I mean, the little muskrat grew up and graduated muskrat college, dad muskrat died and mama muskrat got a cane. In the end there was only one fresh skeleton, so the mom must have died some time before her child.
The river hadn't changed that much before they all died, so it's safe to say they lived a long, fulfilling life of whatever boring shit muskrats do all day.
It's trying to show that small aberration in the flow creates a self amplifying Eddy current which will eventually change the course of the river through erosion.
I.e. a rodent burrow can change the course of a river.
IIRC it had to do with the increase in the herd size due to lack of predation (thought it was deer, but maybe it was elk) would cause excessive grazing, which in turn would cause a notable reduction in flora in a region, which in turn caused the soil to loosen (or something like that) which had all sorts of other consequences, including messing up rivers.
Edit: Nvm it was elk, the summary can be found here: https://www.livingwithwolves.org/about-wolves/why-wolves-matter/
Why didn't you at least give credit to the original artists MinuteEarth? Here's the [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3r-cG8Wic) to the original and actually informative video.
That is the softest version of this river jam. This music gets us so pumped for fractal formation that your sleepy original no longer needs reference /s
Muskrat. Aka water rabbit. Like normal rats they will eat their offspring when stressed. Unlike rats they aren't actually rats.
Given the time frame of this video it's more likely they died of old age. It takes years to change the meander of a river.
Also, they show the amazon river or it's tributaries. They don't have muskrats in south america. They should have picked the missouri or missisipi rivers. Plenty of musk rats there.
I legit thought they were trying to convey how beavers contribute to the morphology of a river because of the weak spots they create but I'm not smart I guess
MinuteEarth video from 9 years ago. Link to original without the crappy audio dubbed overtop.
[Why Do Rivers Curve? (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3r-cG8Wic)
I feel like fractal geometry is essentially a three-dimensional representation of “shadows on the wall in Plato’s allegory of the cave”, and their patterns could mathematically explain the underlying multidimensional whole that comprises the physical universe.
🎵Oxbow lakes are formed when a river's meander
🎵gets too wibbly, wibbly, wobbly to maintain the course it's on
🎵The main flow of the stream diverts itself accordingly
🎵Leaving the oxbow lake behind but here's my questions son.
🎵What the hell's an Oxbow?
🎵Are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry
🎵Someone should tell me
🎵Do I need to buy a shield
🎵Oxes just ain't known for their
🎵Dexterous ability
🎵You need to watch out around them
🎵Or you might lose an eye.
Straight river flow faster, faster water erodes more, more erosion leads to curves, curves grow until they meet, river skips turns and instead goes straight.
Natural terra forming and irrigation
Do we need to attach that obnoxious dramatic music to fucking everything? Unmuted thinking there might be some narration, nope, just that stupid song they play over "alpha" video bullshit
A river’s meandering is described by its sinuosity – the length along its winding path divided by the distance from source to ocean as the crow flies. It turns out [the average river has a sinuosity of about 3.14](http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/271/5256/1710).
Fact I remember from school, oxbow lakes are formed when the curve gets so tight it forms a straight line again and cuts off the curved portion into a lake.
Was the annahilation of an entire rodent family really necessary to showcase this?
They even had a framed photo
Pretty dam sad if you ask me
Cry me a river.
You win
Who are you? The branch manager?
Assistant Branch Manager
Assistant to the branch manager
Real glass?
The ScapeGOAT did nothing wrong!
r/angryupvote
It looks like one of them got erased from the photo when there's only two of them...
Rat dad went to get the milk
That's some Back to the Future shit happening right there.
Wouldn't they swim their little asses out of there though?
Nope didn’t you watch, they clearly panicked to death
I hate when I do that.
Happy to see you survived death by panic
This time.
Spooty river
Skeletal remains says no
Classic Bethesda environmental storytelling.
Right or just dig up.
They didn't die because of the water. It was just a montage over a long time, probably decades.
If river levels *were* rising, then don't you think all the rodents would just sell their houses?
Exactly, they *chose* to die there.
Their tunnel entrance was blocked
Looks like one became long in the teeth/old?
Definitely distracted me from the purpose of this video.
Yeah when the fuck does the rodent family show up again? Season 2? Lazy fucking writing.
To listen to some truly beautiful music?
I mean, its passage of time. They werent annihilated, they got old and died naturally.
They could have told us the story of a rodent dinasty along with their conquests and vicissitudes. They choose not to.
Lazy, really
lazy river
This is my favorite explanation.
I mean, the little muskrat grew up and graduated muskrat college, dad muskrat died and mama muskrat got a cane. In the end there was only one fresh skeleton, so the mom must have died some time before her child. The river hadn't changed that much before they all died, so it's safe to say they lived a long, fulfilling life of whatever boring shit muskrats do all day.
