QI | World's Weirdest Migration!
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This clip is from QI Series M, Episode 11, 'Menagerie' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Sue Perkins and Romesh Ranganathan.
Stephen's exasperated "And you, show the ladies and gentlemen..." what you've done. Like he's a school teacher and needs to explain yet again why Alan is back in the principal's office.
Yaaaasssss :p
For clarity, the 300m is the change in _elevation,_ not the horizontal distance they travel. For some reason, the North American blue grouse _(Dendragapus obscurus,_ also called the dusky grouse) tends to prefer higher elevations during cold seasons, and lower elevations when it breeds in warmer seasons. That's still not terribly far, since their habitat is in the Rocky Mountains which, being mountains, are rather steep.
Bishop in Yellowstone do this too. The cold is trapped in the low areas and the sun won't hit it until spring.
Bison!
@@GenePalmiter Bidad!
Oh! North American Blue _Grouse!_
I swear I thought he had said Blue _Grass!_
I sat here thinking "It's _grass!_ How far is it going to go and back in a year?"
That's not a migration, that's a commute.
@Donald Piniach The Booty Call: A 21st Century Reanalysis of Migration
@Donald Piniach they move for an extended period of time (many months) and it becomes their home. So, it can't be a commute if you move to the location you committee to
Wikipedia: "with the odd habit of moving to higher altitudes in winter."
Sounds like a skiing holiday.
How posh
for some reason Bill’s route managed to just go around Madagascar lol
They always close the ports
and two stops in greenland
I was waiting for Alan to do exactly that the moment said Stephen said "you've got some drawing to do on the map"🤣🤣🤣
He's done it several times. Classic Alan
I run into this species in the mountains sometimes. They're kind of dumb, in the way that gallinaceous birds tend to be, but I love them anyway.
I'm not so sure they have the 300 yards quite right. The 300 (meters, actually), is the change in elevation between higher foraging ground and lower nesting ground. So, the real distance might be quite a bit longer, still very short as migrations go. But the change in climate is likely as drastic as other bird migrations of thousands of kilometers.
Well that seems like a very efficient arrangement, all things considered.
“Most birds move in autumn from fairly open breeding areas to dense coniferous forest. In most parts of range, this involves moving uphill to spend the winter, an unusual kind of altitudinal migration. Maximum known travel is about 30 miles, but most go shorter distances. Birds may migrate entirely by walking or may intersperse short flights.”
www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/dusky-grouse
Metres, yards, who cares? It makes no difference because the figure "300" is very approximate and the difference between metres and yards is small.
@@OreoPriest The point had nothing to do with meters vs yards but the difference between elevation change and horizontal distance (AKA distance), which was not made explicit in the example.
Alan is the most childish member of this show, in so many ways.
He looks so _proud_ of himself.
'member'
It just wouldn't work without Alan ❤😁
Sigh. You say that like it's a bad thing. Hint: Alan is a staple on the show, and a producer, and part of him always being to the host's right is the point. He is our everyone character who stands in for the majority of dumb-asses with TV licenses playing at home in order to feel smart.
Lawrence Calablaster And yet he was right!
Did Romesh draw the transatlantic slave trade?
Nah but the sight of a triangle on a map did trigger my school ptsd as well
I thought that too but it was Europe, North America and Africa rather than South America.
Tell that to Brazil. The slave trade also heavily relied on South America.
@@R.J._Lewis - fair one, I wasn't aware of that.
@@justandy333 Brazil had far more slaves than North America, it's why they ended up poorer. It's also why the south was poorer than the north. You see it delayed mechanization of agriculture, so they had more costly and lower yields.
My neighbours used to go on holiday in a camping in the next village just 10 km away. I still can't understand.
They clearly liked their little corner of the world ^^ felt no need to go further ;)
@@TykusBalrog I guess you're right. Sometimes happiness is just around the corner ; )
My parents had a summer house for some years when I was a kid. The summer house was just a regular small and old villa with a not particularly well maintained garden; just like the one where we lived for most of the year. And it was just a few kilometers away and the flat landscape did not have a view of any lake or ocean at any of the locations. I thought it was stupid to go to the "summer house" to stay for days on end when I was a kid and I still do.
