I'm not surprised that camels do well in the cold they shipped them in here in BC during the Yukon gold rush because they did better packing in the snow than horses or mules
People often think that fiction helps science, but this is a case where it stunts knowledge. As he repeats in his lecture, we basically already knew this, just you didn't. Ironically, my wife was just telling me that the double humped ones live in colder parts of Asia and I was defending the hot climate idea.
I had never heard of the speaker before. After watching this video I want him as one of my teachers! Very witty and explains things in a way anyone could understand. He also in understands the importance of visual aids to make a point.
+Sincerelyy Eccentric I was wondering the whole time he talked "Why isn't the woman doing this TED talk? Is she dead?" I don't like it. He shouldn't use other peoples work to get his 15 minutes of fame.
+Sincerelyy Eccentric And why not choose a speaker without speech impediments. I don't wanna be mean but the stutter and the lisp is really distracting me..
+The Bullshooter He 100% definitely doesn't have a lisp. Why do you think that? I went back to listen, and I hear him saying his "s" sounds completely fine... Also, what stuttering? How are you imagining you hear this stuff? Strange...
This was fascinating. I never thought much about camels, but this captivated me. Evolution and the adaptivity of life is beautiful and mind blowing. What a majestic creature with such soulful eyes... I love it.
Nice joke, but Camels are actually very popular in Europe. Spain, Italy, Albania, Greece and other southern countries really love Camel. I smoke blue Camels myself xD
There used to be cigarette ads in America which roped in the doctors, such as "nine out of ten doctors recommend...etc." so "Nine out of ten doctors who have tried Camels prefer women." is the best cigarette ad ever.
yoursotruly yeah, history... Camels are bad for you, so they say, and Marlboros too. Diesel and airplane-stink is soon to be gone, so we hope! And what's left is Elon Musk and his electric world! 😋
very good format! the person who did the work had the chance to speak and be recorded in a relaxed manner minus the public speaking stress, and the presenter was not only good at speaking to an audience but was also clearly excited about the story of her work. This is excellent!
Bactrian camels live in the GOBI Desert TODAY. It can get Minus 40 C there. So, how is it surprising that camels once lived in the Artic when the earth was much warmer than it is now?
Camels are amazing animals. Like no other beings except the humans who depend on them for transportation, they can travel in a desert, which is DRY. And how about the coldest regions on earth? Aren't they dry too?
I enjoyed this talk and appreciate that the speaker, even though he wasn't involved in the experience, but still wanted to share the story with the world
This is what I've always loved about science: nothing is ever infallible. As soon as concrete evidence disputes the current theory, a new theory is developed to better explain our world. Science is always representing the furthest extent that human knowledge has reached, and thus never outdated. It never allows indisputable conclusions backed by blind faith, nor does it ever enforce dogma by making people oblivious to what mankind has learned.
same with history, literature, philosophy, mathematics... just all the fields of academia, and incidentally science was created by philosophers so its misleading to give science so much exclusive credit for its ability to seek truth.
+shiraz. Science is the process. Aside from literature (which is frozen as written), the other fields you mention actually fall under the umbrella of *the process* of science.
that is not true; there is dogmatic faith in today's materialist based science like the belief in a "all knowing" natural mechanism that can forsee the future and form new organs & matter in the cell ..scientists call it natural selection
shiraz. So, philosophy never changes based on new information? Mathematics, aside from those immutable truths that it has uncovered, never changes? Perhaps you should try becoming somewhat educated. The journey is well worth it. I've only just really begun that journey. Join us.
This is a great TED talk - informative, surprising, interesting. A historical detective story with a "I didn't see that coming" twist at the end. I loved the interaction with the phoned in expert.
"Hokey pokey artichoky. You are what you eat. You are what you say." - Michelle 3yr old Montessori student. Your story is delightful. The audience loved it.
I like this format, his speech is basically an annotation of their interview. As we listen to him annotate, we get to hear a sort of fourth point of view. A point of view which travels through the fourth wall.
Mainer here...I bet the moose originates from Arctic camels. So cool to think about! Camels and moose do have odd shaped bodies and their heads are very similar. Same with their feet.
