Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)
Learn new skills from this video's sponsor, Skillshare: http://skl.sh/minuteearth4 Humans from different cultures anthropomorphize different animals to represent the same human traits. Thanks...
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This video is sponsored by Skillshare. Hi, this is Emily from MinuteEarth. In Australia and the US, when it’s bright and sunny outside and then it suddenly starts raining, people call it a sunshower. Which kind of makes sense. But in England and Japan, people call that same thing a fox’s wedding. And in India, it’s called a jackal’s wedding. In Syria and Lebanon, it’s a rat’s wedding. In Iran and Armenia, it’s a wolf’s wedding…you get the idea. The expression is super common, even if no one today remembers exactly what simultaneous rain and shine have to do with the nuptial rites of animals. But the bigger question is why animals play such an elephantine role in our expressions in general. It’s tempting to think that it’s because ...
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This video is sponsored by Skillshare. Hi, this is Emily from MinuteEarth. In Australia and the US, when it’s bright and sunny outside and then it suddenly starts raining, people call it a sunshower. Which kind of makes sense. But in England and Japan, people call that same thing a fox’s wedding. And in India, it’s called a jackal’s wedding. In Syria and Lebanon, it’s a rat’s wedding. In Iran and Armenia, it’s a wolf’s wedding…you get the idea. The expression is super common, even if no one today remembers exactly what simultaneous rain and shine have to do with the nuptial rites of animals. But the bigger question is why animals play such an elephantine role in our expressions in general. It’s tempting to think that it’s because ...
