@@nautilume7114 there's an episode of it on Animal Planet's Monster Inside Me. Though i don't know if it's the same leech species since they didn't mention it in the show.. I think.
Right! Like the info is great and now I know one leech is harmless...but there's just a visceral NopeNopeNope! reaction to all the squirming. Like worms can already have that sort of gut reaction, but leeches are carnivorous worms, so there's an added layer or discomfort.
I remember walking through the cow paddocks of Northern NSW in the mid 90's as a kid and when I went to go back inside my Aunties house to watch cartoons I looked down at my feet and there was blood everywhere! I was covered in leeches 😅
I'm into invertebrates, and recently started getting to know leech keepers in our community. They're a cool bunch. Leeches have a very devoted fanbase because they are incredibly easy to keep and cost nothing to feed, and they only need to be fed once every few months. The people who keep them as pets eventually fall in love with these fascinating, gentle, silly, funny, and neat little animals. Apparently actual leeches are much better people than politicians are.
@@missquprison Hee hee hee, I know right? I keep both black widows and brown recluses as pets, so I really don't have a leg to stand on...OK well I do...but you know what I mean! 😋
Was visiting family as a child and we swam in a nice little river, when we came out we were all covered in them, none of us freaked out it was just odd. Maybe seeing Wil Wheaton flip his lid in Stand By Me over hyped the experience. Doesn't hurt at all.
@@lp.shakur It means having the resources, "time, money, effort, etc." to complete a task. I was too lazy/didn't have the time to google it myself, so I didn't have the wherewithal to google it.
The terrestrial leeches look like infernal inchworms when they move about. And yes, I'd rather not ply the waves of Lake Lachrymose. Better to cavort in a piranha-infested river, I think.
@@TheDoubleBee that's right. The companied that made your smartphone so you could get on the internet using wifi to post this comment on RU-vid should all have done it for free. And the owner of your home should also just pay for you to live there. Bunch of leeches.
@@dddon513 when RU-vid started it was free without ads. the number of people there are versus the ratio of how many people want to stay in power is what the problem is. yes they should give it for free especially electricity they have no overhead cost everything is already in place for them they are just collecting profit sucking people dry for something that they know they need. Why because they were there first and got the ownership? There's nothing Fair where's my chance, where's yours? It should all be free at this point. The only things that should cost anything are things that really matter, like knowledge and goodness that's what people should be fighting for, not to continue to stay greedy- while things are suffering for it! There should be no home tax. home owners not going to give a house away for free that's stupid but why do we pay taxes so even when I paid the whole house off if I don't pay to the city every year they'll take my house away so do I really own it? Or are you greedy?
And i thought it's about a girlfriend that only fronts to love me but is actually a gold digger ..sucked me dry ....glady she's my ex now but sadly the effects are still here😔
The pattern of the leech bite is the basis for the design of one of my knives I have. It’s called the Jagdcommando and is a triangular dagger. It’s made that way because it’s very hard to close a wound in the pattern according to EE docs.
Agree with you @pvtpain66k. I'll add that the title of this video is really unfortunate; Animalogic did the same clickbaity "horrific" business to wasps as well. I like Animalogic but they need to stop feeding into people's visceral condemnation of certain animals to get views.
I'm from a part of Australia where terrestrial leeches are pretty common, especially if you go bushwalking in low lying wet areas. I didnt realise that most leeches COULDN'T move about on land, that's mental!
@@SecretSquirrelProduc Emzotic had a couple of leeches a while back and she also fed them herself. Not the pets for me but as the saying goes, you do you.
Her:"I should probably check myself too, they're probably crawling all over me" *smiles intensely. Leeches: "On behalf of the leech community, we decline and would like to send her to the ticks."
This is the biggest fear of my life but still im watching it and trying to stop my fear of it. That day when i was sucked with leeches of 10 it terrifys me and turns into phobia of mine
When I was a kid we did a two day hike with machettes through the Otway forest. So many leeches! I had one attached to my lip that they had to use a lighter to get off!
I once went on a Boy Scout canoe trip where we had to wade through about 20 yards of shallow water back and forth to pack up the canoes. The ride back to the camp site was mainly us sitting in the back of a pickup truck passing a lighter around to burn the leeches out from between our toes. Fun times.
I thought that I would go ahead and re-watch this video because the thumbnail looked familiar. Then started looking at the comments and realized this video is only a week only and that I actually haven't seen it.
Loved the video! I would have wished for more info on the medicinal effects of them, they even have a painkiller in their saliva. I personally used them to treat tendonitis in my wrist, and it hasn't come back in over half a year. Leeches are great
I once worked at a hospital with a plastic surgeon who used leeches to assist in the recovery of a woman who’d cut off her finger accidentally. (Like she’d do it on purpose. I can’t remember how.) we nurses had to learn how apply them & store them after they’d removed themselves. It was in the papers because it was such a novel thing but I’ve never seen it done again.
Hey Animalogic you guys should do a video on Lava Snails! They have shells made of iron and bright red and black bodies! I think they are fascinating and an episode would be really cool.
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9:21 no leeches are parasites, most of them are micropredators the same way as mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, tsetse flies, and vampire bats.
I don't know if you still see comments for this video but I think your artistry of these animals is amazing. Just beautiful 😍. Now I'm not afraid of much but leeches scare the crap out of me mostly because I'm allergic to the anticoagulant they release into you. I'm also allergic to Mosquitoes, fire ants, basically any insect that produces saliva or hirudin....you get it better than I do. But I have the worst reaction to leeches.
Got absolutely covered in them hiking through the forests in SE Asia in the wet season. Deet will give some protection, but it only cuts the numbers. It doesn't stop them. They're easy enough to remove, but you bleed and bleed if you don't have a haemostatic powder
I didn't know Animalogic was produced by Dylan Dubeau from "Not Exactly Normal"! All these amazing trips definitely explain why the uploads there can be far between! :D
I haven't seen a video with Danielle in a while - glad to see her again (and so stylin'!) I was thinking "I prefer leeches to mosquitos..." until that whole leeches up your nose thing. NOPE! And please please please - where did you get that ROARING mask?!?!?!?! MUST HAVE!!!
In Chile we have a giant hunter leech called liguay, it usually eats worms, rodents and lizards, the adult leeches measure from 15 to 30 cm (6 to 11 inches)
