The Amazon Makes Australia Look Like a Joke? | Casual Geographic Reaction

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[00:00:00]cuz Australia is not that bad.

[00:00:01]>> I've heard the Amazon is scarier than Australia. I've seen pictures of some of the snakes in the Amazon and there ain't no way. That's That's number one on the list of places I'm not going.

[00:00:13]Australia's definitely number two, but Amazon is definitely number one with how big of the snakes are. They're big enough to eat like 20 of me. You ought to believe it.

[00:00:24]>> No further comment.

[00:00:25]>> What the hell? That's terrifying.

[00:00:29]But yeah, we got do casual geographic today.

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[00:00:58]>> [snorts] >> Ain't no way ain't no if Australia Sing sandbox >> the Cappy bar is just like >> how' you do that >> then the Amazon is its older brother raised by Brazil Snake Island and tutored by the Darian Gap while babysat by the Serengeti the land of felony dear and >> does he Oh, >> then the Amazon is its older brother raised by Brazil Snake Island and tedarian gap while babysat by the >> Oh god.

[00:01:37]Um, >> sir, you might want to leave.

[00:01:50]That's a lot of lions.

[00:01:52]Getty, the land of felony deer and eight-legged landlords is a country club compared to the largest rainforest and factory of nonsense on the planet. Cuz Australia is not that bad.

[00:02:02]>> I've heard the Amazon is scarier than Australia. Here's the issue.

[00:02:10]People live in Australia and are co okay with the gigantic I'm as big as your face spiders.

[00:02:19]for what it reputation is. And for the most part, discernment and common sense will keep you in present tense, but also the >> let's forget about the fact that like 90% of the animals there will kill you or want to kill you.

[00:02:32]>> We'll take Australia's lunch money. This is a jungle that has swallowed cities.

[00:02:37]>> People live near >> and even Charles, >> listen to yourself. People live near the Amazon.

[00:02:45]Very few people live in the Amazon.

[00:02:52]I know there are like indigenous tribes that live in the Amazon, but they were born in it, molded by it.

[00:03:01]I was not erggo. I am not going to be in it.

[00:03:07]Same with Australia.

[00:03:11]No, >> was naturally select. It's a river. Uh, it's called living along the Amazon River.

[00:03:22]>> As a tribute to the forest, >> no way that kids geographics.

[00:03:27]Maybe, maybe.

[00:03:30]Allegedly, the Amazon is a living bullet hell from top to bottom. But the most dangerous animals in it, and the ones most likely leave you full-time horizontal may, no, will surprise you.

[00:03:40]And what better way to start than with the actual king of the jungle.

[00:04:00]You watch out for the leopard man.

[00:04:03]>> The auada. The cat whose name means he who kills with one leap. Fitting cuz this cat is a walking oneshot and arguably one of the most unfair apex predators out there. They can swim better than any big cat ever should.

[00:04:16]They can also climb in these towns.

[00:04:17]They'll combine to reign absolute pain on the food chain. Jaguars are the third largest cat and the biggest you'll find in America. But pound-for-pound, no other cat bites harder. Thanks to a wide skull packed with masstor muscles, and a shorter jaw for more crushing leverage, a motivated jaguar is said to have a bite force seven times its own body weight, outclassing their carnivorous counterparts.

[00:04:40]That's what That's what.

[00:04:42]That's right.

[00:04:45]Scarier than a freaking alligator bite.

[00:04:52]The bull shark of the big cats has a bite that can break through a sea turtle's carropus, which they regularly prey on. They also flatline cayman thanks to the jaguar's habit of going for the back of the head. It's a hell of an attitude adjustment. One that can penetrate the skull and pierce the brain and leave a cayman anything but okay.

[00:05:09]So, safe to say you'd have no chance if John Whiskers decided to make you a memory. Victims of jaguar attacks all have one thing in common, and it's that they all look like they were mauled by a clawhammer. In 2010, a 17-year-old was returning from a fishing trip when a jaguar exploded out of a ravine and jumped onto the boat, knocking both into the water before resurfacing with the teen's head in its mouth. A bystander fended a cat off with an iron pipe and somehow the teen survived despite devastating head trauma, memory loss, and bone fragments from his skull nearly piercing his brain into kids. Lucky to be alive, bone fragments almost piercing his brain.

