Spiders, centipedes and other so-called "creepy crawlies" are some of the most maligned animals on earth. This channel is all about showing another side to the utterly fascinating, but sadly very misunderstood, denizens of the undergrowth. As a very young child, I was terrified of such creatures, but curiosity proved more powerful than fear and I soon grew to be enthralled by them. Now, I want to guide others on their own journey of turning fear to fascination.
Props to you for doing the intro with a beautiful huntsman on your face 😅😅 Edit: nevermind you did the whole video with that beautiful specimen on your face 🤣
Finally someone else appreciates both animals as amazing, majestic creatures rather than flying off the rails with biased fanboyism for one of them. Great video and keep up the good work!❤
Hiya Jackson missed this one it being a year old here's how I feel as for fornutria or the murderers I'd free handle it if it was calm but as for your Australian attrax robustus no I'd not even consider free handling them but that's only the Sydney funnel web Jackson mate have I spelt Sidney correctly?
What if they were equals that ocastion fuaght each other? Also it's most likly whales out competed sharks for food and could hunt sharks in pods or their alone young.
Looking at modern toothed whales, even when hunting cooperatively, they don’t target raptorial sharks of comparable size. Also I don’t really get the outcompetition proposal since O. megalodon outlasted Livyatan as well as a whole bunch of other macropredatory whales.
Hard to say. Even if they did, I don’t think it’d make much difference, given how modern toothed whales don’t target macrophagous sharks of similar size to themselves even when hunting as a group.
They call the T-rex in Prehistoric Planet a p---- just because it acts like a normal/real animal and isn't portrayed as an unrealisticly jacked 40mph demon because it's big and it's a carnivore? That is fking bullsht SMH. Quetzacoatlus is as big as a damn cessna plane. Those aren't just overgrown seagulls. They can impale a T-rex in the neck with their sharp beaks they use to pierce thick hides.
Impressively researched and well-narrated video! I totally agree that "who would win" videos are goofy bordering on a disservice to paleontology (and to contemporary predation-focus zoology). Why, in the first place, are some folks so obsessed with the what-ifs of predator competition? These discussions of bloody heterotrophs are made possible only by the larger, encompassing study of evolution, so why not follow Darwin's lead and focus our attention more on the sheer grandeur in this view of life, or in the tremendous potential of warm, little ponds? Therein lies far more exhilarating drama, gritty competition and panoramic sweep than will ever be wrung from fight night over at "Nature Red's" tooth & claw crowd.
The fossil evidence has a way of catching up with fiction authors. Just as the Dromaeosaurs politely became bigger to accommodate Michael Crichton, so the Ichthyosaurs seem to be catching up with Jules Verne.
At this time any interaction between these two kaiju's is purely speculative. It is perfectly plausible that they avoided each other, because a fight between them wouldn't have worked out well for either party. I won't even speculate too hard unless some pathological evidence of interaction emerges.
Our birds are the only thing I think people should be scared of in Australia. The kite that sets forest fires when it's hangry, the cassowary which is basically a velociraptor, the emus that won the war against an armed militia, or even just the magpies that cause us to have to make weird bike helmets. (this is all a little hyperbolic still as Australia's deadliest animals are people by far followed by horses and bee allergies)
I love your use of the world defensive. When I found out how big funnel webs were I was so surprised. I expected them to be one of the biggest spiders.
I’ve seen a few guys take bites from the giant desert centipede and all three of them experienced a great deal of pain for a while. One of them was that Coyote guy, so I figured he overplayed the pain. The other two guys were more reliably believable. Those centipedes are in the Arizona desert.
I dont think ceteceans in general can take on sharks unless they have a significant size advantage. Great whites prevail over False Killer Whales, which are close to the same size. The only aquatic animal shown to be able best sharks at equal weights are crocodilians, mostly because of dimensional superiority. E.g. a 1000 lb crocodile would appear much larger than a 1000 lb shark. The length disparity would look similar to a 5'9" 300 lb dude fighting a 7 foot 300 lb dude.
a similar sized crocodilian is better at almost everything except a few against a similar sized shark, but yeah. also that isnt really a good comparison
@@sorrowtwYes, crocodilians have several advantages at equal weights over sharks. Dimensional superiority is just one of them, but it is a significant one. The croc is just a flat out larger animal at equal weights in the sense that it has a much bigger frame (skeleton) than a shark would. That comes with a huge reach advantage; at equal weights a croc's jaws absolutely dwarf a shark's jaws for example.
I recall when I used to work at an Architectural practice in Derbyshire.... the owners, being from South Africa, told me there was a saying that South Africans agreed on almost unanimously.... "the only good spider is a dead spider" - I assume from that, that African spiders are pretty monstrous too. Must admit, I thought I was the worst arachnaphobe in the world until I ended up sitting next to a female engineer who was petrified of spiders. She screamed so loud over a spider one time I nearly ended up deaf and nearly got a connery in the same few seconds. From that point on I kept a supply of in-ear foam ear protection handy, safe in the knowledge that there was at least one person on this planet more predisposed to running away from spiders than me ;) But yea, those spiders make me recall that phrase every time I see them. Must admit I've got better with some spiders these days but they're some big-arsed ugly buggers out there than make the blood in my veins run cold.
