Why Butterflies are NOT your Friend (but some sharks are)

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  • @artsy_dragon_creations
    @artsy_dragon_creations Před 2 lety +26231

    For those who didn’t know, the bird he said guidelines won’t allow him to say the name of is called a Blue Footed Boobie

    • @Orange_Tree_
      @Orange_Tree_ Před 2 lety +741

      Pleaz shou tits ann boobies

    • @spadegames5606
      @spadegames5606 Před 2 lety +618

      Thanks

    • @ImpastaLarry
      @ImpastaLarry Před 2 lety +2481

      man youtube really fucked up if you cant say the name of a bird XDD

    • @KonDragon008
      @KonDragon008 Před 2 lety +680

      Thank you! I had to scroll down farther than I thought I'd need to in order to actually find the answer to that.

    • @YouTubesucksdick
      @YouTubesucksdick Před 2 lety +109

      @@KonDragon008 same

  • @HoV326
    @HoV326 Před 2 lety +5202

    Fun fact: I used to be afraid of butterflies when I was 8 because I always thought they could suck your blood. Now knowing that they can, looks my fear has become justified.

    • @raccoonchild
      @raccoonchild Před 2 lety +218

      So you're just gonna ignore how he said you need to be dead first for that to happen?

    • @insertobject4002
      @insertobject4002 Před 2 lety +233

      @@raccoonchild 🦋🔪

    • @metal_pipe9764
      @metal_pipe9764 Před 2 lety +169

      @@insertobject4002 don't worry, butterflies can't hold knives

    • @insertobject4002
      @insertobject4002 Před 2 lety +362

      @@metal_pipe9764 thats government propaganda butterflies can absolutely hold a knife

    • @yOGlo
      @yOGlo Před 2 lety +16

      @@insertobject4002 its standard science that they can not wtf r u smoking thinking they can hold knives wtf

  • @g.s.651
    @g.s.651 Před rokem +227

    If you, like me, were very disturbed by the Pacarana footage--just know that a researcher said that it does not appear, based on its movements, to be in pain--it's just aware of the fact that it's covered in something it cannot easily remove, and Pacarana hate to be dirty. Their lipid layer--the stuff that's not supposed to be removed with soap--is what helps them stay clean because it helps keep dirt from sticking to their fur and makes them water resistant kind of like duck feathers. Duck feathers have a protective layers, which is why a duck can go swimming without looking like a bag of limp squawking wet feathers afterwards, but a chicken, not so much.
    To recap: The rat was not in pain, but please, if you ever catch a wild animal--even for benevolent reasons--DO NOT attempt to put human (or even animal safe) chemicals on it without consulting a veterinarian or other qualified animal expert who has identified the creature in question and is able to help you move it to a safe facility / back into the wild. This creature is not a pet, and needed proper care or to be immediately released back into the wild.

  • @andresduarteortiz5804
    @andresduarteortiz5804 Před rokem +320

    In Mexica mythology, butterflies are associated with fallen warriors because they both "live breif lives of glory and beauty before an untimely death."There is also a goddess called itzpapalotl (obsidian butterfly) a goddess of war associated with the first warrior to die in battle.And finally in mexico there is a butterfly that supposedly announces one's death called mictlanpapalotl (butterfly of the land of the dead), although it is commonly known as the black witch moth.

    • @nartsadiku8249
      @nartsadiku8249 Před rokem +16

      Very interesting butterfly mythology

    • @nullvoid6095
      @nullvoid6095 Před 10 měsíci +14

      The teteoh Tezcatlipoca, Chantico, and Coyolxauhqui were also associated with butterflies in some areas, particular the places inhabited by the Chichimecas!

  • @blakeshelton4422
    @blakeshelton4422 Před 2 lety +3837

    "Why Butterflies are NOT your Friend"
    Sounds like something a Moth would say

    • @Kalossupremacy3356
      @Kalossupremacy3356 Před 2 lety +116

      @K A E L Y N 💋 no

    • @zoogie2454
      @zoogie2454 Před 2 lety +44

      @K A E L Y N 💋 u dont have friends don't you

    • @williamgeorge3111
      @williamgeorge3111 Před 2 lety +139

      @@zoogie2454 That's a bot. Replying makes it more active.

    • @sorrywho6683
      @sorrywho6683 Před 2 lety +90

      Casual geographic is a Moth confirmed!?!?!

    • @glamboo
      @glamboo Před 2 lety +7

      @K A E L Y N 💋 fatherless. get a job.

  • @xxTC-96xx
    @xxTC-96xx Před 2 lety +6221

    As a native Albertan, yeah I’ve never actually seen a rat there, I finally saw my first rat in British Columbia. The province right next door

    • @spectra1096
      @spectra1096 Před 2 lety +167

      I live in alberta and Visiting my uncle in B.C. well he made me kill it I was 7

    • @itiipau
      @itiipau Před 2 lety +65

      Grew up in nunavut so never seen one too

    • @xxTC-96xx
      @xxTC-96xx Před 2 lety +90

      @@itiipau granted I think it’s a tad too cold up there for rats haha

    • @princessironlove4508
      @princessironlove4508 Před 2 lety +11

      Hhhiiiiii. British Columbian here!

    • @Slothsage
      @Slothsage Před 2 lety +108

      The sun never sets on the rat empire, but the empire knows where it can't go 😂

  • @SqualorOpera
    @SqualorOpera Před rokem +72

    “There’s a species of butterfly in Spain that is literally attracted to the smell of fresh corpses” **chugs that information like alcohol in a writer-specific way**

  • @cramerfloro5936
    @cramerfloro5936 Před 10 měsíci +37

    While butterflies have been almost universally appreciated for their beauty, it's only since the 18th century that they've been connected in folklore to more "cute" beliefs. In "the rape of the locke" the sylphs, very sweet air sprites, have butterfly wings. This design became very popular over the the next two centuries for any sprite and was eventually the go-to appearance for the most edulcorated faeries. But in old european folklore (and in that of other continents also) butterflies were seen as either ghosts or witches, because of how they frequented corpses and blood. Since some butterflies also try drinking milk and liquid dairy products if they find them, some languages like English saw them as "butter-thieves"

    • @MusicalGirl2311
      @MusicalGirl2311 Před měsícem +1

      I finally know why they’re called butterflies!

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Před 2 lety +9483

    SpongeBob and Patrick were right to be afraid of the butterfly then

  • @glamboo
    @glamboo Před 2 lety +10936

    As an Australian, you should NEVER let your guard down when coming here.

  • @tuong194
    @tuong194 Před rokem +90

    6:01 As a Vietnamese, I feel so proud of Dúi to make it. He is indeed a pure one, and thank you for mentioning him!

    • @adw6894
      @adw6894 Před 4 měsíci +1

      I hope Vietnam will stop eating dogs. They even steal household dogs to eat. Please, try to aware Vietnamese about it

  • @Jay123hollis
    @Jay123hollis Před rokem +6

    That story about the guy in the shark it's literally the cutest.

  • @shadowthelegend100
    @shadowthelegend100 Před 2 lety +6922

    There's a reason butterflies are used as imagery in Japanese horror media so often.
    The butterfly in Japan is often connected to depictions of death and mysticism. I'm not to well studied up on why this is a thing but my guess is they were often spotted doing this messed up shit on all the corpses left behind after huge battles.

    • @blakebrouwer3266
      @blakebrouwer3266 Před 2 lety +418

      Oh. Wow, and AFAIK Japan likes to preserve Butterflys, so them going to
      Post-battlefields makes sense, lotta "minerals" there.