@@danielacosta7717 a moose and a camel have similarities. Did you even listen to the video? Other animals derived from the camel. If they'd arrived exactly like the camel then it would be a camel.
Ok... why is this such a surprise to everyone? Camels were always out of place in the desert. Nothing ever pointed to them evolving there as everything else that evolves in deserts is small to tiny. Which is what made deserts a good place for them to settle down in. No big predators. Though the thought of a 9', 1-ton plus camel is pretty daunting. When _it_ spits in your eye, you say "Thank you, sir, may I have another."
Thank you for helping me to understand more of the Verse 17 in chapter 88 in The Holy Quran "Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?"
The wise guy knew that it was impossible, therefore he never tried. The fool never knew that it could not be done, so he went ahead and did it anyway. I was reminded of this Indian proverb when I saw the camel's story.
It’s so easy to see the world as black and white. It’s the open minded that see all the shades in between. We have so much to learn. This presentation is far beyond just camels. Camels are really cool though :)
This presentation is good for people who get tense easily while doing onstage stuffs. But for others...it is advisable to just type your thoughts . I don’t know...but this stuffs works.
Most of the obnoxious comments purport to be from a position of "I always knew that", or "isn't it obvious", when that wasn't even the point of the talk. The presenter even said as much in the very first sentence. The talk was about how our views change with knowledge and serendipity. I suppose some of that can be attributed to the click-baitish title of the video. Had they called it Serendipity and Knowledge it would not have elicited such comments but then the number of views would have been lower.
Back in the 1950’s a percentage of tire inner tubes were red. Here in the San Luis Valley a guy named Piersall would take his scissors and cut arrowhead shapes and scatter them in the desert.
panelolli Lol!. Me and a friend actually did that with rare stones in a area that lacks those formations, we heard several years later from a mineral collector that some were found in that same location and they're investigating a possible vein! lol, anything to stand in the way of progress!
but the effects are the exact opposite. the more entertaining something became the more people get interested in the concept. and also it doesn't kill the main content and research (if that's what you're afraid of) it's just like a trailer that makes the audience seek for the complete story.
@Alex Jay hehe ... if i were asleep and he were reading it out in the same voice as he did in this presentation, then I surely would be having a nightmare!
I am overwhelmed to see why it is mentioned there in particular to camel: " How come they not look at camels (that) how were they created? " Quran 88:17
+Frida Nyberg = The camels I saw at the pyramids in Egypt were rather nasty, snarling and spitting at people, which had their owners a bit upset. Not good getting nasty with tourists. But maybe the camels had good reason or were abused.
God's wonders in every thing He created are truly endless, one of the verses in the Qur'an already mentions this "Do they not look at camels, how they were created?" Thank you for this wonderful informative video. Wish you more progress in the miraculously beautiful world of new discoveries.
The Roman army had about a hundred thousand troops as "Dromedarii" at the time of Marcus Aurelius and had used them ever since starting serious wars in the Middle East ....
If it's only one leg bone... how do they know a traveling human didn't just transplant the leg bone from somewhere else? I assume a 9' tall camel tibia would make an excellent tool handle. And they really believe the bone was just lying on the ground for 3.5 million years, subject to all that weathering, and the collagen is still intact??? If it is so easy for the bone to last that long, where is the rest of the skeleton? Or the rest of the herd, for that matter. She went back to the same site over and over for 4 years, so it is not as if she didn't search thoroughly. Just saying, this woman is guilty of the very thing she complained about in her interview...making the evidence fit her preconceived hypothesis rather than take the neutral evidence for what it is. And how do they know the bone is 3.5 million years old anyway? Did they use a scientific dating method? Or are they just basing it on the old "well, we know it has to be this old, or else it wouldn't fit into our time line" routine again? Think critically, people.
On my visit to the Great Wall of China, I was surprised to see a camel being used outdoors as a backdrop for tourists. The temperature was -10°C, and it wasn't bothered by the cold. It had simply grown a shaggy coat like horses do in the winter. www.bing.com/images/search?q=great+wall+china+camel
It was like a presentation for Kindergarten and Primary School children... public laughed like if it was a comedy show hosted by Ashton Kutcher telling a story about camels. This was a waste of time for me, not informative at all!
