yeah an sometimes that means wasps that mind control animals by stinging them, they then lay an egg inside of the thing and the larvae eats the vital organs last to ensure it stays as fresh as possible. The baby wasp then bursts out like an alien fully grown and ready to go commit war crimes.
I've heard that it makes the prey look bigger, because of how big the "eyes" are compared to the actual size of the prey, the predators think that whatever the prey is on (like a tree) is actually also part of its body
It does tho, certain groups of people in Asia and even in Africa wear masks on the back of their heads to prevent attacks from tigers and lions respectively.
More often than not it turns out to be a little bit of both and maybe some third reason we don't know yet. But I feel like the more BRIGHT the colors are, the more likely it's to be just aposomatic, and the more muted and monochrom it is, the more it's supposed to look as if it's looking back. Like especially the tiger ears, that's not really gonna SCARE anything at all lol, not as much as what they're attached to by a LANDSLIDE
For the butterfly one, their wings look like owl eyes and because owls are very good predators, some animals often avoid those butterflies as they think they’re owls
Yep I "totally" liked it(THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME/j)
Fun fact, men in India often wear masks behind their heads when entering river, tigers oftenly drag people from boats and kayaks so using those masks reduces the risk of tiger grabbing you
my guy, there are many different sciences, linguistics, psychology, biology, geology, physics, etc. they don't do even remotely the same stuff. the only thing that connects them is that experiments can be performed to test a hypothesis
i say it works because if predator thinks they 're spotted but their supposed prey is just waiting for them it inflicts fear and if it isn't an eye they think it is a wolf in a sheeps clothes thus being scared. in the end its just fear
Like to imagine a predator going "uhhh no, these spots are way too conspicuous, aren't these things supposed to hide or something? Definitely a trap. Not eating that."
Eye spots can serve yet another purpose too. Often times they will be located on non vital areas to draw focus away from the real eyes. Predators will attack these less lethal spots allowing them a chance to escape even after being injured. Better to be bit on the ass than dead, as the wise ZeFrank once said
i think also perhaps that the big, sometimes bright designs on the pray trick the predators into thinking that they’re also predators and that they’re not who they’re looking for
some insects have scary circles thing that look like eyes but they aren’t really eyes but they have that so it will scare the predator away it’s called an adaptation i think.
Peacocks do the same thing. Males often stay with females who raises chicks and share parenting duties, they evolved alongside tigers, leopards, sloth bears and dholes and they use exactly their tail, not only to impress the ladies but also to make themselfs bigger with feathers replicating the eyes wich cares most predators
I went to a museum last Saturday and they had this big butterfly enclosure, and I got to see owl butterflies up close, they are so cool, they're freaking huge and their wings are gorgeous
Simple. Other tigers. Tigers are solitary in nature, and have pretty big territories. So the only reason another tiger is in anothers territory is if its looking for a mate, or looking to usurp the territory. Having fake eyes on the back of their head might persuade sneak attacks from rival tigers since they might think they are being watched.
Downside of areas where eyes are painted on cows to protect them (and in some places people sometimes wear masks on the back of their heads) is that tigers are getting better at figuring out the trick.
I remember reading somewhere that a species of butterfly had eye spots on its wings, not to scare off predators, but to trick them into pecking at the wings instead of their actual eyes. Pecking at the eyes would kill the butterfly, while pecking at the eyespots only damages the wings.
But then how come we don't even realize fake eyes exist until someone tells us it's a thing? It's not even a predator/prey thing, since tigers also have them. (And we aren't prey either)
In the Amazon river and it's tributaries, this phenomenon gets very interesting. A majority of South American Cichlids have fake eyes, but what for? Cichlids are known to be some of the most territorial, aggressive freshwater fishes. The average cichlid grows to 1ft, and one in the Amazon reaches 3ft. The main hypothesis is to stop their fins from being attacked by fish (mainly characins like piranha, bucktooth tetra, payara, etc). I'm still wondering why these aggressive fish need to defend themselves against piranha, a school of most cichlids could beat a school of piranhas imo
It probably works against ambush predators since they won’t attack if they think you can see them, many tribes in Africa where masks on the back of their heads for this reason. So I think fake eye spots isn’t adapted for the intended effect for an individual species, like fake eyes or surprise, but instead are adapted to have various effects on their given predators. So a butterfly doesn’t have fake eyes to trick all predators it has fake eyes, but it might trick some birds it has fake eyes and look way bigger but may also confuse a lizard.
