I love when channels talk about how an animal makes a crazy sound and then proceed to not actually let us hear what it sounds like. It's my favorite thing. I love it so much. It definitely doesn't make me irrationally annoyed.
There’s a fairly simple explanation for all the crazy stuff in Australia: Australia has historically been so geographically isolated that the wildlife didn’t necessarily face the same environmental pressures to evolve along similar paths as all other wildlife on earth.
Tips for visiting Australia (from an Aussie): - Never get into fresh water unless you know it's safe, do not be "that one guy" who thought you can just go for a nice swim in a lake in Australia. There is a crocodile in there, you don't see him, but he thinks you look delicious. - Never get into salty water unless you know it's safe. If you're at a beach and there's plenty of people around, you'll probably be fine as long as you stay in the areas that are marked as safe. They are marked for a reason, if you get stung by a box jellyfish your life is over. Within 3 minutes you will be bleeding from your eyes, mouth, nose, and every other hole in your body, there is no antivenom, you will likely not even have 5 minutes to tell your family goodbye. Also there are rocks in the ocean that are not actual rocks, they're a death sentence. (I avoid water altogether, I've been stung before by one of the least dangerous jellyfish in Australia and I passed out from the pain, and was in absolute agony for no less than 7 hours) - Never, EVER under-estimate a cassowary. They are seriously dangerous. I saw one when I was a little kid, I stood there and looked from a distance, everything was fine. Don't be a moron, just stay still and enjoy how pretty it is. Don't panic, he doesn't want to hurt you. But do keep in mind that if you annoy him, I guarantee you, you will NOT win that fight. - Do not under-estimate just how dangerous the outback can be. It's not the animals that will kill you out there, it's your car breaking down 1000km from the nearest town, when you haven't seen another car in two days. You will have no cell reception. So you better have enough fuel to easily make it to the next town, a spare tire, and enough water to last multiple days. Because if you find yourself out there and you're not prepared, you will not be coming home. I love the outback, the red sand, insane temperatures, and being truly alone. But I've had my car break down before and I drank a tiny bit of water out of a hole in the road, then almost passed out on the side of the road before someone pulled over to help me. And this was definitely not the worst place I could have broken down. I love my country, and I think you will too. But there are many hazards here. If you don't do dumb stuff, you'll be fine. Just assume that any animal you see can kill you, that doesn't mean you have to run away screaming every time you see a big kangaroo, just admire it from a distance. Can he kill you? Yes. Is he going to? No. Do run from the big spiders though, christ they are scary. P.S. Step on your shoes and then shake them a bit then use your hand to check for spiders before putting them on.
I'm not even from australia and I think it should be absolut common knowledge to NEVER go into uknown waters Especially with all the saltys around It's not beceause they are litteraly everywhere, but they COULD be everywhere Just not worth the risk
@@jonaswerner8480 Yeah exactly. And they're really quite common in certain parts of Australia, especially the Northern Territory, but you'll never know there's one there until it's too late. Every now and then a tourist comes to Australia and gets eaten by a crocodile. The Southern half of Australia has few to no crocodiles, but crocs are not the only dangerous fresh water creature, there are bull-sharks too
@@CynicallyDepressedx Kinda funny talking about this, since today I will go swimming in a lake and wont have to worry that anything in it will try to eat me I'm very thankfull for that
There’s 3 water buffalo just down the road from there usually just chillin in the damn but occasionally you’ll see them playing with the horses that share the paddock
I used to go to work with a tennis racquet in my hand here on the Sunshine Coast when I lived in Caloundra. You could see maggies coming at you on the way to the bus stop in the morning during nesting season because they lived in gum trees on a traffic island just across the road from it. I swatted a few like giant mosquitoes in my time. Luckily at night when you get home these ones didn’t bother you. Daylight though? These ones were T-800’s with wings. Magpies strike fear into the heart of any Australian, manliest man, toughest woman or the most fearless feral country kid, more than the spiders, snakes, stone fish, cone shells, cassowaries, blue ringed octopus, box jellyfish, bluebottles, irukandji, tiger, bull & great white sharks and Drop Bears ever will. Let’s not get started on the Gympie-Gympie plant. Magpies, “The Terror From The Skies”… they still scare the absolute shit out of me. This country is Metal AF, probably explains why I am too 🤘Stay safe out there mate.
