Why We Faint (When Other Animals Don't)

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Humans are the only animals known to faint due to triggers like shock, fear, or pain; this is due to a combination of our massive brains and upright stance.
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"Fight or flight": an instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation that readies animals (including humans) to either resist forcibly or escape
Fainting: loss of consciousness caused by a temporary lack of oxygen to the brain, also known as “syncope.”
Vasovagal syncope: a type of fainting that happens when your body overreacts to an emotional trigger like being in danger, seeing blood, or even just hearing some shocking news.
Tonic immobility: an instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation that causes some animals to relax their muscles and “freeze” in place, sometimes causing them to fall over
Jump scare: a technique often used in horror films meant to scare the audience with a sudden change on screen, usually paired with a loud sound
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@cannypride8191 3 жыл бұрын

Conclusion: It's healthier to lie down in your bed

@action16x2 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha Yes

@KillerCrewmate2526 3 жыл бұрын

I must be very healthy.

@fireflymiesumae 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@mushroomette5036 3 жыл бұрын

Screw exersizing

@pratimachoudhary8384 3 жыл бұрын

Terms and conditions applied

@lovingit7319 3 жыл бұрын

Watching minute earth is like listening to a parent explain a question when I was young. Including the not funny but very funny dad jokes.

@donottrustanyonelol 3 жыл бұрын

No jokes, please

@IHateUniqueUsernames 3 жыл бұрын

@@donottrustanyonelol Alright, alright! Having fun with his children, dad's only KIDding.

@lanesejuta4215 3 жыл бұрын

opossum's faint

@pikpik_carrot3392 3 жыл бұрын

I love the jokes

@danielawesome36 3 жыл бұрын

"...not funny but very funny-" Schrodinger's Quantum Joke.

@cfv7461 3 жыл бұрын

Human: *scared* Body: oh yeah this is big brain time!!

@fabiofdez 3 жыл бұрын

Brain: Mr stark I don't feel so good...

@PatricioHondagneuRoig 3 жыл бұрын

I want to be mad at this comment but I just cannot

@donottrustanyonelol 3 жыл бұрын

Human: *falls* Brain: I’m not quite dead yet

@Fritzafella 3 жыл бұрын

Words cannot describe how PERFECTthis meme is for this video

@Tailslol 4 ай бұрын

Wait? You never saw a dog ,a horse, a cat or a mouse faint? That is strange because it happens.

@Ellipsis115 3 жыл бұрын

I think "World domination is for the faint of heart" is an astounding quote. Really shows that even big weaknesses can go hand in hand with amazing strengths which I think is something people often forget.

@eclecticsoffy 3 жыл бұрын

Such an interesting quote

@onehairybuddha 3 жыл бұрын

I think it's called called min-maxing.

@D.KlWA-aG 3 жыл бұрын

@@onehairybuddha more like a trade off. +20% -20% something else

@The_GuyWhoNeverUploadsAnything 5 ай бұрын

@@D.KlWA-aG Isn't that what min-maxing is?

@D.KlWA-aG 5 ай бұрын

@@The_GuyWhoNeverUploadsAnything Dont that mean we all min maxing cause we got strengths and weaknesses?

@andy-kg5fb 3 жыл бұрын

So fainting goats will soon be our overlords.

@andy-kg5fb 3 жыл бұрын

@@lurking_silhouette5802 I know

@patrickhector 3 жыл бұрын

@@lurking_silhouette5802 the baby ones faint afaik, they mostly grow out of it

@smt4090 3 жыл бұрын

goat simulator for the win

@MinuteEarth 3 жыл бұрын

"Fainting" goats is actually a misnomer, because they don't actually faint. They have a genetic issue called myotonia congenita that causes their legs to stiffen when startled, and therefore fall over. They never lose consciousness.

@aeyelashbug6311 3 жыл бұрын

@@MinuteEarth Doesn't mean they won't be our overlords

@riteshsharma3193 3 жыл бұрын

Another Fact You might feel dizzy When you need to walk immediately after you get up from bed. (Not necessarily from sleep) Because the same reason flow of blood will drop very low in very short time that our brain can adapt to. So it is advisable to first sit first before leaving the bed in some hurry.

@kirtil5177 3 жыл бұрын

i never thought about this. so thats why this affects tall people more too?

@riteshsharma3193 3 жыл бұрын

@@kirtil5177 I don't know specifically about tall persons. Neither i guess there is any study which i published only for the tall humans only. But again It is advisable to sit for a second or so. Before getting up from bed after you have done laying down.

