These Superpowered Animals Use Your 5 Senses, But Better

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[@WeAreAirborne]

im sorry but finding out that rats CAN GIGGLE is the cutest thing i've ever heard. oh my god. they giggle. im weeping.

[@bassybossy]

Google for actual footage/audio of it, it's absolutely adorable. They also really seem to actually like it as they actively home in on the hand that just tickled them

[@Restilia_ch]

They can also purr in a fashion. It's called bruxing and it's when they grind their teeth together rapidly to make a chittering sound. And unlike when humans grind their teeth, rats do with when they're content. Thus, rat purring.

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

Rats are the most incredible, amazing animals, and yes... they giggle, they "purr" and boggle their eyes when they brux, they have all kinds of communications... and they are SO freaking loving. 11/10, would give a home to as many rats as possible (at least two, though, because otherwise, they get lonely, depressed and anxious - as anyone who struggled with lockdowns should appreciate).

[@alyssapants8641]

I M G O I N G C R A Z Y

[@mercyhallman3378]

@@JustAnotherBuckyLover i have had two babies for a couple months and though they brux pretty often I have yet to see them boggle and i'm so impatient like.... boggle for me pls!!!!

[@hiitehinen]

I'm a Finn from Lapland, and we're proud of our reindeer here and learn about them a lot. Yet I did not know that they can see UV light! Thanks for teaching me that, I'll be sharing that as a fun fact 😁

[@M_Alexander]

Rats can communicate with each other while we're in the same room and we wouldn't even know about it without specialized equipment such as cats

[@galgrunfeld9954]

Fly: "ew, this pizza tastes like feet!"

[@matthewcox7985]

Mosquito: "Mmm, this smells like feet!" Then the mosquito bites into a cheese...

[@MikeTrieu]

That must be freaky having reindeer vision. Plants would glow and predators would look like shadow monsters 😳

[@gabrielxavier2676]

@@ArawnOfAnnwn Although I agree with your take, I doubt it would "look like a dark color", just considering the fact that the "darkness" of a color is not inherently part of the color per se, in fact, it's usually considered the value on a HSV model for colors, as an example. It must be awesome to see Ultraviolet lights, in fact, any additional colors would be awesome

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

@@ArawnOfAnnwn given that UV stands for "ultraviolet", I'm guessing that the color would be another form of violet.

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

@@ArawnOfAnnwn Yes, I agree. After I wrote my response, I rembembered that colors are what they are because is how we see them. I'm sure if we'd have a four type of rod/cone, we'd see the world very differently.

[@TheEternalPheonix]

@@daniel_rossy_explica We'd need more than four as some of us already have four and it mostly just enhances the clarity of the colors we can already see.

[@glenngriffon8032]

I wouldn't mind having one eye that can see UV wavelengths. Like if they could genetically alter my weaker eye to see that part of the spectrum then I could cover it for most of the time and then in some situations uncover it and see UV light. I'm sure most people will say "Well if you only see with one eye at a time you'll limit your vision" except my vision is already limited. my right eye has a weak lid so it's almost closed all the time and it's by far my weaker eye. I can't even see in 3D like most people can so I've never been able to really accurately judge distances. So I'd like having my weaker eye capable of seeing a new spectrum.

[@toxicbullets10]

Thats nice glenn

[@bobthegoat7090]

I think it would be easy to just have your eyes see both UV and normal light. They are still both light just in different wavelength so if you can see UV, then you can also see normal light if you still have those light receptors.

[@jasontankable]

Your eyes CAN sense UV light. The cornea blocks those rays, but if you remove your cornea (like they used to do to cataract patients back in the 1800s) your eye will be able to see them. There's a theory that Claude Monet's paintings got very blue in his later years because he had that surgery and was just painting what he was now seeing.

[@lyreparadox]

You might enjoy Brent Weeks 'Lightbringer' series - the whole magic system is based around being able to see and manipulate wavelengths of light, including UV.

[@ockertoustesizem1234]

@@jasontankable and you need the lens removed cause it also blocks uv

[@nightthought2497]

I miss having pet rats. They are so cute and interactive.

[@jammbbs1688]

I miss mine too but I think it caused me endocarditis

[@BaddeGrasse]

The way they grab their bellies to clean it uwu

[@nightthought2497]

@@BaddeGrasse the way they ball when they lay in hammocks.

[@HTXrios]

Me too but they die so fast 2 to 3 years is not enough

[@nightthought2497]

@@HTXrios I understand that viewpoint, but also I think that becoming comfortable with the passing of a life is important, especially in our modern society. Taking joy in sharing life and space, no matter how fleeting, is important for developing resilience in a world so defined by fear and instability. I hate to quote a Marvel movie, but "A thing is not beautiful because it lasts. It is a privilege to be among them."