    • @kevintrang3007
      @kevintrang3007 Před 2 lety +308

      Is this a pigeon?

    • @blakebrouwer3266
      @blakebrouwer3266 Před 2 lety +36

      @@kevintrang3007 ... what?

    • @princeapoopoo5787
      @princeapoopoo5787 Před 2 lety +173

      @@blakebrouwer3266 it's an anime meme

    • @inoli3164
      @inoli3164 Před 2 lety +162

      I believe Ladcadio Hearn had a paper called Insect studies: Butterflies, that go over the various ghostly myths and ethereal poetry centered around butterflies.

  • @laurelsilberman5705
    @laurelsilberman5705 Před 2 lety +2013

    I love how many endless stories of sharks being basically giant sea puppies to divers keep popping up all over the world. As long as you don’t confuse them by introducing food to the equation while you are present, loads of sharks are just big curious babies that love pets and snuggles

    • @00muinamir
      @00muinamir Před 2 lety +389

      "Don't introduce food into the equation" is one of the most under-appreciated rules for interacting with wildlife generally.

    • @despinasgarden.4100
      @despinasgarden.4100 Před 2 lety +242

      @@00muinamir I wouldn't said "under-apreciated" is more like "The most common and important rule that no mf follows"

    • @4uartaOnda
      @4uartaOnda Před 2 lety +146

      @@00muinamir search for a case that happened here in Brazil when a boy lost his arm due to a tiger in a zoo ... He was with a chickeb wing in his pocket and teasing the tiger...

    • @4uartaOnda
      @4uartaOnda Před 2 lety +12

      Chicken*

    • @ark3355
      @ark3355 Před 2 lety +83

      @@4uartaOnda welp
      Kinda deserved ngl

  • @7LAMPSofFIRE
    @7LAMPSofFIRE Před rokem +7

    @2:30 "They're super clean and will spend hours washing themselves every single day. Which is... Way better than some people" 🥳🎉👏

  • @elijahdemaray8551
    @elijahdemaray8551 Před rokem +32

    You're by far the best channel for wildlife. You're just so original & you're the king with a tiny microphone

  • @kingshelomah7083
    @kingshelomah7083 Před 2 lety +12092

    Funny thing is my parents were upset with me for freaking out in a butterfly exhibit at a museum when I was younger. Time to tell them my fears were legit.
    Edit: First of all, holy crap I’ve never gotten this many likes. Thanks guys.
    But also, I was in pre school and I had never seen a butterfly before, so I still feel like my reaction was justified. Now I just find them creepy not scary.

    • @alexmansfield3268
      @alexmansfield3268 Před 2 lety +526

      Hey, good to know I wasn’t the only one terrified of butterflies as a kid

    • @jayparker96
      @jayparker96 Před 2 lety +256

      Butterfly world in Florida was the worst experience of my entire life!

    • @no-hw2km
      @no-hw2km Před 2 lety +54

      @@alexmansfield3268 you both should be ashamed

    • @no-hw2km
      @no-hw2km Před 2 lety +46

      Jk

    • @LexiLuth0r_dump
      @LexiLuth0r_dump Před 2 lety +13

      Same here

  • @kinjorex101
    @kinjorex101 Před 2 lety +2740

    Having been subscribed for over half a year now, I feel like "and that's honestly not even the worst part" is just a line to be expected at this point.

    • @selo.harper.24
      @selo.harper.24 Před 2 lety +37

      I'm clocked out on my "Of course it gets worse" mentality by this point XD I'm just expecting everything to have something worse in store for me to learn now, lol

    • @amyhatfield5389
      @amyhatfield5389 Před 2 lety +28

      I'd totally wear a t shirt with ".. and that's honestly not even the worst part " on it. Lol

    • @synexiasaturnds727yearsago7
      @synexiasaturnds727yearsago7 Před 2 lety +11

      bro there's 3 bots in here already
      please mark 'em as spam and move on

    • @kalebriss
      @kalebriss Před 2 lety +8

      What about: "But don't worry, It gets worse"

    • @laurajayne4920
      @laurajayne4920 Před 2 lety +2

      @@amyhatfield5389 OMG YES!!!!

  • @AhjaMache
    @AhjaMache Před rokem +15

    I grew up terrified of butterflies, especially after that one SpongeBob episode. I just never liked them, always keep my distance, but this takes it for me! I could never again with them

  • @tffc3001
    @tffc3001 Před rokem +14

    My pre-k classes laughed at me when I wouldn’t go in the butterfly zone at the botanical gardens. This cements the fact that I was right, and I knew better without knowing why I knew better lol.

    • @jessikatkins1173
      @jessikatkins1173 Před rokem

      I wonder how you "knew" ? And I wonder how they know that most of a butterflies taste buds are on it's feet?

    • @tovarishcheleonora8542
      @tovarishcheleonora8542 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@jessikatkins1173 With microscopes you can recognize how a taste bud look like. Or with some other scientific methods. 😆

    • @jessikatkins1173
      @jessikatkins1173 Před 2 měsíci

      @@tovarishcheleonora8542
      Lmao.... I don't recall writing that 🤣 thx for explanation tho.

  • @lottejensen5028
    @lottejensen5028 Před 2 lety +3444

    My man told me the back story of the rat looking thing showering. It apparently has a skin condition and is getting medicated baths. Its probably learned to relate the baths with relief and is now actively smearing the soap around itself to get it in the right spots

  • @thejam6.6memes48
    @thejam6.6memes48 Před 2 lety +1669

    That shark sorry is actually really heartwarming, cool hearing about it

    • @ja-nk3wm
      @ja-nk3wm Před 2 lety +15

      Its just body heat. And that shark has sucker mouth eats clams and crustaceans. Not a threat

    • @OnlyKaerius
      @OnlyKaerius Před 2 lety +85

      @@ja-nk3wm Not just body heat, most animals actually enjoy the sensation of being petted, though that is often overridden by other instincts, such as fear. Sharks particularly seem to enjoy having their snout/front of the head rubbed, and yes if you rub a shark's head, it'll come back for more. The downside is that the oils in our skin can harm their mucus membrane and leave them vulnerable to parasites, use gloves. You can also put sharks in a trance state called tonic immobility by turning them upside down, or head down, tail up, and they also enjoy this, however orcas have been known to turn great whites upside down like this, and then munch on their favorite choice bits of the paralyzed shark.

    • @kingdeon6187
      @kingdeon6187 Před 2 lety +4

      @@OnlyKaerius you had me in the first half Ngl

    • @OnlyKaerius
      @OnlyKaerius Před 2 lety +11

      @@kingdeon6187 It's all true. Do a quick search on "orca tonic immobility", "balancing shark", and similar terms here and you'll find video proof.

    • @kingdeon6187
      @kingdeon6187 Před 2 lety +17

      @@OnlyKaerius No, I just saying that because of how dark the info got, I was intrigued until I seen the parts about the orcas 😂

  • @jexxer
    @jexxer Před rokem +10

    I remember having my picture taken at preschool when I was three, and screaming in terror when a butterfly landed on my shoulder. All the grown-ups laughed and thought it was adorable.
    Knowing the twisted stuff butterflies do makes my past toddler self feel _vindicated._

  • @taniele84
    @taniele84 Před rokem +15

    I never understood the obsession people have with butterflies.
    Anyone who has seen them under microscope understands how horrifyingly scary they truly are

  • @kimorad355
    @kimorad355 Před 2 lety +770

    Love how he actually cares about animals and their health even though he just talks about them and really doesn't have to. Shows true character.

