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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,862 ♪♪ 2 00:00:02,862 --> 00:00:05,000 Narrator: ANIMALS... 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,310 DO THE MOST INCREDIBLE THINGS. 4 00:00:07,310 --> 00:00:09,068 [ GOAT BLEATS ] 5 00:00:09,068 --> 00:00:10,758 LIKE THIS... 6 00:00:10,758 --> 00:00:12,206 AND THIS. 7 00:00:12,206 --> 00:00:15,862 I BET YOU'RE WONDERING, "HOW DO THEY DO THAT?" 8 00:00:15,862 --> 00:00:21,172 WE'RE REVEALING ANIMALS' BIGGEST SECRETS, LIKE... 9 00:00:21,172 --> 00:00:23,689 WHY DO CATS PURR? 10 00:00:23,689 --> 00:00:27,137 WHY DO LADYBUGS HAVE SPOTS? 11 00:00:27,137 --> 00:00:32,551 AND HOW DID THIS GUY BECOME THE BIGGEST ANIMAL EVER? 12 00:00:32,551 --> 00:00:35,172 THESE WONDERS AND MORE ON... 13 00:00:35,172 --> 00:00:38,137 --Captions by VITAC-- www.vitac.com 14 00:00:38,137 --> 00:00:41,172 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 15 00:00:41,172 --> 00:00:44,000 AFRICAN ELEPHANTS AS WELL AS BEING THE LARGEST ANIMALS 16 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,103 TO WALK THE PLANET, ALSO HAVE THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE BODY PART 17 00:00:48,103 --> 00:00:50,896 IN THE ENTIRE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 18 00:00:50,896 --> 00:00:52,137 [ TRUMPETS ] 19 00:00:52,137 --> 00:00:54,655 IT'S A MARVEL OF THE ANIMAL WORLD. 20 00:00:54,655 --> 00:00:58,413 NO OTHER CREATURE HAS ANYTHING QUITE LIKE IT. 21 00:01:03,689 --> 00:01:05,068 [ ELEPHANT TRUMPETS ] 22 00:01:05,068 --> 00:01:09,310 OKAY, ZEBRAS HAVE STRIPES AND GIRAFFES, THAT LONG NECK, 23 00:01:09,310 --> 00:01:11,931 BUT EVEN SO AT UP TO 7 FEET LONG, 24 00:01:11,931 --> 00:01:16,413 AN ELEPHANT'S TRUNK REALLY DOES STAND OUT IN A CROWD, 25 00:01:16,413 --> 00:01:18,517 AND IT'S VERSATILE. 26 00:01:18,517 --> 00:01:21,827 IT CAN REACH BRANCHES UP TO 20 FEET HIGH 27 00:01:21,827 --> 00:01:25,551 AND IS STRONG ENOUGH TO LIFT OVER 700 POUNDS, 28 00:01:25,551 --> 00:01:27,965 AND ITS SENSE OF SMELL IS UP TO FOUR TIMES 29 00:01:27,965 --> 00:01:31,103 MORE SENSITIVE THAN A BLOODHOUND'S. 30 00:01:31,103 --> 00:01:33,551 [ SNIFFS RAPIDLY ] 31 00:01:33,551 --> 00:01:35,137 [ TRUMPETS ] 32 00:01:35,137 --> 00:01:38,000 AND THEY'VE LEARNED TO USE IT IN INCREDIBLE WAYS. 33 00:01:40,896 --> 00:01:42,413 BY HOLDING THE TIPS OF THEIR TRUNKS 34 00:01:42,413 --> 00:01:44,137 ABOVE THE WATER'S SURFACE, 35 00:01:44,137 --> 00:01:50,206 ELEPHANTS CAN CROSS RIVERS AND EVEN BAYS VIRTUALLY SUBMERGED. 36 00:01:50,206 --> 00:01:51,448 THAT'S RIGHT. 37 00:01:51,448 --> 00:01:54,655 THEY'VE LEARNED TO USE A PURPOSE-BUILT SNORKEL, 38 00:01:54,655 --> 00:01:56,448 SOME BETTER THAN OTHERS. 39 00:02:00,310 --> 00:02:02,413 LIVING IN HERDS OF UP TO 100, 40 00:02:02,413 --> 00:02:05,206 ELEPHANTS ALSO USE THEIR SUPER-SIZED SCHNOZ 41 00:02:05,206 --> 00:02:07,862 TO TRUMPET WARNINGS AND GREET ONE ANOTHER. 42 00:02:07,862 --> 00:02:09,448 [ TRUMPETS ] 43 00:02:09,448 --> 00:02:11,206 HELLO! 44 00:02:11,206 --> 00:02:13,275 BECAUSE THEY HAVE DEEP FAMILY BONDS, 45 00:02:13,275 --> 00:02:17,862 THEY EVEN USE THEIR TRUNKS TO COMFORT AND CARESS. 46 00:02:17,862 --> 00:02:20,827 IT'S LIKE A BIG GRAY ARM AROUND YOUR SHOULDER SAYING, 47 00:02:20,827 --> 00:02:22,413 "DON'T WORRY, MY FRIEND. 48 00:02:22,413 --> 00:02:25,517 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE JUST FINE." 49 00:02:25,517 --> 00:02:27,586 SO AN ELEPHANT'S TRUNK IS LONG, 50 00:02:27,586 --> 00:02:32,103 STRONG, AND ALWAYS THERE WHEN THINGS GO WRONG. 