[@JCUDOS]

7:32 Was listening with one ear and heard "lycan and wolves"... definitely caught my attention, hahaha. After thinking for a second, lichen makes more sense.

[@RosheenQuynh]

Would've loved that!

[@crinkly.love-stick]

Fun fact: if you catch a rat and make it scream, it scares other rats away. Old farmers trick. Also. Wild rats will leave an area of there's a white rat around.

[@Kavriel]

"I for one can't wait to taste pizzas with my feet" that wasn't a sentence i expected to hear today but i'm not mad about it.

[@eddierayvanlynch6133]

6:13 Lines like this are why I subscribed. Another homerun from Michael. 👍🤣

[@waterfrodo4304]

How would you feel if you put pitch-lowering headphones on in your house and heard rats, giggling, everywhere?

[@chuckpuckett7288]

And then there are the animals that communicate with infrasound, sounds too low for humans to perceive. Elephants, whales, and I have heard lions produce infrasound. You should also also note cats and dogs can hear rat vocalizations.

[@lyreparadox]

and falcons can see the UV trail they leave behind.

[@Hoehlenmaensch]

tickling rats as a science experiment? Well if that aint a reason to become a scientist

[@lonestarr1490]

Too bad they've already found out about the ticklishness of rats. But there are other animals we still don't know whether they're ticklish or not, like lions and alligators. So maybe you could test those.

[@zoominz163]

Reindeer are better than people, Sven don't you think that's true?

[@ryanatkinson2978]

Hoofers are best. Totally not partial or anything, I'm only a deer after all

[@marthacoomber3188]

I’ve got a mate who can kind of smell bleach through her skin. We’ve tested her out putting water then bleach. Her in other room holding her hand out the closed door with pegged nose and she knew. Reckons she can taste it.

[@crinkly.love-stick]

I can feel it, it's just ever so slightly slippery. Supposedly, it's pulling the oils out of your skin, which is what is felt

[@Geeksmithing]

You and your friends have strange hobbies.

[@duwalagepasinduchamodyagun7552]

Michael back at it again with the lushes locks

[@benjiebenjamin7810]

Male rats chew electrical wires. Females in heat make a sound that resembles active electricity sound, hence males will chew the active wire in pursuit of the female.

[@benjiebenjamin7810]

@@BaddeGrasse I ran a factory, in a huge warehouse years ago (I'm 75 now). My phone lines were chewed, I called a professional. He gave me info, part of which he said: they are very smart. If you can roll an ink pen under a shut door, they can flat bones to get under (I'm thinking mice too). They can not burp/belch & carbonated drinks cause them to implode (tho I prefer more humane methods). They will not eat whatever poison that killed another rat....they have great sniffers. I bought a house built in 1938. I've had much repairs & mice got in. I put mothballs where my service dog couldn't reach & put peppermint oil (not watered down) on cotton balls & laid them all over, under, by, wherever I could. The mice left as the peppermint smell confuses their smelling (not being technical). It also repells spiders & some other bugs. There are other oils they don't like as well. And they do make great pets.....just protect your wires as they'll chew thru sheetrock too.....HUGS2U

[@PLuMUK54]

I had a lot of damage to my car when seemingly sex starved rats destroyed the accessible wiring...

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

I HIGHLY doubt this is true. Almost all damage to wires from rodents is caused when the electricity is off. I know two people who’s cars were almost totaled by rats chewing through wires, and both occurred when the cars were in storage and not in use. On top of that, if the wires were electrified, the rats would be killed as soon as they got through the insulation. This seams like an urban legend. Edit: according to the research I could find, rats chew wires for nesting material, to sharpen their teeth, and for the calories soy based insulation. Mating has nothing to do with it

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

@@Tinyvalkyrie410 Agreed. Having actually owned rats for many, many years, they will chew ANYTHING given a chance, including my shirts while I'm wearing them. Hence why we had rat-specific shirts because eventually there would be rat-netting in every t-shirt, hoodie or sweater I owned.

[@benjiebenjamin7810]

@@Tinyvalkyrie410 My truck wires were eaten too....I've had no issues since I put mothballs under my truck. No critters get into my trash since I spray inside b4 I tie them shut. I got my info from rodent professionals.

[@jurjenbos228]

And of course, there are animals that even though they see the same light colors as we, they get much more information out of it: higher color resolution and polarization.

[@mercyhallman3378]

I have two baby rats and while I do sometimes hear them squeak, I can't imagine all of the conversations they're having that I can't even hear.