    • @MakoSica
      @MakoSica Před 2 lety +40

      A lot of people with admiration for nature are like that. Fascinated with it, including its harsh aspects, but also very empathetic to living things.

    • @sandraswan9008
      @sandraswan9008 Před 2 lety +24

      Why would he talk about them if he didn't care in the first place? I fail to find the logic here.

    • @IAmGodHimself777
      @IAmGodHimself777 Před 2 lety

      Sister ramen…lol

    • @raccoonchild
      @raccoonchild Před 2 lety +1

      It'd be better if he did in a way that doesn't make people feel their hate for certain animals is justified. I see too many people acting like butterflies are terrifying and evil just because they lap at your sweat and dead animals' blood. Chronically indoors/online people syndrome I guess

    • @Lepurcinus
      @Lepurcinus Před 2 lety +6

      @@raccoonchild People love to see animals as if they were people, assuming that whatever "scary" things they do are done out of malice as if they were some kind of ruthless villain. When they are just animals, they are not guided by morality, they just do what they must do to live.

  • @oldcheese4
    @oldcheese4 Před 2 lety +4067

    I raise butterflies and I have some lepidopteran facts to add to this
    1. when butterflies form a pupa, it is their body. they aren’t inside of a pupa, they are the pupa. it’s their final stage of shedding, and they shed their entire head in the process and grow a new one in the pupa. moths make chrysalises, which are protective coverings made out of leaves and often silk formed around the moth’s pupa. “chrysalis” and “pupa” are not interchangeable words
    2. there is a type of caterpillar known as the puss moth that looks like a tuft of hair and has a sting so bad it has been compared to the feeling of breaking a bone
    3. moths have been around since before flowers existed
    4. butterfly “pee” (i’m not sure if this is technically what the secretion is) is red because they don’t process red dye in flowers
    5. giant silk moths don’t have digestive systems and dying of natural causes for them just means starving. they live for about a week as moths (usually) with their sole mission being to reproduce
    6. studies show butterflies remember being caterpillars since they are able to retain instincts and behaviors they would have learned as caterpillars
    7. it has been proven that moths and butterflies have the ability to be trained by methods of pavlovian conditioning, a conditioning method popularized with dogs, meaning moths and butterflies have a capacity to learn in the same way that a dog does
    8. the largest lepidopteran on earth is NOT the atlas moth and it can get up to 14 inches in wingspan, which is about the size of a large bat. I was wrong about this one! someone in the replies has informed me that the largest moths are actually the white witch moth (in terms of wingspan) and the hercules moth (in terms of diameter). I recommend googling these guys if you aren’t afraid of moths. they’re very pretty
    9. to reference the video, butterflies mud puddle because bodily fluids are very heavy in nutrients and when your lifespan is like a week you gotta do what you gotta do. this is most often recorded in male butterflies and it aids in their reproductive efficiency, which is pretty much the point of a butterfly’s adult life

    • @lucidfangirl1030
      @lucidfangirl1030 Před 2 lety +67

      butterflies have blood, too though? One time a kid killed a butterfly and it had red coming out of it

    • @oldcheese4
      @oldcheese4 Před 2 lety +282

      @@lucidfangirl1030 yeah, they have blood lol. it’s not red like human blood but they do store waste in their body that is red since they don’t process red color

    • @simon-peterwilliamson2412
      @simon-peterwilliamson2412 Před 2 lety +50

      That's really cool. Thanks for sharing

    • @simon-peterwilliamson2412
      @simon-peterwilliamson2412 Před 2 lety +49

      So you're saying the cocoon is them?

    • @PlutoProtogen
      @PlutoProtogen Před 2 lety +114

      silk moths got screwed by nature wow

  • @maoi804
    @maoi804 Před rokem +98

    Sharks can even get a bit too friendly and try to Netflix and chill with you

    • @MrSecretweapon174
      @MrSecretweapon174 Před rokem +3

      What?

    • @maoi804
      @maoi804 Před rokem +7

      @@MrSecretweapon174 yes

    • @Melo-Sama
      @Melo-Sama Před rokem

      @@maoi804 elaborate if you dare

    • @maoi804
      @maoi804 Před rokem

      @@Melo-Sama you're a fool to challenge me
      Well you see there have been reports of sharks getting so attached to humans that they want to breed with them some sharks succeeded mostly the female ones but the best way to check this out is on Google in a animated format

    • @ceebbees12345
      @ceebbees12345 Před rokem +1

      so will my cat lol, my leg's never been the same

  • @dogmasterrr9456
    @dogmasterrr9456 Před rokem +5

    i love how sharks are basically the puppy dogs of the sea yet i still fear most of them

  • @defeatSpace
    @defeatSpace Před 2 lety +2380

    This man is putting out insanely high-quality, mini-documentaries by using not much more than TikTok editor. You're kinda nutty man, please keep it up.

  • @sentientplant9658
    @sentientplant9658 Před 2 lety +523

    I go to the beach in NC, and the tiger sharks use the Outer Banks as nurseries for their pups. We usually go after the pups are born, so I'm just swimming in shark-infested water. They usually stay clear of humans, but I did have a 3ft long shark brush against me once. Absolutely wonderful swimming with the sharks for free. Still be careful around sharks, kids. You're in their domain.

    • @paytonallen1027
      @paytonallen1027 Před 2 lety +32

      That sounds awesome. The closest I can relate to that is when I snorkeled over a shark exhibit and a lemon shark came to check me out. I got to feel its skin. I’ve always wanted to interact with more sharks. I think they’re so cool

    • @sentientplant9658
      @sentientplant9658 Před 2 lety +28

      @@paytonallen1027 lemon sharks are very interested in people. they're so cute!

    • @kathryngeeslin9509
      @kathryngeeslin9509 Před 2 lety +4

      Most actual shark attacks are mistakes and they back off with the first bite. But that one bite is disastrous, can be fatal.

    • @ShikyoGryfyn
      @ShikyoGryfyn Před 2 lety +1

      I go down the the Outer Banks in Hatteras Village every year, I caught a four foot blacktip few years back,
      I went there when all of those blacktip attacks happened and I saw a few sharks and it was wild, been going for 50 years or so
      Edit: family has been going for 50 years, I’m seventeen, I’ve gone since I was 1 years old

    • @kingvamp.
      @kingvamp. Před 2 lety +2

      you still have all your hands, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes?

  • @lucianwong420
    @lucianwong420 Před rokem +7

    I was always afraid of butterflies, but i never knew why. Now it makes a lot of sense. I never trusted those things.

  • @AcieSpeak
    @AcieSpeak Před rokem +3

    I have learned so much! I love how you narrate everything. You got yourself a sub sir! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😘

  • @Uben-Dover
    @Uben-Dover Před 2 lety +588

    Fun fact: the bird with the blue feet that he didn’t want to say is called the “Blue footed Booby”
    Yes, that’s actually the name and as you can see, the vampire fidge was drinking the blood from one.

    • @judas_bdb8681
      @judas_bdb8681 Před 2 lety +6

      Yea I figured that's what it was

    • @zechariahsmith1764
      @zechariahsmith1764 Před 2 lety +4

      Thanks for saving me time on a Google search

    • @austrakaiser4793
      @austrakaiser4793 Před 2 lety +5

      When birds eat chicken breast:

    • @TheCelticsrox
      @TheCelticsrox Před 2 lety +2

      The fidget wanted to breast feed

    • @Ysckemia
      @Ysckemia Před 2 lety

      i only know the french name and it's also very self explanatory : "fou à pieds bleus"

  • @khanhdieple6012
    @khanhdieple6012 Před 2 lety +488

    As someone from Vietnam, I can very much confirm that the dog "Dúi" in the vid is really a big fluff that everyone should try to cuddle with at least one, their fur is fluffy, soft and thick so ppl here usually hug 'em all the time

    • @Luna_Scinx
      @Luna_Scinx Před 2 lety +3

      But but,
      Then it's bred with a rodent then???

