and daddy longlegs are not spiders.

[@mytube001]

+Babylauncher3000 Not necessarily. Many venoms are only harmful if they get into the blood. The same substances could very well be harmless if eaten.

[@cpasr8065]

3:12 CGP: [Removing a brain] And also make them more gullible to common misconception Me: Ahh, Nice insult to whoever is watching... wait... IT'S ME!!!

[@wojtekpolska1013]

1:43 Mythbusters did a nice video of that. they had 2 groups of goldfish, and one of them were trained to swim trough loops for a reward as food. the ones with were trained swam trough the loops much faster than the other ones (with were control group)

[@jovanjanevski3747]

Stay away from ostriches, if pissed off these giant chickens are gonna beat the shit out of you.

[@NoriMori1992]

Ostriches, emus, and cassowaries… Stay away, they're giants and they'll fuck you up. Once a boy died after harassing a cassowary. It kicked him and slit open his carotid artery.

[@censored4680]

there basically the raptors in disguise

[@samlolly6364]

australia fought a war against the emu's... they lost

[@Yal_Rathol]

Ice cream Eskimo not much of a disguise, since they're descendants of things like the T-Rex.

[@censored4680]

thats just what the Emus want you to think

[@randomgirlxrulz]

My ears are FABULOUS

[@MunchKING]

I heard the frog thing about lobsters. the idea was they didn't have a central nervous system (or it was too primitive to detect boiling water) so it was totally OK to boil them alive. They couldn't feel the pain! I always thought it was a myth though.

[@Ildskalli]

It *is* true about oysters and many other molluscs, though - they have no pain receptors.

[@Tomyb15]

Munch KING the explanation I heard was that since they are cold blooded and can only sense temperature in relation to their internal temperature, if you raise it slowly enough they won't notice because their internal temperature will be the same as the external temperature.

[@Backinblackbunny009]

Lobsters are bugs and as bugs don't have an analogous nerve cells to vertebrae pain receptors and therefore don't "suffer" from pain. They just react instinctively to stimuli. However, just bc they don't feel pain doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to keep the organisms making the ultimate sacrifice by feeding us as comfortable as possible. That's a good rule for society in general

[@waytoohypernova]

@@Backinblackbunny009 are all crustaceans bugs then?

[@Backinblackbunny009]

Bugs isn't really a technical term but it does refer only to invertebrates so while crustaceans may have been around for longer and it might be more scientifically accurate to say bugs came from a crustacean lineage rather then all crustaceans are bugs, the word does the job of delineating the relationship between both terrestrial and oceanic arthropods. Unfortunately, as is common with colloquialisms, the term "bugs" also refers to creatures like slugs and snails and earthworms which are of a different and much older lineage then arthropods sooooo.......¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@aaronhankey4857]

I accidentally put it on 0.5x instead of 0.25x to find something and grey sounded like a drunk robot! this is awesome!!

[@jellybean358]

the myth about ostriches cracks me up every time, those motherfuckers are violent, they are more likely to attack you than ever run away, even unprovoked they like being aggressive

[@Catonator]

Didn't the "Lemmings are suicidal" myth start from some documentary where the makers deliberately drove the poor fellows off a cliff by scaring them until they did that?

[@vladimirdan1959]

It was a Disney documentary.After finding out about this and other things you probably won't see a Disney movie again and not think about these things.

[@oxybrightdark8765]

Nope, it existed before then, that’s why Disney faked it

[@CowfaicdRealm]

"C'moooon Dinopocalypse!" Haha, I love that line..!

[@tigerburn81]

I appreciate the footnote on the Dinosaurs Attack! screen.

[@thedragonslayergamer8498]

“Ostriches have no reason to hide and especially not in the Stupidest Way Ever.” 1:16 I love how mad he sounded when he said that.

[@bendkok]

If you boil the water slowly enough, the frog will starve to death/die of old age, and will therefore not jump out when the water gets too warm.

