Caecilians Eat Their Mothers (a little bit)

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Caecilians are legless amphibians. Some of them are immune to cobra venom and in a certain sense, some of them eat their mothers from the inside-out and some eat them from the outside-in.
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@BizarreBeasts 3 месяца назад

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@EmpressOfExile206 3 месяца назад

It's pronounced ē•lap•ids 😂 I had rewind after the 1st you said it.. I thought I heard 🐘's 💀😭

@rickseiden1 3 месяца назад

The fifth thing to know about caecilians--"Never go up against a caecilian when death is on the line!"

@Infernoraptor 3 месяца назад

I am so glad to see how high up this comment is

@ginger-ale7818 3 месяца назад

Stop that 😂

@sydneymomma11 3 месяца назад

Anybody want a peanut?

@radagastwiz 3 месяца назад

laughs maniacally for several beats, suddenly goes silent, then keels over

@KingsleyIII 3 месяца назад

"He was quite cheery until the iocane powder took effect."

@iiiiiiiv 3 месяца назад

Our babies are drinking liquid secretions of modified sweat glands. Not that different, really.

@wendymoyer782 3 месяца назад

Valid point. And, as a mother who has nursed her young, Also not always pain-free.

@quitlife9279 3 месяца назад

Even worse. Gross.

@blobbertmcblob4888 3 месяца назад

I love drinking liquid secretions from modified sweat glands I-I mean I did...I certainly don't enjoy doing that now.

@Cam-vz2zk 3 месяца назад

I am drinking secretions from modified sweat glands as we speak

@09Dragonite 3 месяца назад

Idk, scraping and eating the flesh of the ovary lining sounds a bit more horrifying than drinking milk from a mammary by sucking a nipple a bit too hard... 😅 but then again, I'm not a mother, so I don't really have any reason to suspect that it's ever been pleasant or not. But like, I feel like teeth scraping the walls of my internal organs just for a really ugly chest-burster to pop out of my hoo-ha would make me quite concerned 😂 well, I guess that would probably concern just about anyone now that it's out in the open 😅 Idk, something about cannabilism of a species just freaks me out, especially when it is a squishy/slimy species with solid and sharp teeth 😂 teething babies must be quite frightening to new mothers now that I think about it 🤔 I'd hate to lose a nipple like that 🤣

@TimAllen624 3 месяца назад

A common misconception about the invention of pizza is that it was invented by the Sicilians. This is actually a mistranslation error, and it was actually invented by caecilians chefs.

@friendlysoviet1 3 месяца назад

Burrowing Caecilians sounds like a slur.

@ajchapeliere 3 месяца назад

It's not far from one actually. Italy has some geographic components to its racism (more contact with peoples from Africa and the Middle East in the south), and one of the slurs that came out of that was basically bigotef northerners calling southerners "dirt people."

@Fede_99 3 месяца назад

Speaking of venomous amphibians there are also 3 species of frog that are actually venomous. They're small and have many pointy spikes on the tip of their snout, and they inject the venom with a headbutt

@gordygohard 3 месяца назад

is it similar to how kimodo dragons are "venomous" but its their saliva being super toxic? im just trying to find out and I just remembered

@Fede_99 3 месяца назад

@@gordygohard More recent studies found out that Komodo dragons are actually venomous, the toxic saliva thing is now outdated.

@Fede_99 3 месяца назад

I went looking for their names since I didn't remember them. So they're all in the subfamily Lophyohylinae and their names are: Aparasphenodon brunoi Corythomantis greningii Nyctimantis siemersi (this is often put in the genus Argenteohyla but that's an obsolete synonym)

@big__shell 3 месяца назад

this gives a new meaning to poison dart frog

@user-xj8wy4uu1q 2 месяца назад

@@Fede_99huh

@cassius5692 3 месяца назад

I once went to a school to do a presentation on reptiles and amphibians to a 4th grade class. I was just there as the guy that had pet snakes that were good with kids. The other presenters were a zookeeper specalized in reptiles & amphibians, at a zoo that actually had cecilians, and a biologist who studied snakes profesionally. Anyways, the slideshow went over different types of reptiles and amphibians. The pros were answering questions left and right with no issue. Until we got to the slide for cecilians. One kid asked a simple question. "Where's it's stomach?" Silence The other presenters looked at each other, then at me, their entire careers flashing before their eyes. I just shrugged. "I don't know, but they definitely have one." Was the final answer. I still think about that every time I'm reminded that these damp noodles of animals exist.

