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Why do some birds drink blood? Why do narwhals even have tusks? Why is there a spider species named Sparklemuffin? On this episode of World's Wildest, Maya and Connor dive into the craziest animals they could find.
World's Wildest: Tales of Earth's Most Extreme Creatures. Hosted by @mayahiga and Connor O'brien 🐐
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0:00 intro
04:22 Narwhals
15:58 MEGA BATS
26:37 Blood sucking birds
32:23 Dancing sparklemuffin

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29 июн 2024

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@bluejai9719 Месяц назад

Oddest couples - weird pairing of different species that work together

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Месяц назад

Cow Birds, but also the many other custodian birds of bovine-adjacent animals, and also non-bovine (elephants, rhinos, etc) And segue to those same jobs, but under water, with cleaner fish. And so on, and so on.

@seanc6128 Месяц назад

come for the narwhals stay for the fire extinguisher bludgeoning

@dopamine974 Месяц назад

Petition to make this at least an hour and a half

@cadensam7 Месяц назад

Twice a week, both 45 minutes?

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Месяц назад

And here, I was going to suggest they do it once a month, or just twice a month, as to not burn through all their content/talking points. 😒😅

@sekischro5093 7 дней назад

they have a patreon now

@MaddyCodes Месяц назад

Worlds dumbest animal: an animal that is so poorly fit for its environment, that it is a shock that it's still around. Like the sea horse

@itachitsukuyomidcuo9853 Месяц назад

Listen I love Stompy as much as the next guy but I think we get enough of him as it is

@xXxeuthanasiaxXx Месяц назад

@@itachitsukuyomidcuo9853stomps catching strays 😂

@itachitsukuyomidcuo9853 Месяц назад

@@xXxeuthanasiaxXx 😂

@andrewedis9907 Месяц назад

Pandas have entered the chat

@vladyslavpidlisnyi Месяц назад

Bit rude

@swiftly_produced2694 Месяц назад

I thought they were grinding, but it really was just a week since the previous video💀

@amelialikesfrogs5778 Месяц назад

i feel the same it went by fast

@Techtonicality Месяц назад

Grinding a video out* for the listeners who cannot see.

@WesleyFiles Месяц назад

The beginning of the video they say this is the first episode they filmed, for members of the Patreon.

@amanda_duh Месяц назад

microbiologist here! peptostreptococcus anaerobius is in the peptostreptococcaceae family and is actually found normally on your skin!

@bunniesprite Месяц назад

“If you’re bad at rumble rumping, get out” new fav quote

@wonyoungheart Месяц назад

my friend loves spiders so i sent her a picture of sparkemuffin thinking that maybe she doesn't know about them yet but she literally replied with "he dances in a funny way" LMAO never underestimate a spider admirer

@shanemjn Месяц назад

Narwhals have a tusk, elephants have tusks, rhinos have horns, cows have horns, yet somehow giraffes are real and unicorns arent

@Emma-Maze Месяц назад

7:55 As far as I know, the viking traders selling narwhal tusks as unicorn horns was not the actual origin of the unicorn myth, unicorns were already a thing and thats why these traders sold the tusks saying they were unicorn horns and therefore posessed unique magical and/or medicinal properties.

@MapleWillowAspen Месяц назад

Yeah, afaik the earliest known sources to describe unicorns locate them in India (knowledge of that region was severely limited in the ancient world, so all kinds of strange animals were assumed to live there). Rhinos might have been a possible inspiration (among many) - at least some later travelers such as Marco Polo described what were clearly rhinos and called them unicorns. Until the trade in narwhal horns started, the description, thickness and length of the horn in literature varied wildly, but once the narwhal horns got introduced as unicorn horns, they kind of took over the imagination.

@friendswithbugs Месяц назад

episode suggestions: - the stinkiest - the silliest - the slimiest - the fuzziest - the scruffiest - the sleepiest

@evk2486 Месяц назад

You should do an episode on like most extreme, like which animals live in the most extreme conditions, and how they adapted to living like that

@dyslexicwizrad5297 Месяц назад

Tardigrade. Thanks, that's my TED talk.

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Месяц назад

Extremophiles is what they be called, which is apt! 😅

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Месяц назад

@@dyslexicwizrad5297🤘😫🤘 I suggested them last week, so I'm onboard with that! 😎🍻😎

@otherworldlysnowstorm 5 дней назад

Flamingos are crazy in that regard

@aluminate744 Месяц назад

39:52 Whoever did this! I love them! Stick-Connor needs to be a reoccurring character!

