Nah, it's not crying, it's more like shooting lasers from your eyes! Only, instead of stupid photons, these lasers are from BLOOD! I still think tis is very metal.
I bet that since it's already learned to handle sun, it's now secretly trying to learn how to stop time, and make knives that can be thrown using claws. =p
The Aye-Aye has "no interest in punk rock"...? I would like to see the peer reviewed research on the subject. Otherwise, you should state your assumptions about the musical tastes of nocturnal primates as speculative hypotheses.
Other people have pointed it out but... yeah, SciShow, you got one wrong. The Thorny Dragon (more commonly called the Thorny Devil) is indeed found in Australia and eats thousands of ants, but it is not preyed on by coyotes or squirt blood from its eyes. That trait belongs to the Horny Toad, a group of lizards from North America. The Thorny Devil does other cool stuff, though! The spines collect water and run it along the body into the mouth. It also has a false head behind its neck that it presents when threatened.
When I see a basking shark, I like to imagine one stretching out in the shallows and letting out a relaxed sigh with that huge mouth. Maybe holding a mojito in its pectoral fin.
i wish i could find one,i dont think im confortable with 3 of the most poisonous animals living in australia tho. well,THE most poisonous animal lives in brazil so i think i might consider it
The most poisonous spider yes, animal no. That title belongs to the box jelly fish or sea wasp. like most other animals that will try and klil you, it too is found in Australia
Dead Man the dart frog is the one with the most powerfull poison.but its not as dangerous because it cant inject the poison. and i know that this has nothing to do with this comment but i forgot to say that im from brazil in the other comment but i feel like no one would see it if i just changed it (my keyboard bu5gg5ed so for every g a 5 appears for every h a 6 appears and every time i click s i g5o to th6e c6hrome 6help menu t6his h6as noth6in5g to to with6 th6is comment as well but if you know 6how to fix it i would apreciate if you 6helped me)
That's actually inaccurate, the only puppy this spider would be the size of is maybe a chihuahua. She says that each of its legs can be 30cm, but in reality T. Blondi can have a maximum total leg span of 30cm. Still it's a spider the size of a dinner plate, and they aren't known for being friendly. I mean there are far more aggressive species like the Haitian Brown Birdeater and the P. Murinis, which holds the descriptive nickname of "Orange Bitey Thing."
I've spent my whole childhood being confused why people scream because there's a hoverfly. The way they fly is so different. They're called hoverflies for a reason. One time one got drunk on my beer and wobbled around on my finger for 5 Minutes.
I love Olivia! I like her kinda dry delivery. Please have her do more SciShow segments. I didn't see her for a couple of weeks and I'm stoked to see her back!
Olivia is a great host! The only suggestion I have is making sure the lights don't reflect off her glasses and into the camera, as it can get somewhat distracting. Great video!
I love her style aswell, Idk why so many people are hating on her, she's just like every other host, people only hate on her for her peircings, that's honestly the dumbest thing to hate on....
I agree with the lighting/glasses issue. It's not a problem with Hank's glasses for some reason. Maybe adjust how she's lit, or get her to keep her head still (though that might create a stiff, unnatural look). Or do nothing... It's not a deal breaker for me TBH. As long as the content is good, I'll still watch.
I actually kept a Whipscorpion as a pet, along with a related arachnid called an Amblypigid (tailless whip scorpion or whip spider, much like the creature in the thumbnail). I decided to give both to the Randall museum after I could no longer find it in myself to take care of them. The amblypigid is still alive but the Vinegaroon passed, unfortunately. Advice: I would recommend getting the whipscorpion if you want something that hunts more ferociously while the Amblypigid is more of a shy animal that hunts when no one else is usually up and about.
I'm sorry, how the heck are hover flies "creepy"? They are like the cutest insects there are. You can get them to follow your finger. They mechanically keep the same distance from it. It's really cute behavior.
The aye-aye to me seems like a special case. As far as I can tell it does not attempt to look creepy. Its appearance probably isn't really something that keeps predators away. Or is it? The arachnids I get. The shark I kinda sorta get, although that particular shark looks cute as a button. A huge button. But anyway. Other than the aye-aye and _maybe_ the arachnids, none of these animals are "creepy".
I can't say I know all the species of hover flies but at least those I saw can't really fool anybody. They are very clearly not bees or wasps eventhough they do have that stripy pattern. Their body build is completely different.
This has been one of my favorite scishow videos! I've felt like some of Olivia's videos have felt stiffly scripted compared to other presenters. This video was so great though and presented so well! Awesome job Olivia and Scishow team! You make learning fun and fascinating!