I think it's basically psychological warfare, and animals are very observant and all process eye contact differently, mostly in negative or impartial ways so its been successful.
Considering we have face recognition ingrained in our brains, I think it's reasonable to say the idea that it reads as eyes at least for most of these, is a pretty good hypothesis. Its very instinctual that we do, and two eyed animals go back at least to tetrapods.
Which begs the question, why do tigers have eye spots on the back of their ears? They're the biggest predator in their areas. What could they possibly need protection from?
Tigers have those black and white spots on the back of their ears to mimic eyes. The bigger question is why a dangerous predator like tigers even have that mechanism
so, if tigers have false eyes on the back of their ears, this would mean that at one point in history, they had predators. so my question is, what kind of animal do tigers fear that much that they had to evolve this way ?
Maybe animals are just scared when they see something that has a familiar shape but with more eyes on different places, like how people are sometimes scared of spiders because they have too many eyes
Predators tend to attack prey that doesn't see them - eye spots create an ilusion causing predators to think that the prey is always looking at them (even if it quite literally turns it's back on them)
I think its bc predators suspect prey animals to have more a camouflaged appearance to hide from them, so seeing something like BIG OL EYES or wacky shapes up in there face catches them off guard
You are telling me that the solutiom for farmers to keep their cows safe wo having to kill the predators are GOOGLY EYES OM THE BUTT?? I love life sometimes
I do remember one species of moth. It makes it back looks like owls or so when it spreads its wings all the way out it looks like it’s in owl hiding in a tree.
nature be like: "I don't know why but they worked"
That's literally evolution in a nutshell.
It just work. Just the way Todd intended.
@@Urkikkthank you Todd 🫶🫶
@@Yellowc0ld,thank you, Todd, for inventing googly eyes on animals
@@Urkikktf😂 who's Todd
Nature is just a big child doing random crap until it works
I mean, yeah😂 That's evolution for ya, I like how you put it😂😂
Tianlan
True though 😂
yeah an sometimes that means wasps that mind control animals by stinging them, they then lay an egg inside of the thing and the larvae eats the vital organs last to ensure it stays as fresh as possible. The baby wasp then bursts out like an alien fully grown and ready to go commit war crimes.
Ikr
There's also a species of oval shaped fish which have fake eyes to make it harder for predators to predict which way they'll swim if attacked.
yoo the 50/50 mixup irl????
Free fire brut❤😊🎉😂😮
Just like dazzle painting for ships camouflage
next time when walking on a national park, I will bring a nice jacket with huge eyes on the back.
Buy a Halloween mask, preferably with large scary eyes and wear it at the back of your head.
Not only will ypu alert predators, yoi might also scare away some people 😂
Or a big ole mask with big ole eyes on the back of your head
@@TaLeng2023at that point, just wear a hyper realistic face mask behind your head to give that conjoined twin look
Recommendations: any weirdcore thing
Its orelse a mushroom 🍄 with each dot an eye or a tv with eyes
Predatory smalls fall victim to "its looking at me" but humans know exactly what constitutes an eye, so we are secondaries with the mind of a tertiary
Snake head caterpillar:
@@doggoborgir8935 Well, it's scary and still kinda works as long as you don't look closer
Don't we get scared by things that look like eyes in random places?
@@ryanjoshuacalo9146 butterflies exist sometimes
@@ryanjoshuacalo9146 all of the time
Well if my cheeseburger had huge eyes staring at me I’d probably be weirded out too tbh
😂😂😂 true!
