I remember few years back after my wife died, I was left alone with 3 kids. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with bipolar. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment changed my life for better. I can proudly say i'm totally clean for 6 years and still counting. Always look to nature for solution to tough problems, Shrooms are phenomenal.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
YES sure of mycologist Predroshrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, addiction. Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I'm so very happy for you mate, Psilocybin is absolutely amazing, the way it shows you things, the way it teaches you things. I can not believe our world and our people shows less interest about it's helpfulness to humanity. It's love. The mushrooms heals people by showing the truth, it would be so beneficial for so many people, especially politicians and the rich who have lost their way and every other persons out there.
@@thinkabout288 I am googling it and loads of other things to worry about. And then I googled that worrying itself is bad for you and now Im worrying about that too
@@elimorrey7852 i used to pick and eat mushrooms while being informed of the species. I always carried an handbook of different mushroom species and their favorite living conditions and how to cook them and how deadly or safe they are and white caps can also be confused with white sheep mushroom.
If it's humans you're talking about, then I'm fairly certain we're not actual apex predators. And to be quite honest, judging from our actions so far, I'm starting to doubt that "most intelligent species" thing too. 🤔
@@@highadmiraljt5853 @The Spanish Inquisition Not to belittle humanity's achievements throughout history, but we are actually situated somewhere around the middle of the food chain, slightly above purebred herbivores but somewhat below carnivorous real apex predators like lions, tigers and such. The reason we have developed tools is because we don't naturally possess the means to fight off such predators. An "Apex Predator" is by definition an animal that doesn't possess any natural predators, and I can almost guarantee that if an average human was put in a 1-on-1 tooth-and-nail fight with your average tiger , the tiger would make a meal out of the human in 9 cases of 10.
Carbon stars with ancient satellites colonized by sentient fungi. Gas giants inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences. Worlds stretched thin across the membrenes where the dimensions intersect... Impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary..
*The scarf under the cap* of the mushroom is a good indicator for poison. There are exceptions, but most mushrooms with this scarf are poisonous in different amounts.
@@Minecraftpe5 They look like a pale-brown (close to white) flat-head mushrooms, and sometimes they have a dome-like shape. If you want to be completely safe, just don't touch or eat any wild mushrooms. The pale ones are often poisonous. They're oftentimes very difficult to tell apart unless you're a skilled botanist.
The scariest part is the way they kill you. Bit nauseous and out of it the night you eat them, then fine for a while until you start getting severe symptoms, by which time it’s too late to do anything about it.
There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old and bold mushroom hunters. I prefer the name of the closely related Destroying Angel.
this is one of the most beautiful animations ive ever watched, and the way he narrates it, is amazing. I loved and enjoyed this so much, at the same time I learned a lot. Good job guys.
That’s true. The main problem is these death caps closely resemble perfectly good and edible forest mushrooms that have been harvested and eaten in the “old country” back in parts of Europe. I believe death caps vs the perfectly edible ones they resemble have different colored spores so a spore print will ID properly but only serious mycologists generally make spore prints. Thing I don’t like is creepy/scary videos like this (with over exaggerated spidery appendages and green smoky penetrations of our internal organs) make people afraid of all mushrooms and they go around destroying all they see or frighten children (Don’t touch that!!) even over the most benign of basic grass or forest mushrooms and then people and kids are scared of mushrooms unnecessarily. Sure many will say better safe than sorry but if you applied that to everything we’d never leave the house. Education and earning is fine. Silly exaggerations and just that and rarely helpful.
@@richs4878 Problem with Death caps is that they have few lookalikes from Amanita family here in europe. Toxins aren't destroyed by cooking, so all you need is one death cap in basket full of edible mushrooms. Creepy thing is, first symptoms are usually noticed day after ingestion which is too late.
Are you daft? He never said the issue is idiots eating this; the issue is how it may effect ecosystems. Apparently you ignored the video and only listened to the symptoms of when it is ingested.
They don't scare me none! Those mushrooms I got from Tyrell however... There are no words to describe the terrible feeling of dread that persisted for the rest of my waking hours.
Hahaha! Pandora box they call it!! I checked what kind of mushrooms you were talking about it sounded so mysterious. They grow all over the place here in Poland. Every child is taught from earliest years not to touch them. They're very common. The easiest way to recognize if a mushroom is poisonous is to look for gills under the mushroom cap. If a mushroom has tubes and pores it probably is edible if gills better leave it if you're not a specialist. Better yet, not to eat species you don't know.
