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They are killers! They kill with unbelievable precision. They fight Kung Fu style and are seen in Japan as a symbol of vigilance - the mantises. Their triangular head with its unique flexibility is conspicuous. Two overdimensioned eyes fixate the distance to their prey rapidly and three-dimensionally. The chest segment of the mantis is prolonged and equipped with spiny appendages that can spear their prey as fast as a jack knife. The mysterious aura that surrounds the praying mantis has a lot to do with the fact that they are rarely seen. They have adapted to their surroundings perfectly. No matter whether leaves, blossoms, tree bark, sandy floors or even orchids - the mantis blends in to all environments
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" the most feared insect, once something is in its grasp there's no escape" few min later...shows clip of grasshopper getting out of its grasp then killing and eatting the mantis.
Lol
timestamp
At 5:00 min mark
Everything has predators
@Ramon Furus No its a locust.
-Male: *”Couldn’t copulate”*
-Female: *So you have chosen death*
I have one things to say
RUN!
As a child I grew up in the city. To find a praying mantis was quite a prize. My friends and I found one for the first time and named it Harold. We kept it as a pet for the summer. Feeding time would bring kids from all over the neighborhood to watch.
It could’ve been Hara,🤣🤣🤣
I had exactly the same experience! Praying mantises were THE bug to catch. Have always loved them. Now I live in Vietnam now and occasionally get one or two in my balcony garden. "Hello! Please. Make yourself at home!"
What’d you feed it? Lol
@@EP-nl6fd hitchhikers probably.. 😂😂😂
..laugh if it ate one of the kids
I laughed at the star trek style grasshopper fight scene. That zoom in on the praying mantis face killed me.
Man: the Mantis is very deadly
Grasshopper: hold my beer
BiGsImY you mean hold my veggies
BiGsImY 🤣
@@darknessinme5903 😆😆 Good one! When a professed vegetarian MUST yield to the carnivore deep within 👹
That grasshopper is no longer a vegan.
That not a Grasshopper that a Cricket
10:56 when you flush the toilet and the water starts rising
i almost pissed myself XD
Me too
FBI open up
😂😂😂
So accurate. You just stand there in disbelief, hoping that it goes down. The second before it gets to the top, you pull out the plunger at the speed of light.
Held lizard down for it to be eaten, shameful, they might've even gave the grasshopper a little help in that fight too as much as I wanna believe grasshopper wanted to change the game
make sure you report it for animal abuse. Shouldnt allow channels to kill animals for clicks. All for a nat geo knock off. Poor lizzy.
@@lubu4u312 vegan?
@@Hinzey98 he's clearly joking
So if you use things called eyes and other shots for reference you can see that it's a leaf 💀
I saw a hand holding the lizard down.
29:05: "Fair game"
*Held back by a grey gloved hand*
wow nice catch, that looked fishy to me. Also all the mantids in this documentary are all species that are easily available in the pet trade. Not one rare wild mantis out of the 2400 species it mentions. Blue bottle flies are also the most common and easily acquired feeder insect for them, most scenes are just them eating flies. This is probably all set up.
Probably because time is money and they can't wait around for days for something to happen... So they fake it and make us believe it's real.. it's so sad and there should at least be a disclaimer saying it is set up and not a real documentary.
yo thats fked
Yup! Notice how the lizard has no mobility in its rear legs? Definitely being held by something.
Nice joke
I do not believe for a minute that lizard stood there and just let that thing eat it. Outside interference.
You're 100% on point, if you look at the bottom half of the lizard at 29:04 you can clearly see someone with a glove holding it in place.
Scummy people.
@@thexenomorph5363 - Times like these I wish Sherlock Holmes existed. He would get to the bottom of this mystery in no time
You can definitely tell!
@@nalusafalaya2201 Yeah, they didn't even bother hiding it...
What’s sad is that most people don’t know the lizard is being held down at the end :(
Who was holding it down?
Horrible. You can see the white glove. They literally fed that lizard to the mantis.