Naw, it's chill😂
So true hahaha 😂
Snack bug ahh thing
Bugsnax @@no-kx6ld
I heard that they are meant to trick predators by making it look like their going in the opposite direction of what their actually going in.
I've heard that it makes the prey look bigger, because of how big the "eyes" are compared to the actual size of the prey, the predators think that whatever the prey is on (like a tree) is actually also part of its body
Reminds me of that study I heard of where painting eyes on walls lowered crime rates in an area. Eyes just freak creatures out
Eyes would not stop animals from eating. Now, colors would unless we talking about the toadfrog, which shoots poison from it's eyes.
It does tho, certain groups of people in Asia and even in Africa wear masks on the back of their heads to prevent attacks from tigers and lions respectively.
Huh
they *_what_*
what's the scientific name of that, it doesn't appear in search results
It might stop ambush predators from wasting their energy on a hunting strategy they're not adapted for
More often than not it turns out to be a little bit of both and maybe some third reason we don't know yet. But I feel like the more BRIGHT the colors are, the more likely it's to be just aposomatic, and the more muted and monochrom it is, the more it's supposed to look as if it's looking back. Like especially the tiger ears, that's not really gonna SCARE anything at all lol, not as much as what they're attached to by a LANDSLIDE
For the butterfly one, their wings look like owl eyes and because owls are very good predators, some animals often avoid those butterflies as they think they’re owls
Weirdcore fans will love this
That butterfly tho...
I gotta draw it IMMEDIATELY!!!!
Sure will
Can confirm, I love it
I have also never been attacked by a lion!! But that may be because I don't live near lions
Yep I "totally" liked it(THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME THE EYE ON THE COW'S BUTT IS GOING NEAR ME/j)
Fun fact, men in India often wear masks behind their heads when entering river, tigers oftenly drag people from boats and kayaks so using those masks reduces the risk of tiger grabbing you
“Ooooo there’s a tasty li-ERUGH WHAT THE FUCĶ IS THAT”
Normal scientists: cure to cancer, levitation, AI and particle accelerators
Scientists in Botswana: lets paint eys on cow's butt
They’re not the same type of scientists
Scientists in Botswana casualy doing all the real work
I hate it when biologists don't work on ai and particle accelerators smh my head 😤
my guy, there are many different sciences, linguistics, psychology, biology, geology, physics, etc. they don't do even remotely the same stuff. the only thing that connects them is that experiments can be performed to test a hypothesis
Unfortunately all the "normal scientists" do doesn't work unless is something bad and useless like AI
i say it works because if predator thinks they 're spotted but their supposed prey is just waiting for them it inflicts fear and if it isn't an eye they think it is a wolf in a sheeps clothes thus being scared. in the end its just fear
Like to imagine a predator going "uhhh no, these spots are way too conspicuous, aren't these things supposed to hide or something? Definitely a trap. Not eating that."
Could it not be for both reasons?
It's more of a "shit, our eyes met. Now it's awkward. Guess I'll starve"
Lion: Is that cow have eyes on its butt? Is that an Alien? I just want to eat a cow not an Alien 😂
Eye spots can serve yet another purpose too. Often times they will be located on non vital areas to draw focus away from the real eyes. Predators will attack these less lethal spots allowing them a chance to escape even after being injured.
Better to be bit on the ass than dead, as the wise ZeFrank once said
You could say it's an... Optimal solution.
sometimes predators also use these "eyes" to trick prey into thinking that it was a smaller animal
The zoology is interesting to learn 😅.
"My eyes are up here. And also down there"
i think also perhaps that the big, sometimes bright designs on the pray trick the predators into thinking that they’re also predators and that they’re not who they’re looking for
some insects have scary circles thing that look like eyes but they aren’t really eyes but they have that so it will scare the predator away it’s called an adaptation i think.
