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Horrifying Animals You Should Avoid At All Costs · Be Amazed

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nature sure is beautiful, huh?
• 0:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, mostly anyway.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm an animal lover, but there are some beasties out there, however they wouldn't want to meet.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes, however we don't get much choice.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: From terrifying creatures that will make your skin crown, a monster's capable of tearing you limb from limb.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Here are some horrifying animals.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You should avoid it all costs.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody wants to get stung by a scorpion.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: It hurts, but some pinchy boys will do a lot more than cause you a little pain.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is the deadliest scorpion in the world, aptly named the dead stalker.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In case it wasn't obvious from that name, a sting from one can be deadly to the young old or weak, but don't get comfortable if that isn't you,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Stings can still cause a whole host of other nasty effects, including nausea vomiting and diarrhea.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ew.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine being attacked by a whole swarm of these beasties.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, for this southern province of Oswan and Egypt, this was a horrifying reality.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In 2021, the region was bombarded with heavy rain which forced hundreds of dead stalkers out of their dents to seek better shelter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, people were in the way.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The army of dead stalkers descended on towns and cities and a total of 533 people wound up stung by the venomous villains.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thankfully, the local government was quick to react and they managed to apply anti-venom to everybody.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Phew, that could have been a whole load of block toilets, or filled graves.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Snakes are some of the most feared fauna in the world, and it doesn't help that they can pop up anywhere from here car to your toilet bowl.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But one homeowner in Durbin South Africa got their shock of their life when they found one of the most venomous snakes in the world, curled over right inside their barbecue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a black mamba, a snake so deadly that without swift medical attention, its bites almost always end in the victim's demise.
• 2:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily our barbecueer was A.O.K., he called a professional to safely remove the serpent
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Man, to say they got off lightly isn't understatement.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Black Mamba's are supremely nervous, meaning if you so much as step in the wrong place, it could be lights out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The speedy snakes can dart towards you at 10 miles an hour, and after lunging, they'll bite multiple times in a single attack.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is some serious overkill too, because just two drops of venom is enough to make a human pop their clogs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Jeez.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If I ever come across one of these demon snakes, I'm slither in a way as fast as possible.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody knows how irritating mosquitoes are, they never seem to buzz off.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That said, surprisingly, few people are aware of just how deadly these disgusting creatures can be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Masu survived by drinking their victims blood using their long feeding tube or problascus.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As they do so, they also inject a tiny amount of their saliva which stops the blood from clotting, then numbs the pain of the bite.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The saliva also causes the itchy red spots we all know so well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Gorodi!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The scary part isn't the bite itself though.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, that comes from the insect's ability to spread life-threatening diseases.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: See, whenever a skeeder drinks blood, say from a rat, it also absorbs any disease-causing microorganisms that may be inside its bloodstream.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If that flying filth bag then feeds on a human, some of those microorganisms can pass to them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Malaria is the most infamous of these ailments responsible for over 600,000 casualties in 2022 alone.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Come, man.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But that figure isn't so hard to understand when you see how voracious these things can be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Reddit user Monique 2310 took her kids out swimming in a local river and got bit no less than 65 times.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thankfully, and perhaps astoundingly, it doesn't seem like she could anything nasty.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: But the thought of all those mozzies inserting their little suckers into her skin?
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's one huge, nope.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Shame it's not socially acceptable to where Jedi cloaks made from mosquito netting.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: For people who aren't in the know, bears are cute buzzballs that you just want to hug.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The reality, however, is very different.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When till you hear about Reddit user Donut shops, he and three friends had decided to go camping in a secluded area near some woods in Yellowstone and had just set up for the night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But they had no idea they were near an elk carcass.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That is until a whole group of grizzly bears turned up to share the food.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Holy Motherf!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: resisting the urge to panic, donut in his pals quickly packed up, and made a hasty exit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: However, as they were retreating, something downright horrifying happened.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A grizzly came charging out of the woods straight at them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now it was panic time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, one of the group had brought Bearspray and fired a hefty dose right at the rampaging animal, which made it turn on its heels.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But the idea was far from over, one of the campers had cut themselves while packing up the supplies and the scent of the wound was attracting all the Bears in the vicinity.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The group spent an exhausting eight hours fleeing the relentless beasts in the darkness while trying to find their way to safety.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: At one point, they made a fire from the books they'd brought with them and said like to dry sticks with it, throwing them at any bears that got too close.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And, credibly, this worked long enough to see them through to the next morning and against all odds?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody survived.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Phew!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, if you ever intend on camping out in Bear Territory, first of all, make sure you bring Bear Spray.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If it's a brown or grizzly bear, play dead.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The bear won't perceive you as a threaten, may leave you alone.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If it's a black bear though, this won't work.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Instead, you'll have to either run or fight, and neither is a great option.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: My advice?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Stay the hell out of bear territory, full stop.
