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Never Allow It to Lick You · Be Amazed

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  [SPEAKER_01]: Throughout the animal kingdom tongues are used for a wide range of purposes like communicating and cleaning, but as with everything in nature there's always a dark side, whether it's using those tongues as brutal bullets, spiky, shredding devices or even venom-filled killing machines.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: With that said, here are the animals that you should never allow to lick you.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: For most of us being leaked by a dog is enough to make our heart melt.
• 0:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Regardless of their bad breath and stringy slumber, however for some dog owners their pubs lick comes with something much worse.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2019 Marie Trainer felt unwell after returning from a vacation in the Caribbean.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: At first, she thought she had the flu, but after developing a fever, nausea, and backache, she went to the hospital.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Soon after arriving, her condition rapidly deteriorated.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She became unconscious and was put into a medically-induced coma.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Her arms and legs horrifyingly turned a purple-esque gangrene set in,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: cutting off the blood supply to her limbs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The doctors were baffled.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Initially they don't she had a travel related illness.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But seven days later they made the shocking discovery of the true cause of her condition.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't a tropical disease but rather it had come from her dog looking at cut on her arm.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Harmless as it may seem the saliva of most dogs contains a
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This bacterium normally spreads through bites, but sometimes all it takes is an innocent lick on an open wound for transmission to take place.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: To prevent the deadly infection from spreading doctors removed the affected areas from trainer's body.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, this meant amputating her arms and legs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, Captain O'Sightlefega isn't usually this dangerous to humans.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Typically, the symptoms resemble those of the flu, yet in rare cases, it's extremely deadly.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So much so that about 3 and 10 people who develop a serious capnocytofega infection, has a way.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sadly, that was the case for a 63-year-old German man who also contracted the disease when he was licked by his dog.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He went into fatal septic shock, causing several of his organs to fail after just 16 days of treatment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But remember, as lethal as these cases are, it's still extremely rare.
• 2:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: So keep playing with your K9 companions, just make sure to wash any slabber off, post-platime.
• 2:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you've ever been liked by a cat, you'll know the spine-chuling sensation that comes with it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Here is your cat's intentions may be, their tongues feel weirdly prickly and painful.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is because a kitty's tongue is filled with thousands of backfacing barbs called papillai.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The bombs are made from keratin, the same hard protein that makes up a cat's claws.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, these bupilai make a cat's tongue as or of a sandpaper, which they used to comb and groom their fur.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A bit like an end-built hairbrush, but that's not all.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The dangerous bacteria, Hesterella, Mota Sita is found in up to 90% of cats alive.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All it dives is for one cute kitty to lick an open wound to transmit the infection.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Devastatingly, that's exactly what happened to an 80-year-old woman in Australia after her cat licked a scratch on her arm.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Though woman's family found her unresponsive in her bed, before quickly rushing her to a hospital.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She was in a coma for nine days and then tragically passed away, just two weeks after her petit innocently licked her.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Though it's not just domestic cats that have dangerous tongues, big cats like lions, cheetahs and tigers have tongues that are all filled with the same saliva covered spikes, except these bupilai are both bigger and sharper.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This guy found that out the hard way.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All it took was just a few licks from this friendly cheetah that tear the skin away from his arm and cause him to bleed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But even when these animals are being gentle, they're still lethal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These dagger-like tombs aren't for slicing open humans, however.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It can't use these pointy projections to give themselves a deep groom helping to hide their scent from any potential prey.