[@Yourhighnessnona]

OMG this was besides very informative, also hilarious. The part about the bat especially, lol

[@EXHellfire]

Best sense of humor ever

[@element1192]

People think that lemmings are suicidal because one time Disney did a nature documentary where they literally pushed them off cliffs

[@panther8707]

cgp grey saying that your dog is not stupid for not finding a red toy in the green grass that they can't tell apart was the highlight of my day.

[@BlazeOnMars]

The baby bird misconception makes me feel much better about the baby bird I saved with two friends over the summer.

[@QuantumCrab]

The frog in the thumbnail looks like he's ready to sit down and give me 'the talk'

[@kevinchiem4061]

the ostrich is the closest thing to raptors? Really? Allow me to introduce you to my good friend the cassowary. Seriously, riots shields are recommended if you make one angry.

[@ToxicAtom]

Imagine a cassowary that's twice the size and just as temperamental. Congrats, you've just imagined an adult ostrich.

[@tesnacloud]

Toxic Atom more like 3 times the size, but yor point stands

[@Dover939]

chickens are actually direct descendants of velociraptors, because velociraptors were actually extremely small feathered animals

[@nmarbletoe8210]

#5 is TRUE -- birds won't abandon a nestling because of the small of your hand! Put it back in the nest if you can. If not, LEAVE IT ALONE if it's covered with feathers! Lots of birds fall out of the nest a day or two early, they'll be ok, don't kidnap them from the parents. put them up in a bush or something. If it's a bare-ass baby and the feathers don't cover the skin, sure -- you can try to raise it but that's really hard.

[@MacNerfer]

It's best to return it to the nest. Raising the baby is 1) hard to do, since generally you need to feed it a lot of crickets and flies, 2) the bird might get imprinted on humans and never be truly wild or know where to find food in the wild, 3) for many birds it is illegal to keep them without a special license. I monitor blue bird nests (keep track of how many blue birds are hatched and raised), also run into tree swallows and wrens with this, and can say the parent birds don't care if you touch the hatchlings occasionally - but please don't bother them unless absolutely necessary!

[@nmarbletoe8210]

MacNerfer Yes, excellent points and information! Everyone spread the word, put it back in the nest if possible. Lots of people still think the parents will reject it -- not true, (but it might be true for hamsters or mice?). I did nest monitoring some years ago, lots of species but focusing on willow flycatcher. Isn't it amazing how much you learn from that!

[@MrWeathermaniac]

Actually... when I think of Lemmings I think about either Disney telling us incorrect facts or small brown rodents eating lemons ;P

[@merlinthebikewizard4392]

The Lemmings were pushed off a cliff in some Disney produced zoological film back in the 60s

[@AEther0238]

Damn. That ending, tho. Savage.

[@Djayrocker94]

3:09 For science, you monster.

[@IrvanQadri]

Glad you have indonesian subtitle in recent videos :3 CGP Grey and This Place are my fav teacher on youtube

[@owengornicki8086]

Don't forget Hybrid Librarian and Kurgezagt.

[@RiccardoBello98]

kurzgesaagt.. whatever

[@thishandleistaken1011]

+Owen's Aquariums Hybrid Librarian is garbage. The majority of the information in their videos is flat out false or incomplete.

[@Ripcode2233891]

Also check out Numberphile, Periodic Videos and the lot, they're very informative

[@U1TR4F0RCE]

It is thanks primarily to viewers who he allows to submit translations of the transcript.

[@Sam-xd9xt]

I had this in my feed for over 2 years. Now I'll finally watch it.

[@crystalskyblue]

Daddy Long Legs absolutely are spiders in every way. Look up Pholcidae, or cellar spider. The misconception comes from people referring to crane flies (mosquito eaters) and harvestmen (nope bugs) as Daddy Long Legs. Pholcidae have both fangs and venom, and can bite a human (Mythbusters did a show about it), but their venom does not hurt humans. They are great to have around the house, as they kill more dangerous spiders that DO harm humans.

