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So it's not so much that the trees are eating salmon, as it is that trees are absorbing what the leftover salmon decays into. That's still kind of cool, but I was hoping that we were gonna talk about carnivorous trees. That would've been awesome. I'm sad now.
This might make you happy. It's about the worlds largest carnivorous plant, which eats sheep. And it's better presented. ruclips.net/video/RuzLXxbGc4c/видео.html
In a way, clickbait, but then my expectations were unreasonably high. I was hoping the trees were waking up, and that Ent Moot was about to happen. It hasn't in an age. I read, long ago that the trees of Fangorn Forest once came to the aid of Men. They helped to defeat many Uruk Hai, and celebrated by devouring the enemy's dead and alive alike. Riders of Rohan even claimed to have heard one of them speaking the common tongue that day to a Wizard and two small children with unusually hairy feet. The trees reportedly headed North afterwards to find their lost wives, so we may never see their likes again until the Entlings wake up from their naps.
Clickbait. If trees getting nitrogen from decaying salmon means they're eating it, then grass in the savanna are eating migrating wilder beasts and gazelles.
@Antagon Your comment left me green with envy. But now that these evil trees have been rooted out, let hope that they turn over a new leaf in their life?
So you care enough about being holier-than-thou about clickbait but not enough about Scishow to support their patreon. Why don’t you just enjoy their free content and shush.
From the way he said these trees eat salmon I was expecting to hear they evolved a trapping mechanism in their submerged root systems like bladderworts but instead its basically the same way most plants get their nutrients from decaying organics in the soil, it just happened to be salmon with some benefits. Kinda clickbait but was interesting to learn about nitrogen 15:)
*sees title* "...but the trees didn't grow claws or sharp teeth..." "Well this is clickbait." *watches video* "This is somehow cooler than trees literally eating fish."
Bears not so much messy as choosey eaters - during the "All-you-can-eat" buffet of salmon runs, to maximise fat content, bears tend to ONLY bite out the roe-swollen belly, discarding the rest of the fish. Of additional help to the trees is that by the end of their spawning ordeal, living salmon's bodies have already begun to literally decompose, meaning nutrients from quick-rotting discarded carcasses more likely to feed roots than scavangers.
There are a lot of stable isotopes for a lot of different elements. See this wiki for more details. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elements_by_stability_of_isotopes
I normally love your videos. As someone that live in the salmon forest, you left some really cool things out, like the bugs that eat the salmon and the migrating bird species passing the nitrogen 15
The nitrogen feeds the mycillium in the soil which in turn feeds the tree. It's more complicated than trees just absorbing nitrogen. If there were no mycillium the tree would not get nutrients.
Gazing in horror as the mighty oak uproots itself hurls itself into the seas to dine on fish. Astounding, horrifying, stupendous!! Next week, did ja know that the total mass of all microbes on earth outweighs the mass of humanity? Astounding!!
Also talked about the importance of bears in tree lifecycles. If something as simple as the river changing course happened, it would move all those lovely nutrients somewhere else.
Reminds me of a story I heard of the pilgrims (se non é vero é ben trovato): They learned from the Indians to fertilize each kernel of corn after sowing with a fish head.
Next episode: Cannibalistic Trees! When a tree dies, looses it's leaves or branches, that decomposes and other trees eat it's nutrients. That idea is on the house.
Oh😊😊 I learned about this, and it's even nore amazing in the smaller detail. My professor talked about how this is common through an interaction with fungus (I think it's a glomeramycota) that actually kind of liquifys the salmon in the ground by using different enzymes and it carries the nutrients to the trees and can connect to the entire system of the mycelium mat of fungus. There's a podcast on it and the amazing abilities of fungus cakled "from tree to shining tree" !, it's really cool and entertaining and I highly suggest giving it a listen !!