51 00:02:32,103 --> 00:02:36,655 BUT HOW IS THIS MARVELOUS NOSE CAPABLE OF DOING SO MANY THINGS? 52 00:02:39,379 --> 00:02:42,586 AT THE ADVENTURES WITH ELEPHANTS SANCTUARY IN SOUTH AFRICA, 53 00:02:42,586 --> 00:02:44,448 DR. STEPHANIE SLADE HAS BEEN WORKING 54 00:02:44,448 --> 00:02:46,931 WITH CHISHURU FOR 3 YEARS. 55 00:02:49,620 --> 00:02:51,689 STEPHANIE SET UP A SERIES OF TESTS 56 00:02:51,689 --> 00:02:56,034 TO REVEAL THE SECRET OF THE TRUNK'S VERSATILITY. 57 00:02:56,034 --> 00:02:58,620 FIRST, A DRINKING TEST. 58 00:02:59,689 --> 00:03:03,275 STEP ONE -- SLOSH THE WATER AROUND A BIT. 59 00:03:04,413 --> 00:03:07,896 STEP TWO -- SPRAY THE CAMERA CREW. 60 00:03:08,586 --> 00:03:12,172 AND STEP THREE -- TAKE A WELL-EARNED DRINK. 61 00:03:12,172 --> 00:03:13,517 Slade: GOOD BOY. 62 00:03:13,517 --> 00:03:15,655 GOOD CHISHURU. 63 00:03:15,655 --> 00:03:17,068 IT'S JUST LIKE YOUR NOSTRILS, 64 00:03:17,068 --> 00:03:19,758 BUT THAT TRUNK GOES DIRECTLY TO THE LUNGS, 65 00:03:19,758 --> 00:03:22,379 NOT TO THE STOMACH OR ANY DIGESTIVE AREA, 66 00:03:22,379 --> 00:03:24,586 SO THEY'LL FILL THE TRUNK WITH WATER, 67 00:03:24,586 --> 00:03:26,758 AND THEN IMMEDIATELY TRANSFER THAT WATER 68 00:03:26,758 --> 00:03:28,724 TO THEIR MOUTH TO SWALLOW. 69 00:03:28,724 --> 00:03:32,000 SO HOW DOES HIS INCREDIBLE TRUNK DO THIS? 70 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,379 WELL, THE HUMAN BODY IS MADE UP OF 850 MUSCLES, 71 00:03:36,379 --> 00:03:43,344 BUT AN ELEPHANT'S TRUNK IS MADE UP OF MORE THAN 40,000. 72 00:03:43,344 --> 00:03:47,206 THIS VAST MUSCLE NETWORK ENABLES THEM TO LIFT, TWIST 73 00:03:47,206 --> 00:03:52,482 AND MOVE ANY PART OF THEIR TRUNK FROM THE BASE TO THE VERY TIP. 74 00:03:52,482 --> 00:03:55,379 SO THESE HUGE, STRONG MUSCLES WITHIN THE TRUNK 75 00:03:55,379 --> 00:04:00,758 ARE CONSTRICTING AND WIDENING TO ALLOW THOSE TWO NOSTRILS 76 00:04:00,758 --> 00:04:02,931 TO BE LARGER TO ACCOMMODATE ALL OF THE WATER 77 00:04:02,931 --> 00:04:06,896 THAT THEY CAN SUCK UP AND HOLD AT ONE TIME. 78 00:04:06,896 --> 00:04:09,896 AN ELEPHANT CAN HOLD UP TO 2 GALLONS IN ITS TRUNK 79 00:04:09,896 --> 00:04:12,965 IN ONE GULP, 80 00:04:12,965 --> 00:04:15,931 AND THERE'S MORE TO THESE NEAT NOSES. 81 00:04:15,931 --> 00:04:17,310 ELEPHANTS HAVE A NUMBER OF WAYS 82 00:04:17,310 --> 00:04:19,551 TO USE THEIR DYNAMIC TRUNK TO PICK THINGS UP, 83 00:04:19,551 --> 00:04:21,000 SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH THIS CUBED 84 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,931 APPLES AND SEGMENTED ORANGES. 85 00:04:23,931 --> 00:04:28,206 CHISHURU IS USING SOMETHING UNIQUE TO THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT: 86 00:04:28,206 --> 00:04:32,275 TWO FINGER-LIKE POINTS AT THE TIP OF HIS TRUNK. 87 00:04:32,275 --> 00:04:35,103 BY PINCHING TOGETHER THESE TWO OPPOSING TIPS, 88 00:04:35,103 --> 00:04:39,103 THEY CAN GRASP OBJECTS SMALLER THAN A PIN 89 00:04:39,103 --> 00:04:42,827 MAKING CHISHURU'S TREMENDOUS TRUNK THE PERFECT PICKUP. 90 00:04:42,827 --> 00:04:46,379 GOOD BOY. 91 00:04:46,379 --> 00:04:48,241 NOW WE'RE GOING TO TRY THE ABSOLUTE HARDEST TEST 92 00:04:48,241 --> 00:04:49,379 THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH. 93 00:04:49,379 --> 00:04:51,275 WHAT ABOUT A FINE POWDER? 94 00:04:51,275 --> 00:04:53,551 IT'S RIGHT THERE. 