Many gilled mushrooms are edible. It is not helpful to categorize mushrooms this way. Some tube (pore) mushrooms are not edible. Much study is needed if you want to eat wild mushrooms. I have 30 years experience and I always have an expert identify any new (to me) mushrooms for three years before I eat them.
Eileen Belanger Wow that’s dedication..I just go to the supermarket to source mine lol No seriously, they are fascinating & you seem to have vast knowledge. Have a great day 😀
During an episode of Kenny vs Spenny, in a forest, Kenny holds up a death cap without knowing what it is and instead of eating it, errs on the side of caution and throws it away. I honestly wonder how many other people noticed and if Kenny ever learned just how close he was to potential death.
I mean, it sounds all doom and gloom, and invasive species are always something to be avoided, but... it's not like these things are some kind of legitimate threat to humans outside of somebody literally going out of their way to eat one. We've already been exposed to the tale of Africanized bees and fire ants spreading and becoming undeniable threats, and that makes a mushroom threat feel pretty tepid.
We have always had them in Italy. Every child knows that no mushrooms can be eaten without the approval of an expert. In spite of that every year some people die. The sad fact is that often they are entire families who eat mushrooms together for dinner or lunch
There really is no need to stop them, just learn to recognize them and leave them alone. They are in fact great mushrooms for the environment, as they help the trees quite a lot, and yes, other, edible mushrooms that grow off of the same roots. I picked up delicious boletes more than once that were growing less than three feet away from death caps and guess who helped them grow big and delicious like that. The slugs love the death cap too and they get no poisoning from it and we gotta leave something for them to munch on too, in this case we have no choice but leave something for them.
It is somewhat saddening that mushrooms like the Amanita phalloides are something to be feared. You should definitely avoid this mushroom at all costs, but it's also important to understand its purpose in the ecosystem [in Europe] as a mycorrhizal fungus (having a symbiotic relationship with trees). Just learn how to identify it and move along. Education is key.
When we use to to be young on a farm , when we old enough to explore mushrooms we where told not too pick , we use to like doing the ones that where eatable , us an mum use to go often . As I got older wasn't fussed to them of this day .🎉
Before watching the video: excellent. I get to see how these things spread. Air? Through animal fur/waste? After watching: Oh. Those humans did it again. How expensive is real estate in Mars? Earth was doomed from the start.
I read an article a couple of years ago, maybe 2015 or 2016, an American family "accidentally" ate death cap mushrooms and the doctor had them on morphine for a couple of days even a week and their chances of survival was slim. So the doc made a last ditch effort and did some RESEARCH on natural stuff from a similar experience in Germany and the doc over there gave them milk thistle (extract) and they survived...
There mushrooms are hard to distinct. This mushroom originates from Europe, it can also be found here in my country. Don’t try to identify it because it looks exactly like another very delicious and popular mushroom. In my country after you have found mushrooms you take them to a market where there are specialists who tell you if it’s edible or not. Even with the specialist controlling them there is one dead cap mushroom poisoning per 10 year
I’ve heard that people find the death caps and destroying angels appealing visually and “looks delicious”. So they end up picking it to eat. I have the complete opposite feeling. To me they look so stark, cold, and pale compared to the rest of the environment that it exudes an insidious energy. It’s all white color is almost creepy when u come across it along the forest floor.
I remember the first time I found a cow field cubensis. I had been on Erowid for a few years studying them and what to look for. I went to a local family cow field not expecting to find anything and quite frankly I didn't find anything the first few times. Then, I went back one foggy morning and it was unmistakable as to what I found. Cubensis are the easiest and safest to identify and eat. Breaking the stem you will see the whitish mushroom turn a vibrant blue green within second of breaking the stem. The spore print color is a purple/brownish color. Back then I really didn't know anything about dosages. I just ate 3 medium mushrooms the first time and I remember seeing closed eyed visuals of Aztec type designs, but I didn't really trip. Then, I ate 5 medium mushrooms and I was tripping so hard that it rivaled any LSD trip I ever took. It was overwhelming, but it never turned negative. I remember watching tv and Napoleon Dynamite had just came out on cable. I had no idea what it was, but I tripped so hard watching it. The Depeche Mode song at the end stuck in my head to this day.
