Jumping Cholla: When Cacti Attack 

Respect to that guy for being willing to do that for the show.

"Don't go to the desert..." *looks outside while residing in Southern Nevada.*

In my hometown there's a speech: "You're more silly than Biting a cactus" Please don't do it, I saw how it feels

"its a very painful experience" shows clip of a dude actively wanting to get stabbed

"they absorb moisture from the hosts flesh" VAMPIRE CACTUS

My high school team had a cross country meet in Flagstaff, AZ every year, and without fail someone always ended up with a piece of cholla stuck in their leg. I'm just happy it was only me once.

We call em “jumping chihuahuas” because they always got our ankles when hiking 😂

I use to live in the desert. Planted cholla to keep cows away from my plants. My dog ate them.

When plants become pricks >:(

Just had flash backs to when I lived in Az and accidentally drove an ATV into a huge cholla bush. Worst day of my life lmao

"Hows it feel?" "Like my hands being stabbed by a cactus" Yes rain is wet.

"Now son, don't touch that cactus." "But the cactus jumped on me..."

I had no idea they used their massive horns for that! Neat!

3:55 "Drink Cactus Juice, It'll quench ya, Nothing's Quenchier, It's the quenchiest!!!' - Sokka

For anyone who has never encountered this plant, it really is like they appear from nowhere, now attached to your clothing.

My brains screaming STOP WHY every time they purposefully touch their hand to the cactus.

I can imagine what ZeFrank would say about this monster.

This is why I'm a zoologist, not a botonist. *proceeds to go study animals that will kill me* *also intentionally stabs self with cactus*

Fun fact a barrel cactuses are like compasses and if you replant them wrong facing they'll twist their whole body

1:06 "Oh my car" takes the cake lol

Cholla are no joke their spines are incredibly sharp. Takes nearly zero effort to puncture the skin.

You cant escape this. I have packrats i cannot get rid of. They bring me bits of cholla and leave them around my garbage bins. Forcing you to make sure you watch where you walk. Ive had to use pliers to get these things off me.

I once joked with my ecology college class that jumping chollas actually launch their segments at people and cars, killing people and using their corpses as fertilizer.

"Absorbing moisture from the host's flesh" Goddam this plant drinks you...

Ah yes, one more reason for me to avoid hot places! While it's not as exotically weird as a lot of these plants, I'd love to see an episode about the pawpaw (Asimina)! I'd never heard of them until I moved to an area with a ton of wild ones, and discovered not only their fascinating history as evolutionary anachronisms and long-lost staple crops, but just how delicious they are.

Gila is pronounced "heela". I live in the Sonoran desert. It definitely is weird here though.

Can we all just take a moment to be in awe at the scope and variety of content on this channel? It's one thing to be diverse but it's so dependable and enjoyable. Consistent uploads, unique content, and great production value with A+ quality.

Who in their right mind would willingly stab themselves with one of these spike balls!?!

This just seems like a more painful version of a burr.

😱Poor Andres! I can almost feel the pain as I sit here watching him getting jabbed and trying to remove the thorns! 😖

2:58 "How's it feel?" "Like I'm being stabbed by a cactus in the hand." lmfao

The spines are also springy. These things bounce. Surprisingly well. Thought that was the reason behind the name.

“Just avoid the desert” *me living in a desert*: 🧍‍♂️

if you're going to the California desert, i'd love to see an episode on Joshua Trees! they're a unique species that only grow in the national park (plus they look supercool!)

They say spines are how cacti show affection, a cactus kiss, if you will. I guess this species is just overflowing with the amore.

These are invasive as hell out in Nebraska... had to carry my dog over a gigantic field of them once.

Cactus: I will stab you and you won't be able to get me off Man: Cactus go poke

Finally!! You have featured cactus i hope you explained more about other succulents and some ornamental plants like rare philodendrons and anthuriums.❤️

Alternating between episodes about plants and animals is a great idea!