[@mkemia814]

The cellar spider is a spider, yes. However, the many different interpretations of daddy-long legs gets in the way of having a clear-cut answer. The term 'daddy long leg' is associated with an arthropod with very long legs to a usually smaller body. This description makes it even more difficult to determine one, as the measure of 'big' and 'smaller' varies from person to person. Whether if a 'bug' is a daddy long leg depends on where you heard it, or which 'bug' was tied to the name.

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmm]

Don't they have 10 legs?

[@kateparker8546]

I love. This channel.

[@a006delta]

Especially the mention of lemmings (The video game, love to play them)

[@alliev7670]

There was also a disney movie where the producers would throw the lemmings off of a cliff. That might be another cause.

[@ChickenOfAwesome]

I believe they only did that because the myth was already widespread - the directors couldn't find any lemmings jumping to their deaths in the wild to film, so they knocked them off a turntable in the studio because they knew that's what people would expect to see if they talked about lemmings in their documentary-film.

[@Spice]

ChickenOfAwesome But the Disney movie theory is placed a few decades before the video game one.

[@ChickenOfAwesome]

黒い楓 Yeah, its pretty clear the game was based on the myth, not the other way around.

[@joeshmoe4763]

Yes. It was called "White Wilderness". It featured a family of lemmings and documented its lives before pushing them off cliffs, stating that the population has grown too large, thus they are committing 'mass suicide'. Oh Disney, you maniacal, sinister, genocidal, freak you....

[@Maniacc007]

10 years later, finally its my time to watch this.

[@yourrightimsooosorry884]

You're soooo last week!!!😁🖖

[@heyitzrane3025]

Imagine a red-green colorblind guy trying to find a red toy in green grass. With his dog.

[@sytykap]

Dinosaurs Attack video in mint condition.

[@calebkeiter1276]

your telling me the brain stays IN the frog? wow what a crazy world we live in

[@darkry2977]

The reference to Dodo, just killed me.

[@hedgehatchet3578]

The Lemmings Myth was created by Disney with a documentary where they pushed Lemmings off the cliff and used the myth as an explanation.

[@zanderbygott3641]

Really? Or am I just gullible to believe you?

[@claycandy53]

Yeah, Disney _actually did_ engage in this action, just to perpetuate an excuse for a myth.

[@shrekonion8307]

@@claycandy53 can you elaborate

[@John_Smith_60]

Perpetuated, yes. Created, no.

[@CrimpyGummybear]

I've never heard about the Dady longlegs one. All my life I've been told that they're harmless

[@ThousandStars1000]

U forgot the one that chameleons don't change colour for camouflage but to indicate their mood.

[@zombievac]

Its both, isn’t it? Or am i just thinking of non-chameleon color changing lizards?

[@michaelly7163]

@@zombievac Out of the dozens if not hundreds of chamelion species, only two change color to camouflage.

[@scooterterrian7065]

The lemmings misconception came from a documentary that was made about lemmings where the lemmings jumped off a cliff, most likely urged on in some way or another to run off by the presence of people who were desperate to get the documentary to be exciting.

[@tiikoni8742]

2:35 Those ears truly are fabulous /\^.^/\

[@mesahusa]

Oh, I thought the lemmings were hardcore drugs from wolf of Wall Street 0_o

[@n0MC]

hahaha i love how someone, sometime failed to mention that the frogs brain was removed previously xD

[@NoriMori1992]

>comments that some daddy long-legs are spiders >sees title of next video >"Oh."

[@sofias.1922]

Grey: *C’mon, dinopocalypse* Me: we literally have an entire trilogy of movies that shows why that’s a terrible idea.

[@Emmis135]

”Which, if you look at one, it should be immediately obvious they’re not blind because they look right back at you...with their eyes... that they use to see things” damnn that was funnier than it was suppoused to be

[@galxis5112]

1:58 There's an error in the spanish translation, it says: rojo, azul y amarillo. But "red, blue and green" actually mean: Rojo, Azul, y Verde.