    • @user-iu3iz6dk4c
      @user-iu3iz6dk4c Před 2 lety +1

      Còn chưa nhìn thấy con này thật bao giờ :’)

  • @yagami87
    @yagami87 Před rokem +33

    Yo being Hmong myself, I never knew these Hmong dogs existed. Won’t get one but learned something new today! Thanks for the educational vid as always!

    • @tarwagon
      @tarwagon Před 2 měsíci +1

      I suppose you never having been 'Hmong' these dogs before would be one reason you weren't aware of their existence. 🤣

  • @bru1782
    @bru1782 Před rokem

    I have just become obsessed with your channel I love it lol

  • @MidnightDarkness666
    @MidnightDarkness666 Před 2 lety +564

    I'm not surprised about the shark. There's a similar story except the shark is a freaking Tiger Shark called Emily. She fell in love with a guy off the coast of South Africa and he's helped her get 3 fish hooks out of her mouth in all the years he's known her. She also brings her freinds over when they need help with hooks too. She recognises the guys boat and though they couldn't see each other during the pandemic, as soon as he was able to he hopped back in the water to see his girl who was very happy to see him again.

    • @selachian6799
      @selachian6799 Před rokem +37

      I remember this story 😊 it really just validates my love for sharks 🦈

    • @Hiarren
      @Hiarren Před rokem +4

      ...Why the hell would the Big Coof prevent -diving-?

    • @iselfdestrukt7338
      @iselfdestrukt7338 Před rokem +3

      Aww, so cute❤🥺

    • @Stephanie-we5ep
      @Stephanie-we5ep Před rokem +33

      ​@@Hiarren because in some countries the stay at home orders were strictly enforced? If memory serves aside from essential errands (like grocery shopping, Dr/Dentist visits) nothing else was allowed.

    • @Selrisitai
      @Selrisitai Před 11 měsíci +12

      @@Hiarren Tyrannical rules for no real reason.

  • @gsjacobs
    @gsjacobs Před 2 lety +885

    Caterpillars do some pretty crazy things too. There are some that live in ant colonies and feed on ant brood, avoiding being killed by adult ants either by thick leathery skin that makes them impervious to bites or (even more messed up) by mimicking the scent of the ants to escape detection entirely.
    And then there's the wax moth, a pest of honeybees that sneaks into hives to lay her eggs. If the hatchling caterpillars aren't detected right away, they'll spin a silk cover to keep the bees off them and munch away at the honeycomb underneath.

    • @gardenofeden682
      @gardenofeden682 Před 2 lety +73

      Also there’s some caterpillars that basically brainwash ants to fight for them and protect them from birds?? ( Ants are bitter and birds do not like that.). Pheromones or something for one I think, something like sugar for the other one?
      I know this bc I once was making a fantasy country (still am tbh) off butterflies and wanted to make it pretty metal- to push myself to be even more creative by making symbols of beauty and innocence something very twisted. Literally wrote it self. Butterflies are so metal. There’s literally types of butterfly called demon so yknow, that exists. Moths might be a bit worse though.
      Edit: Also with the mimicking scent one, if I remember correctly, the caterpillar straight up MIMICS THE QUEEN TO BE ABLE TO EAT THE ENTIRE COLONY.

    • @childishsadbino
      @childishsadbino Před 2 lety +5

      @Zucchini Tzatziki uhhh when was there ever a caterpillar in Tokyo ghoul?

    • @kaydubsthekoifish
      @kaydubsthekoifish Před 2 lety +15

      I know someone from where I live who's family does beekeeping. He hates butterflies for this same reason.

    • @Asaspecimenyesimextraoddinary
      @Asaspecimenyesimextraoddinary Před 2 lety +15

      @@childishsadbino I think they meant centipedes *shivers*

    • @WeaverOfStars
      @WeaverOfStars Před 2 lety +14

      @@gardenofeden682 I recall watching a documentary that had one of those destroy a colony by making the ants go mad with their pheromones and fight eachother to the death. The insect world is really wild.
      Another scary insect are assassin bugs which basically are the insect world equivalent of Leatherface. They will kill insects and then attach their body to theirs to use them as ''camouflage''. Some assassin bugs will look like a walking pile of inseect bodes

  • @joaodasilva3210
    @joaodasilva3210 Před 9 měsíci +3

    As a Kirby fan, I’ve known to be afraid of butterflies for 5ish years already

  • @rebeccapriest3366
    @rebeccapriest3366 Před 6 měsíci

    Thank you so much for all your hard work 🙃

  • @sneezerabbit
    @sneezerabbit Před 2 lety +1664

    As an Albertan, when I first travelled to Boston with my classmates(all of us never travelled outside of Alberta before)we all had a collective spook when we saw the rats near the docks. Imagine a bunch of highschoolers looking in awe and excitedly pointing out rats because we never seen them before.

  • @kennethkay7226
    @kennethkay7226 Před 2 lety +258

    Fun fact, The Pokemon Beautifly has pokedex entries that also say it drinks blood of enemies. I learned a lot about real life animals through Pokemon.

    • @inoli3164
      @inoli3164 Před 2 lety +4

      I remember from the Pokémon Black and White and B&W 2 that the Japanese name is Agehunto. A good vicious sounding name tbh

    • @nunyabiznes33
      @nunyabiznes33 Před 2 lety +2

      It's always the pretty ones. Gorebyss would suck the blood out of other fish till they die.

    • @kennethkay7226
      @kennethkay7226 Před 2 lety +1

      @@nunyabiznes33 Gorebyss it's actually more terrifying than huntail to me.

    • @greenpiersystem
      @greenpiersystem Před 2 lety +1

      If you want to have an idea of how metamorphosis actually would feel, look up the Mega Evolution entries for Pokemon X and Y (as in the entries specifically written for those forms.) Most of them have the lovely emotional baggage of saying that the process is incredibly painful, to the point that a good portion of the Pokemon who can Mega Evolve are in so much pain that they go insane in rage, so if you are not INCREDIBLY in-tune with your Pokemon, so you know you have their consent to do this, it is literally animal abuse. But I also imagine that's why bugs that have a metamorphic stage either turn into angry fucking machines or wait for that fate and then go die somewhere the process can restart.

    • @simples6475
      @simples6475 Před 2 lety

      @@greenpiersystem Ah yes, Glailie's mild inconvenience of a broken jaw that prevent's it from eating.

  • @georgevanaken925
    @georgevanaken925 Před rokem

    Always entertaining. Subscribed!

  • @cherylgonzalez3010
    @cherylgonzalez3010 Před rokem

    Love this guy. I learn so much

  • @outrider8569
    @outrider8569 Před 2 lety +338

    Knowing the reason butterflies kept flying towards me was because they were trying drink my sweat makes my skepticism much more justified

  • @PhoenixRiseinFlame
    @PhoenixRiseinFlame Před 2 lety +1757

    As an Albertan, it’s great to hear that people actually know about our war on rats

    • @getbetternobs7665
      @getbetternobs7665 Před 2 lety +42

      Do you usually hear jokes about rats?

    • @zigzaghyena
      @zigzaghyena Před 2 lety +71

      @@getbetternobs7665 We never joke about rats.