A few notes on this piece from a novice mycologist: this is not some issue unique to Death Caps. Many mushroom species have traveled around the world by riding on human activity (some literally, in the case of spores). It's just that Death Caps are a species which is deathly poisonous to humans, and easily mistaken for something edible. One this note, it would've been nice to have included a brief note on identification. The illustrations were also a bit misleading. The mushrooms you see above ground are just a temporary fruiting body (for spreading spores). The actual organism is a dense network of threads known collectively as "mycelium", and this exists under the ground, collecting nutrients and water for itself and its host's roots. Mushrooms don't have roots like a tree, mushrooms ARE the roots, and the thing we call "mushroom" is just a reproductive organ, like a fruit.
evolution: *designs highly effective killing machines like poison dart frogs and bubonic plague, capable of nightmarish levels of death and destruction* humanity: You are like a little baby Hey, remember that time some coal mining town was set on fire, *forever* ?
All I have to say is I'm glad this random video was recommended to me, the animation is absolutely stunning, some of the best work I've ever seen. The narrative sounds futile, the tone of his voice is so desperate, like he's really trying to warn us about these mushrooms, and the sound effects used are gritty, and the video would not be the same without them, the gut-wrenching sound design is unbelievable. All I have to say is I'm amazed.
I got so caught up in the animation, I didn't realize how lackluster this information is. These mushroom could kill us, and we get only a 2 min. video explaining how they got to the US??? please explain more!!
There's nothing lackluster about it. Don't eat mushrooms you don't recognize next to trees, or you might die. You're hundreds of times more likely to die from being a jackass in traffic or eating too much.
Mushroom spores can rapidly travel overseas when given the chance. No idea how they got here. Isn't even a really new event, death caps have been recorded in the PNW for a very long time.
I actually read an article on this subject about 2 months ago and it talked about how there have been multiple fatalities related to death caps in the past few years in Canada as they become more common. A big problem with Amanita muscaria (death cap) is that it appears similar to a number of gourmet mushrooms from the South Asian Islands, and a number of fatalities and near-fatalities have been from people believing that this mushroom was safe to eat. Apparently the toxin is odourless and tasteless and the mushroom itself is actually really delicious... but deadly. Apparently it was first discovered in the western hemisphere in California, and is so much more common in California than anywhere else in the USA. So, lesson is, DON'T GO PICKING MUSHROOMS. There's no antidote for Death Cap toxin, and the only way to survive is via liver transplant. It's because of this that so many have died to the shrooms...
Sounds like a challenge! 👀! Deathcap exterminator at your service ! /srsly tho, widespread education of these are probably a big help in dealing with them.
So, is this a problem if we just tell people 'don't eat mushrooms you don't 100% recognize'? Where I live, all the kids get told not to touch fly amanitas or death caps.
@@SerenityScratch It's a boring ol mushroom without any notable feature aside from the ability to give a swift kick to both your liver and kidneys when eaten. I mean sure, we've started to find it in weird places, but that's pretty inevitable with any mushroom because of spore dispersal and more careful observation.
@@ryanjohnson5266 pretty boring other than rapidly spreading and being toxic to the point of death. Yeah, doing exactly what it is said to do is pretty much click bait idk what he was thinking
@@masako8980 if the title is stating that an olive-green Amanita mushroom is "terrifying and unstoppable," then it probably means that they're running out of interesting ideas over here
This comes from an article they published a month or two ago where a scientist at a university in British Columbia was the main source of information. There is a lot of research that has gone into the information presented here. There really aren't any opinions in this: the mushrooms were spread from Europe to the Americas (and elsewhere) by humans and the mushrooms really can kill you (not instantly but they're still very lethal).
I remember few years back after my wife died, I was left alone with 3 kids. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with bipolar. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment changed my life for better. I can proudly say i'm totally clean for 6 years and still counting. Always look to nature for solution to tough problems, Shrooms are phenomenal.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
YES sure of mycologist Predroshrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, addiction. Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I'm so very happy for you mate, Psilocybin is absolutely amazing, the way it shows you things, the way it teaches you things. I can not believe our world and our people shows less interest about it's helpfulness to humanity. It's love. The mushrooms heals people by showing the truth, it would be so beneficial for so many people, especially politicians and the rich who have lost their way and every other persons out there.
Where can I find him? Can I Google this dude
That animation was gorgeous. What a great narrative. Thank you
Check out Ilya Bilibin, russian illustrator. Really cool stuff
Why cant Amexicans speak English? Its niche not nitch!
Only a wall can protect us.
Dude stutters like a pro.
Glad to hear. Kyle father spent quite a few months researching this and did a couple of trips for his article and narration.
