True Facts: Bees That Play With Balls And Do Math!
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What happened to Jerry? Is he on vacation? lol
@@bigbossimmotal Apparently, Jerry got left behind.
Ya, but is it the bee that's smart? You first have to prove that the bee is responsible (response-able).
Please make a sister channel for kids
omg bees love balls is my new jam!
Bees are so smart they don’t even know
The only thing that differentiates humans from most animals in my opinion is the ability to "perceive" that we're dumb, that the unknown will always be more vast than anything else.
True
@@WSWC_That blew my mind. We're smart because on some level we know we'll never know everything. The thing is though we can't really look into the imagination of animals. I'm sure there's monkeys in jungles or apes in captivity that do think or ponder what lies beyond their habitat but their stronger natural instincts will tell them to stay put.
Once they start thinking they are smart it’s all downhill from there lol
They serve their purpose, and they do it well. But they can't comprehend the greater world or the universe. If you tried communicating concepts like the Pacific Ocean, or the moon, or the zodiac, they wouldn't understand you.
'damn bees and their metric system. think theyre sooo smart' -inch worms
"I've got four twenties and nineteen problems but a b*tch ain't one" - French poodles
@kennyp4670 - .^_^.
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Underrated comment
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"What do you do for a living?" "I train bees."
I am not pissing off that scientist.
"Beads?" "BEES!"
its a sad state of affairs when I can barely train my dog, The trainer of the bees must be pretty special too! (and probably like ball's too)
@@primesspct2 There's a reason educators exist. You gotta learn to teach even more when it's a different animal like a dog
Hank Pym be proud
I like how everyone’s love of bees only gets more justified over time. They’re important to the environment, cute, and smart. Such lovely animals.
Native bee species are the ones that are most in danger. People think the alarm is just about domesticated bees, but these add to the problems of regional bees.
We need bees to pollinate many of the fruits and veggies we eat every day, including coffee and chocolate!
boooo european honey bee
More importantly, they love playing with balls and dancing in the dark. Queer icons.
@@protocetid Came here to comment this, I'm glad this knowledge is becoming so common that it was the first reply. To add to what you've said; it's not just that domesticated bees _aren't_ in danger, they actually _pose a threat_ to native bee populations. Our honeybees are an invasive, domesticated species that we ship around the country throughout the year to keep them producing non-stop. Because they keep getting introduced to fields and forests where they aren't native, they out-compete with native bees and starve them of nectar/pollen. We've already lost 40 species of native bees so far due to this, probably more if we were to check again by this point. And if anyone thinks, "Who cares, the plants will just get pollinated by the honeybees then, right? No net loss?", this actually is _very_ bad. Assuming you don't care enough that the loss of a unique species is tragic to you, replacing native bees with honeybees is going to screw us over - and potentially end up starving millions of people. See, species diversity is _crucial_ in ecosystems for a number of reasons. For one, each species may have a slightly different role, or niche, to fill. Our honeybees may outcompete a native species, but then fail to have the proper routine or behavior that leads to successful pollination of a particular plant. The second - and most damning problem, however - is that having only a single species of bee will mean that, if a bee-killing disease comes along, and the honeybees are susceptible to it, it's over. Colony collapse disease is already a small, but poignant example of how bad it _could_ get. Whereas, if you had 100 bee species, the disease may catch a dozen or so, maybe even the majority of them - but some will be immune, so the ecosystem has time to recover. But... you really should just care about the extinction of native bees for the sake of life. 40 species are already gone for good, never coming back. It will take thousands, perhaps millions of years for species diversification to repair that gap. Many of these bee species were beautiful as well. If we have the option to _not_ wipe out a unique species for short-term profit, I think we should, y'know, go with that option?
"They're learning, but they're not quite getting the full picture" is me at university
Same.
Wish I could go to university
That’s people living life in general ☺️
@@drukharimatter2962 too true. as long as we're learning I guess it's okay :)
So your grade is a B average?
It sounds like you could train 2 teams of bees to score goals in different colored nets and give them 1 ball to see a game of bee-soccer
could? i think Should may be the better word here. bee soccer may be a moral imperative
That's the stuff they should show in the sports channel
Hümmel Hümmel!
