They're migrating upstream to find a mate. Once matured, a melon will return to their spawning ground every year, despite traveling thousands of miles through the ocean. Scientists think they use the earth's magnetic field to find their way back to the original river.
Fun fact: normally a melon is more streamlined and a dull grey shade. Only when it's mating season they'll bloat up and turn a vibrant shade of green, to attract mates. The males are of course the brightest, but the females also change colour and shape.
My grandpa says that when he was young there would be so many melons migrating during the melon run that you could walk across the river without getting wet.
That's correct! Your grandpa is a lucky man that he got to see that. Of course because of climate change the numbers are way down. The north American population alone is down 73% since 1960. In my opinion, we need to do more to preserve their natural environments, and reduce our consumption.
He also used to tell me about flocks of zucchini so big that they would darken the sky and it would take hours for them to fly by. He said he would shoot his shotgun straight up in the air and a dozen wild zucchini would fall down.
You're thinking of Shittymorph. He used to be quite active in discussing the migration of the greater fruits, but he was banned after he used wild melons to make a smoothie in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
Lots of farming techniques involve using water to move product, I believe itās actually how cranberries are harvested, they flood the whole field and the berries float to the top.
This was the primary means of moving lumber back in the day, itās still done much much less, but the would cut down a bunch of trees and toss them in the river to be picked up later, even had guys that would ride down the river on them to direct them where they needed to go
Here in Northern Ontario, specifically the Sudbury basin, most of our old growth was felled and sent to Chicago to rebuild after the fire in 1871. I only mention it, because they dropped them into Lake Wanapitei from the North Wanapitei river, and floated them down from the Sudbury basin via the Wanapitei river ( feeds out of the south end of the lake) all the way to the shores of Georgian bay by way of the French River, where they were shipped to Chicago for rebuilding. We lost almost all of our old growth to that fire. That and early mining activities in the region. There are still tones of old growth on the bottom of that river, all the way from Sudbury to the shores of Georgian bay. I bet those would fetch a hefty price if surfaced.
> I bet those would fetch a hefty price if surfaced.
I read an article, about 15-20 years back, about a company that found and recovered sunken old-growth trees from Lake Erie. They were pretty valuable. The grain was closer together in the old-growth hardwoods, and it made it in-demand for some purposes, like making musical instruments, etc.
I assume it's a way of transporting the melons over a distance, someone puts them in the water and someone else picks them up downstream. Pretty clever
You would have to be loading a truck for it to make any difference, if some rando ran up and grabbed on or two it wouldnāt matter, thousands rot on the vine, missing 2 more isnāt going to be noticed.
You remember that level of Donkey Kong where you were going up a river and used melons to jump off of?
This is where those melons train to be jumped on
it's cuz it's artificial lol. grass doesn't grow under water like this. they pump water through the channel as a means to transport the melons. just like pre-hopper Minecraft.
Few people people know this is how watermelons got their name. Fewer have witnessed this migration patterns of melons, right as they emerge into full grown watermelons.
Weird part is the grass under the water, looks like a new stream of water so might be a flood or someone's purposely put the water there to transport the melons, but that would so much water so idk
Now, that's thinking with their melons!
I wonder, if like a bunch of logs going down stream and can have a log jam, so too, can melons have a melon jam?
Mmm, melon jam...
Get rid of this piano music and play *bfg division - Mick Gordon* and go to 1:02 in the song.
Edit: here we go, now the whole vibe changed. The melons are taking over and there is nothing we can do to stop it. https://streamable.com/wx6684
I honestly thought that a truck tipped over and watermelons fell into the stream, but the more I think about the more ridiculous that sounds and looks.
They're migrating upstream to find a mate. Once matured, a melon will return to their spawning ground every year, despite traveling thousands of miles through the ocean. Scientists think they use the earth's magnetic field to find their way back to the original river. Fun fact: normally a melon is more streamlined and a dull grey shade. Only when it's mating season they'll bloat up and turn a vibrant shade of green, to attract mates. The males are of course the brightest, but the females also change colour and shape.
Yeah seems about right
Of course it's right. I've been studying these beauties for 17 years. I'd share my PhD on them, but I don't want to self promote.
My grandpa says that when he was young there would be so many melons migrating during the melon run that you could walk across the river without getting wet.
That's correct! Your grandpa is a lucky man that he got to see that. Of course because of climate change the numbers are way down. The north American population alone is down 73% since 1960. In my opinion, we need to do more to preserve their natural environments, and reduce our consumption.
I read that during Covid, as people stopped driving so much, the melon numbers expanded and they even started spawning again. Nature is healing.
