Chinese sinkholes unearth 'new wonders' | BBC News

[@Inexorablystoic]

What kind of genius editor uses a bright red banner that covers 15% of the video saying the same five words for three and a quarter minutes.

[@billw7000]

Modern BBC, so you expect a certain level of stupid.

[@eh1702]

The BBC are very, very paranoid about anything at all being taken and re-edited without attribution.

[@medievelknevil8716]

@@billw7000it’s had to dumb down to match the populace

[@DeguMeister]

Learnt from the KZbinrs who plaster video links all over the screen 2 minutes before the clip ends...🙄

[@Maggy47]

For the hard of hearing

[@Onora619]

Keep tourists out....humans not being there is the only reason why it survived so long.

[@markdexter6338]

Don't tell me what to do or where to travel.

[@CalaTec]

​@@markdexter6338monkey brain

[@gordonross7638]

@@markdexter6338especially you.

[@liamhavard9020]

@@markdexter6338calm down gulliver

[@ivorleak8823]

@@markdexter6338 he said humans so wasn’t talking to you x

[@HappBeeH]

Why do they always turn the camera on the people instead of the subject? I want to see the sink hole.

[@万恶共匪毒害中华]

Probably nothing to see there. It's a hoax

[@collettelefebvre8392]

Ego 😎

[@rubysnailbar4460]

Mainly lies 😂

[@billwilson1225]

Would you have said that about the moon landing?

[@okwrite7120]

To help their careers.

[@DAMusic-qu2ec]

Can you make the red bar a bit bigger please?

[@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp]

Lol

[@maggiechan33]

Right, it should "cover" the entire screen.

[@Perryno1]

why are they making a tourist attraction out of an extremely rare spot of nature that isnt fully understood and explored yet?

[@Rahib-rd5qp]

Go to China and ask them why or write a letter to them instead of asking why here😀😀😀👍🏽

[@zearosn]

because it's fake

[@MaekarManastorm]

Money

[@Yasharvl]

Money and corrupt politicians

[@amphibiouscamel506]

At 02:00 the reporter mentions that this is located in one of the poorest places in China's Guangxi province, clearly some much needed tourism can help raise the local's income and create jobs.

[@chiwaiwong8488]

Make the red bar smaller while playing the video please

[@johnaddidi3812]

That will cost 15 million of tax payers money

[@atumra7285]

Thats communist owned BBC. Red lines are not going anywhere

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Yeah it's ANNOYING !!

[@Etheral101]

So people with bad eyesight cant see headline. Yeah thanks for that

[@hexusmexus6971]

​@@Etheral101get glasses or use Alexa

[@gilbertnicholas1582]

They guy bringing people down there said they need to preserve the sinkhole 🤦‍♂️

[@huldu]

Money > preservation. Maybe they can preserve what remains after it has been exploited completely. Never change people!

[@MarcYanruw]

Its a forest not a cave

[@gaypootin2950]

Turist in China 😂😂😂 there are only turist from China there

[@jxmai7687]

and he bringing BBC to BS about it, Chinese people know the area for long time, they won't turn it to turist.

[@lanas5488]

So a sinkhole within a sinkhole, fascinating.

[@entropybear5847]

Thank you BBC for yet again raising more questions than you bother to answer.

[@fifab82]

Seriously it’s so weird isn’t it? Something just doesn’t add up though, I feel like this might not be the story they were planning on

[@Cloudz3468]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hafTdGp_h7Korq8si=k3-RLbW3ZwNtdPTR

[@mrofka272]

I think the red banner is much too narrow. It should cover AT LEAST 40% of the screen. This way we could appeciate BBC much more.

[@ElenarMT]

Agreed

[@zylbygdfn6542]

😂😂😂😂

[@kcameron819]

“Shit?! They found us!”

[@freshtoast3879]

They were hiding from humans.

[@ToiChutGongWu]

It makes a change for the BBC to report something nice about China.

[@wynn3077]

@@ToiChutGongWu Maybe then you should stop spamming bot 👀

[@somgears1589]

​@@wynn3077 you are a bot🤖

[@centralkingdom8141]

I wish they find dinosaurs in there

[@DNOPLAYSGAMES]

We all do bud. We all do

[@RSCB]

Mmm

[@pinchebruha405]

Yes and hominid fossils 😮

[@dongeorge4551]

The dinosaurs were doing the reporting, bbc ur almost extinct now

[@selmahare]

I’m teaching these very landforms to my year 13 Geography class right now. I’m saving this to show it to them this Monday!

