Remember, the cure for an irrational fear of spiders is to simply move to Australia. You'll still be afraid of spiders, but now, it is perfectly rational.
@@ThomasJackPotteryeah but it's the hiding spiders that you gotta watch out for. Huntsman in Australia have a famous story for dropping on your lap in a car from the sun visor being opened
That's the argument I've been using for years when someone tells me I'm arachnophobic. My fear is perfectly rational, considering what I grew up with. 😋
Yes it is amazing. Nevertheless the video kinda lacks info that the total number of recorded deaths ever is 13. While it’s potentially deadly, most bitten people don’t show severe symptoms and even if you get severe symptoms, most likely you are gonna be fine. It’s a little bit like covid. No big deal for most people but potentially deadly anyway. And the venom is not human to human transmittable of course.
@@HarpreetSingh-xg2zm yes, that’s true, it can potentially kill fast but that’s no contradiction to my statement. How long something takes to kill you does not correlate to the risk of death. Smoking might take years to kill you, electric charge might take a second. Both could do nothing as well. The question is how you define „deadly“. Covid is also deadly.
@@Volt-sn6gw Are you really trying to "diss" someone for being knowledgeable in the comment section of a science-based RUclips channel? Ignoring the fact that trying to make fun of... knowing stuff is just embarrassing and idiotic, you are an even bigger moron for doing it here.
Considering there were only 13 before the antivenom, it’s not that amazing. Especially compared to the other venomous creatures in Australia. Still cool, but with a mere 1% death rate _before the antivenom_ let’s not pretend like it’s a miraculous feat.
My friend got bitten by one of these guys. I thought it was weird that a spider biologist would want to randomly bite another person, but people are into weird stuff.
Used to have these in the swimming pool constantly. Cleaning the pool filter was fun. Alsp jumping into the pool and coming up for air to then see a funnel web sitting on water surface near your face, start swimming backwards and the funnel web getting dragged toward you in your stream of water as you swim away from it, looked like it was chasing you. Childhood memories
@@mdzaidsiddiqui4262 We grew up with it just being around. Our pool had trees and ferns all around it so it was at least once a week a funnel web would be in the pool. Cleaning the filter full of leaves was the scariest part. But like Derek said, we used to have to bang our shoes against the ground to make sure there wasn't one in there. So we are just used to them
@@brenda5511 Hahahaha! I still have a massive phobia of spiders. But I live in the city now. Haven't seen a funnel web in years. I think I never processed my fear and just laughed it off.... ok, maybe I need to call them too
When I was in primary school (here in Sydney), I remember a boy in my class brought a funnel web in to school in a jar. He was passing the container around amongst the students before the teacher arrived. The boy explained that he'd killed the spider, so one brave kid opened the container. Teacher arrived and went absolutely mad. Boy insisted it was safe as he had killed the spider. Teacher asked him how he killed it and he said he drowned it. Teacher furious out of the sheer fear of what could have transpired yells that funnel-webs can survive underwater for more than 24 hours. Class was left inside and teacher went out to deal with the funnel-web. He came back to tell us that when he'd tipped it out, it was alive and well. Freaky as hell and only once more in my life did I see a teacher that angry. We were so lucky nothing happened to any of the kids. I believe the teacher killed the spider for the safety of the students, but these days we are encouraged to try to catch them safely for this anti-venom program.
@@HermanVonPetri I don’t know how valid ‘literally’ is. Visceral means it’s felt in the core, which is what is called the viscera, compared to cerebral in the cerebra. I guess if you know of people you call something exciting ‘visceral’ it’s valid.
Hey so the spider shown in the clip at 0:30 is a Funnel Weaver spider from the family Agelenidae and are not dangerous at all. The species this video is about is the Sydney Funnel-web Spider (Atrax robustus). They are not closely related. I hope this clears up any misinformation. Don't want people thinking the harmless Funnel Weavers can kill them.
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There's a few errors in this video. The spider in the shot at 0.30 when the voiceover says "this is a funnel web spider" is not a funnel web spider. That is a relatively harmless wolf spider. The funnel web is not the world's deadliest, that honour goes to the Brazilian wandering spider. Finally, funnel web spiders are not a single species- they are members of the family Atricidae. The species described in the clip is a Sydney funnel web Atrax robustus; so the correct term for this spider is the Sydney funnel web. Other members of the family are found well outside the range shown in the clip.
Agreed it does look like a wolf spider but it also looks quite close to the funnel weaver spider found in New Mexico and other southern US states. (It's probably a wolf though)
the spider at 30 sec is a funnel web. It's a grass spider like the hobo spider, family Agelenidae. It's still a mistake since they are not even remotely related to the sydney funnel web, they just happen to have the same name. 'Trapdoor spider' has this same issue. As for 'deadly', that depends on your definition. The Brazilian wanderer has more potent venom, but the sydney funnel web injects more per dose, often multiple doses in a row. There are also spiders that are vastly less deadly per bite but still kill more people per timeframe because bites are just that common, like the fiddle-back spiders.
In case anyone wonders: 13 deaths caused by this spider were recorded in total (all before 1981). Most people survive the bite even without antidote. I don’t want to talk bad about this project. Not at all. I just feel like these info were missing for a complete picture of the situation.
@@HarpreetSingh-xg2zm Well, there is a difference between „it is useless“ and „most people don’t need it“. I would definitely prefer the antidote if i got bitten. But I also got a covid shot despite a statistical risk of less than 0.01% (I’m below 30). That’s what i mean. Covid shot is a good thing. But we shouldn’t act like death is for sure without it. I didn’t find a death rate directly. But the 13 total deaths recorded i find again and again on the internet. With 40 bites per year and 13 deaths ever, you can estimate that most people survive.
Im Australian so all of this was pretty common knowledge and nothing really put me off... and then i learnt they can survive underwater and ive definitely picked spiders (not these ones) off the bottom of a pool before. That sent shivers down my spine
Maybe I am a bit rude and stupid. But I have one question: "Why do people live in australia?" I mean the sahara is probably more uninhabitable then australia. But the people there simply cant afford. Australia on the other hand is rich enough to basically live wherever they want. So australia is probably the richest country with the worst life conditions. Why?