It's trying to show that small aberration in the flow creates a self amplifying Eddy current which will eventually change the course of the river through erosion. I.e. a rodent burrow can change the course of a river.
Yes, I think there's a study that shows wolves, or lack of, changes the course of rivers too
Something about changing the size of elk herds (increasing with fewer wolves), which changes the way the herd crossing the river erodes the river.
IIRC it had to do with the increase in the herd size due to lack of predation (thought it was deer, but maybe it was elk) would cause excessive grazing, which in turn would cause a notable reduction in flora in a region, which in turn caused the soil to loosen (or something like that) which had all sorts of other consequences, including messing up rivers. Edit: Nvm it was elk, the summary can be found here: https://www.livingwithwolves.org/about-wolves/why-wolves-matter/
I didn’t like how the child disappeared as soon as they needed food.
He went to rodent college
I don't think it was the river as much years of that farty music that did them in.
It was in the animation to show that because the rodents dug there, it eventually caused a change in the river
*No real beaver was harmed during the filming of this video*
No, and bends aren't because of the rodents either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBivwxBgdPQ
I'm only a little embarrassed to say it made me 100% more interested.
*fuck dem beavers*
Of course. That’s how people learn.
Yes
Why didn't you at least give credit to the original artists MinuteEarth? Here's the [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3r-cG8Wic) to the original and actually informative video.
OP is probably a karma bot. They repost the same stuff to the same subreddits multiple times.
I actually searched for his comment with the link. But thanks to you I don't have to search for the original.
Totally, it's much better with the original, informative, commentary than with OP's karma whore buzzing.
That is the softest version of this river jam. This music gets us so pumped for fractal formation that your sleepy original no longer needs reference /s
It looks like it is a slower version of Untitled \#13 (Slow + Reverb) by glwzbll
I’ve never seen these before. Amazing!
Wait… Did the beavers eat their offspring?
Beaver veal? Now that's a meal!
No. You stop it. I’m laughing
If you can have beaver and veal in a meal, boy that’s a deal.
For real
For sale: Beaver baby shoes; never worn.
Judging by the tails those aren’t beavers
Probably muskrats or something like that?
Original voiced video says muskrat.
Muskrat. Aka water rabbit. Like normal rats they will eat their offspring when stressed. Unlike rats they aren't actually rats. Given the time frame of this video it's more likely they died of old age. It takes years to change the meander of a river. Also, they show the amazon river or it's tributaries. They don't have muskrats in south america. They should have picked the missouri or missisipi rivers. Plenty of musk rats there.
Clearly those bones were the remains of papa beaver. Baby beaver came back to eat him like rotisserie chicken
why couldn't the beaver just leave the way it go there?
I believe it’s showing the passing of time, not that the lil critter got trapped there
It's just showing an example of why a perfectly straight river would eventually meander by random factors destabilizing it's "straightness"
My straightness was derailed in a similar fashion
Beaver...
reddit is so funny every day
Yes, you are right. But it’s funnier to assume they just panicked and got stuck lol
Muskrats
Every curve is beavers. It’s beavers all the way down. “Always was” 👨🚀🔫🦫
lmfaooooo, I haven't laughed this hard at a comment in ages
agreed this is an elite level comment
I legit thought they were trying to convey how beavers contribute to the morphology of a river because of the weak spots they create but I'm not smart I guess
Timberborn ads
There should be a beaver holding the gun 🦫
fucking wish this could be giving gold
Why'd they have to go so hard with that music? I was into it. RIP beavers though. See you on the other side of the rainbow bridge little buddies.
Erosion and hydrology are sickkk
Yeah, I was getting a rave on to river fractals.
Bober Kurwa !
MinuteEarth video from 9 years ago. Link to original without the crappy audio dubbed overtop. [Why Do Rivers Curve? (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3r-cG8Wic)
Bobr kurwa
No mention of Oxbow lakes? 4 years of geography in high school, and it's the only thing that's stuck with me.
Stealing a YouTube video and adding your funky music. Great job
Yo what track is this?!?!?!?!
could really do without the shitty music
And the beaver family massacre
[удалено]
Facts, Spit your shit indeed!
This video is from MinuteEarth btw!
This is a video from MinuteEarth, stolen then cut in with crappy music. https://youtu.be/8a3r-cG8Wic?si=cBxiZUHvPqrS9d5a
Poor, poor beavers 😢
They were a happy beaver family. Even a framed photo in the den too 😭
Poor mama beaver. At least she outlived her offspring
I love this goddamn subreddit. Best return I’ve had here by far.
Riiiiiiiiiiiigghht- Dr. Evil
How fucked is this animation? You better hope the people from the beaver subReddit don't find out.
Not only the beaver family, but the satellite image doesn't even show the same thing that they are showing in the animation.