[00:05:55]2008, a jaguar wandered into an open tent and mauled a 21-year-old inside to death [music] with his body found with fatal damage to his spinal cord. Jaguars are the Amazon equalizer. And what many people would fear most in the jungle, but the humbling part is they could easily do way worse. Out of all the big cats, it's jaguar attacks that are the least likely. Other than snow leopards, and they live on Heaven's Driveway. From 1950 to 2025, there have been only 84 recorded jaguar attacks on people in the Brazilian Amazon. this one.

[00:06:26]Let me think. That's almost one a year.

[00:06:31]There are 365 days in a year.

[00:06:35]That's pretty That's pretty low considering, you know, I would say, yeah, it's slightly over one a year.

[00:06:56]And with how frequently people apparently visit the Amazon, that's actually kind of surprising. I'd have thought it been higher.

[00:07:04]I'd have thought it' been higher, you know.

[00:07:08]And only 13 deaths is surprising.

[00:07:17]Oh, yeah. Hippo will tear you. Hippo is probably 100% fatality rate if you're attacked.

[00:07:24]>> Deaths that we know of. Not only is that a little more than one attack a year, many incidents involve hunters flanked by hunting dogs. Most people that have run into a wild jaguar will tell you they're more likely to barely acknowledge you and just keep it pushing. This is an apex predator that actively avoids us, >> which is wild.

[00:07:45]It's a predator that could totally just take you out, but sometimes it doesn't even carry you there.

[00:07:52]>> And for good reason, considering humans nearly wiped them out and they're only just starting to come back to the United States, we're definitely what this brolic big cat has nightmares about. And while none of that's any solace, if you >> The reason they probably don't attack is the ones that didn't attack survived.

[00:08:08]>> Considering we nearly put the jaguar on the endangered list, it's not wonder they don't want to engage with us.

[00:08:16]>> Probably that might be why.

[00:08:20]Maybe like evolution basically taught them for the most part that just like attacking us led to death. So evolution basically caused them to kind of just treat us as like fixtures, which is kind of scary to think about.

[00:08:44]>> You do get pressed by a yaguada. There's actually much worse things to encounter in the Amazon than a leopard that lifts.

[00:08:50]For example, >> I would think that hippo is the worst.

[00:08:53]>> Example, you'll probably never hear a sound like that in the Amazon, but if you do, you may never hear anything ever again.

[00:09:07]>> Is that a poison dart frog?

[00:09:10]Cuz if it is that lady dead >> because a gang of giant rivers can absolutely cancel you. One alone can >> otter book a win.

[00:09:26]>> Grow to six feet long and is tough enough to square up with a jaguar. But an army of Arianas is like a high functioning water wolf pack. These giga otterters will also victimize cayman with scientists watching a pack of fur piranhas eviscerate a 5-ft cayman to nothing. No bones, no skull, just a former concept in under 45 minutes.

[00:09:45]Giant otterers are built like a bad trip. With eyes that could win a staring contest with the void, but just like with jaguars, it's actually their cousins that Cute kills, baby.

[00:10:05]>> More damage. Despite local legends of giant otter capsizing watch canoist to shreds, this bugeyed breaststroking abomination mostly eats fish and rarely comes into contact with people. There's no case of a wild giant otter authoring a human obituary. And if one did, it would likely be defensive. But God help you if you offend otter enough for that, cuz this man showed what the consequences could be. Because after rescuing a child that had fallen into the otter den at a zoo, Sergeant Sylvio Hollandback was swarmed and mauled by a family of enraged otter which ultimately killed him. But an important fact is it was likely in defense of recently born otter pups. So just like a >> Yeah, mas get angry if you get near their babies.

[00:10:52]>> Specifically scalp all the mozzarella.

[00:10:57]What?

[00:10:59]Hello?

[00:11:01]That's utterly vile.

[00:11:04]You ought to believe it.

[00:11:08]But yeah, >> Jaguar, this is an apex predator that's more likely to ignore you than gore you.

[00:11:12]But it's always best to respect the >> basically ours really won't go out of their way to attack you.

[00:11:21]But if you step a bit too close to the nest, if babies have just been born, >> in this case, you don't just anger the mom, you anger the entire >> Oh, yeah. They're they have a pack mentality.