Hats off to all the people doing this hard work every day, so others can be saved. Dealing with the spiders, working in the labs and hospitals, you are the true heroes.
@@billbauer9795 Just because they are getting paid to do it doesn't mean that's the main incentive. We don't know him personally so just leave him alone
Big tip for anyone visiting or planning to move to Australia: always wear shoes in the garden, ALWAYS. When I was younger I went to talk to my mum who was doing some gardening & I went barefoot. I stood on a rock and we chatted for a bit before my mum tells me to stay calm and slowly move to where she's standing. After turning around I see a lovely big funnel-web just chilling on the rock. We were able to catch it and donate it to the reptile park, but it's certainly an experience that's stuck with me my whole life. Just a note on the shoes, when doing any activity involving turning up rocks or disturbing undergrowth (i.e., gardening, hiking, etc) wear thick soled rubber boots. Like Derek said, funnel-webs have long sturdy fangs which have been known to pierce through many different materials.
As always animation team putting in an absolutely phenomenal work in these vids. That animation about why this venom affects humans & how it spreads, just top notch.
Glad to see a video that's kept pretty to the point, only 9 minutes. I've been watching a lot less Veritasium since so many videos are 20-30 minutes, with lots of just repetition and padding. But this one, much more digestible and still fully informative.
Where I live there is the black widow and brown recluse, so still very dangerous spiders. They aren't super common though but also not as big so possibly harder to see than the funnel web spiders.
6:01 Wow I love how aggressive and feisty it gets, just lounges at the pipette in attempt to pierce it with those fangs! Nature is truly terrifying at times but always fascinating.
Let's all appreciate the hard work and dedication of the cute little bunnies producing the antibodies! They are the real heroes in this story. Go bunnies! 😍🐇🐰
@geraldtoaster8541 I agree with you actually. Australia's beautiful and her wildlife is incredible. I'd rather snakes and spiders that actively avoid human contact, than bears, big cats, elephants etc. No way I'd go into the water though. Salties scare the crap outta me.
This is such an important work. Australia gets a lot of attention for it's dangerous fauna but here in Brazil it's not that safer, at least in the 21st century we have antivenom.
I had no idea funnel-web spiders were so incredibly venomous! The fact that their venom can lead to paralysis and death in humans is truly alarming. It's impressive to see the dedication of the team at the Australian Reptile Park in collecting venom from these spiders to produce anti-venom. This life-saving work has saved countless lives, and it's reassuring to know that no one has died from funnel-web spider bites in Australia since 1981. Also, kudos to Derek for shedding light on this important topic and for promoting BetterHelp, making mental health support more accessible to everyone
In the mid 60's my father was a pharmacist. We used to hunt rattlesnakes, and he taught me how to milk their venom for sale to a pharmaceutical company to make anti-venom. I was a stupid kid back then. I don't think I could do that today.
The first still frame where you can hear "this is a funnel web spider" is actually not a funnel web spider. Funnel web spiders are in family Atracidae, which are mygalomorph spiders, closer to tarantulas than the one in the picture. You seem to have confused it with funnel weaver spiders, which are araneomorph spiders in the family Agelenidae.
@@Swordflash4it was a hololena curta, and those chevron stripes and spotted legs are the biggest indicator 😊 I had one as a pet for a year, beautiful spiders
I’m ecstatic to see that Veritasium is back at it again trying to answer the age old questions of how we milk spiders. Great work! I can’t wait to see what other things they find that can be milked
My coworkers in Canada always shudder at Aus wildlife, but its hard to explain how accepting you are of the danger when you grow up there. We had funnel webs in out backyard and pool, and once at a scout jamboree the site near us had to move because they were on a funnel web nest...and we all just rolled with it. Sometimes I remember playing spot light in the Aus bush, literally crawling through the underbrush and no one ever got bitten by anything.
Used to have a pet black widow. Spiders are awesome creatures. I'm still scared of them but I have a new respect for them after I kept it as a pet. Widows aren't really that dangerous unless you have heart/breathing issues or are like a baby or extremely old. They Neurotoxic venom so unlike brown recluses which necrotize the skin, it just paralyzes neurons but at a small scale. Not to mention widows are extremely docile and would rather pretend to not exist when bothered than biting like active hunters like the recluse. Shame they only live a couple years. Luckily I caught mine when she was young so she stuck around for a while
Hey Veritasium, the first images you showed of "funnel weavers" were actually hololena curta, a grass spider. They are funnel Weavers, apart of a large family of spiders, agelinidae. The Sydney Funnel Web spider is a different genus, and is not a grass spider :)
funnel web hiding under my toddlers towel when i got him out of the bath. for some reason i didnt wipe him immediately, and rested the towel on the wall. the spider was clinging to his towel right where i was about to rub my toddler down! terrifying even for an aussie :/
I worked with a Chinese bloke here in Sydney once. He had no idea of what a Funnel Web Spider even was. So i showed him a picture and he laughed and said that it wan't a big spider and wasn't worried. I then told him it's the most deadliest spider in the world. He still didn't believe me.
Saw one of these crawling along the ground while I was setting up a tent in the dark. Was so big I thought it was a lizard. Made a hell of a crunch when I stepped on it
This process seems like an excellent candidate for replacement by B-cell fusion/immortalization. Then the antibodies can be produced in bioreactors in much higher quantities. Although the venom probably has a pile of variants so you’d have to combine a lot of antibodies from different cultures together to make up an effective antivenin cocktail. Still seems like it would be worth the effort.
As a lover of animals and insects, I’d really like to know what happens to the spider donors in the plastic jars. Are they fed and cared for? Are they milked but not fed until they die? If they are fed, how long might a spider donor last in captivity?