Camels are as fascinating as they are beautiful, it boggles my mind to contemplate on their evolution. An evolution not too dissimilar to horses. I could defiantly imagine an animal similar to Azuri (hope I spelt her name correctly) but a bit woollier and of course bigger. A desert is a desert at the end of the day, hot or cold and if elephants in the form of woolly mammoths could survive the tundra, camels could too. Even if Azuri is smaller than her 9ft, 1 ton extinct relatives, it still amazes me how huge dromedary camels are when you see one next to a human.
Yeah, there are camels living in tundra regions. Why is this suddenly surprising? Also, desert camels are very well insulated overall. The hump is a concentration of fat, sure, but camels living in colder climates also have humps.
Егор Свежинцев My mistake for saying that it's Tundra. It's more that they are exposed to very, very harsh winters. The camels are Bactrian Camels and are still used by local tribes for racing in the snow during the winters.
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Well, that makes perfect sense - the artic is a desert too, just a cold one.
I like that one lady at the end who stood up and no-one followed her.
His sister or a gf? :)
I'd stand up, what an amazing speaker. I mean.. He talked about camels.. and I was hooked
I am a Canadian who has lived in the North; just a few days ago, I just rode my first camel in Morocco. Coincidence? I don’t think so . . .
That sir, is science.
I'll be quite honest, the camel at the end got to me and made this vid an instant favorite.
wtf why
@@fcbGER because camels are so cute
Because, like me (as it made my day and put a grin on my face) you are a true animal lover. I'm so totally an animal lover, I'm also 100% Vegan.
@@zaralunden3202 I like camels but I wouldn't mind eating them either.
I'm not surprised that camels do well in the cold they shipped them in here in BC during the Yukon gold rush because they did better packing in the snow than horses or mules
HAHAHA
I never knew that. Camels in Canada
People often think that fiction helps science, but this is a case where it stunts knowledge. As he repeats in his lecture, we basically already knew this, just you didn't.
Ironically, my wife was just telling me that the double humped ones live in colder parts of Asia and I was defending the hot climate idea.
it may not have been cold when the camel was alive. Maybe it was a desert. The planet shifts/flips every once in a while..
MrsClippit Hopefully that shift is far far away from now!😮
I had never heard of the speaker before. After watching this video I want him as one of my teachers! Very witty and explains things in a way anyone could understand. He also in understands the importance of visual aids to make a point.
This is one of the most enjoyable TED Talks I have ever heard, and I see at least one TED Talk about every day.
Oh, that was great. The end, where Azuri came out on stage was awesome.
Why didn't she do the Ted talk?
+Sincerelyy Eccentric
I was wondering the whole time he talked "Why isn't the woman doing this TED talk? Is she dead?"
I don't like it. He shouldn't use other peoples work to get his 15 minutes of fame.
+Sincerelyy Eccentric probably busy working
+Sincerelyy Eccentric
And why not choose a speaker without speech impediments. I don't wanna be mean but the stutter and the lisp is really distracting me..
she stubbed her camels toe on the way.
+The Bullshooter
He 100% definitely doesn't have a lisp. Why do you think that? I went back to listen, and I hear him saying his "s" sounds completely fine...
Also, what stuttering?
How are you imagining you hear this stuff?
Strange...
I rode a camel once. Was so intimidated, that thing was HUGE.
But he was the sweetest, most gentle animal I've ever met.
Was he a mathematician?
This was fascinating. I never thought much about camels, but this captivated me. Evolution and the adaptivity of life is beautiful and mind blowing. What a majestic creature with such soulful eyes... I love it.
Camels are hard to find in Europe, Marlboros are more widely distributed.
Nice joke, but Camels are actually very popular in Europe. Spain, Italy, Albania, Greece and other southern countries really love Camel. I smoke blue Camels myself xD
Nothing better than a Marlboro after a Camel.
There used to be cigarette ads in America which roped in the doctors, such as "nine out of ten doctors recommend...etc." so "Nine out of ten doctors who have tried Camels prefer women." is the best cigarette ad ever.