@bloyear Месяц назад

6:07 "Where's the second tooth?" "IN THEIR MOUTH."

@The1MrJ 17 дней назад

i doubted how important the connor jumping over building edit was going to be..... turns out it was super important

@microchuckle Месяц назад

I want to hear about crazy senses in the animal kingdom. Like infrared/UV vision in some animals, snakes have crazy tongues for sensing the surroundings, but give me more and wilder

@danny171d Месяц назад

Just finished work, got this notification. Listening on my way to a massive Lek.

@Emma-Maze Месяц назад

What's a Lek? 💛

@eelcov800 Месяц назад

Apparently a place for fruit bat orgies. A lek can also be a place where male birds, like grouses or snipes, dance and/or fight with their competitors. On spring evenings, in open places. The females inspect the scene and decide who get to mate with them. Nature at its finest. 🎉❤

@MrBonham Месяц назад

Wtf, narwhals are huge!

@gards710 Месяц назад

Devil's Hole pupfish, barreleyes, waterfall-climbing gobies, hagfish are probably the craziest fishes out there

@austingibson6623 Месяц назад

I am starting to think that isn't a real tree or tree house...

@tazza3591 3 дня назад

okay the sparkle muffin spider looks like an air traffic control person during its mating ritual🤣

@ShinyWyvern Месяц назад

If youre doing a quiz game you should include a graphic of running point totals! Love the concept and show so far. Idea for an episode: wildest eaters, covering animals with extreme ecological niches in terms of their consumption (chemotrophs, things like the vampire ground finch)

@arsenshere Месяц назад

my new favorite podcast

@ninin11 Месяц назад

god i would love for this podcast to be longer, it’s so good

@ThorPalsson Месяц назад

Alright... you hooked me in

@MapleWillowAspen Месяц назад

Never heard of lek mating before, but there is a rather extensive wikipedia article on it, and it seems to occur in quite a few species of birds (especially grouses), some seals (and even some other mammals) and a few insect species. Cool stuff.

@jazzombi9680 Месяц назад

I feellike a narwal oh my god…. Nerve pain skin pain, can know when storms coming due to disease that gets worse with the pressure changes …. And i medically need 10x the ammount of salt daily than a normal person…… what ?…? AND IM RLLY FLEXABLE AAAH whats happening

@HannieLea Месяц назад

Honestly my new favorite podcast

@thegrimegoddess4831 Месяц назад

I think an episode on the stealthiest animals could be really cool! I’d love to hear about the odder things animals do to catch prey or avoid being eaten themselves

@TheAverageBearz Месяц назад

You guys have such a good format. I learned so much watching, “The Most Extreme” on the animal planet channel. It’s such a good prompt for getting people interested in animals of all different kinds.

@BirdmanG07 Месяц назад

Loving the stuff. My only “critique” I think you should both answer the question(s). If you want to keep the buzzer give a bonus point.

@geegeebows2417 Месяц назад

Suggestions for the pod! World's wildest animal sounds Wildest evolutions Wildest mother's and father's (mother and fathers day episodes?) Wildest discoveries? (like discovering the purpose of an animal's features, like possibly the narwal detecting saline) Wildest history interesting stories like Maya brings up about the attacker and the narwal tusk. Emu war. Etc. So excited for this podcast!

@user-rr2zl7lp1y 6 дней назад

these spiders have cute big eyes too, in the dancing sparklemuffin

@VelokieREAL Месяц назад

I want to see the worlds quietest animals, because I wont be able to hear them

@vooni4969 Месяц назад

waiting for a shoebill stork ep 😔this podcast is so good y'all :)))))))

@wirtanen0496 Месяц назад

Could be an interesting episode to hear about the worlds most unknown. It would have more stuff like Narwhals where we have plenty of theories but not yet a fact of how something works. Then you guys could also give predictions on what will eventually be found out as the truth.

@barlin4972 Месяц назад

15:37 I really really really appreciate that! I don't have to constantly look it up myself, it saves so much time. You guys are awesome!

@louisst-amand9207 Месяц назад

There's another species of bird that does this: the yellow-billed oxpecker. It lives in the subsaharan region, and they look for ticks on mammals to drink blood. When they don't find ticks they just peck down until the animal bleeds, and they also just let it happen.