    • @bosscraftx8507
      @bosscraftx8507 Před 2 lety +136

      @@getbetternobs7665 rats are serious stuff there

    • @connordalton4553
      @connordalton4553 Před 2 lety +101

      @@getbetternobs7665 Only people questioning how we actually pulled it off.

    • @marthlink5015
      @marthlink5015 Před 2 lety +29

      I'm assuming a shit ton of poison.

  • @lonwof2105
    @lonwof2105 Před rokem

    Its like people are inventing new animals! Love this channel!

  • @Keys-zq1gw
    @Keys-zq1gw Před rokem

    I can hear that little guy bathing in the stream whistling or humming a tune while he washes up 😂

  • @frankiev4u2c
    @frankiev4u2c Před 2 lety +1347

    This video just validated my 30yrs of “crazy talk” & “irrational” dislike/fear of butterflies 😩🙌🏾. When I was about 7, I went to a sand pool on a super hot day and was followed by a butterfly trying to suck on me. I’m talking about this thing was hovering over the water and following me to the point I had to jump out the water, wrap in a towel & hide in the bathroom. I’ve stood strong in my stance since day one & still run from butterflies to this day 🙃😂😂

    • @charlieward7606
      @charlieward7606 Před 2 lety +77

      i grew a load of plants, caterpillars destroyed a lot of them, also while they were drying i kept finding caterpillars EVERYWHERE hated them every since, also moths a disgusting and dusty and seem to always wait until your trying to sleep to come fuck with you. bleh im glad someone else dislikes them xD

    • @AlanaeImontae
      @AlanaeImontae Před 2 lety +43

      I've never really liked being near butterflies either. Nothing scares me, its just butterflies in particular never sat right with me. Then again, I've loved horrorfics & films since I was a toddler and I often saw lots of butterflies & moths in them lol.. But I love moths 0.o-

    • @redcandi01
      @redcandi01 Před 2 lety +2

      Awww hahah 😳😢🤭🤣😭😭😭😅

    • @illford6921
      @illford6921 Před 2 lety +3

      @@charlieward7606 yeah but who likes moths anyways

    • @Bonniethebunny
      @Bonniethebunny Před 2 lety +14

      @@illford6921 i do.

  • @JDWalker495
    @JDWalker495 Před 2 lety +238

    I’ve been telling people that there is little difference between mosquitoes and butterflies, but people keep getting fooled by the pretty colors
    Lawyers dress nice too,but they are still blood suckers smh

    • @selinesbeau
      @selinesbeau Před 2 lety +30

      I don't think the butterflies spread disease though.

    • @legrandliseurtri7495
      @legrandliseurtri7495 Před 2 lety +38

      Most butterflies won't pierce my skin to drink my blood. Most mosquitos will.

    • @sundalosketch4769
      @sundalosketch4769 Před 2 lety +17

      The biggest difference is they'll drink blood from dead things and drink tears and sweat from living things.
      Mosquitoes drink blood from living and dead things, leaving a painful piece of evidence behind.

    • @calizapetrel6950
      @calizapetrel6950 Před 2 lety +3

      Butterflies won't drink your blood while you're still alive so they're still better than mosquitoes

  • @kentran7930
    @kentran7930 Před rokem

    Ayyy, a shout out from Vietnam 😂. Yeah, I remember the time 'cậu Dúi' took our internet by storm. Never quite catch it, so thank you for the clear up dude.

  • @undynlicia7554
    @undynlicia7554 Před rokem +6

    On the brush tail possum, we’ve had them in our walls for over a decade now (we got used to them after a while) and a month or so ago it actually broke through the wall, and we could see it’s fur through the hole (thankfully the hole wasn’t big enough for it to get out of, we covered it so our dog doesn’t make it worse, and we’ve got someone in to get the possum out)

    • @lissi6931
      @lissi6931 Před rokem +1

      I know they can be destructive but they are oh so cute! So much better than our grungy American possums.

    • @lissi6931
      @lissi6931 Před rokem +1

      Also I am glad you got someone to relocate it so it won’t damage your house!

  • @yvainestelmack7196
    @yvainestelmack7196 Před 2 lety +90

    I volunteer at a zoo's butterfly room and I always love explaining to guests that the reason a butterfly landed on their sweaty palm is the same reason they like lays potato chips: delicious salt.

    • @jamie1602
      @jamie1602 Před 2 lety +6

      Humans. You can't just eat one. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

    • @Kitschune24
      @Kitschune24 Před 2 lety +2

      That sounds like a fun volunteer job

    • @yvainestelmack7196
      @yvainestelmack7196 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Kitschune24 It really is! I mean, all the butterflies are imported from butterfly farms in Costa Rica so you are in a greenhouse that is 100% humidity at 30C for a few hours which isn't the best. However, it is really fun to learn and teach adults and kids about butterflies and all the cool adaptations they have.

    • @Kitschune24
      @Kitschune24 Před 2 lety +2

      @@yvainestelmack7196 Awesome!

  • @Saighin
    @Saighin Před 2 lety +25

    "...drink the _tears_ of other animals..."
    That's disconcertingly schadenfreude & goth af for such dainty little flutterbutts...

  • @naymeequillo
    @naymeequillo Před rokem

    I so very much love the way you talk. My ADHD brain needs this.

  • @augustadams5006
    @augustadams5006 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Makes me love butterflies even more

  • @isaiahashikaga5574
    @isaiahashikaga5574 Před 2 lety +174

    I watched hunterxhunter, and on the first season, there were these butterflies that would either be around a dead person, or follow someone who was injured, turns out butterflies like that are real

    • @amanda54923
      @amanda54923 Před 2 lety +7

      I was lucky I guess to know something like that was real before I saw hunterxHunter. Lol
      Still didn't stop me from feeling weird about them though

    • @isaiahashikaga5574
      @isaiahashikaga5574 Před 2 lety +4

      @@amanda54923 lol I feel ya mate

    • @mysterprolyfic3319
      @mysterprolyfic3319 Před 2 lety +3

      SAME thing I Thought Of

    • @isaiahashikaga5574
      @isaiahashikaga5574 Před 2 lety +3

      @@mysterprolyfic3319 yeah I never would have thought there were butterflies like that

  • @Angus_McDonald
    @Angus_McDonald Před 2 lety +368

    Blue-footed booby birds are the “unexplainable” birds mentioned in this video. They got the name “booby” because they look stupid(and apparently booby had a slightly different meaning when it was first discovered) Also a flock of the birds are called boobies😏

    • @sundalosketch4769
      @sundalosketch4769 Před 2 lety +55

      Just like the word "dick". Turns out it's the shortened version of Richard because that was just a common male name back in the day, especially during times where names were handwritten. They had to shorten longer names for writing's sake so Richard became Rich/Rick/Hick which would then become Dick. Still at a slight loss on how "dick" started being referred to the penis, i assume it was from phrases like "Little Johnny" or "Dick Jr." or "Here's my little friend".

    • @ettubrute197
      @ettubrute197 Před 2 lety +5

      That’s messed up😔😔

    • @DataLal
      @DataLal Před 2 lety +25

      @@sundalosketch4769 The penis used to have a few common-name nicknames (dicknames) - not just Dick or John, but Peter, Thomas, and of course Willy. John became more associated with the back-end business and toilets, and Dick and Willy were largely winning the dickname contest for a while, until Dick became the champion.

