World's Biggest Carnivorous Plant Catches Whole Sheep!

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Комментарии • 10 тыс.

  • @WayOutWestx2
    @WayOutWestx2  5 лет назад +304

    We've made a new video in response to all the comments we've had on this one - you can see it here... ruclips.net/video/uMHpz6PS5Ek/видео.html

    • @delphinejeanne6423
      @delphinejeanne6423 5 лет назад +4

      after seeing her the only thing i crave is a good fat steak bloody meat xd

    • @neeind5
      @neeind5 5 лет назад +4

      Cool reply though👌🏼👍🏻

    • @augusto5123
      @augusto5123 5 лет назад +2

      Interesting! Thanks

    • @scarletsage3118
      @scarletsage3118 5 лет назад +2

      ruclips.net/video/ydRwNxrpc2A/видео.html The Bramble Plant could Really be Carnívorous according To Botanist Carolina García Luna

    • @zacheysflip859
      @zacheysflip859 5 лет назад +1

      you should prune it and keep it outside the fence I mean

  • @pepsicola4718
    @pepsicola4718 7 лет назад +4586

    I beg to differ. Those are obviously sheep-growing trees. You haven't allowed them to ripen yet.

    • @fredfredrickson2312
      @fredfredrickson2312 7 лет назад +57

      The MeméLord Yes, uwe trees.

    • @KEYBLADE4BUY2
      @KEYBLADE4BUY2 7 лет назад +23

      The MeméLord I love you for this comment xDDD

    • @ericadavis9240
      @ericadavis9240 7 лет назад +21

      you think they would figure that out by now...

    • @ooXChrissieXoo
      @ooXChrissieXoo 7 лет назад +44

      That would make lamb a vegan diet, and wool an ethical option. I love that plant.

    • @KotaroKoala
      @KotaroKoala 7 лет назад +12

      You think a farmer would know that.

  • @FikriKawakibi
    @FikriKawakibi 5 лет назад +4924

    Sheep: oh look, a dinner
    Plant: no u

    • @RobertOfStAlbans_
      @RobertOfStAlbans_ 5 лет назад +17

      That flag! 👆🏽

    • @PadecMaybeReal
      @PadecMaybeReal 5 лет назад +7

      @@RobertOfStAlbans_ Dont assume anything in islamic text is an automatic giveaway that its material of Islamic Extremism, it might mean something totally different.

    • @toshi2623
      @toshi2623 5 лет назад +16

      @@PadecMaybeReal Yeah but he didn't say that it was muslim extremism .-.

    • @PadecMaybeReal
      @PadecMaybeReal 5 лет назад +1

      @@toshi2623 well it does seem like it. What else would it mean?

    • @askrub851
      @askrub851 5 лет назад +18

      That flag says : lā ilāha illa llāh
      Which means
      "There is no god but Allah"
      Its a word to declare the believe to the one true god
      So its has Nothing to do with any extremist activity.

  • @aldozulfikar54
    @aldozulfikar54 5 лет назад +3513

    *_*Sheep Eat Plants_*
    *_*Plants Eat Sheep_*
    *_*Vegan Eat Plants_*
    *_*Food Chain has Left the Chat_*

  • @deactivateduser9816
    @deactivateduser9816 5 лет назад +857

    I think this plant would be put into the “proto carnivorous” category rather than just carnivorous because it does not digest the animal directly

    • @grimmrider638
      @grimmrider638 4 года назад +62

      I would have to agree with that.

    • @0zer0ne1
      @0zer0ne1 4 года назад +57

      @@grimmrider638 hmm yesyes agree, science

    • @Zackaria_sMax
      @Zackaria_sMax 4 года назад +72

      I also concur. Indubitably. Higgs boson, super conductor, bunsen burner.

    • @OHB666
      @OHB666 4 года назад +17

      Gang gang

    • @bobbofly
      @bobbofly 3 года назад +29

      Were it not for the inward facing thorns, I would also agree, but their directionality clearly denotes intent. Whether they directly digest the animals with enzymes isn't relevant so much as the obvious deliberateness of entrapment.

  • @lateblossom
    @lateblossom 7 лет назад +1917

    He should totally be one of those people that narrarates those nature videos.

    • @nikolasyoung8650
      @nikolasyoung8650 7 лет назад +39

      that's what he just did

    • @WereAlreadyHere
      @WereAlreadyHere 7 лет назад +3

      fuckin lold

    • @lateblossom
      @lateblossom 7 лет назад +9

      Nikolas Young I know that's what he just did, but I mean, on an David Attenborough Level.

    • @mohamadali1458
      @mohamadali1458 7 лет назад

      +lateblossom rhffk

    • @wolfexer8250
      @wolfexer8250 7 лет назад +2

      But things he says are not true.

  • @winstonhuang2552
    @winstonhuang2552 6 лет назад +582

    "they make blackberries! But they are also deadly killers"
    Never thought i'd hear those words uttered in a row.

    • @horuslupercal3872
      @horuslupercal3872 6 лет назад +3

      Chinese special ops?????

    • @w_i_k_i_d
      @w_i_k_i_d 6 лет назад +1

      So make the choice. You like blackberries more than sheep or vice versa?

    • @nixnightbird138
      @nixnightbird138 6 лет назад +9

      I'm sure there's a good way to cook mutton with blackberry sauce.

    • @FelipeV3444
      @FelipeV3444 6 лет назад

      Hm, yeah, that would sound pretty random without context

    • @jenniferbeatty7545
      @jenniferbeatty7545 5 лет назад

      Not surprising since black symbolizes death and darkness...

  • @wick7201
    @wick7201 3 года назад +77

    He’s gives out such a great Narration,Well done man.

  • @ottoalvarez1031
    @ottoalvarez1031 4 года назад +100

    Glad to see you listed the positives of the bramble plant as well! Not many people take into consideration how “pest” like thorny plants can be crucial in the conversion of a landscape

  • @rachelt4792
    @rachelt4792 6 лет назад +2491

    When you thought you had an understanding of the food chain... boom, plot twist.

    • @rachelt4792
      @rachelt4792 6 лет назад +71

      But really, this has to be the most brutal plant in the world. Dang.

    • @privateuser9028
      @privateuser9028 5 лет назад +6

      Rach H Edjewmacation will do that to you

    • @novalis2688
      @novalis2688 5 лет назад +52

      You mean plant twist

    • @novalis2688
      @novalis2688 5 лет назад +3

      @A Fucking Weaboo :(

    • @karamellcreme
      @karamellcreme 5 лет назад +1

      Nova Traveller yes

  • @pomegranatehoneydews
    @pomegranatehoneydews 7 лет назад +255

    the narrator's voice is so calm and monotone that now as I read each comment below in my head, his voice is there reading them for me.

  • @79obrien
    @79obrien 4 года назад +90

    It's crazy how that plant tied it self into a harness

  • @brokensky6584
    @brokensky6584 5 лет назад +356

    Sheep: I want this plant for dinner
    Plant: Reverse Uno Card

    • @TheGreyFeather0707
      @TheGreyFeather0707 3 года назад

      *visible confusion*

    • @zamasu9396
      @zamasu9396 3 года назад

      @@TheGreyFeather0707 what’s confusing??? You don’t get the joke?

