Fr. These cactus are the homies. They're literally responsible for everyone else's survival and even sacrifice themselves as food in the end. 😔✊

I think we can learn something from this cactus. As people, in a metaphorical sense, I mean.

EAT MEAT NOT PLANTS! Plants are more important, can't have the meat with out the plants.

@@AdventuresAlberta Whether you eat plants or meat is beyond me, but it's more energy efficient to eat plants. It's why ecosystems tend to have proportionally a LOT less carnivorous animals than herbivorous animals since only ~10% of the energy in one trophic level (say cows) actually goes to the next level (people in our case).

However i'm pretty sure they aren't the only pioneer species of plants over there, but they may be the most crucial one.

Have you noticed that she’s always talking about, “grandmother blushing shapes”?

I love it too.

How moronic, like she's living in Victorian England.

I guess that's why they call it a "succulent".

😂😂

Could thrive on venus

Everything on earth is perfectly guided and balanced, yet hundreds of millions of people claim that there is no objective guidance for us

Keystone species! Literally a necessity for the ecosystem to exist.

​@@qreepyQT tell that to climate change lol

@@person8064 if i draw a perfect circle and you come and throw ketchup on it, it doesnt change the fact that i drew a perfect circle. Manmade climate change doesnt challenge any statements i made.

Reality is sometimes just as, if not more, weird than fiction

Fiction is based in reality

@@frostincubus4045 Always, my friend. Always.

Despite all known laws of aviation..

Definitely sounds like something in a game that has flavor text.

Also camels , those guys just munch down on them as if it where salad

@@davidegaruti2582 and then we eat the camel as Steaks

And desert tortoises too.

Yeah those pesky porcines!!!! The wild burros here in the Imperial valley, ca. pull the spines out with there teeth to get at the flesh.

Bro the babies are so cute!!!

Um... I'm pretty sure that wasn't the actual sounds it was making, that was clearly human noises for the sake of the joke.

​​@@lasercraft32 that was the joke bro, sarcastically saying that's exactly how they sound like

@@aarash6982 Gosh darn it... The internet has ruined me. I'm too used to idiots saying stupid things and being completely serious about it rather than joking. Now I feel stupid.

Hey, you’re able to admit when you’re wrong. You’re leagues better than stupid.

Hhhmmm... *Kaktuva* .... *Magmati* ....Uuuhh.... *Cactoltenus?* I dunno. Just having a bit of fun spitballing some possible names for such an awsome concept!

@@navilluscire2567 you put a lot of thought into this. Huh? I like that.

My first thought lol, the very first Fire/Grass pokemon

Lavadick, i choose you

We can give it a signature move called Lava Spines, which is the grass-type equivalent of Scald. It’s cool to have non-fire moves that can cause burns.

It would be detrimental. It would speed up the break up into soil but would alter the habitat change cycle and taking the place of native plants that would do the same thing but slower

It might not be detrimental as these are very slow growing plants, unlike opuntias they wouldn’t really be invasive but still not a good idea as it could upset the balance of other ecosystems.

@@dischord1991 Yeah there are various plants which perform the role of breaking down igneous rocks I think there is a somewhat infamous example of introducing a lava colonizing lupine from Alaska onto Iceland which seriously backfired. As such concern is fully warranted against introducing species without comprehensive investigation though It does raise a question about whether a new uncolonized islands would be worth colonizing.

Generally bad idea. Unless we're talking something extremely controlled, introductions like that can easily backfire. There have been cases of using insects that only eat one plant and starve without it to remove invasive plants from habitats, but that's the edge case. Basically, unless humans control every individual or all of the non-native plants/animals will die under specific circumstances, we shouldn't introduce species where they don't belong. That's how you get nutria rats tearing up the levees around New Orleans and my friends and neighbors having to either evacuate or grow gills.

I'm always nervous about any talk of introducing non-native species. We saw what happened with kudzu in the U.S.

Okay Conseil

Exactly.

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you mean those metalfoot snails? shocked me too

@@werwar27 very bizarre world we live in

You should check out deep sea brine pools. They're like underwater lakes (think SpongeBob)

why do i feel this was made for 8 year olds? jesus christ, how dumb do they have to dumb it down?

Yes, I've seen a video about those. Very strange! And extremely deadly! ​@@bigsmall246

are you 12? or are you a girl?

@@lilBabyBornInCalifornia 🤨📸

That ram clip was awesome! I didn’t know they did that. 😄

Me too that was funny watching it headbutt the cacti

Makes sense. Big-horned sheep and big-horned cactus stems.