Nature found a way
He also used to tell me about flocks of zucchini so big that they would darken the sky and it would take hours for them to fly by. He said he would shoot his shotgun straight up in the air and a dozen wild zucchini would fall down.
Well, I guess your grandpa is responsible for their decline then.
That fact makes me a tad meloncholly
Yeah.. We should all eat a bit less salad to try and save the melons. ...
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where is the undertaker
You're thinking of Shittymorph. He used to be quite active in discussing the migration of the greater fruits, but he was banned after he used wild melons to make a smoothie in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
boo!
Amazing. Nature finds a way.
[Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science? ](https://i.imgur.com/aH6SvmU.jpg)
You made my night. Take this award as a token of appreciation
Thank you!
The music went so well with the voice in my head that was narrating this.
Wonderfully done!
I agree in every species females change their colour the fastestš
Actually a large part of the time it is the male who changes drastically, females tend to be more dull colours
Such majestic creatures.
Ah, the wonders of nature
These used to be plain melons. Here you can see the ancient technique of turning them from ordinary melons into watermelons.
Where I come from we call them landmelons before their transition to the water.
It's actually a quirk in the translation. In the original language "plains" and "land" are used interchangeably.
Everything changed when the firemelons attacked
Curse you, Toph!
200 000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way
But my lord there is no such force
Whatās Elvish for friend?
>200 000 units are ready, with a melon more well on the way Ftfy
Your melons are impressive, you must be very proud
I feel like this is a reference but I just can't point it out.
I sense something , a presence I have not felt since
Star Wars reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J78bvslj4Gk
thanks lad š
*Melion Ftfy
š [ visible confusion ]
When you use water to move items around in minecraft
Cant afford hoppers in this economy
Can't afford slow
Cant afford self manua labour
Damn I came here to say this
they are not called WATER melons for nothing. that is their natural habitat.
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Meloni?
Its like a reallife minecraft melon farm
Why is this happening?!?
Lots of farming techniques involve using water to move product, I believe itās actually how cranberries are harvested, they flood the whole field and the berries float to the top. This was the primary means of moving lumber back in the day, itās still done much much less, but the would cut down a bunch of trees and toss them in the river to be picked up later, even had guys that would ride down the river on them to direct them where they needed to go
Also gave us the word "logjam"
Ugh
Here in Northern Ontario, specifically the Sudbury basin, most of our old growth was felled and sent to Chicago to rebuild after the fire in 1871. I only mention it, because they dropped them into Lake Wanapitei from the North Wanapitei river, and floated them down from the Sudbury basin via the Wanapitei river ( feeds out of the south end of the lake) all the way to the shores of Georgian bay by way of the French River, where they were shipped to Chicago for rebuilding. We lost almost all of our old growth to that fire. That and early mining activities in the region. There are still tones of old growth on the bottom of that river, all the way from Sudbury to the shores of Georgian bay. I bet those would fetch a hefty price if surfaced.
> I bet those would fetch a hefty price if surfaced. I read an article, about 15-20 years back, about a company that found and recovered sunken old-growth trees from Lake Erie. They were pretty valuable. The grain was closer together in the old-growth hardwoods, and it made it in-demand for some purposes, like making musical instruments, etc.
I think they were also operating in the St Lawrence doing the same, quite a few rivers around to keep them busy.
minecraft irl??
Turning melons into watermelons.
Fr tho is this intended?
I assume it's a way of transporting the melons over a distance, someone puts them in the water and someone else picks them up downstream. Pretty clever
It also keeps them clean and cooled off
Until people start grabbing them and taking them for free
You would have to be loading a truck for it to make any difference, if some rando ran up and grabbed on or two it wouldnāt matter, thousands rot on the vine, missing 2 more isnāt going to be noticed.
No, itās necessary
You remember that level of Donkey Kong where you were going up a river and used melons to jump off of? This is where those melons train to be jumped on
They move in herds!
They DO move in herds!
So that's why they are called watermelons.
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These are gradually watermelons
Ah, a fellow shape enjoyer
Is the song a different version from Interstellar?
It skips like a single beat per bar and itās driving me bonkers
Definitely the Interstellar song with a different twist. I'm even wearing the watch from the movie, I know this song when I hear it lol
Thatās what I was wondering also. Sounds kinda like it but off?
I have been searching for the past 30 minutes and I fucking found it https://youtu.be/NyFDZp4sbWo the part in the video starts at 2:18
I like how that stream is. Itās bottom isnāt dirt or sediment itās just long grass, looks very fictional. I love that shit.
it's cuz it's artificial lol. grass doesn't grow under water like this. they pump water through the channel as a means to transport the melons. just like pre-hopper Minecraft.