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The sharp pupel icon also act like a meat shredder helping to strip the flesh from the fur of their prey all while tenderizing their meal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Who knew this, single tongue could be such a deadly multi-tool?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Next up, how do you think is the most feared carnivore of the sea?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll give you a hint, it's not the great white shark, killer whale or giant octopus.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Only enough for a lot of animals, it's a cone snail.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep, yeah, that right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So how exactly could a snail be one of the oceans deadly as predators?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The answer lies beneath their beautiful exterior where these savage snails hold a lethal secret.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: To reach dinner, some species of cones nail have developed a brutal method of hunting known as hook and line.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It starts with a mollus stretching out a tongue-like propusk is from its mouth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then, as its proboscis reaches its prey, the cone snails shoots out a venom-coded harpoon.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Designed up heroized their target, allowing these pissivorous predators to reach their dinner at a snail's base.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Fortunately, humans aren't on the menu for these snails, but that doesn't mean a sting from one of these guys can't be dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Zaps from smaller cone snail species are about as painful as a bee sting.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But the sting of some larger fish eating species such as the geographic cone snail can be fatal to humans.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This particular cone snail is even gained the nicknamed the cigarette snail.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That because it omits smoke or has a persistent cough, instead, it's earned this name because, when stunned by this creature, humans will only have time to smoke a single cigarette before dropping dead.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These guys don't mess around.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The geographic cone snail found in the reefs of the Indian and Pacific oceans has been a made up of a complex cocktail containing hundreds of different toxins.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In the most severe cases, the stinkin cause weakness and sweating which is soon followed by muscle paralysis and respiratory failure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If left untreated, the victim can pass away within just one hour.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, it's believed that the Venom for one known snail has the potential to kill up to 700 people.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: To make matters worse, the complexity of this snail's poison has prevented scientists from developing an effective anti-vettum.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we found our next bond villain.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now let's talk about another disturbing aquatic creature.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The slimy, eel-like body of the sea lamprey may be enough to make your stomach squirm, but if that disturbs you, you won't want to see what's inside its mouth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can look up online at your discretion, but their mouths look like alien vents.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: While they may look like something from an alien horror movie, these curious creatures are actually fish.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Scary as they look, the sea lampraise mouth isn't just designed to give humans restless nights.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The suction cuped mob these fishes fitted with hundreds of these small teeth to dig into the flesh of prey.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Once locked on these parasitic predators, then make use of their horrendously specialized arm.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's fitted with a piston like tooth allowing the sea labyrinth to scrape a hole into its fishy prey.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These guys just have no chill.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After puncturing the skin with their tongue sea labyrinth to create a mucus to prevent the host blood from clotting.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This lets them slurp up as much of the red stuff as possible.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's no wonder that they hold the fearsome nickname of the vampire fish.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sadly, many fish that fall hosts to these fleshy feeders are likely to die from blood loss or an infection caused by the open wounds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, vampire fish don't tend to attack humans, too.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They are adapted to feasting on cold blooded fish and not warm blooded mammals like us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's not to say that a tax never happened.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Some swimmers have said to be attacked by up to seven lamprays at one time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the biting alone isn't likely to cause humans any major blood loss, the wounds from the tongue could lead to life-threatening infections.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: However, not everyone got the memo about the danger of sea lamprays, rumor has it that former British monarch King Henry I died after eating one too many vampire fish.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I struggle to look at these things a little and eat them.