@@Lucifurion Carrying a weapon only makes you more of a target. They have long memories and good facial recognition. What you want to do is talk to them, and give them treats.
@@DPowered2 Saying "imagine a predator the size of an elephant" would be a point of reference. Saying "imagine a four legged herbivorous mammal with tusks and a trunk the size of an elephant" would just be describing an elephant.
@balrogsareop4773 so tigars are the only aggressive predators with strong jaws? You defeated your own argument with a better one than what I made. Then you take into account this is about animals no longer alive but have exist your point still doesn't make sense
They are voracious little bastards. They were brought into Utah to take out all the crickets. They did their job all too well. Insect life here has been like a see saw ever since. The mantis kill everything until there is nothing left to eat and die off starving. Later the prey insects make a comeback and the whole process starts all over again.
Just as strange, the platypus has hypodermic thorns on it's inner thighs and they inject a poison that lights up your pain sensors like a christmas tree. Pick one up and it will wrap its back legs around your arm to inject you.
Unless it's a huntsman or daddy-longlegs. Daddy-longlegs (yes they're spiders IN AUSTRALIA) are completely harmless, and are actually one of the main predators of redbacks. Huntsman are maybe the freakiest of any spider in Australia, but are also completely harmless. Maybe still take it outside though, those things can grow as big as your hand.
I've heard about and seen them big ass ones the sizes of cats that LITERALLY CHASE YOU. Dude just burn the whole damn country and see the rest of the world lol 🛕🕌🏝🏔🏞
This video reminds of a recent lecture I had in one of my courses, my professor referenced a research journal called “island biogeography” and explained why species are often so strange on islands due to selected pressures. Essentially, the larger an island is and the closer the island is to a mainland continent is one of the major components of island biodiversity.
There needs to be a video on Cichlid fish and the evolutionary trip that species has been on! They've taken hold on almost every continent and are so incredibly diversified that there's a flavor for just about everyone!
There's a reason why Bethesda doesn't make a fallout Australia, because if regular Australia is this scary imagination the things in this video getting a glow up by Rad's or FEV lol 😂
Walking under those trees at night ... is it an arboreal pig? Is it a mutant donkey? No, from how deep that voice is, it's gotta be a flying hippopotamus!
The female spectre stick insects can fly with their wings but only very short distances. I used to keep the species and it was one of my favourite things about them, they look like little wooden dragons when they fly haha =)
We have birds that will pick up burning branches from a bushfire and drop them somewhere else with long grass so all the small animals will run out where the birds can eat them - is that close enough? "Spitfire" caterpillars don't actually spit fire, just acid, that burns skin and feels like fire.
the photo of the Whites tree frog used under "what the world got" is actually a frog almost exclusive to Australia, with a small range in Indonesia.. like this channel, and i get its not about facts but more general subjects.. but sometimes the inaccuracy is just to great to ignore.. like this case, taking an animal that is almost exclusively Australian and saying its is not from Australia..
As a Floridian... I'm mildly weary of Australia.... With the amount of travelers who've brought over many invasive species... We are aware we are vulnerable to ending up similar to Australia due to our environment.... But we can't be bothered until there is an actual issue🙄
Did you mean you’re wary of Australia? Cause if so, there’s not a lot of reason to worry. The import/export laws of Australia are very VERY strict, and it’s unlikely any Australian flora/fauna would make its way to Florida and establish a population. 😊
@@skeletonqueenie5269 Im from florida lol Im honestly more worried about what comes on banana boats from south America! We have alot of invasive species here like the brazillian wandering spider that comes from the southern latin countries.
The amount of diversity and unique creatures that existed there (not just today but throughout history) Back in the day there were so many insane creatures. Like INSANE! Giant Komodo dragons, the list goes on. It's facinating.
