“It’s hard to collect seeds when they drop off and walk away” 😂

@LunaGuinevereStudio

2 жыл бұрын

I burst our laughing hearing this in the video hahaha

@talkdattrashimmapullyacard4396

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@Naturemoly

9 ай бұрын

Seriously 🤪🤪🤪

@peaceleader7315

3 ай бұрын

Grass seeds.. hmmmm.. they are going around and feeding the world 🌎.. hmmmm.... walk about with me.

@ChandrasegaranNarasimhan

2 ай бұрын

Attenborough does say that we can select only the seeds that did not move. So he has answered your question. On the funny side, we should be smart enough to think of selecting the seeds that do not move.

You showed us a life hidden from our eyes, we could not even imagine such a thing. Marvelous!

@leenb7560

2 жыл бұрын

Talk for yourself not for others

@UNKNOWNANG3L

2 жыл бұрын

@@leenb7560 ok there professor!

@valciobanu

2 жыл бұрын

Word!

@purplerain2314

2 жыл бұрын

@@leenb7560 that's rude

@niconiconii4561

2 жыл бұрын

@@leenb7560 Talk for yourself not for others

The scene where the seeds start walking felt like a scene out of a movie. BBC really does great work on these videos.

@MircomFan

2 жыл бұрын

'The night of the living seeds'

@porkysparodies

Жыл бұрын

Definitely agree with you! The music then adds even more drama/suspense to the situation!

@HansDunkelberg1

Жыл бұрын

@@porkysparodies And now comes Darwin and says: "Oh, you see, there all the time have been quadrillions of exemplars of those grasses... It's not so astounding if one or two of them accidentally develop such a capacity, and it's a matter of sheer logic that once they have done so they'll outcompete many others..."

@victoremisho9432

Жыл бұрын

@@MircomFan 😂😂😂

@victoremisho9432

Жыл бұрын

@@porkysparodies the song is titled Ancestral Grasses, just incase you're looking.

Imagine pouring some oatmeal into a bowl, only to watch in horror as the oats climb out of the bowl and skitter across the table! 😄😆

@anyascelticcreations

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

I hope David Attenborough lives a long life. Wildlife and nature documentaries wouldn’t be the same without him.

@Smokie1523

2 жыл бұрын

Hes 95 or so... hes lived a long life. But i get what youre sayin and concur.

@user-ly4wt9xp4i

2 жыл бұрын

@@Smokie1523 I worded it wrong but I think u get the gist lol. I didn’t want to sound offensive

@purplerain2314

2 жыл бұрын

He will leave behind hundreds or more of beautiful nature documentaries for new generations to see. What a wonderful legacy to leave to the world.

@lawrencelenerd3988

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you didnt jinx him....

@deusvult8251

2 жыл бұрын

Jimmy saville

Playing in the paddocks as a child here in Australia, I remember these blessed things screwing their way into our socks and clothing and having to sit on the back step picking them all out before we got inside and mum getting mad. LOL (I am 64 now) Great memory....

@chrismac7447

2 жыл бұрын

Farmer’s friend

@harshgupta7665

2 жыл бұрын

True. These used to be very irritating when I used to play. But still good memories. I think it’s all good in the end.

@Ariodalamberita

2 жыл бұрын

oh my the same memory!! indonesia when i was a kid💗💗💗💗💗 now im 36

@Benny237

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ariodalamberita same here in the netherlands

@downbntout

2 жыл бұрын

Same with cheatgrass here in the western USA

This is breathtaking, I can only imagine how long it took to get this footage

@ahmadsher1519

2 жыл бұрын

In minutes When seed get moisture it rotates quickly

@tangosucka8526

2 жыл бұрын

A couple of minutes. I used to pull these dry seeds off the plant as a young kid in the 80s, put them on the ground and sprinkle water on them and then watch the move around on the ground. That took me around 20 seconds to do. So yeah, wouldn't of taken long at all.

