Finding the Worst Smelling Lifeform
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2023
- What’s that smell?? Knowledge! In this video, we get into the smelliest organisms on this planet.
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Wikipedia Articles for the topics if you want to learn more about them:
Skunk: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk
Tamandua en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamandua
Hoopoe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe
Muskox: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskox
Wolverine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine
Rafflesia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafflesia
Titan Arum: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorpho...
Durian: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
Sources Used:
stories.sandiegozoo.org/zoono...
www.nature.com/articles/natur...
www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory...
link.springer.com/article/10....
www.livescience.com/51947-cor...
animaldiversity.org/accounts/...
www.britannica.com/plant/Raff...
www.britannica.com/animal/wol...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
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Can't believe you forgot about the discord mod, who's also closely related to the the reddit mod, two of the smelliest creature possible.
.. I mean, you ain't wrong
true, but the reddit mod is more related to the now extinct 4chanosaurus than the discord mod.[discord mods are part of the subgroup creepidae]
@@headwreak1768reddit is down the hall and to the left. you don't even know about something awful goons
@@headwreak1768 last i checked 4chan still exists and is still visited by tens of millions of people a month
reddit mods would absolutely be more closely related to discord mods than anything 4chan related... 4chan is the anti reddit
Absolutely disgusting
I'll say it again, the dry humor on this channel is a masterpiece and I hope it doesn't change
I giggled a few times for sure
After we had big names like "ant" and "bee" on the channel, I think they'll keep that trajectory.
as opposed to wet humor?
@@imuttx Yeees. Wet humour, wet and sloppy humour. Hot, sticky, sloppy humour.
It is a not masterpiece, and I hope it does change
I work at a pet store and people constantly bitch about how bad ferrets stink. Some guy will wander into the store in a wifebeater and Cookie Monster pajama pants open carrying his pistol stinking like pall malls and an Olympic pools worth of sweat but yeah that little ferret reeks bro
you really painted a picture there . where do you live, georgia?
@@hellwormyes, kutaisi !
I met someone who had the mutation that made skunk smell like honeyed onion sauce. So when he got sprayed he had to ask others when it became tolerable.
At least he doesn't suffer when there's roadkill of a skunk on the road
@@Murammassaplot twist, he hates onions
If he got hit with a direct blast it probably fried his sense of smell lol
Our family dog got sprayed by a skunk one year, to me the smell itself was not as bad as the intensity of it. After a while it just smelled like really burnt peppers to us. but even the food in the house started to taste like the smell
wouldn’t he just need to wait until he didn’t smell like onion sauce 🤔
I went to the Cleveland Zoo back in the late 90's soon after they opened an indoor "rainforest" exhibit. As soon as you walked in, you got hit with a brutally nasty stench. Really, really bad. Lots of zoo animals stink, especially those kept inside. But this was exceptionally vile. Downright unnatural. Thank God I can't remember what it smelled like -- and I won't try to conjure the memory -- but I do remember it stunk terribly, all the way through the exhibit. And when we got to the end, where the stench seemed the worst.... there was some kind of anteater. So anteaters get my vote.
Was it a tamandua
do zookeepers wash animals?
Clevelander here. It STILL stinks something awful. The animals are inside and most are in open air(no glass between us). There used to be a HUGE humid aviary. It smelled about the same. I remember never wanting to go in as a kid cuz it smelled so bad.
Eating ants again seems to create an awful smell... perhaps from the formic acid...
Some fly traps have a dormant bacterial powder in them, and when you add water, the culture comes to life and starts emitting a horrid rotten stench that flies can't get enough of, because it smells like decay - it's like a fly dinner bell. But if you really need to get rid of flies, it works like a charm.
As a long time keeper of flytraps I can confirm
Flies and anyone else. XD
I learned this the hard way. Was pretty fine for a few days but then we left for a weekend trip and the whole house smelled like rotten fish when we came back.
I’ve never noticed this. Have I been using them wrong?
@@sabrinatscha2554 No, it's a specific type of fly trap, you'd know it if you bought one - it's like a clear bag with some white bacterial powder packet in the bottom. Fly traps work on a variety of principles but I've never seen one attract as many as this type. I was just using it as an example of organisms evolved to be stinky. For instance that stinky ant-eater attracting flies, may be because he has evolved to emit this decay stench to deter predators, since the flies are attracted to the specific chemical signature/signatures.
