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  • Опубликовано: 28 апр 2022
  • David Attenborough journeys into Kew Garden's archives to find the flower that most fascinated evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin himselff!
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  • @comfortablynumb9342
    @comfortablynumb9342 2 года назад +79

    I lived in Costa Rica for 9 years and never got tired of seeing all the different orchids. The variety is truly amazing.

    • @introtwerp
      @introtwerp 2 года назад

      In the wild?

    • @biokosmos
      @biokosmos 2 года назад +2

      you lucky! in which zone?

    • @introtwerp
      @introtwerp 2 года назад

      @@biokosmos probably10 plus

    • @comfortablynumb9342
      @comfortablynumb9342 2 года назад

      @@biokosmos I lived in the south near the border with Panama at a beach called Pavones then in the mountains near San Vito, also by the southern border.

    • @comfortablynumb9342
      @comfortablynumb9342 2 года назад +1

      @@introtwerp I lived in houses but I had wild animals come in lots of times. Bugs, bats, tarantulas, other spiders, iguanas, toads, geckos, lizards, frogs, snakes, hummingbirds, crabs, an opossum and other animals all came in over the years in different houses. Once we had army ants come clean the house but we had to leave for the day and a night. None of it bothered me, I wish I still lived there. I'll take wild animals over city people anytime.

  • @philsargent9332
    @philsargent9332 2 года назад +110

    Love this show you never stop learning along side david he treats you like a student and teacher😮

    • @charlesnickell7257
      @charlesnickell7257 2 года назад +3

      I agree 💯 percent and I love watching and listening to him

    • @patriciamcaulay5176
      @patriciamcaulay5176 2 года назад +3

      and a voice I could listen to for hours, fascinating guy! ❤

    • @Rooster_RvS
      @Rooster_RvS 2 года назад +2

      Sir David, he's earned the respect....

    • @ayhay4686
      @ayhay4686 Год назад +1

      Hes like an ancient philosopher walking around explaining subjects while us like pupils following him around.

  • @danielpalmer643
    @danielpalmer643 2 года назад +46

    I love watching David Attenborough! All of his videos should be entitled, "Wise old man on adventure again." At 95 years old, it would take anyone else about 112 years to watch his complete works.He's the best thing television ever produced. May his accomplishment live forever!

    • @sailaab
      @sailaab 2 года назад +3

      Can address him slightly more respectfully with a prefix or a suffix like Sir, さん, ji wikipedia.org/wiki/-ji or something similar.

    • @danielpalmer643
      @danielpalmer643 2 года назад +2

      @@sailaab I'm an American and we wouldn't address Horatio Nelson as 'Sir'.

    • @tude17
      @tude17 Год назад

      @@sailaab Americans have a lack of respect, for anyone that is not from the USA themselves, for half of there own population...funny, especially in this scenario, considering the vast majority of their forebears originated from the UK 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️😂 the rest were enslaved Africans, (see, no respect there, let's just enslave an entire race), and the rest were the natives they were able to assimilate.

    • @bubbaclark4355
      @bubbaclark4355 11 месяцев назад

      I agree 💯%

  • @lukehayes1424
    @lukehayes1424 2 года назад +19

    I started growing exotic orchids a few years ago and they really are amazing in every way. Charles Dawin theorized by looking at the lip of a certain orchid (which i now grow) that the pollinator must have an extremely long proboscis. Years later it a moth with an extremely long proboscis was discovered which pollinated the orchid. The orchid also only puts off its lovely scent at night since it only needs to attract moths which are only active only at night.

  • @AlexFoster2291
    @AlexFoster2291 2 года назад +20

    Not only are orchids an amazing result of animals and plants evolving together, but an orchids seeds do not contain an endosperm, the early source of nutrition for a plant sprout. Thus, an orchid's seeds cannot sprout on their own, and must receive nutrients from a host fungus species. So, it takes the work of three kingdoms of life to create orchids.