I really feel that last little bit was way way over looked, no known person has died in 40 years from a funnel web spider. And this spider can kill you in days. I think that's just amazing, kudos to the people working on this project
He mentions it in passing at the very end of the video, but after saying things like, "The fastest we've seen an adult die is in 76 minutes," and, "What is in this pipette could kill 250 people," (paraphrased) it should have been made much, much clearer that A) people don't die from funnel web bites at all anymore and B) even before this program, only 13 people were known to have *ever* died from funnel web bites. I'm not volunteering to be bitten and I think they're doing great work, but the exaggerated danger level is not helpful to anyone.
they also play dead. Saw one under a couch while helping a friend move house, they threw a container over it even though it was all curled up. after a while of everyone freaking out over it, they lifted the container and started checking it out with some tongs. poked it one too many times and BOOM this thing sprang open and ran straight outside. so terrifying, one of those heart-stopping shocks. But yes, call wires or something and they'll remove them safely snd use them for this kind of work.
0:30 that looks to me like a member of the grass spider family, which are also sometimes called funnel webs, because they indeed make funnel shaped webs, but they're araneomorphs, not mygalomorphs (tarantula types) like the Australian funnel webs. Someone must have just searched for a funnel web spider picture and got the wrong kind. I'm not 100% sure though because I can't see the fangs and can't tell if the prosoma is hairy or hairless (should be hairless in Australian funnel webs).
It's a spider from the Lycosidae family, since it clearly has 3 rows of eyes (4 in the bottom row, two big ones in the middle, and two in the top row). Grass spiders have only two rows of 4 eyes. But yeah, definitely not a funnel web.
It’s definitely not a funnel-web spider (Atracidae) or other mygalomorph. I think it may be a funnel weaver (Agelenidae) - the similar common name is probably how it ended up being selected as a stock image.
Customer of mine when I was a mechanic worked milking spiders at the Australian Reptile park (Near Gosford). Never did I drive her car without thinking about spiders crawling around (as if she would ever bring her work home with her).
I still remember fishing out a "poor" drowned funnel web spider from our backyard pool when I was a kid. You can imagine my surprise when it suddenly sprang to life and bared its fangs. Grandad had the last laugh when he squashed it with a shovel.
I had a single nightmare where I got bit by a spider and my bones rotted through my skin and the biggest take away was how it didn't scare me as much as cutting open my fretting hand and watching my tendons move like a star wars robot hand in real life. Ever since I've been far less scared of spiders of all sizes because the idea that I'll get bit by a Brown Recluse or Black Widow by accident just doesn't seem as bad anymore.
There is a real life version of your nightmare spider venom called hydrogen fluoride. It's a calcium seeker that you probably won't notice as it goes through your skin on it's way to basically melt your bones. Did I say won't notice? I meant to say won't notice right away, probably a day or so later.
I am an arachnologist and I would like to clarify: in the video they show two types of funnel web spiders. The behavior of creating funnel webs occurs in several groups of spiders and is an evolutionary parallel. So, the fact that spiders from the Atracidae family (those of medical importance and found in Australia and Chile) are dangerous, does not mean that all spiders that build funnel webs are. In the video, those shown in the laboratory, which have a robust and black appearance, are the truly deadly ones; however, those shown in a grayish color, thin and with white spots are spiders from the Lycosidae family, probably from the Aglaoctenus genus and are completely harmless. Greetings and thank you for continuing to teach us so much. Blessings.
The female Sydney Funnel Web spider is big bodied, with hugely muscular Chelicerae connecting to their fangs. They house their enormous fangs underneath, pointing down along their Opisthosoma (abdomen) and arch themselves, rearing up to expose the fangs so that they can slam them into their prey with tremendous force. This is why their bite is arguably the most painful (as well as deadly).
I have a normal fear of spiders, but I can't be the only one that once I watch a video about spiders, It feels like every hair of my body becomes more sensitive, and I start to feel a lot of little nothing all around my body.
Oh yes, I'm much more aware of little m8vements and sounds, the hairs on my scalp and neck keep rising and I have that icky feeling though it's been over 5 minutes. I fortunately live so far up north I don't have to worry about anything venomous. I'm pretty cool with insects, but spiders trigger a fear like no other.
@@VikingTeddy I live in the very south of Brazil, don't have to worry about any spiders, actually never even seen one in person I think. I mean really big spiders.
Same! I’ve been afraid of tarantulas since I was a kid and I remember about 5 years ago going to a huge aquarium in a mall one time and they had a glass that had this big ass Mexican tarantula sitting on a damn rock and that mofo looked like Godzilla 😱 I started sweating and panicking to the point where I got stuff and couldn’t walk. I had to turn my head and walk past really fast to not trigger anyone that I was stressing out lol
Yesssssss! Talking about my dream job right here and I am so fascinated by the science behind venom. Thank you for this! -Loved your other episode about the question on why venomous animals tend to live in warmer climates. Cool channel in general, as you make learning extra fun! Note, at 00:30 that appears to be possibly a grass spider, a genus of funnel weavers 😊💕
If you hear any strange stories regarding spiders, from most surviving underwater, hiding in the portaloos or gigantic ones that looks like something from lovecraftian stories, you can just point at australia and generally you will be right.
As someone who was bitten by a black widow spider (not anywhere near as deadly as a funnel web but INSANELY painful) I find this extremely interesting. Definitely going to be doing my own research on how black widow antivenin is produced.
honestly, the production of antivenom is incredibly boring. It's basically always the same thing. Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly important and I'm incredibly thankful for it, but it's not an area that sees much variation.
Australia and Brazil's amazonian rainforest are not that different. We have the Brazilian wandering spider. It kills you really quick. And it's sometimes found hiding between bananas. It's good practice to beat off shoes to avoid being bitten by a spider or a scorpion. Yeah, the Amazon and Australia are pretty similar: basically everything wants to kill you.
The funnel web spider is the most deadly in the world. Black widow, brown recluse, and old world tarantula venom is tame compared to funnel web spiders. I appreciate how milking them is necessary for antivenin but I still felt bad for the spider. You have to piss them off and threaten them to get their venom. What a stressful life for the spiders! Also, the rabbits. Damn, that got me in the feels.