It would be interesting if you made a video called like "Fossils Lost To TIme" or somthing like that where you would talk about fossils that have been documented but no longer seem to exist like the S. aegyptiacus that was blown up during WW2, the maraapunisaurus fossil that people think disintegrated, or other possibly more ancient examples of people discovering fossils that are now lost to history.
Just imagine Hugh Jackman running at you smelling like old cheese. Truly frightening
I worked in a Boba Tea place for awhile once; and we could make Durian smoothies (which were delicious!) and i didn't really mind the smell; but it literally did smell just like a gas leak. EVERY TIME, someone ordered it, a nearby white person would panic and be like "THERES A GAS LEAK" and get angry when we kept telling them it was just the Durian lol. Every time. TBH im kind of craving a durian smoothie now...
As a nearby white person...
...I don't even know how to finish this sentence, I just thought that was hilarious, lol.
Gas itself is actually odorless. They add smelly chemicals to the gas so people will detect gas leaks.
I like to imagine its the same white guy every time
I despise Boba Tea, to the fibers of my being. I can't even say why. It's just so abhorrently stupid to me.
@@WretchedRedoranjm sorry you have no happiness in your life and you have to think everything fun is stupid
There’s definitely something weird going on with the smell of durian. Most people, even those who like how it tastes, don’t like the smell, but there are a few people, myself among them, who like the smell of fresh durian and don’t smell all the weird stuff that people attribute to the smell, like sweat or whatever. I don’t even like eating durian-more the texture than the taste, though I don’t like the taste much, either-but I find fresh durian quite pleasant smelling.
I wonder if it’s sort of like how there are people who can taste some weird compounds in coriander/cilantro and hate it, and others who can’t and find it really tasty.
“Tastes like heaven; smells like hell.”
I second this. I Never thought durian had a bad smell but didnt really think much of it
Except in this case, the majority of people dislike the durian smell while people (like me) who hate the taste of cilantro are in the minority. Another similar case is how only some people have the genes that make it so they can smell asparagus pee (that is, when other people eat asparagus and then pee, their pee smells VERY bad.
I’ve been curious about this too. Durian has been one of my favorite fruits since I was little, and I’ve tried again and again to pick up on the weird smells to no avail. It only smells sweet and delicate to me (which is odd since I’ve seen a lot of comments from people who like durian that still note the strong smells). It tastes sweet in a way that’s different to how most other fruits taste sweet. The best way I can explain it is that it’s creamy and I’ve eaten desserts where the fresh fruit is used as a filling as a substitute for regular cream.
So perhaps, there's a genetic subset of humans who actually find the smell pleasant, and the plant has adapted to them specifically?
I think i found the worst smelling lifeform. It was my neighbor.
Preach. My dormmate in college had shits that smelled so bad that I had to put a towel in the cracks of my door to stop the smell from seeping into my room.
Ask your mom to move.
@@epithos alr did no mom required
@@epithosReddit ass comment
I wish there's is a odor equivalent of the Schmidt pain index. And not only that, but also someone who has just as much guts as Coyote Peterson, but instead, they deliberately smell such odorous organisms and broadcast their reaction.
Fun fact: some people think durian smells and tastes like vanilla ,pineapple, mango custard. Others think it smells and tastes like rotting garbage. Now, the reason why it can differ soooo wildly may have something to do with our genes! Much like our gene dependent smell and taste of cilantro. Some taste and smell dish soap. Others-herby deliciousness ! Our senses are amazing
Strangely I showed everyone in my family a durian and we all had different reactions, so there might be some jank there.
🤣 NO ONE thinks durian _smells_ like vanilla or mango. it's mouth feel is like custard and tastes good but fwiw, in ten years in SE Asia I never met anyone who thinks it smells pleasant.
tell me about who told you they think it smells like vanilla please? this blows my mind, I need to know! 💜😋
@@john-ic5pz Actually I wouldn't doubt it, I dethawed some frozen durian again from the same fruit just last night and its smell to me was pleasantly floral, like you were biting into a head of roses every time.
It's too odd because its smell and taste were absolutely abhorrent when I tried to eat it in a still frozen state but seemed to change nature after it was made to be warm or room temperature. I even microwaved a bit of it to see if that made a difference and it did, it became odorless and the taste almost immediately reverted back to the more palatable floral nature. Everyone else in the house reported that microwaving it made the smell significantly worse however so this is definitely a me thing in some capacity.