😊😊😊

It does feel a little unnecessary considering this isn’t really a special feature to these cacti.

@@DelRaeit’s called a joke and it was funny lmao stfu

​@@DelRaebut its the shape they grow in. Thats seems like a pretty common amd important part of any description.

Uh grandmothers... stopped blushing about 40 years ago... After all, that is why they ARE Grand MOTHERS...

@@selwynandrews7716 when you imagine a cactus you imagine dick shaped. Thats the default cactus shape, it’s not special to point it out is what I meant. Its colors and clustered pattern when it grows seems like something more impactful to point out. reminds me of a reef

Thanks for sticking around, Daniel! :)

Amogus

Maybe birds & other cactus fruit eaters pooping them out. The seeds are in those red fruit, so they're not likely to be blown by the wind.

Seeds don't have feelings.

@@RaizerZ joe mama 😂😂😂😂😂 Yeah , that joke is overly used ....just like your mom .

Thought I was the only one to notice😂

Really curious to see what a post human world would look like after recovery

@@Nzzertral you would not see it if one you died two there were no more human on the planet

@@connorericson did you have a stroke typing that?

@@Nzzertral I hope that my soul stays away from humanity to see the end of humanity. Cause I bet it would love to see a post human world after it’s healed

@Lovesongs M. it's easy for the plant 🤷

How about eat snow cactus

I'd love to touch it and feels the hardnesses

I feel that it’s more likely a fire grass type would be chili pepper, but neat idea nonetheless!

And that Pokemon would look like... well I can't say it

What?

What is your favorite variety?

Yeah they taste ghastly lol

So let me get this right, u wonder why ppl only choose the edible ones?

Probably cuz they’re edibles

For gin that’s why

Because gin, and as flavoring in some food recipes. Juniper also goes well as an ingredient in India Pale Ales because it hits similar pine and citrus notes to those present in that style of beer.

Badass? More like baddildo

So Close!

Yeah it is news to me too but based on the geology of the hotspot it doesn't surprise me all that much after all one trait about the Galapagos island hotspot chain that is unique as far as I know is that the hot spot track at one point ~50 Ma or so crossed over South America Much like Yellowstone is doing in North America right now which means that when the hotspot crossed over onto the other side of South America and began building islands again some 30 million years ago you had a far more direct route for terrestrial species whether plants or animals to jump islands so long as they can establish a viable population. Cacti are one of the lineages of plants that evolved in South America during its relatively long interval of isolation so they as desert adapted plants would be a prime candidate to colonize the islands thanks to the hotspot lying at the dry latitudes where tropospheric convection is downwelling very dry air from the top of the troposphere meaning moisture is scarce.

Galapagos has everything

Yeah, lots of cacti! Was gonna comment about candelabria and the other cactus that I had no idea of the name (thanks floralogic), but I knew they grew super tall with a stem woody like a tree 👌 The Galapagos have lots of other things to offer that most people don't find out till they visit.

There are cacti that grow in tropical rainforests and cacti that grow in the cold in Canada too!

Do u also hug trees ?

@@hoodrasheed1617 ѕo?

Birds can fly over barren rock, pooping out seeds as they go. Similarly, if these cacti are growing in isolated spots in the rock, the iguanas will have to walk over barren rock to reach them, and maybe poop some seeds out on the way to the next one.

@@massimookissed1023 Thank you. I was just about to ask how the seeds got to the lava.

Spiders are often first colonizers as they spins webs to catch bugs blown in by the winds. They were the first animals on new created islands to thrives. After all house spiders can live with only water from their preys and waits months for fresh preys.

Cutecus OwO

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As someone who grows a few cacti, it would be cool if they could eat lava!

Monster Hunter Frontiers has a volcanic cactus, although it's nothing like this species.

Natural selection isn't random. It just isn't guided. Predation isn't a random thing, and neither is dying before you reproduce. There are random elements, that are very important i.e., genetic mutations that are then non-randomly inherited by the next generation through sexual selection, and random genetic drift caused by non-random environmental pressures that lead individuals of a species to leave their population, thus taking their genes out of the gene pool,but yeah. That is the biggest misconception of evolution.

@@jaredponder4149 🤨 "Isn't guided." = No direction. = Wandering aimlessly. = Random. Mutation is incredibly rare, and is always a hindrance. No positive mutations have ever been documented. Not sure what point you're trying to make with individuals wandering off.