@Echo_the_half_glitch 6 дней назад

*D a m p N o o d l e s*

@stilloading5652 3 месяца назад

I’m Sicilian, and there were many point where I was like “hey, don’t call us that! And I had take a double take and remembered he’s talking about the animal

@sarahblack9333 3 месяца назад

Caecilians really just skeeve me out ... I MEAN THE AMPHIBIANS

@stilloading5652 3 месяца назад

@@sarahblack9333 Watch out, you wouldn’t want caecilians to hear you saying that. hahaha

@Dj-qi2we 3 месяца назад

Do they eat Cannoli too🧐🤔

@stilloading5652 3 месяца назад

@@Dj-qi2we on special occasions

@yeahokbuddy2510 3 месяца назад

You’re the smartest Sicilian

@knpark2025 3 месяца назад

Meanwhile, a Caecilian RU-vidr on Creepy Creatures: "Imagine, a species whose babies suck on their mothers to leech out the essence of their mothers blood! For months!"

@radagastwiz 3 месяца назад

Sounds like elapins fell victim to one of the classic blunders: never go in against a caecilian when death is on the line! *cue maniacal laughter*

@Nmethyltransferase 3 месяца назад

"Nice skin you got there, Mama. Be a shame if somethin' happened to it!"

@Nylak-Otter 3 месяца назад

I mean, so do human children, although it's usually a bit more metaphorically. ...And sometimes literally, for those bitey latchers.

@douglaspetersen4242 14 дней назад

...?>?>?>;do the MOTHER'S,either type, DIE, &-(...this just sounds like a DUMB-?, BUT...)-or , do they even feel pain, @-all ?...!?!...-(...MAY-B, there little ol' ,...?-BRAIN'S-?...produce , NUMBING-AGENT'S-(...?...)- or, SOMETHING,...-(...ANY-"THING" ?...)-...?...!!?!!...

@schizophrenic_rambler 3 месяца назад

I appreciate that you didn't use clickbait titles

@ravioliis_ 3 месяца назад

no need to clickbait when nature is just that weird on its own

@weirdredpanda 3 месяца назад

@@ravioliis_Agreed

@will9501 3 месяца назад

And everyone with a Sicilian friend rejoiced, for the trolling opportunities increased.

@MisterCynic18 3 месяца назад

2:12 Carcinonization is the big meme but what we should really be talking about is wormification

@blakeriley8546 3 месяца назад

Return to toob

@AquaticFlapper125 3 месяца назад

Vermification

@Echo_the_half_glitch 6 дней назад

Toobification

@NewMessage 3 месяца назад

Eat your heart out, Shai-Hulud!

@Coral_skies 3 месяца назад

Awww heck yeah! A video on our awesome forgotten lil amphibian buddies! They're SO BIZARRE! They're just some weird lil guys!

@mattdeblassmusic 3 месяца назад

They may be resistant to snake venom, but iocane powder gets them every time!

@Aettaro 3 месяца назад

I kept hearing 'elephants' instead of elapids and was so confused.

@michelles1250 14 дней назад

I heard that once too 😂 now the concept of Elephants injecting venom lives in my head

@takenname8053 3 месяца назад

Underrated Amphibian gets spotlighted! LET'S GOOOOO!!!

@mikamekaze 3 месяца назад

I've been hoping these weird little dudes would get a feature!

@franciscorosa1498 3 месяца назад

The weird not worms, I'm excited to get the pin

@Titleknown 2 месяца назад

SMH, he forgot the last rule. Which is, "Never go all-in against a caecelian when death is on the line!"