• 6:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: The rewards, tarantula, hawk, wasp.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If it sounds like something from your deepest nightmares, there's a good reason for that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's part of the spider wasp, manly, wasp so badass that they kill tarantulas.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, after paralyzing them with a venomous sting and laying an egg inside of them, of course.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ugh, what?
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you heard that right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After the egg hatches, the larva emerges and eats the poor stunts spider alive.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Heesh, that's disgusting.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and the creepy critters are super calm and too, living everywhere from the US all the way to Australia.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So you never know when you might stumble across one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And a sting from the tarantula hawk is agony.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, it's so intense that the only advice experts give is to lie down and scream.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The pain only lasts a few minutes, but you can guarantee it will be the most agonizing few minutes of your life.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Most people are so concerned by it that they lose control of their bodies, making them more likely to accidentally hurt themselves further.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's all bad enough, just be glad you don't have a leg.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: The waters of our planet are full of horrifying monsters that are actually nothing to worry about.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: On the other end of the watery spectrum, however, sits the saltwater crocodile, the largest living reptile, and arguably the deadly is crock in the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Salties can reach 20 feet in length in way a colossal 3, 330 pounds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's almost as long as a London bus and three times heavier than a grizzly bear.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These reptilian monsters are highly aggressive and so territorial that they'll snack on humans if any are unlucky enough to wander nearby.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and unlucky they'd certainly be.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Some wondercrucks have the strongest bite of any animal.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Bite-force is measured by PSI or pressure per square inch, and salties have an astounding crunch power of 3,700 PSI.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's 3,700 pounds of sheer force colliding with every inch of the bite area.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For reference, Lions bite with 1,000 PSI and humans between 150 and 200 PSI.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Simply put, these titans can crush bones with ease.
• 9:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there are plenty of times they've demonstrated this.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in the second world war after the Battle of Ramory Island in 1945, a thousand Japanese soldiers were forced to retreat through thick mangrove swamps.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: only 20 made it out alive, and for decades it was believed that hordes of salt-water crocodiles had slaughtered them.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Whoa!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine how horrendous that must have been?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Admittedly, it's now believed the crux are responsible for far less of the fallen soldiers than first thought, but I still wouldn't recommend traipsing through any mangrove swamps anytime soon.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: At least humans weren't about in that crotaceous period, nearly a hundred million years ago.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: because Croc sure were, and as massive as the saltwater crack is today, it's ancient ancestors were even bigger.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Monsters, such as the Dinosukus, were believed to have reached a guard-gantuan 39 feet, or have the length of a tennis court.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Pribes, just imagine if one of those things were still around a day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They used to eat dinosaurs, so you and I wouldn't stand a chance.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, I don't think I'd stand a chance against anything we've seen so far.
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Damn, I really need to start working out again.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to give you a rack of boobs a quick heads up, the next toy I have for you is probably the creepiest creature I've ever seen.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you've been warned, meet the camel spider.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These hellish things can leap six feet in the air, issue a blood curdling scream while running at 25 miles an hour and will numb the flesh of their victims before eating them alive.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Or at least that's what U.S. soldiers stationed in a rock in the early 2000s told people.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: According to them, the camel spider got its name from its habit of attacking camels, eating their stomachs and laying its eggs inside of them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The soldiers even claimed that many of them had woken up to find they were covered in the things.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and that they'd been stealthily eating them in the night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Eh, what?
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I have a confession to make.
• 11:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: You'll be relieved to know these claims are actually all baseless.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The soldiers that relayed them were just spinning along yarn for the people back home.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Pew.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So what are these horror things really like?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For starters, they're only about five inches long.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No, and they aren't actually spiders at all.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They fall into the broader Iraq and family alongside other hellish monsters like the Talis Whip Scorpion.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Strange beasts that are essentially harmless even if they look utterly dread-inducing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That being said, Kamel Spiders can deliver a painful bite if they feel the need to defend themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So don't poke them, okay?