[@goodsocksproductions9397]

The lemmings thing was started by a documentary where they pushed them off to get something to film.

[@RumBuDum]

The suicidal lemmings myth came from a 20th century Disney documentary about lemmings.

[@bananian]

+Rumaizio Does anything good ever comes out of fucking Disney?! I am glad I didn't grow up on that crap. Ghibli Studio ftw!

[@alderstifen7738]

+bananian Isn't it Studio Ghibli? xD

[@RumBuDum]

+bananian good things do come out of Disney, you just have to look for them lol, but they are pretty notorious for crap like this lol. Studio Ghibli all the way!

[@monme6123]

+Lyde Koitz Disney only translated/dubbed and released studio ghibli movies.

[@alderstifen7738]

Fennekchu No, I mean't correcting him on how he said it. He said "Ghibli Stuido" I corrected with "Studio Ghibli". I have no clue about the Disney stuff. Xd

[@nevermore4455]

Hold on, people are going around saying Daddy Long Legs are venomous?! We used to have those in our house all the time and me and my sister would build little houses for them and stuff.

[@GAZAMAN93X]

the baby bats are kinda cute..

[@wholeNwon]

The last quip was the best, and very descriptive.

[@vestrocity9561]

2:22 THEYRE SO CUTE

[@sirdr.doofenschmirtzthecat182]

0:12 - as a european, i havent thought about any of the 2 scenarios Edit: turns out, knew everything except the froggy part, myth or truth

[@uanime1]

I heard the lemming myth was originated by Disney who threw a bunch of them off a cliff, then claiming that lemmings are suicidal.

[@shrekonion8307]

Ok but why

[@John_Smith_60]

Hopefully you've already discovered your misconception by now, but just in case: Disney did make a nature film for which they pushed lemmings off a cliff, but the myth did not originate with them. They pushed the lemmings off the cliff because they believed the pre-existing myth and wanted to film the phenomenon for their documentary.

[@JackEhttack]

That frog in the thumbnail is adorable, and I have to dissect a frog tomorrow...

[@swfreak258]

The Lemmings-Story is invented by Disney. They made a documentary about them and thought Lemmings were boring. So they forced Lemmings into suicide, by chasing them up to the cliffs, where the small rhodents jumped off. They caught it on tape and invented this silly myth.

[@chandrashekard.7543]

damn, Disney is evil af!

[@Perdido-Eléctrico]

Wrong. After chasing them down a cliff and seeing they wouldn't move, the director and the production crew personally started pushing them off

[@amiriothegreat]

+SuperQuiMan That's fucked up.

[@Perdido-Eléctrico]

AmirioTheGreat Yep

[@swfreak258]

Kevin Chiem It just isn't

[@dubious5859]

Wait........so......a frog without a brain is a dead frog if im not mistaken.....so what was the point in the experiment?

[@braniacc]

Lobotomy. Look it up.

[@PaulHarrell]

I think he left in the brain stem that controlled autonomic functions like heart beat, breathing, etc. and was testing if the frog made a conscious effort to get away from the heat or if it was a reflex action. With no brain the frog boiled proving the frog could feel heat and made the decision to get away from the hot water when his brain was intact. I THINK that's what he was trying to prove, I'm certainly not sure.

[@SamuelSamuel-ug2gs]

Alouitious Teapot raspunde

[@Sloth7d]

Bit of misleading information in the video. When most people refer to "daddy long legs", they are talking about cellar spiders, which are spiders.

[@jamesmeow3039]

It's like saying "When people refer to puffins they're really referring to dwarf penguins, which are penguins".

