animals have inspired humans to do some crazy things our admiration of birds led us to pursue flight our curiosity about deep sea life spurred our love for diving are longing to eat as much as a pig led to the all-you-can-eat buffet still there are some amazing animal abilities I don't think we'll ever catch up to from bullet punching shrimp to zombie toads these are some of the world's most amazing animals [Music] Slow Burn how well do you handle the heat I'm pretty good at it after all I spend most of my time in the bmas
server farms and boy do they get hot but even I can't compete with this deep sea Critter which kind of resembles your garden variety snail I say kind of because from other angles it just looks like a blob neither way the scaly-footed gastropod or volcano snail lives in the deepest depths of the Indian Ocean up to one and a half miles in fact that's as deep as three Burge khalifas the tallest building in the world straight down for roughly every 32 feet below the surface of the ocean you dive the atmospheric pressure increases by one
that means that at 1.5 miles down you'd be experiencing around 241 atmospheres of pressure try to imagine the feeling of an elephant standing on your toe but all over your body ouch but if that still sounds too leisurely for you consider the fact this aptly named snail also makes its home in volcanic vents these vents can reach up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit which is three times hotter than the boiling point of water and hotter than the open Flames produced by some torches that means that the volcanic snail is living in an environment that would crush
roast and boil most other animals so how does the Wonder blob survive such a cruel treatment well it's metal and I don't mean that in the hardcore sense except it also is this creature's shell is made of iron sulfide meaning it's literally part metal marine biologists have found that the snail's metal tolerance protein Gene is 27 times higher than other similar species which explains its ability to transform itself into a tiny living tank rather than eating the scaly-footed gastropod has a large gland that absorbs bacteria and iron from its surroundings keeping it tough as nails
despite its amazing resilience however they face Extinction due to the deep sea mining operations interfering with their habitat well they can always join me here at the server Farm if they need a place to stay the puff grounds everybody loves puffer fish these cute brightly colored fish can be found in tropical and subtropical Waters around the world and our favorite site among divers and as you can probably tell from their pudgy exterior these little fish are pretty defenseless and their bright coloration makes them easy to spot when agitated however they're able to inflate their bodies
with water and expand up to three times their original size if this doesn't scare Predators away many species like the deadly Fugu are also highly poisonous well interesting aspects of the creature neither of those quirks are what make the puffer fish truly amazing however that's the fact that the humble puffer fish makes art and pretty breathtaking art at that as recently as 1995 it was discovered that the much-loved puffer fish has one of the most curious mating rituals in the animal kingdom when a male puffer fish wants to attract a mate they look for a
relatively undisturbed patch of the ocean floor then using their fins and bodies they will slowly start to create symmetrical grooves and patterns in the sand as time goes on this pattern spirals out forming a kind of deep sea crop circle after the main foundations have been worn in the puffer fish will then begin to add stones and Pebbles to the circle as a kind of deep sea decoration completing a circle like this takes time and the poor puffer fish must work 24 hours a day for an entire week to get it done and you thought
online dating was rough the fish needs to put in these intense hours as even a minor shift in the sand could result in damage to the circle's structural Integrity while it isn't known what makes a circle good or bad to a ladyfish it's assumed that the size and symmetry play a role and I tried taking a page out of the puffer fish Playbook unfortunately I'm on day three so far in the circle of garbage cans around my house has yet to attract a fitting mate foreign over the years I've been called a lot of creative
insults in the comments down there an annoying orb an internet loser King of the shut-ins but even I've never been called something as cruel as the poor ogre-faced spider can it really be so but ah there it is get it off the screen This creepy crawly can be found all across the forests of Africa and Australia if its peepers are freaking you out and there's a reason the ogre-faced spider has the largest eyes of any spider in the world and they're extremely perceptive to light able to absorb 15 000 times more photons than ours additionally
despite lacking ears they're able to hear their surroundings through thin hairs on their legs what do they use their hyper perception for well you'll be sorry you asked like many of its relatives the ogre-faced spider spins a web out of silk it produces from an organ called a spinaret the ogre-faced spider doesn't kick back and wait for something to get stuck after spitting its web however it does something altogether more horrifying instead the ogre-faced spider creates a second smaller web which it holds between its four legs wielding this smaller Web the spider will then dangle