@baasilparkar Месяц назад

I don't usually watch podcasts but, I really like the pacing that Maya and Connor have in this one 💜

@sharky1742 Месяц назад

georgie should come on the podcast. I think he would have some incredible things to say

@MaxWalterStine Месяц назад

Y’all should have guests to discuss and quiz throughout too 🎉

@loky2798 23 дня назад

connor looks soo calm and collected here in contrast to on the alveus stream🤣

@seanmiera6981 Месяц назад

To blind spiders for tests I think they paint over the eyes. Then when the spider molts it can see again. 38:56

@michelferreira9695 Месяц назад

I have tons of Sparklemuffin's gifs of dances. Whenever I feel down, I go to that folder to see some sparklemuffin belly dance to light up.

@imlewishehe 28 дней назад

I zoned out for a minute, and I come back to hearing Maya talk about terrorism

@gards710 Месяц назад

lol of course it was Maddie who discovered the Dancing Sparklemuffin!

@jermanizer Месяц назад

loving this! one of the best sprouts from the current landscape of immoral true crime, almost racist gossip, "i swear babe, they're not misogynistic" podcasts

@savannabnana 27 дней назад

I think narwhals are so cool. There is a male narwhal that grew up with a pod of belugas in the St.Lawrence river and biologists are interested to see if he has integrated enough into the male beluga pod to see if he will mate with a female beluga to create a narluga! Also, elephant seals would be cool to talk about!

@Caloontike Месяц назад

worlds longest killstreak from an animal. i.e. how many people/predators it took down before being stopped

@starsgears9200 Месяц назад

I mean, how are we defining animals here?

@laurensuty2760 Месяц назад

wasn’t it that tiger in India in like the 1800s. didn’t it kill like 200people

@MechanizedFactor Месяц назад

Bruce + Henry. Both crocodiles.

@rasmusn.e.m1064 Месяц назад

If you hadn't specified people/predators, I feel like it would be some random bowhead whale just doing its daily eating for 200 years.

@itsab1216 9 дней назад

I don’t know if you are asking this becuase you saw this video but there is a youtuber named “Good enough” who did a video on this. It is called “The deadliest man eaters to ever exist” you should check it out!! He is similar to another popular youtuber “Sam O’nella”, just with different topics!!

@Magstarcutie Месяц назад

I already know that this will be my favorite thing to look forward to each week

@berbold Месяц назад

If you liked Sparklemuffin, check out Skeletorus, another peacock jumping spider but more art deco.

@BirdmanG07 Месяц назад

Paused this to go listen to the Narwhals song, twice, and then came back.

@tiny_shovel6570 Месяц назад

Can we do the animal that lives the deepest underground and the one that flies highest in the sky???

@MegaWolf36 Месяц назад

Not the editor using Pivot for the spider vs human comparison 🤣

@zoenightshade2332 Месяц назад

38:00 they paint over the spiders eyes

@mackenzieh6612 Месяц назад

connor being a professional and telling his experience in the beginning is crazy

@JeeebeZ Месяц назад

The animation only had 20 floors of windows. Connor said top of a 30 story building. Other than that... Great gif 😀😀

@irissteinman866 Месяц назад

25:25 I don’t know about any other mammals, but I know some species of birds like grouse and I think prairie chickens? use a lek system for mating. Basically all the males gather in one space and do their mating displays and that attracts females and then yeah it’s just group boinking. I got to watch the tail end of a sharp-tailed grouse lek with my ornithology class this past semester on a trip. It’s very interesting

@CrankyCrocodile 17 дней назад

39:50 omg thats awesome, stick connor should be a regular 😂

@just_some_donkus Месяц назад

I really like the descriptions for sizes of things. 3 acero's (3 horses) works for me, and then you also said the small schoolbus. Definitely helps

@SR-ti6jj Месяц назад

Thanks for showing us hippobat

@elrefu92 Месяц назад

This podcast is so cool i wish animals where real

@drwood728 Месяц назад

Learned lots of things new but lek is the best- it just led me to learn about the kākāpo

@jaspberry522 Месяц назад

Im lreaning so much from this podcast, love it!!! This is my new fave! Keep up the good work, guys!!

@wybersss Месяц назад

the guy who used the narwhal tusk was an inmate who was on trial for murder, and i think he may have had his sentence reduced bc he subdued the terrorist? actually insane narwhal story

@raf3062 Месяц назад

If i could name the sparklemuffin, I would call it the Clown Spider

@serenas5784 Месяц назад

I agree but a lot of people are scared of clowns too so mixed with spider. Sparklemuffin could easily be a clowns name though so maybe that was the thought behind it

@StillOnTrack Месяц назад

"Higher salinity means more freezy-freezy!" - Wise words

@nikiforoslll Месяц назад

This is my new favourite podcast you're both amazing

@sunnybey Месяц назад

It’d be cool to see you guys collab with Tier Zoo

@katalysis1120 Месяц назад

Holy cow I’m learning so much from y’all! Keep it up!