@@brianjuelpedersen6389 Strange ways, indeed!
There must have been a reason: memories, less hassle than travelling across the country with children, toys, luggage, pets and granny or just they thought "what the heck, the kids won't know the difference anyway. Let's drive around for 3 hours and stay just 5km from home. We can even come back to water the flowers!" ; )
Maybe it was just Kismet 😁
I know of at least one similar mini-migration, and there must be countless similarly weird ones across the world. (Do you remember the lobster 'conga line' in one of David Attenborough's 'Life On -' programmes?)
My grandmother raised geese and kept goats on a tiny 15th century farm in Surrey ('Fernhill', it was called) which had a pond, a water-meadow, and a medieval road (cobbled cart track) running between them.
For as long as anybody could remember, toads made an annual journey of a couple of hundred yards across the farmland from pond to meadow via the road. The nearby villagers knew about it; the local school always let the kids out on 'toad day' to watch the scramble; and even the old parish records had a reference to the event, saying that the toads did no harm and were not to be impeded.
I imagine that in happier times the farm's owner would have been suspected of witchcraft ("Toads is it, eh? And a widow? With a cat? Send for the Witch Finder!").
The farm was sold [compulsorily purchased, actually, hem, hem] in the 1960s when progress decreed that the land should be doing something more profitable, but there was just enough local outrage, historical interest, and environmental proof of the toad road's existence to mean that the developer was obliged to preserve the route, because the toads always made the annual trip, no matter what.
So, the pond remained as a picturesque refuge for mallards and the occasional rusty bicycle; a small strip of the ancient cobbled track was preserved; and the rest of the route was taken underground in a concrete culvert about a yard wide.
Fortunately the water-meadow proved to be unfit for economical development (yay!), so it was left pretty much intact and the stand of willows got its very own preservation order. Kenneth Grahame himself couldn't have arranged things better.
I've not been back there for decades, but I don't suppose the local schoolkids get the day off to watch the toads any more.
"Nature's crap; where can I charge my mobile phone?"
Sic transit gloria mundi.
What a lovely tale, thank you so much! I'd love to go and see the toads, and I reckon that children in school today will too. When the all the wonders of cyberspace are part of the everyday, the down-to-earth idiosyncrasies of nature can be all the more charming.
Really surprised that Bill Bailey didn't know this!
I think these highlight clips from the Stephen-tenure are brilliant.
Before the regime change.
Dara would have been a better choice of replacement.
Dara would have spent his time on the show getting matey ribbings from his Irish pals and saying eeeeeeeeeh
Fry brings the "schlep";-)
Bill's looks almost exactly like the F1 Bahrain GP circuit.
Coincidence? Probably.
Thank you I was staring wondering which track it was. For and accident its pretty uncanny
I was waiting for the inevitable alienating Kent reference from Alan, got an alienating Essex reference from sue instead
I seriously love Alan
Old Jews to Florida. I'm almost 70 and sometimes I feel the call.
I wish these episode had closed caption
I'm amused to notice every panellist drew a migration passing through the British Isles.
Or in Bill's case, the British aisles, so the birds could get their cheese rolls.
I was thinking exactly that but now i dont know whether I'm smart or if I've seen this clip before
Put a dot in the right place for all points?
No sir! That's too big, sir!
which episode was this from? i don't remember it
What about that butterfly that goes in a straight line, then a hard turn as if turning around a mountain? You know because the butterflies used to go around an old mountain/glacier
Alan drew the migration of a woodpecker.
I migrate every 6 months from my bedroom, downstairs to the fridge. I then go back up to my room and spend the rest of my time hibernating
What are you eating that keeps for 6 months? 🤔
"Hello, I'm a young internet user. I'm going to treat the flaws that exist in my character as perpetually ironic-by-default wacky lawl-meme traits so I can circle jerk some cheap humour online to feel good about myself, rather then sorting out the flaws that I know I have."