95 00:04:53,551 --> 00:04:57,482 THIS IS GROUND FLAX, ALSO KNOWN AS LINSEED. 96 00:04:57,482 --> 00:05:01,275 CHISHURU HAS NEVER COME ACROSS POWDERED FOOD LIKE THIS BEFORE. 97 00:05:01,275 --> 00:05:04,241 SO YOU CAN SEE HIM EXPANDING THE TIP OF HIS TRUNK TO SMELL 98 00:05:04,241 --> 00:05:05,724 AND TO SEE WHAT IT IS. 99 00:05:05,724 --> 00:05:08,068 IT'S NOT MOVING, SO HE'S NOT USING SUCTION. 100 00:05:08,068 --> 00:05:10,172 IS THE LACK OF SOMETHING TO GRIP TOO MUCH 101 00:05:10,172 --> 00:05:13,068 FOR EVEN CHISHURU'S TALENTED TRUNK? 102 00:05:16,862 --> 00:05:19,172 THAT'S INCREDIBLE. 103 00:05:19,172 --> 00:05:21,655 HE'S USING THE SIDE OF THOSE FINGERS 104 00:05:21,655 --> 00:05:24,724 JUST AS YOU WOULD SWEEP SOMETHING OFF OF A COUNTERTOP. 105 00:05:24,724 --> 00:05:29,034 THIS IS AS MUCH BRAIN WORK AS IT IS TRUNK WORK. 106 00:05:29,034 --> 00:05:30,517 LET'S SEE HOW CHOVA, 107 00:05:30,517 --> 00:05:33,379 AN ELEPHANT WHO SADLY LOST THE TIP OF HIS TRUNK, 108 00:05:33,379 --> 00:05:35,482 MANAGES THE POWDERED SEEDS. 109 00:05:35,482 --> 00:05:41,310 ♪♪ 110 00:05:41,310 --> 00:05:43,000 AMAZING. 111 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:48,068 ♪♪ 112 00:05:48,068 --> 00:05:50,827 Slade: TO BE ABLE TO SURVIVE IN AN ADAPTING ENVIRONMENT, 113 00:05:50,827 --> 00:05:53,517 THEY NEED SOMETHING THAT'S STRONG AND DELICATE, 114 00:05:53,517 --> 00:05:57,862 THAT'S ALL OF THOSE THINGS COMBINED INTO JUST ONE ORGANISM. 115 00:05:57,862 --> 00:06:01,034 THEY CAN ADAPT IT TO USE IT HOWEVER THEY NEED. 116 00:06:01,034 --> 00:06:04,793 IT REALLY IS THE MOST USEFUL DEVICE AN ANIMAL CAN HAVE. 117 00:06:04,793 --> 00:06:07,068 IT IS THE ALL-IN-ONE TRUNK. 118 00:06:07,068 --> 00:06:11,137 [ ELEPHANTS TRUMPET ] 119 00:06:11,137 --> 00:06:13,551 [ BIRDS CALL ] 120 00:06:14,758 --> 00:06:18,965 ACROSS THE PLANET, ALL SORTS OF ANIMALS WEAR SPOTS 121 00:06:18,965 --> 00:06:21,517 FROM THE WILD SAVANNAS OF AFRICA 122 00:06:21,517 --> 00:06:25,620 TO THE URBAN JUNGLE OF THE LAS VEGAS STRIP, 123 00:06:25,620 --> 00:06:31,620 BUT PERHAPS THE MOST VIVID SPOTS OF ALL ARE WORN BY THE LADYBUG. 124 00:06:31,620 --> 00:06:34,413 THIS POP OF COLOR OBVIOUSLY ISN'T FOR CAMOUFLAGE, 125 00:06:34,413 --> 00:06:39,620 SO WHY DO LADYBUGS HAVE SPOTS? 126 00:06:42,310 --> 00:06:44,862 FIVE THOUSAND DIFFERENT SPECIES OF LADYBUG 127 00:06:44,862 --> 00:06:48,172 LIVE ON EVERY CONTINENT ON EARTH EXCEPT ANTARCTICA. 128 00:06:51,103 --> 00:06:55,379 AND, NO, LADYBUGS AREN'T ALL LADIES. 129 00:06:55,379 --> 00:06:57,689 MALES AND FEMALES LOOK NEARLY IDENTICAL 130 00:06:57,689 --> 00:07:01,551 EXCEPT MALES ARE A TINY BIT SMALLER. 131 00:07:01,551 --> 00:07:03,724 THE MOST COMMON LADYBUG IN NORTH AMERICA 132 00:07:03,724 --> 00:07:09,758 IS RECOGNIZABLE FOR ITS RED COAT AND ITS SEVEN BLACK SPOTS. 133 00:07:09,758 --> 00:07:13,000 THAT'S RIGHT, THE SEVEN-SPOT LADYBUG. 134 00:07:15,620 --> 00:07:20,620 SO WHY THE BRIGHT RED SHELL AND DARK BLACK SPOTS? 135 00:07:20,620 --> 00:07:23,379 SCIENTISTS THINK ALTHOUGH THEY LOOK GOOD TO US, 136 00:07:23,379 --> 00:07:24,965 THEY WORK LIKE A WARNING SIGN 137 00:07:24,965 --> 00:07:28,206 TO PREDATORS THINKING OF EATING IT. 138 00:07:28,206 --> 00:07:32,482 THAT UNMISSABLE COLOR COMBO IS LIKE A TOXIC LABEL TO SAY, 139 00:07:32,482 --> 00:07:36,793 "I TASTE DISGUSTING." 140 00:07:36,793 --> 00:07:38,827 AND THEY'RE NOT BLUFFING. 