What is a Devil's Garden and How is it formed?
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- In the Amazon rainforest, you can find a very strange phenomenon - a so-called Devils Garden. Areas of the forest that are dominated entirely by a single species of plant. In an environment with an unparalleled diversity of plants and animal species, these spots of regularity feel very out of place - almost mystical. Not surprising that locals think evil forest spirits cultivate these gardens. But in reality, there is a logical but very interesting explanation for them.
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Spoiler Alert:
I recently deleted a few of my oldest videos, that I felt weren't that good anymore - the sleeper shark one and one about ants. They were from a time when I still learned how to animate and before I knew I want to turn this into a nature-science channel.
This is the first of a series of replacement videos. I still have two more ant videos on my list, that will get made sometime in the future (probably next year) and a new sleeper shark video.
Have a nice weekend you guys!
I liked the sleeper shark video though :3
P.s your work is great.
Facts in Motion THE SLEEPER SHARK ONE WAS THE FIRST VIDEO I EVER WATCHED FROM UUUUUUU
IT WAS Y I SUBSCRIBED!!!!!
Facts in Motion Could you please add subtitles to your videos?
Thanks, keep up the good work.
NOOOOOOO THE SLEEPER SHARK WAS MY FAVORITE VIDEO I WATCHED IT LIKE 5 TIMES :(((((
I loved the sleeper shark video, too. Don't be afraid if your early work looks a little unpolished to you later. They can still be great for the audience, especially since the information is still valid and fascinating.
the ants are cutting down and killing plants in order to make room for expansion and land? so they're basically like humans
You'd be surprised how much ants are like humans sometimes. Most defenses across all insects are to try and fend of ants, and ants make up a surprisingly large amount of biomass.
They conduct war, some clear forests, some domesticate other insects, some farm, etc.
DynamicWorlds After the next nuclear apocalypse they'll be the ones replacing us the way we replaced the Dynosaurs
a b im pretty sure insects/bugs cant evolve into a full on animal
Milbox R insects/bugs indeed can't evolve in "full on" animals because they already are... ants dont need to change. they were here before the dinosaurs (in far more basic form) and will still be here faaaar long after we humans are dead. they have perfect societies where absolutely noone has to suffer from hunger etc. They are in a way superior to us... better infrastructure, coexistence with nature and as saied no one has to be hungry (if enough food is provided of cause)
Norok Vokun now your just pulling stuff out of your ass, ants fight each other for resources just like us and of course some of the ants do suffer from hunger how do you know they dont?
"Imagine you are walking through the Amazon rainforest."
No thanks, I don't like things hatching out of my body.
Amazon rainforest if the ideal example of a thriving, diverse and competitive environment for life
@@slinkerdeer no thats Baltimore
@@majikss thriving thriving proves you’ve never been to Baltimore
@@slinkerdeer That is exactly why I do not want to go there.
@@shadowwarriorshockwave3281
Baltimore is a Trash Pit
That devil is so well made. Props. I had no idea that these spots existed!
edit: holy shit that Mononoke Hime reference
I was looking for someone else to notice that and coment, you beat me to it.
Yeah, Devil looks amazing.
Connor Fujishige yup
Yeah its called the spirit of the forest
Connor Fujishige THE THING ABOUT THAT DEVIL DRAWING WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING IT'S SO COOL
It makes sense that these areas would be considered ominous by human beings: They are dominated by the same species of plant which means that if you wander into them you lose sense of direction and location. Should panic grip you, you'll be more likely to hallucinate the indistinguishable columns as humanoids, and, being that you're lost, consider them malevolent forces.
Not only that, you could be swarmed with ants.
Good English.
Before he mentioned the ants I thought maybe the trees have a aroma that makes people hallucinate
Hawaii was like that on the big island its pretty flat in areas and the canopy all looked the same and was all at the same height . The sun can barely be seen throughout the day , i couldnt get my bearings .
that makes sense.