I can tell your animator loves mushrooms.
oh yeah, shrooms are the best
@@Lyle-xc9pg Lots of people love shrooms :D
Or hates them
@@Mechagodzilla128 shrooms and acid are crazy together
@@abbieq11 that one boring person
Oh good something else to worry about.
google it
@@thinkabout288 I am googling it and loads of other things to worry about. And then I googled that worrying itself is bad for you and now Im worrying about that too
@@profile1251 famous jamaican philosophy " don't worry be happy " 🤔
Imapov Soru
DONT USE GOOGLE
and stop advertising it for them
Can't hurt you if you don't eat it. The "Safety Nazis" are just trying to scare you.
Find something else to worry about.
I feel we needed a little more information from this one!! :)
I clicked because I wanted info on why they are so lethal.. not how we moved them across the planet.
@@thorwald2005Because they contain poison
@Robo Cop Always glad to help.
@@SpaghettiToaster Why is poison so lethal?
@@einexile It causes your body to stop working.
Hello i am finnish and old mushroom picker. First thing to know about mushrooms.. *clears troath* Don't eat random mushrooms!
There are old mushroom pickers, there are bold mushroom pickers, there are no old bold mushroom pickers.
@@elimorrey7852 i used to pick and eat mushrooms while being informed of the species. I always carried an handbook of different mushroom species and their favorite living conditions and how to cook them and how deadly or safe they are and white caps can also be confused with white sheep mushroom.
@@elimorrey7852 hahah terence mckenna
apex predators and the most intelligent species on earth
vs
one fungi boi
Ape eats shrooms ?
Dr. Pavel I'm CIA
one fun guy
If it's humans you're talking about, then I'm fairly certain we're not actual apex predators. And to be quite honest, judging from our actions so far, I'm starting to doubt that "most intelligent species" thing too. 🤔
Xien Tau
When we are the cause of multiple species going extinct, I’m pretty sure we should be pretty high up in the food chain.
@@@highadmiraljt5853 @The Spanish Inquisition
Not to belittle humanity's achievements throughout history, but we are actually situated somewhere around the middle of the food chain, slightly above purebred herbivores but somewhat below carnivorous real apex predators like lions, tigers and such.
The reason we have developed tools is because we don't naturally possess the means to fight off such predators.
An "Apex Predator" is by definition an animal that doesn't possess any natural predators, and I can almost guarantee that if an average human was put in a 1-on-1 tooth-and-nail fight with your average tiger , the tiger would make a meal out of the human in 9 cases of 10.
The animation is upright fascinating.
The animation is forthright fascinating.
The animation is birthright fascinating.
The animation is left/right fascinating
The animation is skin-tight fascinating
The animation is conquest fascinating
"mobilizing mushrooms" sounds like something from an tiny ant war
i love how this ends with "and there's no way you can stop them"
this is amazing
Sounds like something from Morrowind haha
HANS GET ZE FLAMMEN WERFEN
Ant 1 "SIR THE REDS ARE TAKING OVER!"
Ant 2 "WE NEED THOSE MUSHROOMS MOBILIZED, DAMNIT!"
Ant general, about to commit war crimes: release the Ophiocordyceps!
Here after the Australian mushroom tragedy. This is so beautifully made and clearly explained. Thank you!
Same! What's your thoughts? You think she is innocent or guilty?
@@quinny98guilty. She's a scrag
@@quinny98Guilty
@@quinny98 guilty
Imagine if we found her name in the comments from years ago..oh she is guilty …
I for one welcome our new mushroom overlords.
Carbon stars with ancient satellites colonized by sentient fungi. Gas giants inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences. Worlds stretched thin across the membrenes where the dimensions intersect... Impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary..
They will then evolve into the Mooshroom.
praise the shrooms or die
Nice to hear from you Mr. Brockman, even if 4 years late.
*The scarf under the cap* of the mushroom is a good indicator for poison.
There are exceptions, but most mushrooms with this scarf are poisonous in different amounts.
That and bright red ones. If i remember.
Caesars are bright and have "scarves", but they are not poisonous. Ceasar mushroom / Amanita Caesaria
„Rules“ like this mean ☠️
Before eating a 🍄🟫 you have to be 200% sure which kind of 🍄🟫 you have collected.
If not.
Throw it away!
Psychedelic mushrooms really healed me years back. Totally got rid of depression, anxiety and illicit pill addiction.
Psychedelics should only be used with great care and respect, I would love to feel same man , how do you source em
dr.perryshrooms is your guy. Got all kinds of psychedelics stuff. Guided me through my first ever experience
Yes, dr.perryshrooms. There's a lot of potential in psychedelics
hm. Can dr.perryshrooms dispatch to me in LA?
Sure, discreet shipping to anywhere
I got mine delivered here in North Carolina.
Would’ve been interesting to see at least one real image of a death cap somewhere in this piece, not that I can’t find one, just is more relevant.