[@mkodyglobalsouthsoldier]

Commenting to remind you about the video

[@Premium-d6w]

This is how Godzilla vs Kong began...

[@omega-levelnightmares3763]

Was literally about to comment this lmao

[@Fancysymbol]

she spoke English very well, and he seems so happy and chipper working there helping people. I am happy seeing the people of a foreign country in my media, I imagine there are 4 people very similar myself in China.

[@LordBrittish]

Scientists: What *is* that? New creatures: What is *THAT?!*

[@roastdchestnuts]

wouldn't say new creatures. newly discovered creatures

[@Timberius]

How do extinct plants survive without sunlight? Fungus yes. But plants?

[@voxpopulitotheleft]

Extinct means it is gone, bro. Those plants that continue to live are exposed to sunlight. Many understory species can thrive in low/medium light. Some of them adapt by developing areal roots and climbs like Aroids which commonly happen in densely populated forests like Amazon.

[@al28854]

Nature always finds a way

[@fredriquearvidsson5681]

Some plants doesnt need fotosyntases enough with oxygen and water

[@TabethaAurochs]

There is a flower called the stovepipe or ghostflower that grows in the deepest parts of the forest where I live in upstate NY, just south of the Canadian border. They are true plants but contain no chlorophyll, the chemical driver of photosynthesis. These waxy, translucent white flowers, which resemble tiny tulips if they were scared to death, sprout in fist sized patches from beneath several yrs of fallen leaves where nothing else grows. I don't understand how that works-I've looked it up, they do not use photosynthesis, but I'm no scientist-but they grow all over the floor of the dense eastern boreal forests here. They're so easy to spot, pretty but absolutely look like an otherworldly, alien species in their own native environment. So it's definitely a thing 🤍

[@StevenLewis-y3q]

Fungus is a neural network for nature I.e vegitation. It was formed out of the breakdown of stone billions of years ago, and was here before everything else other than water,metal and magma.

[@josephharmon4284]

😂 "She said "... figure out how to balance research and balance revenue."

[@al28854]

Researchers need to get paid too, before a 'balance' is recognized.

[@josephharmon4284]

Couldn't agree more. I was making the joke that "Big Money" would make it a point to prioritize their need before that of the researchers.

[@Worldsamess2024]

First time in years that the BBC has enticed me watch their channel! And this is an absolutely amazing find in China! Very interesting.

[@rogerfurneaux1529]

Yes, but it's not new, I distinctly remember seeing this cave here on YT some time ago...

[@medievelknevil8716]

@@rogerfurneaux1529lol it’s not….nope it’s ancient!

[@AleFacchini]

Owl: we had a good run.

[@GorillazINmist]

😂😂😂😂

[@kxmode]

"We often find new things here and we ask the experts 'what is this?'" "We have studied this for decades and we have no idea." That's an owl, yo. (Disclaimer: This is a joke comment)

[@angelcabeza6464]

this proves how dumb our species is thank you

[@al28854]

the first 'scientist' who discovered the first pandas wouldn't understand the concept of DNA, and now we know the animals they saw are bears.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@al28854 Pandas aren’t true bears though. Their lineage split off too long ago.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

OK, what species then? AS it is so bloomin' obvious to you.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

@@al28854 And did you know the brown pandas actually have feline skulls unlike the black pandas who have bear like skulls [one has smaller teeth but a much stronger jaw/bite and the other has larger teeth but a weaker jaw/bite, can never remember which is which though] and brown pandas are far rarer with only one in captivity [found injured as a cub and brought to authorities by the villagers who found him] and it is thought branched off from the original pandas centuries ago developing along different lines.

[@simonclarke7309]

Tell Starmer that China laughed when he said “we have shared interests in Hong Kong”.

[@PC.505]

😂😂 dude its joke🎉

[@jonathaneilbeck2263]

"Huh, that's where I left my wallet."

[@jaydibernardo4320]

Maybe explorers will finally find Jimmy Hoffa.

[@jonathaneilbeck2263]

And Lord Lucan. Also the TV remote.