4:42 how does the spider venom knows what protein to make to create that effect in another being? how can this be a result of trial and error if they can't even see the result of their bite's effect
It doesn't "know" that ain't how it works - it could be random mutation but with most things it's a build up over time, probably wasn't like a change from no poisonous venom to poisonous venom in a single mutation, some of the first ocean life probably started evolving defensive chemicals to avoid being eaten, those organisms survived better, passed it forward more than those without, then as that line of evolution continues the organisms with more potent defences survive better and pass it forward over and over, animals diverge, this happened in multiple places and times over 100s of millions of years and you end up with variation in the type, strength and target of the toxins different animals and plants have Random mutations, or even cosmic rays causing small genetic changes lead to small changes in traits that give a animal a better chance of survival due to environmental changes and therefore a higher likely hood of passing the trait forward and over millions of years those traits get exaggerated and enhanced, like evolution of giraffe necks, starts with small growth from mutation and those longer necks access more food at higher branches so is a winning trait over and over and the ones with longer necks keep winning so long neck genes keep passing on exaggerating over time
I was curious as to why they collect venom from the spiders to make anti-venom rather than just making synthetic anti-venom. Well it seems that Funnel web spider venom contains a mixture of toxins that are challenging to synthesize accurately, and that testing the potency and effectiveness of synthetic anti-venoms is also difficult. So for now it looks like doing it the 'old fashioned way' is best 😮
Alot of people dont believe me. But I found a Sydney funnel web spider in Georgia. Now I dont know if they live here or it was a pet got loose. But that is the same spider I found here in Georgia years ago.
Question: Does antivenom expire or go bad after a number of years if not used? For spiders, but also for antivenom for Snae bites? Amazing video, I learned a lot, thank you :-)
It's basically a protein, so yeah it could lose its structure over time like most things do, but it's frozen to a specific temperature so it will stay as it is, so no it won't expire in a clinical facility if handled correctly ^^
0:30 “This is a Funnel Web Spider”. Nope it’s a Garden Orb Weaver. 0:35 “They live around Sydney, one of Australia’s largest cities”. It’s Australia’s largest city.
I'm reasonably happy to have our regular house spiders wandering about our home, the webs are a bit of pain but otherwise the spiders themselves are no cause for concern. That said, I'm not planning to visit Australia any time soon, sorry mateys but you gotta draw the line somewhere...
Yeah stay there where it's nice and safe with all those gun murders every single day. Meanwhile none of us have died from a funnel web bit in forty years, or a mass shooting in 25...
@Veritasium The believe the spider pictured at 0:30 is from the family Agelenidae. They are common where I live in North America. I actually enjoy having them around. They are sometimes called a funnel web spider, but a better common name to use is "funnel weaver spider" or "grass spider". They are not medically significant. I'm not the only one who noticed. Please correct this.
Huge mistakes in this video. The spiders shown between 0:30 and 0:49 aren't the same type of "funnel web" spider that this video is actually talking about. The spiders you showed are instead, actually completely harmless. The one shown at 0:30 is a Wolf Spider(eye arrangement is a giveaway), and it's one of the rarer ones that actually can create a web(nearly all wolf spiders do not use webs in any way for catching prey, instead they are ambush predators). Then, the spiders between 0:38 and 0:49 look like Grass Spiders in Agelenidae. They share a similar common name of "Funnel Weaver" and sometimes "Funnel Web", but they have absolutely no relation at all with Atracidae(Sydney funnel webs). They aren't even Mygalomorphs. They are true spiders(Araneomorphae). Honestly kind of sad how such a careless mistake this is from this channel. Like, they just googled "funnel web" and clicked on the first things they found and didn't bother to actually research them further to make sure. However, I actually see this mistake all the time from amateurs and laymen alike. If I tell them the spider they found is a Funnel-Weaver(Agelenidae), they might freak out thinking it's related to a Sydney Funnel Web(it's not at all). This is why the scientific name should be used as the definitive answer for what something is, rather than a common name. You should fix this as nothing good can come of this misinformation. Also, the spider at 1:00 - 1:02 is AGAIN, not a Sydney Funnel Web, it looks like a harmless Desid, likely Badumna sp.
@@chimpanzee243actually im the Mod there, i just came here to correct all the people failing to correct Veritasium, by saying its actually an Agelenid, when you are right, it is one of the few web building wolf spiders.
Because Ca2+ mostly serve as second messengers inside the cell. Like for example, a hormone binds to the receptor on the extracellular space, the second messenger is the effect of this binding. Examples of such second messengers are cAMP, IP3 and Ca2+.
@@damanOts That didn’t come from me originally. I learned that from Discovery Channel documentary about venomous spiders. The Sydney Funnel Web is a little monster.
In 2 weeks I'll leave from Rome (Italy) to Sydney for few months and surely this video didn't help me with anxiety! I wasn't scared by spiders until now! 😂 By the way fantastic video Derek, love the channel and topics you're choosing!❤️
A friend of mine was visiting Italy and had a persistent lesion on her foot that stumped the doctors there. She called me on the phone and mentioned this. I immediately thought it might be a dangerous spider bite and suggested she ask the doctor if they had a toxicology book from the US. They found one in the library and confirmed it was a Brown Recluse spider bite. My friend was OK for those who are worried. She didn't have to have her foot amputated.
dont be scared lol the chances that you run into one are miniscule, they are more scared of you than you are of it and they do their best to run away from you.
If your only staying in the city I can assure you the risks are very low, since moving out of the bush I only really come across pretty harmless spiders like huntsmans (might scare you though), I imagine because your only visiting that you'd be staying in an apartment opposed to a house and in that case you could go without meeting any uninvited guests. I'll add that it will be winter by the time you get here and there will be even less spiders about. Anyway, I wish you well on your travels.
It's wild to me that this isn't done synthetically somehow. Milking spiders and creating rabbit antibodies seems so archaic (same with snakes and horses).
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Out of the top 10 most deadly critters in the world, Australia seems to have 12 of them.