In 179 AD the Roman army had about a hundred thousand troops on
yoursotruly
yeah, history... Camels are bad for you, so they say, and Marlboros too. Diesel and airplane-stink is soon to be gone, so we hope! And what's left is Elon Musk and his electric world! 😋
No wonder camels have notoriously bad attitudes: they're out of their element and highly uncomfortable.
@@muhammadrehankhan9508
You sound like you've had a bad experience or two.
@ Muhammed Rehan Khan you dislike white people?
Don't want to be the one to break it to you, but you're wh ....
@@martynborthwick1845 i think he's indian dude, it's still racist towards white people tho
Hes still far more white than half cast.
Not that colour matters, well, matters to the simpleton that can't even troll right
No they arent cuz baaaack then evrything was near the equator and hot as a desert.. so yeah theyre in their element..
very good format! the person who did the work had the chance to speak and be recorded in a relaxed manner minus the public speaking stress, and the presenter was not only good at speaking to an audience but was also clearly excited about the story of her work. This is excellent!
I loved it! Camels, scientists and awesome presenters, three of my favorite things. Let’s share this.
Bactrian camels live in the GOBI Desert TODAY. It can get Minus 40 C there. So, how is it surprising that camels once lived in the Artic when the earth was much warmer than it is now?
Very good point..
Yes ... i was wondering too
I was thinking same
Camels are amazing animals. Like no other beings except the humans who depend on them for transportation, they can travel in a desert, which is DRY. And how about the coldest regions on earth? Aren't they dry too?
I enjoyed this talk and appreciate that the speaker, even though he wasn't involved in the experience, but still wanted to share the story with the world
Close your eyes, and listen to Ashton Kutcher talking to you about camels.
LMAO haha you made my day and this is an underrated comment
Oh God yes!
If I had had my hat on, I would have taken it off for you, sir!
I closed my eyes and fell sleep, thank you for that, I'm watching it now from the start...
You came all the way here to make a vagina joke? Well played...
The Camel face in the end entering the studio: What is the point of all these humans here?
This is what I've always loved about science: nothing is ever infallible. As soon as concrete evidence disputes the current theory, a new theory is developed to better explain our world. Science is always representing the furthest extent that human knowledge has reached, and thus never outdated. It never allows indisputable conclusions backed by blind faith, nor does it ever enforce dogma by making people oblivious to what mankind has learned.
same with history, literature, philosophy, mathematics... just all the fields of academia, and incidentally science was created by philosophers so its misleading to give science so much exclusive credit for its ability to seek truth.
+shiraz. Science is the process. Aside from literature (which is frozen as written), the other fields you mention actually fall under the umbrella of *the process* of science.
+Douglas Holt this is definitely not true of philosophy, or really mathematics. maybe you want to just credit academia in its entirety?
that is not true; there is dogmatic faith in today's materialist based science like the belief in a "all knowing" natural mechanism that can forsee the future and form new organs & matter in the cell ..scientists call it natural selection
shiraz. So, philosophy never changes based on new information? Mathematics, aside from those immutable truths that it has uncovered, never changes? Perhaps you should try becoming somewhat educated. The journey is well worth it. I've only just really begun that journey. Join us.
This is a great TED talk - informative, surprising, interesting. A historical detective story with a "I didn't see that coming" twist at the end. I loved the interaction with the phoned in expert.
"Hokey pokey artichoky. You are what you eat. You are what you say." - Michelle 3yr old Montessori student.
Your story is delightful. The audience loved it.
"But for me, this is a story about us!" - the most overused TED trope .
Love this Ted talk. Just pure awesomeness, the guy indeed is a historian. And the camel at the end...well, didn't see that coming.
My favorite TED talk, the presenter was very good, he gave the scientist credit for her work, my kids will enjoy watching this.
This video made me fascinated with camels. What an amazing and serving creature!
serving with no hump on their shoulders
I like this format, his speech is basically an annotation of their interview. As we listen to him annotate, we get to hear a sort of fourth point of view. A point of view which travels through the fourth wall.
hes kind of muppetty.
i kinda dig it
Thats so kind of you. But wait ...
