David Attenborough VS A Deadly Plant! | Nature Bites
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Meet the dangerous plant that traps and digests SMALL ANIMALS until there's nothing but bones and fur left! Scary stuff...
From Kingdom of Plants 3D: a natural history documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, which explores the world of plants. It was filmed over the course of a year at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
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Respect to the cameraperson risking his life inside the plant.
Silly gooses they can't dissolve humans. And Venus fly traps can't "bite" us🤣
@@brisnodgrass5858 I think it’s meant to be as a joke. I doubt Mac actually believes a person was in danger filming this.
boomers everywhere
@@brisnodgrass5858 You should really delete your response before you drown in r/whoosh replies. Good God man!
Why do you bother saying "cameraperson" instead of "cameraman" if you're just gonna say "his" anyway 😂
So the last plant is basically a self sustaining toilet
LOL no poopy in the nest then only in the pitcher plants.
Just like the pitcher plant in zefrank1's video.
Gives new meaning to the phrase eat s--t!
😂
Haaa literally the Potty Plan even shaped like a toilet that's crazy 😆😆
I honestly don’t want to imagine a nature documentary not narrated by this guy… the fact that he is 97 and still doing what he loves to this day is amazing!
it will be a sad day when he passes
@@David_Quinn_Photography indeed.
Is he alive
@@ujjvallal9909Yes.
@@ujjvallal9909 Attenborough is immortal; he lives forever.
So crazy that there’s a plant that attracts a certain animal to sit and eat at a substance it secretes, which may contain a laxative, and that animal will then poop into the plant, giving it the nutrients it needs. Nature 🤯
Yup..plants think of everything....and don't need brains
"I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move."
@@sealevel5961 eat shit you mean?
lol nature be cray cray
the loathsome dung eater
I would freakout as well if I see a decaying body next to me.
Reminds me of the Travis Walton story.
I think anyone would freak out if they saw a decaying body next to them lol
Yeah this is what people are forgetting man nature can be beautiful but it can be deadly
So it’s a toilet plant
The amazing plants of nature like the Venus flytrap.
David actually has a pitcher plant named after him, Nepenthes attenboroughii was found in 2007 on a mountain at the island of Palawan
Wowwww that’s so cool
Wow thank you for the info so awesome
This nice of them to do that.
That reminds me of an old KZhead vid that was posted in 2007 about the pitchers that he did.
palawan? Wow
I'm 49 and remember listening to his documentaries as a child. He is amazing.
I can listen to David all day! Such a soothing voice. Makes anything interesting
He's perfect for bedtime stories.
Love the Truth!
Frfr 💯
I wish he would live forever. The world will be a sadder place when he is no more. He is such a fantastic person.
You can't live forever on earth.
@@kistole28 we know
Cameraman is always immortal!
So sad to hear he passed. RIP.
@@pluto8404 good thing he didnt
Nature can create things that are straight out of a horror movie!
Or the horror movies were created out of nature??!!
But that's a topic....for anotherrrrr.... What if ..!
Nature creates things now😂😂🤨🤨 you can't say God because ppl nowadays will get offended but you can say nature, the universe.😂 Who created nature itself, who created rain, soil, oxygen, sunlight, a perfect climate for plants to grow in? God Almighty. Praise Allah
@@sayedalazam4228. God Creates Horror
@@MoskusMoskiferus1611 God created human which is a horror 😂😂
The poop eating plant ironically looks like a toilet
ironic? natural selection , toilets are designed with the same thing in mind
The most iconic narrator of documentary history imo. He seem just as passionate and amazed about life and Earth as we are and I like it
the nepenthes rafflesiana is actually smart, cuz the part that has the nectar is dry(not slippery) for a few hours each day and wet at other times, yet it catches 36% more ants than those that stay wet all day. why? the ants can leave the nepenthes safely and come back with more ants, resulting in more food for the nepenthes rafflesiana
Cool, I just bought mine
Clever girl...
