At this point, we have seen so many awful tierlists, that we need you to make a "the actually most dangerous fish in the world (based on actual data)" video
Yea would like to know what he thinks are the most dangerous fish. There will always be a part of subjectivity (because of interpretation of the data) but would be so interesting.
“Attacks on humans are rare.” Yeah that is very true, I’ve encountered many barracuda and one was life threatening to my relatives not because of the fish, but because they started freaking out cause it was huge
I like how we start out with stuff that at are actually dangerous, even if the box jellyfish isn't a fish. Then we just start getting catfish and/or fish with teeth for the next like 4 fish. Like the list just devolves with time.
Plus most of the jellies weren't even the box jellyfish. And whatever that guy had on his arm wasn't it, I'm betting. Jeremy Wade accidentally touched like a quarter centimeter of a box jelly tentacle for a fraction of a second and reeled back with a yell.
In that river monsters episode, the fish was took weak and close to death to be released because Jeremy Wade had fought with it for hours, so he just gave it to the villagers instead. He was still sad.
The video: “the stingray has a dangerous sting and can damage the central nervous system and cause extreme pain known to…” Zach: He he they swim funny when sped up
The Goliath Tiger Fish that Jeremy caught was in the process of dying after smashing itself against the rocks while fighting to get away. He tried to release it a few times, but it was too weak and ended up dying, so he brought it back to the villagers because they would make good use of the meat. Also, the Great White has "no known natural predators"? Is that guy serious? He ever hear of the Orca, or bigger Great Whites, since they're cannibalistic?
Well from what I remember (I might be wrong) orcas don't go out of their way to hunt them and search them down like seals. Usually they'll just kill them out of convince or territorial disputes and eat them then.
@@mgustafson2010 ho, no. They do. There's a video now of a trio of orcas using a nasty pack hunting method to get and yes, eat, a great white. Iirc, this was off the coast of Africa somewhere, and ecologists had been initially concerned because shark numbers had been depleted and they worried that maybe there was increased poaching... nope. Turns out it was orcas! A specific orca and the two different pods he hangs with had been brutally killing them and then - Starboard I think his name was - would rip out the liver (which is apparently huge and very buoyant in great whites), which he really favored chowing down on. They had recently found several other shark remains with missing livers in the area, and started suspecting that particular orca even by the time it made the news, but the real proof came when a hobbyist on the beach with a flying camera drone caught actual footage of two of Starboard's buddies going parallel to the coastline to help box it in and then SLPOOSH there is Starboard, shoving a big ol great white shark belly up from Below. Nom!! Apparently the marine biologists in the area ultimately to the conclusion that the reason there were fewer sharks along that section of coastline was that since several local orcas were hunting and chowing down on them, the ones that didn't get eaten mostly got the hell out of dodge lol. Which is certainly preferable to poaching I guess. So, yes. Orcas absolutely 100% can and have been SEEN, caught on video in the wild even, preying on good sized sharks, specifically even great whites. Apparently, they'd recommend the liver. 😆
Well, orcas haven’t killed anyone in the wild but they do kill everything else. I would say more of the bull shark as those guys I think are more aggressive the great whites.
@@lexerwilliams8880 yep that's true because they're intelligent like a dolphin but they are stronger than a great white shark and they're the apex predator of the ocean.
@@azathoththeprimalchaos2289 when people think of the angler fish, they usually think of the females because they are the only ones that actually have that light thing
@@gekinatracksuit9710 along with the gaping maw of gnarly teeth, but again the fear factor kind of disappears after you learn they’re the size of a softball
Gotta love how those lists are: -harmless fish that are nightmares to prey -fish with sharp teeth that never cause harm -fish with sharp teeth that rarely cause harm -introverted fish that has venom but avoids human contact -harmless fish that only look fucked up -actual dangerous fish -fish with sharp teeth that rarely causes harm
One of my friends was working in a lab that studied piranhas. Apparently piranhas can get really anxious, to the point they just straight up die if they get agitated. The lab had a series of precautions to prevent this. Made me feel sorry for the little fish.
"Has no natural predators." Like I know I've seen things on orcas being able to kill great white shark. Also it's been documented that when orcas show up nearby sharks leave. Which in my opinion is probably because they are smart enough to know they dont want to risk being injured or worse by them.
if someone ever tells you something that isn't an orca "has no natural predators" call bullshit on that, because whatever it is an orca will definately torture it to death before eating it.