    • @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep
      @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep 6 месяцев назад

      What evolution? Bro it's 2023 not 1923 evolution is not a real world process it doesn't exist lol. Mindless matter and mutation can't produce code. Mind is the paradigm of creation in reality, not magic. Evolutionary theory is a mythology of magic, rationality from irrationality. Mind>magic

    • @tomasnovotny8526
      @tomasnovotny8526 6 месяцев назад

      Can you please explain your comment? Im curious

    • @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep
      @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep 6 месяцев назад

      @@tomasnovotny8526 Sure. Evolution doesn't work, it has countless foundational critical issues, and biologists have been trying to wholly replace the model for awhile now. There was a big conference on it back in 2016. I'll help you out further.
      Renowned biologist Denis Noble has given the explicit statement and given evidence for it "neo Darwinism doesn't need to be supplemented or extended, it needs to be replaced because it's completely inadequate. Why because scientists are beginning to see levels of complexity way beyond just the complexity of DNA, like epigenetic complexity."
      Genomes don't improve over time they degrade. Virus data like John Sanford on H1N1 the spanish flu shows this. Human genome from encode has shown every generation humans have 100 mutations. The only nobel laureate in the field Hermann J. Muller said just 1 mutation per generation in humans means there is no evolution explanation humanity is progressing in the opposite direction 1 per generation is deadly, yet we find out the number is 100. The human genome is degrading not progressing to a better state. This shouldn't be a shock, as information theory states information degrades, and information is the basis of life.
      All the beneficial mutations in biology like the famous citrate metabolism in ecoli or antibiotic resistance are not from gain or improvement in genetic information, but reductive evolution. A degrading or loss of information crippling a function in the organism that produces a beneficial effect while still being a loss of genetic function. As the famous Lenski experiment showed.
      There is no evolutionary pressure to create building blocks of mechanisms that don't yet exist. Evolution does not have foresight.
      Mindless matter and mutation can't manifest code. That's rationality from irrationality. That's a reality breaking concept. If you can get such a deus ex machina mechanism that does that it invalidates all human achievement and personhood because then the universe did it all. This is why the multiverse theory is so absurd. This is why all of naturalism is absurd because it's predicated on such a deus ex machina mechanism that does not exist.
      Darwin's Origin never explains the origin of species -- and this is stated by David Berlinski no less.
      How does chance determine when to stop at the "desired" outcome? The concept of evolution is nonsense.
      It's not even falsifiable(all results explainable and not reproducible) so really shouldn't even be called a scientific theory. It fits the criteria for being defined as mythology ironically.
      Could also point out y chromosome adam and mitochondrial eve data shows humans had two ancestors and did not evolve. Shocker the dating is roughly 6000-7500 years just like the biblical genealogy dating going back to Eden, and the dating is quite accurate in a general sense as it's just averaging mutations per generation then counting back to when they stop appearing.
      The list goes on and on and on. We could go into the Cambrian explosion evidence of countless biological structures such as virtually every eye design and body plan allowed by physics showing up in a geological instant no evolution, we could show random number generator studies for probability of words/language manifesting, or a study on evolutionary probability of extinction of over 5000 mammal species related to size increases showing mammals can't evolutionary evolve over 3kg. Darwinian evolution is a mythology of magic(rationality from irrationality), it's pseudo science and also invokes time of the gaps and god of the gaps along with all the other issues no less.

  • @arislopes1924
    @arislopes1924 2 года назад +26

    Darwin and I share the same fascination for orchids and epiphytes. I grew up in tropical Central America and I remember going out to the countryside with my parents and looking out for rare orchids growing on the old growth guanacaste trees canopy

  • @kelliott7864
    @kelliott7864 2 года назад +30

    I appreciate this flower's tidy method of pollen distribution, unlike conifers and grasses which send massive amounts of pollen into the wind and ultimately into our noses.

    • @StanHowse
      @StanHowse 2 года назад

      Nuclear attack of tree-sperm.

    • @PsychologicalApparition
      @PsychologicalApparition 2 года назад

      Creating jizz-congested humans.

