True Facts: How Camels Conquered the Desert

Credits:

Dr. Bernard Faye, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development
Dr. Ursula Windberger, Medical University Vienna
Dr. Manouk Abkarian, University of Montpellier
Duke SMIF (Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility)
Shanna Baker / Tula Foundation
Coralie Le Meur 
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M. Grundner, U. Klančnik & J. Derganc
Institute of Biophysics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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[FanOfMostEverything]

I genuinely had not known camels have chest pads. Always fun to see how much I learn from these.

[Japorilogos]

"Drug addicts that drink their own pee and aren't allowed to cry" is the most brutal description of the Fremen I've heard in a while

[bartolomeothesatyr]

Each individual camel part you zoom in on is as weird as the entire organism, at apparently every scale of magnification. Camels are _fractally_ weird.

[brandoncastellano]

One of my favorite things about this series is not only am I having fun listening to this, it just sounds like you're having a blast narrating and telling us about this too.

[daisukeakihito]

I always forget this channel exists and then it just reappears in my sub box and my day is instantly 500% better.

[TheBeardedGorilla]

"And then we die dead" these are the great scientific terms i watch these videos for

[adelaestrella]

2:35 it's just occurred to me I've never seen the underside of a Camel before now
Thank you Zefrank

[taylorhoyt]

The camel at 0:47 has an ankle monitor. WHAT ARE HIS CRIMES?

[norricdaoc]

53 years old, and I just learned more about these incredibly engineered animals than in all the preceding years !! If I were a teacher I would absolutely show this in class.. lol wouldn't even need to bleep out any naughty bits :)

[AroundTheBlockAgain]

The "camel humps are full of air and will deflate like a balloon" bit was a fun callback to the early days of the series when it would make exaggerated lies to you for the lols. Then you came back and hit me with the new-to-me information that the camel humps are literally just caloric fat storage, not water, and that they carry the water in their blood. Every video with you guys is fascinating.

[andii]

After all these years new True Facts videos still make my day 😅

[rdioslence]

"I know they stopped fact checking"
That came out of nowhere, loved it! Thanks <3

[icebrg.]

The fact this wasn’t posted on hump day is criminal

[Argonwolfproject]

"We'd be die dead" no truer statement has ever been spoken.

[durkadurka]

3:01 was perfectly timed, and you can’t convince me this wasn’t an act of Jerry

It’s the little things we love

[buffalwned]

RIP Jake, we couldn't have done it without you!

[penguinista]

The veinous bypass to cool the brain is amazing. That is a lot of changes from the standard vertebrate model.

[Pilvenuga]

Ze Frank is that one link to our youth where the world seemed sane and we just wanted to find our sane spot in it. He's been doing this for decades now, still a master of his craft.

[anahithovhannisyan]

"I know they stopped fact checking" - died at this. Thank you so much for continuing to make these. :) Make my day every time.

[mattdill]

Thank you for clarifying “die dead” verses of course just “die”; so much great learning as always.