I was expecting to hear about trees which grow mostly at the side of river banks where the roots go into the water and somehow manage to trap fish which eventually kills them so they can use their nutrients. I'm actually a bit disappointed that these trees aren't a thing as it would be pretty cool in some way xD
Another active feeder of salmon to trees are Bald Eagles. When Salmon runs hit, the Bald Eagle gather in their thousands and feed on the salmon in the river but frequently take salmon carcasses back to the trees to finish off on. I have seen on the Harrison River in Southwest British Columbia several thousand Bald Eagles gather and very few if any bears around. Still an interesting video for those who unaware of this aspect of the circle of life.
Salmon die en mass after spawning and lots of animals eat them and the leftovers end up all over the forest where they decay. Naturally those nutrients will end up in the trees and other plants.
What makes this really interesting is that salmon are a keystone species in the pacific northwest. Everything depends on them in some way so we don't want to screw it up.
@@werdwerdus That was sarcasm, right? Because there are only 3 macronutrients and one of them is nitrogen (the other two being phosphate and potassium, both of which would be produced by bacteria that do the decomposing by the way).
I'd heard this story before. I believe that other elements found in the fish but arent abundant in the area are also found in the trees helping to prove the theory. I believe that bears bury fish carcasses for later and then often forget about them in the same way squirrels forget where they've buried their nuts.
This video title is 100% clickbait, the trees involved are not doing anything different from what other trees do, which is taking in nutrients from the soil that resulted from the decomposition of organic matter.
So, by saying "These Trees Eat Salmon", you are really saying that the trees don't eat salmon at all, they eat the decomposed nuritents from dead salmon.
Wait... carnivorous trees??? Covid-19, a full moon, Friday the 13th and carnivorous trees... all IN ONE WEEK. No wonder I want to drink myself silly today... 🥴
@@456death654 Of course not, but there are legitimately plants that do digest other animals (flytrap and so on), so we were expecting a tree that somehow digests salmon. Except, what's actually the case is that the tree is absorbing nutrients that incorporate into the soil from decomposed salmon...which is totally different than the title suggests, otherwise literally all plants in existence are carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, and/or cannibals according to this video's clickbait title scheme. I have a feeling that the person who titled this upload was trying to be cute or funny more than deceptive or bait-y, but it appears to have been received in the latter.
This one is actually tied to the recent episode about salmon dying after they spawn. More fertile streams and ecosystems produce more baby fish. This is thought to be one of the reasons why they die. It isn't just being caught, it is feeding on carcasses, and carcasses breaking down in water.
This technique works in agriculture, you'll get a similar result burying a fish head (particularly an ocean species like snapper) under the soil near the roots of a tomato plant
I mean, you can literally buy fishmeal for fertilizing your garden. it's been around for decades. There's even a brand called Alaska. it's not some crazy new discovery.
I read a while ago about how it's possible brambles might be carnivorous. The theory is that their spines and dense branches entangle animals like sheep, which eventually die and their decaying bodies provide nutrients for the plant. I thought it was an interesting theory. The idea of a plant that eats sheep is certainly more badass than a plant that eats salmon.
I live in the area these trees are, and... Honestly I thought this goes without saying? Anyone who's been near a river here in the fall has probably seen hundreds of dead salmon lining the shores, and just a few feet away, dense forests. It seems pretty self-explanatory that the salmon will rot and the nutrients would end up in the soil, and then in the trees. The video itself is good, but I'll agree, the title is very misleading, and I basically clicked just to see how inaccurate it was
@@HeadOfState908 Well obviously you can't see that specifically, and as I said, the video itself was good. It's just a very misleading title, cause it implies that there's something more going on than the basic nutrient cycle that people learn in elementary school
@@HeadOfState908 Any reason you're getting so defensive? For the record, I'm not even from the States. All I'm saying is, they could have given it a more accurate title than "eating salmon", cause that's just plain misleading. Then they can teach people science, as they're doing, and also not give anyone any false ideas if they see the title and don't watch the video, say.
With a title like "These Trees Eat Salmon!" you seriously expected the video to be about the nitrogen cycle that pretty much every single plant on the face of the planet goes through?