[@Worldsamess2024]

​And teaspoons and odd socks! 😊

[@Saltydiddler]

Hoffa is mixed in concrete of a building in New York somewhere so the legend goes

[@symonsmith3497]

I'm still not paying for a pathetic TV License

[@LDON-XTrading]

Paid Tax and NI then , Council tax and VAT , Gas bills , Water bills , TV licence, can you take my full salary and just feed me 😂😂😂😂

[@pipiqiqi4010]

due to the karst terrain, there are ten of thousands sinkholes in southern west of China, which are much deeper and complex than this one.

[@vsvfunandfact6638]

Those unique plants have not been seen before, and will not be seen after.😢😢

[@markthornton7347]

its humorous....they always want to preserve things for 'future generations', never for the life itself...as long as we see nature as something for us and not for itself ....we will remain a problem

[@LukeRobertMason]

It was an absolute honour to host six unique conversations for the FUTURES Podcast in your Podcast Lounge. I hope we get the chance to collaborate again in 2025.

[@careduro]

It reminds me of "La cueva de las lechuzas" en Tingo María, Huánuco, Perú

[@Zeekz123]

Tens of thousands of years!! Nice to see the bbc taking the big bang route!

[@cp4512]

Wow, a BBC news story that isn’t slagging off Trump or pushing Starmer’s “far right thug” false narrative. It’s like stepping back in time 20 years 😂

[@jonathonwheatcroft754]

It's why I refuse to pay tv licence absolute lunacy of the bbc put together like a primary school task

[@Meow-1892]

Daddy chill

[@gckelly68able]

Fascinating and beautifully shot.

[@phuntsokdolma]

What a waste of time. Showing us only people talking about the sinkholes or their experience, but not showing us what it looks like in one.

[@xkli106]

Why Chinese Government allowed BBC into there?I am Chinese，I don't understand why, for BBC is notorious in China.

[@nickxplore4265]

Why are they notorious in China, what has happened?

[@simonbrown7455]

Cmon back up your claims with some information. We are waiting 😂

[@kellydalstok8900]

Is it because they tell the truth about China occasionally, instead of state approved propaganda?

[@Meow-1892]

@@simonbrown7455Shhhh don't ask him that or they might hurt him

[@joepooncouk]

@@nickxplore4265 watch jason living in china, you will see why. He called it BSB news

[@FadhylHaleel]

With Immersive Translate, I feel like I can explore the entire world from my screen. The translations are precise, the context is preserved, and it makes every piece of foreign content feel approachable and relatable. Best of all, its free, efficient and reliable with its fast working speed. It’s a revolutionary tool!

[@samfisher7953]

Such a quiet and isolated place. Birds chirping, beetles humming. Can't believe there live 1.4 billion people in China.

[@justayoutuber1906]

Its a big country - its like people discovering America doesn't all look like NYC

[@ShadowPhoenixMaximus]

I can't believe there are still birds there after the CCP's "Four Pest" Campaign..

[@UCMpDwp7VEfKXRH3NyAW7kuj]

@@ShadowPhoenixMaximus after western media's propaganda China is described like a hell🤣

[@onlyfacts4999]

@@ShadowPhoenixMaximus Was wondering how long before someone had to bring politics into this

[@daniyalbbd5281]

​@@justayoutuber1906 fake news wumao

[@alw3203]

The sink hole roof collapsed a very long time ago,why did the reporter say two or more time that it had just happen

[@bernardedwards8461]

Birds, insects and bats can easily fly in and out, so they are not isolated. and they carry seeds of trees and vegetation with them too, so they are not isolated either. The only creatures that would be isolated are fish and other water creatures, and perhaps mammals and some reptiles.After millions of years new species could evolve.

[@Dimaz42]

Scientists: 👎👎 Tourists: 👍👍👍 Chinese Tourists: 👍👍👍👍👍 /s

[@sauriel596]

i remember one secluded tropical area somewhere in the world surrounded by mountains were reported to have brain eating bacteria or what it was and some of the expedition didnt manage to get back, so got to be on guard for all kinds of new dangers too, and pray they dont spread it

[@CodeMeat]

Something is bothering me, after all the English journalism had done to China, how in god’s name the Chinese people are still being so kind to the BBC?

