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what if Disney films were scientifically accurate? (PART 2!)
what if Disney films were scientifically accurate? (PART 2!)
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- So we know children's animated films
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are not scientifically accurate documentaries,
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but we are back with another edition of me ruining them
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by asking, what if they were scientifically accurate?
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Let's start with the film
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that's perhaps given more kids mommy issues than any other,
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"Bambi."
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One of the movie's main plot points
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is that a noble, handsome stag, the Prince of the Forest,
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takes care of the young fawn after Bambi's mother dies.
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Hey, "Bambi" came out in 1942,
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so I'm not giving you a spoiler warning here, okay?
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Anyway, in real life, male of the year live most of the year
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in groups of other bachelors,
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only interacting with females during mating season.
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And they have basically zero contact
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and one would assume zero interest in their offspring.
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In reality, Bambi's best shot at survival
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would be to get adopted by another female doe.
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"Madagascar" is the next movie I'm wrecking with biology.
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King Julian is the leader of the ring-tailed lemurs.
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Lemurs are distant primate cousins of apes,
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like us, and chimpanzees,
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and are exclusively found
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in the African island of Madagascar.
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At least they got that right.
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But real lemur societies are matriarchal.
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Males are always lower than females
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in the dominance hierarchy.
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That means the lemurs in the movie
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should have been led by a Queen Julia instead.
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A lemur male that keeps dominant females
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from the best food or sleeping spots
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is definitely gonna have to move it, move it.
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Next, "Zootopia."
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The premise of these movies
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revolves around a utopian animal society
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where all mammals are equal,
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where predators no longer kill and eat any prey.
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(Judy giggles)
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Sounds nice, but it's impossible.
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Thanks to biochemistry,
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foxes, like small-time con artist Nick,
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along with every one of the cat characters in the movie,
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are what we call obligate carnivores.
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This means they have to eat meat to survive.
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See, there's an essential nutrient called taurine
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that their bodies can't make,
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and they can only get it by eating meat.
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True omnivores like us, even dogs,
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can make our own taurine,
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allowing us to survive just fine without meat if we choose.
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But I've got my doubts about how most
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of the former predators in this utopian animal wonderland
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are getting their essential biological chemicals.
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Next, "Dog Man."
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The premise of this whole series
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is that a policeman's head comes off
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and it's replaced with the head of his police dog.
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Hilarity ensues.
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Now, some Soviet scientists did do
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an extremely disturbing experiment in the early 1900s
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where they successfully used a machine
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to keep a dog's head and brain alive
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without the rest of the body.
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And that's all I'm gonna show you of that
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because that is messed up.
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But does that mean "Dog Man's"
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actually kind of sorta a little bit realistic?
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Of course not.
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Come on.
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Even if a brain and head were kept alive
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and masterfully reconnected to every blood vessel
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and bone in a new body,
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every animal's brain is mapped
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to control the precise map of nerves
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and muscles in that animal's body.
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The basic coding is just not compatible.
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Is it too much to ask
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that even our most beloved movies
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get some of the basic foundational science right?
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I guess so.
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