This Cactus Only Opens Its Petals One Night a Year 🌺 Epic Animal Migrations

This Cactus Only Opens Its Petals One Night a Year 🌺 Epic Animal Migrations | Smithsonian Channel

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For the female lesser long-nosed bats in the Pinacate Desert, food is scarce. One possible source of nutrients: pollen from the saguaro cactus, whose milk-white petals open up only one night a year.
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@PrinceKashyap. 3 жыл бұрын

Ecologically, this is a perfect example of Mutualism. Both organisms achieving benefits from the same interaction. And even it leads to co evolution as well👏

@DifferentSaturner 3 жыл бұрын

Good info/comment

@turbohack 3 жыл бұрын

Reddit what were you proud of as a teenager?

@margo3367 3 жыл бұрын

How can the mom bat find her baby in that sea of bat babies? Amazing.

@TheTibetyak 3 жыл бұрын

@Gi Gi I had to put a little more thought into that. 30,000 baby bats simultaneously, at basically the same volume and tenor, screaming MOM!! Mind blowing really.

@TheTibetyak 3 жыл бұрын

@Gi Gi In a bat colony would the kids being holding up signs that say, MOM or would it say WOW?

@aisadal2521 3 жыл бұрын

What a rarity!

@abdirahmanahmed7334 3 жыл бұрын

It’s just wonderful to see mutual benefit from each party.

@Inazarab 3 жыл бұрын

This great but I'd of loved some more explanation as to why the flowers only open one night a year.

@gseric4721 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@TheTibetyak 3 жыл бұрын

Laziness. Their just a bunch of lazy flowers.

@luisaramirez1425 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheTibetyak b

@MefizTofelFolk 3 жыл бұрын

0:50 For the ones who only came to see the baby bats

@marienakamoto8743 3 жыл бұрын

The world is much more than we look and feel it.

@DifferentSaturner 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is

@awokii2504 3 жыл бұрын

That view is amazing dont think otherwise

@infallibleblue 3 жыл бұрын

This is simply amazing!

@anangrycat86 3 жыл бұрын

Is that because of a slight gravity change when the moon is in a certain place, like those corals on the sea floor that spawn once a year when the pressure changes due to higher tides when the moon is directly above?

@DifferentSaturner 3 жыл бұрын

A Quinn: Good observation! I wanted to say, 'possibly yes' but I think I should say only 'yes'. For last 50+ years I'm observing & gathering lots of info regarding how Moon, Sun, other planets, esp Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn play a big role in our life cycles. While Moon & Mercury are playing important roles in our daily life; Jupiter & Saturn are playing with our luck. Thanks.

@dallaskite4846 3 жыл бұрын

And temperature

@anangrycat86 3 жыл бұрын

@@DifferentSaturner they have a bigger impact than people realise, even turtles in some parts of the world only lay their eggs during a full moon as the high tide helps them get further up the beach so eggs don't get washed away as tide is lower after that night. It's amazing.

@jakeyboy8402 3 жыл бұрын

God is amazing in His design!

@Anthrostatic 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent cinematography✨

@elite_editz__8873 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@83jbbentley 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like my wife! Eyyyyyyy

@DifferentSaturner 3 жыл бұрын

ha ha

@user-kg2rw6kc5o 3 жыл бұрын

Сочувствую твоей жене

@YawnirJovialite Ай бұрын

Such a weight these both organic creatures can bring around,that i feel like entertaining my cosmo little life over some Proxima A type exoplanèta in a wink,over here (?)

@alaskajdw 3 жыл бұрын

They feed on many other things during their stay in the cave !!

@jullyeanngarrick4159 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful channel always interesting and informative.

@AzlianaLyana 3 жыл бұрын

Craving that goes for a year... wow. Better be good for those bats then. 😅

@THEBIGMEOW 3 жыл бұрын

My wife does the same tell me she loves me once a year.

@CarlosSanchez-xm6nz 3 жыл бұрын

Lol 4real

@SparrowIZ 3 жыл бұрын

shut up I'm SparrowIZ

@donnalemmo1839 3 жыл бұрын

Get her some flowers..😎😂

@TURBOMIKEIFY 3 жыл бұрын

Valentines Day is coming up....

@hisoka477 3 жыл бұрын

😂🤣

@frederickgates4349 3 жыл бұрын

Hola amigo saludos wow this is interesting

@valtsarsky 3 жыл бұрын

удивительно! 100 кактусов за ночь что бы накормить своего детеныша. а я тут ною что мне тяжело!

@mikedc 3 жыл бұрын

Bats and cactus flowers. How strange.

@ryan49805 3 жыл бұрын

“Sagguaro” 😂

@darmor85 3 жыл бұрын

Wait if the catcus flower only open 1 time yr....then what are those bats main food source then.

@StudyWaliClass 3 жыл бұрын

👍😘

@klmitchellbrown 3 жыл бұрын

👍🏾

@kititadlamungkun7470 3 жыл бұрын

Now how did they get the camera in the flower at 1:46

@peterolbrisch1653 3 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it.

@dracodracarys2339 3 жыл бұрын

hummingbird bats? And then there are fruit bats and fishing bats and insectivote bats, they're really trying very hard to become mammalian bird-knockoffs 😂

@Primatologie Ай бұрын

I mean, not really. It’s just that by the time they evolved powered flight, they likely already had been eating at least insects and/or fruits and were nocturnal. Birds already mastered the day time so there was no need to push into that time frame. And bats are actually more efficient in their niches than birds due to the way they roost, so they cover more land each night they are active in an area and there are more of them eating at one time, every time. There are advantages and disadvantages to both, and they’re both successful due to their high benefits to costs margins. So they both win in the end.

@gseric4721 3 жыл бұрын

That is *one* antisocial plant 🤦🏾‍♂️

@justsomepersononyoutube9271 3 жыл бұрын

A director

@artikulogaming 3 жыл бұрын

When Chinese man go to that cave: Time to get some pickled bats!

@DifferentSaturner 3 жыл бұрын

They're now very scared ...

@addamrobin2 3 жыл бұрын

Please, nobody tell the Chinese about this

@hanjar2554 3 жыл бұрын

The Chinese would love this

@DifferentSaturner 3 жыл бұрын

No, they're now worried about it

@brada1803 3 жыл бұрын

So, those Bat's are migrants? - It's concerning that certain terms are being used to ?

@sc0tte1-416 3 жыл бұрын

We need to build a wall.

@stash. 3 жыл бұрын

I'm more concerned that this Wuhan lab was a planned attack as they cover up Wuhan Lab was a euro project, meanwhile i'm stuck on this planet with morons thinking words/phrases are worse than coordinated attack on the poor by elites. Keep fighting the dictionary on those words