141 00:07:38,827 --> 00:07:40,620 INSIDE THEIR BODIES ARE CHEMICALS 142 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:45,000 THAT MAKE THEM SMELL PUNGENT AND TASTE EXTREMELY BITTER, 143 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,896 THE SAME ALKALOIDS FOUND IN CONCENTRATED RAW BROCCOLI. 144 00:07:48,896 --> 00:07:52,310 UGH. 145 00:07:52,310 --> 00:07:55,551 AND ALTHOUGH THEY'RE PRETTY, THEY'RE NOT THE BEE'S KNEES 146 00:07:55,551 --> 00:07:57,724 BECAUSE THESE KNEES SECRETE 147 00:07:57,724 --> 00:08:00,862 A SOUR SUBSTANCE CALLED HEMOLYMPH, 148 00:08:00,862 --> 00:08:04,310 WHICH MAKES THE LADYBUG'S LEGS EVEN MORE FOUL TASTING. 149 00:08:08,172 --> 00:08:10,620 THEY'RE SO DISGUSTING THAT THEIR PREDATORS, 150 00:08:10,620 --> 00:08:14,724 INCLUDING FROGS, DRAGONFLIES, AND TIGER BEETLES, 151 00:08:14,724 --> 00:08:17,137 WILL BE SO REPULSED BY THEIR TASTE, 152 00:08:17,137 --> 00:08:22,448 THEY'LL SPIT OUT THE BUG AND ALLOW A QUICK GETAWAY. 153 00:08:22,448 --> 00:08:26,482 RUN, LADYBUG, RUN! 154 00:08:26,482 --> 00:08:29,758 AND NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS A WELL-FED, HEALTHY LADYBUG 155 00:08:29,758 --> 00:08:32,896 CAN PUT MORE ENERGY INTO PRODUCING TOXIC CHEMICALS 156 00:08:32,896 --> 00:08:37,379 AND GROWING MORE VIBRANT WINGS. 157 00:08:37,379 --> 00:08:40,000 LADYBUGS DON'T HIDE IN THE SHADOWS. 158 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,068 THEY ARE A RED AND BLACK SIGN THAT SAYS, "STAY OUT OF MY WAY." 159 00:08:44,068 --> 00:08:45,758 [ BIRDS CALL ] 160 00:08:45,758 --> 00:08:47,965 [ VARIOUS ANIMAL NOISES ] 161 00:08:47,965 --> 00:08:51,827 COMING UP -- INCREDIBLE HEALING CATS, 162 00:08:51,827 --> 00:08:54,896 THE OLDEST ANIMALS ON THE PLANET, 163 00:08:54,896 --> 00:08:58,413 AND A SUPERSIZE OCEAN SENSATION. 164 00:09:05,965 --> 00:09:08,137 [ CAT MEOWS ] 165 00:09:08,137 --> 00:09:11,551 [ PURRING ][ CAT MEOWS ] 166 00:09:11,551 --> 00:09:13,310 CATS LIKE TO CHAT. 167 00:09:13,310 --> 00:09:17,586 THEY HAVE A VOCABULARY OF 16 DIFFERENT SOUNDS 168 00:09:17,586 --> 00:09:19,448 FROM HOWLING[ CATS HOWL ] 169 00:09:19,448 --> 00:09:21,000 AND HISSING[ HISSES ] 170 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,931 TO MEOWING,[ MEOWS LOUDLY ] 171 00:09:22,931 --> 00:09:28,620 BUT ONE SOUND EVERY CAT OWNER LOVES TO HEAR IS THE PURR. 172 00:09:28,620 --> 00:09:32,103 IT'S AS DISTINCTIVE AS A HONEYBEE'S BUZZ, 173 00:09:32,103 --> 00:09:34,517 BUT IS KITTY TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING 174 00:09:34,517 --> 00:09:38,517 OR DOES IT HAVE ANOTHER PURPOSE? 175 00:09:41,517 --> 00:09:42,965 [ PURRING ] 176 00:09:44,206 --> 00:09:48,655 THIS IS TIGER, A GORGEOUS TABBY WHO KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS. 177 00:09:48,655 --> 00:09:51,586 Quagliozzi: FOOD, ATTENTION, LOVE. 178 00:09:51,586 --> 00:09:56,000 AND HERE'S THE HUMAN RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPLYING TIGER'S TREATS. 179 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,206 DAN IS A CAT CONSULTANT. 180 00:09:58,206 --> 00:10:00,241 YES, THAT'S A REAL JOB. 181 00:10:00,241 --> 00:10:02,413 HE SPENDS HIS LIFE WORKING OUT WHAT CATS 182 00:10:02,413 --> 00:10:04,620 ARE FEELING AND THINKING. 183 00:10:04,620 --> 00:10:06,379 YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE TIME, MY CATS ARE PURRING, 184 00:10:06,379 --> 00:10:10,758 THEY'RE PURRING BECAUSE THEY'RE CONTENT, AND THEY'RE HAPPY. 