Satan is allowed to have hobbies, too.
Just Some Guy with a Mustache boo
Yeah he does them 24/7
you sir have appeared on so many videos that i am starting to recognize your mustache....
@@ntecleo he comments everywhere because he is trying to gain subs from the attention
Bruh your everywhere it’s hilarious
ironic that the natives WERE right, there WAS a "spirit" that was gardening/protecting/attacking the forest....just....it was a hive-minded one
what started this mutualism? Evolution sometimes seems..."guided"
Zef yes, by shared selective interests.
imagine that cooperation on a smaller, less symbiotic level and it still benefits both parties.
it's not even that uncommon in nature. leafcutter ants feed a fungus that is used for food.
But why? Neither ants or fungus are able to communicate with each other so how did they realize it was mutually beneficial? What started it all? Maybe I'm just reaching, or maybe I dont really get it lol
Zef The way Ants and the trees developed mutualism seems to be the same as Humans and Dogs I think.
Humans Provided Food and Shelter to Dogs while Dogs provide humans with protection and kill anything posing a threat to humans. Of course humans and dogs can’t communicate as well so how did this develop? It’s known that dogs started getting close to human settlements due to human scraps of food. The settlements with more dogs had better chances of survival since dogs are predators and so settlements where dogs and humans were closer were more successful and survived and passed it onto their offspring. Thus mutualism evolved between species.
It’s probably similar with ants and the trees. The ants got close to the trees as they happen to provide the right conditions for living. Ants are territorial like dogs and so they’d kill any insect that gets near the trees so basically more trees survived better so they spread. The ants spread with them. Thus mutualism evolved. What also happened was that ants that killed anything that poses a threat to the trees survived more as the trees had more success surviving :)
The mitochondria in our cells was a foreign organism at some point
Cool,but why are you wearing a business suit in a forest
Rednavix "If I'm gonna explore the jungles of the amazon I might as well look good while doing it!"
Rednavix gotte stay looking good if your gonne get kidnaped by a demon
Why not
nyanblueh bl cuz its gonna be really hot
You gotta let em know you mean business
Basically.. Ants doing agriculture
@@vids595 BS degree ... hehehe...
Trees running ant farms. Plants can have hobbies, too.
@@MrCipasa Bachelor of Science
technically the it is a garden being cultivated. just not be satan
lol
dat Princess Mononoke reference tho
Haha yeah
I love it
2:33
Amazing
Gay
i thought a devil's garden was a garden with plants used for spells, that can be toxic.
Ye i was hoping something like that lol wouldve been way cooler
That's just a poison garden. And definitely much cooler than a devil's garden, apparently
Yeah I have a poison garden in my backyard.
@@OpinionatedChicken59 Should your Neighbors be scared?
Devils Garden is also a specific place in Washington state, on the edge of Mt. Adams. It's a high, tree-less, volcanic pumice plain, where only few small hardy plants survive. That was my first thought.
Forrest Spirit from Princess Mononoke! Massive respect: super happy i subscribed
ArchetypeGotoh yep
ArchetypeGotoh but where’s the idiot humans carrying a metal pot!
The Night Walker sighted
Orppranator They died a decade ago.
ArchetypeGotoh OMG it makes so much sense that's owesome favorite movie
When the devil appears it looks like a boss intro
(Edit) thank you my children
Potato Man
lol it does
Potato Man XD true
Oh yeah!
I mean, I've paused Doom to watch a couple videos... so this is ironic to me.
Potato Man yep
2:30 princess mononoke...
thought the same thing
sad they didn't get marry in the end D:
The Drawing Kitsune pretty much yeah
Kind of reminds me of avatar last airbender
The Drawing Kitsune eep, i knowz
MONONOKE PRINCESS' Forest guardian spirit?!?!?
Subbed.
Lol... I saw that
Same!! I was like, ok, this channel gets me.
honestly i love how the red devil looks
would've but cooler if he modeled Diablo.