In a good way....I guess you're right....however he's a Great Orator! He engages the public, clear & well spoken, funny. Excellent job👏👏🌹.
Naw
typical hipster
I could listen to that dude speak all day! His animated movements and inflections in his voice make you really want to know what he is talking about.
Mainer here...I bet the moose originates from Arctic camels. So cool to think about! Camels and moose do have odd shaped bodies and their heads are very similar. Same with their feet.
They even have similarly shaped antlers
@@danielacosta7717 Haha. Camels don't have antlers.
Oh yiah.... and mooses don’t have toes
@@danielacosta7717 a moose and a camel have similarities. Did you even listen to the video? Other animals derived from the camel. If they'd arrived exactly like the camel then it would be a camel.
Kay InMaine Meece are related to deer camels are on another branch on another tree
Ok... why is this such a surprise to everyone? Camels were always out of place in the desert. Nothing ever pointed to them evolving there as everything else that evolves in deserts is small to tiny. Which is what made deserts a good place for them to settle down in. No big predators.
Though the thought of a 9', 1-ton plus camel is pretty daunting. When _it_ spits in your eye, you say "Thank you, sir, may I have another."
PelenTan you're not serious
I agree
Monday morning nerd over here. What a loser
Teachers take note of this presentation style.
+chas ames I've found it very irritating tbh to hear her talk all the time in between
Dude yes! This presentation style inspires curiosity!
+Hapi djus Yep the interjections over the speakers were very obnoxious. I couldn't finish the video because I got so annoyed.
+chas ames
>Teacher teaching about dinosaurs
>Dinosaur comes in through door
Yeah up to about third - grade educators take note. After that just cut out the patronizing comedic Bullshit. It's annoying.
That description/explanation of the camel's characteristics WAS BRILLIANT!
All of those features can easily benefit in extreme heat OR cold. 👏 👏 👏 👏
5 different species of camels originated in Nebraska. It's amazing how my state had camels and was a desert and an ocean now a grassland.
Very innovative, entertaining style of presentation. A dry topic presented like an act! Bravo!
NIce talk, but her performance was phoned in.
lol
Eimerian really, I never noticed
Interview...
Really? I just though she was invisible
David MacLane No, she was the camel that walked out at the end.
This is one of my favourite TED presentations.
So if things had gone slightly different, Eskimos would be chasing down seals and caribou on camel back.
Nope .. they'd be riding with custer on the back of a camel.
I like the back and forth between the two, it gives the talk a personal atmosphere.
Thank you for helping me to understand more of the Verse 17 in chapter 88 in The Holy Quran
"Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?"
The day Dr. Deadthings discovered those bones, must have a Wednesday because.............that's HUMP DAAAYYYYYY!!!
Frozen woolly mammoths were found in the Arctic with tropical vegetation in their stomachs. So apparently it used to be warm up there.
Yeah surprised that aspect was not mentioned, crocs in the ancient Arctic etc.
No camels were harmed in the making of this talk.
They were all harmed in prehistory.
The wise guy knew that it was impossible, therefore he never tried. The fool never knew that it could not be done, so he went ahead and did it anyway. I was reminded of this Indian proverb when I saw the camel's story.
+Anup Bhatt I like that.
It’s so easy to see the world as black and white. It’s the open minded that see all the shades in between. We have so much to learn. This presentation is far beyond just camels. Camels are really cool though :)
Absolutely GREAT PRESENTATION, Latif! Informative and very entertaining, to say the least!😋
It´s just amazing how funny camels are. I mean, it´s not just them it's also them.
The artic is a desert
The best TED talk ever
Alright. 45 seconds in and this guy is hilarious. Continue.
I thought opposite...lol
This guy was a great speaker, awesome presentation
Nice presentation. Love the fact that you had partially did the TED for her.
had ... done
Definition of a camel : a horse designed by a committee.
Llamas and Alpacas are good in the cold, not sure why their ancestors would be different.
bbwolf326 One day I was snowshoeing and ran into a Llama, he spit in my face and bit me!... there goes your theory of them being "good" in the cold!