THIS right here is the problem with science reporting. What you're describing is composting, not trees eating salmon. Clickbait af titles bordering on intellectual dishonesty. Obviously only motivated by getting views. You should be ashamed.
You may want to take issue with anthropomorphizing trees with words like “eat” but it is a useful comparison to help get people interested and explain the process. This isn’t as passive of a process as you see it either. The mycelium of a nearby fungi will seek out the minerals from the fish carcass and exchange it with the tree. I was kind of disappointed when Stefan didn’t mention that portion of it because it lends to the argument of how the ecosystem was connected.
Well I have a breakthrough product coming to market soon, _Carrot fed Carrots._ And next season I'll feed those to other carrots for that double carrot fed goodness!
Clickbait title, they DO NOT. They absorb nitrogen from the soil... like basically all trees do. The soil gets it’s nitrogen from decaying Salmon, yes.
Here in Rancho Cordova, CA, salmon come up the American River and there aren't any bears, yet every year the river is littered with huge dead salmon. I wonder how much the trees here are affected by that.
I heard of a study...sorry, don't have the article title/url, documenting that wolf feeding on salmon has the same effect on trees; the difference is that wolves take & consume their catches at least 100 m. into the forest while bears eat closer to shore.
Finding this video to learn more about the heatdome induced salmon die-off. It's scary how connected everything is, yet we pretend to be apart from it all. Was good while it lasted...
I learned in elementary school that native NA people buried a small fish with seeds. The only understood it somehow "fed" the seeds, but they were essentially right. I also think fertilizer has been made from fish on a very large scale. So it's no great leap that trees on riverbanks would get fish nitrogen from the water.
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I love your channel and this is a great informative video but the title is kinda click baitish.
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You guys are watering down the content. Please stop.
I'm going to bed now, being so bored with this video I might as well sleep
"These trees eat salmon"
Ah, now I understand why salmon just swim in the water and never try to go into the forest
Do you go into the river after salmon?
Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access i love that we watch the same videos
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Unleash there is a hungry bear XD
I have to tell a secret: trees eat humans too. Trees eat everything after their death.
Not just biological things, they'd absorb battery acid or gasoline as well.
They actually can't because there aren't any in cemeteries
The only people who feed humans to trees are serial killers.
"Trees receive nutrients from decaying lifeforms in the soil" And in other news, the sun is hot and water is wet.
I know, think of the views you could get posting a video about growing carrots by 'feeding' them only carrots!
ikr
You're not a good listener.
Whether water should be considered wet is actually pretty controversial. Some say the concept of wetness can't be applied to water itself.
Water:: I am the WET
So it's not so much that the trees are eating salmon, as it is that trees are absorbing what the leftover salmon decays into. That's still kind of cool, but I was hoping that we were gonna talk about carnivorous trees. That would've been awesome. I'm sad now.
Hail Satan!!!
I was expecting tree roots with fish traps or something
You have carnivorous plants like Venus flytrap and pitcher plant, just to name a few
This might make you happy. It's about the worlds largest carnivorous plant, which eats sheep. And it's better presented. ruclips.net/video/RuzLXxbGc4c/видео.html
@@Muritaipet Thank you so much for linking that channel! It's so adorable :)
In a way, clickbait, but then my expectations were unreasonably high.
I was hoping the trees were waking up, and that Ent Moot was about to happen. It hasn't in an age.
I read, long ago that the trees of Fangorn Forest once came to the aid of Men. They helped to defeat many Uruk Hai, and celebrated by devouring the enemy's dead and alive alike. Riders of Rohan even claimed to have heard one of them speaking the common tongue that day to a Wizard and two small children with unusually hairy feet. The trees reportedly headed North afterwards to find their lost wives, so we may never see their likes again until the Entlings wake up from their naps.
I can't like this comment enough. Thank you
You're quite welcome. I had a lot of fun writing that. 🙂
Upvote!
Hrm. Hoom. Don't be too hasty.
When I read the Silmarilion I was really sad that the Entlings never found their wives...
What a let down! I was expecting trees leaping into the water gobbling up salmon. ;)
If you eat salmon, you're a tree.
