Fauna's biology lecture - Eusocial creatures! | Bee lore

[@kevinh4042]

Sapling are Uuuusocial animals.

[@NucleaRaptor]

Get these hotheads outta here!

[@TheMrCarnification]

Makes sense because vtuber fans can't breed

[@riskvideos]

​@@TheMrCarnification 😂💀

[@bariumselenided5152]

@@TheMrCarnification truuuuu

[@CubeBizz]

@@TheMrCarnification harsh but true

[@hanahomemadepizza1424]

My PhD friend explaining bees (their area of expertise): *I sleep* Fauna explaining bees: *real shit?*

[@st.haborym]

Your PhD buddy isn't a cute anime girl

[@mayaaaluna]

^ yet(?)

[@st.haborym]

@@mayaaaluna Everything is better as a cute anime girl

[@Edward.E.]

Imagine the PhD friend has read this and then dresses up as a cute anime girl

[@korkad_]

Biology Fauna's the smartest of Fauna's Really fitting that she picked a book about speculative biology for her book club

[@Naplingbat]

That does make so much more sense now looking at it from that angle

[@SentientSlumber]

Leave it to what was intended to be a rage game to unleash a portion of Fauna's nerdy zen side.

[@dorian4646]

LETS GOOO SPECULATIVE BIOLOGY

[@aeaeeaoiauea]

SPEC BIO LETS GOO spec evo/bio is finally getting appreciation

[@dorian4646]

@@aeaeeaoiauea spec evo bros common W

[@purebaldness]

Schooling fools on UwUsocial animals whilst casually blitzing through a difficult game, is a choice Fauna made.

[@gouzrn]

i love fauna's science talk

[@HomekittyL2]

I love Vtubers getting into smart talks in general

[@tiltead0319]

@@HomekittyL2 are there any others? i only know about fauna and maybe ollie with math

[@snooks5607]

@@tiltead0319 Juufuutei Raden of the new hololive DEV_IS branch does streams about art history

[@ccoddes]

I like how Fauna has a knack for explaining science in an easy to understand and entertaining way. All while doing another casual Getting Over It run. Edit: great way to end the clip too

[@EpicNerdsWithCameras]

Any time Fauna goes on science tangents it makes me happy.

[@CanITimeTravel]

Ah yes, science *tangents*

[@TheSocialFaker]

Fauna is like the Hank Green of Hololive. If she did something like SciShow I'd watch the hell out of it.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

And she is green. Coincidence? I think not.

[@DarukaEon]

I wish to listen to more Fauna yapping about scientific things again. 🥺

[@Eiroth]

One interesting aspect of the eusociality of bees is that part of the reason it makes sense from an evolutionary perspective is that all worker bees are 75% related to each other, whereas if they could have children of their own they would only be 50% related to them. Therefore, the best way for them to preserve their own genes is to preserve their colony as a whole. Edit: Oh, she mentioned it! Nice!

[@Rioluman10]

Some of Fauna's facts about ants aren't quite accurate. Before they become a queen, winged ants go on a mating flight to get the genetic material for her offspring and find a location for her new colony. Ants can also have multiple queens in some species.

[@NiqIce]

Ant supercolony is amazing

[@Gabls]

Patiently waiting for you to come back, my King

[@MiritoGamex101]

Man, i must thank you. A little less than a year ago i found your video and that was the first time I ever saw a Fauna clip. I used to see a little of hololive in 2020 but never really had an Oshi, and this video was the start of a wonderful journey. So thank you again, for showing me the amazing community the saplings are

[@vladimirlenin843]

Few other fun facts Worker bees will kill the old Queen if she's too old too breed And worker bees can selectively breed new Queen when there's no Queen in the hive When there's two queens in the hive they don't always fight to the death they also sometimes swarm to build new house elsewhere. The worker bees with democratically decide where to go and how many of them will stay.

[@WalkinStereotype]

My time to shine as an ant expert. So only a small percentage of bees and wasps are eusocial, but most ants and all termites are eusocial. Queen ants are usually just slightly larger than the largest of other castes, and they are not fat. When people think of the fat queen, they’re thinking of termites. Ant and termite queens have yearly, to multiple times a year, nuptial flights where they find males to mate with before finding a new colony and losing their wings. Unlike termites, ant queens are quite mobile, and are capable of self-defense, qespecially in royal combat whenever it arises. Many ants will actually have multiple queens who work together.