Yeah all this seems clearly staged for views.
Start a gofundme for that lizards family. Go feed the ants while you’re at it.
@dakotah B spare me the douchey remarks. It wasn't cool to hold it down to be eaten alive slowly. Clearly your not an animal lover but try having some level of compassion
Why is it that whenever we see the lizard (while alive) on screen it only shows the first half of the lizard? I get that zooming in on the action makes for better cinematography of the "fight" but not once do see the whole of the lizard...Also why would a wild lizard just let a praying Mantis hold onto its face like that? Lizards are EXTREMEMLY skittish and would no doubt of ran instead of literally staying in one place. Also note @ 28:44 how when the lizard struggled, pay attention on how it pivots, its almost as if it was being held down by its tail or hind legs. I have no doubts that this video was in fact staged so that they can get footage of a Mantis "catching" a Lizard.
Lol you answered your own questions
@@Lecor_ow It's a rhetorical question. My statement is meant to draw attention to the obvious staging of the fight.
@@JohnLeon203 I get that, damn , chill.
@@JohnLeon203 you sound really smart!
@@sudoo6987 you sounds really salty
Before you commend this video keep in mind that the lizard and mantis battle is staged. You can see that the lizard is being held down by a green glove or somthing. It also has no reason to just let a mantis claw its face with no retaliation. (I'm not the first to notice this just trying to keep it known) The videotography was really good but it's hard to have much respect for it when the video uses misleading tactics like these.
There was an animated episode of the show "The wild thornberries" where they stop a film crew trying to make animals fight for footage, and it goes to show these things actually happen in real life.
That is the unfortunate truth, action in the wild is rare, as animals are not that vicious as people make them to be at least not every time, so to get some action quickly as possible(because these producers do have time limits and deadlines) some film producers force animals into situations where they clash, or positions where they get a "cool" shot, not everybody does this but it definitely has been done by people for shows to get it done quickly and for views.
@@DotDotDotDashDashDashDotDotDot sounds familiar... sounds like... social media in general.
After I seen the grass hopper kill the mantis I quickly told myself that video with the lizard wasn’t valid
Went through that bit frame by frame. Nothing is holding the lizard down. The green is from leaves in the background.
If anything one of the most important things to get out of this is the importance of forearm cleaning 😂
Now that you mentioned it, so true tho!! 😂
Always important as a praying mantis to shed its fore skin.
Hey even murderous face nommers have to stay hygienic.
Yup, but still not mentioned y dey do this so google gonna help me here
I learned that if your a male mantis you need to make sure your girlfriend has a snack while mating so you don't get eaten.
Shocking at 29:05 someone's obviously holding the lizard's lower body if you take a closer look, seemingly, human had grabbed it on to interfere. What a disappointment.
At least that scene exist
I agree. Really poor taste
Wow, thats horrible
That’s fckedup, people shouldn’t interfere with nature
Can't see anything
This is indeed an eye-opening documentary as far as I'm concerned. Never have I imagined such a variety of mantises in terms of size, colour and camouflage capability. It's a predator most underrated thanks to its bizarre behavior.
I think they forgot to mention the main reason it has always captivated people's attention. The way it turns its head to look at things and the fact that it has eyes it can roll like we do, something other insects do not have, makes it looks strikingly human in a scary way.
Or the stage acting xD
28:45 that lizard was tied from behind or clamped by its tail. Whoever set that up, I hope next time you go to wilderness, you fall from a high edge and break your arms and legs. So, the predators there can devour you slowly and painfully.
*I thought documentaries about nature were purely natural, but it turns out that there was evil human intervention. That's really bad. He held the lizard's tail so it couldn't move and was bitten by a praying mantis*
Totally true. This 'documentary' was not only made by a sadist - it also tryis to smuggle some untrue 'facts' about mantis
Fr that was was cruel and unnatural
@@noktrum2794 such as?...