Siense
*looks at hands* maybe I'm a tree
Then I'm a tree! 🌲💗 Lol
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Clickbait. If trees getting nitrogen from decaying salmon means they're eating it, then grass in the savanna are eating migrating wilder beasts and gazelles.
Wildebeest?
The beasts of the savanna are wild, but I'm not sure any are wilder than any others.
@@EduardQualls thank you lol
It's the ciiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiife !!!!!!
@@EduardQualls Must learn to spell check. Ah, well, the grass will get wilder nutrients, I guess. xD
When the lion dies they become the grass, and the gazelle eat the grass. Thus continues the circle of life
Scishow: we need to look into more sustainable protein sources, like plant based proteins
Tree:...yeah, I'll stick to sushi
sashimi*
Sushi is the rice
I laughed way harder at this than I should have. 😂
I somehow doubt a tree would understand my moral reasons for being vegetarian.
Tree = Stick Sushi did you get your own joke?
Well from a tree's perspective, being a carnivore would just be self defense.
I've heard of trees eating kites, so it was inevitable that they would start branching out.
Rotfl @branching out
@Antagon Your comment left me green with envy. But now that these evil trees have been rooted out, let hope that they turn over a new leaf in their life?
Y'all really don't need to click bait. The increase in revenue is not worth being disingenuous.
@drosera If scishow viewers don't like click bait do you think scishow should use click bait?
So you care enough about being holier-than-thou about clickbait but not enough about Scishow to support their patreon. Why don’t you just enjoy their free content and shush.
"I dont mean that they've grown teeth"
title card has tree with teeth.
A tree named Audrey, "FEED ME !".
That is amusing. I was thinking of carnivorous plants.
0:56 "Bears are messy eaters."
Poor salmon, such a... grizzly way to die :(
Do you mean by bears, or how they slowly rot after spawning eggs and semen?
@@personalRCH By bears. And it's a pun, that part of North America has Grizzly Bears. So it's a grizzly way to die.
Grizzlies provide grisly death to salmon. Too bad some folks use the same word interchangeably.
@@Master_Therion your comments never disappoint 😂
that's in no way eating salmon...
king james488 you’re right. They nom the swim swims
Yeah they consume the 🐟
Vathana chi Animation I say more like drinking
New Eden fish decomposlurpee
From the way he said these trees eat salmon I was expecting to hear they evolved a trapping mechanism in their submerged root systems like bladderworts but instead its basically the same way most plants get their nutrients from decaying organics in the soil, it just happened to be salmon with some benefits. Kinda clickbait but was interesting to learn about nitrogen 15:)
It's confusing how "fish eating trees" can mean two exactly opposite things in English.
I know right. Like, "fish eating tree" is an animal or a plant?
you gotta have that hyphen
SciShow got me in the first half. Clickbaity title, I choose you.
*sees title*
"...but the trees didn't grow claws or sharp teeth..."
"Well this is clickbait."
*watches video*
"This is somehow cooler than trees literally eating fish."
If the trees have developed an active mechanism to trap salmon, sure I'll buy it, but I'm not sure I would call this "trees eating salmon".
Bears not so much messy as choosey eaters - during the "All-you-can-eat" buffet of salmon runs, to maximise fat content, bears tend to ONLY bite out the roe-swollen belly, discarding the rest of the fish. Of additional help to the trees is that by the end of their spawning ordeal, living salmon's bodies have already begun to literally decompose, meaning nutrients from quick-rotting discarded carcasses more likely to feed roots than scavangers.
Such a dishonest click-bait title!
The information about nitrogen was kind of interesting, I wasn't aware of there being two stable isotopes. Off to Google to find out more about this.
There are a lot of stable isotopes for a lot of different elements. See this wiki for more details. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elements_by_stability_of_isotopes
I'm glad the bears were catching the salmon. I wouldn't be able to handle it if trees caught more fish than me.
I have a bite to offer what is spinosaurus eat fish just like bears did and that’s how the trees of the Cretaceous period got so much nitrogen
I am fascinated by the Venus fly trap though.