@tangosucka8526

2 жыл бұрын

@Anti-amelia slimeball who hates you all. ban_tran The footage is sped up, not slowed down.

@ahmadsher1519

2 жыл бұрын

@Anti-amelia slimeball who hates you all. ban_tran 😁

@datemasamune2106

2 жыл бұрын

YOU'RE breathtaking! :D

That's me getting out of bed every morning. Takes hours.

@iont8172

2 жыл бұрын

I know the feeling!!

@anyascelticcreations

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the seeds sit and stare over the edge of the "bed" for a while trying to muster up the energy.

@bezoticallyyours83

2 жыл бұрын

XD

@thegreatergood8081

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the seeds take hours to consider getting out of bed

Whoever does your background scores deserves applause. It blends in not just with the video, but also the narration and the underlying themes (weird, wonderful, strange, dangerous, funny). Like the perfect cup of cappuccino. Your videos wouldn't be the same without it

@daveomacron4301

2 жыл бұрын

The cello against the sound of the migrating seeds in particular.

@nxva8726

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveomacron4301 Yup. Besides the brilliant painstakingly long filming process (seeds of all things) & Attenborough.... the background score goes less noticed. But it lifts the video & gives it a life. I bet if you cut out the background score, the video wouldn't be what it is....

@justme10

2 жыл бұрын

@@nxva8726 I am the real Just Me🤔😆

@garrybutterworth-hayes7109

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you I appreciate it! I’ve done audio and visual effects for 20 years and it’s one of my best pieces!

@-Caine

2 жыл бұрын

That's just the background noise of Sir David

here we see david attenborough educating his fellow humans. and through this remarkable symbiotic relationship he is able to feed, clothe, and house himself.

@anyascelticcreations

2 жыл бұрын

Perfect comment. 👌

@DD-nv2vg

2 жыл бұрын

Niceeeeeee

This is the type of stuff that makes people not believe in evolution but is also the perfect example of evolution

@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648

2 жыл бұрын

Just because our science can see evolution doesn't mean there is no plan behind nature.

@steveh9643

2 жыл бұрын

@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 Who created god then?

Everybody gangster til the ancestral grasses start walkin.

@obsidianzarok2361

2 жыл бұрын

ha. haha.. hahaha.. HAHAHAH! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!

Hats off to the person who filmed this clearly

We used to play with seeds when we little. Put these into our hands and when rub top of your hand this seeds moving theirselves. Good old days..

@KenanTurkiye

2 жыл бұрын

I remember doing that. : )

@mahasneh70

2 жыл бұрын

🌹

@Fawad06

2 жыл бұрын

we used to call them watches as the bristles moved like the hands of a watch

Its crazy to think that something so common could do something so extraordinary.

I love the “semi-ominous” music playing on the background when the seeds were “walking.”

I guess that's why they call it "seeding one's wild oats". They wander about.

Imagine if you didn't know about these plants, and he was just out sleeping in the field for whatever reason, and you woke up to see these things moving around. it would be like something out of a horror movie lol.

@dylan1160

2 жыл бұрын

It's sped up

@Rat2rrj

2 жыл бұрын

The music reminds me of a scarecrow horror story

Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction

@okamijubei

2 жыл бұрын

And yet we eat those

This stuff is fascinating, but its that almost sinister music when the seeds start moving that really sells it.

We actually had one of those plants near our old house. It seemed weird that they have two weird string-like things, but I never knew that the seeds could walk with it. Thanks David!!

I knew plants did many things that are just unfathomable .. But walking ? What ! How amazing . I was just telling my children’s father about all of the things plants do last night . I can’t wait to tell him about this .

@user-kp8dh5wu2n

2 жыл бұрын

Don't mind me, just curious your children's father wouldn't it be easier to mention your relationship or it's too complicated.