from the first web suspended in the air at this point the spider does something sinister it places some bait beneath it poopy bait that's right this spider has evolved so that its own excrement smells like delicious food to its prey when an unsuspecting insect passes underneath the ogre-faced spider falls on top of it using the smaller web as a net it traps the poor wriggling creature underneath this web which then fuses to its skin making escape a futile impossibility at this point the ogre spider injects an acidic Venom into its prey which melts their insides
The Mastermind then slurps up their poor defenseless victim and as if that weren't a horrifying way to die in the first place imagine knowing you were there because you'd been tricked by poop the amazing brain tongue have you ever been so annoyed at something you felt like slamming your head against a wall that's nothing special woodpeckers do that thousands of times a day woodpeckers are small colorful birds that can be found all over the world and are best known for being the jackhammers of the animal kingdom spending their days vigorously pecking holes into trees they
do this in order to carve out nests for themselves as well as devour any bugs they may find beneath the tree bark if this sounds laborious well you're clearly not a woodpecker these incredible birds are able to strike a tree with their beak up to 20 times a second that's more than even the most hardcore headbanger at a metal concert despite typically weighing less than 15 ounces a woodpecker can carve a perfectly round Nest big enough to accommodate them in just a few days a woodpecker's skull redistributes the impact of this hammering through their entire
body so they never end up with a splitting headache after pecking these holes the Woodpecker will extend its tongue into the tree slurping up any delicious bugs it finds inside it's able to do this because a woodpecker's tongue is typically twice the length of its Bill giving it some serious ranged French kissing abilities fully extended this tongue can stretch up to five inches from its bill now you may look at this tiny creature in front of you and wonder where all the tongue comes from well this incredibly long tongue actually curls up inside the skull
a woodpecker's tongue doesn't continue down the throat like most animals but actually wraps up and backwards between the skull and the back of the head being such a prolific species there are dozens of woodpeckers with their own unique quirks the acorn woodpeckers for instance create what are called Granary trees these are dried old trees they pack holes into into which they can store thousands of acorns they return to these trees during the winter to enjoy their Acorn stockpile think of it like turning an old dead tree into your own personal vending machine I'm glad woodpeckers
are remembered for these fun facts and not that horrifying Woody Woodpecker movie want to see cutie here are my three tips for beating the Heat this summer wear Breezy clothes drink plenty of cool liquids and grow enormous eight foot long horns no believe me well let's learn about the watusi the Watusi is a breed of cattle that traces its lineage all the way back to ancient Egypt with their ancestors depicted in ancient hieroglyphs these Hefty heifers have been known to stand as tall as six feet at the shoulder and weigh around sixteen hundred pounds as
much as 15 beer kegs a considerable amount of that weight comes from their enormous horns which are some of the largest in the animal kingdom these intimidating weapons can measure in at a staggering eight feet in length with a 30 inch circumference while that may be huge it's nothing compared to the largest Watusi horns ever measured this is CT Woody who in 2004 entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the animal with the largest horns CT Woody's perilous pokers measured in at 40 inches in circumference imagine if you were walking around with arms that
were each four feet long and thicker than basketballs for an idea of what old Woody was dealing with now funnily enough a watusi's horns have no fixed shape and every cows is different this is why some curve around While others just jut out additionally Watusi horns never stop growing this means size is often a good indicator of how old the Watusi is despite their enormous size and large horny payload the Watusi doesn't exactly have to eat much to survive it's thought that this trait along with their horns secret feature make the Watusi particularly suited for
Harsh African Summers what is that secret well the watusi's horns are air conditioners a watusi is able to channel its body temperature through its horns which then radiates outwards as a kind of heat expulsion system it can do this because unlike many other animals a watusi's horns actually have blood vessels inside them which are able to transport heat throughout the body wow that's certainly more efficient than the electric fan hat I built last summer my head still has burn marks well maybe portable AC isn't your scene and you'd be more interested in spinning danger Nets