[@kokorochacarero8003]

This is gonna sound so creepy but I'm attracted to this I could listen for hours. I wish I could find someone to talk about these topics

[@Zackwolf1234]

Nah man I get that it’s very attractive to hear someone talk about something they’re passionate about I would say I could do the same as you

[@miep3934]

Same. There is something so attractive in their earnestness of their passion, that makes you want to sit down and listen to them. And not just romantically attractive. I think this is just in general something that is really cool to have in friends and I pity everyone who doesn't have at least one friend who can't go on for hours about topics they enjoy.

[@purevert]

Just make the Fauna AI voice read Wikipedia for you.

[@Gamesmarts194]

I mean Fauna has a pretty pleasant voice and these are pretty interesting topics.

[@MackieLevyn]

this is so nice without chat acting like they know everything

[@iocu]

haplodiploidy is the fkn funniest word I've heard all week.

[@Tiavals]

The perfect teacher doesn't exist. The perfect teacher:

[@kaponos]

Eusociability is one of the strongest traits a species can have, allowing individually weak species to do some ridiculously complex things without the massive investment in brainpower that primate social structures require. Job management for instance, making sure there are enough workers of varying types to meet the needs the colony has (soldiers, farmers, caregivers, gatherers, etc.) Ants accomplish this through the production of scents based on what job an ant is doing, other ants will smell each other often and keep a running tally of how many individuals of each job they've smelled. If there aren't enough of one job or too much of another they will hotswap their job to meet the needs of the colony.

[@bluedragon219123]

BEES! With that out of the way this video, and Fauna in general, is still Cute and ADORABLE! Great Job! And also Thank You for the English Subtitles too! :)

[@LuckStarPlays]

was not expecting facts about Bees today but I'm here for a full fanua talking about science!

[@iamwhatitoture]

Immediate nostalgia upon seeing her play this game

[@Lemon-bq4lr]

In my culture, we have a certain meme that Only the CEO of darkest mega corporation would not lick the yogurt lid. We all do mother. We all do.

[@lekhakaananta5864]

Fauna got the numbers correct, despite doubting herself. Fun fact (faun fact?): the individuals that are 75% genetically identical are called "super-sisters". The haplodiploid situation results in diploid female worker bees that share 75% identical genes. Basically, assume 1 queen (diploid) mates with 1 male (haploid). The way that works is the queen's gametes first have to randomly divide genes in half to become haploid. The male's gametes though, already being haploid, do not divide. Therefore when a female gamete combines with a male gamete, the male gamete (which makes up 50% of the genes) is always completely identical. The other 50%, the female half, is randomly shuffled before becoming haploid, and thus on average each haploid gamete has 50% of the same genes. Half of half is 25% which gives the 25%-dissimilar and 75%-similar ratios that Fauna mentioned. This is important because it explains why bees have a genetic system that is stable, instead of modifications causing it to drift to some other system. Without 75% similarity, and instead a 50% similarity like "normal" animals, each female would be incentivized to raise their own offspring, which is not what the hive system does. With 75%, raising a super-sister reproduces even more genes than raising their own offspring, which would only have 50% similar genes, so it incentivizes the females to continue to raise super-sisters instead of offsprings of their own. Note however that haplodiploidy is not the sole determinant for eusociality. Some eusocial species do without this, as Fauna notes with the mole rats. Also, not all haploidiploid species are eusocial.

[@maaxorus]

Yup, Eusociality is super fascinating, at least partly because the concept breaks so many conventions of natural selection, yet it works so well. Fauna got most everything right with her little ramble, as far as I know. The only thing that I'd add is that, while the queen of a naked mole-rat colony is indeed determined solely by behavior (the most dominant and aggressive female is the queen until she gets overthrown or dies), only the queen is fertile. When a new mole-rat becomes queen, its body will release a hormone that will develop her ovaries and make minor changes to the lower spine and hips to better facilitate birth. Other than that, I'm super impressed, Fauna really knows her stuff.

[@Mochachocakon]

Its funny how much bees have had their image changed. In the 90s they were scary and out to get you, now they're flying puppies.

[@lilyzolkanoka3271]

beautiful fauna's vibe

[@theoverlordbear]

The royal jelly part got me the most cracked up here. XD Also, I think you forgot to put "as a baby" in 5:06, or were you just censoring?

[@SentientSlumber]

Good catch! Turns out i messed up and accidentally copied over it, was so focused on catching spelling mistakes...oof!

[@theoverlordbear]

@@SentientSlumber As someone who's begun trying to do clipping himself, I'm getting the feeling that that's a common problem, so yeah, I think I understand, hahaha! XD

[@Krmiby]

I swear we need more nerd vtubers. I'll give my non-existent money to find more vtubers like her

[@hurricanev6]

I do so love it when Fauna goes on science-y rambles.