  • @lordofbanana6869
    @lordofbanana6869 8 лет назад +309

    To all the people who don't seem to understand this: A carnivorous being purpousfully consumes other living beings like lizards or mammals (essentially everything that has a blood flow), it does that either by feasting on a corpse or by killing / luring it's prey in to a trap. If a sheep happens to die next to an oak tree it does not necessarily make the oak tree carnivorous, it simply happens to use the sheeps nutrients, however if a plant is designed to function like a trap and as a result of that efficiently consumes it's prey then it is in fact carnivorous. A carnivorous being does not have to chew on it's prey with a mouth, it simply has to consume it and normally has a tactic that allows it to get to said meat. Great video and very fascinating topic, i never would have thought of that. Also it was so nice to see how you freed those sheeps :)
    (By the way by the dictionary's definition "carnivorous" simply means "flesh-eating" or "feeding on flesh", so it's actually even easier than i described it, still with my previous description there should be no doubt left)

    • @draconite420
      @draconite420 8 лет назад +9

      'Carnivorous plant' it's has its own SEPERATE definition in the biological world. Darwin even studied carnivorous plants and there is many species and not all look like the flute bowl of fly trap, some release resin which insects get stuck in and decay.

    • @inuyasha989
      @inuyasha989 8 лет назад +3

      HellsGun if you are talking about the sundew or as its also known the starfish plant it actually applys more resin to the insect once capured by the rest of the hairs on the leave next to the insect move twords the insect before the leave folds around it the starfish plant the one that looks like a succulant uses the same sticky resin but once an instect is caught it folds the outter parts of its leaves into a tight roll around it
      thats the difference from carnivorous they actually ATTEMPT to capture prayer unlike bramble here that just happened to have its thorns get caught in the sheeps unnatural fur and the sheep struggles and further tangles ITSELF the plant does nothing

    • @hzuiel
      @hzuiel 8 лет назад

      .......That is a sheep's natural fur. The unnatural shorn sheep don't get caught in the brambles.

    • @airsoftstuffkw
      @airsoftstuffkw 8 лет назад +4

      +hzuiel sheep have been bred so they have an unnatural amount of fur

    • @BitcoinMotorist
      @BitcoinMotorist 8 лет назад +11

      The term is "proto-carnivorous". They are on the evolutionary path to being full blown carnivorous plants.

  • @arik2492
    @arik2492 7 лет назад +2750

    That moment when your food's food eats your food

  • @starnixx
    @starnixx 3 года назад +28

    Plant really was like “I mean you guys weren’t gonna eat it and I was hungry “

  • @barneysdad9193
    @barneysdad9193 4 года назад +66

    Interesting hypothesis! Glad to see you know your farm and humanely check your sheep. When we lived in Kent, we would go for walks and regularly found sheep caught up. So much so, we started taking secateurs and gloves with us so we could get the daft (and often ungrateful) creature free! Nice vid and keep up the good work.

  • @123457474869
    @123457474869 7 лет назад +224

    I thought this was gonna be a clickbait video with a sheep stuck in a large fake Venus fly trap but it actually turned out to be informative. Good job.

    • @rivershull2823
      @rivershull2823 7 лет назад

      123457474869 do you know what a Venus flytrap looks like lol? And it's clearly not fake.

  • @piperguballa5078
    @piperguballa5078 5 лет назад +2748

    *Sheep caught like this stop struggling quite quickly and just stand there, calmly waiting for death to arrive.*

    • @tannern6926
      @tannern6926 5 лет назад +88

      Peeper Gumball I was so shocked by that I had to hear him say it again :(

    • @JOhnDoe-nl4wj
      @JOhnDoe-nl4wj 5 лет назад +116

      @@CaptainMyCaptain33 A friend of mine is a forester/hunter (as in actual profession) when he took me along his to get blackberries he told me that he often finds bones of rabbits and also even dear inside the bushes when he needs to cut them back down. He also got a dog out of a blackberry bush who went missing after their owners went to collect mushrooms. I was present with the search, tho not present when they found the dog. It was entangled in a blackberry bush unable to get out. It was a german shepherd mix, looked like a regular german shepherd to me, tho. It was in 2015, northern germany.

    • @KC-zc8ic
      @KC-zc8ic 5 лет назад +37

      This plant is metal as fuck

    • @KC-zc8ic
      @KC-zc8ic 5 лет назад +3

      CabinDoor what

    • @commanderdon4300
      @commanderdon4300 5 лет назад +60

      @@CaptainMyCaptain33 There is no reason why it wouldn't be true, bramble bushes that have spikes that are randomly pointing inwards would naturally catch more animals by accident.
      The more animals that die at it's base feed the soil with nutrients and the bramble bush is more likely to survive because it has a greater nutrient source.
      So when the brambles reproduce the ones most likely to survive to reproduce would be the ones with this extra nutrient source and they are ones with the inward facing spikes.
      This is simple evolution and would continue until all the bramble bushes grow with inward facing spikes.

  • @o6_n1kk1
    @o6_n1kk1 5 лет назад +71

    “You look a bit stuck, don’t ya?”
    *”OH I’M DEFINITELY NOT STUCK DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME”*

  • @terryhicks2005
    @terryhicks2005 5 лет назад +611

    I don't get people man. This guy demonstrates an interesting idea and people just spew shit and hate in the comments.
    Clearly two very different levels of human here.

    • @marsha-madness-super-badness
      @marsha-madness-super-badness 5 лет назад +61

      People just like arguing on YT, it's like this itch they have to "tell it like it is" or some shit.

    • @mrfixitusa6165
      @mrfixitusa6165 5 лет назад +31

      Some do, most only watch, others never DO anything but criticize the do'ers as say how they "would've done it better."
      But they are merely annoying loud mouthed frauds. They could never do it better, because they'd never start to DO anything in the first place.

    • @tomfieselmann5906
      @tomfieselmann5906 4 года назад +7

      Some watch to be entertained, and act so; others watch to be informed - and aren't, simply don't understand, or are. So, of four, generally speaking only one out of four come for the purpose of the video. Such is cyberspace...

    • @tomfieselmann5906
      @tomfieselmann5906 4 года назад +7

      Such a pleasant voice and accent.

    • @atlas42185
      @atlas42185 4 года назад +6

      Are you criticizing people for being rude or for disagreeing? If it's the latter consider the following: "Haters" is a convenient internet colloquial used by ppl referring to those who say things they don't like, whether or not hate is actually involved. Is disagreement hate spewing?
      Brambles really don't kill that many animals, so it's debatable whether there's a niche of carnivorous rose bushes that gets a significant amount of nutrients from decaying animals. There aren't that many animals other than sheep which can be entangled by these bushes. Further, rose bushes grow in all sorts of environments, and plenty of people who grow them have noted they grow fine in the absence of dead, decaying animals.
      As one person pointed out on a stack exchange thread (biology.stackexchange.com/questions/58569/is-bramble-blackberry-bush-carnivorous):
      1) domestic sheep with thick wool are a relatively new evolutionary phenomenon, not leaving wild organisms enough time to adapt.
      2) it's not clear that rotting meat provides nutrients to these particular plants.
      3) these plants aren't usually accompanied by dead animals.
      Many people on quora and stack exchange pointed our that brambles don't secrete digestive enzymes. If this is indeed a developing evolutionary niche the brambles that systematically "trap" animals are at most "proto-carnivourous" plants they do not digest dead animals. But they may through highly inefficient means absorb some of the byproducts of decay.

  • @zinarmagadan3751
    @zinarmagadan3751 8 лет назад +2549

    I don't know how I got here but it was quite interesting and informative.

    • @vivelajonny
      @vivelajonny 8 лет назад +7

      Don't take this video as fact. This is 100% speculation

    • @zinarmagadan3751
      @zinarmagadan3751 8 лет назад +13

      vivelajonny
      Well yeah. Still interesting nonetheless.