    • @AsifAAli
      @AsifAAli 2 года назад

      Makes me sneeze in the morning like some mad cow... 😥

  • @jadenkhor3523
    @jadenkhor3523 2 года назад +3

    Can’t tell you how genuinely happy attenborough nature documentaries make me feel

  • @CACTASTIC
    @CACTASTIC 2 года назад +14

    Orchids have the most amazing flowers. My favorites are the mottled leaf Paphiopedilums as they have both interesting leaves and flowers.

  • @TheNeeenha
    @TheNeeenha 2 года назад +4

    A little piece of me is going to die when he does. Hes been such a joy to watch, learn and just listen to, all my life. Love this man and the wonders he brings to all of us.

  • @lone8398
    @lone8398 2 года назад +2

    Love from India... To sir Attenborough

  • @bellakatherman1477
    @bellakatherman1477 Год назад +1

    I love David so much. He is a treasure.

  • @DenisCalligraphy
    @DenisCalligraphy 2 года назад +6

    Anyone who looks closely can see that letter David Attenborough points at and apparently reads at 0:52 actually says: "I wish you to examine also some leaves and (unclear word) pods of a tree.... ", nothing about orchids as he states. Further, it seems the letter shown in the close up is not the book he is pointing to at 0:56 but the letter in the foreground of the clip at that point. Checking again, at 0:49 he is reading that letter in the foreground and at 0:56 he is reading the book behind it. An excellent clip, apart from that strange error.

    • @jyvben1520
      @jyvben1520 2 года назад +1

      They wanted to make a short video (bite) based on a longer video ...

  • @mostlyorchids
    @mostlyorchids 2 года назад +3

    I have a few of these. They can be difficult to grow but the flowers are so rewarding!

  • @AsifAAli
    @AsifAAli 2 года назад +3

    Wow. The scent producing technique... pretty brilliant!

  • @StephenSternGoth
    @StephenSternGoth 2 года назад +1

    The most definitive talk of the birds and the bees I've ever heard

  • @eddieburgett9678
    @eddieburgett9678 2 года назад +8

    Years of studies on plants this man knows his plants

    • @mojo7495
      @mojo7495 2 года назад

      But he doesn't know who MADE THEM! (Genesis 1:1).

  • @twinflowerfioretta
    @twinflowerfioretta 2 года назад +15

    ....so very interesting and fascinating content, and of course with the absolutely best voice and presenter of Natures complexity and beauty ! Tanks to Sir Attenborough, thanks for upload 💝
    Orchides are my fav. flowers too.

  • @LowellBryanOfficial
    @LowellBryanOfficial 2 года назад +3

    I've been fan oforchids but after watched this. It made me amazed more. How great thou art

  • @wopor333
    @wopor333 2 года назад +3

    Does anyone know where to find this whole documentary streaming ? I would love to watch more of it. Need to hunker down with a good nature doc

  • @soheilak6208
    @soheilak6208 2 года назад +1

    Sir David Attenborough hats off to you from Turkey

  • @nighiljiju6208
    @nighiljiju6208 2 года назад +7

    That was amazing 🤩

  • @slb9327
    @slb9327 2 года назад +2

    This is really wonderful how amazing nature is. Thank you Sir David

  • @memememe-gn9qf
    @memememe-gn9qf 2 года назад +4

    That was soo cool! Love listening to him

  • @fabienneroure9995
    @fabienneroure9995 2 года назад

    Absolutely fascinating and extraordinary!🌼🌸🐝

  • @imranfazal5942
    @imranfazal5942 Год назад

    Orchids have amazed me more than anything

  • @abhijitchatterjee966
    @abhijitchatterjee966 2 года назад

    Fantastic journey of life,revealed in the video.

  • @ilopgaara
    @ilopgaara 2 года назад

    I love you Mr Atthenborough.

  • @iblacka1
    @iblacka1 2 года назад

    Nature is amazing!

  • @luci75d76
    @luci75d76 2 года назад

    The nature is amaizing ....very interesting things !

  • @wonderwend1
    @wonderwend1 2 года назад

    Incredible

  • @researchlife2678
    @researchlife2678 2 года назад +4

    Amazing 👌

  • @angelabalog447
    @angelabalog447 2 года назад +4

    Fantastična priroda, uvek nađe način za opstanak...neverovatno 🤩

  • @alabama1413
    @alabama1413 2 года назад

    Fascinating! 👍

  • @0ptimal
    @0ptimal Год назад

    Astonishing.