Exactly...it cheapens the documentary because it now becomes unrealistic. I lizard that size when moving freely...the mantis wouldn't really stand a chance. U can tell by the movement of the lizard it was limited. Lizards are very quick, and they made the lizard move at a snail pace
See... That male mantis knew what is up. You have to feed these females before you try to mate. Make sure dinner is ready first! It's not his fault the meal decided to eat her :D.
For a mantis documentary you sure did include a lot of other animals most of the time I felt
yeah the narrator got a bit off track! Talkings about mantids in a grape orchard then they cut to some birds
Great photographers! I can't imagine the work involved to follow a bug around the planet! Thanks for showing us this beautiful world!
Much of the footage is filmed under strict control in a studio.
@@truthhurts2879 yeah, they usually just make an environment unless they actually find something, like for example monster bug wars, they obviously have an enclosure and set up these animals to find eachother.
@@truthhurts2879
100% true. What's more cruel is, much like the lizard and mantis in the video. They purposely immobilize the prey to get the predator successfully eat it.
I live in Philadelphia and I once had a mantis that would visit my front step every morning,chill for a bit then disappear. But then re-emerge the next day. This went on for about 4 months. I chronicled the whole thing and was very amazing and intriguing.
If you have a sharp eye you can spot them all over the Wissahickon Creek.
where are your chronicles uploaded
They are your guides. 👽
@@privateaccount5400 on my phone
“Wolves in sheep’s clothing”
You kidding me?! They even look terrifying!
Cannot think of a much worse way to leave this world than in the loving embrace of a Praying Mantis.
Narrator: the praying mantis is the most feared in the insect kingdom
Ants: is this a joke?
@@thelunchking4069 get some help
@@cardheon6091 yeh
@@thelunchking4069 ur mom is a joke
@@thelunchking4069 you think you are tough and badass for doing that ?
@@infectedinfantry1887 I'm pretty sure he thinks you are an idiot for biting his hook.
Mantis: "aight I gotta be sneaky to get some."
Green bush cricket: " *I GOTCHU HOMIE* "
Underrated.
this should be titled "forcing a lizard to be eaten by a praying mantis"
Bruh
Them holding that lizard down to be eaten by that praying mantis was pretty low of them
I know right
@@danielvideos575 the first time I watched it I didn't know that someone was holding the lizard and it was still kind of gruesome but I was like "that's the way it goes in the wild". Now that I know it was being held by some sick individual it's horrible to watch. Of course youtube finds torturing animals fine but right leaning opinions are a big "no no".
@@shelbyspapabear Looking closer, it's a leaf.
@@joshuagross3151 it is absolutely a hand. What are you even talking about
@@shelbyspapabear The part where it's a leaf, not a hand.
Mantises the deadliest killer in the insect kingdom. (Gets killed and eaten by its first prey)
Grasshopper isn’t afraid
@@THE-NC2 that's a carnivorous katydid/locust
Centipede sAys hi
5:16 , LOL , I thought the Mantis will defeat the grasshopper, but very surprise to see the grasshopper killed the Mantis very easily and had the lunch. So, don't underestimate.....
The locust at 4:06 did a real life “Call an ambulance!
But not for me!”
13:20 watching 2 lion cubs play fighting with slightly intense music...
Me: These are some weird looking praying mantises...
Fr tho. This documentary got so off topic so often.
I love this because it makes mantises look like hilariously ineffective hunters
Idk ...ain't that a bit racialist?
I SWEAR ON MY LIFE that Chameleon was planted there by the TV producer. I promise you, a healthy, non sedated chameleon has the bite force that can snap praying mantis in half. one bite, you know the rules.
Good job on staging all those mantis attacks. You are an awesome human being.
I doubt those are staged
@@palkbarragouhtti2254 your ability to read between the line and see what’s not there is very poor.
@@changsterville y'know, people like you literally can not enjoy anything without trying to figure out some type of problem with it.
@@palkbarragouhtti2254 the lizzard strangely did not move away from the mantis attacks.