I love how most of the fish in the list doesn't even have a body count and yet somehow ranks higher than the box jellyfish, a species of jellyfish that has confirmed kills, not much but it's something. (10:02 Also, I watched the video as a kid and... the shark bit the guy's calf off. The video stopped and looped just before the attack happened. So a serious NSFL tag for anyone curious about looking up the video) Edit: There's inconsistencies on the fatality rate of box jellyfish with some sources stating 50-100 fatalities per year, so my initial statement of "not much" is incorrect. I was looking at Australian deaths, which only has 89 in the past hundred years rather than looking at world wide deaths which is mostly in the indo-asian/fillopian area, a lot of info is pointing towards box jellyfish being more dangerous than sharks in actuality, but again most of it is unconfirmed.
@@nafisanis1606 Don't really remember, but I saw it on Animal Planet years ago (thank you Animal Planet for the emotional scars), but I guess if you type in "Bull shark bites man''s leg" you might find it. The show itself was called "Untamed & Uncut" if I remember correctly.
@@andrewsucksatvideos4482 Wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong again, for some reason the sources I find online are pretty inconsistent across different websites and papers.
There's a video of a diver filming sharks eating a whale carcass out in the ocean. There's two kinds of sharks there: tiger sharks and a great white. Great white wasn't interested in the diver, but the tiger sharks start to get curious about him. The diver starts getting worried that they might take a test bite (which would be just fantastic, having like _four_ tiger sharks all take a test bite each) and tries to avoid them, then notices they're avoiding the great white. So the diver sticks close to the great white and uses it as a bodyguard while he films the scene. This idea that great whites are incredibly dangerous to humans is so dumb. I hate it. I get that people are scared of a big animal that can easily overpower them, but consider this: an animal that's smaller and maybe even closer in size, but can _still_ overpower them and is way more likely to try. How about that? To me, that's actually scarier.
Tiger sharks have a reputation for eating anything. Bull sharks have a reputation for aggression. Great Whites, on the other hand, have a reputation of minding their own damn business
Wrong? If you throw some jellyfishes, they'll rip apart as they're mostly water, then you're throwing a dispersed glass of water , not concentrated to pierce
The river monster episode btw, the hills of the fish were damaged and it died, so he begrudgingly took it back for the village to eat so it wouldn’t go to waste
You should make a tier list of the most dangerous fish, it would be interesting. Also cause I tried to search which fish killed most humans it gave me fish that killed a lot of other fish instead of humans. great video as always tho!
Yeah, almost every fish is dangerous if you are stupid, electric eels aren't dangerous but if you are dumb enought to poke it or grab it is of course dangerous, but if you are dumb enought to do that... you may want to let natural selection do the job
@@demomantf2986 I mean. They are quite dangerous being they are prone to living in small puddles of water during dry seasons in the mud. And look around using electricity and are quick to use it whenever remotely stressed.
@@dilophoraptordouble rubber boots, that being said I doubt those are a hot commodity in the jungles of South America. I didn’t realize how many amps an electric eel could produce.
@@badgerbar3623 generally most aren't EXCEPTIONALLY dangerous. More like accidentally shocking yourself with a light switch. But the larger ones can quite literally stop your heart. And when you're working with cattle and need to do something quick. Or you're living and working near water. You can't always get full rubber pants and full arm gloves for the off chance there is one. Saying electric eels aren't dangerous is like saying stonefish are. Being stupid increases chances of bad accidents/situations. But doesn't mean everyone who does fall into it is stupid. Same with people saying Gars and Musky aren't dangerous because people are stupid with things with teeth. Well tell that to the people who randomly have a Needle or Houndfish embedded into their artery in their neck or in their eyeball because for whatever reason it decided to jump. The original video (what's being reacted to) is stupid yes. But its not 100% without reason.
Love that theres so many on the list that arent even fish. I keep halfway expecting to hear like *number one most deadly and dangerous fish:* *it is* _THE PELICAN_ *or* _THE BOBBIT WORM_ *or* _ASSORTED MARINE PLANTS_ *or* _THE SPINY SEA URCHIN_ *or* _THE ELEPHANT SEAL_ *or* _CAMERA MAN TODD WITH THE SNORKEL_
Considering jellyfish were on the list, if that's close enough to be a "fish" by their definition (which... being fair, "fish" isn't a scientific category anyway, it's already more of a blanket umbrella term from "common use" among layman apparently)... I feel like we should have gotten the Blue Ring Octopus and the Cone Snail on there. Like those suckers can AND will ACTUALLY KILL PEOPLE. And the Cone Snail in particular! Not only because it has an absurdly, almost comically, lethal venom that tends to kill people LITERALLY INSTANTLY, but because humans tend to find the shells, which often wash up on shore, very pretty, and casually try to pick them up not realizing there's a lethal creature still living inside it. That is terrifying, like, arguably more than the bull shark - and I'm already with him on bull sharks being pretty "dangerous" simply for being a little more human- aggressive than other sharks and capable of actually going upstream where you do not expect sharks at all, raising the risk of a bite. But Cone Snails man...CONE SNAILS are the stuff of nightmares.