Gotta love the Princess Mononoke reference
Another believer!
What ? Where..???
Veng3r 2:30
Ohh okay NOW I remember it, THANKS..!! :D
That was the best!
Cool Miyazaki/Monoke reference
Ian Kelley sorry but I'm a die hard mononoke
Studio ghible Fan why sorry
Ian Kelley because I hate when people think I'm super specific and everything has to be perfect spelling or grammar cause that's dumb
Studio ghible Fan oops, good eye
Who's monoke?
No wonder it's called a Devil's Garden!
Ants are the Devil's seed!
The Poke'Saurus no they aren’t...
The Poke'Saurus ants are nice
You’re my new friend XD
Andrea Banos ummmmmm was that supposed to be funny?
Agreed. Carpenter ants should be killed to extinction.
Wow!
The symbiosis that certain species of plant and animals form are fascinating!
Thanks for this, you earned a new subscriber 😃
1:37 scare cam
Too late it got me...
Actually got me
Krillosaurus n
More like unnecessary jumpscare
How did that scare you lmao
2:31 I love you for the studio ghibli reference ;D
Domun exactly
Domun I thought i was the only one who got that
Same here
:v
Princess mononoke night walker
Science, German accent, Mononoke Hime reference--be still my heart!
A forest, full of ANTS?
Hans!
*GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER*
Your wish came true, kamaraden, and they dont want to stop it
@@AlexVanChezlaw should I be ashamed or proud?
No shame, it aint your fault
@@AlexVanChezlaw it's a joke, I know.
@@AlexVanChezlaw this late at night my sense of humour tends to *BURN* down
Holy crap that was such as cool, informative, well made video. I am so glad I clicked this video and found this channel. Great content!
1:38 scared so much XD
scared the shit out of me!
I almost pissed myself
I wasn't expecting a jumpscare😂
Was the Jumpscare necessary? They could have just told us about it instead of giving us a heart attack!
My phone fell on my face *face palm*
So ants make gardens now? When they start making mini huts and villages do we make peace or war?
Passed Judgements why not both?
If they have oil, then declare war to the ants
these ants a so in touch with the treas, that they a like in one with the treas.
also they a way more energy efficient than us.
Some ant species keep other insects (like aphids) as "cattle." They protect and tend them so that in return they can feast on their sweet, sweet, sugary poop. XP
Others can farm fungus, or tend trees in different ways. Not long now before they overthrow us all!
VU IBG the thing is though they have been doing things like this for millions of years. They have no reason to change their ways.
Nice princess monoke reference ❤️
Mononoke
I've never heard of a Devils Garden before honestly
I thought it was going to be like the Devils Kitchen which is a part of Cwm Idwal in Wales
Be interesting if you could do a video on how such geographical features formed and the legend behind the name
Cwm Idwal is a mountain I've visited a few times because it's a pretty good textbook example of geographical formations with glaciation, so Ive taken multiple trips to it with school
But I don't remember how exactly the devil's kitchen was formed
It's a black cracked crevice in the mountain which steam can often be seen rising from
It's not volcanic activity as the volcanoes in the UK are long, long dormant
I think it is obvious as to why it'd get it's name, but there's a lot more lore behind it that I don't remember
I need to get to bed but I keep watching gardening videos.
I'm watching this at 12 am and had a mini jumpscare at the "devil's" appearance
Awful86 hey i had that feeling to. My tablet was quite close to my face and loud not expecting it to jump out and create just a awful86 sound.
Red Pringles just 12? Pfffft. Try 4:30 am then we'll talk.
Bro when you showed the goblin i jumped so hard
Same i was like bloody hell mate
It was the sound effect x-x
Cus it is bloody hell
(the devils garden)
Same. I was just laying in my bed and the sound scared the shit out of me.
I read this right before it happened and still jumped lol
Just keep making these great videos, this channel will definitely explode, it mostly happens in a fortnight.