My little sister and I were hanging out with some friends in the woods. Usual early teens in the early 2000's behavior. Anyways, she came across a baby skunk. I told her to leave it alone, at most admire it from a distance. My little sister being who she is, she refused to listen to me and continued to pester it by being very close and keeping it somewhat cornered. "Aww, it's doing a handstand!" For the uninitiated, that's threat posturing and the final warning a skunk will give. At this point, I had decided to let her suffer her oncoming fate, as she had already refused to listen. Sure enough, she got sprayed directly into her mouth. She certainly learned to leave skunks alone that day, and had to spend the next several days bathing in tomato juice, along with the clothes she was wearing that day needing to be thrown out. Other animal-related incidents where she simply didn't listen:
While walking through the woods with her and my brother in law, we noticed a yellow jacket nest in the ground. We made a mental note of it for the walk back, and, on our return, my brother in law pointed at it and said, "Hey, don't step in that."
As I passed it, I turned to my little sister and repeated the same warning, "Hey, don't step in that." The second my back was turned, she stepped in it, and immediately learned why that was a very bad idea. They came swarming out and attacked her, many of them getting caught in her hair, right near her scalp, giving them easy access to bite and sting her head. My brother in law, much braver and stronger than I was, grabbed her, held her in place, and began squashing them between his fingers. Once he was done, he threw her over his shoulder and carried her home.
At a local park, we had a Chinese goose and his harem of geese. He was much larger than the others, so we nicknamed him "Quackzilla." One day, she decided it would be a brilliant idea to chase the geese there, and, as usual, corner them. Quackzilla had had enough of her antics and decided to flip the script, chasing her down, instead. I stood by and watched it unfold, as she bolted past me. Quackzilla came to a stop next to me, looked up at me, nodded his head as if to say, "You're alright," and I nodded back, then he went back to his girls. She left him alone after that, but he never forgot, and would often be more aggressive around her.
She's not a very smart girl and incredibly obstinate, only learning something when her lack of knowledge and bad behavior blows up in her face and causes her problems. Moral of the story is: leave wild animals alone. If you respect them, they'll respect you. More often than not, they want nothing to do with you at all. Or, in essence, literally don't poke the bear.
I am a super smeller. I lost my sense of smell with covid and only recovered about 70% of my smell two years later. But, i am EXTREMELY thankful for this! As most of earth and everything on it stinks. I walked around most days of my life nauseous from smelling awful smells of life. Now, i can walk around not on the verge of 🤮 because my sense of smell has lessened.
I miss being able to smell properly, and also tasting got a bit affected but at least I got used to it
I can confirm that my friend is the smelliest creature(he plays league of legends)
As someone who loves durian, i can confirm that the smell is part of the charm, a more experienced connoisseur can differentiate between durian species from the nuances in the smell. It is also very delicious, if i had to describe it, it's a bit like pungent cheese with some sweet fruitiness
Honestly i feel that the smell of durian can’t be described, only experienced.
Because from all the descriptions i see online, none of them actually do justice to the actual scent of the fruit.
its not as stinky as people make it out to be. but granted its still pretty pungent to those who aren't familiar
@@laughingbob5786seems like the durian has done it's job pretty well then
Have i just been desensitized to the smell? My parents have fed me it since i was a toddler and i wouldnt describe the smell of it as negative in any way over a decade later
its smell, if you left it long enough you can smell 1 fruit frm 100m away. But the smell is not in a bad way, it make you want to smell it even more. Its unique can't be described kind of smell
Also, leopard scent markings smells exactly like buttered popcorn it’s insane. i smelled some grass that i literally watched a leopard scent mark and sniffed that shit and it felt like i was at a movie theater
Hoopoes are dinosaurs.
T-Rex is a dinosaur.
Imagine mother and baby T-Rex acting a similar way to the hoopoe?
Bed bugs smell pretty bad. I lived in a crappy apartment one time and the whole building was riddled with them. It's very faint but in aggregate they do smell, and when you crush them to kill them... blech. Worst stench. I know they can use dogs to smell for bed bug infestations which makes sense.
I don't think skunks should count, as anything coming from an anal gland for defense is going to smell bad. This should be about overall natural odor when not using a foul substance for attack.