@44_j_adityait68

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-kp8dh5wu2n her name says Maybe no

@jackbarrie6007

2 жыл бұрын

Have allways lived under a rock I'm 77 and used to these oat seeds under the cuff of out long sleeve shirt and in no time they would be up to your shoulder do you know what an ant lion is probably not because the last few generations were stuck inside with the electronic junk you bought them we had good times out side teaching our selves about nature when I was in my early 30s we took our two kids girl 3 boy 5 out of the city to live in the country 300 km from perth and give them a country up bringing they now live in the there city homes With extremely respectful law abiding kids with very high wages and no I'm not a drugy hippy and never have even tried it in any way nether have my kids and grandchildren are fans we like nature and not false identities that drugs give people and I'm an atheist just as my kids and grandchildren are my brothers x 2 sister x1 were all strict so called Christians all fitness people they have all died by well over 10years ago with my sister being 4years and 8 months younger at 77 I give myself about 5years I'm on my own now and just push life on😀👍🥳

@Boobeinstein

2 жыл бұрын

Your children's father?

@johankaruyan5536

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean, Your Husband ?!

I love nature. It never ceases to amaze. God bless Sir David Attenborough

@brennancumberbatch1571

2 жыл бұрын

Yes ...God bless you Attenborough

@matimus100

2 жыл бұрын

But no blessings for the gay or lesbian wildlife community right ?👫🦉🦁🐘🦏🐺🌏

@matimus100

2 жыл бұрын

@@brennancumberbatch1571 👈🤡

@kimashitawa8113

2 жыл бұрын

@@matimus100 ?

@matimus100

2 жыл бұрын

@@kimashitawa8113 ?

These shots are incredible

@crunchybro123

2 жыл бұрын

these brave cameramen sped up time just to get this footage

Even a seed walks while you are lazy on your couch, get up and WALK !

This is incredible. I wonder who sat watching these seeds long enough to realise they were moving by unstreching their "legs" and not just due to the wind or something

There is but only one person who can strike up such a nostalgic feeling just with the sound of his voice. I'm sure there are countless people who like me grew up hearing his voice and learning about our planet and what we can do to make it a better place for us and the wildlife. So I would like to say thank you Sir David Attenborough. You are the Morgan Freeman of England.

@Ducktility

2 жыл бұрын

No he is David Attenborough of the world

As a childhood memory, we used to play with those grass seeds. If you take a single seed and put it on wet sand or mud it will start moving like clock needle.

This makes me think our imagination is no where close to actually imagine alien worlds.

@blucat4

2 жыл бұрын

"There are things in the Heavens, and on the Earth, that Man cannot imagine." But you just saw one on BBC Earth! :-)

Is incredible how something that looks inert and oblivious like a plant can evolve in such a way to adapt to its surroundings like this, making its seed to literally "walk" to a suitable place to grow.

@fannyalbi9040

2 жыл бұрын

that is y why plants have more genome materials than us.

@glenneric1

2 жыл бұрын

They are ert.

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

2 жыл бұрын

they can't adapt new additional genetic coding. that is a nonsensical notion. Adaptation is variation aloud within the genetics. not magically manifesting something that couldn't be. It's absurd just like evolutionary theory. It's pseudo science completely non-functional. This magical mechanism that produces rationality from irrationality does not exist.

@tacitozetticci9308

2 жыл бұрын

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep Only religious fanaticism leads to these sorts of convictions, realise it. Your doctrine really NEEDS you to reject this simple and elegant answer to a question you really want to disentangle with magic instead. Give up, it's a battle you lost centuries ago. You're a minority and you're getting smaller every day.

I love the background music. It's totally how I feel watching this walking seeds.

These guys discover the most unreal organisms in Nature, If you'd look in their channel you would be surprised at the stuff they show in Nature, most of which seem alien like.

@Industrious420

2 жыл бұрын

yes...almost as if we are the alien species on this planet ;)

Just when you think you've seen everything, mother nature yet again surprises.

David never fails to just amaze me. I often wonder how these earth shaking wonders escape our daily lives. Thanks again David. I never thought I would be this shocked at a weed.