@Phillyus Месяц назад

New favorite pod

@thellamamaster9252 Месяц назад

Loving this podcast

@emuh4451 Месяц назад

heck yeah worlds wildest episode #2!!!!!

@williamstewart102 Месяц назад

Lekking is common in Upland Game Birds. Lesser Prairie Chickens and Sage Grouse lek every year. Many other upland birds as well!

@olasarcasm Месяц назад

For SEO purposes I'm sure there is some legs to an episode about the worlds most painful insects to be stung by. There is a pain index made by a crazy biologist/entomologist whom I love dearly

@gal2659 Месяц назад

44:10 lol that "IDK" and giggle

@user-rr2zl7lp1y 6 дней назад

from what i have seen, they have two huge eyes, then the other eyes are on the sides of their heads, the huge eyes made them really cute

@LostboyUk Месяц назад

This is a great podcast (the best I’ve seen from a twitch streamer for sure 😂) I can see this doing really well.

@rylko98 Месяц назад

Maya's pants in the intro are fire

@karahanley4228 Месяц назад

Another amazing episode🎉 .. my rabbits did not like that honking 😂 the grump thumps

@eveebunny Месяц назад

Yall should do worlds cutest!

@taylorstumpp4005 Месяц назад

Worlds smallest predators/ carnivores

@loyung420 Месяц назад

Worlds most secretive would be cool!

@8998mustang Месяц назад

Narwales weigh almost 3 horses or one 2007 Mustang

@castincactus7339 Месяц назад

amazing podcast, so hype

@LeathanArt Месяц назад

This makes me so happy and educated 🗣️🗣️

@smfrie82 Месяц назад

We need "I'm not a biologist" merch 😄

@jon2623 Месяц назад

Invite Dr Allison to the pod to talk about cool bugs

@roxorzboxorz31 Месяц назад

Worth noting, the finch homes, Darwin and Wolf island, are part of the Galapagos (which is Ecuadorian)

@thalia9669 Месяц назад

3:09 I don't think you guys can make Worlds Smelliest Podcast, the Yard is literally 4 dudes that met playing SSBM

@VermisTerrae Месяц назад

THE THUMBNAIL, look at that precious creature 🥺

@sullivan3004 Месяц назад

Was fun and interesting. Please do more! Quiz could be extended a bit like letting them both guess atleast

@orcaletta Месяц назад

"A lek is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays and courtship rituals, known as lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners with which to mate." -wikipedia. they mostly show pictures of it in birds but google says its also common in mammals and insects!

@eelcov800 Месяц назад

Wild stories about those Narwals 😂 The theories about functionality of the tooth made me think of Longhorn bees, who also resemble unicorns. In genus Eucera, the males have way longer horns than the females. Their horns are filled with sensors, at least for temperature and smell, so they can 'sniff' flowers and females from a distance. Now I'm wondering if the length of the horn might also be a secondary sexual selection criterium. I guess not. I suspect that female bees don't get to do the selecting. Not sure if the males always wait for consent. Keep those refreshingly weird stories coming please! ❤❤

@Cyrribrae Месяц назад

Huh. Really? In most bee species I've heard of, males are tiny and useless because they exist only to breed the queen once, if at all. And then all the females are the workers and the queen's daughters, almost all of whom will never reproduce. This feels like a totally different social structure

@Skylaman Месяц назад

The intro video is funny. Maya keeps swinging her arm in such a way that I expect her to grab Connor’s hand.

@vanci3449 Месяц назад

AAAAAHGG im goin wilde 🧍🏻🧎🏻‍♂️🐺!!

@oddhumantomost4636 Месяц назад

Today I learned about bat incels

@JustDan_777 23 дня назад

animals that are the most confrontational

@Moonscar1 Месяц назад

In a fun way to balance form and content, it would be fun to organize your talking points via animal kingdom. Ex. If the episode is “World’s Smallest” the first segment would be about insects, then birds, then mammals, etc

@hellisenn Месяц назад

The bird that can fly the highest, the marine creature that can live in the deepest parts. I think it's the most interesting when the aspect about the animal is in relation to the things that surround us.