You mean bee football. ⚽🐝
@@gaby300470 - clearly the name is "rug-bee"! 😂
Bees playing with the balls are by far the most unusual and adorable stuff i've ever seen
If there is anything this world has taught me is that the most unusual things in this world are when something beehaves the way we expect.
So there's this video of 2 bees unscrewing a Fanta cap. That is just next level
give em a couple thousand years and they are doing heists on our sugar refineries
"A to B to bee to bee-"
ZeFrank's little "heheh" after delivering that line really killed me xD
5:11 for the timestamp.
This joke really got me
To bee or not to bee? That is a question...
When its so good u laugh at your own joke.
The bee brain is small but has excellent Firmware.
Sounds like some sht TierZoo and Casual geographic would say Love all 3 of em 😁
Dang. You win.
@@PowerEd8 You've got great taste.
As if the firmware barely has any bug!.. Maybe only one!
It's true... Invertebrates lack myelin, so they have larger neurons to carry electrical current. It would be great followup to see if the larger neurons have better networking capabilities or not 🤔
My brother helps run a bee research lab at Princeton, and I recommended that he should collaborate with you about a bee vid a couple years ago. I just sent him this link to rub it in his face that he missed his chance do work with the great Ze Frank. My failure as a nobody compared to him is so much sweeter now.
Legendary comment 😂
As a bit of a communication nerd, I got real excited about how bees perceive/express distance. They measure distance by how much change they see in the ground. They share distance by wiggling their butt for a period of time. That's the same medium! The same units! They're directly stimulating the same sense they use to measure in the first place. That's, well not _clever_ since they aren't thinking about it, but it's efficient!
You just blew my mind. Again. for like the 10th time in the last 15 minutes. Life is absolutely wild
Is that anything like when I go out and on a dance floor, but I don't know the dance and just shake my butt? No?? nothing like that?! Not at all?
I would argue that most humans get their feeling of distance in a similar way but they can also factor in time
From a mathematical perspective, there are no spheres nor circles in nature. But flowers often are circular in shape. I wonder if the bee is mistaking the ball for a flower. When a bee lands on a flower, it crawls around to gather pollen and nectar. Then the bee just tries to crawl around the ball thinking that it’s a flower and inadvertently causing it to roll…. Just my weird mind thinking….
@@edwardlulofs444 Following that logic, perhaps that behavior helps bees find the entrance to less-open flowers.
I just find it so cute and hilarious that bees will stop whatever they're doing to play with balls. And it's honestly impressive what smart, fast learners they are for an insect.
For a creature with less than a million neurons, they've achieved quite a lot.
It's adorable watching them go and rolle around.
Pretty good for an insect.
work, work, work, work, wo..........BALL!!!!!!
They're like tiny puppies that fly and sting!
Bees having an understanding of the concept of zero is actually really cool
Couldn't they have just learned to go for more white space? He acts like black is inherently something and white is just blank, but I doubt a bee would see things that way. Furthermore, I heard people tried to teach (a) bear(s) to count, but bears would keep picking the box with the larger dots that take up more space rather than the one with the more dots (which was actually the rule), so I would assume that unless I am misremembering things (or that was just a really stupid bear and/or scientist), the bee would also just be learning to pick the square with more white space or blue space.
@@castonyoung7514 I would note that in the example provided, they did have the shapes be different sizes. So the bees had to specifically identify individual patches.
If they understand 0 and 1, perhaps you can teach them binary.
@@fltof2 beenary
@@gwennorthcutt421 ROTFLMAO!
And the waggle dance also accounts for the *movement of the sun*, with its angle shifting appropriately as time passes. Freakin' amazing. Great episode!
03:44 - "He's gone for a vape..." 👌🤣🤣🤣 😎🇬🇧
I was taking a pull off my mod when he said that....
@@caitlinhanks9670 as was I 😂 I stopped mid drag - I'm still glowing from last night's acid and it got too meta for a second
Not only do I have to worry about bees being attracted to my food and drink at a BBQ, now I have to cover my balls too?!