• 8:56
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  [SPEAKER_01]: While lamp rays aren't the prettiest fish to look at, they look like a dream compared to the nightmare field that is the Haguefish.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These eel-like fish are journalists, boneless, and come with four hearts.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Disturbing as those features sound none of them will shock you as much as it's mouth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Attached to the Hagfish's tongue-like projection are four sets of razor-sharp teeth-like structures made from keratin, just like a cat.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now I know where stranger things got inspiration for the Dima Gorgon.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When it's time to feast on prey such as dead fish, Hackfish put these monstrous mounts to work.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They shoot out their tongues and pinch their mouths together to luck onto their food before retracting the tongue into their mouth the shred their meal apart.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If that wasn't metal enough, they're also known to bury themselves mouth first into fish carcasses before knowing a tunnel deep into the rotten flesh to eat their dinner from inside out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because Haguefish typically died on dead or dying, see life there and no real threat to humans?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, alive once at least.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If a seriously injured or deceased person was lying on the seafloor, make no mistake, these guys wouldn't have a problem tearing them apart from inside out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And don't get too comfortable yet because the ocean nightmares don't end there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The adorably named cookie cutter shark may sound sweet but
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  [SPEAKER_01]: don't let that fool you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This marine monster has gained its name not for being a brilliant baker, but for gouging cookie-sized plugs a flesh out of its prey.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This might only reaching up to 20 inches in length, these hungry hunters feast on anything they can get their mouths on.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Including, get this, the rubber sonar dooms of submarines.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Most sharks have buschios, which are
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Usually these are immobile and pretty pointless, but not the cookie cutters, and instead they have a gruesome use for their tongue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When these freaky fish latch onto their prey, they dig their spiky teeth in, then they lock onto their catch thanks to their strong tongues which are attached and strengthened even more by their very powerful throat muscles.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The scary sharks use the incredible suction power of their tongues to literally suck out a plug of flesh.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They then rotate around the incision to alert the flesh out of their prey, isn't nature beautiful.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If the fish is lucky enough to survive the attack, they'll be forever left with a distinctive plug-shaped hole in their side.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sort of like a cookie cutter shark tattoo.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, because these predators hunt at night in deep waters and counters with humans are rare, however, in 2009, Mike Spalding was one of the unlucky ones after he was attacked by a cookie cutter shark whilst having a night swim off the coast of Hawaii.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As he was swimming over to his friends' kayak, the shark suctioned onto his leg.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Spalding was rushed to a hospital and eventually recovered.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's not to say that the incident didn't scar him, literally.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's reason enough for me to never go swimming at night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now with their big eyes and little bandit mask raccoon, they're pretty cute animals, except when they're rooting through people's garbage.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But did you know that the tongue of these mischievous mammals contains a deadly bacteria that's responsible for up to 55,000 human fatalities every year?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Rabies is found in the saliva of animals across the world, including dogs, monkeys, bats, and, you guessed it, raccoons.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In the US alone, a staggering 30% of wild raccoons are reported to have Rabies.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And all it takes for transmission is for a human to have an open wound leaked by a rabbit raccoon.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The initial signs of infection take place over the first few months of contamination.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These symptoms include fever and headache.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: However, as the virus spreads, this symptoms worsen.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, the infection causes inflammation of the brain and central nervous system.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This can lead the sufferer to experience muscle spasms and difficulty breathing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Strange as it sounds, there are even cases of humans with rabies developing a fear of water.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This bizarre scientific known as hydrophobia is triggered by the inflammation of the brain which disturbs the cognition needed for swallowing and leads many rabies' sufferers to
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Even with intensive care survival is almost unheard of once the symptoms have presented themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not all hope is lost though, the U.S. government has been distributing oral rabies vaccines for raccoons since 1997 with the aim of making raccoons rabies free by 253.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So just another 30 years before we can all approach a raccoon without the fear of turning into a frothing weeping corpse.
