Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain - John C. Moore
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When you picture the lowest levels of the food chain, you might imagine herbivores happily munching on lush, living green plants. But this idyllic image leaves out a huge (and slightly less appetizing) source of nourishment: dead stuff. John C. Moore details the "brown food chain," explaining how such unlikely delicacies as pond scum and animal poop contribute enormous amounts of energy to our ecosystems.
Lesson by John C. Moore, animation by TED-Ed.
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How clever that they used leaves to create all of the living things in this video, even humans!
@AsianMassageTeacher
10 жыл бұрын
Even the cartoon Hitler at 1:16.
@xck
5 жыл бұрын
And they used pineapple for the sun!!
@wonjaechoi4714
Жыл бұрын
@@xck I thought the sun was kiwi
@Snak3Y
Жыл бұрын
Who
@Marii_isweird
Жыл бұрын
Yeah
Ted Ed: dead stuff, it’s what’s for dinner. Me: 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
The animation was so beautiful and creative!
@nemo_is_real
7 жыл бұрын
i got ur heart. i got ur lungs. boom. blood soup. i have ur brain. i have ur eyeballs. boom. blood explosion. blood explosion + blood soup = death death death of animals!!!! (odnt copy and paste this.)
@xirtam1970
7 жыл бұрын
LiquoriceLover gjtktoghgkfykfkhg
@Wetnapkin69
2 жыл бұрын
@@xirtam1970 you bored?
@Wetnapkin69
2 жыл бұрын
@@nemo_is_real what?
@Snak3Y
Жыл бұрын
Who
The graphics are so pretty. Thanks for making these videos with such attention to detail.
I always knew everyone was full of crap, It spews out of a lot of them.
this artstyle is awesome!
@dorothypham3191
10 жыл бұрын
They used to make some children's books in this style (in my day), but sorry I can't give any further information as I was never really into picture books when I was a kid. It's a curious style now that I can appreciate it though.
John C. Moore is a genius! Love using his stuff in class. Thanks big john!
@Emmer2p9
7 ай бұрын
I agree he is also a great scientist in general!
"This entire jungle is a jungle of death!" - Horton Hears a Who!
@Noukz37
3 жыл бұрын
XD
My classes love watching these videos, very informative and clear. Thanks!
Well, at least nothing goes to waste, and plants that grow on manure are tastier than those that don't
@Prose_cc0
10 жыл бұрын
Hell yes!
@dertythegrower
10 жыл бұрын
It's not all about manure, its what the manure does to your soil. This topic definitely brings up HUMIC ACID..... one of the best things for gardens (far more important than just weak manure from cows)
@lysergiinhape
10 жыл бұрын
qwerty42 Actually the most important aspect of a soil is the microflora. They can make a crappy soil better and without them the soil is useless.
Ted Ed always have a witty or meaningful closing line in their every single video.
Really like the efforts you guys put in to make your videos more interesting.
I laughed so hard at this. Not because I thought it was stupid or incorrect, but the name of the restaurant. If you rearrange the words around (but keep the pronunciation) you get the french word 'Poubelle', which means trash or to throw away.
Thank you for this beautifully animated video! Keep on doing what you do ❤
@hamidkarim9148
4 жыл бұрын
You are right
TED teach me more things. Great channel!
I reallt liked the art style in this one, good work guys!
I juste love this video for it´s animation and visual design !! Also, it was very interesting ! Good Job !
the way they used leaves in this animation is so beautiful
What a beautiful animation with leaves and flowers!
In Indonesia, some rural homes have an outdoor traditional toilet which hovers right above a catfish pond.
Leaves everywhere! I love educational videos like this. People who don't know about this can learn more
The way they incorporated leaves in making the picture was a nice little touch
gorgeous animation!!
I love this leaf art style.
Guys, this is a video about how dead animals help to create food made with dead food which just helped us to understand and appreciate dead stuff basically making us appreciate the video
good pun about the name of the french restaurant !
Effective and creative explanation!
And if you think about it, all dead stuff comes from living stuff. Crazy.
Nice work John! It should go into the MSP units if you can put it in there!
wow love that ending!! great video!!
You. Sir. Have just gotten one more subscriber my friend. Bravo my buddy. It takes quite a feat to keep me watching through a whole video. I like 👍
@carloscastiano
3 жыл бұрын
And a like.
You will live on in the animals and plants that digest your remains
finally a video with good quality
Loving the "leaf" animation.
I loved the leaf figurines :)
That makes so much sense why everything is drawn with leaves.
beautiful animation , really !!!
0:58 he says glucose is transformed into other stuff like proteins. What?
nice thought on food for food :)
Remember that when you step in poop. It's all organic, baby, and it feeds something.
@purple8990
4 жыл бұрын
lol
I LOVE the animation! But how did they make the pill bug?
Love the leaves for animals and people
I don't quite get the distinction that's trying to be made here. Everything we eat is dead. Unless one is chewing on a living, breathing, squawking chicken, it's likely been killed, processed, and cooked prior to ingestion. Unless the distinction being made is between fresh kills and carrion, in which case, "dead stuff" is an inaccurate term.
@dertythegrower
10 жыл бұрын
All things derive from plants or animals in the foodchain --- and THOSE things need dead matter (like humic acid from compost) to live. basically, the start of the food chain is not fungus or pleynkton in the ocean ---- the start is the stuff that FEEDS the fungus and the pleynkton(sp). That is, the stuff the algae eats to make algae. It is explaining the first step most people do not get, and how we the aminstream people think the 2nd step is the 1st step.... the microbes feed us, the scum.