You don't have to 😏
Somebody wants to play with your balls just because they like it, and you complain? smh
Clothes do that automatically, using the power of the normal reaction force and deliberately engineered shapes.
only if your balls are bee sized
Just stop putting that sugar juice on your balls and you should be fine. ;P
Imagine being kidnapped by giants just so they can force you to attend classes on puzzle solving
That's just Portal 1 and 2, kind of.
At least you'd get to play with balls sometimes.
The bees probably think the humans testing them are stupid cause they havent figured out how smart bees are yet.
That's just a description of regular students and bus drivers
So elementary school?
I really like that the shoutouts and citations at the end tell you what each person contributed instead of just a "Special thanks to [insert long list of names here]". Super helpful, makes it super easy for me to look at who contributed what and go check out their stuff!
The second you mentioned the little dance Bees do to convey directions, you unlocked a memory from my childhood of me learning that exact fact through watching The Magic School Bus.
at school we only learned that they do their dance to communicate but not how exactly
I love how there are people that get paid to put bees in a box and make them watch you push a tiny ball with a ear cleaner that is painted to look like a bee
As an aspiring behavioral ecologist, you'd be surprised what kind of shenanigans you can get paid for.
It is not as easy as it looks 8)
We still haven't figured out which humans are just alien ear cleaners on sticks, though
@@henrieketebrake4635 one of my favorites is some guys who were researching dinosaur locomotion. The good news is you can easily access living theropods to watch walk around. The bad news is they're all missing one thing- the bigger, heftier tail of nonavian dinos, which is going to affect balance. How does one deal with this? Turns out the answer is "strap a plunger to a chicken's butt"
I think this kind of research is cutting-edge and helps us understand what intelligence, consciousness, etc are really about. We have a million other brained species to study right on this planet, and understanding the diversity of their cognition is essential to understanding the origins and mechanisms of cognition in general
I've helped several bees at my house. Some times they get tired from the wind or cold. I've picked them up and given them honey and water while they recover in my hand. Now, sometimes, they just show up looking for me to give them honey or water. If I'm not there, my wife will tell them I'm not home, and they fly away. I love that in some hive I'm part of a bee dance😂
@zacncooper, That sound is my heart melting. Especially because your wife talks to the bees -- and they understand. ❤️🌷🌷❤️ 🫂 to both of you.
The bees understand that sometimes your location produces flowering humans and sometimes it produces non-flowering humans.
Ope, those bees might still come around when you die, so best to have someone tell them that you don't live there anymore :O (No need to tell em you're dead, that'll traumatize the bees!)
@@Callimo You joke, but there actually is an old tradition similar to that called telling the bees, where if a beekeeper has passed, somebody will go to the hive and inform them of the event. They will also sometimes drape the hive in mourning cloth and give them a small serving of the food and drinks served at the funeral. In some regions this extends to telling the bees about other major events in the beekeeper's life, such as marriage and birth. If the bees aren't told, it's said that the hive or keeper's household will face calamity.
@@pacthepac8894 This has me in tears 😭😭So sentimental but feels so ludicrous. Precious lol
That jazz track about bees loving balls in the end is actually pretty damn catchy; When do we expect a full version?
And more importantly - who's the artist?? I want more!
@@SuperLisa It's ZeFrank. He makes all his own music (except for the classical background tracks).
“It flew like three feet and found a shoe” took me out 🤣
Noted: Bees love balls.
My next girlfriend is going to be a bee.
@@doktormcnasty the next bee movie
I knew we had something in common.
The song at the end goes hard and i want a full song out of it! "No no no, Bees! Love! Balls!"
Key lesson here.
"The scientists didn't have the balls to go to art school,"🤣
Not that hard to get into art school if you know, the Vienna Academy of High Arts has vowed to never again turn a student applicant down ahahaha
@@rumpelstilzz Europa - The Last Battle. Hard to find, but it's quite shocking how much true history has been covered up, and why. In fact, the very reason the documentary is so hard to find is indicative that we are still living under a hidden tyranny.
they used up all their balls teaching bees how to play minigolf
True fact, we didn't.