Normie Loser The best things always happen in a fortnight.
@@AlbinoAxolotl Better than Fortnite
"U just stepped into the devil's garden"
Sounds like a gameplay
Roll for initiative! 😜
1:37
Yo, why TF is that so loud? I knew it was coming but i jumped anyways..
You learn something everyday and is made even better when its accompanied with amazing animation
Nice Miyazaki reference
0:14 those swordleaves shouldn't move like that... That's creepy
Pedro Rocha Has new to animating, chill
What do you mean?
Pedro Rocha rhats a snake plant
You're mother shouldn't move like that
Samantha Applewhite
*your
Wow, I knew about the mutualism between these ants and trees from biologie but I didn't know that they actually grew whole forrests like that. My textbook just said that the ants killed the plants surrounding the tree and didn't go much further in depth. Thanks for the great video!
Video: *Shows Princess Mononoke Forest Guardian*
Me: 😤*takes deep breath*
*Screams inside*
SCP foundation will capture it
Plague Doctor "Ha! Nice~"
How u catch demons tho
Nikolas Grace the SCP foundation can capture anything.
punny sans Well... They did capture both Cain and Able sooo
SCP 328-1
2:16 the trees in the background don't loop.
MetroInferious fix your sentence
*_GRRR-AMMAR_*
This Devil looks so amazing, and the video itself is very well animated. Its so pleasant to see how your animation skill grows . Keep going
P.S. Also, do you make these videos by yourself only, or you have a team? I just can't imagine how hard is to do it solo
Thanks, and yeah, I'm on my own.
This makes we wonder what stops these Devil's Gardens. The way you described them in the video almost makes it seem like they would continue to spread through the rain forest unhindered. What is stopping these gardens from spreading infinitely and taking over the rain forest?
Way more interesting than I considered it to be merely based on the title and the introduction. I'm a sucker for these sorts of things.
1:38 Jesus!! You scared the shit out of me.
Gaming Rex I just now noticed the jumpscare sound effect. I didn't notice it the first time I watched this.
Hmm no Christian's...???
Goat On Acid yes
I really loved that sleeper shark video. Is there any way you could upload it on a secondary channel for archival purposes?
Hwoarang102 did you see the spoiler at the top? He's redoing those videos.
W0lfMan26 Yes,I just believe the archival of videos an important thing. I want to know what the original movie was like before it got its directors cut. I want to see what the video game was like before its major updates etc etc.
0:01 That is a Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, those are _not_ native to the Amazon Basin.
2:38 DAMN THAT PRINCESS MONOKE REFFERENCE IS GOOD
Zombie worms, ant decapitation flys, zombie spiders. This is my new favorite channel!
Talks about the Amazon, has an Australian sulfur-crested cockatoo.
Daniel Bilodeau I noticed that as well. Lel
I just googled "birds of the Amazon rainforest" and there was a picture of it. Should've done a bit more research I guess ;)
Facts in Motion
I wouldn't exactly know if you were even aware of it mate. So it's not very noticeable, especially when searching in the Internet.
2:28 that looks a lot like that creature from Princess Mononoke
Sasha The pirate cat that's because it is.
Wow this was very informative. thanks for sharing this knowledge.
Instant credit for making a film reference I recognise. Well played, sirs and ladies, well played.
1:39 you scared the crap out of me, I almost jumped out of the couch and run away. Lol
1:37 *HISTERICAL SCREAMS INTENSIFIES*
Does this mean that at one point the entire rain forest these plants inhabit turn into a massive devil's garden?
No, the ants can only protect so much. Once it reaches standard size, the saplings on the edges start getting picked off by herbivores because the ants are to busy protecting fully grown trees.
