Animal Ecology (Fauna) Part 1: Food Acquisition and Body Temperature

With plants covered, let's talk about animals, or fauna, in the context of ecology. What do animals need to survive? How do they acquire food? How do they maintain their body temperature? Let's talk all about nutrients and minerals, digestion, endotherms and ectotherms, thermogenesis, and much more!
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  • @chris34c
    @chris34c9 ай бұрын

    I remember the biological building blocks using CHONK: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and potassium

  • @AlbertaGeek

    @AlbertaGeek

    9 ай бұрын

    You forgot phosphorous. So...PHONCK?

  • @mcv2178

    @mcv2178

    9 ай бұрын

    I was taught CHNOPS (back in the 1900s)

  • @alili945

    @alili945

    9 ай бұрын

    @@mcv2178yeah same

  • @marysuegromek5609
    @marysuegromek56099 ай бұрын

    Great videoDave

  • @user-gs1op8sj2q
    @user-gs1op8sj2q8 ай бұрын

    It's wonderful and informative video

  • @latheofheaven1017
    @latheofheaven10179 ай бұрын

    Hey Professor Dave, how is it that coldwater fish like cod and mackerel, can be constantly active in temperatures that would render a reptile torpid and shortly afterwards dead? If an ectothermic fish can survive near-freezing sea temperatures, why have no ectothermic land animals evolved the same ability?

  • @somdattamaiti8941

    @somdattamaiti8941

    9 ай бұрын

    Land animals can survive at such a high freezing temperatures.

  • @latheofheaven1017

    @latheofheaven1017

    8 ай бұрын

    @@somdattamaiti8941 Ectothermic fish can be very active at much lower temperatures than ectothermic reptiles. Why is that?

  • @Apocobat
    @Apocobat9 ай бұрын

    Hey dave. 5 years ago you saved my g12 chem grade. Now having gone through uni, i believe one of the courses your style would work well with is control systems. Do you think you would ever end up doing a course like that?

  • @glennpearson9348
    @glennpearson93489 ай бұрын

    I suppose when Professor Dave gets up to homo sapiens in this series, this piece on food acquisition and body temperature will focus on Harris-Teeters and bedspreads. ;-) Great work, as usual, good sir! Thanks for yet another enlightening upload.

  • @markd.s.8625
    @markd.s.86259 ай бұрын

    11:54 actually if i recall correctly we have the same amount of hair as our closest relatives, it's just that they're not as coarse and therefore do not offer insulation or threat display use but numerically it's around the same number

  • @ahaggar
    @ahaggar9 ай бұрын

    Good to know

  • @pramodsingh7569
    @pramodsingh75699 ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @sciencenerd7639
    @sciencenerd76399 ай бұрын

    awesome

  • @kiddo0142
    @kiddo01429 ай бұрын

    "A triangular metal plate, it's height equals half the length of its base, expands with heat while keeping it's shape constant, it the rate of change of its area is 0,05 cm²/s, find the rate of change of the length of its base, when the length of the base is 10cm" can you solve this for my homework please

  • @skateboardingjesus4006
    @skateboardingjesus40068 ай бұрын

    Does goosebumps also help close sweat pores, helping heat retention through limiting heat transport through perspiration? I piss more in cold weather, which seems to make sense, given the possible reduced water loss through perspiration. Maybe the urinary tract takes up the extra load?

  • @Pyrotechn1cs
    @Pyrotechn1cs9 ай бұрын

    Thank you Prof for helping me better understand the universe :] Edit made: switched the last word from earth to universe

  • @jamiegallier2106
    @jamiegallier21069 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @DKHFishingg
    @DKHFishingg9 ай бұрын

    Hey Dave! Have you seen the recent ramblings of your good old friend from Suspicious Observers? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this but I’m sure you’re not trying to reopen old dramas.

  • @ProfessorDaveExplains

    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    9 ай бұрын

    Not interested in acknowledging the existence of that psychopath.

  • @DKHFishingg

    @DKHFishingg

    9 ай бұрын

    @@ProfessorDaveExplains I had a chuckle reading this 😂. Have a good week my friend

  • @billyr2904
    @billyr29049 ай бұрын

    11:37 you mean mammals?

  • @robertbrowne7880
    @robertbrowne78809 ай бұрын

    You should do short piece on "Vegan Gains" He proposes the apex predators should be 'culled' for the good of the environment. I'm assuming he's not getting enough fatty acid for proper brain function.

  • @quincywashington9355

    @quincywashington9355

    9 ай бұрын

    What is your counterargument? I prefer other technological and scientific implimentations that don't involve killing, but it is a problem that should be looked into.

  • @robertbrowne7880

    @robertbrowne7880

    9 ай бұрын

    @@quincywashington9355 Please tell me what the problem is that needs to be looked into.

  • @robertbrowne7880

    @robertbrowne7880

    8 ай бұрын

    @@quincywashington9355 Here's a middle school biology lesson for you. When you remove the apex predator from it's territory the prey population explodes. Then rather than grazing and moving on to escape, they graze the vegetation to the soil which then erodes and stops altogether. While predators only take a small percentage of their prey, they affect thousands in their grazing habits. It's a balance that's taken thousands of years to establish.

  • @quincywashington9355

    @quincywashington9355

    8 ай бұрын

    @@robertbrowne7880 Animal suffering in nature

  • @quincywashington9355

    @quincywashington9355

    8 ай бұрын

    @@robertbrowne7880 Human populations have exploded due to lack of predators eating us. This does not mean we wouldn’t be ok with killing a predator that had to subsist on human flesh to survive. So you would have to name the trait present in humans that if present in other animals would cause you to think it is justified to kill their predators. Also it is vegan gain’s position that it is only justified to kill odd-order predators.

  • @donchristie420
    @donchristie4209 ай бұрын

    Where is wa el

  • @waelfadlallah8939

    @waelfadlallah8939

    9 ай бұрын

    I am here brother, took a long nap before showing up 😅

  • @2ahdcat
    @2ahdcat9 ай бұрын

    Hey Dave! How about a "10 Things All Anti-Vaxxers Say"?

  • @Chad-Giga.

    @Chad-Giga.

    9 ай бұрын

    How about ten side effects you could potentially be stuck with if you choose to take experimental mRNA vaccines?

  • @Spawn303

    @Spawn303

    9 ай бұрын

    Don’t let the blood clots get you on the way out 🐑

  • @lucamega1212
    @lucamega12129 ай бұрын

    first, nobody cares i know

  • @PotatoChips-jy9pk

    @PotatoChips-jy9pk

    9 ай бұрын

    sweaty

  • @2ahdcat

    @2ahdcat

    9 ай бұрын

    MCToon and FTFE care. lol 😉

  • @AlbertaGeek

    @AlbertaGeek

    9 ай бұрын

    That's very perspicacious of you.

  • @jddjdjsjjssjsjsjs

    @jddjdjsjjssjsjsjs

    8 ай бұрын

    You make care now

  • @kingmichaelthelastwarrior
    @kingmichaelthelastwarrior9 ай бұрын

    nature put us together, and science ties to figure out how