[@mercyhallman3378]

@@louisfalcone5494 hey, pls take a deep breath, never said anything abt what you're talking abt, you've replied to multiple of my comments and i'd appreciate if you chilled out loil

[@Ascend777]

My rats have been talking about me even while I am in the room?

[@krista2216]

Only good things, I'm sure!

[@tessat338]

A college friend of mine who is now a professor at Vanderbilt University did some of the work discovering the ability of star-nosed moles to smell under water. He has a great book about it called "Great Adaptations." The Kindle version is the best because it has links to videos illustrating the adaptations. I was feeling depressed during the pandemic last year and googled him to see what he was up to. I was delighted to see that he had put out a book and it cheered me up to read it.

[@tessat338]

@@louisfalcone5494 They already swim under water. He wasn't trying to drown them. He was filming them with high-speed cameras while they were swimming to see how they behaved under water. That is the whole premise of the book.

[@quijybojanklebits8750]

I dont wanna taste my shoes after running. I'm glad I taste with my tongue.

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

So this is why rats can remove the bait from traps, among other things, most I knew, overall this is very a very informative, oh the deer and other their relatives' eyes change color during the winter I watched another channel about this fact.

[@producerevan88]

I didn't know about reindeers, that's really cool! Love learning new stuff at 4 am 😅

[@FloozieOne]

Birds of prey all see in infrared. Heat shows up in infrared so the birds can find their prey even when they try to hide or in the dark. Of course if a mouse runs under a log they can't find it, but (and this is a little gross), mice continually pee as they run along. They do this even more when they are stressed, ie: frightened. So the hawk just looks for the trail of bright spots (warm pee) and it will lead it right to a tasty mouse meal. Most butterflies and bees see in UV light while many insects, including ants I believe, see in IF. We are in the minority of species that see in our light range, although most mammals do.

[@Geeksmithing]

I'm surprised you omitted umami when listing the flavors we detect.

[@redsparks2025]

Every sense is fundamentally a different version of touch.

[@zedantXiang]

You onto something here

[@HasekuraIsuna]

*Raises finger* *Lowers finger*

[@ronniessebaggala362]

Evolution wants to know your location

[@DigitalJedi]

@@HasekuraIsuna touches finger

[@slimee8841]

"I've never saw a human licking their nursery"" Well... Not the nursery...

[@HippyNZ]

rat being ticklish. knew that, had pet rats and had more than one that learnt if it lay belly up on my lap i would tickle it

[@floffycatto6475]

Used to have a rat that would chirp/giggle when being pet. Cutest thing you'll ever experience.

[@shaun_conway]

Every time I watch this host, all I see is if Chum Lee from Pawn Stars went to college.

[@maxpulido4268]

How embarassing

[@artiefufkin88]

2:01 - This statement infers that scientists were scaring the Bejesus out of small rodents and then trying to tickle them. Aaand what did we learn from this exactly???

[@WanderTheNomad]

That they're able to feel ticklish?

[@mercyhallman3378]

believe it or not, there's plenty of examples of scientists being pretty awful to rats and mice

[@choo_choo_]

Humans actually CAN see the UV spectrum (parts of it anyway), it's just that it's blocked out mostly by the cornea (I think). A surgery that was prevalent in older times for cataracts IIRC was to remove part of the cornea to fix it. This had the side effect of not blocking out parts of the UV spectrum, which in turn made colors like blues and purples especially vibrant. The impressionist painter, Claude Monet had cataracts and subsequently had this procedure done, which is part of the reason many of his paintings have such vivid hues of blues and purples, because that's actually exactly what he saw.

[@GavinCostello]

"OUCH!" [tastes with foot]... "yep... knew it... lego"

[@KatherineUribe-1]

Cute little rat!💕🐭💕

[@bruns.like.spoons9251]

The vibrating thorn bugs were almost as cute as the ticklish rat.

[@PLuMUK54]

How to clear Pizza Hut of other customers, Michael tasting his pizza with his feet!

[@guillepankeke2844]

"...Taste pizza with my feet" lol no!

[@lordofthestrings86]

"Scientists in Switzerland announced today that they have been able to make mice fart by holding them upside down and tapping them on the stomach with a pencil." -George Carlin

[@PuncakeLena]

Oh cool, we can track the age of Michael's episodes by his hairstyle now

[@proximolight6881]

I absolutely love this channel

[@Jontae4288]

I thought the mantis shrimp would be the sight animal

[@Popotato7777]

Maybe you cannot taste pizza but at least you can taste onions with your feet.