No.
I've watched 3 separate videos about this and I still don't know what they look like in real life.
If I remember right they look very similar to the ones we get at stores. The whites ones.
@@Minecraftpe5 They look like a pale-brown (close to white) flat-head mushrooms, and sometimes they have a dome-like shape. If you want to be completely safe, just don't touch or eat any wild mushrooms. The pale ones are often poisonous. They're oftentimes very difficult to tell apart unless you're a skilled botanist.
Instead of writing this comment just look for yourself
The animation is so gorgeous I just wanna watch it on loop. Kudos and all my admiration to the animation team
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The scariest part is the way they kill you. Bit nauseous and out of it the night you eat them, then fine for a while until you start getting severe symptoms, by which time it’s too late to do anything about it.
Great graphics, more information please, I enjoy your videos!
I'm here because of the Australian case of the deathcap mushroom poison homicides. These mushrooms are so scary to think about omg
There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old and bold mushroom hunters.
I prefer the name of the closely related Destroying Angel.
Mind if I use that for my new screen name? It is kinda catchy!
My dad used to say that about electricians.
Brian Pan he doesn't own rights to the common name of a mushroom.. lol
My other favorite is "Every mushroom is edible. But some mushrooms are only edible once."
@@brianpan6453 isnt it a terence mckenna quote
I have played enough rpgs to know how to solve this problem. Just give me a big sword and Ill go slay these mushrooms.
This mushroom is dominating headlines currently with the mushroom poisoning in Australia.
The animation for this video is incredible. Beautifully done.
As soon as I heard him say “nitch” instead of niche, I wanted him to eat an amanita salad.
I'm hearing the "nitch" pronunciation more and more, and its driving me up a wall.
@@TheAngelOfBalls in both American and British English its pronounced neesh with slightly different inflection. English language is dying.
Watching this while on shrooms is terrifying lol
Aww...it like the tree adopted alot of mushrooms
It adopted poisonous ducklings
I wish magic mushrooms were spreading 😩
That would be a way more fun Mushie to be on the rise.
They’ve already spread across the world.
Your wish came true
The previous commentor is right. They are everywhere. Just have to know what your picking
Bruce Silverson , how cool !! I never knew, thank you 🥰
(Picks the Death Cap as an alchemical ingredient. Eats it. First effect: Death) Me: "Aw, nards!"
I used to go mushroom picking like you, til i took an arrow in the knee...
Who else is here after that Australian Woman "Accidentally" killed her in-laws?
Me lol 😂 I think she totally killed them. To get their money maybe, or revenge
If you pick up and eat random mushrooms off the dirt
You're not exactly the brightest person on the planet
@dylan thoms in which then you wouldn't be the sanest person on the planet
It was an amazing video, great quality and narration.
Death caps are here in Australia now too.
Please show an actual picture of the mushroom..gawd
Do a google image search for death cap mushrooms.
funny thing is there are like five different death cap species, which all look almost completly different.
amanita phalloides
Or God forbid you actually research by yourself right?
really why can't you just search it up you lazy person.
3 people just died after being fed these (accidentally or intentionally?) mushrooms at a lunch in Australia
Yup! It's a huge case here and damn I feel bad for the kids, they're gonna be judged for their murderer mother
this is one of the most beautiful animations ive ever watched, and the way he narrates it, is amazing. I loved and enjoyed this so much, at the same time I learned a lot. Good job guys.
The Atlantic: There's no way you can stop them.
America: Hold my thousands of nukes.
Hey at least they are helping the tree with nutrients
And this Terrifyingly Unstoppable force can be avoided by NOT eating wild unidentified mushrooms like a rational human being.
It's ok to eat wild mushrooms, but only if you've identified them with certainty. Be intelligent.
@@jayfawn8478 those are psilocybin mushrooms and people eat those to get high not out of hunger and desperation 😆
That’s true. The main problem is these death caps closely resemble perfectly good and edible forest mushrooms that have been harvested and eaten in the “old country” back in parts of Europe. I believe death caps vs the perfectly edible ones they resemble have different colored spores so a spore print will ID properly but only serious mycologists generally make spore prints. Thing I don’t like is creepy/scary videos like this (with over exaggerated spidery appendages and green smoky penetrations of our internal organs) make people afraid of all mushrooms and they go around destroying all they see or frighten children (Don’t touch that!!) even over the most benign of basic grass or forest mushrooms and then people and kids are scared of mushrooms unnecessarily. Sure many will say better safe than sorry but if you applied that to everything we’d never leave the house. Education and earning is fine. Silly exaggerations and just that and rarely helpful.
