Til: Why Do These Monkeys Have Big, Colorful Butts? | Today I Learned
- Posted on 07 April, 2017
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In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic explorer Helle Olsen explains why mandrills have such colorful bums. Turns out the bright red and blue on a male mandrill’s backside really draws the eye – especially the ladies’. Only dominant, top males flaunt such vibrant hues, and female mandrills see them as a badge of fitness.
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TIL: Why Do These Monkeys Have Big, Colorful Butts? | Today I Learned
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So female mandrels they do actually like meals with nice, big colorful bumps the male's. They are so handsome. They have both pink purple, blue and red, and it shines so brightly that you have no doubt where he is when he walks in in the forest. Far away from you like other monkeys and if they live in a hierarchy, so if you look into a troop of mandrels, there will always be one mandrels, more colorful than all the other males and there will be the high ranking male and the lower ranking male. They will also have palace, but they will be less fleshy, actually, the male's they actually fight for the middle in the little monkey society. So when a lower ranking mandrill is fighting his way up through the rank when they win the crown. If you can say that his testosterone will actually rise and the colourful face and bum will actually come by itself, so the high level of testosterone actually leads them to lose hair on their bum. So the bright skin is displayed even more. The advantages of being big and colorful is that you get the right to mate with the females it does show which mail will give her the good kids. So it's the ability to actually color increase or color enhance that tells all the females that, while your ladies come come to me because I can give you your good offspring, the pie. Ah, that's nice, mr. ping, behind some job
Comments
AranAnarchy: I like how it's perfectly fine to have a camera full of monkey butts if you're studying animals, but if I have monkey butts on my computer I'm "weird" and "perverted".
ChadTheRock: im going to get a giant rainbow of colors on my butt and get all the ladies but that might send the wrong message
Paolo Emmanuel Paz: How do they get the blue pigment? That's amazing
Mark McKnight: Nature is just incredible!
NewTube Channel: Can you explain the same features in Chimpanzees? If so, then you might be able to explain it in Humans too.
rap lopez: Serious question: is the intensity of their color related to the success they achieve (if they mate and fight successfully, do their colors get brighter)?
Here2Luv: Great explanation.
Orthodox Fox: Lmao, if evolution did happen, I think this is the most convincing piece of evidence
Ferdousi Akter Mishu: If you add subtitles, it will be more beautiful.
Kamil Lugha: I don't follow how chasing a family member out of the clan is not taken into account. Silver backs have a huge tetostrone level through adulthood and also any male son looking like a "stud" would get a spanking and a rejection notice. No handsome son or relative will stop from looking elsewhere and find a new female of his own. The rest of his previous family are just coincidentally static. Same example with any professional sports , one cannot be available for trade to another team if scouts are looking for them since some are not qualified or something something aka sports or dating.
BigBossMan538: I like that Mandrill's stache and beard.
· NOI ·: Seen a mandrill at the zoo and I also fainted. Their colors are very vibrant and look very scary in person.
Mrs Klaustermeier: I love animals and I want to learn more about have the world is and how it works...(as in animals)
poppykok5: awww...The beauty & simple AWE of Nature...I NEVER tire of these presentations...
Lasharon Brown: Fascinating another example of God’s colorful creativity.
zxc: It's funny how humans developed plastic surgery to be more selectable to their mates and against the competitors
manu P: the first billionaire mandrill will be selling color enhancing lotions :p
Rigoberto Solorzano: I wonder how many human males will shave their butts and paint them Red and Blue? ...
Goat Sinker: How do they "go to the bathroom" for "number 2" when their buttholes aim straight up like a subterranean missile silo?
Welbeloved Akulas: Full video upload please!
Tomato Lemon: Not exactly an amazing revelation... Wow, an animal is colorful because of sexual selection... REALLY??? /s More curious about the properties of the hair itself.
Cairo Anderson: But why does the colour mean they will give better offspring?
Lion of South: This is proof that we are the nicest males of females so cosmetic creams have been invented✌
Audasia Williams: IM WATCHING SOMETHING STRANGE FOR A LITTLE PIECE OF CHANGE
CasualOpal: So, is this where the pants-sagging originated?
mazungaz: fabulous creature
Tranquillo: So what you're saying is... Dominance hierarchies are a part of nature?
Mohamed Farouk: 0:36 LOL Hahaha
aienatu: i liked the lady presenting this.
Ashley Andrews: They are gorgeous
Scotty: Such beautiful and awesome animals, they are bad ass
Nzeadi D Nazi: How does she say this with a straight face.
Melanie Tang: Ok I just searched up mandrill *why does this exist*
SchmidtHappensTX: They're so pretty!
Chac Mool: 0:45 "more muted" would have been the more appropriate phrase here.
Jahroam Fire: ...AAAAND SHE KNOWS THIS HOW?? DOES SHE SPEAK MANDRILLISH??
Vcatm Martinez: I think these monkeys are so cute
Orthodox Fox: Only god knows lmao
David Chipps: I THINK THIS SHOULD BE THE NEW MASCOT FOR LGBTQ TO GIVE ROSEANNE BARR A MIDDLE FINGER. BUT, I'M CRAZY LIKE THAT.
Bravemeister: those wrists are built for brutality
Jorge Ballesteros: Good vidie. I want more
toy chica: Wow
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Luiz alberto: Uma especie desse Babuino , não a nenhum Zoo do Brasil ? o lugar dele é na africa
Tristan Joseph Garcia: This vid is a bit weird for me bc I’m a kid:p
yuval158: beautiful creatures, i hope the natives don't eat them all
2 B: Summary of this vid: Cause they shit rainbows. NYANCAT¬¬¬
Kai will marry me someday: Are them going to make a documental about them pubic area?
William DORF: TRYING TO GET BILL CLINTON INTO BED
Mélanie Roussel: Nice camera!
John Wauters: Left hahahaha
Grumpy: I'm here due to Tony Baker
Kiss My Memes: Yeahhh just like all the girls in school...
Faisal Khan: Red
Paul Bozak: "Today I Learned" how to steal from Reddit, which came up with the monkier "Today I learned" nearly a decade ago. Obviously they didn't invent the words, but the context that you're using it in to present factoids.
Black Sunshine: wheres simba?
Jennifer Turi: Those are the ugliest things I ever seen
anju k: Intelligent @$$
thebiggestredd: so this is where 6ix9ine gets his makeup ideas
the77: These Heux Ain’t Loyal
Melissa xo: Is this Rafikee? Lol
lbh jvv,: Baby got back.
Ilon Nolan: Ideas for rule 34 generating...
SIESIE CHAMPION: She does not know what she is talking about. If it makes sense to her then she thinks she’s absolutely right♀️
Eeshu: Haha
Dababypuncher007: lol are the blurry like this
Gilang Setyawibawa: Asante sana, squash banana, wewe nugu, mimi hapana!
snow business: Rafiki is that you?
richard4321nice: Did they really censor their butts.
User: 1στ
Leander: Me
CALUM: Colour not color