@@alanira2971 the comment has nothing to do with my real life habits thank you.. for someone going to such lengths to create a sarcastic profile of my online character portrayal, you sure suck at jokes
@@alanira2971 *THAN!*
@@yaseen157 "My online character portrayal" lmao what a loser. I was ready to defend you for making a joke until I saw that. Alan Ira may be stupid for taking a joke seriously, but he's right, at least, that lame internet users having "ironic" online personalities is incredibly moronic. This kinda thing is funny as a joke. But since you're literally saying that this is an ironic online persona you put on, aka this is you not making a joke but making a statement "in-character", it turns into the kind of incredibly pathetic internet crap that Alan was talking about. Do you internet dwellers even have any comprehension of a line that exists between irony, humor, statements, and real life/online "selves" any more, or has it really turned into this much of a blurred, random mess?
The vegetarian has to draw his meat 🍖
Haha, touché! 😂
Stephen Fry he's my guy. What a guy
Here's to Alan for takin' the piss,
1:35 well somebody had to
To me, the world's weirdest migration is of the Thule people of Greenland ca. 1300 CE. They had permanent settlements as far north as Frigg Fjord at 83°7′, probably the northernmost human camp in history until the 20th century, let alone an actual settlement. How was this even possible? What sort of circumstances drove people so far north?
maybe someone was invading so they had to leave
How've I not seen this????? I've seen every episode!!!! (Obviously not. ...) ????????🤔🤔🤔🤔
Some of the clips are from the QI XL episodes (hour long) rather than the standard half-hour QI episodes.
(Also, the description always says what episode it's from)
If Alan and I were in school together, we would've caused so much trouble!
Two videos on weird animal migrations in one day. First SciShow, then QI. What's going on?
It's migration time here. I saw a load of Geese heading South just yesterday 😶
It's migration time - all the videos are migrating to youtube.
1:35 Not angry, just disappointed
Monsieur Clicky!!!!
Monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico. Not in one go but they have a generational migration.
The Willy was funny
Romesh inventing the Triangle Slave Trade
Alan’s path was my immediate instinct...tf?
1:18 Giant Claw?
Glad someone got the reference.
Let Stephen come back at least once
Bill's looks like an f1 track
Which bird?
The North American Blue Grouse
@@rcm926 thx
Hill and dale.
Neat.
How far do they only go for food for this to count as a migration?!
Stephen looks like he borrowed Trump's make-up. A bit too orange. Lol
I love this show, the guests answers get a bit tedious on ocasions.
@gibdo baggins yes sorry, i have spanish autocorrector. Thank you. I will change It.
Colchester
Alan did not disappoint me.
Love Bill
The applause is murder on my ears, learn to level.
They know how to level, they’re doing this on purpose.
You ignored the undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration, witnessed by Dr. Ray Stanz?
Question wasn't about sponges, so no, they didnt
@@Forgotten-dude The question was about unusual migrations, so if sponges have got one it would be relevant.
Of course the laziest bird had to be in America. Oof, are we ever going to get a break? Even Nature is trying to prove it to the world. xD
The migration during current pandemic.
very le cool
Sup fellas
That's rubbish, my local blackbirds fly further than that, call that migration? bollocks!
Surely 300 yards isn’t a “migration” - by definition?
The definition seems broad enough it can handle just about any movement from one place to another. I suppose there should be some exceptions though. I don't exactly "migrate" to the deli when I want a sandwich, so perhaps the key is whether you're actually decamping from one place to another. That would rule out my trips to the deli but would include what these birds do, which is to decamp seasonally from one place to another and then back again.
Pretty sure migration is moving to a different habitat. Going from a hilltop to a sheltered valley would be a pretty clear habitat change. Especially if it's a seasonal change where you wouldn't find them in one or the other dependent on season.
I think it's defined "seasonal movement of animals from one region to another".
So length has little to do with it, though most migrations are over vast distances.
It's more the fact that the whole population up and travels, seasonally
Does that actually count as a migration? no more significant than an annual holiday since they actually return home.
Okay, come on panelists -- it's a frickin' chicken. How far did you think it could fly?
Ta much.
I thought all migration paths led to Britain
Only according to Katie Hopkins
The weirdest migration was the Armenian Genocide
Romesh isn't funny
The strangest I think is the likes of eastern block europeasants, asians, africans, and especially muslims wanting to come to a small island in northern Europe that doesn't want them there! Totally mind boggling...!
300m is too my nearest kfc