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@alphaapple1375

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for including metric units! It means so much to me, I stand in solidarity with international people 🌍 from those outside of the United States 🇺🇸! By the way, I also stand in solidarity with LGBT+. 🏳️‍🌈!

@Gmackematix

10 ай бұрын

Usually MinuteEarth likes its puns, so imagine my surprise when nobody said that for this monkey puzzle, scientists have yet to come up with a raft of proposed ideas.

@alto7183

10 ай бұрын

A esto podría tal vez haber islas temporales en el paso donde con el tiempo ayudarán, comerse sus insectos de la vegetación o piojos de sus cuerpos reciclando recursos y comida junto con mayores niveles de oxígeno atmosférico qué afectan el metabolismo y apetito del cuerpo, sin mencionar humedad matutina tan abundante qué todo queda mojado por rocío matinal y además de eso los fósiles de palmeras ancestros de África y suramerica dejarían cocos a la deriva qué afectarían por ser la migración de flora de África a América, claro también cuando la Antártida era puente de selvas y bosques en el pasado, sugerencia.

@CornPaper

10 ай бұрын

@@alphaapple1375 "I stand in solidarity with international people" this is hilarious. thank you American person for sharing your solidarity.

@alphaapple1375

10 ай бұрын

@@CornPaperThank you so much! 😄

"The world is big enough. Time is long enough." Inspiring words.

@ComicalHealing

10 ай бұрын

Now apply that to an infinite universe.

@capitaopacoca8454

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm so inspired to wait in the beach until the little piece of land I am in disconnects from the continent and I end up in some new strange land. I don't see how this can inspire anyone to do anything. It's just beautiful and contemplative

@hish33p32

10 ай бұрын

Now apply that to your self improvement journey, most people think they lack time and/or energy but no, they just lack focus, focus is a much more important factor than time, a student who only studied for 2 hours but is deeply focused will achieve more results than a student who studied 5 hours but was distracted.

@capitaopacoca8454

10 ай бұрын

@@hish33p32 yeah but what million of years old monkeys have to do with this

@nBasedAce

10 ай бұрын

So, eventually the people on Gilligan's Island will get back home.

So this scenario is the monkey-typewriter hypothetical, but with rafts instead of typewriters... and a lot of drowned monkeys.

@MinuteEarth

10 ай бұрын

well when you put it that way...

@mattitrooper396

10 ай бұрын

@@MinuteEarthlol

@firelight3806

10 ай бұрын

@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 Report this as spam

@greywolf7577

10 ай бұрын

@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 Don't believe in superstition. Jesus wasn't magic. He was just a man.

@MuammarQadaffi

10 ай бұрын

JESUS (EESAH) Is a prophet and the messiah who will testify against the man worshippers on judgement day ..@@greywolf7577

The chances that Monkeys crossed some 1500 km of Ocean is actually pretty high. A piece of Bogey Marsh that broke of makes it sounds like a tiny piece of Land that they barely cling on to, it´s far more likely that it would be big enough to not just carry a few monkeys but a whole small eco system with it. Floating Islands, detached portions of other Islands or Continents are found all over the World.

@skeletonking2501

10 ай бұрын

That sounds cool as shit

@rickkwitkoski1976

10 ай бұрын

So... the floating island in "Dr. Doolittle" isn't as far fetched as it sounds...

@divinesleeper

10 ай бұрын

the only thing that floats long enough to cross an actual ocean is a pumice raft, and pumice raft wouldn't be inhabited by monkeys or sufficient vegetation to survive. It's far more likely that the highly speculative scale for continental drift is wrong

@bosstowndynamics5488

10 ай бұрын

​@@divinesleeperPersonally, as an outsider, to me the most likely thing would be the thing suggested by the joint evidence backed scientific theories of experts from multiple scientific disciplines working together, rather than a KZread commenter using a single unlikely event to say that the entire understanding of plate tectonics (and by extension a lot of the geology underpinning it) must be wrong.