Speaker was great! Out of the box kind of presentation. This will remain as a fav ted talk of mine
wonderful job from this paleontologist and awesome speech from this young man !!!! overall a great video !!!!
OMG the look on that camels face at 12:00 killed me!
Notice that the arctic was much warmer then than now according to the speaker. (7.39)
My dude kept saying Prō-ses instead of Prä-ses...one of those things that grinds my gears
That was GREAT! Now I know why I love camels so much. Amazing critters and so adorable! ♥️
This presentation is good for people who get tense easily while doing onstage stuffs. But for others...it is advisable to just type your thoughts . I don’t know...but this stuffs works.
One of the best ted talks I ever saw : interesting, funny....amazing ! Very creative
icitlali stardust Same! All these jack holes insulting the presentation are obnoxious. I loved it.
Most of the obnoxious comments purport to be from a position of "I always knew that", or "isn't it obvious", when that wasn't even the point of the talk. The presenter even said as much in the very first sentence. The talk was about how our views change with knowledge and serendipity. I suppose some of that can be attributed to the click-baitish title of the video. Had they called it Serendipity and Knowledge it would not have elicited such comments but then the number of views would have been lower.
Dogs are man's best friend. Horses, Donkeys, and Camels are all tied for a close second.
What an entertainer!! But seriously this was one lovely talk! :)
yeah if you have the intellect of a first grader, it would be fascinating to your
after many days I got to see a really entertaining ted talk...
More TED talks should have camels... can we make it obligatory?
This is so special!! Thank you soooo much!
This title is very alluring to someone who is procrastinating writing a paper..
haha feel you
One of the best TED's I've seen. Awesome!
Makes me think of the aquatic ape hypothesis, check that out if you don't know about it.
wtf? Best TED you've seen? Have you seen only two or something? This was not very good.
Ahh yeah sorry guys, I´ve been leaving those shattered camel´s tibia pieces all over North Canada.. Used to be my hobby!
That made me laugh so hard
Back in the 1950’s a percentage of tire inner tubes were red. Here in the San Luis Valley a guy named Piersall would take his scissors and cut arrowhead shapes and scatter them in the desert.
panelolli Lol!. Me and a friend actually did that with rare stones in a area that lacks those formations, we heard several years later from a mineral collector that some were found in that same location and they're investigating a possible vein! lol, anything to stand in the way of progress!
@@felmlee1876 what?! Aren't inner tubes rubber tho?!
amistry605 That's what makes it confusing to people.
This was one of the best Tedtalks ever.
It bothers me that we absolutely need to turn everything into entertainment now. It's like the battle with global stupidity is already lost
but the effects are the exact opposite.
the more entertaining something became the more people get interested in the concept.
and also it doesn't kill the main content and research (if that's what you're afraid of)
it's just like a trailer that makes the audience seek for the complete story.
This was awesome though
@Alex Jay the point is we could just read this information very qickly
@Alex Jay hehe ... if i were asleep and he were reading it out in the same voice as he did in this presentation, then I surely would be having a nightmare!
I am overwhelmed to see why it is mentioned there in particular to camel:
" How come they not look at camels (that) how were they created? " Quran 88:17
camels are amazing travelers indeed, in Arabia they're called the ship of the desert
ايش جابك هنا
in Saudi Arabia there called juice making machines. 🍺
@@geolleo614 people drink it now as a beverage.
5:55 a belly full of hot water is the PERFECT aid to cold weather. I can imagine the hump forming for that purpose.
Title spoiled it
That makes perfect sense, don’t even have to stretch your imagination to see how it fits. This is a very feel good talk.
Breaking News: Camel goes on rampage during a TED talk, dozens trampled.
😂
+George Maratos It may surprise you to know that camels are extremely intelligent and level-headed creatures, and it is below them to rampage.
+Frida Nyberg = The camels I saw at the pyramids in Egypt were rather nasty, snarling and spitting at people, which had their owners a bit upset. Not good getting nasty with tourists. But maybe the camels had good reason or were abused.
D'y
but seriously... an angry camel will literally grind a person into the ground :(( #scary
I always think of rabbits when I look at a camel.
The only part of a camel I really care about are the toes
+Vexivero HA! HAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHA ...