[@TheUnoriginal2394]

"all women are queens" "if there are two or more they will fight to the death" "Two there should be. No more, no less. One to embody power, the other to crave it."

[@AnubisRising907]

Tbh I can listen to her talk all day I just love Fauna’s voice

[@DJohoe28]

I really like the background music! It's very... Jazz! 😏🐝

[@Ender__Wa]

we need a playlist of all the lectures of fauna

[@conkle7955]

I would love for Fauna to do a zoology stream. Just her talking about animal trivia

[@dbzkings2626]

worker bees can lay eggs but if the colony finds the egg they kill it and the mother

[@itsmeazzy4488]

Watching Vtubers to simp ❌️ Watching Vtubers for education ✅️

[@AverageJohanson]

I love how she's literally playing Getting Over It and we never see her fall because that's somehow not the entertaining part

[@ぴぴ-u8r]

英語勉強中の自分にとって、この動画を見るのは早すぎたw

[@richardbooth4573]

Royal jelly is the excretion of a honey bee. posed to be good for you.

[@lvlHive]

Now hold on she makes compelling points... i say we hear her out.

[@58764117]

Ame bee x Fauna Animation. Let's go!

[@Juay_deRito]

If someone told me Fauna did biology for a degree I'd believe them.

[@noobnesz]

There's also a clip of her explaining String Theory so it's also possible that she studied Theoretical Physics

[@Otaku4Sale]

Or just a crap ton of science education videos.

[@heyyo3746]

Ants and bees are cool people to hang out

[@SuperAdnan117]

The skooma may have worked it's magic too much with this one 💀💀

[@Azzaciel]

Fauna X TierZoo collab when? Eusocial tierlist, lets gooooo.

[@paramecium1111]

Thank you for subtitling 😆she is so smart ! Please give me more lecture 🙏 where is her knowledge come from??

[@SentientSlumber]

She is clearly pretty well educated - but more importantly she said she really likes to read, including nonfiction books.

[@hacker-hg3ks]

literally mother nature

[@includao]

she is probably interested in biological sciences or has a degree in it

[@paradoxofmind]

Haplodiploidy is my word of the month.

[@riskvideos]

I could listen to fauna lecture about anything all day.

[@ceresbane]

I mean Ame like moss. I don't think anyone's judging after reconciling with that.

[@MartyrPandaGaming]

I absolutely adore when Fauna nerds out about things.

[@samiamrg7]

Wasps are under-rated. They are important pest controllers! They eat slugs and caterpillars and the like which eat our crops.

[@themysteriousoa4466]

Nature herself loving nature!

[@StanTheWoz]

Quick description of why eusocial females are more related to their sisters than they would be to their children: In pretty much any species that has sexual reproduction, parents are exactly 50% related to their own children. Half the genes come from them and half from the other parent. There are some species, like these eusocial bees, where males are born from unfertilized eggs, and thus only have a single set of chromosomes instead of the normal two. Because of this, when they reproduce, instead of randomly passing down 50% of their genes, they pass down their entire single set of chromosomes because they don't have any more to choose from. So if you consider worker bees that are the daughters of a queen and the same male, they share 75% of their genes with their sisters from those same two parents: 50% of the half that comes from the mother, so 50% of 50%, so 25% from that, and a full 100% of the half that came from the father because he only had those genes. 25% + 50% = 75%. It's pretty genius.

[@evilarizu]

the biology is cool and all but holyy her skills on the game is smooth as butter

[@burningwp]

She must be really comfortable with this game.

[@treadnokash7598]

Roaches Are sad watching this clip

[@ghostagent3552]

We definitely need a Hololive school special with Fauna being a biology teacher and Ollie as a math teacher

[@sparrowfox6943]

I vote Moom as the history teacher. Iirc, she mentioned in her debut that she wanted to do history streams if that was possible for her

[@Ruintheus]

I think Fauna could be Math + Science teacher lol Let talents do their thing /shrug

[@chrissaiko2626]

I've said this before but it's really quite unfortunate that Sana debuted. Couz Fauna talks a lot about biology, meanwhile Sana talk much about Space which the two makes sense. Man....😢

[@burntsausage8777]

saying you like bees is like saying you like cazadores

[@sdfabctr]

"if there are two or more queens they will fight eachother to the death" this is just how monarchies work, this isn't even exclusive to bees lol

[@aleksisgabliks3881]

Personally I feel that ants are the cooler eusocial animals because they have "livestock" and "agriculture". The relationship they have with leaf bugs is really similar to that of humans and cows, amts even protect the leaf bugs from ladybugs who feed upon them. Some species are even known to cultivate fungus

[@JohnaldV]

We should make the “there can only be one” rule for real politics. It’ll make great television.