The Aborigines have a story of a Giant Man Eating Salamander that terrorized them. Given the type of animal life that lives there, it’s believed this isn’t a fictional story like monsters in other cultures and was actually an animal that was very real and the memory of it was preserved by their ancient ancestors. It’s extinct now but they did live in Australia and the story was probably a real life account of ancient humans encountering these giant animals and passing down the story.
@@fist-of-doom487 i bet the salamander could have existed. I mean have you seen the giant salamanders from Japan? It's mind blowing. I bet New Zealand had giant eels back in the days. These things just don't fossilize well or ever so it's difficult to find proof certain types of creatures existed.
The first one you showed wasn't a turtle frog. It was a puffy rain frog if I remember right. They look similar to a degree, big fat bodies. Only the puffy frog has some color to it. They're quite cute. Also. Kangaroos are just deer who went to jail. If you know the meme it's hilarious and looks really accurate.
Now for sake of your time, Here's a quick summary: The reason why everyone say australia is a terrible place and full of dangerous animals, is because in australia has one of if not the most competitive and harshest ecosystem out there, so naturaly many animals there have to adapt to their environments and sometimes in a extreme ways to survive. You can thank me later :)
So Australia is basically, the ULTRA PVP Zone, that Only the best of the best and smartest overall and strongest animals could survive, So you had to have a unique ability or else, you would die or go extinct.
Nah, the most harshest environment title on earth probably goes to the DEEP SEA, ever saw those players down there? The meta down there is literally some eldritch horror
I was born in England but have family in Australia I learned visiting Australia just dont touch anything Spiders playing dead to try and bite you Kangaroos are cute but can pack a kick Tarantulas can find their way in to houses somehow And cokatoos can rip out a piercing so have fun with that Everyone should know about the blue ringed octopus And if your a bit screamish the thrill lizard will give you a shock ..... ahhh I miss australia
You forgot to mention all the 'Joe Blakes'.... Taipan, Death Adder, Re-bellied Black snake, King Brown(kill you in 10 minutes) Copperhead, and some others I've forgotten. Then there is the Sydney Funnel Web (world's deadliest spider?) and lots of rutting camels and wild Buffs. Oh and the odd Salty (crocs) as big as a bus !
And with all the fauna and flora, the thing most likely to kill you in Australia is still the climate. Statistically, any time we have the sort of big bushfire that kills people, twice as many people will have died of heat in the weather leading up to the fire. So if 100 people died in the fire, another 200 died of heat and the news stories just didn't bother to mention them. Dying of heat isn't newsworthy here.
The Puerto Rican Coqui Frog also skipped the Tadpole stage, and also births super tiny fully formed Coqui frogs. And Puerto Rico located in the Caribbean and being hot too, does NOT have endemic venomous fauna, except for some spiders and fuzzy caterpillars.
I'd rather have wolves and bears than giant venomous spiders and snakes. At least you know where their territories are and easier to spot than a spider that can just hide in your house and bite in your sleep if you're unlucky. Also it would be still faster and probably even less painful than dying by the venom of one of Australia's creatures.
As a person who has been living in Australia for 10 years already, theyy ain't monsters, they're our children who are smart enough to defend themselves.
There's one creature that hasn't diversified its physical traits, (other than cosmetic), wherever it has turned up in the world... even in Australia they didn't get bigger, grow fangs, spikes or armored plates.... Humans.
Australian mainland was home to many different species that are no longer on the mainland or are extinct outright. a lot of these species now are or were located in Tasmania. The culprit was the dingo that was introduced around 3000 yrs ago with the arrival of seafaring aboriginals. Some of the species that were wiped out from the Australian mainland were a number of Quall species, Tasmanian Devils and the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers).
While Australia may not have the most venomous animals in terms of numbers of species; it does have 20 of the 25 most-venomous snakes, including the top 11 most-venomous. It's also host to several of the most-venomous spiders in the world, with the Funnel Web spider often described as the deadliest in the world; and 7/10 of the most deadly jellyfish.