@ConstantChaos1

10 ай бұрын

Well one thing of note is that any item at sea will attract life... they probably ate a lot of sea birds and a fair bit of fish, even lemurs can catch and eat birds and fish making food easier

I think there’s a missing piece of this: There are several islands between Africa and South America, including the Cape Verde Archipelago, Fernando de Noronha, Penedos de São Pedro e São Paulo, Trindade & Martim Vaz, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, etc. Some of those have food and fresh water too. So maybe the migration happened piecewise over many years by island hopping instead of the whole distance at once

@vincentx2850

10 ай бұрын

I think though the journey between the islands is a lot shorter, the probability of monkeys making all those journeys one after another, from a mathematic point of view, may be even lower. Animals do disperse through island hopping don't get me wrong. One primate, the long tailed macaque seems especially good at it, reaching all the way to Timor from its Sunda homeland. But the Indonesia archipelagos are a lot closer together with a much shallower sea and way bigger islands, and even with that the monkeys still cannot reach Papua or Australia.

@rcookie5128

10 ай бұрын

Were those islands existing during the era the monkeys must have voyaged over?

@aguyontheinternet8436

10 ай бұрын

well, of course, those islands would need to show signs that monkeys lived there for that to hold up

@MrMtanz

10 ай бұрын

Good argument!

@wile123456

10 ай бұрын

Well does any of those islands have monkeys? Because if not then it isn't likely.

Monkeys are not even the only one that made this very journey. All the South American rodents, tortoise, crocodiles and even cichlids likely came from African ancestors.

@Hizsoo

10 ай бұрын

Maybe the islands in the region and erosion is so much underestimated.

@rickkwitkoski1976

10 ай бұрын

@vincentx2850 Yes. S. America was one of the continents that was mostly populated by marsupials... back when, and there are STILL many species of them. Mostly opossum like ones. In fact, marsupials most likely originated there. The large mammals most likely got there from N. America too when the Panama connection happened.

@LimeyLassen

10 ай бұрын

Hold up how would fish do it?

@lenarianmelon4634

10 ай бұрын

@@LimeyLassen the rafts were huge (hundreds of meters wide to possibly a kilometer) and could hold small pools of water inside them. Also, certain species of fish eggs, especially from areas with fluctuating rainfall can survive years in complete dry conditions as long as they're covered. And animals can eat fish eggs and poop them out while still being viable.

@jaychoubisa15

10 ай бұрын

Even the humans are from african and European decent

Imagine... how many monkeys just DIED, and other lemurs, reptiles, etc.. When they fell on a mat/raft, not by choice, floating into endless ocean, the chance to reach another habitable island/land is so slim. This is very different from human migration to Polynesia, where human did it on purpose, with ships and tools, through exploration and planning.

@bensoncheung2801

10 ай бұрын

69 👍 That’s… quite a large number.

@microska2656

10 ай бұрын

Yea... What are you trying to prove by saying that

@ConstantChaos1

10 ай бұрын

Well there is a chance that humans first learned about islands by accidental means like that especially gor some of the larger islands, if absolutely nothing else technically every shipwreck is still a case of this it's just the end if the destination that counts not the whole thing, it's even more comfortably a case of ir if the ship breaks and you cling to something, the monkeys were probably smart enough to manage a bit of independent mobility (like they were bad swimmers it wasn't impossible for them to swim so they mught have swam the last bit and even if it was just like 100 yards they swam that makes each island and bit of coast that mych bigger and makes it so much more probable

@foakjljrwajkltawtrawtwa441

10 ай бұрын

Hypothetically we can say there are monkeys at the bottom of the ocean

@MP-vc4nu

Ай бұрын

Imagine… how many animals and insects just DIED at the moment you typed that comment

The other weird thing about how unlikely rafting seems to be is that it seems to have happened with SO MANY GROUPS OF ANIMALS throughout time

@thwingerpodthvet4302

10 ай бұрын

Also plants too. Most plants can only grow so far from the plant the seed came from.