I have nothing against the lady, but the research team needs to check their facts, coyotes are not a predator of the thorny dragon lizard. There are no coyotes in Australia
They definitely did. Thorny dragons are native to Austrailia and are of a different suborder from Horned Lizards. Thorny Dragons don't shoot blood out of their eyes, but they have false heads on their necks to confuse predators.
they did say that human bites were without venom, I would call that harmless you know, just like a hamster, we don't call them dangerous, despite their bites being easily able to puncture your skin...
SOME bites are fake bites. And even the "fake" bites are having their huge fangs digging into your flesh. vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/arachnipedia/images/f/fc/Fangs-memories--large-msg-116953851002.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130222181448 That's not small. And the thing mentioned with their hairs can seriously damage your eyes.
Kittens have extremely sharp claws and can cause infections. CATS ARE DANGEROUS! DON'T KEEP CATS! Puppies bark and shit all over the place. YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS TELLING YOU TO PICK IT UP! DOGS ARE DANGEROUS!
I'd agree that the Birdeater doesn't sound so harmless to me. And to the people claiming cat/dogs/hamsters are harmless, that's more a personality trait or training. Try patting a feral cat and you tell me if they're "harmless" then.
All the comments are people commenting on people being rude. I can't find these rude comments. Why the fuck am I reading youtube comments? Why the fuck are you reading youtube comments?
Probably about the supposed coyotes in Australia? Or maybe her thinking it would eat something other than ants? Or maybe calling it a Thorny Dragon Lizard and not a Thorny Devil.
Its probably that 1 dude hated on her and most people jumped on the train without finding the actual hate comment. The first anti-hate comment could have been fabricated
I tried to watch a random one of these SciShow videos. About an hour or so later and like 20 videos later, I finally forced myself to stop. lol. Very interesting videos!
Two comments regarding the Mimic octopus: The lionfish is referred to as possessing poisonous spines; the more correct term is venomous, since they possess spines which inject venom into attackers, rather than locating their toxins primarily in their flesh as poisonous organisms do. This was likely mis-spoken, as the host correctly refers to the banded sea snake as venomous. In addition, mimic octopuses were incorrectly refereed to as living in tropical rivers, when their actual habitat is tropical coral reefs. There are no cephalopods adapted to pure freshwater habitats, such as rivers. Again, this is likely simply a mis-spoken line, but it sees to be good to point out anyways in the interest of accuracy.
Evolution doesn't teach anything. The flies that more closely resembled the bees survived, the ones that didn't ... didn't. The survivors reproduced, the didn't's... didn't. Thus, the more you look like a bee, the longer you will live and be able to reproduce.
Oh boy! Yet another comment feed focusing solely on the fact that its a female host on youtube instead of a male host! I can't wait for some totally original and insightful conversations to happen!
I don't agree with these people, but I think it's rather about the chosen appearance, not the involuntary biological sex. A male with those piercings would get the same response I wager.
As far as creatures I've actually encountered, the harmless-but-overwhelmingly-creepy award goes to the camel cricket. They're kinda big, like to hide, and look freaking demonic, but can't do any physical harm to a person. Discovered some in a friend's very cluttered house; scared the piss out of me when it just crawled out from under a pile of junk. Got me kinda paranoid hanging out there after that...
You are correct. There are no coyotes in Australia. And the idiot who replied referring to cats, horses, camels, etc. overlooked one fact: there ARE NO COYOTES in Australia.
@leakycheese: Don't ask what a vocal fry is. Don't look it up. It's one of those things that you don't notice, but once you have it pointed out for you you will never unhear.
Wtf?! First related video to the right is 14 Cutest Animals That Can Harm You, and the pic is a giant ass triantula-looking monster that's black and whtie striped with red fangs (or whatever spiders have). Dear lord, that is NOT cute!! D8
it's a bit like an alien tried to design something humans will find cute "extrapolating from this 'stuffy tiger', you like fuzzy things and striped patterns. and look, it's got even more extremities you can [looks up something in research notes] ...'snuggle up to'. why don't you like it?"