[00:11:39]>> If one mother's angry, all the mothers are angry.

[00:11:44]So yeah, uh he just got very unlucky.

[00:11:49]what he should have done, but like they were worried for the kid, so that's why he went and got him, is they should have like as long as the otter weren't attacking the baby, leave them there.

[00:12:02]Wait for a zookeeper cuz a zookeeper will be able to keep most otter will understand a familiar face more than a scary face, like a new face. And you probably just jumped down in there and grabbed the baby.

[00:12:17]That's too fast. Then that's too close to the babies.

[00:12:22]So yeah, the otter were basically primed to attack.

[00:12:28]>> Put a jaguar in reverse with no key.

[00:12:30]Which is why you should be more afraid of the giant anteater. The ultimate sleeper.

[00:12:35]>> Oh god. People laugh, but anteers have a claw the size of like your neck on each of their hands.

[00:12:46]They will pierce your body and you will die. The stab wounds >> build cuz the same claws they used to break into termite mounds can easily tuck you in for a permanent >> Yeah. Look at those claws. Those claws are like almost as thick as your neck.

[00:13:06]>> Realize termite mounds are built like concrete. Then you'll realize that I lied. A 7 foot feather duster is something a jaguar has to worry about.

[00:13:12]Giant anteaters have killed jaguars and they have a human body count, too. In 2012, a 47year-old hunter approached an anteater head on as if he didn't take the animal seriously.

[00:13:23]>> No one, not enough people do. They think they're just silly little guys. No.

[00:13:30]>> Anteater slashed his thigh and bled him to death. Two years earlier, an anteater attacked, no, defended itself against another hunter and killed him after severing his femoral artery. A homicidal panda-armed vacuum cleaner is not a joke. The first red flag is being anything that comfortable in the presence of a predator. But the reason I'd be more nervous around a termite terminator than a jaguar is the predator paradox. Remember, with predators, you got to earn their concern. Unless cubs are involved, otter won't capable of a human. As just he explained, >> yeah, they're way more capable. They just have to slash you once cuz their claws are built to basically puncture concrete.

[00:14:09]So those claws will puncture you very easily and then like otter 99% of the time they're not going to attack you unless you like scare them or uh get near their babies when they're just born.

[00:14:34]Otter's going to treat you like a like a weird piece of like bark or something. They're going to look at you and be like, "Huh?

[00:14:44]Who? Go away."

[00:14:46]>> Jaguars are big enough to not care. But a legally blind Freddy Krueger steroid sloth will bleed you the first time you look like a threat. And they don't get safer in captivity cuz in 2007, a zookeeper was gored so badly she had to get her leg amputated in an operation that ultimately killed her. You're going to learn that you fear the prey more than the predator. Which is why it's surprising that arguably the jaguar's most feared prey is an animal.

[00:15:09]>> Humans are really defenseless against screwed if you get pressed by peckery.

[00:15:13]Not just cuz they have tus that >> wild boar.

[00:15:18]Yeah, wild boar are pretty pretty terrifying. But I think that one's known. I think most people understand you don't mess with a wild boar.

[00:15:28]can emancipate your insides because they roll in packs too and will defend each other. 300lb jaguars have been driven up the trees by murder swine and from this video you can see they'll deliver that same smoke to people. This is the mammal that scares me the most in the Amazon because if you see one, you know many more will follow. People have found dead jaguars with stab wounds but surrounded by hooves. That pretty much tells you how the cat went out. Not only is this not a pig likely responsible for gun laws in certain states, it's arguably the worst mamalian jump scare in the jungle. But the most dangerous is an animal you may not have even considered unless you live there. Cuz in a study interviewing over 120 people, >> are they going to say the uh poison dart frogs?

[00:16:09]>> More than 40% have been attacked by a vampire bat.

[00:16:15]>> Forgot about those.

[00:16:19]Isn't it because their bite's basically filled with disease?

[00:16:24]Like he basically dies.