Honestly, that was me. I wanted to do art in grade school but ended up in STEM because I was pessimistic about the viability of an art career.
0:19 IT’S ME, BOY, I’M THE BEE-S5! SPEAKING TO YOU INSIDE YOUR BRAIN
The fact that they do those dances in the dark never occurred to me. That's one of those "duh" moments that kinda blew my mind.
If bees know ones and zeros, that means we're one step closer to bee powered computers. BPUs.
This is such an underrated comment
Programmed in beenary.
HÀAAA
Ones and zeroes? So, beenary then?
But can it run doom?
"Bees can do math! And you only thought you knew about their spelling! (kill me...) It's okay, Ze, we're all allowed to have a punny day!
👍🏻🤣
the little kill me quip was glorious
I am just really happy Zefrank came back from his multi-year hiatus. There were quite a few times when I was cleaning up my subscriptions and I ALMOST unsubscribed. But I was loyal and I'm so glad!
I had no idea bees love balls. They are true Bee-ballers.
Virtually all animals like to play. It's just in the wild there isn't much to play with.
So, imagine a low-tech alternative universe where our computers run on bees - all computers do is a bunch of low scale math after all, just a lot of it. You fill a tube with sugar water, put a strip of blue and yellow rectangles in a hole and wait 5 minutes and voila- your taxes are done. Of course, just like ours these computers aren't perfect: there are a lot of bugs in the code.
You wait five minutes and--voila!--your taxes are done.
Terry Pratchett did this already, but with ants. His ant-powered computer even had a sticker on it - "Anthill Inside". 😎
Does this mean bees can run Doom? Also, supposedly they did something like this with crabs.
@@strawberrys0da714they never ran doom on crabs just proved that it’s theoretically possible and then did the math to say how many crabs you need
Yellow/blue = +/-. Sounds like binary to me.
"Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies why flowers are better than shit." -Fuckin Socrates maybe.
So Crates, he da man !
Profound. 😔👌✨
Literally, the definition of a specific set of skills.
Liam Beesom.
@@nhmooytis7058 I love this comment 😭💀
@@insertnamehere8723 😏
10:56 bees love balllls 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
My life has been vastly improved by the knowledge that Bee Golf exists.
Hold on day ruined by the idea that a bee might have been ostracized by the colony for accidentally giving bad directions cause some jerk scientist moved all the landmarks around
And is a lot more interesting to watch than human golf! 😆
I like the other bees tasting the legwarmers of the dancing bee and saying "Yeah...yeah, that's some good shit"
"I saw him in compulsive tones, I said I'll have one of those"
Isn't that the purpose of legwarmers?
Ze Frank! I haven’t seen one of your videos in ages. I’m glad to see you’re still around. You’re so entertaining and I love your voice!!!
YES THE EPISODE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR
I studied entomology for 5 years and I had no idea bees were so cognitively flexible. Must be those muscular calves.
*Cowgnitively* flexible then?
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Not sure if English is your native language, but calves are the muscles in the back of the lower legs. Has nothing to do with cows.
@@hamsterama Baby cows are called calves.
Hello Entomology person. I have a question. Can insects get stronger from exercise? If they lift, will they be bigger after their next molt?
@@hamsterama It isn't, and yet I performed a pun I hadn't heard before. hooray.
“Bees love balls” Jerry had a lot of fun writing that line
He talked about bees balls without mentioning any reproductive systems, I for once am quite impressed at his level of self control.
Wow! Never knew you could train bees. I’m allergic to honey bees, but still love watching them. Every spring a bumblebee always comes, hovers in front of me like a hello and then next year a bumblebee comes. Don’t know if it’s the same. But they all know that every year my mint flowers and they can do what bees do. So maybe the bumblebees that come and hover in front of me is their form of thanks. It’s been happening for 21 years but only with the bumblebees. The honey bees just do their flower thing. No hovering in front of me looking at me. Now I had a clan of wasps taking up residents in my front hedge bush. But only the left one. They sent two to attack me when I had to trim it. Then they learned they weren’t chased out so I can clip when they’re around and they wait until I’m gone and I’m not stung. They can be trained, conditioned, whatever. It’s just amazing that they have that capacity. And they let me watch them do their things with my mint flowers. I bet this May I’ll have a bumblebee visitor hovering in front of me as a greeting before flying away.