@Someone-sq8im

10 ай бұрын

Given enough time, anything that can happen will happen

@spongebombepicpants1073

10 ай бұрын

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@RobMacQ

10 ай бұрын

In a world with no sea walls, levies, damns, or coastal development these kinds of rafts would have been much more common

@teathesilkwing7616

8 ай бұрын

@@thwingerpodthvet4302well a plant seed is much more likely to survive the trip, they usually have built in food

Shame you didn't show that the "rafts" would've been HUGE, likely spanning hundreds of meters A sight to behold!

@DAMfoxygrampa

10 ай бұрын

How would they have been that big?

@Hater_Ultima

10 ай бұрын

​@@DAMfoxygrampaLarge peices of land breaks off from larger peice of land.

@LoreleiBlaine

10 ай бұрын

​@@DAMfoxygrampalook up "floating bogs" and you'll get an idea of the sort of thing this must have been.

@bensoncheung2801

10 ай бұрын

43 👍

@aribantala

10 ай бұрын

Which also increases likelihood of survival because that patch of land may also carry edible, fruit bearing, and live plants as well

Wow! Seems so unlikely... but like it says, even once every 2000 years over a few million years...

@Zaxares

10 ай бұрын

And if you scale this up, all the way into infinity, no matter how ridiculous or unlikely the scenario, it is GUARANTEED to happen one day. It's like the old "infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters" thought experiment. As crazy as it sounds, given enough time and monkeys, those monkeys WILL, through sheer random chance, manage to type out the complete works of Shakespeare.

@Stratelier

10 ай бұрын

Let's apply actual mathematics to these hypothetical figures: - "Once every 2000 years (P) over a few million years (N)" Say, P = 1/2000 = 0.05%; N = 4 x 10^6 Probability of even 1 successful roll during this interval = *about 65%* (Calculate it yourself! = 100% - (100% - P) ^ N)

@andyyang5234

10 ай бұрын

@@Stratelier I'm not entirely sure what you're calculating, or how it relates to the question. Once every 2000 years is not really the same as having a 1/2000 probablility every year, and the formula doesn't calcuate the chance of a successful roll.

@pierrecurie

10 ай бұрын

@@Zaxares We don't have anywhere near infinite monkeys. "Eventually" can be insanely long (eg far longer than the age of the universe).

@Stratelier

10 ай бұрын

@@andyyang5234 At the same time, these are not predictable events occurring on a fixed schedule (e.g. _literally_ "once every 2000 years") and their incidence over time is estimated from known (or inferred) past occurrences. The formula I listed is the probability of "at least one" successful roll (given a fixed probability over a # rolls). If there are _no_ successful rolls then by definition you have a streak of consecutive failures, something which is super simple to calculate. Whether or not we even have the "correct" values to begin with is a completely different question...

I love the detail of the die representing the chances of survival. So cool.

Makes me wonder if rafts of monkeys or other animals ever landed in Antarctica and they just froze to death

@sicksock435446

10 ай бұрын

Penguins when they meet monkeys for the first time "🗿"

@Noah-ws8ho

10 ай бұрын

Antarctica has very strong circular ocean currents ssurrounding it. So, that's fairly unlikely in recent history. The currents have to be favorable.

@stephenderry9488

8 ай бұрын

Long before the monkeys, the marsupials and flightless birds (ancestors of kiwis, cassowaries and emus) reached Australia from South America by walking across Antarctica. Of course in those days they were all joined together, and Antarctica was a lush temperate vegetated land.

@singsongbum

Ай бұрын

monkeys got to Americas thru the atlantic-triangle trade.. these monkeys were packed in 1000s in a ship and sent to work the fields, bruh.. President Lincoln saved these monkeys from slavery

When I was a kid, I was amazed at the movie Ra, the documentary of Thor Heyerdahl and crew showing that humans could have crossed the Atlantic on papyrus boats. It was amazing to see that tool-using humans could have done that with planning and purpose. That monkeys could have crossed the Atlantic more or less by accident is even more amazing!