@Raziel1984 3 месяца назад

you should know that in german the placenta is called "mutterkuchen" that means "mother cake" so i think some Caecillian babys catched wind of that ... well i guess they lived long before someone gave wierd german names to anatomical structures

@anniestumpy9918 3 месяца назад

"placenta" itself means "cake" too

@Lutefisk445 3 месяца назад

I would just like to know who looked at a placenta and decided it looks like cake

@meganofsherwood3665 3 месяца назад

@@Lutefisk445 Tasting History with Matt Miller actually had a really good episode on that! 😂 And he's not wrong - the cake does vaguely resemble the smooth side of a placenta 😂

@SotraEngine4 Месяц назад

Morkake in Norwegian - mother-cake

@shawndickmann8215 3 месяца назад

I owned one when I was in high school. Lived for a few years, it was interesting.

@dracodracarys2339 3 месяца назад

The real-life Alaskan Bull Worm.

@ravioliis_ 3 месяца назад

1:27 "they are the group of amphibians you're most likely to forget about" Speak for yourself, caecilians have lived rent free in my brain ever since i learned of them years ago

@dysonsquared 3 месяца назад

So if the offspring consume their mothers' oviducts, does the mother recover or only get pregnant once?

@weirdredpanda 3 месяца назад

I also want to know.

@NecroJayJay 3 месяца назад

I crapped myself the first time I seen this irl

@kolt9051 3 месяца назад

This was informative and hilarious. Thanks!

@Tser 3 месяца назад

Holy crumbs, I love these lil weirdos so much. They are utterly adorable, in my opinion. I knew about the dermatophagy but I didn't know about the resistance to snake venom. This is such a great pin. Gonna be worth the extra wait because of the manufacturing delays.

@mecahhannah 3 месяца назад

Awesome as always thanks ❤

@americaroleplayer 3 месяца назад

Remember how in vampire birth a child eats their way out and it's the most horrifying thing ever?. . . Can't believe that happens in REAL LIFE!!!!!!

@lawrence42069 3 месяца назад

Never apologize for being caecilian

@MumboMod 3 месяца назад

One of the best bizarre beasts. Truly weird and wonderful!

@Regfife 3 месяца назад

4:14 Was that meant to be channeling Kermit in Muppet Treasure Island> "Not bad for an amphibian!"

@bookworm3005 3 месяца назад

Makes me a bit more grateful about how when my baby bites while breastfeeding, she doesn't take a chunk of skin with her 😅

@Infernape7890 3 месяца назад

4. Despite their name, they aren't from Sicily.

@helldad4689 Месяц назад

"I will eat worms and eels. I cannot be defeated by snakes. I am the king of all the squiggle animals." :"You are ALMOST correct, mother. Now please remain still. I hunger...."

@windlessoriginals1150 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@ScevenofTwistingNeth 3 месяца назад

I'm so excited, this is a completely new animal for me!!

@witchy90210 3 месяца назад

I feel I learned a lot about Caecillians after I forgot about them, but also learned nothing. Not as in this was poor information, but that I feel i still know not alot about them.

@Schmogel92 3 месяца назад

Of all the creatures that look like an evolutionary dead end these are certainly top contenders. Bizarre beasts indeed.

@valinorean4816 3 месяца назад

What are you talking about lol they are the top contenders to evolve into the Dune worms, with their large size, blindness, burrowing, fancy skin secretions and all!

@quitlife9279 3 месяца назад

I'm convinced "worms" are actually the ultimate final evolutionary body form. Every single type of animal is evolving into worms it's incredible. It's only a matter of time when the entire planet is covered with a mass of wriggling worms, slimy, scaly and furry.

@domperaino 3 месяца назад

Hank, genuine question: how do you have the time to pump out as much high quality content as you do? I understand you have a rockstar team of writers, editors, and videographers, but it seems like in each episode of whatever I'm watching you in, you have been studying the topic at hand for years. Your enthusiasm for these topics makes you seem like a grad student who is super passionate about their thesis and wants to share it with everyone. Surely you only have a few days to familiarize yourself with any given subject before going in front of the camera? Either way, thank you and thanks so much to the entire team for providing so much great science educational content on RU-vid in an era where content is becoming less and less personal. Genuinely, I don't understand how you guys do it.

@florinadrian5174 3 месяца назад

I hear there is an even stranger group of animals, very diversified, who feed their young with liquid secretions of their mother's body.