Live in a big city and go years without seeing one but yesterday a small one was hanging upside down on my storm door window for over 15 minutes. Amazing how well they blend in on grass & bushes. Our parents told us to never kill or even bother these great bug eaters.
Not sure super gluing a lizard to a tree counts as natures
Why do you have to hold down the lizard for?
I thought I clicked on a praying mantis video but so far I seem to have stumbled upon a insect and bird pornography on CZcams lm. Lmao
The religuous mantis is the most poweful predator from its genre of insects. They use efficients strategies to catch their preys. Really, our nature is fascinanting. Thanks for sharing this documentary. 🦗🦗🦗
Praying mantises are fascinating creatures. We have quite a few of them on our farm in southwest Iowa. We see them frequently in my wife's butterfly garden and in our vegetable garden.
Probably eating the butterflies
That male mantis got out of there quick time when that grass hopper started to fight back. 😂😂
I get bothered when a fly lands on my lunch, can you imagine a fly the size of your head land on your face? 😱
I literally watched 2 of these things get beasted by 1 hornet
I love hornets. The wasp is my animal totem....my spirit creature. Fearsome creatures! Are you drawn to hornets?
@Astro Bastro I've seen lots. Do you watch "Monster Bug Wars"? I like the one where it shows a vinagaroon taking down a giant centipede. I was born in Roswell, New Mexico (UFO place) and loved catching the vinagaroons. They are such interesting creatures and look terrifying
hornets are tougher than mantis, armour, bite force and manouverability.
@@mangjose5446 yes they are, but a big mantis will often defeat the big hornet when it has the element of surprise
But they were small ones
9:00 the praying mantis is not only cleaning his weapons, but he’s chewing on the edges of each point in order to sharper their arms and make their slashers more deadly and accurate while hunting prey
One hardly needs much of an imagination for writing movies such as Alien, Aliens, etc., with horrific monsters such as these! The footage of mantises hunting, mating and being predated themselves is extraordinary--well done. I remember being amazed by the site of a hummingbird's husk of a body after a mantis attack on another program. The female's death upon laying her fertilized eggs reminds me of the end of the octopus, once her eggs hatch, having starved herself to tend carefully to her developing offspring. Some advanced predators don't live long, and their lives are sacrificed as soon as the next generation has been secured--perhaps even sooner for males!
Ok so this is supposed to be filmed in the wild right? So why does that pray mantis vs the locust fight look like it was filmed through a glass tank? You can even see the little white specs on the glass and the camera man reflection as he moves the camera.
I had no idea that a Mantis was so formidable 😮
Great docu video 👍🏼👍🏼👏🏼
way to hold the lizard in place so it couldn't escape
Yes, un the real life the lizzard would scape
22:19 Speaker ::- ... this articulated neck and the large stereoscopic eyes afforded all round vision that misses nothing ..... ''
Mantis ::- "Darn it! :(
4:52 when you see someone reaching for the last slice of pizza
If a Mantis was the size of a sheep, it'd eat a human in the same way as it ate that lizard.
Would probably blend in camouflaged with the local Bus Stop and then hollow out your face from the inside-out.
😆🤣😋 Shhh! ! ! Don't give God (or Mother Nature) any psychotic ideas. Geez- - we've already got orcas, bears, sharks, & the big cats
The lizard was held down
No, it won't. Mantis are weak sauce. The lizard at the end? That lizard was specifically held down by a human clamp (or something similar) so that it can't move. It was a sitting duck -- couldn't move forward or away. You can even see the lizard struggling to get out of the clamp at its rear.
Any bigger than that they could probably kill elephants
Yes, please. It would be so lovely to watch from the bus stop across the street. 😅
I remember going to Florida as a young boy and we rented a villa. The villa had a net surrounding the pool and on the outside was what can only be described as the biggest Spider I have ever seen and a simple Preying Mantis. I am from the UK so I had never seen anything like this before, but I was fascinated to see what would happen. The Mantis smoked the Spider in seconds and didn't even eat it, just walked off.