[00:16:25]>> Only three species regularly feed on blood, but the common vampire bat specializes in mammals relative. Usually that means seals and livestock, but opportunity can bring them right to humans. The first known outbreak of human rabies transmitted by bats was in >> Yeah, rabies 30s Trinidad where up to 90 people died. In 2005, there were 55 >> human rabies cases caused by bats, which was up from the 46 in 2004. Since the 1930s, it's estimated that over 1,000 people have died to vampire bat assisted rabies.

[00:16:58]>> Uh, no. From what I understand, it was just a regular bat that someone ate, which again, why would you eat something then that all of its cousins are known to carry diseases like rabies?

[00:17:17]>> With the bulk being in Brazil, Peru.

[00:17:19]Now, bats already get a lot of and I feel bad for even contributing to it.

[00:17:22]Keep in mind that typically less than 1% of bats in an area may have rabies at any given time and they're only really a >> I don't think it was vampire bats though.

[00:17:31]>> I could be wrong, but I think it was Was it a fruit bat or was it just a regular bat? I think it was a regular bat that was eaten had a disease on it but then spread.

[00:17:46]problem is what you do if you find difficult access to medical >> like the also a chance being more dangerous.

[00:17:54]>> The board don't fear humans anymore.

[00:17:56]>> That's kind of the issue is >> why do people really do anything that dumb?

[00:18:03]>> Hi baby.

[00:18:06]But um talking about the boores, that's kind of the issue with like expansion of human like populations is we're like slowly acclimating these humans to our presence to the point where they do not fear you because they see no reason to fear you.

[00:18:32]And you can't give them a reason to fear you.

[00:18:37]because that might change their ecology too much.

[00:18:42]What you want to do is you not you want to like try to not go into their area of like residence too much.

[00:18:52]>> This is only thanks to us >> and maybe like call the herd every now and then slowly give them a reason to avoid your settlements. resorted to people with a 2016 study finding human blood in bat samples. Mind you, before it was thought that these bats would rather starve than drink mamalian blood.

[00:19:08]Bats have an unfair reputation for what they do for the world. Without them, we wouldn't have chocolate or tequila. But it'd also be a lie if I said the chances you fall asleep outside and get your blood assets drained aren't zero. In their defense, the mammals of the Amazon are only responsible for a fraction of the life retirements there. Well, most of the mammals. Wink wink. But it's the reptiles that are more infamous. And no reptile displays the insanity of >> Yeah, I've seen pictures of some of the snakes in the Amazon and there ain't no way.

[00:19:36]That's That's number one on the list of places I'm not going.

[00:19:41]Australia's definitely number two, but Amazon is definitely number one with how big the snakes are.

[00:19:49]They're big enough to eat like 20 of me.

[00:19:53]on more than the Cayman. I feel so bad for the Cayman. Teams evolving on a winning team only >> go to jail withied. They get their wigs split by jaguars and can get mauled by otter, squeezed to a flatline by anaconda, and electrocuted by an animal that has no business having that power.

[00:20:10]When they're small, they can get attacked on tightened by heron or ravished by rodents. And when they finally get big enough, Cayman earned the eye of the most dangerous predator of all time. Cayman got dropped into hardcore server and have been getting curb stopped by the jungle senses since.

[00:20:24]Except there's one cayman this doesn't really apply to. The black cayman can grow to 16 feet long, weigh over 1,000 lbs, and an adult would not take this crap from a jaguar. In fact, in the land of apex predators, the black cayman might be the apex predator, as many locals fear them more than any jaguar, otter, or eel. Since 2014, there have been 66 cayman attacks with 19 deaths, with most occurring near fishing sites.

[00:20:47]And while most of these attacks are defensive or straight up provoked by people, the scariest thing is their personalities came in areas where they've historically been hunted are shy and super people avoiding.

[00:20:56]>> I'm sorry. I'd have I'd have given up that catfish, buddy.

[00:21:01]You got it into your thing, but you may have earned the eye.

[00:21:07]>> Tell you that they'll attack anything that moves. And I promise you're not ready for how powerful the biggest member of the alligator family can be.

[00:21:13]Just the force of their tail can.

[00:21:15]>> You invented New York. treated >> shatter your knee with a well- aimed swing. But unlike crocodiles, cayman don't really have the reputation for becoming man-eaters. And like others, a majority of their victims are fish. And again, it's another example of humans being the real monster.