Love your channel man, my dad scuba dives and he was shocked when I told his about the epaulette shark. Your channel is funny and informative, thanks for the entertainment! :)
Fun Fact: Where I live, for a very low price you can go swimming with wild stingrays, of the exact same species shown in the video. There are loads of them in the location (which is out at sea) and they are all wild. As long as you don’t step on them, you will be fine. They will rub themselves on you and swim around and are really friendly. For more information research Cayman Islands Stingray City
Every time, someone says sharks are the most dangerous things in the ocean or something along those lines, I get flashes of orcas and their asshole ways.
I love the bit about GW's having no known natural predators even though several species of orca have killing them down to a science to a point where they know how to get out the shark's liver specifically
...maybe they meant dangerous within their own eco-systems? Idk im jus spitballing here In the UK we had this show called "Deadly 60", basically one of those animal shows where a guy goes around rating different animals based on how deadly they are, not necessarily to humans, ofc thatd help get them extra points, but more deadly in their own way; how they hunt all that. It was pretty cool
Jeremy Wade was sad cause the fish actually died when he caught it :(( it got stressed or something and died, which is why he gave it to the native village.
I had (and still kinda have) a huge fear of the ocean, and big bodies of water. But watching your videos took a huge chunk away from my fear. Thank you for that!
Gotta give em that, box jellyfish are scary, some species may have fotoreceptors and can see light, in this case they are the only jellyfish to actively hunt for their food, they are letal and can ''see'' you, they are scary but I love them
The most dangerous fish is the aquarium fish, it lures you in with its beauty, cuteness, and intrigue and then next thing ya know your wallet is empty but your tank is full!
1:04 not only do they not attack him, but they're also actively sticking to the opposite side of the pool. Piranha are known for being easily stressed out and tend to avoid you.
the oklahoma aquarium has like 15 bullsharks and when ppl are above the enclosure (usually only aquarium workers, sometimes they have science class tours though) the sharks start coming up to the surface to see if you have food, and it does look a little terrifying only because theyre a sizable animal and theres lots of them (they also have 5 nurse sharks, very lovely)
If socialized with humans they can be as lovely as any other shark, but wild ones aren't so familiar with people making them either attack you to figure out if you're edible (kinda just something sharks in general do, not often though) or it'll bite you for being in it's territory unwanted, scaring it, or if you're seen as some threat to it's existence; so if wild being cautious is the best approach! But ones in aquariums are very sweet, still should be cautious of course as you should with any shark.
To be fair, the clip of the bull shark swimming past the dude is from a video of an actual attack. It was a Shark Week program, a bunch of researchers were standing among the sharks explaining something about shark habits, and then a bull shark just chomped down on one of their legs.
Iirc the reason the piranha has a REPUTATION of being bloodthirsty, is from some locals trying to impress I believe it was Teddy Roosevelt... by literally trapping a school of them in a place and STARVING them before putting a cow in there so they'd be desperately hungry enough to actually immediately go for it and start stripping it bare in a way that would seem dramatic and impressive. He was given no context to understand that this was not NORMAL behavior for them, and wrote about it in memoirs, which were pretty widely read and so boom, people have this idea that piranha are bloodthirsty maneaters that will strip a body to the bone in 30 seconds when they're highly unlikely to even try to. So yeah, I doubt the NON STARVED piranha in that pool are keen on approaching something that much bigger than them.
9:47 That is actually from an old shark week where the guy actually does get bit, they probably left that part out because it would be too graphic for yt.
Hey Zak. Just wanted to ask if u have any plans to mix the content up apart from tier lists and reactions? Just concerned about the repetition and I rly like this channel and don’t want it to drop off. We look forward to what u hav in store for the future!
Trust me you wouldn't just stand there smiling you'd probably scream in agony trying to get it off..I've heard when they touch you it's the worst pain ever and then you die hours later. It's likely a harmless box jellyfish (there are multiple types, some super deadly and others only hurt a bit but won't kill you), or a completely different kind of jellyfish.