• 14:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Who do you think holds the title in the Animal Kingdom for most powerful time?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You'd think it'd be something big and ferocious like a wolf or a tiger, but surprisingly the top tongue in the business belongs to the giant palm cell Amanda of Central America.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing amphibian can flick its tongue out around two and a half inches.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It may not be impressive for a human, but that's over half the giant Palm Salamander's body length.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's like an adult man sticking his tongue out over 31 inches.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Its long reaches one thing, but the speed of the giant Palm Salamander's tongue is what sets it apart from the rest.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These guys can flick the full length of their tongue out in just 7 milliseconds, giving their prey no chance of escape.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you're wondering, that's about 50 times faster than an average eye-blank.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like a magic trick.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One second, the bug is living its life that next it vanishes into a thin air.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A rather, into the Salamander's mouth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Unsurprisingly, this speed requires a huge amount of power.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These fleshy crossbows exert 18,000 watts of power per kilogram of muscle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For contrast, when a human sprints, they output around 2,000 watts of energy.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So this little salamander spears its prey with the energy of some 9 sprinting humans.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Those bugs don't stand a chance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Scientists believe that they've uncovered the science behind these bulletoms, unlike typical tons which just protrude out of the mouth giant palms salamander tons are rapidly fired out of the mouth by a ballistic projection.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Effectively the tons launches from their mouth like an arrow from above.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's quite the weapon to store inside your mouth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, there aren't any cases of humans taking a hit from a giant palm salamanders ton, but I can imagine that being pelted by a tongue traveling roughly at this speed of a bullet would definitely hurt.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Despite their elegant appearance, geese are rarely aggressive animals who will stop it and nothing to protect their young.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sounds terrifying enough, but just wait until you see the horrors these birds hold inside their mouths.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like all birds, geese aren't fitted with a set of teeth to help them chew and break up their food these waterfowler instead aren't with hundreds of small Tommy on their peaks.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: While these may act like teeth, they're made up of cartilage, not an amul.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But Tommy don't only line their beaks, this spiky cartilage also lines the sides of their
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This makes their fleshy mouth parts hard and sharp, helping never rip apart food like seeds, vegetation and even small fish.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, humans aren't on the menu for these boisterous birds, but that doesn't stop them from attacking anyone who gets in their way.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And with those sharp roofs of Tomia lining their beaks and tongue, even a lick for one of
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and just like geese penguins have especially adapted mount to cope with their lack of teeth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A penguins tongue is packed with sharp bristles made of keratin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These backward-facing spikes help them to swallow their fishy food alive and whole without it escaping.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So is cut as these animals may look from the outside penguin tongues really are the stuff of nightmares.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Getting a lick from one of these would probably be harmless, but a bite, a force of uping one's beak clamping against your skin with the added brush of those tiny devil barbs is sure to cause a deep cut.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Who knew these birds could be so gruesome?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You'd be forgiven for confusing the pocket face with a piranha at first glance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That isn't till they open their mouths.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These omnivores fish typically found in South America are fitted with a disturbingly humanistic mouth, and plait with a set of square straight teeth and flat tongue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Their chunky mullers are designed to grind down seeds and nuts that fall into rivers from trees.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And rumor has it that they're not the only type of nuts that these fear some fish are into.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2013, reports spread of this fish feasting on human testicles.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily for any men out there scientists have said that it's highly unlikely that these fish are in fact ballbiders.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's not to say they can't be dangerous to humans however.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In 2004, a small girl found that out first hand.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After dangling her hand in a ponku tank, one of the tropical fish sunk their teeth into her finger, latching on even as she pulled her hand out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The crushing bite was so bad that she needed plastic surgery to repair the wound.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just remember if an animal's got a human mouth, never put your hand or anything else near it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In place of a tongue, some fish have what appears to be an alien-like blob.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And crazy as that sounds that's not too far from the truth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These fish have what's called a tongue-eating louse hiding between its jaws.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No prizes for guessing what this critter does to its victims.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These organisms are known as protangric hermaphrodites.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This means that all tongue-eating parasites are born male, but when their adults the males can become females.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As Juvenile's these parasites found throughout the Atlantic Ocean, enter an unknowing fish through their gills.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, one of the males turns into a female, and that's when the horror story starts.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The female crawls into the fish's mouth and attaches herself to the host's tongue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What's a board she's severed that blood vessels of the tongue causing it to drop off?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and with no fleshy muscle left to feed on, he'd presume this parasite would swim away in search of a new baked up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But now, after the tongue is falling off, the female lousy will reattach herself, but coming the fish is new to her.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All it has to do then is sit back and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's not all they do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Females can also mate with male-lice inside the fish's mouth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Despite all of the traumatic events they have to go through scientists, believe that the fish continued to use the pair's side as if it were for a static tongue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not that they have much choice in the matter.