[00:21:29]>> Black Cayman was nearly pushed into extinction for its hide. So bad that it led to the explosion of the capiara and piranha that were being kept in check, which ironically would only bite humanity right in the agriculture. But there's one reptile that has a reputation worse than a cayman, and it's The anaconda.

[00:21:50]>> This trigger warning is only because my mom's afraid of snakes. And if you're like her, go to this time stamp. Last warning cuz the other side of this trigger warning is the biggest snake on the planet. Not the longest. That would be the reticulated python. But the heavyweight title goes to the green anaconda. Now the anaconda is actually the >> Look how big that is. And realize that's not the biggest.

[00:22:11]Realize it. You only see about 3/4s of it there. Yes, it's bigger.

[00:22:16]Look, the tail's down there and it's not even fully on screen.

[00:22:25]The follow repus, but yeah, like look at that.

[00:22:31]And that this is definitely not the biggest >> victim to the most egregious size exaggerations of any animal. But most agree a female can reach the name.

[00:22:49]>> Look at that chunky sink.

[00:22:53]>> Look how thick it is and look how long it is.

[00:22:58]You're deadhood of 20 ft long and violate the scales at nearly 550 lbs.

[00:23:04]You probably know the anaconda life deprise with an existing ending embrace.

[00:23:07]But it's not the suffocation that does you. It's the fact that they squeeze so tight your heart can't pump against the pressure and any blood flow to the brain gets blocked. Not to mention backwards facing teeth make it impossible to escape custody. An adult Amazonian anaconda is another apex predator. one that can swallow virtually anything.

[00:23:23]Thanks to jaws that don't unhinge, but actually stretch to accommodate and a windpipe they can shove out of their mouths to breathe through like a meat snorkel. So Stevie Wonder could see how Titanobo's little brother could easily void a human. But there is a catch.

[00:23:36]Human shoulders are the number one reason most snakes aren't physically capable of swallowing a human. And even if they are, it is very, very rare for one to try, let alone succeed. And even though the biggest anacondas probably could, there are zero cases of one ever eating a person. Let me say that again.

[00:23:51]It's >> Thank you for the sub reptalas and Primus Studios. Hello.

[00:24:00]>> But yeah, that's the only like benefit is snakes won't bother eating us.

[00:24:07]>> Never happened that we know of. People have been struck by condas, but the animal that eats like five times a year and then spends the rest of it on power save mode definitely is doing it out of defense. Meaning if a parapolgic dragon bites you, you probably did something. I get it. But this is not the snake to be afraid of in the Amazon. That would be look, snakes have a worse PR than bats, so I don't even want to do them like that. But if you see a pit viper in a cut, pick a higher power and start a conversation. There's a lot of venomous snakes in the Amazon, and the most >> vipers terrifying >> lance or the fertilance. Out of all the venomous snake bites in the Amazon, the common lance head is responsible for up to 90%. Between 2012 and 2021, the number of common lancad bites was 202,6.

[00:24:52]That's more than 10,000 a year.

[00:24:55]20 years. Less than 20 years. Yeah, that's more than 10,000 a year.

[00:25:01]That's terrifying.

[00:25:03]four with 766 deaths. And I'm going to >> surprisingly small.

[00:25:14]>> Linked the study that said it in the description because I read it and I don't believe it. Lance head venom isn't just toxic. It's designed to mercy fast so the snake doesn't have to track them.

[00:25:22]The venom attacks tissues and blood cells and causes them to lice and burst, instigating internal hemorrhaging while also blocking blood clotting with anti-coagulants to keep >> No, I think it's just a hungry snake.

[00:25:34]She's a human as a giant like happy meal.

[00:25:38]>> You bleeding and it happens fast. One 10-year-old girl was bit and even with relatively quick medical attention, she still had to get her leg amputated.

[00:25:45]Another girl was struck likely by a >> so of those 202,000 probably like 190 lost a limb >> and the venom turned her leg into a black stick. You can look it up if you want. I'm sure as hell not going to show it here, but a black stick tinted green.

[00:26:06]That is what her leg was reduced to.

[00:26:08]Now, what caused her leg was the fact that she was originally treated with traditional medicine and not brought to a clinic until a month later. Most times with immediate medical, a majority of bite victims end up making a full recovery. And the fact that most bites end up being dry explains a low bite to death ratio. But it's when you get in >> Oh, okay. So, they don't immediately shoot their venom like some cobras do where like the second they bite you, the venom's injected.