+Vexivero
The only part of a camel I really care about is the smoke. It tastes like chicken.
Rofl
+Vexivero I see what you did there ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+Smartboy Why does everybody say that when they get a joke? Its old.
I love how the audience trips out at the end when he brings the live camel out on stage 😂
God's wonders in every thing He created are truly endless, one of the verses in the Qur'an already mentions this "Do they not look at camels, how they were created?" Thank you for this wonderful informative video. Wish you more progress in the miraculously beautiful world of new discoveries.
I love Ted Talks of all sorts, but this is one of the best I've seen. Awesome presentation, fantastic "CAMEo".
Screech is doing TED Talks now?
I've seen a lot of Ted Talk and must say that this guy is literally the BEST storytellers I've seen on here
The Roman army had about a hundred thousand troops as "Dromedarii" at the time of Marcus Aurelius and had used them ever since starting serious wars in the Middle East ....
Hey this is the guy from Radiolab! That podcast is amazing
If it's only one leg bone... how do they know a traveling human didn't just transplant the leg bone from somewhere else? I assume a 9' tall camel tibia would make an excellent tool handle.
And they really believe the bone was just lying on the ground for 3.5 million years, subject to all that weathering, and the collagen is still intact???
If it is so easy for the bone to last that long, where is the rest of the skeleton? Or the rest of the herd, for that matter. She went back to the same site over and over for 4 years, so it is not as if she didn't search thoroughly. Just saying, this woman is guilty of the very thing she complained about in her interview...making the evidence fit her preconceived hypothesis rather than take the neutral evidence for what it is. And how do they know the bone is 3.5 million years old anyway? Did they use a scientific dating method? Or are they just basing it on the old "well, we know it has to be this old, or else it wouldn't
fit into our time line" routine again?
Think critically, people.
Great TED talk. I love the presenter and wish I'd had him for an instructor in any course. I was curious as to why Natalya did not do the talk.
There's only one thing to do to test the theory: put a camel in the Arctic for 6 months, whether it will be survived or not
On my visit to the Great Wall of China, I was surprised to see a camel being used outdoors as a backdrop for tourists. The temperature was -10°C, and it wasn't bothered by the cold. It had simply grown a shaggy coat like horses do in the winter.
www.bing.com/images/search?q=great+wall+china+camel
was EPIC when Azuri the camel came out :)
Such a cool concept. Too bad it had to be presented in the Radiolab style of disjointed half thoughts.
+finfan7 I hate that style. Very annoying.
It was like a presentation for Kindergarten and Primary School children... public laughed like if it was a comedy show hosted by Ashton Kutcher telling a story about camels. This was a waste of time for me, not informative at all!
His voice is grating and faux enthusiasm.
It was odd, but I got used to it and enjoyed it the same as any other TED.
I like this speaker, he is a joy to listen to. How awesome to learn this about Camels.
I wonder if that talk was on Hump DAY?!?!?
This is the most inspiring Ted Talk I have watched till date.
So the camel's in Mongolia and all the llamas in the Andes just didn't give you a clue?
Camels are as fascinating as they are beautiful, it boggles my mind to contemplate on their evolution. An evolution not too dissimilar to horses. I could defiantly imagine an animal similar to Azuri (hope I spelt her name correctly) but a bit woollier and of course bigger. A desert is a desert at the end of the day, hot or cold and if elephants in the form of woolly mammoths could survive the tundra, camels could too. Even if Azuri is smaller than her 9ft, 1 ton extinct relatives, it still amazes me how huge dromedary camels are when you see one next to a human.
Yeah, there are camels living in tundra regions. Why is this suddenly surprising? Also, desert camels are very well insulated overall. The hump is a concentration of fat, sure, but camels living in colder climates also have humps.
+ShiroiKage009 "camels living in tundra regions"
What are you saying? Give me an example. A single one.
Егор Свежинцев My mistake for saying that it's Tundra. It's more that they are exposed to very, very harsh winters. The camels are Bactrian Camels and are still used by local tribes for racing in the snow during the winters.
Fantastic TED talk!!! Great reserch, great guy!