I don’t know what most of these things smell like, but I can say skunk smell makes me absolutely nauseous if exposed to it for more than a minute. Living out in semi-country we get skunks that wander through and there have been many nights where I start dreaming of a foul smell and wake up to skunk smell that has permeated the house.
Decaying things have a whole bunch of issues:
1. They can be sources of disease and parasites to be around.
2. Eating them frequently causes disease.
3. Dead things may well be attractive to predators that can tolerate eating rotting meat. These predators are dangerous, sometimes aggressive, and often have the same dangerous bacteria in their prey growing in their mouth resulting in a somewhat septic bite.
4. whatever caused that thing to die may still be present, and could cause harm or death to you if you approach.
I nominate Garter Snakes.....the Rocky Mountain ones. They have a stink gland. I was fishing the Gardener River ages ago and a snake swam past my feet so I picked it up. Big mistake......it squirted stink juice all over my hands. Last Garter Snake I ever handled.
It's called musking, many snake species do it. The worst offenders are water snakes, since the musk is part of their digested prey and they primarily eat fish, it makes a very stinky combo
man I’m actually kinda glad so many people hate the scent of durian that much, more for me I guess
I think I smell quite bad right now
The maned wolf is the smelliest animal at our zoo. It seems like fox or weed, but you can smell it before you see it
The herb valerian should at least get an honorable mention but could easily be on the list.
The worst I've ever smelled is vulture vomit. The one that really gets me and happens too often, is fox scent marking. It's so awful. Skunks are mild in comparison.
At one point I lived with someone who loved Durian, and they brought it home without telling me. It wasn't unbearable, but sure smelled like something rotten and medicine, the nasty kind. As for taste... Yeah no, it tastes the same as it smells, but it's also sweet and has a buttery texture. Wasn't for me personally. Tho that tells me I'd survive most smells apparently lol
Me in middle school (I didn’t wear deodorant, I was stupid)
you could go the other way and wear 2 spray cans worth of axe body spray, which I'd say is equally bad
Kinda ironic how corpse flower scientific name is "Titan arum", while arum/harum in bahasa Indonesia means fragrant.
“Oh brother this guy stinks!”
We had a tree stump in our yard that got some sort of slimy disease. That Trunk literally smells like death. If you tried to climb on top of it you would slip like on ice.
Bro your content is phenomenal. Keep it up champ!
great video! you always make me giggle and each upload is entertaining to watch. Looking forward to the next one!
thank you for adding the sources in the description i appreciate it a lot
I absolutely adore you’re videos I’ve seen every single one. You’re amazing looking forward to the next one.
This video was so good, I loved the humor. Also the topic was so interesting I learned and laughed a lot.
You never fail to make me smile and snicker, your videos are just simply amusing
I love your channel so much, I can’t wait for another upload!!
A joy and a masterpiece as ALWAYS. I love it so much.
awesome video as always. perhaps an in depth video on a family of pterosaurs in the future? maybe azdarchids?
Missed the perfect chance to say "smell you later" at the end.
Durian: makes a smell to attract humans
Also Durian: makes it skin spiky and tough as fuk that your hands would probably get cuts if you're not careful
Bonus point that it could kill you if it fell on your head
@@ekosubandie2094 I never heard news of such. Has that ever happened?
Love your vids man keep it up
0:28 Penguins smell strongly of fish. I've been to many zoos, no amount of glass between the penguns and visitors can mask the dreadful smell of the "stinky penguins"
Great Channel and Better Content Dude
I'm pretty sure durians only start reeking after heavy ripening/borderline rotting, the fresh ones basically smell like candy banana.
Excellent writing!
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As a crust punk and powerviolence enjoyer, I believe I might qualify.
rotting gingko ‘fruits’ come to mind; gingko is dioecious and thus pollen is found on one tree and the female ovules are on their own, so female gingko trees are very rarely planted ornamentally because the outer seed coat decomposes into butyric and caproic acid, the former being found in human guts and the latter also being found in cheese. i think it probably works similar to a corpse flower?
Just found this channel... I like it.. subscribed.
So something I learned is that not everyone can smell that really strong ammonia smell from asparagus in urine!?! Unfortunately I can, in fact my sense of smell is actually highly sensitive.. my hearing and sight both suck, but I can literally smell a fart a mile away…yaaaay lucky me!!
Time to make a smell chart!
Interesting list. Nice man.