I have a bit of a fear of oceans and the creatures under zed surface but your videos debunking thoughts about some of these sea creatures have helped me immensely, so glad I found your channel
Ah yes, the stingray. My favorite fish. THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN THE DANGER LEVEL OF A SOUTHERN RAY AND A BLUE SPOTTED RAY!!!! And even with something like a blue spotted ray, unless you swim directly above it or a freak incident occurs, you aren't gonna get stung. Stay below or beside a stingray and you're fine. They're safe to swim with and are actually pretty damn chill (shoutouts to my man the spotted eagle ray)
I'm tired of stingray slander. They're very peaceful creatures. They only sting when threatened, and the stings generally aren't serious. People are irrationally scared of them because of what happened to Steve Irwin.
@@yeasstt Literally though. There are only a handful of stingray deaths like ever! They're very peaceful and even when scared they tend to opt for fleeing instead so one attacking is rare and you have to be even more unlucky to die to it as it either has to be a very venomous one or a massive one (or both in the case of Steve, poor guy was so unluck that day).
9:55 the video you see here was takes seconds before the guy on the left lost his life, because the cameraman was who was supposed to warn him in case a shark came from behind and NOT answer the questions from the Natural Geographics crew, but he was asked and he didn't look and since the guy was german without having extended health ensurance for other countries, so it was 15k to keep his life, 45k to keep his leg. He later died of a heart attack years later.
I like how they also used a clip of that Jeremy Wade piranha pool in the video lmao. Also, that centipede might actually crawl on my face while I sleep, but that's entirely my fault for keeping one as a pet.
@@BugsandBiology how could I not be! They're so beautiful and full of personality. Also, just watched a bunch of videos, your Chanel is amazing, extremely good and well thought out content.
We need to invent a new phobia for this dude. He’s deathly afraid of fresh water River animals. If I showed this guy one of those talking bass things they would have a fucking stroke
Can we talk about how the dude said the Wels Catfish has an effect on *marine* ecosystems? Now, I've never personally tried it, but I reckon if I were to take a wels and release it into the ocean, it would proceed to have a really, really, really bad time.
My uncle barely beat death due to a catfish so when you said it’s not dangerous and all they said is the eco system I had to laugh at his misfortune to get the murder committing catfish.
The way sawfish got created: God: let’s let my 5 year old son create a fish. He’s seen me doing it lots and i’m sure he would enjoy it. The son: *haha chainsaw plus big fish go brrrr*
"Not even remotely dangerous to humans" IDK I think being chopped by that giant spiked sword on their face would be pretty painful. Probably not deadly if it doesn't hit a major vein or artery or disembowel you, but like, it's face is a giant sword, and they can swing it very fast.
Funny that they say that we know more about space than ocean while we only know 4% of the matter… (I mean it’s not sure if this is right, but probably it is)…
I believe it's a misinterpreted statement by most. We know more individual facts about space compared to the ocean but space has infinite information we have yet to understand or even discover. We are far closer to understanding the ocean than we will ever be to understanding all of space.
@@ryanm2821 Ye of course, my point just is, that there are some “important” things we don’t know about… And I mean there are still a lot of big questions… Usually in the ocean too, but I never heard them… In the end it’s just matter of how important things like “missing matter” is…
@@destinydeoxys4489 oh yeah I diddnt mean to imply that you thought that the ocean was less understood than space. That classic statement just always makes me say something lol.
Bull sharks are the only species of sharks I really fear, not just because of the fact they can go in freshwater but because of the fact that they're extremely aggressive. Ain't called a bull shark for nothing.
How is the candiru in none of the "Top X Scariest Fish"? That sh*t terrifies me! I'd rather swim into the open jaws of a resurrected megalodon than think about that little fish going ... places...
@@itsmokka44 I've also read that the candiru not only aren't attracted to urine but use sight to hunt ( i don't know source) but at the same time, Jeremy Wade had an episode on it and I can't 𝘯𝘰𝘵 trust that guy
It's not the large things that you need to fear. 9/10 times the big fish are harmless and don't care about you. It's the little things you can't see coming... like cone snails or invisible little box jellyfish or flesh eating bacteria or those amebas that can get in your brain if water goes up your nose
You should make your own videos and show them some actually dangerous fish. At least just tell us what would you put in the list. Because I still have flashbacks from when they said "most scary fish" was a fricking sea cucumber lmao.
Can’t believe they left out the most truly dangerous fish…. The seahorse. Just thinking about it can cause headaches as you’re forced to think of how tf they evolved!
A family friend of ours had recently gone on a training course in the Amazon with the SAS, a candiru swam up a recruits urethra and the had to burn it out before it extended its spines. The faces he pulls can be quite entertaining though despite the eye-watering pain we feel when we hear it.