  • @navajoauckland6003
    @navajoauckland6003 2 года назад

    They are so beautiful

  • @marlyndonnelly2206
    @marlyndonnelly2206 2 года назад

    Incredible!

  • @damilolaoladosu-zm7ww
    @damilolaoladosu-zm7ww Год назад

    Lovely, the bee part really really like a comedy show.. orchids might just be my favourite flowers too💞

  • @coasterblocks3420
    @coasterblocks3420 7 месяцев назад

    David, please do a documentary series on orchids!

  • @LynnColorado
    @LynnColorado 2 года назад

    Fascinating,

  • @GilloPy
    @GilloPy 2 года назад +1

    No sabía que la polinización era tan complicado, gracias por mostrarme cómo es realmente David!. Saludos.

  • @TheChohan303
    @TheChohan303 Год назад

    His way of narration is so clear that one take the English language as his own mother tongue.

  • @anas6695780
    @anas6695780 2 года назад

    Wow!

  • @mixiebluemagic6723
    @mixiebluemagic6723 Год назад

    I'd really love to meet Sir David Attenborough in person 🎉

  • @Austine13
    @Austine13 2 года назад +1

    Yiiee orchids! Love this episode!

    • @renater.540
      @renater.540 2 года назад +1

      Please, more on this topic!

  • @harlem_nerd5191
    @harlem_nerd5191 2 года назад

    Awesome 👍🏿

  • @ashokkumar-se5sl
    @ashokkumar-se5sl 2 года назад

    LEGEND OF LEGENDS

  • @sameeradhikari7346
    @sameeradhikari7346 Год назад +1

    My favorite plant too

  • @virtuoso513
    @virtuoso513 2 года назад +1

    Respect

  • @ilcanaledellanatura
    @ilcanaledellanatura 2 года назад +1

    Nice video!

  • @Joy1957K
    @Joy1957K 2 года назад

    Nature .... eh? Fascinating.

  • @josemata7755
    @josemata7755 2 года назад

    im here learning

  • @orawal
    @orawal 2 года назад

    the high speed camera footage of the flower's inside was like a horror film!

  • @johnnguyen409
    @johnnguyen409 2 года назад

    Wow that is friggin awsome father of evolution/natural selection man oh man that is awesomeness! Before the vid I was like “hmmm wonder if I can own his favorite plant hopefully not too rare” haha sadly we don’t have exotics

    • @plantwithmatt
      @plantwithmatt 2 года назад

      Catasetums are relatively common in cultivation worldwide and are not too fussy in their requirements so you can own one without too much trouble.

  • @daxxonjabiru428
    @daxxonjabiru428 2 года назад

    Yup, ol' Chuck was a fan ...

  • @christineMaccallum-uo3qx
    @christineMaccallum-uo3qx 28 дней назад

    Nature is the hearts of all humans mistey and excitement and wonderful in our life it brings people to gether with happiness and war though any farm its chooses ❤😮😮😮

  • @samhaines8228
    @samhaines8228 2 года назад

    Oh those naughty orchids!

  • @onetwocue
    @onetwocue 2 года назад

    Orchids, next to the rose family have really dominated the evolutionary plant world

  • @reinderdorman2169
    @reinderdorman2169 2 года назад

    anyone know what the blooming thing is at around 0:35? it seems to be some sort of phylogenetic tree, given the axis a bit to the top-right, indicating years? is this in a museum of sorts? looks cool

  • @LadyMossdown
    @LadyMossdown 2 года назад +2

    Gods bless this man and his work 🌍

  • @leiaaparecida9603
    @leiaaparecida9603 Год назад

    👍👍👍

  • @skullhelmet1944
    @skullhelmet1944 2 года назад +4

    I wonder how they know which scent attracts what insect?
    Figuring out insect and flower scent combinations seems like a very lengthy process
    It's a very interesting subject to me

    • @imb5128
      @imb5128 2 года назад +3

      They just don't know. The individuals who developed a better scent just happened to reproduce more often

    • @snekysneks
      @snekysneks 2 года назад +1

      They didn't know. As they reproduced they had random mutations, some of which made them better at attracting specific kinds of bugs. The bugs pollinated the one's they preferred, resulting in this specialization.