@Purdue_Pharma 2 месяца назад

3:06 If I’m not mistaken, that’s a nonvenomous milk snake, which in a stellar instance of Batesian mimicry, resembles their elapid cousin, the coral shnake.

@michaelobrien5891 3 месяца назад

This reminds me of the spider mothers that signal to their babies to come and eat them alive, otherwise they die of starvation.

@blitzloaf 3 месяца назад

My dad saw one of these dead and it was on someones drive way but he thought it was a big ass centipede but he just blew it off with a leaf blower

@KoneSkirata 3 месяца назад

You‘d think its weird that these animals eat a part of their mother‘s body that is especially prepared to be nutrient rich, until you realize that almost all mammals do a similar thing.

@adrienne7794 3 месяца назад

They suck WHAT, out of WHERE?!

@ChuckMeIntoHell 3 месяца назад

I think I may have seen one if these guys once. At first I thought it was a giant worm, but then I realized that it had a vertebrate type mouth, and so I figured it was some sort of weird snake. I had no idea it was an amphibian, but it makes sense.

@ButBigger42 3 месяца назад

Finally, an animal I've never heard of. What a Bizarre Beast.

@culwin 3 месяца назад

I'm a caecilian main but now everybody's going to be using it thanks to these videos.

@laterferaligatr2947 Месяц назад

I used to have an Amphibians book when i was a child, so i knew about Caecelians already

@tranquil_dude 3 месяца назад

I see Hank, I subscribe! 😃😂 (ok, more accurately, I really enjoy Hank & co.'s style of science videos)

@marxtheenigma873 3 месяца назад

Just yesterday I was thinking about these and how I can use their maternal dermatophagy to explain taking Appletun's tasty skin being not that horrible for it.

@samarnadra 3 месяца назад

I just figured that is shed skin and is like cutting hair

@ryguydavis 3 месяца назад

I grew up in South America and we had these! Though we called them AAAAUUUGGGHHHWHATISIT

@chainfrost7851 3 месяца назад

Im 48 and this is the first time i have ever heard of caecillians.

@victormillen8393 3 месяца назад

WHAT.

@martinjohnson2549 Месяц назад

0:36 There is no more in, when eating from outside.

@dcdttu Месяц назад

I think that first coral snake is actually a milk snake.

@cody232 3 месяца назад

Red next to black is a friend of Jack. Red next to yellow can kill a fellow...

@purpleiguana208 3 месяца назад

Little old me, listening to the video, eyes on a different tab, wondering why the heck Hank was talking about Sicilians. LOL.

@threadbarerag336 3 месяца назад

Discus fish also grow a special slime coat on their skin to feed fry.

@weirdral 3 месяца назад

I have to say, i didnt want to watch this because the thumbnail grossed me out, but watching it to get it off my feed. Thanks for the weirdness!

@jackreno12 Месяц назад

This is the guy that ate Han Solo in Episode 4.

@wendymoyer782 3 месяца назад

Thank you for teaching me about these creatures. I do NOT want a pin of them, thank you. 😂

@ericlehman6841 Месяц назад

These are the third group of amphibians.

@TiggerIsMyCat 3 месяца назад

So the Eons episode is going to be an outgrowth of the Snake Detection Hypothesis episode? That thumbnail and title, I'm kinda starting to feel really bad for snakes. All they want to do is eat and not die.

@DtWolfwood 3 месяца назад

o lord what a title! lol

@rammstein413567 3 месяца назад

There was a discovery made recently that some ringed caecilians secrete a milk like substance from something called a "maternal vent" that they feed their offspring. So basically they give their babies milk, just like humans do. First time an amphibian has been found to do that. Just another interesting fact for everyone here.

@weirdredpanda 3 месяца назад

Hank's hair looks like it's gotten even darker than when it first grew back. Also, the aquatic caecilian is nicknamed the p***s snake due to resembling a certain male body part. I'm kinda surprised that wasn't mentioned.

@nubbiewubbie7285 3 месяца назад

Fun fact: caecilians are objectively the greatest life forms on earth. All other organisms owe their success to the mercy of the caecilian empire.