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Those pensors look nasty.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, Kamel Spiders will chase down humans, but not to take a bite out of them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They sometimes follow people to stand the cool shadow they cast over the desert.
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Get your own shade, Cree.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: While they're unlikely to cause you any lasting harm then, they're still totally horrific and very much deserving of being left well alone.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Has anybody else's skin getting a cheek?
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's time to head back into the murky depths of the water.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: You pee!
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Meet the giant water bug, a swimming flying terrifying insect.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Given their appearance, you'd be forgiven for mistaking a wild water bug for a leaf.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Until it leaps over and takes a bite out of you.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right, this creepy-looking critter is also known as a toe-biter, and that because it likes to cuddle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These watery woes are hyper-aggressive and happy to attack pretty much anything that gets too close, including humans.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And what a water bug has its prey secured?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It has a super gruesome way of eating them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It binds down and injects enzymes through its proboscis, which decay the praise enters.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then it slurps up the delicious broken down insides.
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: In some species, the female lays her eggs on the male who then carries them around.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Other species lay their eggs on sticks and bodies of water, but in both cases, Daddy will fiercely defend them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When Anthemologist Chris Goforth was gathering waterbug eggs for her PhD in the 2000s, she experienced their intense protectiveness firsthand.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Go forth was in a pond in Arizona collecting eggs from sticks when their defensive dad made a bee line up the stick.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Chris was holding.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She whacked him off, but even after falling into the water, he didn't give up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She had to find out the insect no less than four times, and once it even managed to sneak onto her neck.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeesh!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thankfully Chris noticed it in time and swatted it off in a blind panic before it could bite her.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then ran out of the bot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Jeepers, some say she's still running way to this day.
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know I would be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I hate snakes, and I really hate big ones that are capable of shooting venom at me.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So giant spitting cobras are pretty much my worst nightmare.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And nearly 9 feet long, they're the largest species of venom spitting cobras on earth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Science folk believe the huge danger noodles have evolved their alarming ability to defend
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, in a way, it's all our fault.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The snakes shoot their shot directly at the eyes of their enemies, savagely burning them and causing blindness if left untreated.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: They can fire from many feet away, but that doesn't stop them going in close for a juicy bite either.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: If this big ol' boy does decide to bite its venom into your system, it'll rapidly cause the tissue around the bite to die, leading to this pigment and potentially much worse.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Despite this, snake charmers around the world absolutely love to use cobras in their routines.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Enough accidents occur with non-spitting cobras?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine how much worse things could get if they used one of these guys.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't put it past that crazy bunch either.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One such charmer met his untimely demise back in 2018 after being bitten by a spitting cover he was trying to capture in Malaysia.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Venom took just four days to take full hold and once it had, there was tragically no more that could be done.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Man, that's another animal I'm taking firmly off my must cut a list.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Rinka Island in Indonesia is famed for being chock-full of huge Komodo dragons.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Usually though they stay outside the buildings.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2009 a tour guide named Man entered his office on the island and took a seat at his desk.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When he glanced down however, a cold sweat ran down his brow.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: girl beside his legs was a colossal commoto.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These beasts are the largest lizards in the world, they will reach a seriously intimidating 10 feet in length, their strong, vicious and very venomous.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As well as being incredibly painful, a single bite from a dragon can paralyze you and cause rapid debilitating blood loss.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: From there, they'd simply wait for you to collapse before chowing down.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Truly unsettling, right?
• 16:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, commotos are also capable of swallowing large animals like deer, whole.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep, if something looks a little big for them, they won't bother chowing it up into smaller chunks.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh no, they're far more likely to spend 20 minutes forcing the paralyzed animal down their throat by slamming it against a tree.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh man.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Essentially,
• 16:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really wouldn't want one underneath your desk.
• 16:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, what happened to Oleman then?
• 17:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, or if I'd he pulled his legs back from the beast, but one of them caught on something in the dragon lunch, chopping down on it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The tour guide's screen for help and managed to kick the giant lizard off of him as his colleagues arrived.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: but the smell of his blood had attracted a horde of other nearby commodos.
• 17:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Seriously?
• 17:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: His co-workers frantically rushed him out of the building and reached across the island, dodging and running from the frenzyed commodos dragons as they went.
• 17:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Miraculously, they made it to the dock and left onto a boat without any further injuries.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then they took man to it nearby hospital where he got the treatment they needed.