185 00:10:10,758 --> 00:10:14,896 Narrator: THE ABILITY TO PURR IS NOT SHARED BY EVERY CAT. 186 00:10:14,896 --> 00:10:17,000 AROUND 10 MILLION YEARS AGO, 187 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:23,206 THE WORLD OF CATS SPLIT INTO THE ROARERS AND THE PURRERS. 188 00:10:23,206 --> 00:10:30,275 THE BIG CATS, LIONS, PANTHERS, AND TIGERS ARE ABLE TO ROAR, 189 00:10:30,275 --> 00:10:33,310 BUT CAN'T PURR. 190 00:10:33,310 --> 00:10:35,689 SMALLER CATS LIKE CHEETAHS, PUMAS, 191 00:10:35,689 --> 00:10:39,482 AND THE DOMESTIC CAT CAN PURR, BUT CAN'T ROAR. 192 00:10:39,482 --> 00:10:44,137 WHAT SEPARATES PURRERS FROM ROARERS IS IN THEIR VOICE BOX. 193 00:10:44,137 --> 00:10:47,482 IT CONTAINS A HORSESHOE-SHAPED BONE CALLED THE HYOID, 194 00:10:47,482 --> 00:10:49,931 AND BELOW IT ARE THE VOCAL CORDS. 195 00:10:49,931 --> 00:10:53,034 IN LIONS, THIS BONE IS FLEXIBLE AND STRETCHES, 196 00:10:53,034 --> 00:10:59,862 LETTING THE VOCAL CORDS VIBRATE SLOWLY TO CREATE THAT DEEP ROAR. 197 00:10:59,862 --> 00:11:01,517 BUT IN DOMESTIC CATS, 198 00:11:01,517 --> 00:11:03,862 THE SAME BONE IS STIFF AND RIGID, 199 00:11:03,862 --> 00:11:06,448 ALLOWING THE VOCAL CORDS TO VIBRATE FASTER, 200 00:11:06,448 --> 00:11:09,068 CREATING THAT INCREDIBLE PURR. 201 00:11:09,068 --> 00:11:11,448 [ PURRS ] 202 00:11:11,448 --> 00:11:15,551 BUT THAT PURR IS NOT ALWAYS A SIGN OF A HAPPY CAT. 203 00:11:15,551 --> 00:11:19,862 A NERVOUS CAT OR A FEARFUL CAT OR ONE WHO'S IN PAIN WILL PURR 204 00:11:19,862 --> 00:11:21,965 BECAUSE IT RAISES A VIBRATION IN THEIR BODY, 205 00:11:21,965 --> 00:11:24,103 AND IT CAN BE VERY, VERY HEALING FOR THEM. 206 00:11:24,103 --> 00:11:25,551 Narrator: HEALING PURRS? 207 00:11:25,551 --> 00:11:27,275 SAY WHAT? 208 00:11:30,551 --> 00:11:35,758 CATS PURR AT A FREQUENCY BETWEEN 25 AND 150 HERTZ, 209 00:11:35,758 --> 00:11:38,379 AND RESEARCH SHOWS VIBRATIONS AT THESE SPEEDS 210 00:11:38,379 --> 00:11:42,689 CAN REPAIR BONE DENSITY AND REDUCE INFLAMMATION. 211 00:11:42,689 --> 00:11:45,586 SO IT TURNS OUT THE SOUND OF THEIR LITTLE ENGINE RUNNING 212 00:11:45,586 --> 00:11:48,517 IS ACTUALLY GOOD FOR THEM, 213 00:11:48,517 --> 00:11:51,379 AND HERE'S THE GREAT NEWS FOR CAT OWNERS. 214 00:11:51,379 --> 00:11:54,448 YOU COULD BE GETTING A PURRING HEALTH KICK, TOO. 215 00:11:54,448 --> 00:11:57,448 IT'S PROVEN THAT CAT OWNERS HAVE LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE, 216 00:11:57,448 --> 00:12:01,793 STRESS LEVELS, AND 40% LESS RISK OF HEART ATTACKS. 217 00:12:01,793 --> 00:12:05,137 TALK ABOUT GOOD VIBRATIONS. 218 00:12:05,137 --> 00:12:08,620 EVEN NASA IS INVESTIGATING IF THE FREQUENCY OF PURRING 219 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:10,137 COULD HELP ASTRONAUTS REPAIR 220 00:12:10,137 --> 00:12:12,724 THE DENSITY OF THEIR BONES AND MUSCLES, 221 00:12:12,724 --> 00:12:15,689 WHICH ARE REDUCED IN ZERO GRAVITY. 222 00:12:15,689 --> 00:12:18,379 BUT THEY'RE NOT SENDING CATS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 223 00:12:18,379 --> 00:12:20,068 JUST YET. 224 00:12:20,068 --> 00:12:22,137 STAND DOWN, MAJOR TOM. 225 00:12:22,137 --> 00:12:23,551 [ PURRS ][ SATELLITE BEEPS ] 226 00:12:23,551 --> 00:12:26,724 [ BUZZING ] 227 00:12:26,724 --> 00:12:30,689 COMING UP -- A 500-YEAR-OLD PHENOMENON 228 00:12:30,689 --> 00:12:33,551 AND A MOUTH AS BIG AS A DUMP TRUCK. 229 00:12:44,310 --> 00:12:49,172 SOME ANIMALS LIVE FAST AND DIE YOUNG, LIKE THE MAYFLY, 230 00:12:49,172 --> 00:12:51,551 WHICH COMPLETES ITS LIFE CYCLE IN JUST 1 DAY, 231 00:12:51,551 --> 00:12:54,172 [ WHOOSH ]IF IT'S LUCKY. 