If we harness the anomaly in Australia that allows reality to defy the laws of mathematics, we can finally crack the secret to FTL travel
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter but only in australia - wohoo
Yet the most deadly , vicious , nasty species out there is the mighty homo sapiens
they only have 12 in this lab, there are thousands of them in australia
*poisonous/venomous. Theres nothing here that _wants_ to rip you apart to eat you, like a bear or wolf or coyote pack. Its mostly a case of FAFO
Remember, the cure for an irrational fear of spiders is to simply move to Australia. You'll still be afraid of spiders, but now, it is perfectly rational.
@@tuclance you missed the joke
It’s just to change your perspective. Realise they’re not interested in hurting you unless you give them a reason
@@ThomasJackPotteryeah but it's the hiding spiders that you gotta watch out for. Huntsman in Australia have a famous story for dropping on your lap in a car from the sun visor being opened
That's the argument I've been using for years when someone tells me I'm arachnophobic. My fear is perfectly rational, considering what I grew up with. 😋
@@tuclance or just use brain, and understand the joke.
The fact that no one died of that spider in 40 years, justify this guy's work. Thanks for doing what you are doing.
Yes it is amazing. Nevertheless the video kinda lacks info that the total number of recorded deaths ever is 13. While it’s potentially deadly, most bitten people don’t show severe symptoms and even if you get severe symptoms, most likely you are gonna be fine. It’s a little bit like covid. No big deal for most people but potentially deadly anyway. And the venom is not human to human transmittable of course.
@@PfropfNo1It says it could kill in 76 minutes. It is deadly if not taken care of.
@@HarpreetSingh-xg2zm yes, that’s true, it can potentially kill fast but that’s no contradiction to my statement. How long something takes to kill you does not correlate to the risk of death. Smoking might take years to kill you, electric charge might take a second. Both could do nothing as well.
The question is how you define „deadly“. Covid is also deadly.
@@PfropfNo1There is a technical word for it-dosage. If the dosage is very less, you could be fine....
42 years with no deaths is one heck of a success rate! They're doing great work!
Actually it's 44 years now, so 1979. So he was a bit off the mark, but yeah close enough.
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@@Volt-sn6gw
That emoji is used by lazy dumbasses. He was just trying to correct him.
@@Volt-sn6gw Are you really trying to "diss" someone for being knowledgeable in the comment section of a science-based RUclips channel? Ignoring the fact that trying to make fun of... knowing stuff is just embarrassing and idiotic, you are an even bigger moron for doing it here.
Considering there were only 13 before the antivenom, it’s not that amazing. Especially compared to the other venomous creatures in Australia. Still cool, but with a mere 1% death rate _before the antivenom_ let’s not pretend like it’s a miraculous feat.
My friend got bitten by one of these guys. I thought it was weird that a spider biologist would want to randomly bite another person, but people are into weird stuff.
😂
Is he the guy who got bit during a family brawl and almost lost his leg?
You had us in the first half
highly underrated comment up there!
It's fun and all until you realise how many anti - spider biologists had to be milked to get antivenom.
shoutout to the Australian Reptile Park for saving lives since 1981
shoutout to RUclips for watching Veritasium
Im official famous than youtube itself as i got 10k likes in one day
Lol yt
@@PingSharp😂😂😂😂😂
Nice one youtube
The fact that no one has died from one in 40 years is pretty amazing
that we know of*
@@rodriguezelfeliz4623 a very painful method
@@rodriguezelfeliz4623there are faster and less painful ways
Unlikely
well having people check their shoes ingrained into them since early childhood must contribute some as well
Used to have these in the swimming pool constantly. Cleaning the pool filter was fun. Alsp jumping into the pool and coming up for air to then see a funnel web sitting on water surface near your face, start swimming backwards and the funnel web getting dragged toward you in your stream of water as you swim away from it, looked like it was chasing you. Childhood memories
How are you so casual about it my bro, I would actually have a heart attack and die right there in the pool.
@@mdzaidsiddiqui4262 We grew up with it just being around. Our pool had trees and ferns all around it so it was at least once a week a funnel web would be in the pool. Cleaning the filter full of leaves was the scariest part. But like Derek said, we used to have to bang our shoes against the ground to make sure there wasn't one in there. So we are just used to them
Thanks for the visual, Stained! It’s a good thing this video is sponsored by BetterHelp - I’m calling them now.
@@brenda5511 Hahahaha! I still have a massive phobia of spiders. But I live in the city now. Haven't seen a funnel web in years. I think I never processed my fear and just laughed it off.... ok, maybe I need to call them too
@@StainedJ my bro, why the bloody hell do you guys leave your shoes outside if there are deadly spiders getting into them around?
When I was in primary school (here in Sydney), I remember a boy in my class brought a funnel web in to school in a jar. He was passing the container around amongst the students before the teacher arrived. The boy explained that he'd killed the spider, so one brave kid opened the container. Teacher arrived and went absolutely mad. Boy insisted it was safe as he had killed the spider. Teacher asked him how he killed it and he said he drowned it. Teacher furious out of the sheer fear of what could have transpired yells that funnel-webs can survive underwater for more than 24 hours. Class was left inside and teacher went out to deal with the funnel-web. He came back to tell us that when he'd tipped it out, it was alive and well. Freaky as hell and only once more in my life did I see a teacher that angry. We were so lucky nothing happened to any of the kids. I believe the teacher killed the spider for the safety of the students, but these days we are encouraged to try to catch them safely for this anti-venom program.
Children most developed countries: "I feel offended 😭"
Children in Australia: Safely catching world most deadliest spider for antivenom development😆
That animation of venom spreading through the body was very visceral
Vibrating viscera, very vexing.
@@amarissimus29 Veritably.
Literally true considering the definition of "viscera."
crazy stuff lol
@@HermanVonPetri I don’t know how valid ‘literally’ is. Visceral means it’s felt in the core, which is what is called the viscera, compared to cerebral in the cerebra. I guess if you know of people you call something exciting ‘visceral’ it’s valid.
That’s incredible that not a single person has died in 40 years from a funnel web in Australia.
I was shocked that the program was that successful. Genuinely an amazing achievement.
Time to identify as a spider and murder some Australians
Any "Noted" deaths...