@@richs4878 Problem with Death caps is that they have few lookalikes from Amanita family here in europe.
Toxins aren't destroyed by cooking, so all you need is one death cap in basket full of edible mushrooms. Creepy thing is, first symptoms are usually noticed day after ingestion which is too late.
Are you daft? He never said the issue is idiots eating this; the issue is how it may effect ecosystems.
Apparently you ignored the video and only listened to the symptoms of when it is ingested.
They don't scare me none!
Those mushrooms I got from Tyrell however... There are no words to describe the terrible feeling of dread that persisted for the rest of my waking hours.
they dont have to scare you. but either way they're killing you
Its like the evil flowers growing around a totally normal tree in dont starve
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They had a couple good songs
Back in what? 2004?
newspaper article for 'Mother Earth News'
>Single Species ruins everything forever
That happens a lot.
Humans
Wonderful animation. This is exactly what I want from an informative video. It hardly points itself out or the platform it was posted on. Thank you.
Hahaha! Pandora box they call it!! I checked what kind of mushrooms you were talking about it sounded so mysterious. They grow all over the place here in Poland. Every child is taught from earliest years not to touch them. They're very common. The easiest way to recognize if a mushroom is poisonous is to look for gills under the mushroom cap. If a mushroom has tubes and pores it probably is edible if gills better leave it if you're not a specialist. Better yet, not to eat species you don't know.
Many gilled mushrooms are edible. It is not helpful to categorize mushrooms this way. Some tube (pore) mushrooms are not edible. Much study is needed if you want to eat wild mushrooms. I have 30 years experience and I always have an expert identify any new (to me) mushrooms for three years before I eat them.
Eileen Belanger Wow that’s dedication..I just go to the supermarket to source mine lol
No seriously, they are fascinating & you seem to have vast knowledge. Have a great day 😀
Was hoping for an actual picture of one
If only there was a way to find something like that. They could call it a search engine or something.
@@aluisious the passive aggressiveness in strong. Who hurt you, baby?
@@yviesunshine8176 Stop being lazy and use Google. There, now it's not "passive."
@@aluisious I like it!!
@Dark Star there's a thing called Google? GTFO!!! Never heard of it, I'll have to Google it.
During an episode of Kenny vs Spenny, in a forest, Kenny holds up a death cap without knowing what it is and instead of eating it, errs on the side of caution and throws it away.
I honestly wonder how many other people noticed and if Kenny ever learned just how close he was to potential death.
Or was just not eating random mushrooms whenever he found them. Grab a brain bud
@@OgJusttrippin Watch the episode in question before you decide to put your foot in your mouth again, "bud".
I'm not your "bud", "guy".
@@yukowolfang8645 I'm not your guy, friend.
@@MilesLougheed I'm not your friend, buddy. (mb, when I read Kenny I thought you were talking about South Park xD )
I mean, it sounds all doom and gloom, and invasive species are always something to be avoided, but... it's not like these things are some kind of legitimate threat to humans outside of somebody literally going out of their way to eat one. We've already been exposed to the tale of Africanized bees and fire ants spreading and becoming undeniable threats, and that makes a mushroom threat feel pretty tepid.
Good animations but honestly a lackluster video. It's too short and not much is explained considering how clickbaity the title is.
We have always had them in Italy. Every child knows that no mushrooms can be eaten without the approval of an expert. In spite of that every year some people die. The sad fact is that often they are entire families who eat mushrooms together for dinner or lunch
When you live in the Pacific Northwest and see this video, A N X I E T Y
There really is no need to stop them, just learn to recognize them and leave them alone. They are in fact great mushrooms for the environment, as they help the trees quite a lot, and yes, other, edible mushrooms that grow off of the same roots. I picked up delicious boletes more than once that were growing less than three feet away from death caps and guess who helped them grow big and delicious like that. The slugs love the death cap too and they get no poisoning from it and we gotta leave something for them to munch on too, in this case we have no choice but leave something for them.
It is somewhat saddening that mushrooms like the Amanita phalloides are something to be feared. You should definitely avoid this mushroom at all costs, but it's also important to understand its purpose in the ecosystem [in Europe] as a mycorrhizal fungus (having a symbiotic relationship with trees). Just learn how to identify it and move along. Education is key.
BY FAR the best animation EVER seen on youtube...what the hell ! Wow.