232 00:12:55,551 --> 00:13:00,172 BUT SOME LIVE A LONG, EVEN VERY LONG LIFE, 233 00:13:00,172 --> 00:13:04,137 SO WHAT ARE THE WORLD'S OLDEST LIVING CREATURES 234 00:13:04,137 --> 00:13:07,689 AND HOW DO ANIMALS LIVE SO LONG? 235 00:13:10,965 --> 00:13:12,620 AS WELL AS BEING THE LARGEST, 236 00:13:12,620 --> 00:13:15,137 ELEPHANTS ARE ALSO ONE OF NATURE'S OLDEST, 237 00:13:15,137 --> 00:13:18,862 LIVING TO AROUND 60 IN THE WILD.[ TRUMPETS ] 238 00:13:18,862 --> 00:13:21,517 BUT THE OLDEST ELEPHANT TO HAVE PLODDED THE EARTH 239 00:13:21,517 --> 00:13:25,413 WAS AN ASIAN ELEPHANT FROM TAIWAN CALLED LIN WANG 240 00:13:25,413 --> 00:13:28,482 WHO LIVED TO A MAMMOTH 86 YEARS OLD. 241 00:13:30,758 --> 00:13:33,103 LIN WANG WAS A CULTURAL ICON 242 00:13:33,103 --> 00:13:36,206 AND A DECORATED WORLD WAR II HERO. 243 00:13:36,206 --> 00:13:38,310 KNOWN AS GRANDADDY LIN WANG, 244 00:13:38,310 --> 00:13:41,344 HE WAS TAIPEI CITY ZOO'S FAVORITE TUSKER 245 00:13:41,344 --> 00:13:44,965 AND WAS EVEN MADE AN HONORARY CITIZEN OF TAIWAN. 246 00:13:44,965 --> 00:13:47,827 [ TRUMPETS ] 247 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:50,034 PART OF THE SECRET TO HIS RIPE OLD AGE 248 00:13:50,034 --> 00:13:51,965 MAY BE DOWN TO SOMETHING SCIENTISTS 249 00:13:51,965 --> 00:13:54,689 HAVE ONLY RECENTLY DISCOVERED, 250 00:13:54,689 --> 00:13:57,482 THAT ALL ELEPHANTS HAVE A TUMOR-SUPPRESSING GENE 251 00:13:57,482 --> 00:14:00,586 THAT EVEN KILLS OFF DAMAGED CELLS, 252 00:14:00,586 --> 00:14:04,034 MAKING THEM HIGHLY RESISTANT TO CANCER. 253 00:14:04,034 --> 00:14:06,517 RESEARCHERS FOUND ELEPHANTS HAVE AROUND 20 TIMES 254 00:14:06,517 --> 00:14:10,827 MORE OF THIS CANCER-FIGHTING GENE THAN HUMANS. 255 00:14:10,827 --> 00:14:13,517 NORMALLY IN THE WILD, THE LARGER THE ANIMAL, 256 00:14:13,517 --> 00:14:17,655 THE GREATER THE RISK OF CANCER, BUT DESPITE THEIR SIZE, 257 00:14:17,655 --> 00:14:20,862 ELEPHANTS ARE NO MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CANCER 258 00:14:20,862 --> 00:14:23,034 THAN CHIHUAHUAS.[ WHINES ] 259 00:14:24,931 --> 00:14:27,620 THE NEXT OLDEST ANIMAL IS A JAPANESE FISH 260 00:14:27,620 --> 00:14:32,000 WHICH CAN BE VERY COY ABOUT ITS AGE, 261 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,517 BUT THERE IS A WAY TO FIND OUT. 262 00:14:35,517 --> 00:14:37,103 MUCH LIKE ON A TREE, 263 00:14:37,103 --> 00:14:41,310 YOU CAN COUNT THE GROWTH RING MARKINGS ON THE FISH'S SCALES, 264 00:14:41,310 --> 00:14:46,068 AND KOI USUALLY LIVE ANYWHERE FROM 20 TO 60 YEARS OF AGE. 265 00:14:46,068 --> 00:14:48,344 BUT BY COUNTING THE RINGS ON ONE PARTICULAR JAPANESE 266 00:14:48,344 --> 00:14:50,344 KOI CALLED HANAKO, 267 00:14:50,344 --> 00:14:55,655 IT WAS DISCOVERED SHE WAS BORN IN 1751, 5 YEARS BEFORE 268 00:14:55,655 --> 00:15:00,724 MOZART, MAKING HER 226 YEARS OLD. 269 00:15:00,724 --> 00:15:04,034 EXPERTS GUESS THAT THE PURITY OF THE CRYSTAL CLEAR WATERS 270 00:15:04,034 --> 00:15:08,793 OF THE JAPANESE MOUNTAINS MAY HOLD THE ANSWER. 271 00:15:08,793 --> 00:15:11,862 SOUNDS FISHY TO ME. 272 00:15:11,862 --> 00:15:14,862 JUST LIKELY BEHIND THE ELDERLY KOI IS A SLOW 273 00:15:14,862 --> 00:15:20,206 AND STEADY GIANT TORTOISE FROM THE SEYCHELLES CALLED ADWAITA. 