@urquizabr 3 месяца назад

Very thoughtful the explanation that Silicians don't eat their mothers. 😂😂😂

@danieloneal7137 Месяц назад

How did I never know there were legless amphibians?

@Publicistvideos 3 месяца назад

If you think about it, mammals kind of eat their mothers too when they’re breastfeeding

@mayceehash8434 3 месяца назад

Caecilians have it all

@Tinyvalkyrie410 3 месяца назад

I had *no* idea that caecilians got that big!

@ApequH 3 месяца назад

They are real cool

@willgordon5737 Месяц назад

Just found Another reason for me to have anxiety at night

@JMDinOKC 3 месяца назад

This is why I always get annoyed when they talk about "strange" and "bizarre" creatures that lived millions of yeats ago. As if there weren't millions of species of "strange" and "bizarre" creatures living among us right now.

@taleandclawrock2606 3 месяца назад

Really fascinating creatures!! I live in hope we will discover Australian species....there has been a few reports and anecdotes, but none scientifically confirmed. But surely in a country with both giant and blue earthworms, we must have caecillians....although we do have alot of snakes, so maybe they didnt make it here....

@lubumbashi6666 3 месяца назад

Siren photo is credit Wes Anderson. I have a question Hank: Why isn't it wearing a hat in front of a symetrical, pastel colored backdrop?

@VoidHalo 3 месяца назад

2:30 I believe this is a milk snake, not a coral snake. Definitely not a.coral snake.The next picture with the 3 snakes side by side IS a coral snake, though. I remember the old saying that was drilled into my head as a kid to tell the difference. "If red touches black, you're alright, Jack. If red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow. The idea being if they look like a deadly venomous snake, predators would leave them alone. Like those little black and yellow flies that look like tiny bees. I stayed well away from those until I realized they're just flies.

@musicalmark 3 месяца назад

That saying works for most North American coral snakes/milk snakes but it is not helpful anywhere out of North America (and even some places in North America). There are some coral snakes in the Central America that are only red and black. I don't the exact species that are shown in this video, but basically if you see a red, black, and yellow snake, don't pick it up unless you know exactly what it is.

@sampagano205 3 месяца назад

6:06 since the alternative is an entire type of animal that is into vore, I choose to believe that it is in fact unpleasant.

@1TakoyakiStore 3 месяца назад

Caecilians are the amphibian version of amphisbaenids.

@Boogit_Fire314 3 месяца назад

We have caecilians here in Northern Ontario, Canada… Far North.

@kd9425 3 месяца назад

Hank spoke so fast in this video that I had to slow the playback speed to hear what he was saying.

@ludwiggraupe7571 Месяц назад

Never heard of them. But they must be the same Family that "Blindschleiche" is that we have here in Austria. Greetings

@JuniAku 25 дней назад

THE SPICE!!

@phillataxeudo2563 3 месяца назад

Hey what about legless liziard ?

@PhearaXT 2 месяца назад

Poor mother.

@LeDodgyLodger 3 месяца назад

But what do they taste like?

@thesovereign6906 2 месяца назад

It's an Alaskan Bull Worm

@nutmeg3542 18 дней назад

It's like a worm with bones

@randomaudit5175 3 месяца назад

2:31 - isn't that a king snake, not a coral? Red touches black, friend of Jack. I know the other snake placed up on screen was a coral but not first one.

@user-zr6er2xs3w 3 месяца назад

Actually, the 'Red touches black, freind to Jack,' only works when you are in the US. In Central and South America, you find Coral Snakes with red touching black, and Kingsnakes with red touching yellow.

@melatonin1371 3 месяца назад

Cecilians exist to spite snakes, good to know

@avariceseven9443 3 месяца назад

I hate earthworms and idk about these creatures, they’re a combination of things i hate, like snakes, earthworms and slimy amphibians.

@jonah4739 3 месяца назад

How about more advertisements ?

@spacebadger21 3 месяца назад

But do any caecilians live in Sicily?

@thehalalreviewer Месяц назад

A buddy of mine had a Sicilian girlfriend and he says this is mostly true. Then again my best friend is Sicilian and he and his family are nothing like that.