I've noticed hummingbirds will hover in my face when the feeder needs refilled.
@@alphabravo8703 Neat! It’s like they’re saying hurry up we need a refill bartender!
I always say hello to my bees when they hover around. I'll stop walking if they seem particularly invested. Gotta love the bees.
@@dianekokko6254 I do the same.
This immediately made me feel happier. Thank you!
The spelling bee joke was subtle, but gold.
Gold. Golden. Like honey.
I came to the comments just to like one about that quip. Too good.
The quiet “kill me” at the end is really what got me 😂
it wasn't very subtle lmao
it was to be expected.
I think the spelling bee is the smartest.
Sewing bees are pretty clever the way they handle the needle and thread
@@chembleton😅
I did nothing to deserve that...
They've got nothing on the Carpenter Bee
@@Chaos8282 I see your carpenter bee with his little wooden hut and raise you a masonry bee with his grand brick house
Aww, Bees. They don’t even know their getting farted out by Badgers.
A couple weeks ago I picked up a very sluggish bumble, brought it inside, put it in an open container with some pretty flowers, gave it some sugar water and put it in the sun to warm up and get his mojo back. He strengthened up and flew away eventually but as he did he gave me this look. Like he was thankful but kind of bummed. I didn’t realize what it was until now. I didn’t give him any balls to play with. I will never make that mistake again. There’s nothing worse than a bummed bumble. 😢
You turned him into a bummedblebee, you monster
That’s so cute!!!
That short "Kill me" after the spelling bee joke killed me. Great job as always Ze Frank.
That joke was a slow burn.
We're gonna need an extremely extended version of "Bees Love Balls", btw
Thank You ZeFrank, this is so good!
okay this was wild, but out of all of this the fact they understand the concept of zero is honestly the most mindblowing fact o.o
"it flew like 3 feet and found a shoe" made me laugh out loud harder than it probably should've
It’s the bee with 10 subscribers.
Absolutely love your videos man! I remember when I first learned about bee math, I was so excited I literally told anyone that would listen.
Ze Frank, Subscribed because your videos always make me smile!
Everything was cool. Everything was great. Then you demonstrated the concept of zero and now I'm terrified
Worked with bees for a summer job and I can tell you that bees play favorites. Over the course of about three months I got stung maybe 4 times while the other interns got stung 15 to 20 times a day.
I've heard that honey bees associate dark / black hair with bears, so that could be one thing. Also depends on the time of year too. When I worked at an apiary, I could relax close to the hives with my veil off during my breaks and be fine early in the season. They got more defensive as the nectar flow started, and eventually they'd constantly bump me for daring to exist near them towards the end of the season
@gankgoat8334 - Maybe you are just not all that sweet.
@carloscaylan7497 from what my beekeeper friend tells me, they get cranky when the flowers start drying up and they have to work harder for food, kinda like people.
@@carloscaylan7497❤
Good things communist revolutions always fail 😅@@dylanbailey8464
Great job as always Ze Frank.
8:00 "So what now? Bees can count?" Why did that sound so appalled 😂
I remember learning that people learn and retain information better when the lessons are entertaining and funny. So when some people say putting comedy or puns/jokes in a lecture is informal or distracting and will be deleterious to students' learning, just know it actually helps to make the lesson more flavorful and have greater impact, as opposed to it being bland and forgettable.
Taking AP psychology back in 2002, we learned this. People learn more and retain information better when they're having fun. And yet so many teachers and parents still can't figure out why kids know everything about Fortnite but can't retain the information they read in their dry, boring textbook.