    • @Windchild69
      @Windchild69 8 лет назад +10

      +vivelajonny, Well a scientific theory states that first one must observe then one can test one observation. Make a theory on one's observations. Then said data needs to have viable testable data that can be tested by another. then document your observation and then one has a workingTheory.
      This guy NEEEDS to wright this up. I do belive he is on to something very important!! :-)

    • @redjack2629
      @redjack2629 7 лет назад +6

      +vivelajonny How, precisely, is it speculation? Have you watched it? Because stating that they have backward-facing spikes that draw anything caught in them inward (think of a ratcheting chain drive, or something similar) is certainly not speculation. Saying that the plants would benefit from the nutrients of the dead animals for quite a while is not speculation... People in the comments support the notion of finding animal remains in and near bramble patches... So either I'm missing how this video is "entirely speculation", you misunderstand what speculation means, or you didn't watch the video.

    • @vivelajonny
      @vivelajonny 7 лет назад

      William Bostedt​ Saying that the plant "actively hunts animals" is completely speculation, its a theory based off the facts that he presented, but it is a theory, it is a SPECULATION.
      Apparently you don't know what it means.
      Speculation definition: ideas or guesses about something that is not known
      There is no concrete proof these plants actively hunt anything

  • @WayOutWestx2
    @WayOutWestx2  8 лет назад +3314

    Lots of people seem to miss one of the main points in this - the thorns face backwards. So they're not like vines/nettles/trees, ok?
    Also, look at the damage done to the plants by the sheep - if the thorns are purely defensive, then they aren't working very well, are they?
    Lastly, to all those people who automatically repeat the mantra that sheep are dumb/stupid - you obviously haven't spent much time with sheep. They are funny and intelligent. They have been bred to be calm and compliant - but that isn't the same as stupid.

    • @supermassvanity
      @supermassvanity 8 лет назад +86

      +WayOutWest Blowinblog very interesting observation. glad to see you haven't demonized the plant either, nice one.

    • @supermassvanity
      @supermassvanity 8 лет назад +62

      *****
      the man was just showing a sheep caught in the brambles, its not to say sheep are the only ones effected by these plants and that the plant has evolved to catch sheep only.

    • @cosmonaut379
      @cosmonaut379 8 лет назад

      lol yeah multifloral rose us a bitch fell in it as a kid but get thrashed by it all the time

    • @markuse.4676
      @markuse.4676 8 лет назад +2

      they stop the sheep and animals from fucking eating them and tearing them apart intentionally

    • @supermassvanity
      @supermassvanity 8 лет назад +37

      +David R
      This is a none scientific video presented by a none scientist using no scientific methodologies on a none scientific forum and your commenting about it being unscientific....take care David R.

  • @soupgloop7175
    @soupgloop7175 4 года назад +573

    Why do people dislike this? He saved the sheep.

    • @jarretdietzler7750
      @jarretdietzler7750 4 года назад +79

      They dislike it because he’s wrong. Brambles are certainly not carnivorous.

    • @Nick-xx2xz
      @Nick-xx2xz 4 года назад +63

      The tree clicked dislikes

    • @benlunn4006
      @benlunn4006 4 года назад +21

      @@jarretdietzler7750 he did a response video to the comments. Have a look see what you think.

    • @tysonwalters3231
      @tysonwalters3231 3 года назад +11

      Vegans are the reason

    • @apdroidgeek1737
      @apdroidgeek1737 3 года назад +17

      Because this plant isnt considered a carnivorous plant, they cant produce digestive enzymes which carnivorous plant do, and even if that plant caught that sheep on purpose its called proto carnivorous, which are called to carnivorous plants that are somewhat carnivorous, did you know theres a flower that uses trigger systems to put pollens on insects..? How ever small insect aren't so lucky and get killed in the process, the flower will then produce digestive enzymes to digest it, but its not a carnivorous plant because the plant doesn't really need it to survive, carnivorous plant will die without a prey.

  • @Growyourheirlooms
    @Growyourheirlooms 5 лет назад +42

    I fell asleep on my living room floor barefoot while my kids were playing Legos.... I was trapped for 3 days

  • @brianlin132
    @brianlin132 5 лет назад +308

    Huh. That’s very interesting. The plant doesn’t “eat” the sheep as one would think, but rather they trap the sheep until they cannot escape and eventually die, then feed off the dead sheep, which provide nutrients to the plant as they die and decompose.

    • @apdroidgeek1737
      @apdroidgeek1737 5 лет назад +18

      Brian Lin all carnivorous plants or rather insectivorous plants doesn’t technically eat their prey... they just trap it and kill it either by starvation or drowning...

    • @brianlin132
      @brianlin132 5 лет назад +30

      apdroid geek Most carnivorous plants produce digestive enzymes after the prey is trapped to digest the prey.

    • @apdroidgeek1737
      @apdroidgeek1737 5 лет назад +3

      Brian Lin yes but dont exactly eat them...

    • @apdroidgeek1737
      @apdroidgeek1737 5 лет назад +4

      the very definition of “eat” is the ability to chew...

    • @brianlin132
      @brianlin132 5 лет назад +7

      apdroid geek I suppose you’re right. But at least carnivores plants digest their prey

  • @kathyl9222
    @kathyl9222 5 лет назад +50

    This plant strategy has been documented in trees of the Pisonia genus a.k.a "bird catcher trees". They secret a sticky substance that usually is only annoying to the birds, but now and then birds get covered in it and can't fly and so they fall on the ground and die on the forest floor. This typically happens to fledgelings. These trees are found in tropical islands like in the Caribbean and near Australia.

  • @NixMaster3k
    @NixMaster3k 3 года назад +26

    plant: *catches sheep*
    sheep: "guess i'll die"

  • @impishrebel5969
    @impishrebel5969 2 года назад +3

    To those who are saying this isn't a carnivorous plant: There is a youtube video floating around that came out recently about an archaeological dig. In it they are digging up a mass grave from WW2. They were pulling skulls out of the ground and some of the skulls were broken, with roots coming out of the eye sockets and neck, so they opened a skull to reveal that roots had taken the place of brain matter a long time ago. They removed an entire chunk of roots that literally was the shape of a brain. Other videos showing experiments floating around buried animal carcasses at the base of trees and came back later to discover the roots had grown in the exact shape of the carcass when the animal was later dug-- they only found roots in the shape of the body, and the bones were gone. Plants will benefit from carcasses. Certain types of plants, the ones that can produce salicylates, are highy toxic to animals as well, and the chemicals are produced as anti-animal toxins specifically. Bonemeal is a soil amendment for growing vegetables for a reason; plants benefit from it, and some plants have adapted to take advantage of it. Not every carnivorous plant is one that eats flies.

  • @AdirondackNY
    @AdirondackNY 7 лет назад +3899

    Hate to see a herd of sheep let loose in a Velcro factory

    • @Your_Resident_Redleg
      @Your_Resident_Redleg 7 лет назад +48

      Where's the kickstarter for this?

    • @eternalnight2917
      @eternalnight2917 7 лет назад +26

      AdirondackNY herd of sheep loose in a Montana town. instant riot as all the horny guys start chasing them down. couple months later all you here is daa aady!!!!

    • @supertornadogun1690
      @supertornadogun1690 7 лет назад +2

      this XD

    • @CaptainLumpyDog
      @CaptainLumpyDog 7 лет назад +10

      Daniel Alvarez What a disgusting bigot you are!

    • @KingGaming-vv1cd
      @KingGaming-vv1cd 7 лет назад +2

      CaptainLumpyDog m

  • @j.lahtinen7525
    @j.lahtinen7525 6 лет назад +315

    This was actually an interesting insight that I had not considered before - that some plants like this may be indirectly carnivorous - in that they don't digest the animal inside specialized plant parts, but rather trap the animal, to have it's carcass fertilize the soil in which they are rooted. Very interesting!