@@Ekvorivious Yeah basically you need to be alive till you are taken to the hospital. else jesus christ's home
Well, before that, 13 people died, in 54 years... so, the spider is not THAT deadly, to begin with. :)
Hey so the spider shown in the clip at 0:30 is a Funnel Weaver spider from the family Agelenidae and are not dangerous at all. The species this video is about is the Sydney Funnel-web Spider (Atrax robustus). They are not closely related. I hope this clears up any misinformation. Don't want people thinking the harmless Funnel Weavers can kill them.
How many spiders do you own?
I came here to say this.
I realy hope they will correct this
I noticed it didn't look like a funnel web. Thanks for the info
yeah like what the hell veritasium, i expected better from you
Veritasium the only guy who could convince me to sit though looking at spiders for 9 minutes
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There's a few errors in this video. The spider in the shot at 0.30 when the voiceover says "this is a funnel web spider" is not a funnel web spider. That is a relatively harmless wolf spider. The funnel web is not the world's deadliest, that honour goes to the Brazilian wandering spider. Finally, funnel web spiders are not a single species- they are members of the family Atricidae. The species described in the clip is a Sydney funnel web Atrax robustus; so the correct term for this spider is the Sydney funnel web. Other members of the family are found well outside the range shown in the clip.
NERRRRRRRRRRD!!!!! Jk this is good to know in case I visit somewhere other than Sydney. Still need to watch out for funnel webs.
Thought that spider looked very different from any funnel web I'd seen.
Was just a little unsure because i know there are alot of funnel web species.
Agreed it does look like a wolf spider but it also looks quite close to the funnel weaver spider found in New Mexico and other southern US states. (It's probably a wolf though)
so cool that there's a person out there for everything, like spider trivia!! x) thanks for sharing this information
the spider at 30 sec is a funnel web. It's a grass spider like the hobo spider, family Agelenidae.
It's still a mistake since they are not even remotely related to the sydney funnel web, they just happen to have the same name. 'Trapdoor spider' has this same issue.
As for 'deadly', that depends on your definition. The Brazilian wanderer has more potent venom, but the sydney funnel web injects more per dose, often multiple doses in a row. There are also spiders that are vastly less deadly per bite but still kill more people per timeframe because bites are just that common, like the fiddle-back spiders.
In case anyone wonders: 13 deaths caused by this spider were recorded in total (all before 1981). Most people survive the bite even without antidote. I don’t want to talk bad about this project. Not at all. I just feel like these info were missing for a complete picture of the situation.
Do you have any sources regarding antidote not being needed? The video made it seem like the venom is extremely deadly to humans.
@@HarpreetSingh-xg2zm Well, there is a difference between „it is useless“ and „most people don’t need it“. I would definitely prefer the antidote if i got bitten. But I also got a covid shot despite a statistical risk of less than 0.01% (I’m below 30). That’s what i mean. Covid shot is a good thing. But we shouldn’t act like death is for sure without it.
I didn’t find a death rate directly. But the 13 total deaths recorded i find again and again on the internet. With 40 bites per year and 13 deaths ever, you can estimate that most people survive.
@@HarpreetSingh-xg2zmNot every bite injects venom , just like with snakes. So, sometimes the bite is not deadly
@@guilhermegibertoni1299but I would still want an antivenom, I would rather trust science than luck
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Im Australian so all of this was pretty common knowledge and nothing really put me off... and then i learnt they can survive underwater and ive definitely picked spiders (not these ones) off the bottom of a pool before. That sent shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
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The chlorine would kill them
Maybe I am a bit rude and stupid. But I have one question:
"Why do people live in australia?"
I mean the sahara is probably more uninhabitable then australia. But the people there simply cant afford. Australia on the other hand is rich enough to basically live wherever they want.
So australia is probably the richest country with the worst life conditions.
Why?
Hats off to all the people doing this hard work every day, so others can be saved. Dealing with the spiders, working in the labs and hospitals, you are the true heroes.
Your comment would make sense if they were all to be volunteers. They aren't.
@@billbauer9795 Just because they are getting paid to do it doesn't mean that's the main incentive. We don't know him personally so just leave him alone
@@shadoww7301 There is Nothing wrong with it being the main incentive. If it Isn't the main reason, the person is dumb/brainwashed, not "heroic".
@@billbauer9795 you know some poeople actually like spiders right? working with spiders would be a dream come true for me
@@billbauer9795 It is like thanking a soldier for their national service, even if they get paid it is still honorable work
Big tip for anyone visiting or planning to move to Australia: always wear shoes in the garden, ALWAYS. When I was younger I went to talk to my mum who was doing some gardening & I went barefoot. I stood on a rock and we chatted for a bit before my mum tells me to stay calm and slowly move to where she's standing. After turning around I see a lovely big funnel-web just chilling on the rock. We were able to catch it and donate it to the reptile park, but it's certainly an experience that's stuck with me my whole life.
Just a note on the shoes, when doing any activity involving turning up rocks or disturbing undergrowth (i.e., gardening, hiking, etc) wear thick soled rubber boots. Like Derek said, funnel-webs have long sturdy fangs which have been known to pierce through many different materials.
My dad once said: "There are some very nasty animals in planet earth, especially in hot areas, exept Australia, which has extra nasty animals."
Every time I tell my wife I'd like to visit Australia, I get a list of animals ready to kill me before I am off the jetway.
@@Tker1970 I don't understand this though, every place has some venomous spiders. At least there are no massive bears.
for me at least, the bear cant surprise you in your shoe, doesn't usually attack and if your attacked its pretty easy to tell if your gonna die or not
@@bnhm1871 That's not true. Where I live there are no venomous spiders, no bears and no dangerous animals in general.
@@bnhm1871well they have even more stuff than usual. Almost everything native there either does nothing or tries to kill you.
An arachnophobe's nightmare can be a toxicologist's dream
It's only a phobia if it is irrational. In the funnel web spiders case, you should be afraid, very afraid. It is aggressive and extremely venomous.
Toxicologist's wet dream - FTFY
imagine an arachnophobe who is a toxicologist
Wet* wet dream....😂
@@hadensnodgrass3472 It's literally the opposite of aggressive. It's purely defensive. Don't touch it and it won't touch you
Having caught and donated 3 funnel webs to the Aus reptile park over the years, so awesome to see behind the scenes on what they do with them.