[@omargoodman2999]

In the US, the spider family _pholcidae_ are called Daddy Longlegs while in other parts of the world, they are called Cellar Spiders or Carpenter Spiders. But in a lot of those same places, Daddy Longlegs refers to a different arachnid, Opiliones. Opiliones, while arachnids, are not spiders; they are their own order (just as spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites are each their own order under Arachnida). Common names for Opiliones are 'daddy longlegs' or 'harvestmen'. But, as with any such myth, since it isn't true in the first place, it easily propagates across linguistic differences through equivocation. The likely source of the myth is based on Pholcidae hunting redbacks and other spiders known to be highly venomous. This lead the masses of laymen with only passing, largely incorrect knowledge of such things to conclude, erroneously, that, if a daddy longlegs can bite and kill a highly venomous spider, the longlegs itself must be *more* venomous since the target spider would be immune to any venom weaker than its own.

[@lesnyk255]

+Sloth7d Not here in the NE US, where we call the common harvestman "daddy long legs." They're just starting to appear now. They're always getting into my house (I have no idea how), and they will try to bite when I escort them out - I can just start to feel a pinch by the time I get them to the door. Best way to avoid that is to hold them by the 1st leg segment, because there's no moveable joint between it and the body, but sometimes I just have to grab them any way I can.

[@whofan1212]

harvestmans and daddy long legs are different. what we call daddy long legs are acctually spider

[@lesnyk255]

Charlie Glover Not, as I've already said, here in New England. The harvestman is known colloquially as daddy longlegs. Where do you hail from? I don't believe we have the kind of spider you call daddy longlegs.

[@Thumolero]

The misconception about lemmings actually comes from a 50s Disney documentary called White Wilderness, in which it is said the crew actually pushed the little things off a cliff

[@John_Smith_60]

Why are there so many people so sure of themselves that they insist on telling other people things they didn't bother to check the accuracy of?!?! The myth predates the _White Wilderness_ by at least a century. Disney fell for the myth (just like you fell for another myth) and tried to include the phenomenon in the movie. But because it was a myth the lemmings didn't co-operate. Yes the Disney corporation did a horrible thing, but they DIDN'T create the myth.

[@Thumolero]

@@John_Smith_60 why would you assume I didn't bother to check? Check it out yourself you nonce

[@KmarkecGamer]

Why do people say that ostriches stick heads in sand when in danger? How did that myth come to be? Is it maybe because that's how they search for food or something?

[@braniacc]

It is. In fact, Ostriches will actively choose to charge at someone shooting at them.

[@XxBobTheGlitcherxX]

Ive heard in another video that ostriches soemtimes peck the heads of their prey in the ground to suffocate them. So it might have started from there if taht is true

[@KmarkecGamer]

PowerShot Spaz Damn, ostriches are brutal. :(

[@weavilefrost7034]

I't may have come from the fact that ostriches remove dirt with their heads to make their nests, which may have looked like they were borrowing their heads.

[@grayson-bubbles-light5025]

Woke up with 2 large spiders in my mouth last night. FML

[@ThisIsATotalMess]

I hope this never happens to me.

[@orangesmikypro1353]

***** I would piss myself if that ever happened to me. And it's very likely too since I live in a house with a lot of spiders.

[@RosyKittea]

***** Hate to reply to a comment so old, but since this is about another animal misconception I figured I'd make an exception. You know that saying that every person swallows X number of spiders per lifetime? Complete fiction, spiders, like most creatures that made it through evolution, avoid wandering into the mouths of other animals. They have extra incentives in fact; see since spiders like to walk around on surfaces like walls and ceilings they make sure to avoid surfaces that are too moist to walk up like they usually do (your mouth would be a surface they'd never take more than a single step into before leaving. Of course they wouldn't even get that far because spiders are also afraid of vibrations (yes seriously). Spiders have an extremely strong sense of touch that allows them to feel even small vibrations in surfaces which is how they get around; so when they encounter a strong/unknown vibration they generally want to get away from it (though there are some crazy aggressive species out there). A vibration such as breathing and especially snoring is enough for them to look elsewhere. In other words your even more lucky than you realized :D

[@RosyKittea]

bridger253 and apparently he briefly mentions this in the next video XD oops.

[@chaseis1badmonkey]

I don't know what you're calling daddy long legs, what I've always called that name are in fact spiders. The misconception still holds, however, because 1) their fangs are long enough to break human skin, but 2) their venom is by no means deadly or even dangerous.

