Chicago Adventure, Part Eight: How to be an Insect
Jim Boone shows off his insects. Some of these might actually be plants. I'm still not convinced otherwise. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thebrainscoop The Brain Scoop is hosted and...
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The Chicago Field Museum is one of the largest and most respected natural history museums in the world. Join me as we go behind the scenes! Dun dun dun! These are huge. They're bigger than birds. They're katydids from Papua New Guinea. It's like a grasshopper in the order Orthoptera. In this order there are katydids, grasshoppers, and crickets. And katydids... - So what abou- what's a locust, then? Are they... A locust is a grasshopper, it's- - Okay. It's a large grasshopper. - I'm just trying to like put 'em all in the same thing. It's a common name. - So these are- Alright, yeah, yeah. Most people call cidadas locusts too, but they're not. - Okay, alright. It's just the- the grasshoppers that are locusts. - Mmkay...
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The Chicago Field Museum is one of the largest and most respected natural history museums in the world. Join me as we go behind the scenes! Dun dun dun! These are huge. They're bigger than birds. They're katydids from Papua New Guinea. It's like a grasshopper in the order Orthoptera. In this order there are katydids, grasshoppers, and crickets. And katydids... - So what abou- what's a locust, then? Are they... A locust is a grasshopper, it's- - Okay. It's a large grasshopper. - I'm just trying to like put 'em all in the same thing. It's a common name. - So these are- Alright, yeah, yeah. Most people call cidadas locusts too, but they're not. - Okay, alright. It's just the- the grasshoppers that are locusts. - Mmkay...