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As an Australian I can confirm we all learn from school age to check our shoes for spiders, and the trees for drop bears
Like Koalas dropping on top of you accidentally or actually attacking you?
im not australian, but i also sometimes shake me shoes because when i went camping once when i was 11, 3 daddy-long legs were in my shoes
@@whatevereyewant Boys, we got him
you made me google drop bears and I got genuinely scared of the images HAHA
Well it would be weird to check your shoes for drop bears but maybe not so weird to check trees for spiders
2:57 this animation sequence gave me the worst anxiety ever
7:00 I like how they put this short animation in the video, they don't have to, but they still did it!
3:06 the animation is scarier than a real person suffering🗿
As always animation team putting in an absolutely phenomenal work in these vids. That animation about why this venom affects humans & how it spreads, just top notch.
Man that animation of the person twitching and dying was disturbing
Glad to see a video that's kept pretty to the point, only 9 minutes. I've been watching a lot less Veritasium since so many videos are 20-30 minutes, with lots of just repetition and padding. But this one, much more digestible and still fully informative.
It never occurred to me that the rest of the world wouldn't check their shoes for spiders when they left their shoes outside overnight
For one, I don’t leave my shoes outside overnight
It's common in Brazil, not really because of spiders but because of scorpions.
I check my shoes every day, because my cats sometimes put in them dead bugs.
We do it here in the Caribbean too, but not necessarily for DEADLY creatures lol. Just harmless lizards and centipedes and stuff.
Where I live there is the black widow and brown recluse, so still very dangerous spiders. They aren't super common though but also not as big so possibly harder to see than the funnel web spiders.
6:01 Wow I love how aggressive and feisty it gets, just lounges at the pipette in attempt to pierce it with those fangs! Nature is truly terrifying at times but always fascinating.
Reminds me of a cat when you try to pet its belly.
@@Clarste it’s adorable in a creepy terrifying way 😅
Let's all appreciate the hard work and dedication of the cute little bunnies producing the antibodies! They are the real heroes in this story. Go bunnies! 😍🐇🐰
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Being on every predator's menu in nature and incredible helpful to human, can't imagine the earth without these cuties.
я понимаю, что это очень важно для людей, но мне всё равно очень жалко кроликов. люблю их очень сильно
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Veritasium's videos made my life better actually...
I love his works on all science fields...
Really it means a lot to me
Their collection of spiders is almost as good as the one I have in the corner of my room (I live in Australia).
I just have a huntsman, great for cockroaches.
might i suggest burning your place down, i think that's the best way to keep you safe
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for real tho? they never creep out on you, just harmonically coexisting?
@@MySelfMyCeliumMyCell they lay eggs in ears when person sleeps
Thank you for bringing awareness about these organizations and people! Hope they can get more support from the Australian government and people!
As a person living in Australia, i can confirm this place is an absolute hellscape when it comes to animals
But platypuses are so adorable!
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Oh, the males have venomous spurs they'll stab you with on their hind legs 😅
Not going there, even of you paid me a billion dollars
I also live in australia and i have no idea why some people think this. I'll take our wildlife over bears and moose thank you
@geraldtoaster8541 I agree with you actually. Australia's beautiful and her wildlife is incredible. I'd rather snakes and spiders that actively avoid human contact, than bears, big cats, elephants etc.
No way I'd go into the water though. Salties scare the crap outta me.
Yeah but cmon the risk of getting bitten is quite low
This is such an important work. Australia gets a lot of attention for it's dangerous fauna but here in Brazil it's not that safer, at least in the 21st century we have antivenom.
I'm here on vacation right now, and I've already seen 3 different kinds of spiders on separate occasions and noped out of the vicinity each time.
Australia gets a lot of hate and fear for it's dangerous fauna
FTFY
South america really deserves more credit for its bugs.
The only real difference is the humidity levels and that there's no big cats in Australia
I would rather worry about crime then dangerous animals in Brazil
I had no idea funnel-web spiders were so incredibly venomous! The fact that their venom can lead to paralysis and death in humans is truly alarming. It's impressive to see the dedication of the team at the Australian Reptile Park in collecting venom from these spiders to produce anti-venom. This life-saving work has saved countless lives, and it's reassuring to know that no one has died from funnel-web spider bites in Australia since 1981. Also, kudos to Derek for shedding light on this important topic and for promoting BetterHelp, making mental health support more accessible to everyone
In the mid 60's my father was a pharmacist. We used to hunt rattlesnakes, and he taught me how to milk their venom for sale to a pharmaceutical company to make anti-venom. I was a stupid kid back then. I don't think I could do that today.
Well, at least you were a stupid kid with adult supervision.
What do you mean by 'hunt' here? catch and release?
The first still frame where you can hear "this is a funnel web spider" is actually not a funnel web spider. Funnel web spiders are in family Atracidae, which are mygalomorph spiders, closer to tarantulas than the one in the picture. You seem to have confused it with funnel weaver spiders, which are araneomorph spiders in the family Agelenidae.
See I thought they had made a mistake when they pointed to it! Funnel webs are velvet black. That one was grey and looked closer to a wolf spider.
Details, details.
@@Swordflash4it was a hololena curta, and those chevron stripes and spotted legs are the biggest indicator 😊 I had one as a pet for a year, beautiful spiders
Actually it's not even a funnel weaver from Agelenidae, but one of the few web building wolf spiders, such as those in the genus Sosippus.
I’m ecstatic to see that Veritasium is back at it again trying to answer the age old questions of how we milk spiders. Great work! I can’t wait to see what other things they find that can be milked
This is so weird, is has to be a bot 😅
I just realized you can milk both the male and the female platypus (among a few other mammals).
Almonds are milked, but it's very difficult to extract the milk from such tiny nipples. This is why almond milk is more expensive.