@TechBlade9000 3 жыл бұрын

So is that why I get lots of thoughts when trying to sleep, because my heart is still pumping like Gravity's in the way?

@THE_Mirage 3 жыл бұрын

2 bad i gotta dash downstairs to get to my distance learning, ill pass out when I join the meeting

@Norsilca 3 жыл бұрын

No joke. My friend just received a concussion and stitches in the face when he fainted after getting up too fast.

@UltimateStarky 3 жыл бұрын

What's my brain doing hogging up 20% of my blood flow when it's not working 95% of the time?

@nou4898 3 жыл бұрын

its browsing the internet for dumb memes

@awfuldynne 3 жыл бұрын

My condolences on your coma

@chakrakhanesh 3 жыл бұрын

It’s working... you breathe and your heart pumps blood. You digest food. You sleep and wake up again. Memory is just like the cherry on top.

@aniruddhrao3489 3 жыл бұрын

@@chakrakhanesh it was a joke. He's not seriously suggesting that the brain is not working 95% of the time

@chakrakhanesh 3 жыл бұрын

@@aniruddhrao3489 I was joking when I cited Jurassic Park for medical advice 😂

@soumyadeepdutta3726 4 ай бұрын

Who said so? Every Pokemon faints

@DartedOut Ай бұрын

Lol😂

@dejofly-qn8ps 26 күн бұрын

wait ur a pokemon lover too

@Seadalgo 3 жыл бұрын

If you are wondering about goats like I was, that's apparently a muscle spasm and not true syncope

@elanorthefair1091 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I was wondering why they never adresses that, considering they're literally called fainting goats.

@macaroon_nuggets8008 3 жыл бұрын

@@elanorthefair1091 0:41

@captainhoratiobungleiii7147 3 жыл бұрын

I have a friend with the same condition. In humans your muscles randomly refuse to work. It's called myotonia congenita, if you wanted to look it up.

@spelunkerd 5 ай бұрын

Decades ago I had a job drawing blood for research in chickens. One day I was about to draw blood on one chicken, and before I touched her with the needle I saw her head flop over onto the table while I was holding her. She had fainted at the sight of the needle. She recovered after a minute and I finished the phelbotomy without problem. So, my experience of one showed that at least once, it has happened in a chicken.

@cyanideenema 5 ай бұрын

It would be interesting to see the results of the bloodwork, maybe something was off with her

@Delmworks 4 ай бұрын

Makes sense. Not a lotta brain in a chicken but they still have an upright stance with a lot of drumstick

@popdogfool 4 ай бұрын

Sure the chicken didn't doze off?

@sayori3939 4 ай бұрын

i had a Chicken as pet i mistakenly kicked it and it did pass out, i was so worried i had killed it, but it recovered and started following me for the whole day i was so freaking sad 😢

@abd-animation-22 4 ай бұрын

@@sayori3939wtf

@tinamai9237 3 жыл бұрын

How ironic that before I watched this video, I actually fainted in the shower due to standing too long in hot water. Don't worry, feeling better now. Cool to know why that faint attack happened.

@yuvrajshah1158 3 жыл бұрын

Now you can chill, knowing that it will be fine.

@thereza3 3 жыл бұрын

What??? What about the water bills???

@tinamai9237 3 жыл бұрын

@@thereza3 was in a college dorm. So no worries about water bills.

@lonestarr1490 3 жыл бұрын

@@tinamai9237 Only about drowning.

@tinamai9237 3 жыл бұрын

@@lonestarr1490 nah. It was a shower stall, not a bathtub.

@Connie.T. 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who has suffered from syncope for years, a lot of things suddenly make a whole lot of sense. Idk why I never researched what caused it, but I'm glad I know now!

@davektrollindripthe3rd664 3 жыл бұрын

*cope*

@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq Ай бұрын

@@davektrollindripthe3rd664what

@kayzeaza 3 жыл бұрын

Person: *Scared* Body: Let’s go horizontal!

@chris7263 3 жыл бұрын

I generally assume the answer to questions like this will have something to do with our giant brains being high-maintenance divas.

@aniruddhrao3489 3 жыл бұрын

Well you're not wrong

@pablopereyra7126 3 жыл бұрын

Our brains are like a high risk-high reward situation, where we get the huge benefit of intelligence but need a lot more maintenance to keep our brains working

@MarkusAldawn 5 ай бұрын

The more I learn about humans and our brains and bodies the more I have this nagging feeling that we should have spent another two million years evolving after developing bipedalism and such large brains and stuff before doing all this modern stuff. Like, for a species with so many cool and rare traits, absolute bangers like ultramarathoning, social and cognitive savantism, sweating, tool usage, bipedalism, ability to throw stuff, etc, we also have a bunch of absolute 'worst of dragon's den compilation' traits like Ooh No Blood Gonna Fall Over syndrome. Do I, as a member of the species who is currently In Charge Of Everything, really have to feel my hand get a bit like tingly and pins and needles-y if I hold it at my side and don't elevate it or move it for even like ten seconds? Why. Not good enough!