[00:26:38]Theirs is they bite then they inject.

[00:26:42]Where most cobras. I believe it's bite and inject at the same time.

[00:26:50]>> Venomated in an area of difficult or remote access that you're basically a walking corpse. The sad part is snakes don't want to resort to using venom unless they think their life is in danger. In fact, most times the snake will bite you.

[00:27:01]>> Yeah. See, it's that snake's biting and he's not shooting anything yet.

[00:27:06]>> At you instead of biting you.

[00:27:07]>> Whereas if you do that with a cobra, it starts shooting immediately. Lance heads often hunt rats and coffee or banana plantation.

[00:27:13]>> That is rather most venomous snake can bite without venom.

[00:27:18]>> But isn't it like most cobras they're when they bite they're almost immediately if not like as the bite happens shooting venom.

[00:27:28]>> Double-edged jump scare for them and the farm >> snake is quite dilemma.

[00:27:33]>> Oh shut up >> of Satan's weighted jump rope. It's a snake you don't see that should scare you. Also, honorable mention to the bushmaster. With a name like that, you are not to be played with. You got it.

[00:27:43]But it's not just the venomous occupants that'll fold you. The poisonous ones will get you, too. And the Amazon has the most poisonous animal on the planet.

[00:27:50]And the fact that it's a tiny skittle of a frog is the second you >> I knew it. I knew it would be the freaking dart frogs.

[00:27:58]>> The same costic that could sleep comfortably on a quarter, has enough toxins to one-shot 20 people, 20,000 mice, and two bull African elephants.

[00:28:07]There are no elephants in the Amazon.

[00:28:08]This thing's built like a biblical punishment. The poison dart frog got its name from indig.

[00:28:12]>> That person is nuts. Indigenous hunters rubbing their arot tips on the frog's back. If you were to get injected, at best, the protracttoxin would cause numbness and nausea. At a higher concentration, the poison that runs interference between nerves would cause paralysis, convulsions, and even seizures. Any higher and the paralysis of the diaphragm and heart failure would cause suffocation, cardiac arrest, and death. To add insult to permanent inactivity, it's not even their poison they're packing. That is a stolen bag.

[00:28:40]The amphibian poison pill gets it from the beetles they eat and open carries the chemicals. To my knowledge, a poison frog hasn't directly packed up a person, but recently Russian opposition Alexi Nali was lethally poisoned by yeah, poison frog poison. So on the list of >> well then animals to fear in the Amazon, rancid ribbits are pretty low. Mostly because their dress code is a literal red flag along with >> literally tells you not to mess with them.

[00:29:10]>> Getting in the water is different cuz you'd likely never see it coming.

[00:29:13]>> The bright colors are basically nature's way of saying I'm danger.

[00:29:17]>> So what is the scariest?

[00:29:18]>> Usually it means poison >> cuz there are a lot of options.

[00:29:22]Is a several hundred lb armorplated Jurassic guppy that can easily turn your lights off. Bull sharks are considered the most aggressive shark species and the closest to the stereotype and they've been known to venture up the Amazon and on the desk reputation is and attacks and rivers are super rare. Murky river water is the best place to become a shark statistic and the paco has human teeth and has been nicknamed the ball cutter. No further comment infamous fish in the Amazon and they're the reason people say you should never pee in the ballast.

[00:29:52]According to legend, parasitic follow the urine up your urethra where they get lodged up there with their backwards facing spikes. Think of the anaconda's jaws but clamped inside the most sensitive part of your body. And allegedly only invasive surgery can remove it. But in all of humanity's history, there has been only one recorded case of such a fate. With one man in 1997 claiming that a candy were jumped out of the water, swam up his pea stream and into him. Yet, science has proven that not only is that physically impossible, like fluid physics, it has also been proven that kanduru aren't even attracted to human urine. The piranha is another fish with bad PR. But we now know that they're mostly shy scavengers that also eat plants. You could sit in a pool of feeding piranhas, and like a toddler's vegetables, likely go untouched. Now, attacks do happen, and headlines can be something out of a horror movie, but they're rare and usually only in times of extreme environmental stress and shallow water.