    • @mikescan7050
      @mikescan7050 2 года назад

      They probably coevolved together over many years as well as they both began developing scents.

  • @OneSolitaryMan
    @OneSolitaryMan 2 года назад +1

    Not the bee on the stick 😂

  • @virtuoso513
    @virtuoso513 2 года назад

    Nicee

  • @cliffcorbitt9494
    @cliffcorbitt9494 2 года назад +4

    6:05 so the plant blows its nose on the bee? Pollenation problem solved LOL

    • @Johny40Se7en
      @Johny40Se7en 2 года назад

      Either that, or it returns the bee's lick, and then detaches its tongue 😝

  • @krazytim9050
    @krazytim9050 2 года назад

    1:17 David Attenborough executing a perfect plank

  • @lucazsy
    @lucazsy 2 года назад +1

    I was filled with joy when O hear catasetum because I'm from one of the dispersion centers ( Goiás State, Brazil) of those orchids. In fact, I have seen many specimens when I walked in the wild in my hometown.

  • @Ben-Ken
    @Ben-Ken 2 года назад +3

    Imagined that bee shaped/scented orchid evolved to attract humans 🤣.

  • @CookieBlue1646
    @CookieBlue1646 11 месяцев назад

    It is beautiful n complex to maintain 🙄

  • @anyascelticcreations
    @anyascelticcreations 2 года назад +1

    I'm just imagening the bee shaking it's head like a wet dog trying to figure out what just happened.

  • @NaturalBiotopes
    @NaturalBiotopes 2 года назад +2

    👍

  • @buhler321
    @buhler321 3 месяца назад

    When they reach the observatory “Im not going too tell anybody i won the lottery but there will be signs”

  • @vivianelabelle3992
    @vivianelabelle3992 2 года назад +1

    🥰💚💛🧡👍

  • @nayelisanchez3101
    @nayelisanchez3101 11 месяцев назад

    Hola soy de 🇲🇽 quiero ver en español traducidos los videos. Como puedo hacerlo?

  • @charlesdahmital8095
    @charlesdahmital8095 Год назад

    So, Big Chucky D was an Orchid fan.

  • @HarryWHill-GA
    @HarryWHill-GA 2 года назад

    And then there is everyone's favorite orchid, vanilla.

  • @chinmoymazumdar7581
    @chinmoymazumdar7581 2 года назад

    okay... saw amorphophallus then rafflesia then nepenthes and then again venus flytrap now ophrys its like my entire biology book has been derived from this series.

  • @tedgunderson67
    @tedgunderson67 2 года назад

    Orchids turning to orchids sounds like orchids making orchids.

  • @garlandgreene6955
    @garlandgreene6955 2 года назад

    I like his voice

  • @tude17
    @tude17 Год назад

    🤔 that's odd...I was taught, and have always heard, that Darwin's favourite plant was the Sundew, or one of the many varieties...he kept one personally to study up close apparently 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @umi3991
    @umi3991 2 года назад

    *His voice is sooooo soothing*
    *It kinda reminds me of the narrator's voice from Winnie the Pooh*

  • @isaacgreenough6002
    @isaacgreenough6002 2 года назад +1

    😲

  • @j-sin3344
    @j-sin3344 Год назад

    Poppy!

  • @lourdesrodriguesvas4008
    @lourdesrodriguesvas4008 2 года назад

    I would never have known nor imagined the wonder of creation without the genius work of this ardent Gentlemen!

  • @peaaanuuutz
    @peaaanuuutz 2 года назад

    So that Orchid is like a Realdoll version for bees

  • @grannystuna174
    @grannystuna174 2 года назад

    Question is, whether the orchid evolved the first and the insect's sucking mouthparts adapted to it (which would make sense since plant's main goal is to get spread as efficiently as possible) or whether it was the other way around. If so, why would the plant choose to limit itself only for this specific arthropod mouthparts

    • @basseon
      @basseon 2 года назад

      They evolve together very slowly by tiny incremental changes. Whatever is more efficient for genes spreading is selected. There can be a lot of other factors at play all at the same time.