@crispest_npc 4 ай бұрын

@@MarkusAldawn Fr lmao. I read somewhere that we evolved to be bipedal faster than our spines could catch up. Dunno how reliable the info is but it somewhat explains my chronic back pain lol.

@MarkusAldawn 4 ай бұрын

@@crispest_npc that doesn't surprise me at all. who approved us for release. We clearly weren't done yet. Unbelievable. Although I suppose the benefit of being this globe-spanning, massively intelligent species with so much free time outside survival that "build a massive triangle" is a hobby several thousand years old, is that the likelihood of somebody finding a way to fix our spines is much higher!

@tuckerricklefs4830 3 жыл бұрын

1:15 was I little confusing until I remembered human heads in this universe are just circles.

@meninsilau 3 жыл бұрын

So, to counteract fainting.... Just lay down as low as your heart when your head feels heavy. And... If your foot bleeds, foot it above head to slow it down. You're welcome. I've done it myself though. ✌️

@teotlcipactli7530 3 жыл бұрын

Big brain problems rquiere big brain solutions

@pablopereyra7126 3 жыл бұрын

@@teotlcipactli7530 Thats a big brain pun. And I hate you for it

@BioTheHuman 3 жыл бұрын

Or better, do a stand up on hands, give blood to that bastard 😤😂

@Kalani_Saiko 3 жыл бұрын

Relax Lay down Elevate legs

@pablopereyra7126 3 жыл бұрын

@Fck Utube we only have that problem due to our big brain.

@diamondjub2318 3 жыл бұрын

so Pokemon has been lying this whole time?

@awfuldynne 3 жыл бұрын

If "fainting" entails a loss of consciousness (and the video seemed to be using it that way) then pokémon being able to use field moves while faint already revealed that the games were lying. Also that the status condition doesn't clear on its own, while human fainting only lasts a few seconds

@prinxen1733 3 жыл бұрын

*Pokemon faint from being attacked, not from fright like this video discusses

@jaschabull2365 2 жыл бұрын

@@prinxen1733 Tell that to the poor sucker who had their opponent repeatedly use astonish on them until they fainted.

@mariotheundying 5 ай бұрын

@@awfuldynne while faint? If you mean it stays there, I don't think that's a power still being used, but a power used once that lasts for a short amount of time

@dalton2845 5 ай бұрын

@@mariotheundyingNot sure about newer games since I haven't played anything past gen 5 but in older games, you can use an overworld move (or HM move) like Rock Smash, Surf, Fly,... even when the pokemon who has that move was fainting

@Foofle826 3 жыл бұрын

The jump scare actually frightened me.

@cuttlefishii 3 жыл бұрын

I see y'all there with the Justin McElroy jumpscare reference 👏

@TheRealMatticus 3 жыл бұрын

I came here for this.

@MinuteEarth 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta play homage to our good good boy, Hoops.

@MartijnCalkhoven 3 жыл бұрын

*CRTL+F 'justin'* Ah, good. I'm not alone.

@molybdenumrose 3 жыл бұрын

@@MinuteEarth gotta give props, a 10 second joke from a defunct podcast tv adaptation that is only on a defunct streaming service is a pretty deep pull

@takkiemon 3 жыл бұрын

Mbmbam gang, assemble!

@danielclv97 5 ай бұрын

also, if you feel like fainting (tunnel vision, gray vision, muscle weakness), try to sit down, or squat, not only it can prevent fainting entirely (since blood reaches the brain easier now), even if you faint you have a very low chance of getting injured now, since you won't fall while standing. A lot might think that it's hard to notice or react, and I can't really confirm since I never fainted, but it happened once to feel like I'm fainting when getting up from my bed at night fast, I remember this, squat, and after around 20 seconds, I felt normal again (I wouldn't have enough time to lie back in bed). 2nd time I almost fainted was when I cut my finger really bad, with a sharp knife, the knife was so sharp that I actually didn't felt any pain before seeing my finger bleeding like crazy, then I just sit down on a chair and support my head on the table. Magically the finger tip grown back with no scarring (I was scared to permanently loose my finger-tip, so I kept a wet sterile bandage every day, and every-time I changed it I first keep my finger into warm water until the wound would be opened again before putting new bandage)

@elitemaster666 4 ай бұрын

True, as a bonus squatting actually also increased venous return which will give the heart a better from dynamics, increased preload, chance of bringing blood to your brain and avoiding fainting. You can think of it as displacing blood from legs to heart which will the make it pump more blood in the next cycles to the organs. It is why patients with cyanosis improve when squatting, particularly commonly done by patients that suffer from Tetralogy of Fallot.