which of these crazy animal abilities would you most like to have let me know down in the comments and make sure to like And subscribe for more amazing content now what have we got next the flatliner a flat fish swims into a bar the bartender asks hey why the flat face uh sorry that joke fell flat my comedy skills are looking a bit uh thin right now anyway this is the flat fish and it's one weird customer there are 822 known species of this prolific fish and they can be found in fresh water and oceans
around the world while they're often called flounders this isn't entirely correct all flounders are flat fish but not all flat fish are flounders now that lesson in Marine etymology is out of the way let's discuss some weird fish as the name suggests the flatfish is an incredibly thin and flat fish almost resembling a swimming pancake this shape allows them to press themselves flat against the ocean floor and their Sandy colors help them blend in but some flat fish also bury themselves slightly allowing them to easily hide themselves from predators this ability is also great for
sneakily hunting prey the very ocean floor rising up to snarf them down when they least expect it though they may not look like they're Built For Speed they're actually incredibly agile swimmers using a fin on the underside of its body a flatfish is able to launch itself like a catapult at the same time the fish expels a sudden burst of water downward meaning it's able to pounce underwater seeing as they spend so much of their time pressed against the ocean floor both of the flatfish's eyes are located on the top of its head giving it
a full view of its overhead surroundings and also a pretty silly expression strangely however most flatfish aren't born this way they resemble regular fish in their infancy and slowly develop their shape this is most notable in the face because their eyes migrate across their skull over the course of several weeks eventually meeting each other at the top and to think my ex-wife said I had a Wandering eye back to life throughout history man has been obsessed with the idea of coming back from the dead in pursuit of the secrets of eternal life some have looked
to science While others have pursued the dark arts turns out the answer was this guy the Eastern Spade foot toad is a small North American toad typically found east of the Mississippi River it takes its name from a small black spike it has on its hind legs this spike is made of keratin the same protein that makes up our fingernails and hair using this Spike or Spade the toad is able to burrow its way into the ground bass backwards what many don't realize however is that when it does this the Spade foot toad is actually
digging its own grave this is because the Spade foot toad practices an extreme form of bramation which is like hibernation for cold-blooded animals upon burying itself the Spade foot toad compacts itself into a tight ball and excretes a fluid from its body this fluid hardens into a shell in the process almost completely dehydrates the toad the toad then enters a kind of stasis where its biological processes slow down until they're on the edge of stopping entirely during the months it spends underground the toad is in a death-like state motionless cocooned and essentially lifeless however something
amazing happens during the monsoon season as the rain falls and moisture seeps into the ground the Toad's chamber softens and moisture seeps into its skin this allows the toad to breathe again and wakes it up from its pseudo death this is why many have nicknamed this remarkable creature the zombie toad and after Reawakening the spadefoot toad emerges from the ground to mate and while the hole coming back from the dead thing may be their most interesting trait I would really be remiss if I didn't let you hear their absolutely absurd mating call hmm [Music] seriously
they sound like someone's sarcastically imitating a toad after mating the spadefoot toads will bury themselves back in the ground returning to their long dream of death man it's a good thing these toads aren't kept as pets can you imagine how uncomfortable it would be explaining to little Timmy their beloved toad had died only for it to come back to life a week later one punch shrimp this is the mantis shrimp doesn't look like much does it well stay tuned in two minutes I'll have you tearing down your Iron Man posters and putting up a mantis
shrimp poster in its place because this thing is hardcore let's start with the basics the mantis shrimp is a brightly colored crustacean that can be found in Shallow tropical water it has eight pairs of legs three for walking and five for feeding which presumably makes it a fiend at all you can eat buffets it has two pairs of sensitive antennae five gills for breathing and apparently tastes great fried with garlic butter their most noticeable trait however has got to be their big giant eyes these ginormous bulbs are able to rotate and move independently of one