  • @essexginge9167
    @essexginge9167 2 года назад

    imagine touching paper wrote on by one of the most important humans ever

  • @idontgivearatsbottom
    @idontgivearatsbottom 2 года назад

    Hello pinoys! We have that featured at the back of the 5 peso coin

  • @melissakennedy5897
    @melissakennedy5897 3 месяца назад

    Big whoop

  • @AjitKumar-xo2lb
    @AjitKumar-xo2lb 2 года назад

    0:50, close view of camera shows different than wide view 😂

  • @jovanport
    @jovanport 2 года назад

    A great scientist was the bees

  • @lightfoot.2000
    @lightfoot.2000 2 года назад

    Nature is more Sophistotated than you will ever know .. . 😋

  • @shafimamahmuda3955
    @shafimamahmuda3955 3 месяца назад

    How do orchids know how bees look like??

  • @orawal
    @orawal 2 года назад

    how did orchids achieve this evolution without having vision or sense of smell???!!!! how did they achieve mimicry without seeing?!

  • @clerydesigns729
    @clerydesigns729 2 года назад

    Why always the random music on nature films?

  • @NickyHonings
    @NickyHonings 2 года назад

    Amazing how the plants evolved that way. however, there's always the question that lingers in my mind.
    How do plants like this, and others know how insects/animals look like...

    • @PsychologicalApparition
      @PsychologicalApparition 2 года назад

      Nature is working on everything at once, transforming. How did eucalyptus trees know koalas need them to survive? How did the anteater and ant come to be? Nature is making the tweaks, as necessary. It’s not a “conscious” decision by the plants.
      You and I are even changing, with each new replica of ourselves. That’s because the environment outside of us does not remain the same. It’s probably why we have lifespans like we do - rebooting in our reproduction.

  • @heavymetalbassist5
    @heavymetalbassist5 2 года назад

    I need to order modern replicas of Darwin's books

  • @photojef
    @photojef 2 года назад

    Darwin loved the sundew more!

  • @tahirtahir1332
    @tahirtahir1332 2 года назад +3

    I am grateful to David Attenborough for his research on plants that always make me thank Allah, the Creator of this Universe, Who has so beautifully planned and then executed those in this complex kingdom of plants (& animals). Subhan Allah.
    Allah is the greatest of all. He is the most intelligent, powerful and merciful, Who gave us a chance to enjoy His beautiful universe. Alhamdo Lillah.
    The most interesting part is that David Attenborough is looking at one part of the process of pollination i.e the mechanisms built into the plant for the transfer of the pollens by getting attached to the bees' backs. The other part needs to be planned and has definitely been planned and executed perfectly by Allah which includes the attraction of the bees to that plant. For this to occur, there must be sensory hairs or olfactory nerve terminals that receive that scent from that plant and then the brain of the insect will interpret that scent to be as of female insect and get attracted to that flower. This seems very easy when you see it happening but to execute it perfectly, as Allah did it, is a daunting task because it involves neurotransmitters in the brain of the insect, to be released, that would make the bee take a decision to get closer to that plant. These things look very easy when you see them happening, but to execute this perfectly, is a huge huge task that only and only, the Creator can do. Astonishing is the fact that Charles Darwin could not see the actual planner behind all this Who executed this with perfection in all the 25000 species of Orchid with different insects that are specific to different flowers. Subhan Allah.

    • @mathieuL2204
      @mathieuL2204 2 года назад +1

      yeah but He also created tumors, farts and Kim Kardashian. So perhaps go easy on the praise.

    • @Chase_baker_1996
      @Chase_baker_1996 3 месяца назад

      ​@@mathieuL2204😂😂😂😂😂

  • @behrensf84
    @behrensf84 Год назад

    Oh orchids.... I thought he was going to say it was weed...