@@klytouch7515 XD yes I am kinda a nerd(uh yeah totally don’t have stacks of young scientists books at home)
@@tommyqian3517😄 thanks for that information 😁 I found it very interesting. Evolution is awesome 😃
@@distantcoff7391 it certainly is. :D
For anyone who is really interested in these plants, I highly highly recommend visiting California Carnivores nursery in Sebastopol, CA. They have the largest collection of carnivorous plants in North America. Super nice knowledgeable staff too. I went with my grandkids a few years ago, it was AWESOME. ✌️
Question is, can you purchase any?
Just watched a video with them in it they're awesome
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They are no longer open to the public.
@@kanariya02115 Thank you
Love that the toilet plant is even mildly toilet shaped. Love Sir Attenborough for telling us about the shrew toilet. Love the directors and editors and cameramen for creating film of shrew poops in a leaf. 10/10
Flies in my house: litterally is so fast thinking thst dodges a object that goes super fast Flies in that video: *slips and dies*
'It's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out'
I grew up watching and listening to Attenborough's documentaries. Very nostalgic to watch this short clip.
sorry for you
@@standingbear998 😂😂😂
@@standingbear998 More like sorry for you, uninspiring putz.
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That is crazy and terrifying at the same time,but nature is amazing how it works. So intricate
All of these plants are needed in a ecosystem, thats why fish cant survive without benifitiol bacteria!..
And yet people think evolution did all this intricate things in nature🤦🏾♂️
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@@iamBlackGambit Well, it did, all the evidence is there if you care to google. Think about how much we have been able to evolve dogs over the last couple centuries (both physically and behaviorally). We've been able to "evolve" dogs that were essentially wolf-life all the way down to Chihuahuas in the blink of an eye. Hundreds of years (a blink of an eye) pales in comparison to the millions and millions of years that life has had to evolve. The variety and intricacy in nature is not very surprising at all when you realize the timescales we're talking about.
@@rjmoney9 wrong
When you say "VS", I expect no less than a kaiju fight between a giant evil plant and David Attenborough in a mech suit.
These wonderful videos never cease to amaze me!
that bug inside the trap: sup you new around here
That's where my uncle went!
OK but that moth looked like it had been dead for a while, then all of a sudden started moving! 😬
The best documentaries on nature by David Attenborough never fail to marvel.
Watching this fly struggle made me happy. I hate flys with a passion. And mosquitos, but that’s for another time
I couldn’t watch it tbh. Flys are still animals..
Flies
@@TheRafark who cares I probably step on 50 by accident in a day
@@TheRafark u r weak asf lmao
Before this vid I hadn't really thought about how being digested while still alive was a possible death. What a horrible way to go 😦
Venus flytrap have a similar method but they're in a different category of trap plants
A praying mantis EATS insects alive, even it's own kind
@@saneinsein5343 it's usually females eating males after they mate
It's like a sarlacc pit of the world.
This isn't even the only carnivorous plant to do that. Sundews have tentacles with dew-covered hairs that act as a sensory trap. If it feels something brush against the "dew," it closes it's tentacle around it's prey, trapping it in what's actually a sticky digestive fluid. Bladderwort has thousands of tiny empty "bladders" submerged beneath the water. Each bladder is surrounded by small reactive hairs that, if triggered, quickly open the mouth of said bladder. The water displacement acts like a vacuum, sucking it's victim inside and quickly closing the bladder _trap_ behind it. The bladderwort then releases enzymes into the full bladder, using the water to digest it's victim alive.
How does the fly fells down without flying? But they fly everytime you try to smack them..
It’s because of their size. Since they’re considerably smaller than us human they have a faster response time. But the thing with this is that a fly cannot fly because the fall is not high enough. The distance between the lip and the enzymes is very short.
i think the nectar also drugs the fly
@@maxthomas-bland4842 well your not wrong there
They can see the smack coming before it hits and prepare, but they can only feel that they’re falling once they actually fall and by then they’ve already fallen into the liquid
There is actually a species of spider that lives in the top of the pitcher, and helps itself to the drowning insects. It can walk on the walls of the pitcher without slipping.
This plant is absolutely terrifying and fascinating.
Glad their not much bigger.