another giving the little shrimp a tremendous range of sight and these eyes hold an even crazier secret though they're some of the most powerful in the animal kingdom for perspective dogs have two color cones in their eyes while humans have three this means every color we see is some combination of what our red green and blue cones can perceive amantis shrimp on the other hand has 12. this means the mantis shrimp can see four times as many colors as we can Colors we are literally unable to see this even includes light on the ultraviolet and
infrared spectrums this is useful in hunting down tiny or camouflaged prey because when your eyes are that sensitive there's nowhere to hide and if a mantis shrimp catches you it's over this is because the mantis shrimp has one of the most brutal weapons in the animal kingdom the rocket punch it has two arms designed to shoot forward at Breakneck speeds in order to punch the brains out of its prey despite being only six inches long it's estimated the mantis shrimp punch has the relative power of a 22 caliber bullet this punch is so fast it
boils the water around it and has been known to crack glass yeah remember how I compared this thing to Iron Man I think it's actually more like the deep sea Terminator frog drone if you've ever worked or lived in a tall building chances are you've gotten irritated waiting for an elevator wouldn't it be so much easier if you could just open a window and glide down well meet the Malabar gliding Frog who at some point in history must have had the same idea except they committed to it this friendly looking frog can be found living
in the trees among the gats of Western India as you can see here this amphibian's toes are prominently webbed even more so than other frogs this thick webbing allows the Frog to LEAP from high trees and glide down gracefully in the right conditions the frog is able to Glide 115 times its own body length which for reference would be like Batman gliding twice the length of a football field and these green gliders have been spotted in trees at Heights of up to 115 feet so they're quite the little adventurers they develop this ability so that
they could live up high in the trees and more easily hide their eggs from predators this also gives their jump a little extra lift which as you can see here really helps them bolt away from danger that's not the only surprise this frog has in store though because the Malabar gliding frog is able to produce a frothy foam-like substance from its body the frogs lay their eggs in this foam and then cover it up with twigs and leaves further hiding away their precious eggs during The Mating Season when they're looking for that special someone who
gets their foam frothing the Malabar gliding frog can be recognized by its unique call [Applause] kinda sounds like the Predator doesn't it except the Predator can't Glide I'd put my money on the Frog platy what when you hear the word alien what images does your mind conjure up bulging eyes masses of tentacles throbbing brains well I'm here to tell you that real aliens actually look like this that's because the palatipus is without a doubt one of the most unique and strange animals on Earth it seems every decade we learn something new and freaky about these
little weirdos let's start at the very beginning shall we a couple of weeks after being laid a baby platypus will hatch out of an egg now right away this is strange as the palatipus is a mammal mammals come in three flavors eutherians which include animals like humans and canines marsupials which include animals like wombats and Kangaroos and monotreams which are mammals that lay eggs monotreams only include palatipuses and echidnas every single other mammal is either a marsupial or euthyrian that's how unique they are while I don't want to annoy Knuckles being a monotreme is really
the only interesting thing about echidness so let's move on the Platypus is in an exclusive Club big whoop well here's another fact they're psychic kind of platypuses have a sixth sense in addition to the five we have called Electro reception you see all living matter gives off a very slight electrical field it's why we're able to get static shocks from friction well the Platypus can close its eyelids and ear Lids which is an extra weird thing they have and see the world through its electricity interestingly a panicked creature's electric field is more easily detectable this
is why even in dark or brackish water a palatipus can hunt fish easily you can hide or hold still but you can't turn off your electric field and as if that wasn't cool enough as recently as 2020 it was discovered that palatipus is actually glow under UV lights which illuminate their entire fur either white green or blue it's theorized that the Platypus may be able to see light in this spectrum and thus be able to identify other palatipuses in the dark see I meant it when I said we discover something new about them every decade
Oh and before I forget they're also venomous producing a noxious toxin from spikes on their hind legs during their mating season you won't be surprised to hear they're also one of the only mammals that can do that honestly these guys are so weird I wouldn't be surprised if when the aliens finally do descend on our little blue World a bunch of familiar duck-billed faces step out of that saucer those were some truly amazing Critters and venerable varmints do you know any amazing animals I may have missed let me know your favorites down in the comments
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