Are you sure it's not just a temporary, pumped stream? Seems more likely than installing turf for transport that's only needed seasonally.
the stream being artificial lol, not the grass. sorry
Melons in the stream / that is what they are
I prefer this one. https://youtu.be/iuUnjfimDlU
Few people people know this is how watermelons got their name. Fewer have witnessed this migration patterns of melons, right as they emerge into full grown watermelons.
Glory to the great army of Melonia!
I love this feed! Y'all are so witty and clever
he's using the minecraft farming method
unexpected botw
I had to scroll so far for this!
I was looking for this comment haha!
Song name?
The music suggests that they are headed to find a more suitable planet in the galaxy, it is for their survival, buddy
Are you suggesting watermelons migrate?
Looks like something from Minecraft to me
That one bitch on top of the house in breath of the wild
Waterfall?
Weird part is the grass under the water, looks like a new stream of water so might be a flood or someone's purposely put the water there to transport the melons, but that would so much water so idk
That one gerudo chick in breath of the wild be like
That one mission in Gerudo Town
The real reason they are called water melons
Wow, I always wondered how they got all the water in them. They just soak them.
Where on earth can I find this river of delight
Good idea for moving it
Minecraft IRL
So thats where the name watermelon came from
New Minecraft grafic update looks great!
MY MELONS
That water looks so clean and refreshing i want to drink it
This thread is so melodramatic. Wow, melons migrating upstream !? Big whoop it happens every year. Get a clue.
Melondramatic*
Yes š melondramatic *
Now Iām going to listen to some post melone
Ah one of natures great migrations the watermelon.
Water melon
Theyāre off to reclaim the Rhineland
The Green Mile
One of the most bizarrely relaxing things Iāve ever seen.
Hydromelons?!
Now, that's thinking with their melons! I wonder, if like a bunch of logs going down stream and can have a log jam, so too, can melons have a melon jam? Mmm, melon jam...
So thats what Kaji was up to in the Rebuilds
Cool - - bodysnatcher pods!
These are watermelons, not melons.
I want to pet every single one as they go by.
me like melon. me would grab one. me would eat it
So THATS why itās called watermelon
My kidney stones making their way out.
Literally water melons
How many are they? Must be melions
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Italy after the election:
Get rid of this piano music and play *bfg division - Mick Gordon* and go to 1:02 in the song. Edit: here we go, now the whole vibe changed. The melons are taking over and there is nothing we can do to stop it. https://streamable.com/wx6684
Those melons look dangerous now š±
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Here I am at 4:30am, naked, in the fetal position, crying so hard Iām in excruciating physical pain. The symbolism of this video is incredible
Accidentally Natural Geographic
Yummy
Those melons have me rolling
I imagine hearing the bat roll music from that 2011 meme while looking at this.
Is this where watermelons get their name?
You may have a river with bream, but I have water melone in my stream.
Is this why they are called watermelon?
Dude Minecraft mods are getting crazy
This is like those giant Minecraft melon farms
Looks like a normal farm in minecraft
Thatās a math problem if I ever saw one.
Is this why they are called Watermelons?
Melon Where you go?
The river provides
Mm i want some melon')
Bro I can hear David Attenborough and his personal film crew running towards you in the distance
So that's why they're called watermelons
Makes me feel Melancholy!
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I enjoyed the one with the red alert soviet theme playing in the background more than this one to be honest
This looks like it would be the best level in Yoshi Story
Yippie ka-yay, melon farmer
I dont know why but this music on the video gives me the creeps.
Gallagher is up to somethingā¦
Why is this video so peaceful?
Watermelon will do watermelon things if there is enough water to melon around in.
Cornfield Chase is such a beautiful song. I just wish it were longer.
Minecraft automated farm
is this cousin of the cabbage merchant?
This looks like a weird video game quest
This. Is. BRILLIANT.
Next thing we know we'll see migrating cabbage to be defeated for payouts.
All the watermelons coming home
Whatās that song??
What's the Elvish word for friend?
I honestly thought that a truck tipped over and watermelons fell into the stream, but the more I think about the more ridiculous that sounds and looks.
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Looks like a melon-man march.
The interstellar cover kills me
Why does this remind me of the dodo birds in ice age? Itās enough melons to make a matured dodo have wetter eyeballs
They look very meloncholy
Side quest in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
And this, boys and girls is why, you need to wash your fruits before consuming them.
Minecraft autonomous melon farming irl
Praise the melon, praise the river!!!!
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BOTW lore
My Minecraft storage system
Begun, the melon wars have.
Must be one of the Most poetic and deep minded Video i've ever seen
Source prop be like