274 00:15:20,206 --> 00:15:22,620 CARBON DATING ADWAITA'S SHELL REVEALED 275 00:15:22,620 --> 00:15:26,827 HE WAS 255, OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE WITNESSED 276 00:15:26,827 --> 00:15:30,517 THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 277 00:15:30,517 --> 00:15:34,413 [ INTRO TO FRANCIS SCOTT KEY'S "STAR SPANGLED BANNER" PLAYS ] 278 00:15:34,413 --> 00:15:38,068 SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT THE SECRET TO ADWAITA'S ANTIQUITY 279 00:15:38,068 --> 00:15:41,551 CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO HIS LAID-BACK LIFESTYLE. 280 00:15:41,551 --> 00:15:45,620 ANIMALS WITH SLOW METABOLISMS LIKE GIANT TORTOISES BURN ENERGY 281 00:15:45,620 --> 00:15:49,655 AT A FAR LOWER RATE THAN ANIMALS WITH A HIGH METABOLISM, 282 00:15:49,655 --> 00:15:53,000 INCREASING THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY. 283 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:59,344 SO TAKE A LEAF OUT OF ADWAITA'S BOOK, LIVE SLOW, LIVE LONGER. 284 00:15:59,344 --> 00:16:03,413 TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN AND NEARLY TOP OF THE AGE CHART IS A FEMALE 285 00:16:03,413 --> 00:16:07,724 GREENLAND SHARK THAT'S FINTASTICALLY OLD. 286 00:16:07,724 --> 00:16:10,482 THESE MYSTERIOUS AND LITTLE KNOWN SHARKS ARE FOUND 287 00:16:10,482 --> 00:16:13,482 IN THE ICE-COLD WATERS OF THE ARCTIC. 288 00:16:13,482 --> 00:16:15,586 SLOW-GROWING, THEY INCREASE IN SIZE 289 00:16:15,586 --> 00:16:17,586 BY ABOUT A 1/3 OF AN INCH A YEAR 290 00:16:17,586 --> 00:16:22,310 AND CAN REACH AROUND 23 FEET IN LENGTH. 291 00:16:22,310 --> 00:16:25,793 SCIENTISTS WERE RECENTLY ABLE TO MEASURE THE AGE OF THIS SHARK 292 00:16:25,793 --> 00:16:29,310 USING RADIO CARBON DATING OFF HER EYE, 293 00:16:29,310 --> 00:16:32,482 WHICH PROVED SHE WAS AN [CLEARS THROAT] EYE-WATERING 294 00:16:32,482 --> 00:16:34,758 400 YEARS OLD 295 00:16:34,758 --> 00:16:38,724 MAKING THIS GREENLAND SHARK THE OLDEST VERTEBRATE ON THE PLANET, 296 00:16:38,724 --> 00:16:42,965 BUT NOT THE OLDEST ANIMAL. 297 00:16:42,965 --> 00:16:48,827 THE CROWN FOR THE MOST ANCIENT ANIMAL GOES TO A CLAM. 298 00:16:48,827 --> 00:16:52,103 THIS IS MING, AN OCEAN QUAHOG CLAM, 299 00:16:52,103 --> 00:16:55,965 AND THE LINES ON ITS SHELL WERE ALL TOO TELLING OF ITS AGE. 300 00:16:55,965 --> 00:16:58,448 WITH EACH YEAR, CLAMS ADD A NEW RING, 301 00:16:58,448 --> 00:16:59,931 AND SCIENTISTS FOUND THIS ONE 302 00:16:59,931 --> 00:17:03,241 WAS BORN MORE THAN 500 YEARS AGO. 303 00:17:03,241 --> 00:17:07,206 ALTHOUGH ONLY 3 1/2 INCHES, MING WAS ALREADY MORE THAN 100 304 00:17:07,206 --> 00:17:11,517 WHEN THE FIRST PILGRIMS LANDED IN AMERICA IN 1620. 305 00:17:11,517 --> 00:17:13,551 AND SINCE THEY'RE LOCAL TO THE NORTHEAST, 306 00:17:13,551 --> 00:17:15,862 HE MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN TO AMERICA BEFORE THEM. 307 00:17:15,862 --> 00:17:17,482 [ CRUNCH, CRUNCH ] 308 00:17:20,275 --> 00:17:22,896 COMING UP -- A MIGHTY MOUTH WONDER 309 00:17:22,896 --> 00:17:25,517 THAT'S THE MAMMOTH OF ALL MAMMOTHS. 310 00:17:37,034 --> 00:17:40,310 Narrator: BEHOLD THE GRANDADDY OF ALL ANIMALS, 311 00:17:40,310 --> 00:17:43,655 NOT JUST THE BIGGEST ANIMAL ON THE PLANET TODAY, 312 00:17:43,655 --> 00:17:48,655 BUT THE BIGGEST ANIMAL TO HAVE LIVED ON THE PLANET EVER. 313 00:17:48,655 --> 00:17:52,586 BUT WHY IS THE BLUE WHALE SO BIG? 314 00:17:54,965 --> 00:17:58,758 THIS MONUMENTAL GIANT CAN GROW TO OVER 100 FEET, 315 00:17:58,758 --> 00:18:01,620 LONGER THAN A BASKETBALL COURT.[ CHEERS ] 316 00:18:01,620 --> 00:18:04,586 I KNOW, AMAZING! 317 00:18:04,586 --> 00:18:08,448 ITS BABIES EMERGE AT AN EYE-WATERING 25 FEET LONG 318 00:18:08,448 --> 00:18:11,310 AND NEARLY 9,000 POUNDS. 