Gives new meaning to "sowing your wild oats"

I noticed these seeds, since my childhood, throwing them in my saliva and enjoying their movement. It's amazing when they move

Holy cow, this could be a scene from an M. Night Shyamalan movie.

For some reason I found that terrifying 😳

Let us take a moment to think of how many pain staking hours of raw footage of nature the big D must have... or endless footage of a spec waiting for that perfect moment. Dedication is an art that he's done to a perfection.

Sir David's voice over and the background music, perfection!!!

This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Literally gave me chills!! Well done Sir David

@giovannirichards8602

2 жыл бұрын

Nice remark

WoW 😨 I've been watching Sir David Attenborough for decades & he never ceases to amaze me with his nature videos.

Oh so this is where they got the idea of making self digging seeds. Its very similar,I came across it a few days back,the wooden extensions wind and unwind when in contact with moisture and creates the action of spinning, through with the seed goes down the soil. Never thought a thing like that already existed in the wild.

I remembered his voice we watched him with my father GOD Bless Sir David Attenborough From Philippines

The way they got this in video and Sir David's narration are good enough, but man, the score for this video is just outstanding! It made the seeds seem more bizarre!! Props to the musicians behind this 🔥🔥💯

Pretty amazing that plant seeds have such an adaptation

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

2 жыл бұрын

It's not an adaptation. It's the original design. An adaptation would be losing it. Not magically aquiring new genetic blueprints.

@ionryful

2 жыл бұрын

@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep Scientifically speaking, these plants must have descended from an older(and probably extinct) plant species that originally didn't have this walking adaption. Just a theory though, I'm no plant expert.

Whoever wrote the music for this deserves more attention

😲 Seeds that walk. And find their own nook to grow in. Now, that's amazing.

The world we cannot see easily is just so amazing

Imagine seeing this 200 years ago seeing walking seeds being freaked out lol

@DavidVoxDem

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty shook now

@forsene2297

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidVoxDem I'm shock to death

They are giving the words (walk the line) a hole new meaning 👍🏻

in Indonesia we call it " Rumput Jarum " or Neddle grass, the seed can walking by it self, we used to play with the grass when we were little, good memories

The Green Planet is an amazing series!!! I love Attenborough.

I like to imagine that if we had selected the seeds that walked the best, we would be driving seeds instead of cars now.

I knew seeds can float, jump, fly but walking, that's new for me. Learned something today

This is almost unbelievable. What else is out there? Or was? Just amazing.

Wild oats, a fascinating plant but a god awful weed! Left uncontrolled they can smother a cereal crop out. A botanist from a famous Agricultural chemical company used to refer to them as "Avena fatua sanguinensis" (Bloody wild oat). I used to entertain children by picking a few seeds off a plant, lick the awns then put them on my hand. Oh the looks of astonishment I used to get when they started to 'walk '😮

"It's hard to collect seeds when they drop off and walk away." Bruh

I want to mention the track playing during the march of the seeds was fantastic.

Love the music that plays while the seeds are walking!

Narrator voice is amazing

@majoroldladyakamom6948

2 жыл бұрын

He's Sir David Attenborough, and a Global treasure.

I hope Sir David Attenborough wins the Nobel Price 🙏 Nature has more hidden mysteries than we can ever discover...But some of them we are lucky to see on BBC Earth, Thank you!!💫

Seeds that can walk! Like an alien world. Wonderful. Thank you Sir David Attenborough.

Nature never stop surprising me

What a scene and serene atmosphere!

That was amazing. This crazy world beneath our feet is awesome.

This is how I live. I just flop around on the couch until something interesting comes on.

That's the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen!

i played with these my entire childhood in Lebanon, never realised they walk!! SobhanAllah

@matimus100

2 жыл бұрын

Bad teaching 👆🌏

You sir are an amazing narrator. Your voice makes listening a pleasant experience. Thanks for your devotion to nature.

The music is strangely mesmerizing.