Basically it depends on the ants growing enough to protect the tree's. So unless thing change and they can expand drastically and indefinitely then it is unlikely such a thing would occur.
your videos rock
This is really interesting, and the animations are fantastic
Here in Brazil, this "Chuyachaki" is called "Curupira"(coo roo pee rah), you probably looked into the Castellano(spanish speaking) countries of Latin America for your research, also, about the formic acid, there is a plant called "urtiga"(oore tee gah) that produces formic acid on its leaves causing a stinging itch. Curupira hss it's feet turned backwards so that hunters could not track him down, mistaking him with another person's footsteps. He is usually depicted with a fiery hair and with his feet turned backwards.
There is a japanese cartoon movie made after this. Basically a large soul thing protecting the forest and sht idk.
yea princess mononoke - he even referenced it with the forest guardian thing early on in the video
Great as movie
Definitely a german.
TorchJackie your profile picture...
Mean
Definitely a weeb
As a German, yes, definitely. My accent is way worse though 😂
Hipster walking through the deep jungle.
I love that you added the night walker
Wow!! There is a very similar ant that does the same thing! The acacia tree ants! However, since the Savanna is not a very dense place, it's much harder to notice the absence of some of the surrounding plant life. This video definitely thought me something new!
Uhhhh there is something like that in Brazil too! Curupira is a creature with twisted foots that lures people to forests with their traces xD
I think chullachaki is just another name for curupira.
Ivani Santos I think so xD
The future filmmaker I never saw that novel but yes that's a part of folklore here in Brazil, I don't know about the other countries around Brazil but I imagine they know about it too :D they usually teach these stories to us when we are a child and there are so many of these forest creatures, like the pink boto and the beheaded mule, I'm sure there's more about curupira/i that I don't remember but ya :)
Yep,but he can't shape shift and doesn't kill peopl
Voc curupira actually kills people... by beating them with his dick (I didnt made this up, google it)
Cool.I had no idea this existed.
Fang neither did I & I am glad that I found this channel!!!!!
Gianna Lopez Same.
Fang me too
People around here actually call that demom Curupira.
american name is saberna carpenter
Hahaha
Search about "Kurupi",the Curupira counterpart from Paraguay.I live close to border so i hear alot about it.
@Erik Lerström There's a lot of amazon folklore taught here in Brazil, for example, but as it is taught to the children they usually have pretty faces and bodies, even when their original story is horrifying.
Chullacahki é o meu cu aqui e Brasil
That thumbnail was the best design I’ve ever seen
Wow man this is cool! Also good job with the devil animation! Haven't finished the video yet but I still really like this video!
well... I live in one of the states that make part of amazon here in Brazil and i think i already saw a place like this before
That’s cool :)
So the chullachaki are ants?
the cum, oh sorry chullachaki is anything
But since nature doesn't like monocultures by principle, what's the mechanism that keeps the devil's gardens in check?
Other still yet unrecognized tree-ant teams.
I would imagine the mechanism would be herbivores, other insects, and diseases?
Maybe lack of genetic variety which would lead to devastating deseases?
Increased herbivory, m. Schumanni ants do protect d. Hirsuta trees but, the gardens are so expansive that the ants are unable to ward off all herbivores.
This is from a research article, “The devil to pay: a cost of mutualism with Myrmelachista schumanni ants in ‘devil’s gardens’ is increased herbivory on Duroia hirsuta trees” if you want to read it it’s pretty short and an easy read for a research article.
I only looked this up as I had to give a presentation on something based on plant ecology and I found this channel when I was looking up interesting plants and the like.
Hope this helped.
Actually Facts In Motion put a link in the description to that very article, can't believe I didn't see that earlier.
Remember when this account was only getting 12k views per video. Look at it now, keep it up and you'll eventually be on BBC.
I know that narrators voice! Lol, hello Mr.Frostmare,we meet again. Still making interesting videos on various topics I see. Love it.
Everyone is talking bout the vid while I'm here like "that devil design sexy af".....
Kill me
This comment is pretty based ngl
1:38
GAHHAHA THAT JUMP SCARE
i never know that khorne's Bloodthirster are into forest
Ilham Syamsuddin nay,that’s papa Nurgle’s handy work😏
You said the answer was not as cool as what the locals believed.