Peacocks do the same thing. Males often stay with females who raises chicks and share parenting duties, they evolved alongside tigers, leopards, sloth bears and dholes and they use exactly their tail, not only to impress the ladies but also to make themselfs bigger with feathers replicating the eyes wich cares most predators
I went to a museum last Saturday and they had this big butterfly enclosure, and I got to see owl butterflies up close, they are so cool, they're freaking huge and their wings are gorgeous
What the hell a tiger has to scare away?
Maybe not to scare away but to make its prey think that they are watching it
Simple. Other tigers. Tigers are solitary in nature, and have pretty big territories. So the only reason another tiger is in anothers territory is if its looking for a mate, or looking to usurp the territory. Having fake eyes on the back of their head might persuade sneak attacks from rival tigers since they might think they are being watched.
Fighting back. It's not worth killing another animal if you get very battered in exchange, unless you're starving.
Nah if u shoot them then u don't get injured@@mr.cauliflower3536
Humans
Downside of areas where eyes are painted on cows to protect them (and in some places people sometimes wear masks on the back of their heads) is that tigers are getting better at figuring out the trick.
Imagine the predator getting a bombastic side eye 💀
bear:im gonna destroy you
human:*uses jacket civered in painted eyes*
bear:have a nice day
Some butterflies clearly imitates eyes, they even fake the white little reflection that gives life to eyes
Why Does The Butterfly Look like a Moth?
I remember reading somewhere that a species of butterfly had eye spots on its wings, not to scare off predators, but to trick them into pecking at the wings instead of their actual eyes. Pecking at the eyes would kill the butterfly, while pecking at the eyespots only damages the wings.
My theory was always like "Hey, if a predator tried to kill me, I could just trick it into thinking I'm a BIGGER predator and could kill THEM!"
This looks like minutearth.
It's the same artist I think
It's never "because". Evolution is pretty much random. What works, survives and has babies...
Im just simply surprised that that Botswana is the country that did that experiment
But then how come we don't even realize fake eyes exist until someone tells us it's a thing? It's not even a predator/prey thing, since tigers also have them. (And we aren't prey either)
Just imagine you chilling with your homes, eating grass until you feel wet stuff on your cheeks 💀
They all do their little bits of trolling
The cow with googly eyes kinda just looks like a giraffe ngl lol
MinuteEarth?
What others hear:"butterfly,fish,frogs"
What i hear:
"Butterfly,(female dog), frog"
Fun fact (that no one cares about) : butterflies don't have fake eyes but moths have them 😐
I'm so so happy I found this channel. It's like have Carly as a friend on my phone❤❤
As a kid, i was afraid of butterflies bc of the creepy eyes
Then why do tigers have eyes on the back of there ears...? WHAT HUNTS TIGERS????
I SCREAMED WHEN I SAW THE PEACOCK JUMPING SPIDER! I LOVE JUMPING SPIDERS
Now the prey can "scare them away!"
I like how science is always like "It MUST be this one not the other" like both answers can't be correct it's always got to be 1
In the Amazon river and it's tributaries, this phenomenon gets very interesting. A majority of South American Cichlids have fake eyes, but what for? Cichlids are known to be some of the most territorial, aggressive freshwater fishes. The average cichlid grows to 1ft, and one in the Amazon reaches 3ft. The main hypothesis is to stop their fins from being attacked by fish (mainly characins like piranha, bucktooth tetra, payara, etc). I'm still wondering why these aggressive fish need to defend themselves against piranha, a school of most cichlids could beat a school of piranhas imo
What I want to know is, why do tigers have eyes on the back of their ears???? Like what is going to attack a damn 900 lb apex cat?
I’m sorry- Why does a tiger need the eyes to scare predators away?
WHAT HUNTS TIGERS?
GUYS?
Your art style is like minuteearths art style
Lion- "Eww, plastic in my steak 🤮"
It probably works against ambush predators since they won’t attack if they think you can see them, many tribes in Africa where masks on the back of their heads for this reason.