    • @Anyayowoki
      @Anyayowoki 2 года назад +15

      You understand this insn’t a carnivorous plant. It’s just a sheep stuck in a bush

    • @eskimo9754
      @eskimo9754 2 года назад

      @@Anyayowoki agreed ,its fake those plants dont move

    • @derfvcderfvc7317
      @derfvcderfvc7317 2 года назад +15

      Protocarnivorous is the term a Bramble Bush falls under.

    • @xxpowwowbluexx
      @xxpowwowbluexx 2 года назад +6

      @@eskimo9754, neither do Sarracenia move.

    • @impishrebel5969
      @impishrebel5969 2 года назад

      @@Anyayowoki You would be wrong. Many plants have adaptations to kill animals to enrich the soil. Not every carnivorous plant is one that eats flies. Ever heard of plants benefitting from having bonemeal put in the soil for farming?

  • @atomicplaygirl66
    @atomicplaygirl66 4 года назад +9

    When I was in high school "debating class" was a mandatory subject. I wish we could've debated on this. This topic holds one's attention.

  • @DylanFowler
    @DylanFowler 4 года назад +31

    Imagine how many Rabbits and birds they get?!

    • @yerman0564
      @yerman0564 3 года назад +9

      Little to none. Sheep have thick curly wool that's unfortunately easily caught in brambles. Rabbits and birds aren't like that.

    • @yy8erig915
      @yy8erig915 3 года назад

      @@yerman0564 they still do get some rabbits although less

  • @decauchy8173
    @decauchy8173 6 лет назад +8695

    Explain that vegans

  • @flimbonimbo7259
    @flimbonimbo7259 7 лет назад +58

    Solution: Clear the hanging brush around your fence line. Problem completely solved.

  • @captainboing
    @captainboing 4 года назад +41

    I have been looking a lot at thorned plants lately because of this. I wonder if all the rose family have this adaptation... was looking at some tea roses the other day - vicious great thorns on it and all facing backwards to permit some inward access to the stems but resist drawing back out again.The thorns even have an asymmetrical form which gives a buttress re-enforcement against forces acting in the outwards direction... looks very sus

    • @receivegreatest6802
      @receivegreatest6802 4 года назад +2

      They defiantly didn't teach us everything in school. lol stay woke !

    • @flutedscissors9655
      @flutedscissors9655 3 года назад +1

      Maybe they're there so it hurts to eat them and they won't get eaten, sometimes you can't teach people

    • @bobbofly
      @bobbofly 3 года назад +3

      @@flutedscissors9655 Not really. If the plan was to repel & discourage Browsers, the barbs would grow outward & away from the plant in a defensive posture. Inward facing thorns face that way for one purpose - to draw inward.

    • @flutedscissors9655
      @flutedscissors9655 3 года назад +1

      @@bobbofly if you get stuck in the rose bush it'll hurt like a bitch and then you won't want to go near roses again, if you eat a thorn it'll also hurt. Just cause it happens to face a way doesn't mean it isn't for whatever purpose

    • @kwinciegodfrey4041
      @kwinciegodfrey4041 3 года назад +1

      ​@@flutedscissors9655 I don't think this idea for the thorns' applications apply in the the smaller plants because the smaller plants aren't big enough to catch something with the type of hair that would get entangled like a sheep's would.

  • @Boreas-
    @Boreas- 3 года назад +107

    This is the first thing you learn while working with sheep, they just wanna die

    • @miniflea0469
      @miniflea0469 3 года назад +6

      😂😂

    • @musahaque2000
      @musahaque2000 3 года назад +2

      How does it even catch an animal? Do the vines just move and grab them or somethin'?

    • @Boreas-
      @Boreas- 3 года назад +10

      @@musahaque2000 the sheep walk into it while eating it.
      sheep eat plant, plant grab sheep

    • @musahaque2000
      @musahaque2000 3 года назад +1

      @@Boreas- Oh yeah I see, thanks for explainin' it.

    • @sasquatchdonut2674
      @sasquatchdonut2674 3 года назад +1

      So kinda like most of us

  • @drteddy2609
    @drteddy2609 6 лет назад +871

    Your voice sounds so.... Classic, like a storyteller, maybe fairy-tale story telling, love it!

  • @aakashupadhyay7075
    @aakashupadhyay7075 6 лет назад +335

    And that's why blackberries taste so damn good

    • @bluebloodcell9420
      @bluebloodcell9420 5 лет назад +21

      But then iphones come out. (Bad joke I know 😂)

    • @elle2930
      @elle2930 5 лет назад +3

      fuck i’m a vegetarian

    • @shepdgc.og.soldier7732
      @shepdgc.og.soldier7732 5 лет назад +10

      You’re not if you eat blackberries.😊✌️

    • @thebbtje
      @thebbtje 5 лет назад +1

      Indeed, because it has shoarma mixed in it.

    • @detectiveben1096
      @detectiveben1096 5 лет назад

      @@bluebloodcell9420 *apple

  • @Aprion
    @Aprion 4 года назад +41

    it makes a strange kind of sense. its not something one would expect at first glance.

  • @Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn
    @Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn 5 лет назад +9

    While studying horticulture the question "what is your favourite plant?" often came up. I always said the one I admire most was the Blackberry, not that I like them, just that they are so resilient, so well designed. Now I'm even more impressed!

    • @Axxxel_in_Harlem
      @Axxxel_in_Harlem Год назад

      Do you believe in God?

    • @DG-iw3yw
      @DG-iw3yw 11 месяцев назад

      @Axxxel_in_Harlem Studying plants tend to make you see evolution for the very real thing it is, so they probably dont

  • @jebuschrist9161
    @jebuschrist9161 7 лет назад +626

    Now I know where to send my mother in law to go berry picking.

    • @daddygirlchanelhines4600
      @daddygirlchanelhines4600 7 лет назад +3

      Jebus Christ HaHaHa😀

    • @muddafuggit3736
      @muddafuggit3736 7 лет назад +5

      lmao not if you want blackberries

    • @MouseGoat
      @MouseGoat 7 лет назад +60

      make sure she's wearing a big wool sweater ^^

    • @s.1173
      @s.1173 7 лет назад +6

      Jebus Christ I died!!!💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

    • @MrCrotchrocket78
      @MrCrotchrocket78 7 лет назад +2

      Laila Brown actually he was forced to wear a crown of thorns...hmm black berries had a hand in killing Jesus.. Jews mainly..

  • @CHAS1422
    @CHAS1422 6 лет назад +2047

    Thankfully we have hands!

  • @zexkyre6707
    @zexkyre6707 5 лет назад +15

    plant be like: whats for dinner?
    *a small hungry lamb appeared
    plant: rotten steak seems delicious

  • @alextabara9150
    @alextabara9150 3 года назад +6

    Sheep: *tries to eat this plant*
    The plant: oh no, call an ambulance, *BUT NOT FOR ME*

  • @dontafk9809
    @dontafk9809 6 лет назад +156

    A lot of people don't know that tomato plants are also carnivorous plants. The fuzz on their spines and leaves actually tangles flies preventing them from escaping. The dead carcasses of flies will then fall to the ground and fertilize the plant.

    • @elgatochurro
      @elgatochurro 6 лет назад

      Dont Afk like many plants yeah. I'd say so

    • @kathydoyle9939
      @kathydoyle9939 6 лет назад +2

      Morbidly efficient. EEEEW!