[@RinSenna]

The human eye can see near ultraviolet, but it's blocked by the lens. I had to have the lens in one eye removed due to an injury and I can see UV light. Black lights are surprisingly bright. The downsides are that I can no longer focus so the vision is super blurred, and I can get snow blindness (sunburn on the retina) super easy just in normal conditions.

[@imorca1994]

What were the circumstances that helped us realize that moles swim?? It's hard to imagine running across that.

[@bray2964]

You may say that but I once saw a mole zoom across a ditch whilst I was catching bugs and salamanders

[@maxpulido4268]

Most mammals can swim. Them being able to swim wasn't the interesting part. You could probably see a mole swim if a flood forced them out of the tunnels and then they had to cross some water a couple of inches deep.

[@crinkly.love-stick]

Mole hole facing water, predator at the other hole entrance.

[@stillakilla]

I sense all this when I'm high from Mary.. hunger is that extra one i think.

[@brettflemmens1784]

Seeing the hair journey go backwards is so strange. Unless of course, Michael got a haircut

[@Josh-ify]

Never been this early. Been close, but never quite so early. Good episode to be early to!

[@addicted2caffeine]

I love learning random facts 😌

[@ToneyCrimson]

Yup..but i refuse to learn something that will give me good grades.

[@crinkly.love-stick]

If you catch a rat and paint it white and let it go, it weirds the other rats out, and they all leave the area. Also, in an emergency, a rat can chew through a steel drainpipe, from the inside out. Imagine biting the inside of a ship hull, where it's most concaved

[@chelseats643]

I learnt more from this show than I did at school

[@racingboss166]

I've been listening to tangents on Spotify at work its a fun one to listen to

[@oksure4089]

deoxyribonucleic acid: It was me Barry, I am the one who gives you power!!!!

[@RememberTheChase]

I like the 9 scenes range.

[@Wreckz_Tea]

Remember that cute little giggly rat/mouse next time scientists are torturing them to death by the thousands in a lab

[@dukefrywokker6470]

Hold on. You need to do a more in depth episode on how a mole can smell underwater by blowing out an air bubble, from it's own lungs and smell things from outside that air bubble? That doesn't sound possible, at all. That's like humans blowing up a balloon and smelling what someone is cooking from sniffing the contents of the balloon.

[@ultimasurge]

i dunno sucking back in spit bubbles as a kid could lead to a similar result...

[@midnightd607]

THATS IT!!! I'm building myself a mouse hunting microphone!

[@darrenkrivit6854]

Tasting pizza with my feet sounds awesome but very messy🍕

[@Troy-ol5fk]

My favorite host in this channel

[@diemattekanzlei9124]

It's sounding like Hank Green just part of being a scientist

[@scorpio6587]

0:33 Subject-verb agreement is elementary.

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

Sadly, you will have less likes to your valid comment, than someone else who talks total rubbish 😕

[@kotence]

the subtitles are gone, but at least michael's hair is beautiful.

[@JonathosDX]

I'm glad Michael said "feet", given the closest male comparison to an ovipositor would be... something else.

[@tmylve3495]

I feel like the editor missed an opportunity to change the background color to match what colors he was listing.

[@Beryllahawk]

"I want to taste a pizza with my feet" ... What?

[@rinakatsuki2801]

wait, you dont want to?

[@Beryllahawk]

@@rinakatsuki2801 I just - I don't - I mean... (noises of complete confusion ensue)

[@srpenguinbr]

Imagine doing the dishes or cleaning a toilet if we could taste with every part of our skin

[@hassanhdez794]

how did they find which flavors the flies can taste?

[@Weirdoid]

But which animal has the best sense of humor. :)

[@tylerbentley14]

The laughing hyena, of course.

[@danielyuan9862]

Definitely not us

[@crinkly.love-stick]

The quokka, although that could be argued as just being the friendliest, most easy going animal

[@danielkjm]

*Everyone is a gangsta, until you get hit with the Rat Attack!*

[@aaronmorgan9444]

KZbin seems 2 b liking having 2 unskipable ads more lately.

[@LetsTryVlogging365]

It is afaik only the star nosed mole that does underwater sniffing

[@sarabertrand8119]

I want the mantis shrimps eyes.

[@maxpulido4268]

Advanced eyes to produce multicolor vision using a hyperprimitive brain

[@thesilentone4024]

Haha jokes on you I can feel them walk up on me if I'm not on ground level but 2nd or any other none ground level floor i can feel them walk

[@petenielsen6683]

This video is not taking one thing into account: reindeer are the same biologically as caribou. There is one distinctive difference. Reindeer are DOMESTICATED. So any of the lichen they like would have to FED to them by humans unless they escaped from their fencing.