I’m sorry but that’s freaking awesome!!!
That sound effect when you showed the demon scared me, thanks.
1:41 Scared the shit out of me
Pussy
Flowey The Flower me too
Flowey The Flower M8 LOOK AT U THO. YOU UNHOLY MURDER PLANT!
I wish a GTX 1080 so the demon can transform into GTX 1080 too
Titan V*
Gumla Bad performance, 1060 is better than the Titan, believe me
*1080ti
If yer' gonna wish, wish big.
1080ti 3 way sli
perfect
3:02 well.. it’s actually one sided relationship the tree produces a pheromone that make the ants more defensive of the tree, basically mind controll
Wasn't expecting the Nightwalker but good touch well designed
Really liked the princess mononoke reference
That's the forest spirit from Monanoke
imagine whole planets populated by only devils gardens
Rudy D'souza that’s scary
Imagine the awesome fire :D would love to see the earth burning from space :D
Burn/cut most of them done and replace them with fruit trees , not a big Deal
That's the world for you no?
The next Doomsday device? Genetically engineered rapid-breeding ants and their trees, huh
An anteaters vacation spot :)
2:28 I fucking searched this movie like a decade then completely forgot about it then saw this,completely remembered this again, learned the name from the comments and watched some clips of the movie. Thank u for that reference, it was such a dope movie when i first watched it.
"each colony can have thousands of queens and can produce new once every year which makes them immortal "
That is not how immortality works my friend
Please next episode how is babby formed?
Funny, because it's actually sort of the next topic. I mean not really but its close enough that it really made me laugh
Dudes wtf you scared me😂
FrogyWls For real I wasn't paying attention at 1:40 😂😂
In the devil graden lives the blood god of warhammer 40k
Acheron The everchosen What a khorney joke.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULLS THRONE!
Burn the heretic!
I lived and worked in an area known as Devils Garden in south Florida and became acutely aware of why it is known as such.
1:37 that scared the, excuse my language sh*t out of me
CORRUPTION IS REAL! (Terraria reference)
And the crimson..
Tamam kardeş
LMAO
And the jubricabra
The best jokes are the ones that you over-explain
Look at all those weebs man
Dead Pool I think you meant "Otaku", learn the difference between a japanophile and an anime nerd.
Lamb sauce Located. Cough weeb coughing weeb weeb oh sorry. Weepaneasephile
Dead Pool hahah, nice comment.
"Japanophiles" are still pretty _pathetic._ *If you knew the true nature of the Japanese, not what they feign in front of Westerners, you cannot possibly remain fascinated with them.* Worshiping anything or any people as their fantasy versions and refusing to see all their aspects objectively, is hardly being different from insufferable anime nerds. How can you stay enamored over a vindictive people who unlike modern Mongols, venerate their warlike past of banditry, and see outspokenness even in the democratic 21st century as being ill-mannered or foolish? *A Feudalistic mindset for a people who still conform to the idea that the very concept of a class struggle is evil.*
Any time you hear something good from any people, you have to keep in mind whenever something manages to get international recognition it's usually because they managed to be the cream of the crop in their country. Foreigners don't realize the other 90% is absolute crap and hence hardly gain international fame.
Look at all those chickens
You know de wey of the devil
You do not know da wae
Spare me from the dying remnants of a bad meme, please. ;p
GalaxyGirl687 I wrote when it was somewhat funny but now I regret it
GalaxyGirl687 Why spare _you_ in pahticulah; jus ignore it and go about your dey.
アラブA D N A N Ø Do u no da wae my queen
In the northwest US we have vast stands of cedar. They blot out the sunlight and the ground is frequently barren of all undergrowth. Since they're cedar trees, bugs don't eat them and they slowly spread a complete lack of diversity, in all directions.
Sounds like a pretty interesting Devil's garden