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@rubyriver2525 3 жыл бұрын

Yo?

@cubeofcheese5574 3 жыл бұрын

@andy-kg5fb 3 жыл бұрын

@ivettrivera5306 3 жыл бұрын

I went to the dentist before I watched this I fell like this is what being drugged feels like

@ivettrivera5306 3 жыл бұрын

I'm going to live forever

@WoWhistorian 3 жыл бұрын

@@ivettrivera5306 Sounds like the dentist gave you the good stuff!

@ivettrivera5306 3 жыл бұрын

@@WoWhistorian it felt good

@AgarioSplitrunner 3 жыл бұрын

You played too much Life is Strange

@seatbelttruck 3 жыл бұрын

I have fainted exactly once, when I had a high fever, had been laying down almost constantly for several days, and presumably had low blood-sugar because I was puking up anything I tried to eat. It was really weird, but I wasn't scared because I was kinda giddy-headed too. Sickest I'd been since I was a toddler. Interesting memory though. I remember thinking "ha, I can't hold a thought in my head. Funny" before everything went black.

@thomascahyono5645 3 жыл бұрын

This is a channel that when I first found made me immediately subscribe. When I didn't watch them for couple months and rewatched them, I remembered the joy that I feel when I watch them. The amazing group of people that created this channel deserve much love and respect. ❤❤❤

@maximellow5745 3 жыл бұрын

Our bodies are so badly adapted to live as a whole. It's amazing how we even survived

@Random_192 3 жыл бұрын

True

@WanderTheNomad 3 жыл бұрын

Our strengths have massively made up for our flaws.

@kurb0 3 жыл бұрын

Because club go *bonk* and mammoth goes _flop_

@yesno8273 3 жыл бұрын

to be fair, humans have *big* brains so having additional traits are quite hard to sustain since it requires more energy

@user-lw4vi4oy2d 3 жыл бұрын

We evolved to walk upright yet have no traits to compensate the flaws it brought

@juanpablomina1346 3 жыл бұрын

2:25 "So, I guess you could say world domination is for the faint of heart." Hahaha. Nice!

@anandsharma7430 5 ай бұрын

So this is what the Bible meant by "The meek shall inherit the Earth". The Bible teaches evolution after all. (Sorry)

@udontseemeiseeuuseemeiseeu 4 ай бұрын

that chimp is PLAYING on a SWITCH

@NguyenMinh792 4 ай бұрын

@@udontseemeiseeuuseemeiseeuit reminds me of Kurzgesagt intro

@Sciencedoneright 3 жыл бұрын

Watching MinuteEarth alone is a room or outside with the soothing voice of the narrator and the pleasant music is just one of many beautiful things in life ;)

@NiekNooijens 3 жыл бұрын

I once had a work accident where I was shocked at first, but quicky relativated the situation, hut then came that blood dip. Let's say I was busy fainting in a really calm and relaxed manner.

@silvertakana3932 3 жыл бұрын

I like how other animals have their head being drawn properly while human’s is only a circle

@idkanymore8436 3 жыл бұрын

This is so underrated you guys are so cool :))

@dinohall2595 3 жыл бұрын

Concise, informative, well-illustrated, well-written. KZfaq needs more videos like this.

@FoxSlyme 4 ай бұрын

I like this format, straight to the point without overextending the video length

@Aviator27J 3 жыл бұрын

Yup, a PTSD response can get me with blood, but only sometimes. Almost any time I have blood drawn I'll pass out no matter what I do. It started sometime in my teens or 20s, but before that, blood and the like never bothered me. I understand that it can be a survival trait too, like on battlefields when the sight of blood, dismemberment, broken/protruding bones, etc causing a witness to pass out meant he may survive the battle by being passed over. As a firefighter I was very aware of my limitations (that can be hard to predict, as I can typically watch many graphic movies and shows, treat injuries, observe births, etc) but medical calls weren't my favorite things. I'll go into burning, collapsing buildings to help people (with or without a hose line), no problem! Giving blood though? Only if I have to. Waking up from that is embarrassing and uncomfortable and you feel crappy for hours.