The worst part is when I'm jogging, I step on one, get it stuck on my shoe, and then drive it into the back of my other leg as I'm running.

I hope Floralogic stays as part of the channel forever! This channel was already 11/10 but Floralogic makes it 20/10 💞

I dare you to you use it as a back scratcher 😂

All the plants have to do is exist but this cactus chose violence.

cholla stems are beautiful, great enrichment items for small reptiles and bugs kept as pets or (ornamental) shelters for small wild animals in the yard.

Should talk about "Cycads" and why trade is prohibited

My sister has one of those in a pot in the front garden, last summer our newest cat learn the -very painful and- hard way that he should not rub his cheeks on it. Poor thing got portions of cholla nailed deeply into his forehead and his butt. A bit ignorant from my sister to fully blame the cat's "stupidity" tho, considering that it is the plant the one who evolved for who knows how many millions of years to nail itself in unwary critters like that a_a

When I was a kid... my older brother made me mad... so I pushed him into one of these. They had to sedate him in order to remove the barbs. He never took my candy again though!

Whatever they're paying that guy... It's not enough 😂

I was 10 and on a field trip once, and I fell, not brushed against, FELL into a bunch of these. I had them stuck all over my arms, one on my cheek, and one mercifully small one on my neck. I had to go to the ER to remove them safely. Lesson learned: Don't walk close to the edge of the path in Arizona.

I had a few run-ins with these things in our old town, can't say I miss them!

Well this is one awesome Animalistic video about the attack of the killer cactus( aka when cactus attack ) Also hope y'all are having a great day.

I used to have a couple of those in my greenhouse. Once I lent over the bench and ended up with the cactus stuck to my abdomen. The only way I could remove it was to cut the spines from the plant and then pull them out with plyers. A fairly slow and painful process due to the barbed spines.

We have a farm in central Namibia…this plant is seriously invasive and we’ve been fighting it for years…At one point it became so bad that we had to get a bulldozer to literally get rid of an entire forest of them…It’s really hard though cause they’ve spread across the entirety of our farm I must say the bulldozer felt like a victory…unfortunately the terrain on most of the farm is too rugged to get to all of them with a vehicle I’m so happy we finally have a name and country of origin for it

For some reason those things grow all over the Barrier Islands on the coast of Georgia we would go out there and Camp sometimes but first we have to take a rake and clear away the campsite

Thanks for watching!

My favorite is watching people who have no idea about cholla cactus get a segment stuck to their leg, then try to brush it off and watching the segment roll painfully down their leg, like those old school "wacky wall crawler" toys, sticking them dozens of times along the way.

I recently bought some stems of this cactus and planted them in a pot outside. They are growing buds on them now, and I'm hoping for flowers someday.

Some plants: I'm going to produce a fleshy fruit that animals will feed from and in the process distribute my seeds. Other plants: I'm going to produce special smells to atract diferent bugs to aid my pollination. Jumping Cholla: I'm going to do... violence.

Me before watching the video: cactiphobia level 1 Me now: cactiphobia level 5

I felt the pain throughouth the entire video

My brother took one of these to the stomach, happens living in Az especially with one in your backyard just don't walk to close when it's windy!

This plant is like a metaphor for a toxic partner

Had one of the teddy bear with 32 spikes in my leg. I’ll never forget having to pull each one out.

I once got two entire segments stuck in my calf muscle. It embedded so deep in so many places I just had to walk back 3 miles with it in my leg. Little monster took over 2 hours to remove afterwards.