@spongebombepicpants1073

10 ай бұрын

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@singsongbum

Ай бұрын

monkeys got to Americas thru the atlantic-triangle trade.. these monkeys were packed in 1000s in a ship and sent to work the fields, bruh.. President Lincoln saved these monkeys from slavery

Here before the thumbnail changes 😮

@IcantThinkOf_A_Name

10 ай бұрын

😂

@davidegaruti2582

10 ай бұрын

Smea

@Satya0001

5 ай бұрын

Slavery 😢

@rollitupmars

4 ай бұрын

So original

The most likely explanation: the Eagles from Middle Earth carried them after they threw the Ring of Power into Sauron's pit 😂

@ShankarSivarajan

10 ай бұрын

Birds bringing things over is actually eminently plausible _for plants._

@somewinner8229

10 ай бұрын

@@ShankarSivarajan nice, good to know. I'll advise the tree people of this important information 😅

@QuantumHistorian

10 ай бұрын

@@ShankarSivarajan I have it on good authority that that's exactly how the coconut spread all the way from Africa to Camelot.

@georhodiumgeo9827

10 ай бұрын

Nope, If it was the eagles they would have only taken them part of the way instead of just taking them to where they actually needed to go. Possibly they were carried by swallows, Not European swallows but maybe multiple African swallows holding a monkey by a string held under the dorsal guiding feathers... Then again African swallows are non migratory so its still up for debate.

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8

10 ай бұрын

@@ShankarSivarajanalso small insects, mites, or such clinging to their fur.

Clicks on video, immediately checks comment section.

@zlodevil426

2 ай бұрын

For young earth cultists or people talking about the slave trade?

Soo happy this topic is bring covered!!! A podcast I listen to was talking about this a few years ago, and thought it was insanely incredible.

@singsongbum

Ай бұрын

monkeys got to Americas thru the atlantic-triangle trade.. these monkeys were packed in 1000s in a ship and sent to work the fields, bruh.. President Lincoln saved these monkeys from slavery

It turns out that the world is big enough and time is long enough that things we think are so improbable as to be impossible have actually happened many times over.

@ngtony2969

10 ай бұрын

when you say "we think are imporbable", that we only includes dumb people. Normal/smart people understand probabilities is chance x number of trials.

At 02:43 Is that a Passimian ??? within "New world monkeys"??? LOL, You made my day hehe

@devincowan892

2 ай бұрын

Been searching for this comment

Instagram reel commenters would have a field day with this video.

@fhirvhdyg5gjyefhitzaphgbiu748

2 ай бұрын

Ahahahhah

I don’t care, I’m imagining monkeys purposefully building and sailing the HMS Oo-oo ah-ah and riding it to glory. (HMS stands for Haha Monkey Sailing)

2:43 Thnx for including Passimian!!!

I just love how adorable all the graphics are in this video specifically. The monkeys alone are so cute doing their things

Last time i checked they were chained and taken in ships

@DZY8733

4 ай бұрын

Saul Goodman would HATE you irl😡😡

@rollitupmars

4 ай бұрын

Who the Irish?

@jhwhthemerciful

2 ай бұрын

We have animal rights now so quit the racist stuff!

@ricardorascon88

2 ай бұрын

​@@rollitupmarsThe main majority of the $l@ve population throughout the world were blk people

I really like your artstyle and the way you draw monkeys.

@stinkytoy

Ай бұрын

Those monkeys were so goshdarn cute

@stinkytoy

Ай бұрын

Those monkeys were so goshdarn cute!

damn i thought it was about slavetrade

Thank you for your changing back your art style form the previous video.

I love the dice graphic! Fun and intuitive!

now I'm really curious to the story of these iguanas. How does such a thing happen!?