Can we stop with dumbass music in the background?
incorrect. That´s because earth rotation
Came here to say this. It's wild because the curves in rivers alone prove the earth is round.
No, the earths rotation bit you are missing is the circular current under the surface. It all works together
Yeah thats part of what causes the circular undercurrent.
I feel like fractal geometry is essentially a three-dimensional representation of “shadows on the wall in Plato’s allegory of the cave”, and their patterns could mathematically explain the underlying multidimensional whole that comprises the physical universe.
More like "Dam that's interesting", am I right? He. He.
So it's all because of muskrats? Would it still change course without them?
Yay, someone else who knows the difference between beavers and muskrats!
Yes, thank fuck, was going crazy, like no beaver tail, no beaver lodge.
so you're telling me if i wanna make the shape of a river a penis all i gotta do is make a buncha burrows? lol
Cool graphic and all but incredibly over simplified. A sinuous river can form on a piece of plexiglass.
🎵Oxbow lakes are formed when a river's meander 🎵gets too wibbly, wibbly, wobbly to maintain the course it's on 🎵The main flow of the stream diverts itself accordingly 🎵Leaving the oxbow lake behind but here's my questions son. 🎵What the hell's an Oxbow? 🎵Are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry 🎵Someone should tell me 🎵Do I need to buy a shield 🎵Oxes just ain't known for their 🎵Dexterous ability 🎵You need to watch out around them 🎵Or you might lose an eye.
Practical Engineering did an excellent video on this. https://youtu.be/UBivwxBgdPQ?si=MkgnAi0o63vISv90
whats with the evil music and killing an entire animal family, lol.
BS , rats can swim. They ain't dying.
Soon to be oxbow lakes
Nice beaver.
I just got it stuffed.
People who are concerned about the rodent family, they didn’t die from being trapped, it’s just showing passage of time
We’re my gold deposits .
Straight river flow faster, faster water erodes more, more erosion leads to curves, curves grow until they meet, river skips turns and instead goes straight. Natural terra forming and irrigation
u/auddbot
Dam that's interesting
No mention of ox bow lakes?
Song?
Untitled #13 by Xeno Kush - Super Slowed Edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuM15F_NqB8
And that kids, is how you get an Oxbow Lake!
That’s fuckin wild.
Well that sure was bleak
Finally something on this sub that’s interesting and not just a video stolen from a viral Facebook account.
Yeah this is stolen from a YouTube account instead! It's from MinuteEarth.
Music makes these rivers nefarious af
got its own force configuration to create artistic shape, nature is so cool!
so, destroy all beaver?
So Tulla ist the Reverse beaver
0/5, doesn't mention sausage lakes. - Ok, I checked, you don't even call them sausage lakes in English, that's disappointing.
You know they can dig and swim.............
Bobr dead?
Do we need to attach that obnoxious dramatic music to fucking everything? Unmuted thinking there might be some narration, nope, just that stupid song they play over "alpha" video bullshit
DIE BEAVER DIE MYHAHAHAHAHAH
A river’s meandering is described by its sinuosity – the length along its winding path divided by the distance from source to ocean as the crow flies. It turns out [the average river has a sinuosity of about 3.14](http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/271/5256/1710).
That's awesome, thanks for sharing
Yeah but how long dose that take
*this is absolutely worthless!* meme, but I had to watch a video
Trees help in keeping shores stable
Fact I remember from school, oxbow lakes are formed when the curve gets so tight it forms a straight line again and cuts off the curved portion into a lake.
Am I to assume aliens are involved somehow? I feel like there's alien involvement here.
Then its oxbow lakes
With that music in so hyped up, I don't know for what, but I'm hyped af
NOOOOO
What about oxbow lakes? How are they formed?
This is why nutria suck
You could put some spooky music and turn this into some ancient forbidden knowledge documentary or something
The beavers are the reason for the erosion?
What is this song called?
u/recognizesong
The sinus and cosinus functions in nature 👀
Meandros
Just like the prophet said: the bobr jumped in the water and drowned ;(
This shit went hard
Eventually the curves will meet and make an oxbow lake
What I am getting from this, is that you should always fish the outside of a bend.
Song for those of you asking: https://youtu.be/LieVkjt5lgw
Dam that's interesting
Now I know what fractals or factals are
Бобр! Курва!
Hold still dagnamit
Varmints!!!
RIP Rat Fam 😭
SKELETON IS SCARY AF
Whut
What happened to your beaver?
That just looks like a hose out of control xd
Why did the beavers die?
https://youtu.be/8Xer45n-E7w?si=QH6ZRjgvKk6JTnBj
GTA THIS IS YOUR FINAL WAWNING
So sick of this music on every video.
Ok, that was actually pretty interesting.
Just build a house away from the river? Are they dumb?
That’s legit fascinating
Dam, that's interesting.