Back in the 2000s, I was doing tech support for a major ISP. We were being trained on supporting a specific internet device. The class was threatening to be very dull, but then someone asked "Where did we get these devices?" and the instructor came right back with "Dave the purchasing guy says he got them from a dude that was selling them out of the trunk of a white Thunderbird" and suddenly we were all paying attention because that was HILARIOUS. Similarly, someone else asked "What do you think the odds are that users will access the help files for troubleshooting?" and the instructor replied "Are you asking if I believe in fairies?" It says something that I still remember THAT about 20 years later, doesn't it? :D (And yes, I COULD still troubleshoot the device in question if I had to...or if it still existed)
Why isn't Timmy paying attention in class? Does he have ADHD!? No, Timmy is human. Humans don't pay attention to boring things that they don't like.
I think the quality of the jokes matter a lot though. I had a Government teacher in High School who used tons of the worst imaginable puns, and I only remember how much I hated going to those classes because of the puns. Where as I had an English teacher who had really funny quips, and I remember quite a lot about his class.
i'm now convinced that bee scientists don't know what a flower is
If only an individual person could live long enough to learn both what a bee is AND what a flower is😔
more like funding isnt good enough to bother lol
I'm studying Horticulture at the moment and your comment made me laugh. I didn't even think of that 😂
I get so happy every time I see that you released a new video
Seriously one of your best yet!! BRILLIANT! you're actually teaching bee language?! I love it!
I love how agresssively angry the "bees can count?!" bit sounds. Ze Frank at his finest.
That poor bee ,flew three feet and found a shoe no wonder he wasn't happy dancing
Maybe there was a ball in the shoe?
@@orko714 nah she would've been buzzing if there was a ball. (mention for op, all worker bees are female)
Bees like disco balls and bee bop.
"I found a half dead tulip. It's okay I guess"
"So let me get this straight. You found a shoe." "Yes." "You're aware that we're bees, right?" "Yes." "And that means that we collect nectar and pollen from flowers, right?" "Yes." "So why are you telling us about a shoe? Is there a flower in the shoe or something?" "Well, no, but there's some drips from ice cream on one of the laces--" "Yeah, you can just keep that one to yourself."
Fascinating!! Awesome video!
I found this absolutely fascinating! I love how you deliver your content, making your video really fun to watch. But this one about the bees was singularly amazing!
"But most of the rest of us-sorry, I mean them" Not sure if this is about getting drunk, or if zefrank just admitted to being a swarm of bees in a trenchcoat
Why not both?
Bees being taught to roll a ball into a goal for a little drop of sugar water is the most wholesome fucking experiment I have ever heard of and I LOVE IT
Zefrank, you are one of my favorite creators. You have done so much to educate and entertain! Much love.
Oh wow, this one was almost completely appropriate for school! Also I love that you do a version that's appropriate for that. Please do one for this if you haven't already. Love your show!
About 6 months ago, one black wasp came and scouted out my kitchen then flew away. Now, for the past 6 months I keep getting a bunch of black wasps that fly right to the same corner of my kitchen, even though I'm pretty sure I kill most of them. So that means that this corner is part of their cultural knowledge or something. I don't know how long those wasps live for, but I like to imagine an old lady wasp scout just telling everyone she knows all about how awesome my kitchen is.
I could be wrong, but those black wasps sound like some that I had decide to nest the door of my 80's Mercedes when I hadn't taken it out for a few days. Knowing nothing about them and fearing everything, we zapped them with spray. Then we found out they were harmless and good pollinators. Sorry guys......
No don't kill them! Make an offering of something yummy outside so that they stop going to the kitchen.
We have black wasps nesting behind our outdoor thermometer clock every summer. Usually there's around 6 of them each summer. Never bothered us and they're nice to see.
I remember reading the smell of mint is offputting for wasps. If there's a place you don't want them to nest in, dab some mint extract or oil around there. I did that once when they were trying to build a nest near my bat house.
@@erinmac4750 yeah I have another little colony of harmless pollinators living under my drain pipe outside, and we get along just fine. I wouldn't be killing these particular wasps so ruthlessly if they were harmless (and also I don't need wasps flying in and out of my kitchen all day), especially since I have students coming in my house all day and we don't need that stress 😂
“It looks like they bought into the metric system. Bullshit.” 😂
Top quality content, as always, sir! 💛🖤💛🖤
They've always amazed me at their ability to convey information. Brilliant video
1:42 Getting so engrossed in the solution that you completely forget what problem you were trying to solve in the first place... that's something I can really relate to.