@nicstroud 3 жыл бұрын

The sooner this channel starts using the metric system the better. I know you love your _freedom_ _units_ but it just seems weird for a science channel, even a U.S. based one. Here in the U.K. we clung on to imperial far too long so I don't have trouble with the conversion but I wonder how the rest of your global audience get on. Great videos all the same. Keep it up.

@lukasg4807 5 ай бұрын

What's wrong with standard measurements?

@TheHazelnoot 4 ай бұрын

Generally speaking, Imperial measurements aren't standard, which is precisely the problem. Virtually no other nation on Earth regularly uses imperial measurements, so if you want to communicate information to a large group of people (which you would want in science communication), Imperial is kinda terrible. That aside, most science is conducted using metric, as well.

@Terminator484 3 ай бұрын

@@lukasg4807Everything.

@kirbyc2013 3 жыл бұрын

I loves all of your videos 🥰 you put so much work in them!

@Joebakabasementgaming 4 күн бұрын

Love the channel because it is not a 30 minute video with mostly random research that i do not understand but this one has simple explanations that do not waste your time

@PlagueOfGripes 3 жыл бұрын

You'd think it would affect animals like other primates, or even giraffes or ostriches... penguins... something with a similarly vertical layout. Odd.

@animax2422 3 жыл бұрын

We just need all that much blood in our heads. 1/5 of all the blood is a lot of blood.

@jonathanberry1111 3 жыл бұрын

Their brains are just too small.

@spindash64 3 жыл бұрын

Our brains are the equivalent of sticking an R-4360 to a Chevy Impala: just not enough fuel flow.

@Tatusiek_1 2 жыл бұрын

because they have smol brainz

@tezzla6358 4 ай бұрын

maybe if you watched the video you would find out why that doesn't happen

@derpnoodlet 3 жыл бұрын

I like the yeti at the intro XD also are yetis apes? Or other

@andreboden1437 3 жыл бұрын

MAYBE MONKEH?!

@derpnoodlet 3 жыл бұрын

@@andreboden1437 maybe OvO

@andy-kg5fb 3 жыл бұрын

Convergent evolution maybe Probably not. An ape like body plan won't be advantageous in icy places. Gigantism will tho. But apes can't make vitamin-c and fruits are hard to come by in the artic. Its far more likely that apes would start making vitamin-c than for some other creature to start looking ape-like. Other creatures may not need to start looking ape-like if they already look like that. Polar bears could look like apes and certainly live in the Artic.

@Jamie-tx7pn 3 жыл бұрын

They're other: not real

@brandonelizondo7018 3 жыл бұрын

@@Jamie-tx7pn obviously not but if they were what would the be?

@veganchaatparty 3 жыл бұрын

Super awesome....super thanksfor sharing!!!

@KnightandDay33 4 ай бұрын

It's amazing just how much spaghetti code and temporary fixes it takes for a human to run

@delpullen730 4 ай бұрын

But NO other life forms. JUST HUMANS. RIGHT?

@azraphon 3 жыл бұрын

"The more we study the animal kingdom, often on the internet, using written language, and then express the abstract concepts we've learned to others, even those with no prior knowledge, with a very high success rate, the less unique humans seem." Yes I hear ravens are on wikipedia ALL the time.

@Alblaka 3 ай бұрын

To qualify: The less BIOLOGICALLY unique. All of human civilization is essential 'just' the collective knowledge base we've built, and carry over from generation to generation via the sapience that our brains developed. And whilst there's at least two species that have provably a similar (quantified measurement of consciousness is difficult) degree of sapience (crustaceans and corvids), neither ended up with the biology (aka hands) and environmental pressure to discover complex tool use and agriculture. But yeah, if crows or orcas had hands, they could have easily been the species that would civilize Earth, instead of us monkeys.

@plzletmebefrank 3 жыл бұрын

Starts video with, "You know, humans aren't all THAT special." "No other animal faints like we do." "Our nearest relative has only a third a the brain matter we do." "No other animal has a problem like this." "Dominators of the animal kingdom."

@NguyenMinh792 4 ай бұрын

This video in a nutshell 😂

@kosmonaut5 3 жыл бұрын

absolutely fascinating x

@architlal8594 3 жыл бұрын

Your puns are soooooo good, and that's the case every time.

@hilliard665 3 жыл бұрын

There is a type of sheep that basically becomes paralyzed (and fall over) when they are startled

@user-lw4vi4oy2d 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks alot walking upright!

@jaqque9633 3 жыл бұрын

I recognized that tumbler from the title card. Now my Seafoam YETI will have a friend!