This only serves to our inevitable travel by spore drive 😂
When we use to to be young on a farm , when we old enough to explore mushrooms we where told not too pick , we use to like doing the ones that where eatable , us an mum use to go often . As I got older wasn't fussed to them of this day .🎉
Before watching the video: excellent. I get to see how these things spread. Air? Through animal fur/waste?
After watching: Oh. Those humans did it again. How expensive is real estate in Mars? Earth was doomed from the start.
But then we'd just destroy mars, and that shit is not epic
Andperson, who said someone’s joining me over there?
Ok I’m on mushrooms now and this is amazing to watch and listen to. Thanks
@Mosess-jg1mi shhh if you’re truly into mycology you do your is growing
Pocahontas' dad: "These white fungi are dangerous!"
the settlers and the mushrooms
Idiots
This was a great video. I love the almost old-english style of the art. I always enjoyed the style, and it's really nice to see it animated ^^
Wait, don’t Truffles also grow near roots in the Pacific Northwest?
(My hopes of more truffles coming from Oregon are now dashed)
This animation is amazing, I could watch it all day for any topic and be happy
Life hack don’t eat random mushrooms that can potentially kill u
Please keep animating like this for every video
I read an article a couple of years ago, maybe 2015 or 2016, an American family "accidentally" ate death cap mushrooms and the doctor had them on morphine for a couple of days even a week and their chances of survival was slim. So the doc made a last ditch effort and did some RESEARCH on natural stuff from a similar experience in Germany and the doc over there gave them milk thistle (extract) and they survived...
They are the ones to blame not the mushroom
Need some milk thistle in Australia atm
Wow this animation is so beautiful and the narrator has a lovely voice
Someone info on what to look for, how to identify them would probably be helpful...
go to the freaking library. geez.
There mushrooms are hard to distinct. This mushroom originates from Europe, it can also be found here in my country. Don’t try to identify it because it looks exactly like another very delicious and popular mushroom. In my country after you have found mushrooms you take them to a market where there are specialists who tell you if it’s edible or not. Even with the specialist controlling them there is one dead cap mushroom poisoning per 10 year
@@finglavina5804 how do the specialists identify them?
I’ve heard that people find the death caps and destroying angels appealing visually and “looks delicious”. So they end up picking it to eat. I have the complete opposite feeling. To me they look so stark, cold, and pale compared to the rest of the environment that it exudes an insidious energy. It’s all white color is almost creepy when u come across it along the forest floor.
all hail our fungal overlords!
The Death Caps own this hood now son!
YOU BETTER WATCH YO BACK!!
I used to live in Seattle, and they were everywhere. They are gorgeous mushrooms, and look quite tasty to children. You have to be extra careful.
The illustrations in this are beautiful !
It sucks that people are the root of the problem, but the name is growing on me... death caps
Wait, I want to see more videos like this! The graphics amazing!
The narrator's voice caused my liver to shut down.
I remember the first time I found a cow field cubensis. I had been on Erowid for a few years studying them and what to look for. I went to a local family cow field not expecting to find anything and quite frankly I didn't find anything the first few times. Then, I went back one foggy morning and it was unmistakable as to what I found. Cubensis are the easiest and safest to identify and eat.
Breaking the stem you will see the whitish mushroom turn a vibrant blue green within second of breaking the stem. The spore print color is a purple/brownish color. Back then I really didn't know anything about dosages. I just ate 3 medium mushrooms the first time and I remember seeing closed eyed visuals of Aztec type designs, but I didn't really trip.
Then, I ate 5 medium mushrooms and I was tripping so hard that it rivaled any LSD trip I ever took. It was overwhelming, but it never turned negative. I remember watching tv and Napoleon Dynamite had just came out on cable. I had no idea what it was, but I tripped so hard watching it. The Depeche Mode song at the end stuck in my head to this day.
Maybe easiest magic mushroom to identify not easiest overall, that would be morels or maybe giant puffballs.
A few notes on this piece from a novice mycologist: this is not some issue unique to Death Caps. Many mushroom species have traveled around the world by riding on human activity (some literally, in the case of spores). It's just that Death Caps are a species which is deathly poisonous to humans, and easily mistaken for something edible. One this note, it would've been nice to have included a brief note on identification.
The illustrations were also a bit misleading. The mushrooms you see above ground are just a temporary fruiting body (for spreading spores). The actual organism is a dense network of threads known collectively as "mycelium", and this exists under the ground, collecting nutrients and water for itself and its host's roots. Mushrooms don't have roots like a tree, mushrooms ARE the roots, and the thing we call "mushroom" is just a reproductive organ, like a fruit.
I didn't know about this, very interesting!
