thx eye
July 30, 2018 10:18 PM Subscribe
i'm sure this video has been posted before in the ancient past of MetaFilter, but it's possible we might just need, right now, here in 2018, the 20 seconds that is thx eye.
Watched it 3 times in a row and it kept getting funnier! Then I showed it to my partner and it was funnier still! We might not be entirely sober rn.
posted by too bad you're not me at 10:43 PM on July 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by too bad you're not me at 10:43 PM on July 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
I am a better person for having watched this. Er, having been watched by this?
posted by Bob Regular at 4:03 AM on July 31, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Bob Regular at 4:03 AM on July 31, 2018 [1 favorite]
It would be perfect if at the end you heard little guy yell as Abe Simpson, "Turn it uuuuuup!"
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:55 AM on July 31, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:55 AM on July 31, 2018 [3 favorites]
Me, as it dawned that the title didn't mean "thanks eye"
posted by otherchaz at 5:56 AM on July 31, 2018 [13 favorites]
posted by otherchaz at 5:56 AM on July 31, 2018 [13 favorites]
Who's going to be a downer and mention "Come and See"?
posted by lagomorphius at 6:06 AM on July 31, 2018
posted by lagomorphius at 6:06 AM on July 31, 2018
Oh! It's been a while since I got the excuse to link to True Facts about the Tarsier!
Here are some of my favorite True Facts, sadly not included in the above video:
1. Tarsiers are the most carnivorous of primates, with upwards of 95% of their diet coming from invertebrates and very small vertebrates.
2. Tarsiers' eyes are fixed in their skull, so that if they want to see something to the side, they have to turn their heads.
3. The volume of tarsiers' eyes are larger than the volume of their brains!
4. (this one is my favorite!) More of tarsiers' eyes are outside their skull than inside their skull. They're also really amazing leapers because of their elongated tarsal bone that acts as a lever while leaping (this part is sort of in the video). Because they are subjected to relatively high forces when they land their leaps, they are in danger of their eyes popping out of their crania. To solve this problem, they've evolved little lips of bone around their orbits that help keep their eyes from popping out of their head when they land.
Some more tarsier videos from arkive!
posted by ChuraChura at 8:35 AM on July 31, 2018 [14 favorites]
Here are some of my favorite True Facts, sadly not included in the above video:
1. Tarsiers are the most carnivorous of primates, with upwards of 95% of their diet coming from invertebrates and very small vertebrates.
2. Tarsiers' eyes are fixed in their skull, so that if they want to see something to the side, they have to turn their heads.
3. The volume of tarsiers' eyes are larger than the volume of their brains!
4. (this one is my favorite!) More of tarsiers' eyes are outside their skull than inside their skull. They're also really amazing leapers because of their elongated tarsal bone that acts as a lever while leaping (this part is sort of in the video). Because they are subjected to relatively high forces when they land their leaps, they are in danger of their eyes popping out of their crania. To solve this problem, they've evolved little lips of bone around their orbits that help keep their eyes from popping out of their head when they land.
Some more tarsier videos from arkive!
posted by ChuraChura at 8:35 AM on July 31, 2018 [14 favorites]
To solve this problem, they've evolved little lips of bone around their orbits that help keep their eyes from popping out of their head when they land.
Those little lips around the orbit are adorable. But I was drawn to the big honkin' holes at the back of the orbit, which led me down a short science rabbit hole. Today I learned that complete articulation between the zygomatic, frontal, and sphenoid bones to form a solid postorbital septum is peculiar to anthropoid primates! I don't spend much time looking at other skulls so I just kind of assumed that was the standard pattern. Thanks, tarsiers!
posted by biogeo at 9:35 AM on July 31, 2018 [3 favorites]
Those little lips around the orbit are adorable. But I was drawn to the big honkin' holes at the back of the orbit, which led me down a short science rabbit hole. Today I learned that complete articulation between the zygomatic, frontal, and sphenoid bones to form a solid postorbital septum is peculiar to anthropoid primates! I don't spend much time looking at other skulls so I just kind of assumed that was the standard pattern. Thanks, tarsiers!
posted by biogeo at 9:35 AM on July 31, 2018 [3 favorites]
Yes! Tarsiers are a weird and complicated group of primates. They don't fit nicely into the Prosimian/Anthropoid classification in part because they have an incomplete post-orbital plate - more complete than the "prosimians" but less complete than the "anthropoids." That's why folks tend to use haplorhine/strepsirhine distinction (simple nose vs. fancy nose!!!!) now, but it's still complicated. Tarsiers are probably most closely related to the basal haplorhines (omomyids? Probably? but people argue about that too), and so there are some crown haplorhine traits (like a fully-closed post-orbital plate) that they still don't display.
posted by ChuraChura at 10:11 AM on July 31, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by ChuraChura at 10:11 AM on July 31, 2018 [3 favorites]
Come for the comically bulging eyes, stay for the crash course in haplorrhine primate physiology
posted by gottabefunky at 10:40 AM on July 31, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by gottabefunky at 10:40 AM on July 31, 2018 [6 favorites]
Thank you for that, I very much needed a good giggle.
posted by TheCoug at 10:46 AM on July 31, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by TheCoug at 10:46 AM on July 31, 2018 [1 favorite]
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One of those little bastards bit my mum on live TV in the 60s, making her the first person to say “fuck” on the BBC. It was a kids’ program too. No tape exists but I swear it’s true.
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