@guytorie 3 жыл бұрын

The whole head injury aspect scares me so much about fainting. That's why whenever I think I'm about to faint, I get down on the floor ahead of time. Not catching me that way, Death!

@godzillakotm8292 3 жыл бұрын

Ya'know when I was about 5 or 7 I fainted in the middle of class. I put my head down on the desk, then I fainted and when I woke up everyone was looking at me. I also, fell over when I fainted, my chair fell with me on it. I didn't feel myself falling, so I didn't get any kind of damage. And I went to the nurse's office.

@jerrygreenest 3 жыл бұрын

2:16: a little spider VS The smartest, devastating ultimate dominating species on the whole planet, literally walking giant (compared to insects): Human 1-0

@davidguthary8147 3 жыл бұрын

Spiders aren't insects.

@clashseriescoc2151 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidguthary8147 sorry i forgot that your "heart falled like a stone!"(its a famous qoute in my country)

@KillerCrewmate2526 3 жыл бұрын

Spider are not scary.

@KillerCrewmate2526 3 жыл бұрын

Being afraid of spiders is for fearful people who fear at nothing.

@NguyenMinh792 4 ай бұрын

@@clashseriescoc2151fell

@Spix-Macaw 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks standing upright!

@happygarlic13 4 ай бұрын

Wow, list of references, nice!

@jordandino417 2 жыл бұрын

1:52 Damn it MinuteEarth! You actually made me jump for a second. 😠😅

@Halberds6 4 ай бұрын

Me too! Got over it quickly though 😅

@bookdream 3 жыл бұрын

1:05, am i the only one who thought "BIG MEATY CLAWS!"

@impossible-9579 5 ай бұрын

Yes.

@awaredeshmukh3202 Ай бұрын

I once didn't eat enough before a piercing, made it through the piercing just fine... and promptly fainted on my way out the door. Wound up with a concussion, too! Honestly it's reassuring to know that fainting-related injuries aren't uncommon-it's not just me!

@obojamabinladder3579 3 жыл бұрын

their art style is sooo satisfying

@illiacvie 3 жыл бұрын

how about Yeti, do they faint?

@MinuteEarth 3 жыл бұрын

I don't believe anyone's been able to figure out their brain size as of yet. More likely you'd faint if you ever spot it!

@xyz-vrtgs 3 жыл бұрын

@@MinuteEarth dose big foot faint?

@xyz-vrtgs 3 жыл бұрын

@@MinuteEarth also how did he comment before the video released did he have access to the private video I think that is the case

@alexreid1173 3 жыл бұрын

Personally I faint every time I get a fever. Also when I stand for too long. I love having low blood pressure :)

@resourceress7 3 жыл бұрын

Have you looked into postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)?

@aeyelashbug6311 3 жыл бұрын

@@resourceress7 I don't think smoking weed will help with low blood pressure /j

@resourceress7 3 жыл бұрын

@@aeyelashbug6311 ha! :) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postural_orthostatic_tachycardia_syndrome www.potsuk.org/

@scribbleslol1566 4 ай бұрын

Thanks alot *standing up right.*

@christinearmington 5 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure opossums faint. My dog caught a baby possum. He started chuffing - from the joy and excitement I imagine. Once I ran out to find out what was happening I couldn’t find him at first. When I did find him he was laid out flat and the baby possum was tottering away. I’m pretty sure my dog fainted when the baby possum woke up and maybe started flailing around - teeth and claws. Took my boi a couple of minutes to slowly wake up.

@runningbeaner1 4 ай бұрын

Yea, the video is just flat out wrong. Opossum literally faint from being threatened(so fright), it’s involuntary and they lose consciousness from seconds to hours. A simple search online would have given him thousands of results proving him wrong. Had this video recommended on my feed, if he’s that misinformed on such a casual thing this channel is probably trash and riddled with more incorrect “facts”. I’m blocking it.

@Detheyas 4 ай бұрын

opossums usually play dead as a defensive mechanism. you sure it's not just that? it's an instinctive trait to them.

@nerasomnia 3 жыл бұрын

There was a time I was super drowsy, light-headed, and on the verge of passing out for several months, so I got my blood tested. I found out I was iron deficient. I guess my question is how does iron deficiency affect blood flow? Just so you know, after the problem was fixed with spinach, it happened again later down the line and the solution was the same. Spinach and beef have now become very important parts of my diet.

@delpullen730 4 ай бұрын

It's just too bad that's not a widely known medical issue that you could google...

@nerasomnia 4 ай бұрын

@@delpullen730 This was 2 years ago, dude. I know now.