First, Killer Bees and now… Death Caps! What’s next, cigarettes are bad? Great.
evolution: *designs highly effective killing machines like poison dart frogs and bubonic plague, capable of nightmarish levels of death and destruction*
humanity: You are like a little baby
Hey, remember that time some coal mining town was set on fire, *forever* ?
just imagine smoking death caps instead of tobacco
All I have to say is I'm glad this random video was recommended to me, the animation is absolutely stunning, some of the best work I've ever seen. The narrative sounds futile, the tone of his voice is so desperate, like he's really trying to warn us about these mushrooms, and the sound effects used are gritty, and the video would not be the same without them, the gut-wrenching sound design is unbelievable. All I have to say is I'm amazed.
I’m here because…..Australia 🇦🇺 😂
I am a death cap, and I feel violated.
I got so caught up in the animation, I didn't realize how lackluster this information is. These mushroom could kill us, and we get only a 2 min. video explaining how they got to the US??? please explain more!!
There's nothing lackluster about it. Don't eat mushrooms you don't recognize next to trees, or you might die. You're hundreds of times more likely to die from being a jackass in traffic or eating too much.
Mushroom spores can rapidly travel overseas when given the chance. No idea how they got here. Isn't even a really new event, death caps have been recorded in the PNW for a very long time.
I actually read an article on this subject about 2 months ago and it talked about how there have been multiple fatalities related to death caps in the past few years in Canada as they become more common. A big problem with Amanita muscaria (death cap) is that it appears similar to a number of gourmet mushrooms from the South Asian Islands, and a number of fatalities and near-fatalities have been from people believing that this mushroom was safe to eat. Apparently the toxin is odourless and tasteless and the mushroom itself is actually really delicious... but deadly.
Apparently it was first discovered in the western hemisphere in California, and is so much more common in California than anywhere else in the USA. So, lesson is, DON'T GO PICKING MUSHROOMS. There's no antidote for Death Cap toxin, and the only way to survive is via liver transplant. It's because of this that so many have died to the shrooms...
Amanita phalloides, not muscaria.
picking mushrooms is okay provided you can properly identify them. some species are much easier than others.
Warning: Don't watch this video on shrooms.
Ton I was thinking the opposite, this would be an amazing animation (w/the added sound effects) to watch while trippin✌🏼️
Very cool Ice King Simon thank you for talking about mushrooms
Sounds like a challenge! 👀!
Deathcap exterminator at your service !
/srsly tho, widespread education of these are probably a big help in dealing with them.
Why exterminate them? They're vital to our ecosystem
Already knew all this, but the animation was absolutely beautiful. Very worth it just for that.
Liberty Caps only fam.
this was one of the most beautiful animations I've ever seen on youtube and I don't know what to think about that
I think the animator ate some mushrooms before starting the project
It’s scary knowing there is a shit ton of way the world could end in seconds including this
So, is this a problem if we just tell people 'don't eat mushrooms you don't 100% recognize'? Where I live, all the kids get told not to touch fly amanitas or death caps.
this animation was beautiful !
there goes the magic mushrooms 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🤨
Makes a great video on the dangers of death caps. Doesn’t take time to show us what they look like
That clickbait-y video title is literally taken out of the Fox News handbook. Gross.
How was it click bait-y?
@@SerenityScratch It's a boring ol mushroom without any notable feature aside from the ability to give a swift kick to both your liver and kidneys when eaten. I mean sure, we've started to find it in weird places, but that's pretty inevitable with any mushroom because of spore dispersal and more careful observation.
@@ryanjohnson5266 pretty boring other than rapidly spreading and being toxic to the point of death. Yeah, doing exactly what it is said to do is pretty much click bait idk what he was thinking
@@masako8980 if the title is stating that an olive-green Amanita mushroom is "terrifying and unstoppable," then it probably means that they're running out of interesting ideas over here
@@ryanjohnson5266 why?
I can not remember the last time I saw such a great and informative animation.
Yes a little more research please not from one opinion only
What would be another opinion though? That death caps aren’t dangerous?
This comes from an article they published a month or two ago where a scientist at a university in British Columbia was the main source of information. There is a lot of research that has gone into the information presented here. There really aren't any opinions in this: the mushrooms were spread from Europe to the Americas (and elsewhere) by humans and the mushrooms really can kill you (not instantly but they're still very lethal).
How to not get poisoned in 2 steps
Step 1: Locate a wild mushroom
Step 2: Let the mushroom be
The animation and sound design here was top-notch
Just as I was getting used to the sight of big spiders, I now fear the terrifying sight of a mushroom 🙄😂