@MinuteEarth

10 ай бұрын

www.nytimes.com/1998/10/08/us/hapless-iguanas-float-away-and-voyage-grips-biologists.html

Thanks! I’m not much of a merch guy and I don’t like the subscription model of patreon, so I appreciate you using this method and reminding me to use it. *Big hug*

Wow, so informative and easily the best thing I've watched this week, and agree with everyone who says how powerful the very last line is. More on the topic please (about how humans suck at statistics, but feel free to use more money stories!).

2:44 just gotta love the random passimian

If you'd like to learn more about this topic I'd suggest checking out "The Monkey's Voyage" by Alan de Queiroz, which discusses not just rafting monkeys but also other instances of sweepstakes dispersal, and the evolutionary implications thereof. On another note, one thing I feel this video should have mentioned is that monkeys couldn't have gotten to South America when it was still attached to Africa & were simply left "stranded" there as the continents broke up; that would require monkeys having been around since at least the Jurassic period, long before the earliest known primates!

@Alarix246

10 ай бұрын

They mentioned it, quite early on.

@Alarix246

9 ай бұрын

@@themechanictangerine4337 isn't that what he said?

Eyes open:😺 Eyes closed:💀💀💀💀 The starting of video

@doge_69

2 ай бұрын

LOLLLL

@HTrntrs

Ай бұрын

I was finding this

Scientists: Humans could have never possibly crossed the oceans in prehistory Also scientists: Yeah so, the monkeys rafted here

Thank you for your great explenation

*reads title* _sighs_ *_looks at comments_*

@hexyellow9873

10 ай бұрын

Me when I see a video about evolution:

@user-qb1pn8uj7u

Ай бұрын

Ive only seen one bad comment, the commenters are way too mature

@could_possiblybe_thane07echo

Ай бұрын

@user-qb1pn8uj7u oki that's good 👍👍

Say everything instead of accepting the fact they were spawned there .

@joeljoshyjoeljoshy7823

10 ай бұрын

But they weren't no evidence for it.

@abd4704

10 ай бұрын

@@joeljoshyjoeljoshy7823 Human mind is limited for evidence but we humans have limited intelligence

Birds or bees might have transported monkey seeds over ocean, without even knowing it.

@colorado841

Ай бұрын

Your comment made my head explode.

@burner555

24 күн бұрын

🧠📉📉📉📉

The art style is back to normal!

thats weird I thought they all came on ships

Thanks! Love your videos. I also like your Patron page ❤

@MinuteEarth

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

great and yet simple explanation on the statistics of the whole thing

they come to europe by boats, usually from libya.

Lmfao 🤣🤣🤣🤣 , I can't stop laughing after reading the title... n that thumbnail is crazy af ☠️

so african migration as a metaphor.

I write software for a living and our solution takes a little bit to spin up sometimes. So, I brought in 5 d6s and started rolling them while I waited to see how long it would take me to roll all 6s. I roll them AT LEAST 20 times a day, but often much more than that. I start our application up dozens of times a day, and can usually get about 10 rolls in before I start debugging (keep in mind I’m doing it on paper so it’s not loud and annoying to coworkers. Also, I’m only doing it in my down time. So, it’s not taking away from my work). It took over a year for me to roll all 6s. When I finally got it, I sent out a message to my team and they all started chearing because they had all become somewhat invested in seeing when I’d finally get all 5 sixes. But it literally took over a year of doing it to get it! This video just made me think of that

@singsongbum

Ай бұрын

monkeys got to Americas thru the atlantic-triangle trade.. these monkeys were packed in 1000s in a ship and sent to work the fields, bruh.. President Lincoln saved these monkeys from slavery

Love the use of dice to explain these probabilities

This is the infinite monkey theorem in action, in a story about monkeys. I love it.

1:30 LotR reference: one does not simply walk into South America

Awesome video !!!

Watching this channel after a long time Like 5-6 years

I love how you visualised the changing probability with those dice! Keep nerding out! 😊

Yes monkeys clung to mats of vegetation to cross oceans but humans with primitive boats with plants and monkeys crossing oceans NO WAY!