@Aleksanderbigby 2 күн бұрын

@@nerasomniadamn maybe I need some spinach, your comment describes my past year but only here and there, it comes in periods.

@spinmusicstudiosofficial 3 жыл бұрын

This is interesting

@alpacaofthemountain8760 3 ай бұрын

Love your videos

@Dog-Lover36 3 жыл бұрын

That fainting scenario from famous comedies like Sesame Street, live action/cartoon shorts and movies was some type of classic gag by having characters like Muppets faint out of shock, exhaustion, astonishment

@CristianViorelPasat 3 жыл бұрын

What about elephants? They are HUGE and have a "tall brain"?

@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece 3 жыл бұрын

They walk on 4 legs so it's not that far above their heart.

@user-fe7gm3cf3k 4 ай бұрын

1:47 or standing up too fast 💀

@user-ct8xm3hl5o 4 ай бұрын

Yeah its annoying

@atlas2296 3 жыл бұрын

So basically, fainting is a sign of intelligence? So that explains why I have never fainted before

@nathanlevesque7812 3 жыл бұрын

1:20 for a moment there I was thinking 'wait, which animal just has a circle head?'

@Durio_zibethinus 3 жыл бұрын

1:52 prepare your heart a little bit 😆

@scriptorpaulina 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen a horse faint for no apparent reason (we tightened the cinch too fast), but maybe it wasn’t fright

@spookyhogan 5 ай бұрын

Cool video, I feel so dizzy now

@nikilragav 3 жыл бұрын

A million hospital visits in the US or across the world? Thanks for the video - learned a lot!

@nayyayraza2956 3 жыл бұрын

Hi everyone!!!!! I'm not new here, just wanted to say hi.

@lemmingsgopop 3 жыл бұрын

Hi!

@nayyayraza2956 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks everyone for responding!

@nayyayraza2956 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, did you know that where I live the time is 9:30.

@user-qq6gd5qj2b 4 ай бұрын

Hello

@neko2412neko 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting! I never fainted before tho... even when I was anemic, I was so lacking of energy but I didn't faint once... Why are some people more likely to faint than others?

@hothdog 5 ай бұрын

because some have bigger brains than others

@MadMetalMacho 3 жыл бұрын

This video makes me feel lightheaded

@Fritzafella 3 жыл бұрын

Ive fainted only twice in my life, within a month of eachother. Walked up a flight of stairs, sat down at the top, got back up 5 or 10 minutes later, walked a few steps and rapidly got mre and more tired, and then was wondering why everyone was staring at me when I hadn't even stood up yet. Cuz I mean. I was on the floor how could I have gotten up if I had no memory of getting back down. Thanks god for a big backpack with my sweater stuffed in it or I coulda woken up in a hospital a few days later. (Being 6' 7" doesnt help my odds of that) #2 stayed to long inna hot tub. Don't need to say much else. REALLY good thing my mom was there to stop me from cracking my skull on the concrete. I remember getting out of the pool and walking over to window (indoor pool) and just getting... dizzier and dizzier. I regain consciousness where my brain wants me to think that I was sitting at the pools edge with my feet in the water (shocker its how I got out of the water to start) My mom says I put one hand on the glass leaned over and just kinda slowly slumped to my kneesefore she caught me and lowered me super awkwardly to the ground and dropping stuff. I was like 10 fet from the water. So yeah, half of me wants to fall unconscious again so I can regain this memories and reality not quite aligning, but Im also afraid Ill beak my skull

@Nhatanh0475 3 жыл бұрын

1:54 I used to faint when I was younger, I accidentally cut my finger and very small amount of blood coming out. I fainted and people though I was having a seizure.

@e.t.2914 4 ай бұрын

I think this is probably not true. If an animal experiences fainting due to fear in the wild, its likely because a predator startled it, and it probably won't survive the attack. Survivor bias. We know plenty of prey animals like small birds, (doves, parakeets, finches, etc), rabbits, sheep, goat and alpacas are especially prone to succumbing to stress if they are handled excessively by people (think during vet appointments and sheering). That sounds very much like dying or "fainting" from fright.

@marraaaa 2 жыл бұрын

I have a low iron level so sometimes when i get up too quickly i might feel dizzy and everything in front of my eyes goes black for a couple seconds. So in february of 2020 i had flu and decided to get up and go to the bathroom. Of course I got up to quickly and felt kinda weird, and combining these two factors i fainted and cracked my nose bone. Thankfully that wasn’t something serious and it healed quickly, so yeah, fainting may not be a big deal but the injuries that were caused by that-might be

@am_Nein 3 жыл бұрын

Props to minute earth (i hope that sentence made sense) for not just making merch and shoving it on some random website for money.