319 00:18:11,310 --> 00:18:13,206 OUCH. 320 00:18:13,206 --> 00:18:17,068 AND YOU AND 50 OF YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS COULD FIT IN ITS MOUTH. 321 00:18:20,586 --> 00:18:24,034 SOMETHING THIS SIZE JUST SHOULDN'T EXIST. 322 00:18:24,034 --> 00:18:29,965 ALL HAIL THE BLUE WHALE. 323 00:18:29,965 --> 00:18:31,965 BECAUSE THE WHALE LIVES IN WATER, 324 00:18:31,965 --> 00:18:34,275 THE AFFECT OF GRAVITY IS LESS OF A RESTRICTION 325 00:18:34,275 --> 00:18:37,482 ON HOW BIG IT CAN GROW. 326 00:18:37,482 --> 00:18:41,275 ON DRY LAND, AT OVER 300,000 POUNDS, 327 00:18:41,275 --> 00:18:42,586 ITS IMMENSE BODY WEIGHT 328 00:18:42,586 --> 00:18:46,827 WOULD CRUSH ITS OWN ORGANS WITHIN MINUTES. 329 00:18:46,827 --> 00:18:50,310 THE BIGGEST LAND ANIMAL IS THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT, 330 00:18:50,310 --> 00:18:56,448 BUT THE BLUE WHALE'S TONGUE IS AS HEAVY AS ONE OF THOSE. 331 00:18:56,448 --> 00:18:59,551 BUT THE LACK OF GRAVITY STILL DOESN'T EXPLAIN WHY IT DWARFS 332 00:18:59,551 --> 00:19:04,310 EVERY OTHER ANIMAL, EVEN IN THE SEA. 333 00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:08,137 IT TURNS OUT BLUE WHALES WEREN'T ALWAYS THIS BIG. 334 00:19:08,137 --> 00:19:10,310 FOUR AND A HALF MILLION YEARS AGO, 335 00:19:10,310 --> 00:19:12,586 WHALES WERE MORE LIKE 30 FEET LONG. 336 00:19:12,586 --> 00:19:16,827 THAT'S THE SIZE OF A GREAT WHITE SHARK TODAY. 337 00:19:16,827 --> 00:19:20,068 IT'S AROUND THIS TIME THAT THEY STARTED TO GET BIGGER 338 00:19:20,068 --> 00:19:23,448 AND BIGGER AND BIGGER. 339 00:19:23,448 --> 00:19:25,724 BUT WHY? 340 00:19:25,724 --> 00:19:30,379 IT'S THE END OF A MAJOR ICE AGE, AND RUNOFF FROM MELTING ICE CAPS 341 00:19:30,379 --> 00:19:35,517 FORMED RICH BREEDING GROUND FOR TINY CRUSTACEANS CALLED KRILL, 342 00:19:35,517 --> 00:19:38,689 AND THEY SUDDENLY BOOMED IN NUMBERS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, 343 00:19:38,689 --> 00:19:43,896 BILLIONS, EVEN TRILLIONS, AND AN INCREDIBLE BIT OF ANATOMY 344 00:19:43,896 --> 00:19:47,517 ALLOWED THE BLUE WHALE TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE -- 345 00:19:47,517 --> 00:19:49,758 THEIR DUMP TRUCK MOUTHS. 346 00:19:52,413 --> 00:19:54,896 BLUE WHALES HAVE HUNDREDS OF FLEXIBLE PLATES 347 00:19:54,896 --> 00:19:58,793 ON THEIR UPPER JAW CALLED BALEEN. 348 00:19:58,793 --> 00:20:01,793 A SINGLE OPEN-MOUTHED CHARGE INTO A SHOAL OF PREY 349 00:20:01,793 --> 00:20:04,931 CAN TAKE IN 120 TONS OF WATER 350 00:20:04,931 --> 00:20:09,931 AND HALF A MILLION KRILL IN A SINGLE GULP. 351 00:20:09,931 --> 00:20:11,689 AS THEY CLOSE THEIR MOUTHS, 352 00:20:11,689 --> 00:20:15,413 THE COMB-LIKE PLATES FORCE THE WATER THROUGH AND STRAIN OUT 353 00:20:15,413 --> 00:20:20,344 THE KRILL LIKE A MASSIVE SIEVE DRAINING MINUSCULE PASTA. 354 00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:23,724 THIS UNIQUE KRILL-CATCHING DESIGN ALLOWS BLUE WHALES 355 00:20:23,724 --> 00:20:30,931 TO EAT A WHOPPING 4 TONS OR 40 MILLION KRILL EVERY DAY. 356 00:20:30,931 --> 00:20:33,724 SO IT'S BECAUSE TODAY THERE IS SO MUCH WHALE FOOD 357 00:20:33,724 --> 00:20:35,275 THAT WE CAN WITNESS AN ANIMAL 358 00:20:35,275 --> 00:20:38,379 A SIZE THE PLANET HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE. 359 00:20:41,068 --> 00:20:44,310 WE REALLY ARE LIVING AMONG GIANTS. 28403

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