"Human eats sun"
Plants produce energy from sun , animals eats plants , we eats both... So the 🌞
I normally love your videos. As someone that live in the salmon forest, you left some really cool things out, like the bugs that eat the salmon and the migrating bird species passing the nitrogen 15
The nitrogen feeds the mycillium in the soil which in turn feeds the tree. It's more complicated than trees just absorbing nitrogen. If there were no mycillium the tree would not get nutrients.
Bear poop may have the same effect. You know the old saying about where bears poop.
Earth's atmosphere: 78% nitrogen and it's everywhere
Cascadian trees: Nope. Gettin' that from dead salmons
Gazing in horror as the mighty oak uproots itself hurls itself into the seas to dine on fish. Astounding, horrifying, stupendous!! Next week, did ja know that the total mass of all microbes on earth outweighs the mass of humanity? Astounding!!
Well, unlike some people down here, I still thought it was interesting even though I sort of knew this already. I like trees.
Also talked about the importance of bears in tree lifecycles. If something as simple as the river changing course happened, it would move all those lovely nutrients somewhere else.
The main issue that people are upset about is not whether or not it was interesting, it's the fact the title was a blatant lie.
In Nigeria theres a saying "When fish live in trees" it means impossible. A bit like our saying of "When pigs can fly".
Reminds me of a story I heard of the pilgrims (se non é vero é ben trovato): They learned from the Indians to fertilize each kernel of corn after sowing with a fish head.
*me burying fish carcasses in my flower pot
"...well that's neat..."
Next episode: Cannibalistic Trees!
When a tree dies, looses it's leaves or branches, that decomposes and other trees eat it's nutrients. That idea is on the house.
Also trees share food with each other using their roots
Do the trees eat the fish or do the fish somehow end up near the tree and become fertilizer? Because there's a difference!
Eating = geting nutrients in
Trees are so cool. Way underappreciated.
Planktons are more underappreciated
@@8015908 yeah and fungi. We could go oooon. :)
I use the water from tuna cans as a VERY effective nitrogen booster for house plants.
My carrots eat grass, tree leaves and table scraps, but that's only when the zucchini aren't watching.
Oh😊😊 I learned about this, and it's even nore amazing in the smaller detail. My professor talked about how this is common through an interaction with fungus (I think it's a glomeramycota) that actually kind of liquifys the salmon in the ground by using different enzymes and it carries the nutrients to the trees and can connect to the entire system of the mycelium mat of fungus. There's a podcast on it and the amazing abilities of fungus cakled "from tree to shining tree" !, it's really cool and entertaining and I highly suggest giving it a listen !!
can we get a video about how make trees all compare root size?
In other words when the ground gets fertilized with nitrogen the trees grow more. Just like crops or your grass at home.
I was expecting to hear about trees which grow mostly at the side of river banks where the roots go into the water and somehow manage to trap fish which eventually kills them so they can use their nutrients. I'm actually a bit disappointed that these trees aren't a thing as it would be pretty cool in some way xD
Mother nature continually surprises me time and time again! Who knew!?
Another active feeder of salmon to trees are Bald Eagles. When Salmon runs hit, the Bald Eagle gather in their thousands and feed on the salmon in the river but frequently take salmon carcasses back to the trees to finish off on. I have seen on the Harrison River in Southwest British Columbia several thousand Bald Eagles gather and very few if any bears around. Still an interesting video for those who unaware of this aspect of the circle of life.
My grandpa used to bury fish parts and guts under the roses and they grew massive and gave perfect flowers.
Trees got a better diet than I do...
Salmon die en mass after spawning and lots of animals eat them and the leftovers end up all over the forest where they decay. Naturally those nutrients will end up in the trees and other plants.
What makes this really interesting is that salmon are a keystone species in the pacific northwest. Everything depends on them in some way so we don't want to screw it up.