[@Niinkai]

There are plenty of wild reindeer species in Europe, not all reindeer are domesticated, even in Scandinavia. Caribou is just the American term for reindeer.

[@FloozieOne]

Reindeer are domesticated yes, but they are not like horses or cows. They are not kept in pens or barns. They roam free and are only rounded up when they are needed. Actually they will often come if they are called to get some tasty treat. There are also wild reindeer. This can be because one escaped but more often one or two are simply let go to increase the genetic diversity in the wild ones. Then, some years later when the mixed-blood offspring are old enough they are captured and returned to the original herd.

[@crinkly.love-stick]

I wouldn't call them domesticated, more like tamed. They're still skiddish, and the bucks could still kill you during the rut.

[@thethirdjegs]

"Taste a pizza with my feet"

[@FurryEskimo]

Hello, we actually have more than five senses, quick google search would help learn that. The other senses we have are subtle, stuff like the ability to detect the salt concentration in your blood, etc

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

OK smart ass, what concentration is the salt in your blood today? And no guessing

[@DerpyBerb]

“Better taste it with my genitals just to be sure”

[@zionantoine9629]

That's adorable 😂😂💕

[@Hunter225]

We wouldn't do very well with only 5 senses. Humans have hundreds if senses

[@SoulDelSol]

That rat was so cute

[@paulawolanski3237]

Flies can taste with their feet? So how can I make myself taste bad to stop them from crawling on my skin? It drives me nuts as I'm extremely sensitive to touch (and sound, light, etc.).

[@garywilliams9577]

You're right Paula

[@alyssapants8641]

rats can giggle? am i crazy?

[@SwordQuake2]

Which 5 senses?

[@VHavengrad]

So, as it happens, humans CAN see UV, technically, but our eyes have a layer that filters it out, in a handful of documented cases who had that layer removed. (Usually due to an unrelated issue that required surgery of the eye) they could then see UV light, describing it as a light blueish purple violent, brighter than any blue they'd seen before. One of which was the famous painter Claude Monet for whom their painting style and color choice changed dramatically after the matter. As a secondary thought to all this, if one could see UV, it would be strange for a reason you might not consider, so many of our optical surfaces, glasses, windows and so on, are intentionally made to filter out UV, consider you could wear UV rated sunglasses, or look through any decent quality window, and not see the UV, but remove your glasses and or step outside, and the world looks entirely different. The world would look different, inside and outside, of your car...

[@hurlaky43]

7:55 jumbled rainbow has me triggered

[@pianofreak91]

I would like to hear these rat giggles

[@ZeroAnalogy]

Forget the science talk. Maybe a third of SciShow viewers are only here to see Michael's hair.

[@krista2216]

I find his voice sexy too

[@ZeroAnalogy]

@@krista2216 To each, his/her own.

[@osmia]

They also change their eye colors for different seasons

[@maxpulido4268]

Thats not a sense tho

[@totalfreedom45]

In the symphony of life conducted by evolution, every plant and every animal of every species has a unique instrument to play-no individual is either superior or inferior to anyone else because everyone equally contributes to the beauty of the symphony. Beethoven would have agreed with this statement. 💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌

[@adamqazsedc]

That rat is so cute

[@minnymouse4753]

So is it possible some who can better senses maybe even sense we don't apreciate like sense of temperature . And be able to sense mood of the room

[@feralbluee]

l can’t wait to taste pizza with my feet. omg LOL that was so funny. 🍕

[@jim1550]

Oh no. Now we are going to start seeing a tiktok #underwatersmellchallenge

[@Nikki0417]

This is probably a dumb or impossible to answer question, but do we have any idea what colors UV and infrared might be if we could see them? Are they shades of violet and red like their names imply?

[@crinkly.love-stick]

Yes, and yes red and blue/violet would be what we see.

[@moyetlicious]

Michael please don't ever cut your hair, it's glorious 😍😍😍

[@rileyaroha3553]

I watched this with my pet rats lol

[@JohnJohansen2]

I'm a little pusled. When I sit in the garden together with a group of other people, I'm the only one that can hear mice making sounds in the high grass. Even among people a lot younger than me. I'm close to sixty. And, no! It's NOT imaginary. 😜 Sometimes the younger ones can hear it also.

[@christopheraaron1255]

Oooo. Are we going to see animals with a better sense of time? Direction? Proprioception?

[@danygreenlee5679]

Who else can tell who is who, whether that is your parent, friend, or someone whom is unknown simply by the sound of their walking pattern?