So I think fake eye spots isn’t adapted for the intended effect for an individual species, like fake eyes or surprise, but instead are adapted to have various effects on their given predators. So a butterfly doesn’t have fake eyes to trick all predators it has fake eyes, but it might trick some birds it has fake eyes and look way bigger but may also confuse a lizard.
Perhaps it was like:
"oohhh im gonna be sneaky sneaky"
*Bombastic side eye 👀
"DARN IT, IT SPOT ME!!"
YAS! It's always nice to see my country being talked about on the internet❤🇧🇼❤
BOTSWANA MENTIONED?! 🇧🇼💯
Why did I think this was minute earth 😭
Imagine getting a steak and it has plastic googly eyes on it.
Lion:Ah ****, it's an elephant! And... wait, is it barfing?
I got an answer to the delama : why not both ?
"Alright those cows are looking the other way.. wait what? What are the humans doing? No! Damn it the cows know I'm here!"
So what are the biblically accurate angels hiding from...?
The reason why animals don’t eat ladybugs are because bright colors in nature often mean “I’m poisonous”
Maybe i shouldnt have painted eyes on my kid
Spiders do entire faces.. or emojis I guess
I think it's basically psychological warfare, and animals are very observant and all process eye contact differently, mostly in negative or impartial ways so its been successful.
Alright putting a shirt with eyes on my list.
What if they were eyes the entire time
Great video and the analogy at the end was really helpful, but I would still say that it’s still impossible to truly visualize 4D. This is still 3D.
Considering we have face recognition ingrained in our brains, I think it's reasonable to say the idea that it reads as eyes at least for most of these, is a pretty good hypothesis. Its very instinctual that we do, and two eyed animals go back at least to tetrapods.
Which begs the question, why do tigers have eye spots on the back of their ears? They're the biggest predator in their areas. What could they possibly need protection from?
Tigers have those black and white spots on the back of their ears to mimic eyes. The bigger question is why a dangerous predator like tigers even have that mechanism
so, if tigers have false eyes on the back of their ears, this would mean that at one point in history, they had predators. so my question is, what kind of animal do tigers fear that much that they had to evolve this way ?
Maybe animals are just scared when they see something that has a familiar shape but with more eyes on different places, like how people are sometimes scared of spiders because they have too many eyes
I'm assuming that the fake eyes on the back of an animal trick the predator into thinking they caught prey so that the animal makes a quick escape
Me: *find myself in front of a lion
"hey look I have eyes ... run away "
famous last words
fun fact : tigers has those eye spots on the back of their ears, it’s hard to be seen kinda but it’s there
Predators tend to attack prey that doesn't see them - eye spots create an ilusion causing predators to think that the prey is always looking at them (even if it quite literally turns it's back on them)
I think its bc predators suspect prey animals to have more a camouflaged appearance to hide from them, so seeing something like BIG OL EYES or wacky shapes up in there face catches them off guard
Did that lion meow?
Many lions. Died. To bring us this information.
Walk as a biblically accurate angel as protective armor.
That line sounds lowkey metal asf.
I am less scared of tigers, but I am terrified of why tigers have this and what it is supposed to trick
You are telling me that the solutiom for farmers to keep their cows safe wo having to kill the predators are GOOGLY EYES OM THE BUTT??
I love life sometimes
What makes me insanely DIE of laughter:
1. Eyes on "GYATTTT"
2. Bish ( Bitch )
3. Eyed Butterfly-
I thought it was to trick predators to bite that part thinking it would become blind. But i guess that's wrong
Most likely is just "It works, so nature kept them"
I do remember one species of moth. It makes it back looks like owls or so when it spreads its wings all the way out it looks like it’s in owl hiding in a tree.
You are definitely not minutearth
I'm with the lion if my food suddenly has eyes on its butt Ima keep moving
Crab has it to!
The colour is orange
Predator - i will attack it from behind
Predator- it have no behind
How something like that evolve? I mean, there is a spectrum between "looks like an eye" and "doenst look like an eye", how the trait is selected?
Nah it’s bill cypher