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

@introtwerp

2 жыл бұрын

In the wild?

@biokosmos

2 жыл бұрын

you lucky! in which zone?

@introtwerp

2 жыл бұрын

@@biokosmos probably10 plus

@comfortablynumb9342

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

@charlesnickell7257

2 жыл бұрын

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

@patriciamcaulay5176

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Rooster_RvS

2 жыл бұрын

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

@ayhay4686

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@tude17

Жыл бұрын

@@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

11 ай бұрын

I agree 💯%

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

5 ай бұрын

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

5 ай бұрын

Can you please explain your comment? Im curious

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

Nuclear attack of tree-sperm.

@PsychologicalApparition

2 жыл бұрын

Creating jizz-congested humans.

@AsifAAli

2 жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

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

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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.

@stephansteohanlarsen7457

Жыл бұрын

And Richard ... Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🌜🇺🇲🐻🌍🌵🍄🍄🍄🍄

@bubbaclark4355

11 ай бұрын

Well said

@Chase_baker_1996

2 ай бұрын

Mine too

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

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

Love from India... To sir Attenborough

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

I love David so much. He is a treasure.

....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.

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

Years of studies on plants this man knows his plants

@mojo7495

Жыл бұрын

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

Sir David Attenborough hats off to you from Turkey

Orchids have amazed me more than anything

That was amazing 🤩

Absolutely fascinating and extraordinary!🌼🌸🐝

That was soo cool! Love listening to him

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

Fantastic journey of life,revealed in the video.

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

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

I love you Mr Atthenborough.

Amazing 👌

David, please do a documentary series on orchids!

Nature is amazing!

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

Fascinating,

Fascinating! 👍

They are so beautiful

Incredible

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

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

@AkshayKumar-nn3xv

2 жыл бұрын

🤔

Incredible!

Astonishing.

Nice video!

Awesome 👍🏿

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

Yiiee orchids! Love this episode!

@renater.540

2 жыл бұрын

Please, more on this topic!

LEGEND OF LEGENDS

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 ❤😮😮😮

My favorite plant too

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

Wow!

Respect

im here learning

Nature .... eh? Fascinating.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

Oh those naughty orchids!

Yup, ol' Chuck was a fan ...

Gods bless this man and his work 🌍

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@snekysneks

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

Not the bee on the stick 😂

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

It is beautiful n complex to maintain 🙄

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

@Johny40Se7en

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

Nicee

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

1:17 David Attenborough executing a perfect plank

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

👍👍👍

Watching this 3 years into orchid keeping is a totally different experience. 🫠 From looking at leaves, to recognizing the orchids. It’s like watching this clip in color for the first time!

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

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

🥰💚💛🧡👍

Orchids turning to orchids sounds like orchids making orchids.

👍

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.

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

I like his voice

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.

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

So, Big Chucky D was an Orchid fan.

Poppy!

🤔 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 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

😲

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

So that Orchid is like a Realdoll version for bees

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Chase_baker_1996

2 ай бұрын

​@@mathieuL2204😂😂😂😂😂

A great scientist was the bees

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

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

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

Big whoop

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

How do orchids know how bees look like??

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

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

Why always the random music on nature films?

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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.

But I thought only the queen bee mates and makes babies. ?