    • @Konpekikaminari
      @Konpekikaminari Před 2 lety +12

      Gotta love scientific slander

    • @catelynh1020
      @catelynh1020 Před 2 lety +8

      In the last 30 years or so, i swear people used to call others boobs for doing the absolute stupidest things, so i knew boob as an insult meaning idiot before i knew the word as for bodily anatomy.
      I really can't say when i stopped hearing it, though, and if my exposure to the word was from books or old tv rather than people talking bad about others

  • @zulyovalle7057
    @zulyovalle7057 Před rokem +2

    Comedy, information, entertaining, wholesome, and where to not bring a rat. Good job 👏

  • @boothead9495
    @boothead9495 Před rokem +3

    Got to dive at Bawley point NSW and my dive group got a chance to hangout with some bull/stingrays and Port Jacksons and they’re incredibly chill animals when left to do their own thing. There’s also a shark & Ray rehabilitation centre about 1 hour north of Sydney (I can’t remember the name of the place) where you can go sit in pools with and feed juvenile Port Jackos and rays before they’re sent out into the wild

  • @draconity
    @draconity Před 2 lety +664

    I can't tell you how much I love your channel. I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s watching the discovery channel with absolutely brutal documentaries, and it has fueled my love for animals and nature lasting to now, my late 30s. Your coverage of animal facts isn't just accurate, it's HILARIOUS, and honest, and so incredibly fun. I love everything I have ever seen you make. Please never stop. You deserve your own actual show. I hope money starts rolling in for this. I don't have a lot to spare right now but as soon as I do, I am signing up on your patreon.

    • @sheriffcharliepanda8613
      @sheriffcharliepanda8613 Před 2 lety +15

      As I was born in 1984 I feel this comment to my core.

    • @draconity
      @draconity Před 2 lety +18

      @@sheriffcharliepanda8613 animal planet was at first a wonderful place where they didn’t interrupt all the great nature documentaries with other subjects. Its glory didn’t last long. 😭

    • @Dash101
      @Dash101 Před 2 lety +10

      You're lucky. The nature documentaries from that era are my favourite too

    • @keelay9003
      @keelay9003 Před 2 lety +4

      I consider him my new david Attenborough. ‘70’s child here

    • @sheriffcharliepanda8613
      @sheriffcharliepanda8613 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Dash101 man I used to watch live surgery with my dad on the learning channel it's why to this day I can see anything as long as it isn't me lol

  • @nrgbunni.
    @nrgbunni. Před 2 lety +110

    My housemate found an injured rainbow lorikeet (native to Australia) on the ground and multiple birds were drinking its blood when she found it. Luckily she rescued it and is nursing it back to health.

    • @SheepDeprived
      @SheepDeprived Před 2 lety +6

      💀 birds aren’t cute anymore

    • @TheFoolishWiseKing
      @TheFoolishWiseKing Před 2 lety +4

      Oh wow, it's survival of the fittest, the birds have to be annoyed that their prey was stolen, I know I would. The birds probably put your housemate in their hit list,

  • @marklee9478
    @marklee9478 Před rokem

    This is the best video I have watched all day

  • @nadew.02
    @nadew.02 Před rokem +7

    Is he a zoologist or just really interested in zoology? The information he's giving are well presented and interesting ♡

  • @em.ily364
    @em.ily364 Před 2 lety +451

    I am actually Hmong myself and I was not expecting to see the Hmong dog but I very glad to see one in your vids tho. I had always wanted one myself as a kid.

    • @Estherbethe1...
      @Estherbethe1... Před 2 lety +12

      🐕 🐾 I hope people know their breed and provide space and job for them. Too many working breed dogs end up in the pet trade... It's not good for the dogs that should get space to run and work for their mind and body. 🐕🐾

    • @skylarmccloud4080
      @skylarmccloud4080 Před 2 lety +2

      the fact he said he'd commit "1st Degree" for this puppy. 🤣🤣🤣😂 "LWOP"

    • @inkybar8456
      @inkybar8456 Před 2 lety +2

      I am a fellow hmong too!

    • @RobinParravel
      @RobinParravel Před 2 lety

      I was so confused when I read this comment. I forgot about hmong by that point so I was like is it a place and they meant that they are in Hmong or from there? Then I remembered that hmong is a dog breed so I was like did they mean that they have a hmong?
      Then I read the username.

    • @AdamOwenBrowning
      @AdamOwenBrowning Před 2 lety +7

      @@RobinParravel Hmong are a peoples, though. "I am Hmong" is like saying "I am Maori". Hmong peoples don't have their own nation, so it's not a place, but you find them throughout China, Vietnam, Laos, across SEA and in rare migrant communities. I imagine its not great being part of a govt-designated "ethnic sub-group" when you're in modern China under Xi.
      I had the opposite problem to you, I had no idea there was a namesake dog breed >.

  • @395203502
    @395203502 Před 2 lety +453

    There was a rat 'infestation' (less than 100 rats) in the city of Medicine Hat AB in 2014 and they basically locked down the city for a few weeks while they killed them. Every vehicle that came in or left the city got searched, they also search every load of trash going to the landfill since that's where they were found initially. Good times.

    • @breezy1370
      @breezy1370 Před 2 lety +10

      I didn't know that, and i lived in medicine hat in 2014

    • @ilovegrapes4101
      @ilovegrapes4101 Před 2 lety +12

      Everything is labeled as good times these days

    • @ventexovakon2178
      @ventexovakon2178 Před 2 lety +40

      I was today years old when I learned of a place called "Medicine Hat."

    • @neilmcmurray4822
      @neilmcmurray4822 Před 2 lety +24

      @@ventexovakon2178 Every time I mention Medicine Hat to someone who isn’t from Alberta I get the same response. As an Albertan, I never really thought about the name

    • @sundalosketch4769
      @sundalosketch4769 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ventexovakon2178 Same here. Love learning new things every day

  • @teresavanzandt5089
    @teresavanzandt5089 Před rokem

    With a woof & a purr love this

  • @phoniexcrystal4044
    @phoniexcrystal4044 Před 10 měsíci

    🎉🎉 Louisville KY checking in Happy Happy Birthday to you brilliant one my daughter watch n love you always keep up the great work handsome

  • @gamenut112
    @gamenut112 Před 2 lety +84

    the pacarana cleaning itself is both uncanny in how it moves and cute at the same time.

  • @robertcross9863
    @robertcross9863 Před 2 lety +581

    I just love that it cleans itself, eats and can be dressed like a little person

  • @evyberm801
    @evyberm801 Před 10 měsíci

    "They'll do a weird butt thing" ... Thanks for the work you do, you are highly appreciated my friend!

  • @mysterylovescompany2657

    A pacaran(?) diligently scrubbing it's little armpits like a human was definitely the purest thing I saw today.

  • @seitisetsoh4991
    @seitisetsoh4991 Před 2 lety +154

    I've been an exterminator in Alberta (Edmonton) for 8 years, I've never seen a rat in all that time. A few exterminators that I talk to have seen rats, but that's it. If you see signs of rats here, you have to report it to a government hotline immediately. It's honestly impressive that we've managed to keep this province rat free so successfully

    • @raerohan4241
      @raerohan4241 Před 2 lety +10

      Do you know why rats are so strictly controlled but mice aren't? Aren't the basically the same thing when acting as pests, asides from mice being less likely to bite?

    • @errortryagainlater4240
      @errortryagainlater4240 Před 2 lety +19

      @@raerohan4241 feral rats are more aggressive and likely to bite humans, which means they spread more diseases ig. Plus rat infestations are apparently more difficult to get rid of.

    • @ceilidhmacmullin
      @ceilidhmacmullin Před 2 lety +3

      I live in Calgary:the same province!
      But I am moving to Victoria in under a week

    • @canoebushman5573
      @canoebushman5573 Před 2 lety +6

      @@raerohan4241 To add onto what error said. Rats (Specifically the Norway rat) is also invasive here, well everywhere except asia, while all mice, voles, shrews etc (except the house mouse) naturally occur here. Introducing rat populations here could harm Alberta's environment, agg economy and frankly day to day life quite severely.

