Boab Trees - Where did they come from?

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6 жыл бұрын

Boab trees sit like ancient monoliths amidst the harsh Kimberley terrain of northwest Australia. But why are they here and where did they come from.

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@WHY7772 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for doing this story.

@Cesc8170 3 жыл бұрын

The accent of the Australian aboriginals reminds me of the accents that South Indians have.

@90skid97 2 жыл бұрын

You're right, just noticed that as I read your comment, interesting.....They have found to be related directly to South Indians in new studies, you can actually see some South Indians look aboriginal. I'm not sure about the accent though, surely an accent cannot survive for more than 50 thousand years of seperation. That would be absolutely insane

@dianemartin8000 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating!!

@dhaneshkapadia6647 5 ай бұрын

Baobab trees also exist in India ( western Maharashtra ) in Raigad district .

@intricacy9490 2 жыл бұрын

Dispersion by floating from Africa is certainly a possibility...but...how long will the seed survive in saltwater? And if brought by those ancestral humans from Africa..that would take 100s, most likely 1000s of years. Did they keep nuts in reserve during this period? Then, maybe they spread the plant over the regions these humans travelled as they migrated....but where are these plants, and evidence of these plants today in these regions today? Also, dating the Boab's existence within Australia by DNA mutation rates, how long has passed since they genetically separated from their (African) ancestors let alone existed within Australia? Just wondering cos I'd love to know the story behind its origins within Australia

@RebelFilms 2 жыл бұрын

Good questions…

@mollymuch2808 6 ай бұрын

Well it’s the right climate for them

@malar1455 Жыл бұрын

Boab trees , camals and horses came with Arabic and Tamil muslim merchants with Pandiyar and Cholar long before British landed in Australia . But westerners never accept the the fact.

@blumie006 6 жыл бұрын

They come with the aboriginals when they migrated from Africa about 60000 years ago

@RebelFilms 6 жыл бұрын

Thats nice to know

@Solidus43 4 жыл бұрын

They are dying thought right?

@mareeadgemis1637 4 жыл бұрын

Actually the oldest human remains as well as the oldest remnants of human existence has now been discovered in Australia, leading to a new conversation of whether African nations descend from Aboriginal Australians.

@randomfella8084 4 жыл бұрын

One of many theories. What makes most sense to me is that it washed up on shore from neighboring islands that probably no longer exist.

@deedaye 4 жыл бұрын

@@mareeadgemis1637 ...WRONG.... Those are the oldest remains found in "Australia".... The oldest human skeletal/remains on the Planet of an actual person is of "Lucy". Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in ETHIOPIA, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The Lucy specimen is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 MILLION YEARS AGO.

@sheetalbhalerao8192 3 жыл бұрын

If so then alternative for constructing dams

@princess-jc7if 4 жыл бұрын

Like an African in an igloo?!?!!!

@sheetalbhalerao8192 3 жыл бұрын

Does its trunks Store water like African baobab

@RebelFilms 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t think so

@leobthelionshow 2 жыл бұрын

Could it be a different species than baobab?

@RebelFilms Жыл бұрын

Not boabab… it’s a boab

@TheBonsaiZone Жыл бұрын

The common name 'boab' might reasonably be assumed to be of Aboriginal origin, but it's actually a corruption of 'baobab', an Arabic word of African origin that means 'father of many seeds'. It's a clue to the tree's evolutionary associations because the boab and baobabs belong to the same genus.