@masonjames7769

5 ай бұрын

They are morons

some pretty big storms have caused large masses of trees to come down in one fell swoop to be swept away by engorged rivers to the sea

We all know that cameramans are invincible, but today we learned they can time travel too!

Think about how many times this similar situation may have occurred, but didn’t end with survival…

@Alarix246

10 ай бұрын

That's absolutely normal way for nature to function. Grasping it is one part of becoming adult, mature and reasonable.

@stephenderry9488

8 ай бұрын

Your 100 million deceased sperm siblings laugh at drowned monkeys.

@AndrewRipley-mp5vr

18 күн бұрын

@@Alarix246 except for thats not how any of that works, the food source and and water is impossible to sustain a big enough population of mammals on any kind of raft for such a prolonged period of time

@Alarix246

10 күн бұрын

@@AndrewRipley-mp5vr well I ain't going to argue. I know what I know, and believe that you're going to correct your opinion when the time comes. You only think and wish it didn't work that way.

“I know how them monkeys got to the americas” 👴🏻

One does not simply raft into South America

So it's pretty much what happen to Zalmoxes in Prehistoric Planet!

Well today I learned! I always thought/remembered to have heard that they walked not over land but over the frozen sea in the south and north to come over to the Americas. Or maybe that was us humans? Anyways great video!

@sicksock435446

10 ай бұрын

Humans probably did so via a northern route.

Great stuff, as ever - and I'd love to give a tip but can't see the button... help please?!

@MinuteEarth

10 ай бұрын

While unlisted, the option wasn't available, but now it is! check it out and thanks!

@Hizsoo

10 ай бұрын

@@MinuteEarth Not available in older versions of the app. That could also be the case.

New world monkeys is a great name for a band.

I was expecting a ton of evolution vs creation debates in this comments section.

"thats definetly were aliens" as one of mine classmates sad...

I love the end message so much. it reminds me that in order for you to feel so small compared to the size & time of the Earth, the Earth has to equally be so large & long. almost anything is possible & our green/blue space rock has proven that time & time again.

Awesome video

that is very cool. also love the d20s.

Could an incomplete fossil record explain it? Could there have been ancestors of New World monkeys in what is now South America dating back to when South America and Africa were still connected by land, and we just haven't found the fossils of any such New World monkey ancestors that old? Or do the DNA tests preclude that and date when the split happened?

@amberbydreamsart5467

10 ай бұрын

on quick googling; monkeys, as a cladistic group in general, first appeared about 55 million years ago, and the last time south america and africa were connected directly was 140-180 million years ago, so it can't be from back then, monkeys didn't exist. I think any north american land bridges since are precluded because there's no evidence of monkeys settling in north america and then traveling south - all DNA signs point to the origin contact being in south america. As far as I'm aware, as well, the DNA testing is usually pretty good at pointing to a vague timeframe for when species diverged, since mutations happen at a relatively predictable rate (though i'm less certain on that, don't quote me on it)

@LimeyLassen

10 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure monkeys didn't exist at all that far back. Shrews, maybe.

@xtifr

10 ай бұрын

DNA tests show when the split happened. That's _why_ rafts are the only serious hypothesis left.

@sicksock435446

10 ай бұрын

Because when the continents were still connected Monkeys had not yet evolved.

@benjaminbronnimann3966

10 ай бұрын

Africa and South America split during the jurassic 180 million years ago, the earliest signs of primates appeared 55 million years ago, so for that hypothesis to work primates would have to be over 3 times older than we thought almost as old as the first dinosaurs, so yeah highly improbable

The travel of the monkey raft would be a perfect disney movie like ice age

this video reminds me of that guy who visited the soviet union and just stood outside a building until a queue formed behind him

The probability of us existing right now is so small it borders impossibility, and yet here we are

Huh, I thought they arrived in european ships from africa to south america?

monke floating on raft looks cool, maybe i'll click- (4 hours later): "WHY IS THIS CHANNEL SO GOOD?"

Did the “history” channel’s Ancient aliens did an episode on this subject yet?