    • @Kari_512
      @Kari_512 6 лет назад +6

      That doesn't make them carnivorous.
      "Carnivorous plants release digestive enzymes to digest their prey or have other adaptations specifically to pull nutrients from the things they kill. Brambles would have to rely on something else to rot the carcass and pick up whatever trace nutrients that get released into the soil like any other plant. Brambles tendency to tangle could just as easily be a defensive adaptation meant to encourage herbivores to avoid it. Without any specific adaptations to uptake the nutrients from killed animals, classifying them as carnivorous would be premature."
      The same applies to your statement here. The fuzz is actually meant to protect the plant from creatures like caterpillars that consume the leaves.

    • @Gustav_Kuriga
      @Gustav_Kuriga 6 лет назад +3

      The nutrients are added to the soil, which is where they get them from in the first place. They don't need to have additional adaptations as these would be superfluous.
      Another example of this kind of thing happening with plants is a certain tropical tree that produces seeds that stick to bird feathers. They can get to the point where so many seeds are stuck to a bird that it can't fly and eventually dies on the ground, providing nutrients to the plant. I think it would be more correct to say they are not carnivores by necessity. but opportunists. The adaptation of the brambles means that while they don't actively capture prey, if an animal just happens to get stuck and decompose into the ground around their roots that is all the better for them.

    • @crazychameleon563
      @crazychameleon563 6 лет назад +8

      While technically correct you do realize that is only TECHNICALLY correct right? I mean the fact that the brambles probably are evolved to bring this eventuality to pass is undeniable. I'ts probably one of the reasons they are so prolific. How many rodents or birds get caught in them that we don't really find out about? Brambles might not be carnivores by the way humans have defined carnivores. But if that's the case tell that to the bones of the dead sheepies? Time to revise the definition I say. Don't get so caught on definitions my friend. They move .. That's why it's SCIENCE. And not say religion.

  • @D5quared91
    @D5quared91 7 лет назад +248

    if u pat sheep do he bite

    • @gamingdemon12
      @gamingdemon12 7 лет назад +3

      if the sheep have a liking towards you,no they shouldn't,but it varies when sheep may like you enough

    • @KhronicD
      @KhronicD 7 лет назад +22

      Generally sheep are pretty docile animals. But like any animal, you piss it off, it'll probably try to take a chuck out of you. heh

    • @MetalSlugzMaster
      @MetalSlugzMaster 7 лет назад +13

      Rams can be grumpy and some headbutt, especially if ewes are in season. The big breeds can be dangerous.

    • @MrStrongmuscle
      @MrStrongmuscle 7 лет назад +2

      ......

    • @FiveFive6ers
      @FiveFive6ers 7 лет назад +7

      yes

  • @saltygamesmith
    @saltygamesmith 3 года назад +19

    This was actually how me and my girl friend first met

    • @krkrbbr
      @krkrbbr 3 года назад +4

      I don't think your relationship is legal

    • @ieatmice751
      @ieatmice751 2 года назад +2

      You’re Welsh?

    • @Jerry-il8pe
      @Jerry-il8pe 2 года назад +2

      Were you or her stuck?

    • @bigguschungus4533
      @bigguschungus4533 2 года назад +1

      Ah, a fellow welsh man.

    • @bliviont
      @bliviont 2 года назад +1

      I'm concerned that brambles have become sentient and are commenting on RUclips videos. 😳

  • @petroshoxhaj
    @petroshoxhaj 3 года назад +2

    Plant: Call an ambulance, call an ambulance...
    But not for me

  • @Jadinandrews
    @Jadinandrews 5 лет назад +470

    At first I thought this was a joke but it actually makes sense.

    • @robertbailey2171
      @robertbailey2171 5 лет назад +1

      I thought the same thing

    • @meelo4597
      @meelo4597 5 лет назад +5

      Jadin Andrews Why would it be a joke, didn't everyone learn about carnivorous plants in school? I didn't but didn't everyone else?

    • @Petrhrabal
      @Petrhrabal 5 лет назад

      It makes tons a sense! Im still being in awe.

    • @betelgeuse7645
      @betelgeuse7645 5 лет назад +5

      How does it make sense? Brambles have been around for a very long time, much longer than sheep have due to sheep being bred by humans. There is no other animal that has hair, fur, or wool that make it susceptible to being caught by brambles. Brambles did not evolve to kill sheep.

    • @bigworm1696
      @bigworm1696 5 лет назад

      Had me thinking about it logically.

  • @csparklingeyes874
    @csparklingeyes874 5 лет назад +1537

    I want this guy to read me bedtime stories 😴😪🙃

  • @gerard4039
    @gerard4039 5 лет назад +47

    That’s freaky , this plant thinks very long ahead , nutritions for years to come 😱😱😱

  • @a10warthog54
    @a10warthog54 4 года назад +57

    Me: All carnivores plant only eat insects
    This plant : Hold my sheep

    • @jacoblockwood3595
      @jacoblockwood3595 4 года назад +2

      Some mice have fallen into carnivores plants too.

    • @user-ik2yi4fm1u
      @user-ik2yi4fm1u 4 года назад +1

      It doesn't eat it

    • @a10warthog54
      @a10warthog54 4 года назад +3

      @@user-ik2yi4fm1u whatever its a joke

    • @prodigalson6166
      @prodigalson6166 3 года назад

      🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

    • @prodigalson6166
      @prodigalson6166 3 года назад +2

      @@user-ik2yi4fm1u Oh yes it does.
      1. Animal gets trapped in the brambles.
      2. Animal dies in The brambles.
      3. Animal decays in the brambles.
      4. Brambles feed the juices of the decayed animal that seeped into the ground.
      Very simple and ingenious process.

  • @samuelhoh3713
    @samuelhoh3713 7 лет назад +581

    Damn this guy sounds like Ramsay Bolton.

    • @treacherousdoom582
      @treacherousdoom582 7 лет назад +5

      Samuel Hoh haha That was this first thing I thought too!

    • @seanfenrir
      @seanfenrir 7 лет назад +1

      The Boltons took back Winterfell when those naiive starks lost it. put some respeck on their name boi

    • @charlees6193
      @charlees6193 7 лет назад

      Samuel Hoh Exactly what I thought!!

    • @Mike-hw5jp
      @Mike-hw5jp 7 лет назад +28

      "Ahhhhh *evil smile* Anotha sheep caught by the merciless brambles....let's have a look shall we? Oooo I'll snip this one, and maybe even that one.....but I get such pleasure seeing you struggle Mr.Sheep ...I think your new name shall be ....... REEK. yessssssss dance for me REEK muah HAH HAHAHAaaaa

    • @ACupOfDuck
      @ACupOfDuck 7 лет назад +5

      His voice reminded me of Francis in the channel Cooking with dog. But with slightly better English.

  • @dimwintersssss1669
    @dimwintersssss1669 5 лет назад +348

    "Stand there patently waiting too die"
    Sounds like a highschool

  • @user-kd3tt5lr6m
    @user-kd3tt5lr6m 4 года назад +88

    I’m really in trouble if I can’t tell whether a video about a carnivorous blackberry bush is serious or not.

    • @Marconel100
      @Marconel100 3 года назад +4

      It is.

    • @banditdoggo
      @banditdoggo 3 года назад +3

      The plant just traps them it can't actually kill them it just waits for it to die then get its nutrients from the ground

    • @cypherzero9561
      @cypherzero9561 2 года назад

      @@banditdoggo Lmfaoo

    • @sharpasacueball
      @sharpasacueball Год назад

      @@banditdoggo Idk if I trapped you in my basement until you died of dehydration, I think most courts around the world would agree that I directly "killed" you, no?