@@brianbishop4753 haha🤣🤣🤣
good morning sir for so many many many years i have watchs several programs where you do the voices over for the national geographic for the first time in more then 30 years i see you for the very first time on you tube but for last three decades ive been watching how dedicated you are to nature you one of a kind who bring that warmed relaxing feeling when we watchs you explaining how nature no can do a better job then you some people is just cut out for a job👏👏👏👏👏
First time seeing a living toilet :D
Guess you've never seen a mirror
@@microwavedcheetos Ok?... But I guess so then.
@@microwavedcheetos rude
And living stupids are saying it..
LOL ....
It's fascinating how nature always finds a way to survive
Well said.
Ian Malcom - “life… will find a way”
That’s why we shouldn’t mess with pathogens. Nature always balances herself out.
Life always finds a way...to kill humans.
Humankind is always thinking of new ways to destroy itself and everything around.
Really just amazing looking, great nature Observation and shootings.
David Attenborough, always making things more interesting 😂
He can narrate me taking a shit and I'd be like mhmmmm 🤔
Its already interesting
Nice short film. I love Attenborough's 2 part "Plants Behaving Badly." Best documentary on carnivorous plants and orchids ever made.
Muito feliz de achar esses vídeos... muito show... natureza sempre me encanta...
I love watching him. So knowledgeable.
I love David Attenborough!! His voice is so relaxing 😌 bless him for his work 🙏
"The ridges are very slippery and difficult for a fly to hold onto." ...did it forget that it has wings and that it can fly?
It can't fly and eat.
@@randominternetguy3537 It can fly away as soon as it slips. It´s very much able to fly off when I catch one on my glass of orange juice.
@@Widdekuu91 EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SAYING! I mean, I new flies were stupid, but wow.
I reckon it doesn’t register true danger until it falls into the liquid, which is a bit too late to start flying away
Insects, like vertebrates, actually launch with a jump, which would be difficult on a slippery surface. Moreover, canceling velocity from a fall once it starts would be tough. To brake from a free fall in such a short distance would take a lot of thrust, as much agility as flies have that's a lot of acceleration.
Absolutely Amazing
I thank KZhead's algorithm for showing me this video. It's amazing.
Awesome nature and a very good, calm explanation by Sir Attenborough
He is the best nature narrator ever! I watched his programms for decades and i will NEVER get bored.
Attenborough is the Bob Ross of nature. So nice to watch and learn.
I saw this at an expedition as a child and was fascinated with it. Mainly because it looks like small container and children love things like that. I asked my parents for the name and they shrugged. "Kantung Semar" they said. It's a local name. That's the first time I've ever seen it. I saw it a lot of times growing up in many kind of events. It's always fascinating to look at. Just like any other exotic insectivore flowers down here.
All heart respect, I love these videos 💯❤️😊
I clicked this video hoping to see Sir David Attenborough in full knights armour fighting a gigantic fire breathing venus fly trap.
I'm looking at my pitcher plant right now like: "you're evil bro."
Imagine being in a family of meat eating plants that trap and digest their alive, then natural selection just turned around and said “screw that, your a toilet Harry!”
Tree shrew instead gives HP to the plant instead of the plant main attack being Not Very Effective.
@@barrontrump3943 thing is the plant’s main attack isn’t always not very effective towards mammals, some of the larger pitchers can and will eat animals like frogs, rats and the previously mentioned treeshrews. At this point it’s pretty much a 1-Hit OK move rather than not being very effective. This plant basically has a move set that’s all healing moves and no attacking moves whereas majority of pitchers have an attack of some form, even the smallest ones do have a 1-Hit KO towards bug times it’s still something.
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Better though. Digesting a mammal takes time and runs the risk of damage to the leaf releasing the dead catch, and its nutrients. Mammals are also, generally, smart and after a close call or two a lucky one will start destroying the trap before eating. It's also a one and done massive HP boost Mammal crap is full of readily available nutrients, from its passage through the digestive track, which can almost immediately be taken up by the leaf. There is no massive loss should one leaf be destroyed. You also see that the leaf is shaped to prevent a mammal falling in. It's a return customer who has no reason to destroy the leaf so the plant gets a continuous boost of nutrients which it can assimilate easily
Excellent pic awesome photography
David Attenborough was a very incredible man. His work will be long remembered and appreciated.