How do we know it rained nearly every day in that region at the time? Genuinely curious.

@Toomuchbullshitt

9 ай бұрын

The earth was much warmer during that time. Ice core drills proved both CO2 levels and temperatures were sufficient enough for deluges of tropical rain to occur daily along the equator.

@AndrewRipley-mp5vr

18 күн бұрын

@@Toomuchbullshitt that does not prove it rained everyday

this video is exactly why i question EVERYTHING no matter how improbable it seems

@wile123456

10 ай бұрын

Meanwhile religious extremists still refuses to accept evolution as a theory because they are too stupid to understand that monkeys and humans share a common ancestor and that current day monkeys aren't the fathers of humans.

@c_sea1n

10 ай бұрын

oh hey killmeister

@killmeister2271

10 ай бұрын

@@c_sea1n hi lmao good to see u

I just loved the dice illustration for explaining the increased probability.

Came for the sailor monkeys, stayed for the dice

You literally just explained how Africans made it to South America thousands of years ago.

@Jayzonny

6 ай бұрын

Don’t say that, please.

I feel like there's more things that might have happened to make the journey even more possible

@sicksock435446

10 ай бұрын

One thing the video didn't mention is a potential food source for the monkeys... dead monkeys. D:

"You'll boat too!" - From the movie 'IT is a raft' 🙉🙊🙈

"We've had monkeys the whole time?They walk outside every day."-👴🏻

@jonasg.bisgaard1086

6 ай бұрын

There was a time before humans, learn biology it’s pretty fun and easy to understand.

It could have been a tsunami that washed a massive volume of water over a huge area inland and when it receeded it dragged a huge number of trees as well as monkeys who would quickly find a tree as a raft. It may not have been one raft but dozens of trees washed out to sea and the animals most suited to survive on these tree rafts would be small monkeys.

which monkey the workers or a animals? (their the same)

@BryceCrowe

2 ай бұрын

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2:43 Didn't know Passimian was a new world Pokemon hahaha

The odds of any event ever happening are astronomical - and yet they do.

Bro i had a small pond in my from lawn. I never put fish in it. A baby fish showed up one day. I was confused, how did it get there? Best reason i can assume is that a bird stood on some fish eggs at the lake, an egg got stuck to its feet and it shook the egg off in my pond.

Super interesting - thanks!

It's more likely that there were once island chains connecting South America and Africa that are now lost due to tectonic activity

If you look at a world map, south america fits perfectly inside the continent of africa, both continents share similar tree species however south america has 3x as much biodiversity as africa today. Seeing this makes me think of The tower of Babel

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@rollitupmars

4 ай бұрын

Who’s laughing

@veryepikhuman3958

3 ай бұрын

​@@rollitupmars why r u so offended at random unfunny jokes in youtube comments. you actively clicked to search by newest so that you could be offended. go live ur life 💀

This makes me think there's probably more people from Africa and Europe that made it to the Americas than we think if primates 30 million years ago could do it, it's just that the trip was so far and dangerous that anyone who made it didn't bother coming back to tell everyone about it.

@CiceWYZ

10 ай бұрын

People came from Asia to America with the help of a land bridge between Alaska and Russia.

@davetaylor1687

5 ай бұрын

And then they met the people who arrived by boat long before. Latest archaeological evidence plus DNA studies.

I have a theory that primates actually evolved in the cretaceous when south america and africa were even closer together

Same with the kiwi and moa in Aotearoa / New Zealand!

They could also just exist there from the start

@omarosama6573

2 ай бұрын

because they have to make every thing suitable for their evolution theory , just say very long time and everyone will believe

They came over on slave ships

i thought they crossed from siberia to alaska with the land bridge that existed there

theres literally a roblox game called monkey raft which is conveniently related to this where you are a monkey on a raft setting to sea, making pit stops at some islands for food, resources, ect. the goal is to reach a safe island where no storm will get there for a while. beans

According to my father this is how my grandparents came to America. Rhinos are a different story.