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: It still took around six months for him to fully recover from his harrowing or deal, though.
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jeez, Komodo?
• 17:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're like Komodo, no.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, geez, oh, why?
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's tired of hearing about 2020's COVID-19 outbreak by now.
• 17:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: But there was another big news story that year that still gives me the shivers.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The discovery of northern giant hornets once known as Murder Hornets and Washington State in the US.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The huge bugs are thought to have come to the states by ship and their supremely dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Compared to honeybees, the Hornets can deliver a devastating 28 times more venom in a single sting.
• 18:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if you get stung by a whole swarm of these guys, well, you can wave bye-bye to tomorrow.
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Understandably, Americans were pretty darn panic then to find out the vicious vespids were on home ground.
• 18:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: American actress Rose McGowan got stung in 2021 and suffered from immense pain, numbness, a rapid heart rate, and even fuzzy vision.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thankfully she was fine in the end, it's actually very rare for her sting to cause anything other than temporary symptoms unless you're allergic.
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: What's more, multiple nests had been found and destroyed by the end of 2021 and there were no new sightings in Washington across the whole of 2022, so the U.S. might just have dodged a bullet there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you do wind up coming across one of the insidious insects, though, keep well away.
• 19:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Of all the horrible beasts that we've discussed so far, there's at least one small cell as you can take.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They don't squirm around inside your body.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Unlike tape worms.
• 19:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Tape worms are a hoard little things that can be contracted by eating under cooked meats.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: If a cow eats grass with tapeworm eggs on it, they'll hatch in its intestines as larva
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There they form hearty cysts.
• 19:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: These cysts are killed by cooking the infected meat thoroughly, but if you eat infected beef without cooking it properly, well, you'll get infected.
• 19:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: After being ingested, the cyst will develop into a fully-fledged tapeworm and live inside your intestines, beating on nutrients that should be going to your body.
• 19:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ugh, that's beyond disturbing.
• 20:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: It could be much more upsetting though, and the UK back in 2012, a man was admitted to hospital after suffering from four years of headaches.
• 20:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: On top of a painful cranium, he'd also been experiencing strange smells, memory flashbacks, and even seizures.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, what was wrong with him?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Dr. Smoundout, a rare ribbon-shaped tapeworm, had made its way into his brain.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yuck.
• 20:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's believed that whilst on a trip to China, the man probably ingested some infected meat, but rather than staying as gut, the worm had somehow ferored all the way to his brain.
• 20:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Understandably, this caused some rather wild symptoms.
• 20:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: The invasive housecast was eventually removed, but the man apparently still suffers residual problems.
• 20:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ugh.
• 20:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: That'd be a lesson to always cook your food, people.
• 20:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, Australia, the most beautiful place on Earth that I never want to visit.
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Partly because it's home to some of the most venomous aggressive spiders of the mall, Australia and funnel webs.
• 21:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: These guys will attack anything that gets too close, and the huge fangs on one particular species, the Sydney funnel web, are so strong, they can pierce leather.
• 21:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Meaning yes, they can nip right through your shoes.
• 21:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: So what happens if you do get bitten through your sick kicks?
• 21:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the venom can cause extreme symptoms just minutes after entering the bloodstream.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking vomiting, spasms, confusion, heart palpitations, and even brain swelling.
• 21:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Without swift treatment, Sydney funnel web bites can even be lethal.
• 21:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeesh!
• 21:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Australia native Ian Beard had a spine-chilling encounter with one of the spooky spiders in 2020.
• 21:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: His drain needed to be cleaned out so he took a small shovel and stuck his arm down it to dig up whatever was clogging it.
• 21:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Bit of a bozy move, but apparently he'd done it hundreds of times before.
• 21:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: That day, however, was different.
• 21:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Suddenly, he felt a sharp shooting pain on his finger and yanked his arm out.
• 22:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: To be greeted by a horrifying sight, you guessed it, there was a funnel web spider on it.
• 22:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: His wife immediately called an ambulance which rushed he into a hospital within 20 minutes.
• 22:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a good job too, although his condition was swiftly deteriorating, the antivitum was administered on time to save Ian's life.
• 22:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Damn!
• 22:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: After the traumatic ordeal of friend gave him some invaluable advice.
• 22:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Bitty, next time you're in the garden!
• 22:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: put on some bloody gloves.
• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well said.
• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: On that note I think I've had about enough horrifying animals for one day, which one made your skin grow the most.