    • @toad4289
      @toad4289 Před 2 lety +3

      What happens if they find out that you saw one and didn’t report it?

  • @sharonwong5688
    @sharonwong5688 Před 2 lety +357

    I respect butterflies, but I HELLA respect sharks because of all the flack they get. Same with snakes! ❤️❤️

    • @ReptilianTeaDrinker
      @ReptilianTeaDrinker Před 2 lety +20

      Same here! I feel like sharks and snakes get so much crap and it's unfair, tbh.

    • @wedontagelikemilktho.6633
      @wedontagelikemilktho.6633 Před 2 lety +24

      Spiders are fascinating but arachnophobes keep killing them and then they complain about flies and mosquitos.🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @gone9820
      @gone9820 Před 2 lety +2

      @@wedontagelikemilktho.6633 I kill all of them? Insects and spiders.
      I love insects and spiders, dont get me wrong. They are cool af and theyre almost machines... remember: theyre animals! Nature is awesome. But not in my house though. Spiders make webs which imo are disgusting (inside houses) because it accumulates dust. Insects are just pests. If you dont kill them they will infest inside your house.😐

    • @doggo7078
      @doggo7078 Před 2 lety +1

      Watch the video from Eons about snakes, everything will make sense

    • @jamie1602
      @jamie1602 Před 2 lety +4

      @@gone9820 I like to call this the "only smart bugs live to pass on good evolutionary skills" rule. If they were smart, I wouldn't catch them. No stupid in the gene pool.

  • @fameanims4221
    @fameanims4221 Před rokem

    Been binging this channel and didn’t expect for him to mention Hmong people as I am also a Hmong American. Pretty cool.

  • @felixbenitez5984
    @felixbenitez5984 Před 10 měsíci

    Love your witty style.

  • @Northflowo
    @Northflowo Před 2 lety +828

    Well now I find butterflies even cooler

    • @prowlinality
      @prowlinality Před 2 lety +21

      hell yeah! butterflies are epic
      also northflowo! thats cool

    • @maddiehalloway
      @maddiehalloway Před 2 lety +32

      Same here. The perfect balance between immaculate creatures and death eaters 👌

    • @efhbke
      @efhbke Před 2 lety +45

      Exactly, literally nothing he said about butterflies is actually scary. "Oh no, they lick you and like your sweat". Better run from your pet dog then too.

    • @cherrylicker6959
      @cherrylicker6959 Před 2 lety +7

      i would keep a bunch of them in my home and any time theres an intruder id shoot the intruder and let the butterflies out

    • @Ms.CringeSwirlz16
      @Ms.CringeSwirlz16 Před 2 lety

      Its kinda spookpy to think about it now
      ._.

  • @peachdoesart7175
    @peachdoesart7175 Před 2 lety +619

    The butterfly fact didnt really bother me. They need their energy from something after all. There are more disturbing things other bugs do anyway.

    • @anotherrandomguy8871
      @anotherrandomguy8871 Před 2 lety +106

      Yeah this is pretty tame. Plus it’s a good thing if they don’t let dead bodies go to waste. I know that he keeps trying to say that butterflies only see you as a sweat pack, or that butterflies don’t care about you, but I think it’s safe to say that just about every single insect ever doesn’t care about humans, unless it’s for food, so butterflies aren’t really special in that regard at all, so even if I didn’t know this beforehand, it’s not that surprising.

    • @hlalakar4156
      @hlalakar4156 Před 2 lety +5

      Like traumatic insemination.

    • @SuperJillbean
      @SuperJillbean Před 2 lety +31

      Yah, I don’t know. I’ve had to pick up deer carcasses, and I can tell you the first time I saw a butterfly on a deer that had miscarriaged.. I don’t know. I definitely see them more like houseflies now though very pretty from a distance. I’d like them at a distance.

    • @41052
      @41052 Před 2 lety +25

      @@SuperJillbean well it is a bug. Just cause it’s “pretty” doesn’t make it any different from other bugs.

    • @mashupsoul227
      @mashupsoul227 Před 2 lety

      Like what

  • @amandagoldsbury8122
    @amandagoldsbury8122 Před 5 měsíci

    That pup had the paw stripes like a heeler. Or cowboy corgis, which sounds like a fun nickname

  • @Baby_D187
    @Baby_D187 Před 10 měsíci

    How cute. Butterflies are like little sisters from bioshock. Looking for angels 🩸🥰🥰

  • @pwojo9776
    @pwojo9776 Před 2 lety +555

    The sick thing is I already knew about the butterfly thing. For two reasons really, the second one being less innocent than the other. The first one was when I saw a bunch of butterflies feeding on a rotting fish washed up on a riverbank at summer camp. The second being from a trashy borderline torture-porn of an anime movie with terrible CGI and the plot of a trashy horror movie (I think it was called Island of Giant Insects; it references butterflies feasting on human fluids, wasp larvae devouring captured people with a venom that numbs the pain to the point of ecstasy which looks even more gory in the manga apparently from what I heard, ticks so big they can overwhelm people, and a parasitic worm that drives the host to madness, pops out of the host eyes, and makes them act as bait for a giant flying predatory insect; these are all apparently based on real insects); it was bad, the CGI was bad, I'm not denying any of that, but I kind of want to see where it goes because apparently there's a plot and it ends on a cliffhanger.

    • @dragonace119
      @dragonace119 Před 2 lety +78

      Oh that motherfucking anime, and here I thought I finally managed to forget abotu that shit.

    • @boch2411
      @boch2411 Před 2 lety +21

      @@dragonace119 lmao

    • @Phoebe5448
      @Phoebe5448 Před 2 lety +37

      Yeah, thanks for reminding us. Urgh. And here I thought Beautifly's Pokedex entry was an elaborate lie. Boy was I wrong.

    • @gabrielcarver5381
      @gabrielcarver5381 Před 2 lety +5

      Lol that shitty movie gave me a phobia of ticks.

    • @Phoebe5448
      @Phoebe5448 Před 2 lety +13

      @Lazy~Ollie me too. It was interesting to actually learn about different species. But the gorn was really unsettling at times. Which I know was the point, but it was really creepy.

  • @demsterclippy4252
    @demsterclippy4252 Před 2 lety +383

    Its hard for me to still think Butterflies are all that bad, even if they are basically pretty insect vultures that occasionally like to speed-up the process... but with no killing. It is hilarious to think that they'll irritate you to get your tears like "Cry Bitch! I just need a sample!!"

    • @RM771000
      @RM771000 Před 2 lety +68

      "Cry Bitch! I just need a sample!!" < that image killed me. 😂

    • @seymourbones
      @seymourbones Před 2 lety +37

      Yea butterflies are basically just vultures, they wont HURT you or anything, but there is a species of moth (i think in europe?) that drinks blood like a mosquito and has been known to drink human blood

    • @demsterclippy4252
      @demsterclippy4252 Před 2 lety +40

      @@seymourbones Considering Vultures are some of the chillest and loving birds out there while playing a huge role in nature and not being anywhere near as annoying or potentially harmful as flies or mosquitoes, i'm gonna say Butterflies are still pogchamp.