  • @allmight9646
    @allmight9646 4 года назад +10

    Sheep: I'ma eat you!
    Plant: UNO REVERSE!
    Sheep: 👁️👄👁️

    • @manchesterunited8390
      @manchesterunited8390 4 года назад

      Lame

    • @allmight9646
      @allmight9646 4 года назад +1

      @@manchesterunited8390 uno reverse ACTIVATED. Infinity. Looks like the tables have turned.😌🙃

    • @manchesterunited8390
      @manchesterunited8390 4 года назад

      @@allmight9646 lame

    • @allmight9646
      @allmight9646 4 года назад +1

      @@manchesterunited8390 Uno Reverse Reactivated!! WITH TENFOLDS OF INFINITE POWERRR!! Tables were once again, turned...😌😉

    • @manchesterunited8390
      @manchesterunited8390 4 года назад

      @@allmight9646 lame

  • @DenisJava
    @DenisJava 7 лет назад +313

    The humble blackberry: not quite as innocent as you might have thought. :D

    • @cdz3210
      @cdz3210 6 лет назад +3

      Java Jones dude, I swear that I read that as soon as he said it

    • @levimay2912
      @levimay2912 6 лет назад

      Same!

    • @StephenWebb1980
      @StephenWebb1980 6 лет назад +2

      Right now it's only small wooly barnyard animals...next it'll be hipsters getting their beards caught as they attempt to steal the fruit from this savage killer.

    • @blu8762
      @blu8762 6 лет назад

      this needs a ytp

    • @TheMikeman1971
      @TheMikeman1971 6 лет назад

      i just did the same that was weird!

  • @hostjoe
    @hostjoe 7 лет назад +1085

    he sounds like Salad Fingers before he went insane

    • @2highforthisshihh843
      @2highforthisshihh843 7 лет назад +3

      😆😆😆😆😂

    • @Sauczi
      @Sauczi 7 лет назад +3

      LOL YES

    • @titanmcrolland6877
      @titanmcrolland6877 7 лет назад +1

      Joker Deadman Speaking of salad fingers has David firth released any new weird shit yet? He did a tour or something but hasn't uploaded any sketches in ages

    • @Exlaax
      @Exlaax 7 лет назад

      Joker Deadman was just about to say this

    • @Virjunior01
      @Virjunior01 7 лет назад

      gif must have*

  • @marsha-madness-super-badness
    @marsha-madness-super-badness 5 лет назад +3

    The sheep rescue is so heart warming. Also, it's adorable how he calls them lads.

  • @dr.remembrance9845
    @dr.remembrance9845 2 года назад +1

    Sheep: cool, a source of food
    Plant: right back at ya buckaroo

  • @kprivate9258
    @kprivate9258 7 лет назад +355

    " . . . not quite as innocent as you might have thought" :)

  • @andomitor8
    @andomitor8 7 лет назад +200

    They're not strictly carnivorous. But you could argue they're protocarnivoros. They cannot directly digest protein from the animal instead relying on the carcass to rot and provide the nutrients. However this is NOT a primary source of food meaning you'd be hard pressed to call them carnivores.

    • @camilog777
      @camilog777 7 лет назад +8

      how about omnivores?

    • @MagnakayViolet
      @MagnakayViolet 7 лет назад +8

      scavenger?

    • @davidfranks4235
      @davidfranks4235 7 лет назад +8

      he means they are getting food via photosynthesis, so obviously they're are not an actual carnivorous plant. Big difference between us surviving on rice. It's a plant, it turn energy from the sun into its food. The only thing a dead animal seeping into its roots would do is provide fertilizer for it, but it could not survive on that fertilizer alone.

    • @Pyro81s
      @Pyro81s 7 лет назад +8

      +Lusifer Sofia No you can't live on just bread or rice.

    • @TallicaMan1986
      @TallicaMan1986 7 лет назад +5

      You can live like that, but you'd be extremely weak which isn't ideal in the wild. you need energy to hunt, walk and think properly.

  • @n1thu284
    @n1thu284 4 года назад +23

    Sheep: give me all what u have
    Plant: call an ambulance, call an ambulance
    pulls gun, and says: but not for me

  • @epicmoments2049
    @epicmoments2049 2 дня назад +1

    The concept you're describing resembles a fictional or hypothetical plant rather than any known real-world plant species. There are no documented brambles or plants with such a sophisticated mechanism for capturing and digesting large animals like sheep.
    In nature, brambles such as blackberries and raspberries have thorns primarily for defense, not for capturing prey. The thorns are designed to deter herbivores rather than to trap them. The mechanism you've described involves:
    1. **Backward-Facing Spines:** These spines would function similarly to barbed hooks, making it difficult for the prey to escape once they are caught.
    2. **Increased Entrapment:** The more the prey struggles, the more it becomes ensnared in the spines.
    3. **Nutrient Absorption:** Once the prey dies, the plant absorbs nutrients from the remains.
    This concept is reminiscent of some fictional or speculative biology, often seen in science fiction or fantasy genres. In reality, no plant species exhibits such behavior, combining the attributes of carnivorous plants with the physical characteristics of brambles.
    For a plant to function in this way, it would require a highly specialized adaptation not observed in current plant species. Most known carnivorous plants rely on different mechanisms, such as traps, sticky surfaces, or digestive enzymes, to capture and digest smaller prey.

  • @dextor0000
    @dextor0000 7 лет назад +303

    a plant eating a sheep - seems like reverse food chain ....good example of parallel universe.

    • @salv0xmerey
      @salv0xmerey 7 лет назад +3

      dextor0000 wouldn't a parallel universe be in another dimension?

    • @olivebranch7769
      @olivebranch7769 7 лет назад +9

      The plant doesn't eat the sheep. It traps it so that it dies there, and then the plant can absorb the nitrogen and things like that from its decaying body. Just like venus fly traps.

    • @sketch-eee4165
      @sketch-eee4165 7 лет назад +2

      Ariyan Ahmed CARNIVOROUS PLANES!

    • @Grishnackolyte
      @Grishnackolyte 6 лет назад

      MANDELA EFFECT

  • @OGBigNigel
    @OGBigNigel 7 лет назад +152

    I don't care about the debates and arguments people are having, I just love how calm this entire video is, it just makes me happy

    • @CandyLaStar
      @CandyLaStar 7 лет назад +5

      IT'S NOT CALM AT ALL WERNT YOU EVEN WATCHING!?!

    • @charliesalterego9934
      @charliesalterego9934 7 лет назад +5

      He's talking about the farmer's voice. I'm pretty sure anyway. It's naturally calm, which induces a feeling of calmness. Not sure why you felt the need to type in all caps, though.
      Calm down. :^)

    • @jendonally5025
      @jendonally5025 7 лет назад +4

      aMARKan comment Would you like to type that out again so that it makes sense? I think you missed some words out bud :)

    • @unlimitedfeeders
      @unlimitedfeeders 7 лет назад +2

      Jen Donally good job on correcting someones writing mistakes when you made some yourself in your comment. what a dumbass

    • @wearycannibal3879
      @wearycannibal3879 7 лет назад +3

      @ Jen Donally
      Just Ew, Get a life hun. 😂

  • @1974UTuber
    @1974UTuber 4 года назад +5

    Your logic is sound and makes quite a lot of sense when you think about it

  • @nseight
    @nseight 4 года назад +5

    Once you explained of backwards pointing thorns ,yes! definitely carnivorous :-) Thank you for taking the time to share

    • @jarretdietzler7750
      @jarretdietzler7750 4 года назад

      Nah. We have native brambles here in Wisconsin with backwards facing thorns, but we don’t have any native animals, like sheep, that would get caught.