Plants need macronutrients... shocker... next time you'll tell me they need sunlight as well!
yeah i don't know if this video is accurate, air is already 70% nitrogen as is
@@werdwerdus That was sarcasm, right? Because there are only 3 macronutrients and one of them is nitrogen (the other two being phosphate and potassium, both of which would be produced by bacteria that do the decomposing by the way).
I'd heard this story before. I believe that other elements found in the fish but arent abundant in the area are also found in the trees helping to prove the theory. I believe that bears bury fish carcasses for later and then often forget about them in the same way squirrels forget where they've buried their nuts.
My elementary school taught us that fish can work as fertilizer when they were teaching us about the first Thanksgiving
This video title is 100% clickbait, the trees involved are not doing anything different from what other trees do, which is taking in nutrients from the soil that resulted from the decomposition of organic matter.
Grass types super effective against water types confirmed
So, by saying "These Trees Eat Salmon", you are really saying that the trees don't eat salmon at all, they eat the decomposed nuritents from dead salmon.
If trees *did* have a mouthful of teeth and clawed hands, there'd be a lot less illegal logging.
Wait... carnivorous trees??? Covid-19, a full moon, Friday the 13th and carnivorous trees... all IN ONE WEEK. No wonder I want to drink myself silly today... 🥴
Not Carnivorous lol
I grew up on a farm... I know he was basically referring to a natural fertilizer cycle. But that’s not funny. 🤘🏻
Clickbaaaaaaaaaaaaait :( stop this, SciShow
Were you literally expecting the trees to have a mouth?
@@456death654
Of course not, but there are legitimately plants that do digest other animals (flytrap and so on), so we were expecting a tree that somehow digests salmon. Except, what's actually the case is that the tree is absorbing nutrients that incorporate into the soil from decomposed salmon...which is totally different than the title suggests, otherwise literally all plants in existence are carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, and/or cannibals according to this video's clickbait title scheme. I have a feeling that the person who titled this upload was trying to be cute or funny more than deceptive or bait-y, but it appears to have been received in the latter.
Well well well, how the turnstable
If Hollywood ever decides to reboot M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening. These trees could be the major film antagonists.
I want more SciShow Quiz Show, please.
Not gonna lie. The title caught my attention.
Ah, the elusive clickbait! I've only ever seen them in pictures. How exciting!
Stupid click-bait title. They are just fertilized by the leftovers.
Salmon eating trees? That's nothing! I've seen a six-foot man eating chicken.
I have a mirror in my dining room.
The blatant clickbait needs to stop.
This one is actually tied to the recent episode about salmon dying after they spawn. More fertile streams and ecosystems produce more baby fish. This is thought to be one of the reasons why they die. It isn't just being caught, it is feeding on carcasses, and carcasses breaking down in water.
Feed Me Seymour
Anyone who's grown cannabis or hemp knows that plants love fish. They love beef bone too! It makes them grow stout and strong.
On the one hand, I'm kinda disappointed to not hear about fish-chomping trees. On the other hand, I'm kinda relieved. :P
Just what I expected to hear... 100%
This technique works in agriculture, you'll get a similar result burying a fish head (particularly an ocean species like snapper) under the soil near the roots of a tomato plant
First time I heard about this was on a text present on a TOEFL exam I took. As soon as salmon was mentioned, I knew exactly what this would be about
1:35 that's the same way they caught nixon
This is one of those things that are way cooler before you explained it
That's just because they had a clickbait title that blatantly lied to you.
I mean, you can literally buy fishmeal for fertilizing your garden. it's been around for decades. There's even a brand called Alaska. it's not some crazy new discovery.
I read a while ago about how it's possible brambles might be carnivorous. The theory is that their spines and dense branches entangle animals like sheep, which eventually die and their decaying bodies provide nutrients for the plant. I thought it was an interesting theory. The idea of a plant that eats sheep is certainly more badass than a plant that eats salmon.
Triffids for Salmon
Bears are guardians of the forest
Like wolves are of yellowstone
And cats are of grains
So the salmon decompose into the soil and that ends up in the tree.
Like every other plant?
Clickbate title much.