[@rad1009]

+Chase Williams That name is commonly used for cellar spiders (Pholcidae, a family of true spiders that build webs) and for Harvestman (Order Opiliones). Harvestman are in Class Arachnida, along with spiders, scorpions, etc., but lack venom and are usually scavengers or detritus feeders.

[@BluntInnit]

lemmings was because of a disney documentary showed footage. however what they didn't say was there were people on top of the cliff throwing the lemmings over the edge

[@seanodear9761]

Do you mean venomous or poisonous on the daddy long legs segment at 0:29 because correct me if I’m wrong but venomous means if it bites you it hurts/kills you and poisonous means if you eat/bite it you get hurt/killed and if poisonous then they can’t even hurt you if you don’t hurt them

[@anti-spiral159]

0:48 According to Wikipedia...they are spiders, so *I don't know what to do now*

[@thequeenofwormpudding7715]

multiple species are commonly referred to as daddy longlegs and only one of them is a spider

[@calamity7646]

@@thequeenofwormpudding7715 Also it is wikipedia soo.

[@Callsigngrizzly]

There's one little misconception you missed out on with the Daddy Long Leg animal misconceptions. If Daddy Long Legs were poisonous, no matter how big their fangs, and no matter how able to bite you they could be, they would be as harmless as a person biting you. Why? because a poisonous animal is deadly to be eaten. They are poison to those who ingest it. Therefor if they were the most "poisonous 'spider' " eating them would be deadly. Venomous is the term attributed to animals with, you guessed it, venom. They will hurt, maim, or kill when you are bitten by them. But technically they are totally safe to eat as long as you remove their venom. This is illustrated with the Lionfish. The Lionfish is an extremely invasive species in the Carribian and many other parts of the world. It has many spines across its back, tail, and underside which all are venomous. But the second you cut them off the Lionfish becomes a tasty human snack. 100% harmless, and 100% delicious. Problem is its impossible to convince the avarage idiot that venomous is not the same as poisonous and many people refuse to eat it because they're afraid it will kill them with some invisible neurotoxin embedded in every fiber of its being. Therefor the Lionfish is wiping out indigenous and endemic fish species across the world outside of its natural habitat since fish havent evolved to view it as prey and the predators havent evolved to view it as their tasty snack. Including humans, the biggest predator in the world to local fish populations. So in conclusion One; Daddy long legs can be as poisonous as they want to be in any hypothetical scenario. As long as you don't eat it you're safe (in this particular scenario) And two: Learn to like eating lionfish because soon theres going to be no more staple fish in the sea between human over fishing and lionfish caused extinctions.

[@weavilefrost7034]

He answers this in another video "Are daddy long legs spiders" Esentialy, there are 4 creatures called DaddyLong legs, even a flower plant. And I'm also not a fan of the Lionfish.

[@Callsigngrizzly]

I saw that video, and to my knowledge I'm not contradicting it? All I stated was that poisonous and venomous are two different things And that's fine, as long as you tried it :p

[@weavilefrost7034]

Most people use these interchangibly, but you're right anyways.Thanks for the information of the use of the words :)

[@Callsigngrizzly]

I'm aware they do, and often times it doesn't really matter. But sometimes it's gotta be called out d:

[@weavilefrost7034]

Ok ;).

[@derkadeher8369]

ostriches dig holes in the ground to lay their eggs in. whenever you see them checking or moving their eggs from a distance they look like they have their heads in the ground.

[@Bossanova.]

2:44 Anyone who boils frogs alive or any other creature deserves to be boiled or burned alive.

[@ASocialistTransGirl]

like you do for treating humans the same as all animals.

[@austinhuskey2921]

Crabs?

[@chynaanderson494]

Lobster?

[@Tautolonaut]

1:31 bit of a weird thing to say

[@ZootyTooter]

1:23 too soon

[@plantelo]

I'm glad to see Portal being referenced.