One of my earliest memories is my grandpa warning me about these. 😆

If this has not been suggested, please create an episode on mosses. They are so fascinating and are a joy to see as they are clinging onto a diversity of surfaces. 🌸

When I was a kid my parents took my friend and I on a desert camping trip. While on a hike I was suddenly attacked by what I thought was a giant green bug that jumped onto my shirt. I quickly slapped it away and it flung to my side. Right then my friend, who was a few feet to my right let out a yelp, I assumed he must have been under attack by the same creature, but when I looked over he had a small cactus stuck into his hand and he was starting to tear up. The spines were sunk into the side of his palm and it took some time and quite a bit of discomfort for my parents to pull it out while he struggled not to cry. It was so bizarre how this little cactus seemed to fly up at me out of nowhere, how I was somehow able to slap it away so easily only for it to sink its spines into my friends hand a few feet away. As soon as I saw the title of this video I knew it must have been the same species of cactus. What a memory! I still have trouble understanding how they are able to seemingly jump into the air like that.

Johnny, run!

Ok I know they're doing it for science but as an Arizonan, I watch the guys touching it and just AAAAAAHHH STOP STOP DUUUUUDES NOOOOOOOO 😱😵

I love how fun and informative your videos are.

as far as i am concerned, these cacti are magic.

I've lived in the Sonoran desert for over 40 years and I've only seen one Gila monster. They don't seem too common. I wonder if she saw one in the wild.

Can you do a video on Joshua Tree got there name from pioneers saying they looked like the prophet Joshua raises his hands in praise when found the promised land plus they live forever and take forever to grow

I'd love to see a video on the ginko tree. It's a living fossil!

Rams breaking the spikes with their horns... That's amazing.

Close encounters with Teddy bear 🧸 cholla while filming in Joshua tree NP. Bloody monsters but so beautiful!

When I was visiting family down in the Phoenix area a couple years back I did some day hiking. Heat, elevation, rattlesnakes, scorpions... none of that really worried me, I knew how to prepare for all that, but those Cholla scared the heck out of me.

Did my college geology field camp in cholla territory. You learn to walk around them up hill because when parts die, they break, fall off, and roll down hill a bit, all while staying "ruin your day" dangerous.

Are their any types of clothes that don't get hooked or is anything fair game? Hard Mode, the clothes have to be fit for desert travel.

The effort it takes to armor hounds in Arizona for them to instinct effectually assist on quail hunting deserves HUGE RESPECT and is otherworldly. Just FYI. You want to see the smartest dogs ever. Desert hounds.

2:14 associate producer , writer , *victim.* 🤣

wonderful! thank you floralogic.

"Don't go to the desert it's a weird place" *Looks outside while living in Arizona* Can confirm it is a weird but interesting place I love it here :)

Cholla cactus are like sticker burrs or sand burrs on supernatural mega steroids. I’m from Texas and it’s fairly normal to keep tweezers in your car or purse (especially in late summer) because it’s so common to run in to patches of sticker burrs. First time I went out to Arizona and found out that they kept pliers in their cars to deal with their version of “burrs” I wanted to nope out of camping or hiking out there.

This is the kind of thing that fills my nightmares.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS AN EPISODE ABOUT SEA URCHINS LMAO!!!!!!!

If y'all walking in the desert , u piss him or her off in da bushes they go😅😂💀

Legend says the guy is still trying to get the jumping cholla off of him with the camera man watching

Best episode yet.

Every single wild Javelina I've seen here has had cholla stuck to it somehow haha

Legends say that, to this day, the man from the video is still trying to get free from the cactus

Hell yeah more Tasha the Amazon!

Steel Ball Run

Can't say I really learned much about these things in only a five minute video.... I feel like a lot more could've been included here.

Tasha sounds like she is always happy about something. Have you made a episode about symbiosis between plants and insects?

I live near a park called chollas and I never put two and two together. This is awesome to see.

Ouch! I thought the yellow nutsedge that grows around my neighborhood was bad, but this sounds like a living nightmare! I know you were joking about avoiding the desert, but I think I'll take that advice seriously.

The first sponsor in YEARS that I... Actually liked ahsdhsadhsahd.

Brave Wilderness jumping into cactus video: "try me"

I have a friend who got nailed with one of those, basically when they went to the ER they just gave them painkillers and ripped it out.