[00:30:43]Also, the whole piranha flesh stripping a cow thing was actually a scop staged by locals to impress President Theodore Roosevelt. You're much more likely to accidentally eat a piranha than the other way around. And even the pacu's ball biting reputation has been greatly exaggerated.

[00:30:57]>> Greatly exaggerated. I would hope so.

[00:31:01]>> Scariest fish in the Amazon. It's definitely the one that's less eel than fish. The electric eel is actually a knife fish related to a catfish, but it's closer to an aquatic taser. The fact that there's a fish that's just up and weaponized electricity and we just all accept that as a fact of life is the third biggest middle finger the Amazon has to offer. And at 8 feet up to 40 pounds, this imitation eel has killed people. But it's >> rather shocking if I might say so myself. It's >> not the electricity you worry about.

[00:31:34]It's getting knocked out in water and drowning kneede. It's also the fact they can jump out of the water to tase you, which a scientist discovered by accident when he tried transferring one into a new aquarium and nearly got fried in the process. Not to mention 8 ft of not an eel can have all their vital organs 20% of their body. The remaining 80 is reserved for electric organs. This is one of those things you blindly accept as a kid only to severely question the existence of as an adult. So, we went through mammals, reptiles, fish, and amphibians. That only leaves the most dangerous group of all. Kind of. The spiders aren't insects, but damn it, they're going in this section. Oh yeah, spider warning. Sorry we >> saw we not.

[00:32:14]>> Goliath birde eating spiders are the largest tarantulas in the world. The funny thing is they rarely prey on birds, but the naming guy made damn sure you don't forget they can. They mostly go for rats, frogs, lizards, sometimes snakes. And they do this by paralyzing prey with venom and then liquefying their insides with enzymes to turn the prey into soup. But as that one weird spider apologist that refused to kill them as a kid, I got to say that tarantulas are virtually harmless with venom no worse than a wasp sting. And they've never killed a human. The most dangerous thing about them is that they're terrified of humans and will flick highly irritating hairs into your face as defense. And those hairs are absolute hell if they get in your eyes.

[00:32:48]And as intimidating as a Goliath might be, they're like a soft shell lobster to a kowatti.

[00:32:52]>> I'm all the way over here >> cuz the tarantula is considered a delicacy. Now this spider is a different ballgame. The Brazilian wandering spider is responsible for >> no thank you.

[00:33:04]>> Thousands of bites a year with an estimated 40,000 occurring annually in its namesake country. Like the tarantula, they're also afraid of people and lash out defensively. The problem is they also hide in dark crevices which leads to a mutual jump scare from people. They have an especially bad habit of finding themselves inside shipments of bananas. There was one time a store in Austria was shut down for several days after one spawned out of a banana crate like a Jack in the Box.

[00:33:28]Appropriate response because the Brazilian antichrist venom has a lot of effects. Paralysis, trouble breathing.

[00:33:33]But the most infamous side effect is that a venomation can cause a painful several hour case of priapism. Now Google priapism and you'll understand why this is the number one middle finger of the rainforest. One that can end your baby making career permanently. But even with thousands of recorded bites a year, there have been less than 20 deaths recorded since the 1900s. Mostly because again, animals don't love to waste venom, and most bites are dry, even if they aren't. With antivenenom, you're almost guaranteed to be fine. That being said, you better have antivenenom. I love die hard, not enough to live it.

[00:34:04]That being said, I'd take a spider over a Satan peed. The Amazonian variety is the largest on the planet, and they punch way above their weight class with a prey list that can include birds, bats, and rats. Centipedes like this can submit prey 15 times their size with paralyzing neurotoxic venom. And it is no exaggeration one of the most painful bites a human being can experience. It probably won't kill you and that's not as a favor to you. There's at least one case of a centipede subtracting a person. And it was when a Venezuelan child opened a soda can and was mortally wounded by the crawly hidden inside.

[00:34:34]That does raise one hell of a question though. Would you rather take a bite from a centipede or stings from bullet ants? How it got its name is pretty straightforward. Bullet ants are terrifying.

[00:34:47]Bullet ants are nature's answer to people torturing ants basically cuz you know kids back then did it too.

