Why the Agouti's Bad Memory Saves the Brazil Nut Tree

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The Brazil nut tree is one of the tallest trees in the Amazon rainforest. Its large nut capsules weigh up to 2kg and can be cracked by just one animal: the agouti.
The tree and the rodent help sustain one another - but the Brazil nut has some other surprising partnerships, too. Learn more about this jungle giant at the heart of a unique circle of life.
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@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas to all of you! 🎄✨ ...from us and this forgetful nutcracker! 😉

@penguinbros8294 2 жыл бұрын

The lifecycle of so many trees depend on these little rodents forgetting where their nuts are hidden , and to think they saved so many species of trees is amazing!

@nian60 2 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas. 😊

@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

@@nian60 Merry Christmas Ni An! ✨🤗

@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

@@penguinbros8294 You're absolutely right, they're doing amazing work in spreading the seeds.

@penguinbros8294 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Merry Christmas to all!

@stevebennett9839 2 жыл бұрын

It's so interesting how nature works. A squirrel forgets where it's buried a few nuts and bam there's another tree. Thank u Terra Mater for another great video, happy holidays to all who read this.

@reel1tv587 2 жыл бұрын

"It live for hundreds of years. And it's nuts are enormous."

@AlexOliveira-fn6om 2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Brazil, theres a nut tree half an hour from my home. I live in the southeast so the tree is not that common on this part of our country, but we call it sapucaia its a beautiful tree with purple flowers wich atracts people an animals, you just have to be careful when nearby so you don't get hit by a falling seed capsule. In my regions there aren't many frogs becuse it's a quite urbanized part of the country, but when people find an empty capsule we usualy turn it into flower pots for orchids. Its nice to see a lot of people here, watching and learning about some hidden parts of my country that aren't usualy shown to the world. Have a nice cristmas everyone

@elseby 2 жыл бұрын

Wow nice. Maybe you can replace them with clay pots so the frogs can have places for their tadpoles.

@jackyex 2 жыл бұрын

Sapucaia and the Castanheira-do-Pará (the Brazil Nut tree) are different trees species.

@aksiiska9470 5 ай бұрын

quanto pesado is a capsule? i have heard on afneagle (you can listen online) also about how many people killed by sharks versus by coconuts per year. obrigado para seu atencao

@owa8609 2 жыл бұрын

Very similar to how squirrels plant oaks by forgetting where they buried them.

@entonoa1842 2 жыл бұрын

I used to have an agouti. We caught him as a baby when our dogs dug him up from a small hole in the yard. They are very sociable creatures and he would follow us all over the house and try to bury any treat we gave him in our clothes

@reothomas956 2 жыл бұрын

🥰

@aksiiska9470 5 ай бұрын

@entonoa1842 @entonoa1842 vor 1 Jahr did it escape or what happened to it?

@rjung_ch 2 жыл бұрын

I love nature, it works so well together, it's a symbiotic wonder of life.

@einienj3281 2 жыл бұрын

Aaawww, so cute! A gardener! 💙🌎🐿️💚

@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

A truly cute gardener! 🥰

@einienj3281 2 жыл бұрын

@@terramater I would hire! 10/10🌰🥜😁 Merry Christmas and greetings from Finland ♥️

@TheyCallMeNewb 2 жыл бұрын

Apropos of nothing, one of the little proteins which the hypothalamus uses for hunger, is called the 'agouti-related peptide'. And with that, went my first introduction to the rather unusual word 'agouti'. And with the assist of Terra Mater (and it's second-to-none talent at bringing arcane animals to the viewing audience), for a second time I meet with 'agouti'. The peptide though essentially prevents a 'I've had enough food now' signal from getting through by antagonizing a key receptor to satiation.

@earthling_parth 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks for sharing this interesting tidbit of knowledge ♥️

@vlad-igor 2 жыл бұрын

The squirrel is planting trees for their offsprings in the future!😃

@patricko-h9105 2 жыл бұрын

I never knew this happened with Brazil nuts, so interesting!