• 20:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: The monarch as it sounds, we don't need to worry about this pair's eye too much.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The tongue-eating louse isn't said to be harmful to humans.
• 20:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Still, you can never be too far away from those pitrifying parasites, if only for your sanity.
• 20:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: When most people think of worms, they imagine harmless invertebrates who live underground, but that's not the case for all worms.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Take the ribbon worm for example.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not only do most of these species live in the sea, but some are also incredibly dangerous, even to humans.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The capture its brave and ribbon worm has especially adapted ProBoskis.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's essentially an elongated flexible sucking mouth part much like a Tom.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It shoots out a thick, sticky mucus designed to either capture prey or did her predators, like some sort of sea-dwelling spider-man.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Several species of ribbon worms are armed with a stylin at the tip of their proboscis.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not only is this worm dagger sharp, it's also venomous.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When the worm style it stabs breed deadly toxins entered the victim's body.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In 1998 scientists in Japan discovered that one species of ribbon worm contained extreme levels of toxicity.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, mouse units are often used to quantify toxicity with one mouse unit being the amount of
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A cephalotheric simulus species was found to hold around 6,000 mouse units of tetrodotoxin or TTX.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you were wondering, that's a lot, considering that it only takes 10,000 mouse units of TTX to wipe out a human.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: TTX binds to the membranes and side bodily cells called sodium channels interfering with the transmission of signals from nerves to muscles.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This haunts the body's ability to control nerve impulses to perform actions like contracting muscles.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When consumed even in small amounts, TTAs can lead to vomiting, diarrhea, and paralysis of the muscles, including heart muscles, which can lead to respiratory arrest.
• 22:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it's safe to say that these worms are pretty deadly.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, there haven't been any cases of a human falling victim to one of these worrisome worms, but I'd strongly advise you to steer clear of them regardless.
• 22:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and definitely don't let them shoot their spaghetti mucas on your hand, if only because of how gross it looks.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now let's talk about our last terrifying creature.
• 23:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: The alligator snapping turtle found in the U.S. is a fearsome predator.
• 23:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: It can weigh up to 200 pounds, it's fitted with a spiky armor shell and holds one of the most forceful bites in the animal kingdom.
• 23:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it's most deadly weapon of all is, it's Tom.
• 23:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: At first sight, the small ping-tong appears pretty futile.
• 23:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, to catch its prey, this turtle lies against the riverbed keeping its body stone still.
• 23:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: The only movement it makes is the wriggling motion of its Tom.
• 23:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Confusing this decoy for a juicy worm, the snapping turtle's prey will unknowingly swim into the reptile's mouth before being devoured.
• 23:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean devoured.
• 23:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: The alligator snapping turtle has a bite force of around 1,000 PSI.
• 23:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: PSI are a pound-force per square inch is the measure of pressure from a force exerted onto one square inch of space.
• 24:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Unsurprisingly, the higher the PSI the more painful the bite, and it turns out that the alligator snapping turtle has a very painful bite indeed.
• 24:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, a PSI of their bite applies around 10 times more pressure compared to when a human chops down.
• 24:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: It then wasn't for some enough, these ravenous reptiles are also fitted with a crushing bony big design to tear apart anything that comes near their mouth.
• 24:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like good reviews and for animals to keep their distance from these prehistoric-looking predators.
• 24:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: But apparently, some people just don't listen.
• 24:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2018, investigators were stunned after finding something strange inside the stomach of an alligator snapping turtle.
• 24:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't the usual prey of these animals, but a human finger.
• 24:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like someone was stupid enough to get a little too close to Mr. Snappy Turtles where me top.
• 24:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Her kid wolf and sheep's clothing, it should be alligator snapping turtle and worms clothing.
• 25:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 25:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll see myself out for that one.
• 25:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: never let any of these creatures lick you.
• 25:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: You have been warned.
• 25:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening and I'll see you next time you want to be amazed.