@Calvin Jackson - was? He’s still alive, man.
@@MrWicked61671 really?? I am GLAD to be wrong.
He's alive and well Fun fact: he's 95 years old
@@woodenhoe I move a vote to council requesting that Sir David Attenborough replace Betty white as the world's grandparent.
One would definitely not wish to be reincarnated as that forest toilet. Geez lmao😂
The nature and it's evolution work so fascinating!
When I was little I went fishing with my dad, we found a lot of pitcher plant (nepenthes). My dad told me to pick about 100 of them, he said he would show me something great. We took it to my grandmother's house and he told me to give this plant to my grandmother. Apparently, after washing this semar bag, you give 1-2 tablespoons of rice inside and boil it until it's cooked, the taste is incredibly delicious. I grew up in South Kalimantan or S. Borneo, Indonesia. There are a lot of swamps there, this plant is often found in my area, but now it's starting to be rarely seen.
I love him sense I was a child he being doing great documentary s for years In I watch every one thank you for this experience I would not know half of the stuff I know now...
We call this "memang koksi" (ghost pot) it can be seen anywhere near riverside growing here in Northeast India, Meghalaya, Garohills.
O, really. 🇮🇳
Wow, there's only one species that grows in India (Nepenthes khasiana), and it's critically endangered. If you've actually seen N. khasiana in the wild then consider me jealous. It's a special plant for sure, so be sure to take care of the ones that are left.
This man's documentaries are breath taking his voice ooh my.
Pitcher plant ofcs, this is a part of our local cuisine here in Malaysia. We'd clean it with water, insert sticky rice and some other seasonings, fillings varies by own taste, and slow-steam/boil it to cooked. Very tasty.
@@mayankimmortalJesus christ man chill
This is all I grow in my greenhouse.
What the
I have pinguicula
🤔🤔🤔 Interesting ☹️
😂
I suppose you dont have bug problems then?
I think i have seen every thing David has done , thank you
Nature continues to amaze me
1:46 YOU GOT WINGS! FLY, MAN, FLY! You can still get outta this!
I think this is the first time I've felt sorry for a fly
Not me.
I have a Nepenthes Ventrata and while not as exotic as these Nepenthes, it's still such a cool and rewarding plant to care for.
Bunga pemakan binatang ...terimakasih saudara...video yg sangat bagus👍
Doesn't matter what the video is about, but if it is Sir David Attenborough then I am into it ❤️💯
😄👍
@@beny988 What has this man done you if i may ask? Since i see you commenting down on him a lot under this video. If someone else likes him why do you care? Keep ur head high and move one! Hope you have a wonderful rest of the day/evening! :)
@@Displayme4 he destroyed supernatural/superstition.... Religion....etc. FACTS!
👀Sir David revealing what mother nature does💪I can't GATE enough of watching his videos🤔("watching from Africa in Kenya🇰🇪 at Kilifi county🙏")
I was interested in what Kilifi looked like so I went to google maps and took a look. What a beautiful place! All of that great sand, and the people seem happy too. I want to take a trip there some day!
Nice n informative clip
Dude… fucking haunting narration by this legend. Seeing the insects dead beside the struggling fly was fucking piercing
It’s always a pleasure to hear this man speak. 🥰
I thought David was gonna put his hand inside because of the title
Me, too! 😂
This is just fascinating viewing!
Very informative.
Definitely could use those during summer
These things grow in abundance on the isolated tops of the plateaus in South America called; "Tepuis." (Where the world's largest waterfall "Angel Falls," is located.) Because the tops of the Tepuis are flat, separated by the Amazonian Jungle below by sheer cliffs nearly 1,000 meters high, they're subjected to almost continuous year-round rainfall, which washes almost all of the natural soil deposits away entirely. Leaving nothing behind for the plant life to cling on to besides rock. Because it's nearly impossible for the native vegetation to extract the necessary nutrients from rock, almost all of the plant life found atop the Tepuis are separate and distinct species of carnivorous plants, each Tepuis in the vast mountain range within the three Countries who's borders converge in the region having their own unique variations of plants and animal life. Each species found nowhere else in the World, and more closely related genetically to one another and the corresponding areas in sub-saharan Africa, (from the millions of years ago when the two continents were joined as one,) than any of the species living in the jungle 900 feet below the sheer cliffs surrounding the summits. It's incredibly fascinating. 👍
very untrue these to not come from or grow anywhere near south america they are from the tropics of indonesia and the island nations around it
@@gooeydewys5151 They are probably thinking of Heliamphora, the South American pitcher plants.