For many years no one has been killed from a spider bite so why need to say that?? Also on average it’s 1-1.5 people a year who die from snake venom so in other words pretty harmless to humans when comparing it to how many animals here have such deadly toxic venom. U know why our snakes venom is so potent? And it’s just kinda clicked after so many years? It’s because the prey they eat needs to be sedated as quickly as possible so the snake isn’t harmed/scratched/bitten by said mammal cuz they got no limbs or ‘teeth’ to defend themselves with. Also these amazing wonderful gorgeous snakes provide good nutrition to many of our other native animals, especially the snake babies!!
loads of Australian native animals have a deep guttural hissing moaning cry. currently i have a mumma possum and her kid nesting under my floor. when they call it sounds like an evil hag laughing, or squealing like a 3pack a day demon
Love these videos! Especially the coffee slurp at the beginning! But, dude doesn't look old enough for a voice like that! I pictured him different! Great video though. Definitely want to move to Australia now!
When we were kids, my brother and I were so impressed by how accurate Taz (from Looney toons) was. We had seen a real Tasmanian Devil on TV lose its temper once, and it was the funniest thing we had ever seen. Almost as funny as Taz.
Awesome video! I absolutely love your channel!!! I'm starting to think that Steve and Narrator are the same person. Anyone else? How can I get my own WATOP face mask? Like the one Steve wears?
Cassoaries are not older than any other contemporary birds. If they were, they would still have teeth. Rather than evolving (directly) from dionosaurs, their ancestors were ratites, as is the case with emus, moas, elephant birds from Madagascar, kiwis, ostriches and nandus.
@@kyleellis1825 actually you are correct. There is a portion of land that was submerged and disconnected from the other continents. But a good land mass stayed in tact
@@NinjutsuSeeker Do you mean Zealandia? The continent that New Zealand is just the peak of a mountain range for? That's the East coast. I just assumed the other side of Australia got a super tsunami at one point since the west coast is pretty uninhabited/barren.
Very well researched and made. The extinction of mega fauna was also around the time Lake Mungo dried up. The scientific debate about whether the Aboriginals caused their extinction or the environmental changes continues.... my bet is the environment as fridges etc did not exist and Aborigines only took what they immediately consumed.
but they burnt the land to hunt, changing the environment and killing off the fauna. No different to any other population when the encountered (invaded) a country
Imagine going back in time to walk through Australia, it would be a really short walk, much shorter then today! Also, megachunk and chonkosaurus, did they make an online pole to give them names?
@@Lucifurion Well, it is the proven method of naming things. I an the one to speak, I prefer to spark an owl and then repair people's PCs. I have no idea how I actually narrowed down 1/10000 problem but I do every time :D
Those stick insects are bananas ! Could you imagine being in the States ,say Virginia🤷🏼♂️& stepping outside for a smoke & you catch something slowly moving outta the corner of your eye? You walk over to investigate & see one of those ? 😳it would freak me out for a second I’m sure …..I don’t think I’d get close enough to find out if it was harmless or not tho…..no thanks 🤨
There are stick insects all around the World. They're all harmless and commonly kept as pets. Also the part about them eating the birds is total bs - they're unable to eat anything other than leaves, cannot even bite.
Tasmanian devils aren’t actually predators or aggressive at all. They are actually scavengers and prefer to eat already deceased animals and bugs and they will rarely actually hunt for their own prey. They are also pretty shy in the wild and just seem to be aggressive because of the growling noise they make, they are also becoming endangered due to a disease that is effecting their face and breathing, you can see this on the faces at 3:08. Also the lizard shown at 28:08 is called the Stumpy tailed lizard, when it is threatened it will turn into a U shape and face it’s tail and head both at the predator, this gives it a 50% increase of survival as the predator will often believe that the tails is the head and rip the tail of rather than the head, they can also walk backwards to better this effect. The lizard shown at 27:25 is a Blue tongue lizard also btw
I saw a comment that said they spread tumors among themselves via biting, which at first I didn't think it was possible, but then I investigated, and yeah it's a real thing??? I've never heard of infectious cancer but somehow tasmanian devils made it work??? I'm still surprised by this
Devils aren't aggressive with humans who raise them in captivity, but in the wild, they constantly fight over scraps, territory, mates, everything. They can hunt or scavenge, just like most carnivores. The wounds are not the disease. They're from fighting. Sadly, the fighting spreads the disease that's killing them all.
he forgot the bush that its sting will never go away and the pain is so bad it leads anyone who gets stung by it to either un alive themselves or amputate that limb, there was even recorded cases of Full sized male broncos coming into contact with the bush and throwing themselves off cliffs.