[00:35:01]And they are terrifying to say the least.

[00:35:05]They're literally bullets in ant form.

[00:35:09]But it indigenous name translates to the one who wounds deeply as well as 24-hour ant because you're scheduled for 24 hours of agony and untold suffering once you get bit. Entomologist Justin Schmidt has described a sting as less like a gunshot and more like walking over flaming charcoal with 3-in nails stuck up your foot. The ants are even used as a right of passage for the Saturn Me people with those initiated having to wear a glove of these piss ants for some time all while being lit up by the insects. It's a process that can cause temporary paralysis and hallucinations.

[00:35:40]And the process is done not once, but up to 20 times. It's a different level of pain, but one that's when I say that the Amazonians are built different.

[00:35:52]I feel like that's vindication right there. Would you want that happen to you 20 times to be considered a grown-up?

[00:35:59]It's >> not lethal as bullet ants have never killed a person.

[00:36:04]Yeah. So, as unpleasant as a runin with a wandering spider, centipede, or ant army would be, those aren't the bites you fear the most. This is, cuz the kissing bug is statistically one of the deadliest animals in the Amazon with a worldwide kill rate of over 10,000 with over 7 million people infected. And it's because the assassin bugs can spread a parasite that delivers chadas disease, a parasite they spread through their poop.

[00:36:29]Once you accidentally rub the infected feces into a bite wound, you've been got and you often don't realize it until you wake up looking like you lost an argument to Mike Tyson. It's an uncomfortable, unsightly disease, one that erases tens of thousands of lives in the Amazon, including allegedly [music] Charles Darwin. It's highly suspected that the longtime 40-year illness and eventual demise of the father of evolution was caused by a one-time runin with a kissing bug and the development of Chagas that came after. By the numbers, that makes this bug one of the deadliest creatures in the jungle. But not number one. That spot goes to the deadliest animal of all time. The animal you should fear the most isn't a jaguar, anaconda, cayman, or even unethical Viagra. It's the mosquito. The mosquito has buried more people than >> I had a feeling it was going to be the mosquito.

[00:37:20]And I don't, if I recall correctly, mosquito is probably the only bug we could get rid of that might actually not affect everything because there are other bugs that fit the niches that a lot of birds need and like most other animals don't eat insects.

[00:37:39]>> Single war in human history combined.

[00:37:42]And it's no different in Earth's biggest jungle as Anophles Darlingi has killed untold numbers of people as largely the biggest vector of malaria along with other malades like deni yellow fever and even Zika. I consider them so dangerous because there's no confusion if a jaguar or viper bites you. But mosquito bites can easily go under the radar until you wake up to the grim reaper on your nightstand. And the worst part is mosquitoes could easily be way worse.

[00:38:08]One, because only females suck blood, but also because out of the thousands of species, mainly three are responsible for census cuts on humanity. One adjustment by them, and they could possibly wipe us out. But again, it might be our own fault they're so dangerous. As deforestation has boosted the number of bites, and those same deforested areas can have biting rates 278 times the normal. And that's why it's humans that are tied for the most dangerous animal in the Amazon. It's been said that deforestation has killed half a million people in the last 20 years with nearly 30,000 a year attributed to heat stress. But human-caused deaths can be even more direct as over 1,700 activists have been murdered in the Amazon between 2012 and 2021 while trying to prevent activity like mining, oil drilling, and logging.

[00:38:53]That's more than the deaths due to jaguars, anacondas, cayman, venomous snakes, and spiders combined. So, no, I'm not just being edgy when I say one of the most life-threatening things you can run into.

[00:39:04]>> What's sad is if they would just stop attacking the Amazon activist wouldn't be there and then neither side of these people would die to the the bugs and the animals >> in the world's most dangerous jungle is another human. And most of those merch were indigenous activists fighting for.

[00:39:22]To be fair, the reason they say no to >> we drove the cayman out of >> mosquito eradication. We're not 100% sure we can.

[00:39:29]>> As for the Amazon, it is as dangerous as it is.

[00:39:32]>> Getting rid of them could cause an issue.

[00:39:34]>> Are really only doing what they can to survive. And both are worthy of our respect and fear because the most terrifying thing about them is the reality of a world where they're not here.

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