Tje title attracted me, but when I heard Sir Attenborough talk, I was mesmerized! I just adore his voice ❤

Everything sir David Attenborough tells us about nature is astounding and amazing. Is he not the greatest naturalist of all time? :)

Very interesting! Love from Germany ❤️

@crunchybro123

2 жыл бұрын

hallo ich ube deustch

@justme10

2 жыл бұрын

Love back from Germany🤣

@crunchybro123

2 жыл бұрын

@@NIEMNL chill my guy

Whoever chooses the music for these segments needs a raise IMMEDIATELY

That background music made it an awesome thriller

Their amazing ability of walking with legs is only overshadowed by the ability to drill underneath soil. Are there any other seeds that actively drill themselves into the ground?

Extraordinary. Thanks Sir. Have learned to love nature even more by watching your videos.

This is so majestic so natural

If that's the actual speed they walk as shown in the video, it's quite terrifying to me.

I thought those were bugs Very cool

I have many plants in my Peddy field but I don't know it can walk. Such a miracle 👍

That's just scary especially since it's going on literally under our nose and we are oblivious to the goings-on.

Can't believe a plant seed gets more exercise than me

Like thriller move👌🏿

Incredible nature♥️

@crunchybro123

2 жыл бұрын

yes

The part with the seeds walking looks like stop motion. Amazing!

For a man who has lived so long when Sir David says "its extraordinary" i take it seriously...

Enjoy Attenborough while you can, doesn't sound like he has very long left. Suppose he'll go where all the other truly great men end up.

*these seeds are made for walkin'* *and that's just what they'll do* *one of these days these seeds are gonna walk all over you*

In our childhood days, we used to play with a similar looking grass' seed, we used to keep it under our sleeves, and observed that it crawls to up.

I have seen them and used to play with these during childhood by putting them in water tanks, they grew in our wheat fields

Es increíble la magnificencia de la naturaleza 😍

@Ana-ox3xj

2 жыл бұрын

Es increíble la magnificencia de Dios.

"it's hard for us to collect seeds that walk away". They're not exactly sprinting away are they!

@lorenexus4917

2 жыл бұрын

You just totally missed the point. The point being you have to search on the ground for those seeds. Even if they ain't sprinting you have to look around, see where the moved even if, it is a foot, or two. Then you have to wonder if you got all of them, and look in cracks, and such to see if you miss any. David Clearly states why bother doing any wondering, and just work with resources that are much easier to manage.

@laernulienlaernulienlaernu8953

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorenexus4917 yeah coz picking up seeds off the ground is so much easier than picking them up off the ground 2 feet away, probably right near another plant. They probably used selective breeding to get seeds that had put more energy into the seed itself instead of its "legs". It's not because they were sick of chasing them around the farmyard.

I didn't realize The Happening was a documentary, or that it had a sequel narrated by David Attenborough.

This is as terrifying as it is incredible

The voice is good 👍👍👍👍

Sometimes I think trees & plants "use" humans & animals to propagate. I made this wonderful fruit... take it. And we're their instruments, spreading their species wherever we go. "Life" is weird. Would you say trees or plants can be classified as "intelligent life forms"?

@jarizitvast5944

2 жыл бұрын

Meat eating plants can learn and so maybe.

@nxva8726

2 жыл бұрын

@@jarizitvast5944 Yeah. But plants also adapt, change & evolve over time. They fight off threats, and they use humans, birds, insects, animals as their tools...in a weird symbiotic way..... if one could think of it that way. Either way, they're not dumb.

Honestly, thank u BBC World! Usually, when KZread suggests this kinda title, I would be disappointed, but not from your channel.

The fact that this has come about with no conscious input, just trial and error and lots of time, makes the movement of the seeds even more spooky

@animax2422

2 жыл бұрын

Same for our very brains

@SOULRELIEF22

2 жыл бұрын

The input is from the LORD! Just like baby birds when they find their way to migrating flocks when they've been left behind! HALLELUJAH JESUS! 🙏🙌💞