@arislopes1924 2 жыл бұрын

Agutis are actually rlly smart and sociable in my childhood days my neighbors had one as a pet that they saved from their farm in Nicaragua. In Central America some ppl call them GUILLA but it’s essentially the same animal which is native to central and South America

@Drskopf 2 жыл бұрын

No conocí este animalito del todo, soy de Nicaragua pero tan vez al ser de Managua uno no tiene tanto acceso a la Naturaleza como en otros departamentos. También desnoconozco el nombre "Guilla" le veo un parecido a la Guardatinaja

@bentley2678 2 жыл бұрын

what a wonderful relationship between species

@d1pranjal 2 жыл бұрын

Basically a squirrel who behaves like us humans.... Puts stuff at different places... then forgets where they were kept.. 🤣🤣

@cmataira 2 жыл бұрын

How they make those videos is so impressive! Well done!

@atlasfenix6995 2 жыл бұрын

Super video, frohe Weihnachten!!

@dynamosaurusimperious2718 2 жыл бұрын

And merry Christmas to you,Terra Matter this video was pretty good

@tyqwanpettty6843 2 жыл бұрын

Love this channel !!!!!

@freemanfgteevty6438 2 жыл бұрын

Agoutis might not have a bad memory. They could be deliberate, long-term farmers.

@idontcarebbkdafander1597 2 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how you can all these videos of these aniamals

@brycekirkham6896 2 жыл бұрын

Such an interesting video, it's amazing how nature works so closely together like this!

@Pterosaursarecool 2 жыл бұрын

Agoutis are amazing

@aamirwali5393 2 жыл бұрын

I am fan of your video creation skills

@12time12 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that rodent is cute!

@thecrusader6401 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome ❤ Happy Christmas to all ❤❤❤

@rockstar070390 2 жыл бұрын

How nature works! Incredible. Every action in nature has a reason.

@Mysikrysa 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn´t call agouti´s memory bad. People wouldn´t find a single nut randomly burried somewhere in the jungle. :D

@JAGzilla-ur3lh 2 жыл бұрын

Kind of a risk on the tree's part, putting all of its eggs in one basket. If the agouti were to go extinct or even change its diet, the tree would be doomed. Good thing rodents tend to be strong survivors...

@hemerocallis463 2 жыл бұрын

The competition in the forest is too high, such that many species have to become specialists. That's how they manage to gain a niche among all trees. It also reminds us how delicate and fragile these species are. If one of them go extinct, others may follow. That's how amazing and precious the ecosystem is 😊

@Mysikrysa 2 жыл бұрын

Possible evolutionary traps like this are not rare. The species co-evolve together to the point they need each other. That´s why it´s very important to protect all species because some of them might be crucial to the ecosystem, like in this case. If agoutis disappeared, these trees would too, and they are large, significant species which influences the forest and serves as a home of many small species, so the forest would look very different without agoutis.

@mysubjectbiology3585 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative!! Thank you!

@sanyampathak763 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! But something's off with the video quality, it seems low res at some instances.

@M12Howitzer 2 жыл бұрын

It just hears voices in its head "you cant eat all of us, burry some over there... good agouti... now go, search for another nut" ;)

@niteeshbihade1789 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! And amazing photography! 👍🏼

@rohansewdien8086 2 жыл бұрын

I used to have an Agouti as a pet, he was captured by Indians and my dad managed to trade it for some spices and coffee, he then brought it in by air, they’re cool animals but they sure do make a mess =)

@Drskopf 2 жыл бұрын

What country was this?

@rohansewdien8086 2 жыл бұрын

@@Drskopf Suriname, it’s a former Dutch colony along the north coast of South America

@Drskopf 2 жыл бұрын

@@rohansewdien8086 i know where is Surinam, I'm from Nicaragua, i just wanted to know what country was referring to, thanks for your answer 👋

@TreDogOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

How does the Agoute deal with the high levels of selenium in the Brazil Nut?

@hayte4650 2 жыл бұрын

Love those vids

@draphotube4315 2 жыл бұрын

Love these forms of symbiosis :)

@aryatejc8067 2 жыл бұрын

2:25 of course its the poison dart frog goddammit

@fastertrackcreative 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. So are the brazil nuts you get in the shops the seeds? Only farmed.