[@bariumselenided5152]

Educational Fauna is my favorite Fauna

[@hotrodthe1]

Not the bees! NOT THE BEES!! AAAAAAGHHH!

[@raynac224]

Parasocial - eusocial, Fauna loves us all!

[@DarioKalen_Kagenui]

Very interesting. 💯

[@kin4386]

Biologically I think insects are cool. I just don't want them anywhere near me lmao

[@josephoyek6574]

*diploid moment*

[@GOAWAYIMBATIN]

Also, if it hasn't been made already, someone needs to make an anime about bees

[@smithwillnot]

Does Fauna talk about educational topics in all of the streams or just occasionally?

[@elias.t]

When the mood strikes her, I'd say.

[@SentientSlumber]

It varies a bit! It's often during games that have calmer moments, or ones she is super familiar with. Superchat reading ones sometimes have them too. I'll do my best to grab some of the longer ones I find interesting because I like them a lot.

[@norad_clips]

@@SentientSlumber yes, please do!

[@shiobaka]

breeding with fauna !

[@mk_rexx]

I just love to think about breeding with Fauna. I also love the English language.

[@АлпамысРустембек]

So overall bees are just built different

[@Tampenismall]

Asia hornet: sup Bee: crap

[@moorebetter]

So wait, there's a naked mole rat queen? That's bizarre. Leave it to fauna to teach a biology class I actually listened to.

[@mk_rexx]

It is really bizzare, how is it that even possible on mammals? But then her talk made me think that it does happen often in different mammals. Pack animals such as canids have a dominant pair that are allowed to mate while the rest of the pack should only care for the litter even though they have the ability to mate. Harem animals also have an alpha male that's only allowed to mate to all females. There are also non-social animals such as foxes that don't live as packs, but still have a dominant pair in a territory while the other foxes in their teritory won't mate.

[@TheRizzler_1]

It was a lot of fun learning about eusocial animals in university during my bio classes. What was even more fun was learning about all the different social behaviors animals can present in nature. The trick to figure out why animals behave this way is to understand that they are benefiting their genetics not always directly (indirect fitness) but also sometimes increasing the chances that later on they will be able to be successful in reproduction if they engage in social behaviors. It has been a little while since I studied this stuff but I loved learning about it.

[@pokemonXD1]

beeuilt different

[@averageguy3661]

I bet she and Bugbugh would be good friends.

[@Omi_Kasigi]

How many science streams has she done so far? I only know of this one and the string theory one.

[@Komo47]

4:21

[@severussnape2917]

I love Fauna's science!

[@kuuluna]

I wouldn't mind fauna as my professor. She's really passionate about it

[@miguellilly8859]

you know what else are social creatures.. Cockroaches and some species of spiders

[@Zane-It]

Worker bees are not sterile they are only able to reproduce drones.

[@themurderersfolley5995]

What a Melvin 🤓🤓🤓

[@mannikaru579]

I mostly fear of bees wasps and hornets

[@defiantspirit8512]

She should play bee simulator

[@keytaros2]

Ofc she knows all of this, she is mother of nature afterall

[@richardbooth4573]

What about Mud dauvers ?

[@Youjiet]

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good. - Hear about Frankie? - Yeah. - You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not g

[@RoxasXIII]

Help step bee

[@Malkamok]

Fauna's was the Perfect Casting

[@SolaireIntensifies]

is it just me or is "naked mole rat" the weirdest name for an animal? The entire name is two other animals and an adjective. It's a mole, it's a rat, and it's naked. It's such a weird name. It should be called like, a wallace.

[@waterfall184]

How can she explain it while gaming? It was easy to understand btw

[@GOAWAYIMBATIN]

If only they hired you to narrate this game. I would've actually played it 🤣

[@corvusclones]

eusociality is about how members of a group interact within a species, it's pretty much necessary for haplodiploidal insects, but for mammals, which is not just naked mole rats, but humans are kind of eusocial, they are just straight diploids.

[@naboost9485]

Mole rats are also eusocial Edit : she talked about mole rats, nice.

[@Paul-bs5wl]

Get you a girl who can talk about the evolutionary bilogy of eusocial hymenoptera

[@seisoch6969]

how does she even knows all that? amazing

[@ordinarytree4678]

education my friend.

[@comradeofthebalance3147]

Ever heard of reading? And maybe seek help if you did not understand after the fact?