@norma8686 3 жыл бұрын

What about fainting from pain? Are we the only ones to do it too?

@hothdog 5 ай бұрын

probably not

@AZREDFERN 3 жыл бұрын

Seems like an extreme evolutionary disadvantage. I nearly drowned in my own blood for 12 hours straight. Now I can't even listen to someone talk about blood without feeling light headed. I can't even hunt anymore. Luckily I've never fainted standing up, but it seems like instinctively passing out when there's danger is pretty dumb.

@spindash64 3 жыл бұрын

It’s a software bug that’s worth the tradeoff of being able to Kill a Goat from 30 yards

@hothdog 5 ай бұрын

@@spindash64 damensia

@NotLikeTheOtherSeungberries 3 жыл бұрын

I would "fall" for these videos.

@pb5640 5 ай бұрын

only a very small percentage of humans faint from this mechanism. Where we see humans fainting is usually older people with cardiovascular disease and medication‘s that aggravate maintenance of blood pressure.

@miguelpereira3112 3 жыл бұрын

I'm waiting to hear from the person who fainted from Julian saying *jump scare*

@JustinRed624 3 жыл бұрын

I bet that person is unconscious

@MinuteEarth 3 жыл бұрын

Noooo

@garkeinen7034 3 жыл бұрын

Ha! I never fainted!

@deepakrksheerasagar5452 3 жыл бұрын

*smol brain

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

@@deepakrksheerasagar5452 It has to be proportional to the smol body. It probably helps that the brain isn’t too far above the heart and the feet aren’t too far below it. Or maybe I’m just not standing still long enough for the blood to pool in the legs?

@rosieg6989 3 жыл бұрын

My last major faint was 4 years ago so I hope that I have grown out of it somehow( before that I had major faints at least twice a year). I have been lightheaded or even collapsed since, but never loss consciousness.

@user-lz1yb6qk3f 4 ай бұрын

I think our social nature makes it less dangerous. Like when you faint there more likely will be other people to help you and care for you. That's not the case for the most of the animal kingdom.

@Adumb_ 3 жыл бұрын

That Mbmbam reference was more surprising than the jump scare itself

@1un4cy 3 жыл бұрын

I've never fainted, how do you faint?

@epauletshark3793 3 жыл бұрын

Neither have I. Does this count as bragging?

@HisameArtwork 3 жыл бұрын

it all goes dark and then the floor hits your face while it was dark. floors are very sneaky, they only attack in the dark.

@Aphelia. 3 жыл бұрын

What's worse than fainting is fainting on a hard floor while glasses on

@johncao6516 3 жыл бұрын

My only experience of fainting in my life: by standing up too quickly after donating blood (and not drinking enough liquid before said donation).

@Ortorin 3 жыл бұрын

It seems to have more to do with how you naturally react. People that have a higher response to fear will rocket into a heightened state. If there is no cooldown time afterwards, then they crash back down from being heightened and faint as a result.

@dontcallmethat123 4 ай бұрын

the writing for this video is great

@LopezCreations 11 күн бұрын

Human gets scared* Brain: gotta nap real quick

@JWQweqOPDH 5 ай бұрын

I don't think I've ever fainted in my 29 years of living. Based on a quick web search, the majority of humans (over half) never faint in their entire life.

@Terminator484 3 ай бұрын

39 years & counting. Never fainted. I call B.S. on this video.

@fanafelgminecraft5789 3 ай бұрын

@@Terminator484 just becuse you havent fainted doesnt mean its not a thing that can happen

@Soshoyo 2 ай бұрын

@@fanafelgminecraft5789He never said it can't happen, I call B.S. on your demand for attention.

@fanafelgminecraft5789 2 ай бұрын

@@Soshoyoi dont think you read his comment also what "demand for attention" i was making a comment also from my understanding his comment is calling bs on fainting since he said he never fainted and he called bs on the vid about why humans faint so thats why i made that comment

@Soshoyo 2 ай бұрын

@@fanafelgminecraft5789 Video title: Why we faint (When Other Animals Don't) He's calling BS on the claim that ONLY humans faint not that humans faint at all. OPs' comment gives his comment the context that he acknowledges humans DO faint because he has said jack shit that denies the claims of the OP that some humans do faint. Edit: You're clearly demanding attention with that "Just because you don't doesn't mean others don't" bullshit of yours when he hasn't at the slightest hinted that it never happens to others.