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Fascinating!
Why didn’t it just fly out when it was trying to crawl up…
Deep 😂
It can't fly when the wings are wet, I guess
@@ms.chievouz789 i think he's talking about the time when the fly's still on the "lips" of the plant
I don't know, ask the fly
@@broomdog1214 I would but he’s dead
This brings me back about 30 years with my grandpa teaching about plants in Oregon.
Thank you for your documentary Sir David and everyone behind the making of the video, may God Bless you all and Grant you long live 🙂
4:33 It's litterally a toilet, lid and everything
This plant deserves a horror movie made about it.
Have you seen the movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers? And Little Shop of Horrors (I think that's the one)?
Love this plant and the colours are beautiful which I had some.
😆😆
Sir thank you for this information. You are doing great work.
Soundtrack is EVERYTHING.
Respect for the cameraman for going inside the pitcher leaf.
It's cutee
Imagine if these things one day grew huge and lured humans in with the scent of greasy cheeseburgers or pizza.
somebody's gonna steal that
They’ll name it Audrey 2
Hahahhahaha
I think there were huge ones in the jurassic period pr something
One day when we discover the secrets the genetic engineering, we will make toilet plants a reality for all mankind
0:30 ITS A WEEPINGBELL AHHHH XD
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I always wonder how nature has set mechanism so perfect for every creature on this planet ,you just need to go by the flow and you will live
try and error. it's that simple.
doesnt work for humans as well when we consciously go against nature in love buliding and planning
Don't forget that evolution also leads to maladaptive mechanisms... it's just that those mechanisms don't help with survival and are less likely to pass on into other generations. For every success story in nature, there are plenty of failed stories... you just don't see as many of those because failed stories die out quicker. Plus, even in successful species such as humans there tend to be design flaws.
I remember these things. I first saw them on a film called 'Journey to Dinosaur Island', but the ones there were about ten times the size. They also had vines they used to pull victims inside them. Until this video I wasn't even sure they were real.
I didn't know that the nature had toilets way before us. Incredible!
FANTASTIC PRESENTATION.. that why i love attenborough's vids.. NOBEL PRIZE TO THIS MAN PLEASE
5:07 so basically a toilet that provides food.
Just imagine the plants on other planets that can contain life gotta be terrifying
There will be massive plants like this that could trap humans
@@763kjm we are smarter than that
@@The74th Imagine there are giant versions of these plants in some alien planet, falling into one of those pitcher plants would be a horrific death, you can see the remains of other animals that have fallen in, knowing that is what is going to happen to you also 💀💀💀
that pitcher plant reminds of the Sarlacc from Return of the Jedi...maybe it's really out there! 😱 But then, maybe tree ents are out there too 😃
@@763kjm what if you use a knife on it. Like the other comment said we are smarter than that. If we fall in we are prepared.
lol, the closed captions: "This bud will soon become a leaf." [Applause]
fly pitchers are so beautiful when this first aired I was 17 and it got me into the hobby of carnivorous plants 11 years later I do not have an extensive collection like this but I do have a few that are native to North America and a few Darseras from South America.
That last plant is the ultimate circle of life
2:35 "Some b!tches aren't content with just insects, this one eats mice." ... ... Oh he said pitchers.
Fascinating.
genuinely chilling
I shidded and farded.
4:52 SO it is natures toilet XD
From the title of the video, I thought Sir Attenborough was going duke it out against a pitcher plant.
Me too, but in the end, he could have done the kind and gentlemanly thing by the last plant and taken a little poo into it 😂
@@youreworthyourweightinavoc7189 ahahahahaha he'll calmly narrate as he undoes his belt and dropping his pant "I will now give to this plant, what it deserves. This will be enough nutrients for this plant for the coming winter."
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