  • @uxtalzon
    @uxtalzon 7 лет назад +493

    I love this guy's voice.

  • @Fpvfreaky
    @Fpvfreaky 6 лет назад +1166

    That’s the biggest Venus sheep trap I’ve ever seen😲 . Dirty plants get away from me sheep.

    • @PrinceJes
      @PrinceJes 6 лет назад

      FPV FREAKY
      Venus is a planet

    • @Fpvfreaky
      @Fpvfreaky 6 лет назад +13

      Massa 10/10 for that one 👍🏽

    • @roojackaroo8517
      @roojackaroo8517 6 лет назад +14

      Massa ever heard of 'venus flytrap'?

    • @kcvanderpool
      @kcvanderpool 6 лет назад +12

      Massa I hope you're joking...

    • @bondrewd1791
      @bondrewd1791 6 лет назад +2

      Whooooosh

  • @dae1925
    @dae1925 3 года назад +1

    Teacher in class: plants are at the bottom of the food chain
    Plants: 😐->😠

  • @EditFrog541
    @EditFrog541 4 года назад +8

    OMG I love you're voice so calming

  • @calanon534
    @calanon534 7 лет назад +1027

    ...actually, mate, I get you. Completely. It makes perfect sense! No joke. Your thesis is sound.

    • @UTO7
      @UTO7 7 лет назад +64

      Cal Anon
      Same. I don't know if you'd classify them as carnivorous, but the idea of the brambles being turned inwards as an adaptation to capture animals and use them for nutrients doesn't seem that far-fetched at all.

    • @calanon534
      @calanon534 7 лет назад +49

      Perhaps, then, we should not call them "carnivorous" but "predatory" and, as they "feed" on the rotten meat, "predatory carrion feeders"?

    • @alexandermartinez732
      @alexandermartinez732 7 лет назад +9

      You killed your sarcasm. And yes I agree they shouldn't be called carnivorous. But his thesis IS sound. Compare his observation process to researchers on other topics.

    • @freediugh416
      @freediugh416 7 лет назад +9

      It's more defensive than anything. Here's why: Carnivorous plants release digestive enzymes to digest their prey or have other adaptations specifically to pull nutrients from the things they kill. Brambles would have to rely on something else to rot the carcass and pick up whatever trace nutrients that get released into the soil like any other plant. Brambles tendency to tangle could just as easily be a defensive adaptation meant to encourage herbivores to avoid it. Without any specific adaptations to uptake the nutrients from killed animals, classifying them as carnivorous would be premature.
      plus- they grow (and most importantly) spread perfectly fine without the need of catching sheep.

    • @S4NSE
      @S4NSE 7 лет назад +1

      Free Diugh and you take the definition of a carnivorous plants as proof for it to be none... which is pretty premature, how do you think carnivorous plants began to exist in the first place, that's the actual question, maybe it's just another kind that is passively carnivorous and the animal corpses would even attract more animals (even tho I think that sheeps are the most endangered ones because of their wool, it's like velcro fastener lol

  • @danh5150
    @danh5150 8 лет назад +112

    Brilliant insight!!
    After seeing how tightly those sheep were trapped, I tend to agree with WayOutWest's theory. Simply fascinating.

    • @elrey4137
      @elrey4137 8 лет назад

      +danh5150 It's false.

    • @WayOutWestx2
      @WayOutWestx2  8 лет назад +18

      +El rey No, El Ray, it isn't false. It's a theory based on observation. You can argue against it, and others can judge the arguments and the evidence, but just stating something is false is just silly.

    • @elrey4137
      @elrey4137 8 лет назад

      WayOutWest Blowinblog
      As silly as stating that something is true without major evidence than a sheep entangled.

    • @MetalSlugzMaster
      @MetalSlugzMaster 8 лет назад +6

      +WayOutWest Blowinblog I think it's false too. Or rather, simply inaccurate. There's more evidence to indicate they're not carnivorous than evidence to suggest they are. European blackberries were imported to the USA, and on the farm I grew up on, there was a large bramble hedge. There was a wide array of large wildlife present; raccoons, deer, coyotes, opposum, badgers, even black bears and the occasional mountain lion to name just a few. Not a single animal, not even our large dogs, were caught on this 1.5 mile long hedge. Thus, blackberry brambles couldn't have evolved with species upon which to regularly feed on. Even in the UK only sheep appear to be caught in brambles - NOT the native wildlife. The reason sheep fall prey so often to them is simple: They're domesticated. They're selectively bred to lack survival instincts and to have unnaturally long wool.

    • @jasonpurcellau
      @jasonpurcellau 8 лет назад +1

      +MetalSlugzMaster He stated sheared lambs don't get caught, only the thick coated ones do. Can you state any animals on your list that have a curly coat of wool? There might not be those kinds of animals in USA because the bramble killed them all!

  • @steviebob4
    @steviebob4 5 лет назад +12

    I've never thought about brambles as carnivorous before but you make a sound argument. Animals dying in their clutches sure isn't doing them any harm.

  • @doom639
    @doom639 3 года назад +2

    Plant: *eats sheep
    Sheep: *eats plant
    Human has entered the chat
    Plant and sheep: *nervous sweating

  • @DickTrickleqt
    @DickTrickleqt 8 лет назад +110

    trees in the hood have guns and will mug you if they catch you lackin

    • @orlock20
      @orlock20 8 лет назад +6

      +Dick Trickle There are some trees in Australia that come close. They look like a good place to sleep under and when a person or animal does, they detach their dead and heavy limbs and crush their prey.

    • @DickTrickleqt
      @DickTrickleqt 8 лет назад +8

      orlock20 dude fuck australia fucking 6 ft lon spiders and now zombie trees

    • @orlock20
      @orlock20 8 лет назад +3

      Dick Trickle
      home.exetel.com.au/gregs_homepage/Reduced%20Photo's/Falling%20Branch%20Risk.JPG
      The sign is slightly wrong in that the falling limbs are random events.

  • @alcapone5791
    @alcapone5791 8 лет назад +100

    Even tho this plant may not have digestive acids that put the sheep directly into the plant, I find it totally believable that a plant can adapt to trap and kill things around it to create fertile soil for itself. Having rotting animal corpses surrounding a plant would be VERY beneficial in the right circumstances, creating tons of nutrients to go right into the soil for the roots. Seems like a very balanced, natural feeding system for the entire ecosystem

    • @commenter7893
      @commenter7893 8 лет назад

      +Al Capone sounds like intelligent design to me.

    • @alcapone5791
      @alcapone5791 8 лет назад +8

      commenter78 Was that sarcasm? I really hope so. What does intelligent design have to do with this plant? It adapted overtime to survive more when it happened to lure in and kill more animals. These dead animals provided nutrients, thus causing the plants that "kill" the sheep to survive more and breed more. Fast forward a few million years and you have a plant that murders sheep

    • @commenter7893
      @commenter7893 8 лет назад

      Al Capone the invisible guy in the sky of the intelligent design and the magical primordial soup of the evolutionary theory are similarly logical. but i think it would have been more logical if a car naturally evolved over millions of years to become a car out of the soup than the infinitesimally complex animal organisms. our existence doesnt make much sense.

    • @commenter7893
      @commenter7893 8 лет назад

      Eli G invisible guy in sky may be alien scientists. it is easy to imagine that if human technological advancement keeps its present rate of advancement in a couple thousand years it will be able to design whole ecosystems and creatures from scratch. i mean currently it is starting to happen with genetic modified organisms. so intelligent design is a very possible origin of life on earth.