“Of course they’ll use a couple hundred thousand neurons on the flowers.” Yeah, better use than my couple hundred thousand neurons
8 billion neurons infact
tbf, with how many neurons humans have we probably use a couple hundred thousand on flowers
4 billion of my neurons are just dedicated to random trivia.
Bee brain; _Size isn’t everything!_ 🧠
I work at a garden center. At least a couple hundred thousand of my neurons are dedicated to flowers this time of year. 😀
This was a FASCINATING episode ❤❤
I love learning new fun facts and telling my family about them, been using your channel for that for 11 years now. I really love your content!
fun fact! i have bees in my garden
i literally just watched zefrank's video about bees then came here, had to check several times which tabs were open
💸🤖
What about balls?
Ew crypto excuse me ma'am this channel is for people who want to get smarter go pedal your crap somewhere else.
Yeah Julia, if you got bees, you gotta have balls. Wouldn't make sense otherwise.😮 Hah
They've gotta bee pretty smart
Groan…
@@lisaschoenwetter5495 hehehebee
Buzz off and beehive yourself.
Perfection
Another fun and educational video! Thanks Ze Frank.
It's so cool, an insect that is all about serving the queen, gathering nectar, and making honey can actually enjoy play time. It's so fascinating to learn that nature isn't always straight-up business.
somewhere a green or gray alien dude probably wrote the same thing on alientube after watching you type that comment
Zoology was never so interesting until I listen to this guy...
Yeah! Humor can make things interesting. Too bad so much of formal western traditional education seems to ignore that.
Nah it always was Humor is a great hook but really either you have it in you or you don't to be interested on x theme
Can't imagine how you manage to come up with such hilarious and educational content so quickly. It's amazingly well made. Well done.
He’s a smart-azzed beeyutch.
is not: Dr → Dr.; it, that → who; fast → swift[ly]; go and → go; nice < niais < nescius := not-skilled like he is → well; censors “crap”which is Latin for chaff and “ass” which is a beast; away from → froward; shouldn’t → ouhtn’t; less → lesser → fewer; will → shall →; try and (try _what?_ and) → try to.
by sitting on top of really big people ...or something like that.
@@alysdexiaAre you having a stroke?
@@enzoqueijao learn how to read, wit/2.
I have loved this channel for years and each of your videos never fails to make my day 😭 thank you Frank for the many years of smiles
Excellent work, sir!
The one out of a hundred or so bees that can figure it out is a strong implication that there are in fact bee geniuses. This is mindblowing to me.
just like in real life
This 11 minute video felt like 2 minutes. Man I never thought I'd bee so enraptured about bees.
Fabulous piece!
"They can do math, and you probably only knew about their spelling." Gold 😂
"From A to B to Bee to Bee" underrated dad joke.
TIL Bees are smarter than me.
i didn't even know what a bee was, so you're better off than me
@@JoiH_Squigsyou what
This is unironically the kinda shit I wanna see scientists spending their time on
Good on you for not making BEEs small and BALLS big In the thumbnail, I know I couldn’t stop myself.
Any chance we can call a longer version of "Bees love balls"? That blend of jazz and funk just WORKS
Yes. And it needs to go on an album with the booby song and the puffin theme...and some more. And I need to own that album.
Yes!!
@@mkmartin559 Oh, you said exactly what I was going to post! 👍
'Bees love balls' Thanks, Ze Frank. I won't be wearing shorts this summer.
Your nuts hang that low? Dang.
Someone is desperately trying to "tempt" a bee 😉
You mean that you will be wearing pants right??
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Instructions unclear?
The metric system even adopted by the bees shows how superior it is.
Don't tell the inchworms that 🤭
Been watching this dude for years. Part Sterling Holloway, part Morgan Freeman, part Bill Nye. Pure genius.