I find hoverflies adorable as heck! they're like the major fangirls/boys trying so hard to be like their idles that they behave very similar (like the stinging and pollinating part) whilst trying to look like them and since hoverflies mimic all sorts of species of bees/wasps/hornets makes this description even better
You're me!!! You have artistic brain. Me too fall in love with the hoverflies as soon as i see this scene where he trying to pock human skin with his non existent stinger 😂 So cute
@@thureintun1687 eyy! I do in fact love to do art and nature has been my main inspiration for the things I do in art like colour palettes and such :D even since I was a kid I like to create my own creatures and I use the idea of how animals/plants use their colours for survival when it comes to the creature's colour palettes ^^ and yes hoverflies are pure beans! they're even predators like wasps, apparently they prey on Greenflies like ladybirds do, so if you're struggling to invite ladybirds to deal with Greenflies, plant some marigolds (like pot/field marigolds) and hoverflies will come to help instead! I know from experience hoverflies love pot/field marigolds as I grew some this year and saw them come visit the marigolds! precious things they are
Actual y number 6 ( 5:41 ) is not harmless and you should run from it because it can throw special hairs that can iritate your eyes....and in extrem cases make you blind
And they are known to be agressive and bite HARD with their extrimly large fangs. Even if it is a dry bite (and yes envonomating bites are rare, but nat as rare as presented here). Also their utricating hair are the two most harmfull ones to mammals, out of all six that exist within spiders. And you can easily breath them in. And they can cause not only iritation, but also inflamation and might even trigger allergies.
I don't get why people are so upset that she hosts this video. You barely see her nose ring and her presenting style isn't that different from the other guys. Stop being butt hurt because there's a new host.
It's not really her appearance, but that she sounds kind of like she's giving a presentation to the class for a project or something. She doesn't quite have the energy, enthusiasm, and confidence yet that the other two bring to things. I;m sure she'll pick it up, and she's improved, just... she needs a little bit more practice before getting on the as exciting and interesting to listen to.
IKR look at Hanks early videos on this channel and he is a little awkward and nowhere near as good a hoast as he is now. It just didn't bother me because I have a man crush on Hank and now I love this channel
w1q2e3r4t5 I definitely agree, but most commenters here complain about her appearance and don't give constructive criticism like you did. That's why I adressed those people specifically.
Richard Nope Yeah, you do kind of have a point there, she looks really messy and seems like she's pretty nervous. I believe she will get better though.
Number 8 is pretty messed up, first of all it's called a thorny devil, there's no coyotes in Australia, they aren't easily spotted by predators because of their excellent camouflage and they can't squirt blood from its eyes. You're getting it mixed up with another spiny lizard from America which is preyed on by coyotes and does squirt blood from its eyes
I know!! They got the two lizards mixed up terribly 7:15 No one in Australia calls them the 'Thorny Dragon lizard' , they ARE CALLED the Thorny Devil. Also, she mentions they have thorns to protect themselves from Hawks and Coyotes. WTF!!? Coyotes DON'T even live in Australia. Whoever wrote the script got muddled up
The aye-aye doesn't drum on the tree to startle insects - it drums to listen to the sound produced. This sound helps it to locate grub tunnels in the juicy layer just under the bark of the tree. When it finds a tunnel, it will tear through the bark with its teeth, and then use it's long finger as a probe to fish out the grub.
though lousy it's not just that she is female, it's that she is a female that is not considered to meet beauty standards in a show watched by mostly men.
Just gonna add this here Goliath Birdeaters aren't actually that big, they're bulky and heavy. Their venom feels like a bee sting, but the fangs may hurt a bit- aaand they're generally pretty slow moving. Since they have urticating hairs, they're less likely to bite. If you want to be afraid of a big spider, look at a giant huntsman spider, which are pretty fast, like, really fast, but they still wont do much harm if they bite you.
Intro: 'Some animals take on intimidating characteristics to avoid predators.' First example: 'The Aye-aye's middle finger looks creepy, and has nothing to do with avoiding predators.' Maybe I'm just a stickler for consistency.
Okay, old video i know. But tarantula collector here, T.stirmi and T.blondi (the two species that are called bird eating tarantulas, but the officail Bird eater is the T.blondi) are NOT harmless. Their urticating hairs can cause blindness if they get in your eyes and breathing problems if you inhale them, and also sting like hell compared to another species like G/rosea (Rose hair tarantula) that only cause an annoying iching. Goliath Bird eaters are also very defensive and will not shy away at flicking their hairs at you or giving you a threat displace. Their bite wont kill you but it hurts more then a wasp sting. They are also NOT the size of puppies. Their leg span is around 12 inches across. They are not harmless, remotely. But they will not kill you. If you want a harmless Tarantula then the pink toe tarantula (A.avicularia) is for you, yeah they are much much smaller, but you have to be REALLY stupid to some how get one to bite you and they are not super defensive.
if i saw a spider that fucking big in my house i would run and just say this is your house now bye im gonna burn this place to the grown with you and all my stuff in it that seems like a fair trade your life for all my stuff
The only the issue I can comment on is the vocal fry she does at the end of each sentence, where the last word or two sound really croaky.With conductive hearing loss I'd be screwed without the subtitles, the words just sound unintelligible. If she just practices on her speech a little she'll make a really good host!
