@@sickle795 All the other spiders can die fr all I care, but WHO would want a harmless gentle dady long leg dead? 😢 When I was about 6, it had just raind broad daylight with the sun out and there was a rainbow. So my aunt pulled over so we could get pictures of it & a dady long leg walked over my shoe. Probally thinking "Pardon me." I remained very still so the little buddie could pass. They're like giraffes or elderly men bobin & minding they're own business. 🥺
My respect for them just went up tenfold, the fact that they don't regenerate yet they make the sacrifice to survive, is an incredible display of willpower
No. No it does not. Opiliones are a completely separate group from Araneae. They have a reduced connection between the front and back of the body, as opposed to the spiders' distinct head and abdomen. They do not have venom of any kind. They have only 2 eyes. They lack spinnerets, and their pedipalps are completely reworked. They also have a scent gland, unlike spiders, so they do not, in fact, smell like a spider. If you've ever upset one, you will know the smell I'm talking about.
The most chill bug you'll ever meet. They'll hang out on your shoulder like it's not big deal, and let you pick it up, and set it back on the ground. Love those things. Friendly as far as bugs go
I am truly sorry to all daddy long legs reading these comments, 5 year old me thought it was funny to pull your legs apart until only the "pea" remained..... ;,,,()
I think since they can willingly let go of their own legs like how some reptiles drop limbs and tails, its likely it only hurts for a few seconds and then they shake off the pain after a little bit.
I don't think the statement was supposed to be something that relieved them of the burden, they just wanted to explain that they didn't just pull the leg off (which we could do with a lot of animals), but the daddy longlegs had a mechanism to forcably remove its own leg (which a lot less animals can do, making it more interesting)
Disclaimer: Nobody lost any legs during this clip!... Mr. Longlegs is a professional actor/stuntman, and all the legs were able to be kept on ice, and surgically put back together... He will soon be back in showbiz, starting in a documentary called "My new life, as a daddy!"
I went moth surveying one night with a group of local entomologists and saw literally hundreds of these little cuties. I always liked them, but became truly endeared to them that evening.
"Daddy long legs" is the common name for several small long legged species. Which name each individual is known by is dependent on where you're from. The Harvestman (which is the arachnid shown in this video), the cellar spider (which is an actual spider), and also apparently the crane fly and possibly mosquito's in some area's.
THANK YOU. I was going to say there are Daddy long legs that ARE spiders. But I heard that it is a location type thing. Like in the west coast of the US they are spiders but in the east coast they are Harvestman ones.
I honestly feel really bad for them, always missing limbs when I find them, and they're so fragile that it can't save them by throwing them out. I love them so.
@rachaelsanchezcruickshank578I used to that that with anthill where I kick them wide open or pour a gallon of water or worse do both. Now, I appreciate the work they pull of a nest. Tho, about the nests I destroyed were invasive, so not as bad, but have to be more considerate in the future.
*Scientist 1:* This thing looks like a spider, but its legs are really long. *Scientist 2:* Yes. We should name it Longlegs. *Scientist 1:* Mm, needs to be kinkier. You know how I am. *Scientist 2:* Right, Daddy Longlegs it is.
Daddy Longlegs scientist on another planet where they're the dominant species: "and you can see, if we rip off the human's leg it just learns to hop, and in time constructs a new leg for itself out of wood."
Preston Cormick it’s not about paying attention, it’s about a daddy long leg just living it’s life and some human comes along with friggin’ pliers and makes it panic for its life enough to disfigure itself for its whole life. They could have just told us that is it’s defense mechanism, we would have believed them. They didn’t need to hold onto one and make it panic so much to do that for real.
@@PrestonCormack Except it wasn't because of a natural predator -- it was for no other reason than to satisfy our curiosity. I'm all for scientific exploration (and not gonna lie -- I HATE spiders), but this was pretty low for humans. We cannot know how painful the sever is. It may be a defense mechanism, but given the problems associated with walking with fewer than 8 legs, I get the feeling daddy long legs are in no rush to lose any of them. Being scratched by my cat is mildly painful. I still don't want to be scratched by my cat though.
What if you removed all but two of its legs and it stands up and starts walking around all human like, what you going to do then smarty pants, you just created the real spiderman
I appreciate the demonstration, oh my! That reminder that the pursuit of science is a grizzly venture. And to the most harmless and friendly of scorpions on the planet!
I started this video expecting to be terrified and disturbed but now I'm actually less scared of them than I was before. These guys are actually pretty cool.
yeah but these are daddy long legs they don't bite jump there basically harmless it is the other spiders you need to worry about that jump,bite, and are poisonous
Grandpa: i lost a leg in the war. Daddy longer: i lost 3 legs to survive. ok why i called it daddy longer was cuz he survives longer with long legs deal with it or ima rob ur house Edit: oh and he is daddy 😜😉😏😏
Since loosing their legs doesnt affect much their survivability, even if one individual appears that can regenerate his limbs, the preassure from natural selection will be insignificant(it will remain almost the same across the population). Probably 1 percent of tem has that ability or not.
If it doesn’t affect there reproduction rate then they won’t evolve anything new until a mutation occurs that renders all other daddy long less likely to reproduce. regrowth won’t really do that.
Fun fact: the philosopher Plato once defined humans to be featherless bipeds. In response, Diogenes the Cynic found a plucked chicken and paraded it in front of Plato shouting "Behold! A man!"
I can't help but think that some drone engineer just NEEDS to use these little guys as inspiration. Adaptive AI should even be able to replicate the way they adjust to losing legs!
@@Arsaja I mean the Daddy Longlegs very willingly pass off the legs, I don’t think they care. They weren’t yanked off, just a small grab made the bug let it go. It’s something that definitely would have happened in the wild regardless.
is a Person Don't remind me of that nightmare, it is why I have a certain feeling of not exploring no more because it is actual nightmare fuel, not even IT came close to coraline
Deep Look has anyone been able to film conception or implantation of ape embryos? I'm not sure how one would go about doing that, but it would be cool to see. In any mammal, really, not just apes, I was just following a variation of the theme.
Sadaharu #28 I saw on another PBS RU-vid channel that bees start their combs as circles and that they become hexagonal. I'd be curious to see that process play out.
Nope! Haha. Bug limbs typically don’t grow back due to the exo-skeleton. That’s like if you had iron armor on and somebody cut your arm off. You can’t regrow the iron armor (obviously) So for simplicity sake... neither can they
Mya Haha aww, but... No, it’s not at all sad. You wouldn’t a second to squish a spider walking in your food. Rather than simply killing these things or just claiming a fact. They choose to prove it in a literal scientific experiment. This was for information for the public. Not really sad considering that... again, they aren’t killing it. Just a little insight. Ask yourself how many bugs you killed.
+Kochie Bugs might not typically, since they generally don't molt after reaching adulthood, but there are a lot of armored animals that do. Crabs, lobsters, other crustaceans and I'd argue that lots of seastars have armor and can regrow limbs
I have a lot of them in my room ,I let them be ,sometimes feed them a fly ,one lives under my bed ,sometimes they walk up my desk to see what I do and say hi. Love spider so much.
Yeah, it caused me to dislike this vid. I thought deep look is better than that. One more vid where they would deliberately cause harm and I will unsubscribe.
Sad_ Me This video is not to cause harm on the animal, and is for research and learning purposes. If you watched through the video, you'd know how the spider adapts to the new lifestyle. It is only proper harm if the animal feels pain or cannot adapt.