    • @alcapone5791
      @alcapone5791 8 лет назад

      Eli G Actually if you look deeper into it, you could build an argument for humans being "designed" and not fitting in with all other earth creatures. From our DNA, body design, brains, everything. I dont believe in a religious god at all, but I believe the best two theories for humans is random occurrence and evolution, or some "super aliens" designing us for one of many different reasons.

  • @2g772
    @2g772 2 года назад +2

    i thought the plant was goint to devour the sheep like sucking blood through thorns😂

  • @vibes5024
    @vibes5024 5 лет назад +2

    This guys a natural storyteller

  • @NGorso1
    @NGorso1 6 лет назад +1073

    Started expecting total bullshit, but you totally convinced me.

  • @Dante-bq8fr
    @Dante-bq8fr 7 лет назад +75

    Poor Sheep ;(

    • @Benn61
      @Benn61 7 лет назад

      why?

    • @briannaharter4411
      @briannaharter4411 7 лет назад

      it doesn't take a lot of intelligence to be able to bond with another animal.

    • @Beaneabean
      @Beaneabean 7 лет назад

      Sheep are like the SWEETEST animals ever. I get a bit triggered when people speak of them because when i was little, and at a zoo, i threw the sheep food right in a sheeps eyes and it was just stuck there. 😥😥 The sheep didnt freak out or anything. It just still waited to be fed. This memory haunts me for some reason. I just feel so terrible.

  • @nuniezjorge
    @nuniezjorge 3 года назад +1

    2:08 sheep loading a machine gun to get revenge on bushes

  • @RenaissanceEarCandy
    @RenaissanceEarCandy Месяц назад

    Imagine having to grow one of those for a school science project... "Sorry I'm late, my homework ate my dog"

  • @rafaellewis1263
    @rafaellewis1263 7 лет назад +776

    How did you get Ramsay Bolton to do the voiceover?

  • @r6stipstricks611
    @r6stipstricks611 7 лет назад +2538

    Dear vegans, Your food is eating my food.
    Edit 1: Didn't mean to trigger any vegans 😂😂
    Edit 2:Holy cow why did this get so many likes😉😂😂
    Edit 3: Cest Moi, When injured, plants can cry for help via a chemical phone call to the roots. If under attack by a pathogen, such as disease-causing bacteria, a plant's leaf can send out an S.O.S. to the roots for help, and the roots will then secrete an acid that brings beneficial bacteria to the rescue, scientists announced today

    • @mr.maddapper6952
      @mr.maddapper6952 7 лет назад +22

      So they were right about you are what you eat?

    • @julianstuchlik8588
      @julianstuchlik8588 7 лет назад

      CALZ ASMR that brain on your profile picture should be alot smaller

    • @pwhitman1527
      @pwhitman1527 7 лет назад +40

      0IIIIII yes the sheep are so smart they got stuck in a bush. that makes sense.

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 7 лет назад +2

      lmao

    • @nosirrahx
      @nosirrahx 7 лет назад +5

      F-ing fantastic, thanks for the laugh :)

  • @JeffreyDeCristofaro
    @JeffreyDeCristofaro Год назад +1

    Sorry, Triffids - you used to be the scariest carnivorous plants on the block, but THIS is our new champion!

  • @Truck--kun
    @Truck--kun 5 лет назад +3

    Sheep: oh look, dinner
    Plant: *Pulls out Uno reverse card*

    • @gokudoge7588
      @gokudoge7588 4 года назад

      Truck-sama speaking of uno, my friend went missing who I play uno with everyday

  • @myleschap7364
    @myleschap7364 6 лет назад +150

    That's a real shepherd there.

  • @imjustalittleqwerty
    @imjustalittleqwerty 5 лет назад +2516

    Vegans: Eating animals is wrong! Eat plants instead!
    Plants: Eating plants is wrong! Eat animals instead!

    • @mangobread6894
      @mangobread6894 5 лет назад +15

      Plants don't have brains they can't think that XD

    • @immersiveparadox
      @immersiveparadox 5 лет назад +91

      This is why I’m a cannibal.

    • @kardigan4456
      @kardigan4456 5 лет назад +7

      @@immersiveparadox haha brother where are you from are you from asia

    • @essayedgar
      @essayedgar 5 лет назад +27

      You finally figured it out. Vegans are animals

    • @alphaxfang
      @alphaxfang 5 лет назад +19

      @Cordon Kalis have you see lion eat their prey? they hunt it, give worse despair, than that video, and they start eating them half dead... i don't see much different from other carnivorous being...

  • @lukehickey7453
    @lukehickey7453 4 года назад +2

    That's why you cut your hedges ladies and gentlemen

    • @cazek445
      @cazek445 4 года назад +1

      Luke hickey he said something in the last part of the video why they don’t.

  • @Ayzay1717
    @Ayzay1717 5 лет назад +3

    This demonstration is really interesting, makes totally sense.

  • @auroyugen4210
    @auroyugen4210 6 лет назад +795

    11/10 expected the sheep to get eaten alive but this its still pretty good

    • @NoOneGetzOutAlive
      @NoOneGetzOutAlive 6 лет назад

      AuroYugen lol

    • @jayrodmurderface
      @jayrodmurderface 6 лет назад +5

      吸う Tofu if it can do that, then we humans would be an epic food source for them.

    • @sendoh7x
      @sendoh7x 6 лет назад

      immobile predator wont pose much challenge for human..

    • @VuongNgocHieu99
      @VuongNgocHieu99 6 лет назад

      the bigger the threat ....there more human wants to hunt them down.

    • @ThatGuyWithSomeSubs
      @ThatGuyWithSomeSubs 6 лет назад

      ikr

  • @alphaxard1
    @alphaxard1 7 лет назад +2729

    dear vegans,your food is eating my food

    • @user-nf3hh8kn5r
      @user-nf3hh8kn5r 7 лет назад +39

      Vegans don't eat carnivorous plants, because they're non-vegan. They only eat herbivorous plants lol

    • @alphaxard1
      @alphaxard1 7 лет назад +40

      a green plant by any other name still wants to eat a sheep. and what the heck is a 'herbivorous' plant,FAITH? I thought the sheep was

    • @romkin1197
      @romkin1197 7 лет назад +14

      @alphaxard1 there is actually some plants that do indeed "kill" other plants. Sometimes you see some plants wrap themselves around others like a tree "suffocating it" and taking it's sunshine :C
      :x I'm bad with words.

    • @alphaxard1
      @alphaxard1 7 лет назад +4

      Rom Kin they are called vines

    • @romkin1197
      @romkin1197 7 лет назад +4

      alphaxard1 It isn't just vines :x

  • @alastairward2774
    @alastairward2774 Год назад

    0:35 such a pleasant way of describing animals just giving up and dying.

  • @leebumble
    @leebumble 4 года назад +1

    The problem with this theory is we've only been farming sheep relatively recently and bramble bushes have been around, unchanged for millions of years. It's much more likely capturing sheep is not the main function of it's design and more along the lines of a happy accident or a side hustle in street terms!!

    • @waltonsimons12
      @waltonsimons12 4 года назад

      @What Not necessarily. This could be a recent adaptation, one that hasn't had a chance to become fully optimized yet.

  •  7 лет назад +33

    saved a horse many moons ago that was wrapped in this bramble

  • @n3rdy11
    @n3rdy11 7 лет назад +104

    I don't know how I ended up here, I'm just glad I did.
    Saw some cute sheep and learned that brambles are bloodthirsty killers.
    Figures tho, even as a kid I could never stand these plants exactly because of their backward facing thorns.

  • @pauldark1547
    @pauldark1547 3 года назад +1

    DUDE IS ACTUALLY GRABBING BRAMBLES WITH HIS BARE HANDS