Yeah she mostly needs practice. I mean, in this video she actually already managed to bring one of the jokes in a very similar, catchy fashion to what the guys do all the time - 0:39
This is actually becoming more common in speech. It may eventually get it's own name as sort of an "accent" as it's becoming more identifiable. I know that doesn't help, but I'm saying a lot of people are starting to do this because they enjoy the sound of it... :/
The vocal fry makes it very hard to listen to her. Some people think is sounds 'cute', but in my opinion is does not. If it wouldn't be for that she would be a good host.
the basking sharks are genuinely terrifying. I've known since I was a kid they are filter feeders but if I saw one in the water I'd soil my diving suit and probably yell away all my oxygen in morbid terror.
Here's my question, which of these would make the best pet? I like the idea of having a totally creepy looking yet harmless pet to freak people out with.
these animals shouldn't be kept as pets; they are way too wild and not domesticated to be kept in a small space and unsuitable environment. Plus, probably some of these are endangered. Just search for some domesticated animals to make sure you're not participating in an illegal or unethical animal trade. Some animal shelters have wild animals that are unable to be returned into the wild, so they offer them for adoption. Your safest bet is a domesticated rat or one of those new Lyoki "werewolf" cats...
The last one for sure It looks big enough to keep track of and they don't look too actually dangerous. If you can train it to bleed it's eyes on command, that's a plus as well.
depends if you're more a reptile person or a bug person. But the thorny dragon lizard and the whip scorpion are decent pets. Though there are plenty of non-harmful to humans scorpions that can be pets too. If you haven't had a reptile, I'd go with a scorpion instead. Or an easy lizard like a leopard gecko or bearded dragon. Lots of those at rescues.
I was diving in The Channel, and was "nudged" by a Basking Shark. It rolled me along it's flank and was gone. Visibility is awful in this part of The Channel. I was a bit battered and bruised, my wet suit had born the brunt of the damage. They used to use shark skin before we made sandpaper.
I think the issue is she doesn't come across as enthusiastic or even interested in the material she's presenting (even if she *is* enthusiastic, learning to convey that via video is a new skill to her). I'm sure Hank and Michael were just as bad when they first started, but we have modern-day Hank and Michael to compare her to, so she's not very good by comparison. Just give her time.
Now that is valid criticism of a video or a host. I appreciate constructive like that, not the mindless assault on her looks or whatever. Indeed she is new to this presenting on a large channel lark, and I have every faith that she will relax into the role and make it her own :)
It could be since she's new and learning. She could also have just a naturally monotone voice. I speak the same way and frequently get compared to Daria.
She speaks slowly and makes witty remarks. That's makes the video interesting to me and I find that way of delivery quite captivating. I am definitely not the type that values waving of hands and fast talking rather than the contents of the talk itself. Not sure why some people focus more on show-off skills than the content.
whip scorpion?so thats the name of the bastard. one day i found near rice field.i thought "damnnn,scoorpion.i must have you"when i catch it with a cloth i wad so happy until i smell something bad.like really really bad.it make me puke and then i just throw it away.and i never forget that day.
The whip scorpion you found is called a vinegaroon, they spray a nasty vinegar substance to scare away predators. However there are whip scorpions that don't spray vinegar if you really want one as a pet, they're called tailless whip scorpions...there's one pictured in the thumbnail. I keep two tailless whip scorpions as pets, they're really creepy but easy to care for. I have a video of one on my channel if you want to see it.
7:15 No one in Australia calls them the 'Thorny Dragon lizard' , they ARE CALLED the Thorny Devil. Also, she mentions they have thorns to protect themselves from Hawks and Coyotes. WTF!!? Coyotes DON'T even live in Australia, perhaps she meant Dingoes.
Damn I was searching the comments for discussion about the subject of the video. I put too much faith in the intelligence of some people watching a science show!
Okay, the Aye Aye is SO adorable!!! I want one! I first learned of these cute nocturnal lemurs about 10 years ago or so, and I have fallen in love with them!
They'd have to apply and be qualified and work for peanuts like everyone else. But yes. If they are more qualified or generally a better fit than anyone else applying. You know, unless you want people to hire based on what race the audience thinks is superior to others.
[Apologies if someone else has already brought up this issue.] There are lots of instances of visual mimicry; but what about other modalities -- auditory, for example, or chemical (olfactory)? Are there critters that sound dangerous, but actually aren't? You mention the fact that thorny dragon lizard blood tastes bad, and also that the vinegaroon's spray contains acetic acid, which has a recognizable aroma; but those are both secondary defenses. I'm wondering about critters (or, for that matter, plants or fungi) that smell like other organisms that predators have reason to avoid. (Not mimicry, but a related possibility: organisms with smells so unpleasant that predators directly avoid them.)