I live in the area these trees are, and... Honestly I thought this goes without saying? Anyone who's been near a river here in the fall has probably seen hundreds of dead salmon lining the shores, and just a few feet away, dense forests. It seems pretty self-explanatory that the salmon will rot and the nutrients would end up in the soil, and then in the trees.
The video itself is good, but I'll agree, the title is very misleading, and I basically clicked just to see how inaccurate it was
coryman125 I’m sure you can see the different nitrogen isotopes among all those dead fish.
@@HeadOfState908 Well obviously you can't see that specifically, and as I said, the video itself was good. It's just a very misleading title, cause it implies that there's something more going on than the basic nutrient cycle that people learn in elementary school
coryman125 Goodthing everyone who has access to SciShow also has a US public education
@@HeadOfState908 Any reason you're getting so defensive? For the record, I'm not even from the States. All I'm saying is, they could have given it a more accurate title than "eating salmon", cause that's just plain misleading. Then they can teach people science, as they're doing, and also not give anyone any false ideas if they see the title and don't watch the video, say.
I don't understand that much why people feel like they got clickbated.
I expected this.
With a title like "These Trees Eat Salmon!" you seriously expected the video to be about the nitrogen cycle that pretty much every single plant on the face of the planet goes through?
THIS right here is the problem with science reporting. What you're describing is composting, not trees eating salmon. Clickbait af titles bordering on intellectual dishonesty. Obviously only motivated by getting views. You should be ashamed.
You may want to take issue with anthropomorphizing trees with words like “eat” but it is a useful comparison to help get people interested and explain the process. This isn’t as passive of a process as you see it either. The mycelium of a nearby fungi will seek out the minerals from the fish carcass and exchange it with the tree. I was kind of disappointed when Stefan didn’t mention that portion of it because it lends to the argument of how the ecosystem was connected.
Well I have a breakthrough product coming to market soon, _Carrot fed Carrots._ And next season I'll feed those to other carrots for that double carrot fed goodness!
Now that's some quality clickbait! Still clickbait though. Shame SHAME shaaaaaame
Trees Fish - Munch - a - Bunch? You're Bark-ing
Next - see how much more fiber trees in parks get from kites
Clickbait title, they DO NOT. They absorb nitrogen from the soil... like basically all trees do. The soil gets it’s nitrogen from decaying Salmon, yes.
Fish eating trees
Or
Fish eating trees
Here in Rancho Cordova, CA, salmon come up the American River and there aren't any bears, yet every year the river is littered with huge dead salmon. I wonder how much the trees here are affected by that.
I heard of a study...sorry, don't have the article title/url, documenting that wolf feeding on salmon has the same effect on trees; the difference is that wolves take & consume their catches at least 100 m. into the forest while bears eat closer to shore.
I feel like J.R.R. Tolkien watching Macbeth for the first time.
What about the vines that trap sheep that then decompose on the spot giving them a ton of nutrients?
As soon as I was this I was like RADIOLAB RADIOLAB RADIOLAB. Legit their best episode
Does a bear crap in the woods? He does it *for* the wood!
Finding this video to learn more about the heatdome induced salmon die-off. It's scary how connected everything is, yet we pretend to be apart from it all. Was good while it lasted...
I learned in elementary school that native NA people buried a small fish with seeds. The only understood it somehow "fed" the seeds, but they were essentially right. I also think fertilizer has been made from fish on a very large scale. So it's no great leap that trees on riverbanks would get fish nitrogen from the water.
I live in Alaska. Fish heads are a popular garden supplement here. Ya just have to be a little more aware of bears. Were kinda use to that.
My initial response: WTF?
Actual thought: wait I know this.
Haha!
It’s 4 am, I’ve been up for a long exhausting day. I boot up my phone for some RUclips and here this video is, top of my recommendations. Fish eating trees. Yeah, now I need alcohol to comprehend the state of the universe
The state of the universe is that's it's full of clickbait. These trees are no different than every other tree on the entire planet.
If I was one those trees, I'd find out what smell bears like best