Spiders often win. I had a mantis catch and kill a spider, but not before the spider bit the mantis, which also died.
Wasn't that a katydid that ate the mantis in the beginning? I don't think that was a locust
If it was a katydid its not like the ones here in the states.all the ones ive seen are green but i could be wrong.
Yes it was...def wasnt a locust
@@CatMomForever nope
The lizard vs mantis was staged some one is holding the lizard so the mantis can eat it alive
I think the grasshopper / mantis / mantis male mating scene is staged too. There's a certain unwillingness to pull the cameras back.
Lol you funny
“The most feared predator in the insect world.” That’s a pretty tall statement considering the existence of things like giant centipedes and army ants.
“He doesn’t want to become her lunch before he’s mated with her.” Ummm, I bet he doesn’t want to become her lunch after he’s mated with her either.
This narration though.
Centipedes aren't insects
Mantis tries to eat locust and gets eaten instead. lol
"But they originated from Africa".
Aren't we all!
True
But we don’t all currently live there
True. Unless you're an evolutionist/ athiest, of course 📖 💥🔫 Explains how the Garden of Eden would be such a lush & prolific source of food. With a strong enough population of mantises protecting it, no parasitic insects!
Ha ha I'm from great Britain
ASIA is the frst country to exists
I got in mycar one day and I was riding down the street getting ready to get on the highway and I kept feeling this prickly thing touching my leg so I kept brushing it off like it was a fly or something and then it kept doing it again so I look down and it was a praying mantis I nearly wrecked my car I started stomping and going crazy in the car but I managed to pull the car over safe and got out. He was huge dont know how he got in I kept my Window up. It was a terrifying experience
Are u serious?
The orchid mantises are my favorite. That color!
7:16 even birds like getting their hair pulled. 🤣
07:08 😂😂
29:12 not a leaf but a green glove. Lizard could easily have backtracked when mantis initially struck but didn’t get hold of it. Instead it moved its body around like its back legs were paralysed and just stayed put so that the mantis had a second chance to strike. Disliked.
Mr. T is doing some award worthy nature docs.
This all started cus of joe n bill
I was expecting a comment like that
I just paused the podcast playing on my laptop and grabbed my phone to look this up, i typed "pra" and CZcams took care of the rest
Good show about nature's different types of animals insects 👍👍👍
Mantis: “the most feared insect among insects”
In The very first attack, mantis is killed by grass hoppers.
🤔😒😒
I'm convinced that they keep putting the last 2 together to get those shots
Got to love the squishy sound effects they add for eating
how could you let a lizard just casually get eaten alive by a mantis
heartless bastards
29:06 someone is holding it down so it can't move
The lizard died I love it
this vid is messed up no one showed hold a lizard down to let it get killed
That first lizard near the end of the video looked like it was wondering what Masochism was like and then he was like, "NO THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS AT ALL! I DONT LIKE IT!!!"
I just found the teeniest tiniest praying mantis on my patio that I accidentally swept off my patio table and somehow saw him land on the ground. I picked him up carefully and named him Peabody. Peabody lives on my tomato plant helping to keep bugs away. I search for him daily and he’s getting bigger and still living on the plant ❤️ I am so squeamish with bugs but for some reason I just love Peabody. He’s so super cute!
Ha! What an awesome story! Say hi to Peabody 😀
The Pink one ... Was the most beautiful mantis I've ever seen 😍😍😍
mantis: a predator with good reflexes and is very fearsome
giant cricket: eats mantis* eh? what was that again?
26:35 Interesting to add an appropriate sound effect to a scene that would normally be silent .
well done !
0:16 has me crying. That lizard had him all kinds of effed up and he ain’t appreciate being handled like that 🤣
Insects are amazing....they can do so many things ...they are truly amazing creatures ...