[@steveengleman9257]

A few minutes ago, I watched a video about hundreds of sinkholes that recently opened in Turkey.

[@JosefmengeleNHS2021]

4 years old news story regurgitated? Really?

[@jxmai7687]

you can see it again 10 years later, there will be new viewer think it is news.

[@ginrovers7725]

They should keep the location of this place secret instead of advertising it on international media, so that tourists and malicious people dont go sabotage

[@justifiable6474]

Tell me the coordinates then... Oh I'll wait

[@KatSinky]

Amazing what a beautiful planet 🌎

[@acmelka]

Now they will eat the animals into extinction...

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

Ok and that's bad why ?

[@万恶共匪毒害中华]

And new variants of covid appear

[@adamsaciid4919]

what is wrong😃 we all eat animal or in your IQ chickens and pigs are not animal😃 what about fish? hhhhh

[@FU-2024]

Please contain your ugly Anglosphere prejudices of the world's majority and reflect how your types impose your "norms" of what the normal human diet is. I'm specifically referring to the diary industry with it's high output of carbon footprint compared to other forms of food production.

[@FU-2024]

And be more humbled about the extremely low biodiversity countries such as the UK where most of the apex predators such as bears and wolves were wiped out during their peoples' indiscriminating habitation of the land. Too many are clueless about their historical past and are entitled to lecturing on others like their colonists forebears. Amusing deluded people

[@MyKharli]

China is a wonderland of different landscapes .

[@saraday4300]

Please save this from human activity which destroys

[@rickyto2106]

I want to explore these unexplored places and discover new things. It's gonna be an adventure!

[@rockshubham7556]

They need justice now...

[@joekazhama5789]

So it's the tour guide's who actually discover those things... 😂😂😂😂

[@onlinme7884]

no tourists until scientists have completed their study

[@ausnorman8050]

"Carved over centuries..." ahhh what? more like tens of thousands of years.

[@user-ts8xr9fp6c]

You mean like Stonehenge?

[@WagnerWithShovels]

*Disney now wants to build a theme park there.*

[@user9b2]

Every single visit needs to be guided and monitored so visitors cannot damage the ecosystem (leave no trace).

[@hammadsethi5329]

Truly amazing

[@sol5916]

What'd they find down there, human decency?

[@a-walpatches6460]

You must be so much fun!

[@lazypotato3707]

I'm sure you'd be a great tourist !

[@Shiko-k6y]

Wow. There are a lot of discoveries

[@Ferda1964]

It feels lately like the whole world is sinking.

[@devinb3918]

Okay Eeyore

[@tomato-v8x]

In your emo phase, huh?

[@itsmecjlee]

That sanctuary is not for tourist!

[@jaffajordan1468]

Imagine plants hide from us 😂😂😂

[@Prashanthbentley1]

Unfortunately the ancient forest was discovered which is real bad news for the animals living there. Some humans are so bad that they will destroy it..

[@christian_beast0717]

The Scottish sound is very beautiful to hear

[@elizabethannegrey6285]

Leave the place alone!

[@barbara9315]

If the red bar isn’t covering half the screen I don’t want to watch it.😂

[@ryanellison4884]

Learnt nothing. Didn’t even see a sink hole?! Who’s paying these fools

[@benderthefourth3445]

Nice info graphics red band. It's nice to look at footage with a big red band! Why showing images at all, if we can just look at the big red band?!

[@GorillazINmist]

Owl: "Ffs humans"

[@irone7050]

“China's giant sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk”, yet another’s BBC’s spin to it😂

[@janecme]

Oh great - any bats inside yet?

[@yuluoxianjun]

yes

[@AlexanderYeahnah]

Kudos, BBC News for this mindblowing phenomenal discovered in China. But couldnt a whole reputable BBC News,have done better by making this once in a life time phenomenal discovery 1hr 30mins, instead of just 3mins ?

[@Vermilion2049]

BBC: “but at what cost?”

[@scoobysean555]

Makes you think whst else is under the mountains...

[@RG-jj7yz]

The owl said: Welcome to my sinkhole (in Chinese).

[@peterjamescullen]

‘Heavenly Pits’ is also a good name for deodorant

[@DaimianSalutis]

This is how scary movies start

[@Jen-zk9se]

They’re definitely going to eat any of those rediscovered animals and probably make tea out of the rare plants.