    • @vi0let831
      @vi0let831 Před 2 lety +6

      @@seymourbones
      Oh HELL NO, this is why I like butterflies but hate moths 💀

    • @seymourbones
      @seymourbones Před 2 lety +12

      @@vi0let831 Ahahahaa yeah, only calyptra moths drink blood, and they mostly live in asia and china and usually dont bother people, but personally i like most moths and butterflies. Moths you usually see are chill cos theyll just land and not move, butterflies make me nervous because im always worried ill hurt them since they fly so chaotically

  • @harperproduction3935
    @harperproduction3935 Před rokem

    Wow!, Just Wow! Thank you for the education. Luv, luv

  • @mandiemoore3272
    @mandiemoore3272 Před rokem

    Absolutely love the rockey horror picture show quote

  • @Scanthoradium
    @Scanthoradium Před 2 lety +142

    Hes like a free tutor and his content is hella amazing

  • @tomw2885
    @tomw2885 Před 2 lety +36

    I always love hearing how cuddly sharks are

  • @Batmanstabbingadog
    @Batmanstabbingadog Před rokem +1

    Butterfly absorbing sweat from turtle: what ya gonna go huh, what ya gonna do

  • @MaryDunford
    @MaryDunford Před 7 měsíci

    My dad would have been addicted to your channel. Heck, I'm addicted to your channel. 😂

  • @Melodraca
    @Melodraca Před 2 lety +322

    I grew up in Alberta but moved to BC a few years ago. The first time I saw a rat scurry behind a dumpster, I froze and it occured to me that I had never actually seen a physical rat in person before. I was shook 😂

    • @kme
      @kme Před rokem +34

      Lol I'm from Alberta too, but I moved to England and we had at the time, a rabbit and a guinea pig out in the back yard. My husband (English) came to me one afternoon and said there was a mouse eating bunny and piggy's food, so I go to look out the kitchen window, and what did I see? A huge RAT, with its paws through the hutch cage, helping itself to the seeds and veggies. I started to laugh and hubby was asking me why. I said dude, that's not a mouse. That's a rat. And he went absolutely ballistic. Starts screaming (which made me laugh even more) and our neighbour (this big, buff, ex-military guy!) comes around, gingerly hands me this package of rat poison, and asks me to please put it out back to get rid of the rats, and scuttles away. I still find it mind-boggling that a guy who grew up IN THE COUNTRY, in a country with a massive rat problem, didn't know what a rat was, where I grew up in a city in a rat-free (theoretically) province, and had never seen a rat in person before, but I knew right away what it was.

    • @EnciodesSilverash
      @EnciodesSilverash Před rokem +1

      Wait there's rats in BC? never seen any, maybe I'm just lucky

    • @Yroko
      @Yroko Před rokem +8

      @@EnciodesSilverash ur just lucky. I had a coworker from the Caribbean. He saw a raccoon for the first time, freaked him out trying to explain to use what he saw. We told him they're common enough, if u see 1 stop and back away slowly and let it do its thing. If it looks mange and scruffed up with a foaming mouth. Get to saftey and call pest control. It more or less rabid.

    • @goyangi4143
      @goyangi4143 Před 8 měsíci

      Kill Alberta

    • @scrapkingkeita3825
      @scrapkingkeita3825 Před 5 měsíci

      Rats in BC are mostly found in the coastal cities like Vancouver and White Rock. Richmond also has a Rat thing with loads of farmland. Abbotsford too apparently, but nobody lives (or should live) there@@EnciodesSilverash

  • @adamrodgers5717
    @adamrodgers5717 Před 2 lety +538

    The rat deal in Alberta is real, they literally eradicated rats…they have a massive farming culture and rats would flourish there. You can drive for hours in the province and see nothing but farm fields. If you go north though, northwest, you’ll find the mountains and forests. Far south you’ll get the badlands.

    • @yvettej.9896
      @yvettej.9896 Před 2 lety +14

      Sounds beautiful

    • @giboi03
      @giboi03 Před 2 lety +29

      Wait...what ARE the badlands?

    • @faustlove
      @faustlove Před 2 lety

      @@flamable2596 The average person doesn't realize how important this type of research is to the human race. One keystone species gets eliminated and the dominoes will begin to fall!
      My biggest beef with the scientific/medical research industry is that in this day and age, most of the live animal testing facilities could easily accomplish the same tests with an A.I. program. There's really no need for animals to be tortured by having makeup put into their eyes and forcing them to breath toxic gasses .

    • @TheLucidChiba
      @TheLucidChiba Před 2 lety +11

      @@giboi03 they sound cooler than they are, more or less prairie

    • @xnotasweatx
      @xnotasweatx Před rokem +11

      @@giboi03 most of it is ancient stone from the beginning of the earth, lotta fossils in that area

  • @Officiallyniuul
    @Officiallyniuul Před rokem +1

    "Even tho they look like the product of a really questionnable one night stand" MNDIAYE - 2022

  • @riverdawson1362
    @riverdawson1362 Před rokem +9

    There's a reason butterflies are used as imagery in Japanese horror media so often.
    The butterfly in Japan is often connected to depictions of death and mysticism. I'm not to well-studied up on why this is a thing, but my guess is they were often spotted doing this messed up shit on all the corpses left behind after huge battles.

  • @YahyeAli123
    @YahyeAli123 Před 2 lety +43

    Rat: everything the light touches is our kingdom
    Son: what about that shadowy place(Alberta)
    Rat: never go to that place ever

  • @Drybonesblue
    @Drybonesblue Před 2 lety +352

    as someone who grew up in Alberta I was surprised to know that we seem to be the only with with no rats, I already knew about the rat war but I thought that there may have been at least one other place that did it as well.

  • @scotchmaple
    @scotchmaple Před rokem

    This guys commentary is funny AF, lmao

  • @ThePopo543
    @ThePopo543 Před rokem

    Awww what a cute wholesome shark sto- "MEET DA REAL LIFE CATDOG!"

  • @rooklightstone2339
    @rooklightstone2339 Před 2 lety +187

    As an Albertan-Yeah, any pet owners caught with rats is in for a hefty ass fine. I was told as a child its because Alberta is a grain province!
    (We’re also a beef province)

    • @Lithic.flakes
      @Lithic.flakes Před 2 lety +34

      I'm also from Alberta, and I never thought it had a reason other than "rat diseases suck ass"
      ya learn somethin' new every day I guess lmao

    • @Tokuijin
      @Tokuijin Před 2 lety +4

      Actually, from what I've read, pet rats get get culled. They're very strict in the "NO RATS" policy.

    • @Tokuijin
      @Tokuijin Před 2 lety +9

      @Andrei Salvaleon Apparently, pet mice are allowed.

    • @kra_hme
      @kra_hme Před 2 lety +8

      @@Tokuijin yep mice are aloud, ive seen many at pet stores! And in the wild (cat)

    • @jaschabull2365
      @jaschabull2365 Před 2 lety +1

      I thought that was Saskatchewan. I always thought of Alberta as the oil province (basically Canadian Texas).
      Beef sounds about right, though, being where Calgary is 'n' all.

  • @TheRibottoStudios
    @TheRibottoStudios Před 2 lety +105

    So they really are kinda like scary monsters....Why does Spongebob KEEP GETTING IT RIGHT?!

    • @celtichound9889
      @celtichound9889 Před 2 lety +17

      Because it was written by a biologist

    • @TheRibottoStudios
      @TheRibottoStudios Před 2 lety +2

      WHEN WILL YOU BOOTY CALL BOTS BEAT IT TF OUTTA HERE? Scat. Shoo. Skedaddle.

  • @annierosezetta5032
    @annierosezetta5032 Před rokem

    Damn and i was so excited for butterfly season this year

  • @astrowyrm6871
    @astrowyrm6871 Před 2 lety +375

    ive always been afraid of butterflies, glad my fear is finally justified