Jorgensen penus. And just what do you think plants use? Dead matter, including animals, as food. And plants are "alive" as well. And you "kill" them when you pick them/eat them
Is this video have glosbe? Can i use this vid for my teach.
i guess living on a ranch made me more familiar with this concept, as my level of surprise was about 0, it just seemed to bring concepts together than weren't really stuck together fully.
so lovely i learn a lot from this channel;
pretty art style now...how do i use this for my paper
knowledge is increasing
Wonderful animation!
2:42 Are there people who actually eat deer
@bailey5935
3 жыл бұрын
yes
OMG EVERYTHING WAS MADE OF LEAVES!!!!!! THAT'S SO COOL
I highly doubt that chickens who end up in the grocery store eat anything from the ground.
@itsmealoon8073
6 жыл бұрын
Bok Bok Bok Bok Bok
To say, is it similar to what is called the law by newton? Energy cant neither be created or destroyed? It just changing state or its form to another weew is it true
It's clever and all, but as the only chain they show that leads from detritus to humans is the one with mushrooms in it, my students are likely to say "doesn't apply to me, I don't eat mushrooms" and ignore it. I'd like some of the sequence to show where the detritus goes into the food that a picky 12 year old would eat.
How fascinating.
I'm doing my part for a greener ecosystem: Converting zombies to vegetarians.
@Chadlite
10 жыл бұрын
Yet you are on the internet which means you're utilizing energy from dirty industry that pollutes on a mass scale, and if you are working you're driving c02 emitting vehicles or using public transportation that pollutes. Stop acting so righteous.
@trace8891
10 жыл бұрын
***** tried raw vegan?
@tinhornname4117
8 жыл бұрын
+SnoopyDoo ha
@rdococ
7 жыл бұрын
remkin: Zombies don't even exist so I don't see why you're being so serious :P EDIT: Oh. Ohhhhh. Very clever. But you do realise that you could even eat other humans and not be a zombie? They're called cannibals.
Awesome
“Dead stuff- it’s what we eat!”
..............this has deep meaning....
Vim pelo QR CODE no meu livro escolar. Muito legal, ainda não sabia da cadeia alimentar marrom, vídeo mto bom.
@mlqzico
3 жыл бұрын
Sas neh?
@danillosantos4706
Жыл бұрын
Opa eu tambem
Well we do eat dead stuff..mostly. When was the last time your dinner was alive when you ate it?
@Tamizushi
10 жыл бұрын
Most raw fruits you eat are alive. With some exceptions, you could grow a plant out of them.
1:54 why the eagle is sad?
Nice!
please make a youtube video about parts of a flower
i love how the animation consisted many plants :)
Ted Ed: dead stuff, it's what's for dinner. Me: leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves
Does poultry actually directly eat detritus?
Brilliant thanks
Cria um canal em português explicando isso
The big problem of the ecosystems around the world is the debt of brown waste retired from circulation because humans contaminate it beyond reusability and put it in landfills where it cannot feed the bottom feeders of the food chain. Things definitely need to change in order to restore equilibrium to our ecosystems around the world. More composting areas and less toxic waste (oil byproducts, plastics, etc.) would be a good start!
@Krommandant
10 жыл бұрын
Why do we chase away scavergers from landfills anyways? Nature is trying to reclaim what is rightfully hers but we chase away birds and rodents from the landfills because we humans consider them dirty. So much facepalm humanity!
Oi pessoal q está aqui pela atividade do SAS em ciências
@zmateusb
5 жыл бұрын
TBM
@giovannanagao9022
5 жыл бұрын
hashaushau mas olha só
@anaximenesjoaquim3557
5 жыл бұрын
Eu
@talitamarys3243
5 жыл бұрын
Oii
@matheusbgr
3 жыл бұрын
'-'
Thanks
Oh no, not dead stuff. Anything but dead stuff.
Dead stuff? I’m stuff Noooooo!
clever outro!
Mushrooms are so good, and shrimp too, I think I might like the taste of those fed by detritus, hell I'd be lying if I said the smell of cut grass, that's got mushrooms or manure used on it, didn't remind me of food, and make me hungry.
I had mushrooms for tea yesterday :)
Macklemore more was right when he said "One man's trash, that's another man's come up" :D
thanks for teaching me that everything is made out of leaves
Where are the decomposers
Yhe animation is amazing!! Sooo beautiful 🥹
That was one groan-inducing pun.
So, what you're saying is that science is just now discovering what farmers have known for many, many thousands of years> Good on you.
The beginning was the roast of the century!
so we all EAT POOP!
Lovely
Then why don't we call the detrites to be primary producers?
Detritus is also good for defending Ankh-Morpork. I wouldn't eat it in that form either.
Circle of life
the fact that we are just c02 and water that grew into a meat sack that thinks is kinda unsettling tbh
But in the end, we all eat stardust.
nice!
great! subtitle in portuguese would help me so much :/
Why are almost everything made out of leaves?
Hello from Mr.Arp's class
Circle of life...? Learned this when I was 6.
I thought this was common sense.
@garliccloves254
3 жыл бұрын
Same
And people get all worked up about society wasting food.
@l0vablelinda
10 жыл бұрын
how does your comment relate to the video?
@Point.Aveugle
10 жыл бұрын
He's saying you can't waste food because no mater what you're going to eat it, a worm or a microbe picks up where you left off.
@jameskeelinggaming2319
7 жыл бұрын
hes not saying anything. hes a fool
3:50