[@walterwhite3417]

A little bit racist today, are we?

[@justifiable6474]

​@@walterwhite3417 still a fact isn't it. Atleast you recognise who the racism was about, just shows it's common knowledge 😂

[@walterwhite3417]

@@justifiable6474 or a common misconception. That’s what happens when you only watch the media from your country which tend to show oddity in another part of the world for ratings.

[@johnoneill2986]

Tourists should be kept TF out and these sinkholes should be considered protected, natural, areas.

[@radish6740]

That owl was literally the first Chinese bird I’ve ever seen. Absolutely shocked any survived Mao.

[@Trailhiker1]

They took blackbirds baked in a pie to a whole new level

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Look at some of their stunning peacocks then, nothing like the ones you normally see in parks and the like but beyond colourful and beautiful.

[@user-ts8xr9fp6c]

It's ironic that you take the p*ss out of Mao, but at the same time you call yourself Radish. Radishes originally came from China, so you'd better change your YT name.

[@johnr8212]

Straight on the menue then in their local takeaway joint

[@MarkDanielLouwe]

It shouldn't be open to tourists! Scientists only!

[@TheAmateurPhilosopher]

Wait...it looks like a start section of a horror movie

[@lindathomas5500]

Sadly once tourists are involved it will be destroyed!

[@nunyanunya4147]

i saw this movie... starting to wonder which shitty scifi movie we all in currently...

[@wynn3077]

And yet they can’t find those hundreds of thousands Uyghurs in re-education camps in Xinjiang.

[@AlexxxX-t3m]

Nonsense.. if there is life and trees inside means there was light meaning it’s been always open

[@strbst2075]

If it’s been untouched by humans maybe we should leave it that way

[@malcomalexander6927]

Dang, we touch EVERYTHING!!!!!!

[@michaelhigton6765]

The Chinese interacting with exotic flora and fauna ... what could go wrong?

[@raclark2730]

They will need Uncle Fauci to help again.

[@weworkez]

Wow amazing

[@jamiehume4927]

Very special.

[@robertwolstenholme-x1n]

Commentary in English would be nice I mean I can understand the Chinese people, but the BBC journalist is unintelligible

[@leetan4203]

Nothing wrong with her English!

[@sspider7846]

And yet we didn’t see these so called new creatures.. what a shocker

[@GraniteInTheFace]

BBC: China wants to protect pits from tourism. But at what cost?

[@eh1702]

There are literally hundreds of thousands of rich people in China who will demand bucket-list visits to these places. They’ll start making helicopter pads and concrete paths and stairways and spas and what all else to cater for them.

[@KeyboardWarriorNo1]

Please dont eat the cute owl

[@KP_Casablanka]

They aren't American.

[@adamsaciid4919]

@@KP_Casablanka

[@user-ts8xr9fp6c]

Don't worry, the Chinese don't slaughter animals for fun like the Westerners.

[@freshtoast3879]

​@@adamsaciid4919🤣

[@sophsweet]

I'm not sure if it's OK to say but interesting that there are no worries mentioned about humans coming into contact with new viruses from unfamiliar species in the sinkholes.

[@justayoutuber1906]

Sinkholes are not airlocks if there are viruses, they can get out on birds, etc

[@silis22]

Viruses are typically specialized to infect specific organisms. This means that if there are no humans living in the cave, human-specific viruses are unlikely to be present. While some viruses can jump from animal hosts to humans, this usually happens with domesticated animals (mostly due to poor living conditions) or with species that are biologically very similar to humans, such as apes. Also they mostly die after a couple of days, maybe months without a host. Only the permafrost viruses could "revive".

[@mehmet.albyrk]

@sophsweet should search for sinkholes

[@sophsweet]

@justayoutuber1906 Thanks, I don't know anything enough about it. I think transparent reporting would have mentioned IF covid had been proven to come from wildlife. Just opinion.

[@buzz5969]

@01:03 If they thinks its haunted by DEMONS then why is it called HEAVENLY CLIFFS???

[@justifiable6474]

Because everything as we know it is rather quite the opposite my friend.

[@buzz5969]

@ Makes literally zero difference too me, Aliens, Bigfoots, Leprechauns, my life goes on…Still not a bleiever in any man creating the heavens and earth in 6 days…