I've been to Magdalena Island in Chile and I can tell you, penguins REEK.
great work!
great video. love the humour.
“Undisputed SOAT” had me laughin
There’s a dude at my work that is commonly referred to as Smelly Kelli.
Your videos are the best.
The bird MS Paint demonstration was the funniest bit dude 😂
I’ve been around penguins and they do indeed smell. Not as bad as pigs, but definitely not pleasant.
Man I've smelled some pretty awful things. But I would say it's 100% relative. You can't go into a market in Singapore an not smell durian, you get used to it pretty quickly. I personally think North American porcupines smell awful, like a ten year old gym sock rubbed with onions and stale popcorn. My coworker said she really liked how they smelled. I honestly didn't think the corpse flower smelled that bad; not pleasant by any means but not "plug your nose and hold your breath" bad. It would be interesting to have a smell scale of some kind someday so we can truly rank them.
how on earth did you get the chance to smell an American porcupine 😭 are you a zoologist
Some great lunchtime material haha
So, now I'm wondering: What is the BEST smelling lifeform? Are there ANY animals that smell really good?
There's a type of fox/civet cat that smells like dessert :9
@@ris_din I heard there was an animal like that which smelled like popcorn... maybe that's the same animal?
@@MatthewTheWanderer you're thinking of the binturong, one of the stranger looking critters
I'm holding out for smell o' vision for just this purpose.
5:06 my SPIRIT ANIMAL 😂
Kind of off-topic, but would you consider doing a video of the tuatara? I think that would be pretty neat.
Ant eaters are also tamanduas. It's just the guarani word for it.
Durian smells nice to me and they taste good too, but I hate the soft texture
Durian smells fine to me. I don't even eat it much. Must be a genetic thing
Ha ha, Great vid buddy! Thanks much. :)
This search MUST start at a smash tournament or a CS class, anything else is fraudulent
Thank you for reminding me of how foul hoopoes are, it was a very lovely video :)
My old patch of voodoo lily bloomed in coincidence with the community garage sale every year. If the wind was right it all went into the garage or down the drive. Ended-up putting a sign up preemptively apologizing. A few people were dry retching or just turned around and left grimacing.
The worst though was a giant pig head I had not done anything with for a few weeks in the summer then boiled it in a trashcan to deflesh it. It was a biggun, the tusks came all the way round and impinged back through the lower jaw, babirusas style but bottoms. It had to be miserable with molars knocked out from the roots up.
These are also corspe lily. Many share that common name and bloom every year. Mine were 5 feet tall with 4 of that flower. Corms are available. Anything bigger than a softball is a good choice for large flowers. A bulb takes 5 to 6 years to get that big. Other arum are walnut nut sized like green dragon.
I should also specify they were winter hardy to zone 5b and outside in the ground. You don't need a greenhouse, just a patch of dirt. 5b is lots of snow and freezing to the point you can walk across rivers btw.
One of the few time we still haven’t invented smell-0-vision
Then you have me, a 22 year old who was born without a sense of smell
HES BACK
i really like watching your videos
You've heard of Rizz, but musk ox got the pizz
Your voice is kinda like Joe Pera so relaxing yet interesting
Skunk really doesn't even smell bad, its just a very pungent kinda humid overpowering smell, but by no means does it stink.
"mtg convention" pretty good
I hope you know how much people love your videos
You just need to go to a big city and you can smell one hoping on the public transit
I'm glad to have narrowly avoided making the list.
can wa talk about the fact, that the fruis of ginko trees reek of butyric acid .. that sickly sweet stench of vomit. allegedly because some critter from the ploicene was really into it.
4:14 is the funniest shit I've seen in ages (pun intended)
Pretty sure there’s some record breaking specimens you can find at a Smash Bros tournament.
Durians be like "please notice me senpai"
I’ve gotten to experience a blossomed corpse flower in person. It smelled just like fish, still smelled bad but not as bad as people think it is
this is like a love poem to the durian
imagine the smell
Ponder the aroma
Suppose the scent
Me and my dad once rode our motorbike behind a truck that's carrying a lot of pigs and boy the smell was awful
You should do a video on groups of species that are dinosaur-adjacent (dinosauromophs or something)!
This is a job for Nilered
Yeah penguins and seals smell bad, imagine soggy chicken covered in bird poo and mountains of salt
The worst-smelling organism on this planet is called the Hipster.