This reminds me when me and my friends playing at the backyard we let mantis katydid dragonfly and grasshopers fight to see who has the best catch
16:18 That's breathtakingly beautiful. I mistook it for a painting at first
edit: spelling
Great work. After watching this I was able to solve an issue we were having with a noise LED driver.
Man, I just love all the different flavors of the mantis, my favorite is the orchid mantis, but around here, we just get the normal green and brown ones
I've always thought that being eaten by mantis is one of the worst way to die. I mean, imagine being held and the mantis nibbled small chunk of your face, slow but steady...
It's the kungfu master and founder of mantis style...very impressive!
8:45 I like how the mantis has on a water drop hat loll
avant garde fashion in the insect world
This was one of the better predator documentaries I've seen. Shows we're all vulnerable in some way.
No. It's not. It is staged. The lizard scene was absolutely unrealistic. That lizard was being held down so it couldn't escape. The people filming were partaking in animal cruelty to get footage of something unnatural for "wow factor". This is a terrible documentary from an unscrupulous company.
I can't believe it literally ate that lizard's head off! 🤯
It was staged.
As a kid I used to catch these guys. I do remember one in my hand trying without success to eat my finger.
I found this little guy on my van at the gas station. It was just chilling on the hood. Without thinking much about it I pumped my gas and drove off.. After driving a few miles I pulled into the high-school parking lot and started washing my van in the back and all of a sudden guess who was there walking on the side of my van towards me, this thirsty little guy who instantly crawled onto my shirt's collar behind my neck. It's a pooch. I made it a little nest of branches and leaves. I'm keeping it.
This vid is a gem! Unlike the rubbish that overfloods CZcams today posted by bums begging for likes and subscriptions. It brought back fond memories of the glorious days of Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Kudos for uploading this vid. 😊
8:49 awe a lil hat kinda cute
HAHAHA
back when korea was undeveloped, i lived in an area where you can find preying mantis' in most bushes. we used to collect them and make them fight each other... lol.. i remember laying a bunch of them on a newspaper and my sister's friend sat near it and she went bat crazy
What part of korea are you from i lived in dongducheon
@@armada345 mm I lived a city called iri but I heard they changed its name to iksan... good times
That was a cruel thing to do. I hope you've grown out of such tastes
What in the Wild America?!! THAT last minute of the video...WHOA! Um.. I was not ready for that! I have seen some crazy stuff, but that giant mantis taking down those lizards...just blew my mind. That was the most hardcore nature takedown I've ever seen! Far scarier than any Lion, Tiger or Bear I've ever seen in every Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Episode I've ever seen! :D
Unfortunately the lizard was restricted by someone's interference for the sake of the video. I was equally impressed until other viewers pointed this out to me.. humans can really suck at times
The walking flower mantises are my favorite. So pretty.
This just made me feel sorry for the lizard.
Also me: buys 200 crickets for my 10 different species of geckos and reptiles
They held down the lizard look at the hand
29:06 that lizard putting his hand up in agony. 😖😖
I loved when the grasshopper just destroyed the Mantis 🤣🤣and totally made the narrator look silly 🤪... deadliest insect just had its head eaten lol 😆😜🤣I loved it... Especially the fire 🔥ants 🐜they just took it down and didn't skip a beat .☠😖
Bb mantis: Who’s daddy?
Mum mantis: Oh he was a nice guy, and very tasty... or so I hear..!
I had one draw a drop of blood from my finger once, using it's powerful front legs, and sharp tibial spines. It had such a powerful grip, that I now have a whole new respect for these amazing beneficial insects.
One of the many reasons I can’t stand holding insects. Yuck!
Consider the Mantis Shrimp!
I saw a video of one eating a woman's nipple, which was bleeding.
The fact that they eat their prey alive is the most gruesome one, in my opinion.
5:14 greatest twist I have ever seen in a movie :D
Very enjoyable. One of those gems you stumble upon while surfing the net.
3:21 did someone yawn? 😂
tie up the lizard to the tree just for a picture, that's poor ethics
I couldn’t tell-were there visible ties or something?