@miebiwilliams6394 2 жыл бұрын

God is great

@andresdeleon5160 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@WanderTheNomad 2 жыл бұрын

So if the Agouti went extinct, would the Brazil Nut Tree follow soon after?

@lucasmoreno2154 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say extinct, cuz its nuts are highly consumed by people in Brazil, but the population would surely decline

@Mysikrysa 2 жыл бұрын

The nut tree and plenty of species which live on it, consume its leaves as a large part of their diet etc.

@jessieliang1999 2 жыл бұрын

They went from the agouti to the frog that I almost forgot this as a 3 minute video and not a full-blown nature documentary XD Terra Mater should really consider doing a long nature documentary video someday

@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

Hey thank you for watching! We actually made a lot of long form documentaries, check out our homepage for more information about those www.terramater.at

@vit_c8753 2 жыл бұрын

0:31 “the nuts are enourmous”

@aneethasalim5814 2 жыл бұрын

hey this may seem a bit out of place but can you do a video covering the western ghats?

@rodrigofajardo630 2 жыл бұрын

how the almighty intelligence surrounds everything

@purpleheadedmonster8735 2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@aghyaat2625 2 жыл бұрын

Interdependence on species.

@BL423R 2 жыл бұрын

This is clearly design.

@raphlvlogs271 2 жыл бұрын

is the Brazil nut tree a legume?

@aksiiska9470 5 ай бұрын

there was a spot many years ago on german tv with colin firth about the awa indios in the rainforest

@sethchenko 2 жыл бұрын

Got bitten by an Agouti at the zoo - can confirm what’s said bout the teeth and jaws Absolute cuties though

@ANIMALSKINGDOMPro 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍

@sergiomoran6492 2 жыл бұрын

We truly believe that we are the only smart species on earth A lot of animals farm to protect their future

@develentsai3215 2 жыл бұрын

We the people are part of the echo natural system so we steps in and burn everything down:(

@humanlifedays5939 2 жыл бұрын

Hi support

@elseby 2 жыл бұрын

What if it's just farming?

@aksiiska9470 5 ай бұрын

how many people did think "oblivious"? there is a song called "olvidame"

@voidremoved 2 жыл бұрын

buy no coffee from Brazil and buy Brazil nuts instead

@Amitdas-gk2it 2 жыл бұрын

Ho ho ho 🤣

@Runnable19 2 жыл бұрын

All praise is to Allah, who created the earth in such a beautiful way. Yet, people believe that all of this is just an accident...

@crazyboyplayz Жыл бұрын

0:30 pov: your dirty minded

@tareqrahman121 2 жыл бұрын

Allaho Akbar

@plug_65 2 жыл бұрын

Subhan Allah.

@alveolate 2 жыл бұрын

isn't the brazil nut... bolsonaro?

@arislopes1924 2 жыл бұрын

More like a nuthead to me. If the Brazil nut tree disappears along with most of the Amazon it’s his part to blame

@thediscordmemer5851 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry I just cant take this seriously 😂

@ecocodex4431 2 жыл бұрын

Deez

@aryatejc8067 2 жыл бұрын

@m.rehmantyagi4196 2 жыл бұрын

SUBHANALLAH

@timo4938 2 жыл бұрын

PRAISE CHRIST

@msruag 2 жыл бұрын

@@timo4938 i'll praise god as god and jesus as a great prophet, you can live your life however you want to and so will i lol

@charlesmaersk5235 2 жыл бұрын

First

@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! 🥳

@nuitNo.6 2 жыл бұрын

You only make why and how titles lately. Please stop doing that. Go back to what you used to do. Why and how titles are not honorable.

@twattyfuckface 10 ай бұрын

How is the tree pollinated?....

@terramater 9 ай бұрын

The agouti buries the seed and forgets where it is!

@twattyfuckface 9 ай бұрын

the agouti plants the seed so that the tree germinates....it cannot pollinate it though....