Everytime i see that ancient map, that shows how close Australia was to Antarctica? I wonder if there was any creatures that existed on parts of Antarctica during specific times in global history? Now maybe we can't find evidence due to the drastic changes in the conditions of Antarctica?
Marsupials and other extant species of animals native to Australia, New Zealand and some parts of South America are likely the closest we'll ever come outside of fossils evidence found in Antarctica itself. There are however surviving species of trees and other plants that originally evolved in Antarctica and at one point would have been major components of the forests that used to cover the continent. You can find them specifically in the Valdivian Temperate and Magellanic Subpolar forests on the west side of the Andes in the southernmost parts of South America along with some forests in Australia and New Zealand for example.
There's good evidence the monotremes were native to Antarctica and that's why Australia only has the echidna and platypus. I guess we'll learn a lot more when global warming clears the ice off Antarctica - too bad about the cities that will be underwater, but we'll have access to a lot of cool fossils!
Could you do a video on what color insects’ blood is? I read their blood is clear but I must have smashed a mosquito because the liquid that came out of it was red. So it must have just fed. Since you have a lot of other insect aka “creepy crawling ew” videos I figured why not. Thank you for your time.
Australia really is overrated when comes to having scary animals… spiders and snakes are scary, sure. But personally I find mountain lions and grizzly bears to be much scarier
hey those small thing will kill just as easily as a mountain lion or bear if not easier and faster with no signs before hand so uh now imagine an Australian version of a bear or mountain lion
Lion or bears doesn't just appear randomly around you and at best it'll kill one two people before they got shot down. Meanwhile venomous snake and spider can crawl to your bed or right into your toilet bowl and kill you when you're most vulnerable in a slow and painful death.
@@JeSt4m Also here's someone's answer from Quora that I somehow can't link because RU-vid removes comments with links for some reason. "Well…we don’t have lions, cheetah, elephants, rhinos, hippos, gorillaz, chimps, hyenas, and a whole host of large wild animals. These are amongst the most dangerous animals in the world, never mind Africa. While our snakes are more venomous….we count deaths per year in single digits…one hand…. while the African Puff Adder I believe is about 32,000 deaths. We have kangaroos, wallabies and ….wombats. I don’t believe anyone has been killed by a wombat unless it fell off a ladder and landed on someone. We don’t have tsetse flies. We don’t have malaria …. still the most dangerous organism to humans on the planet, at over 400,000 world wide. The only thing I can say about Australia as being the most dangerous Australian creature is one that inhabits Australia’s most popular location….not going to the toilet…or drinking beer…or ….driving cars…but the beach. The Chironex Fleckeri or Box Jelly. Even a minor sting is bad enough but a major sting is fatal. It is so bad that the Ambulance and the Life Savers carry the anti-venene because every second counts. The rest…well…they do try to avoid humans. Except crocs. Crocs will just march right through your front door and take you out while you’re munching on your Weet-Bix. But Africa has them too."
I'd like to see these relocation programs get planned for newly formed volcanic islands. Have the entire ecosystem planned out, only built using endangered species. That way the whole island is a back up plan for a bunch of plants/animals/fungus.
@@poz21983 So what? As long as we keep flying birds/long distance swimmer off the siland, no ecosystem is being harmed except a brand new one with absolutly nothing but volcanic rock on it. They take centuries normally to even begin to have an ecosystem.
@@MMZ_ThumperNah, to say we are the mistake would be dramatizing, but I understand where you're coming from. It is very clear tho that we will repeat nearly any faulty behavior. We were given a good hand to play a major role and since the arrival of civilization, we abused it again and again.