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My coworkers in Canada always shudder at Aus wildlife, but its hard to explain how accepting you are of the danger when you grow up there. We had funnel webs in out backyard and pool, and once at a scout jamboree the site near us had to move because they were on a funnel web nest...and we all just rolled with it. Sometimes I remember playing spot light in the Aus bush, literally crawling through the underbrush and no one ever got bitten by anything.
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Used to have a pet black widow. Spiders are awesome creatures. I'm still scared of them but I have a new respect for them after I kept it as a pet. Widows aren't really that dangerous unless you have heart/breathing issues or are like a baby or extremely old. They Neurotoxic venom so unlike brown recluses which necrotize the skin, it just paralyzes neurons but at a small scale. Not to mention widows are extremely docile and would rather pretend to not exist when bothered than biting like active hunters like the recluse. Shame they only live a couple years. Luckily I caught mine when she was young so she stuck around for a while
Hey Veritasium, the first images you showed of "funnel weavers" were actually hololena curta, a grass spider. They are funnel Weavers, apart of a large family of spiders, agelinidae. The Sydney Funnel Web spider is a different genus, and is not a grass spider :)
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Yep 2 different spiders, 1 deadly the other not
@@porkypigbaconeggs f* both of 'em, all my homies (me) hate spiders 💀they are cool tho, but I want none of them close to me.
Thank you for pointing this out, it was really bothering me. They're completely different spiders not even in the same infraorder.
Yep, dead within 15mins to 3 days if untreated by a Sydney funnel web.. video is up for views and money.. not educational purposes
"Behind these black curtains are deadly spiders. Hundreds of them."
So just your typical Australian curtains...
"thats not grass behind that curtain"
funnel web hiding under my toddlers towel when i got him out of the bath. for some reason i didnt wipe him immediately, and rested the towel on the wall. the spider was clinging to his towel right where i was about to rub my toddler down! terrifying even for an aussie :/
A noble cause doesn't stop this from being cruel to animals
1:44 "We only milk the males because they are 6 times more toxic"
lol
So that's the origin of toxic masculinity?
they took the meme "leaving toxic masculinity behind. I'm going fully lethal" to a whole new level
I heard the dude go: "We only milk the male..." and had to scroll down to find a comment about it XD
Those are the ones who use Twitter
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I worked with a Chinese bloke here in Sydney once. He had no idea of what a Funnel Web Spider even was. So i showed him a picture and he laughed and said that it wan't a big spider and wasn't worried. I then told him it's the most deadliest spider in the world. He still didn't believe me.
For him, it's snack...
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Saw one of these crawling along the ground while I was setting up a tent in the dark. Was so big I thought it was a lizard. Made a hell of a crunch when I stepped on it
i am scared of spiders
go to australia challenge
Lol
But they're so friendly they try to crawl into your mouth while you're sleeping.
Me too rocky_xd3359
But they’re so nice when they dangle down from the ceiling onto your face 🥺
This process seems like an excellent candidate for replacement by B-cell fusion/immortalization. Then the antibodies can be produced in bioreactors in much higher quantities. Although the venom probably has a pile of variants so you’d have to combine a lot of antibodies from different cultures together to make up an effective antivenin cocktail.
Still seems like it would be worth the effort.
As a lover of animals and insects, I’d really like to know what happens to the spider donors in the plastic jars. Are they fed and cared for? Are they milked but not fed until they die? If they are fed, how long might a spider donor last in captivity?
"Better help, hello? Yes... _I'd like to talk about my arachnophobia"_
I really feel that last little bit was way way over looked, no known person has died in 40 years from a funnel web spider. And this spider can kill you in days. I think that's just amazing, kudos to the people working on this project
Kill you in minutes or less than 2 hours, not days...
It can kill you in hours. Prevention makes it all and the anti venom saves the few unlucky enough to face one.
If spiderman was made in Australia, it would have been a very short movie
He mentions it in passing at the very end of the video, but after saying things like, "The fastest we've seen an adult die is in 76 minutes," and, "What is in this pipette could kill 250 people," (paraphrased) it should have been made much, much clearer that A) people don't die from funnel web bites at all anymore and B) even before this program, only 13 people were known to have *ever* died from funnel web bites. I'm not volunteering to be bitten and I think they're doing great work, but the exaggerated danger level is not helpful to anyone.
5:03 Drown proof funnel-webs, new nightmare unlocked!
they also play dead. Saw one under a couch while helping a friend move house, they threw a container over it even though it was all curled up. after a while of everyone freaking out over it, they lifted the container and started checking it out with some tongs. poked it one too many times and BOOM this thing sprang open and ran straight outside. so terrifying, one of those heart-stopping shocks.
But yes, call wires or something and they'll remove them safely snd use them for this kind of work.
0:30 that looks to me like a member of the grass spider family, which are also sometimes called funnel webs, because they indeed make funnel shaped webs, but they're araneomorphs, not mygalomorphs (tarantula types) like the Australian funnel webs. Someone must have just searched for a funnel web spider picture and got the wrong kind. I'm not 100% sure though because I can't see the fangs and can't tell if the prosoma is hairy or hairless (should be hairless in Australian funnel webs).
I was seen that photo and was like hold up, that's 100% not a sydney funnel web...
It's a spider from the Lycosidae family, since it clearly has 3 rows of eyes (4 in the bottom row, two big ones in the middle, and two in the top row). Grass spiders have only two rows of 4 eyes.
But yeah, definitely not a funnel web.
@@Pfh3dk I thought wolf spider or american funnel weaver. I'm certainly no expert though
It’s definitely not a funnel-web spider (Atracidae) or other mygalomorph. I think it may be a funnel weaver (Agelenidae) - the similar common name is probably how it ended up being selected as a stock image.
yep, it's a wolf spider, then followed by a different spider, and a black house spider, before they get to the funnelwebs proper
Customer of mine when I was a mechanic worked milking spiders at the Australian Reptile park (Near Gosford). Never did I drive her car without thinking about spiders crawling around (as if she would ever bring her work home with her).
The thought of one hiding in the sun visor until it drops out on to your lap while doing 90mph is honestly terrifying.
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I still remember fishing out a "poor" drowned funnel web spider from our backyard pool when I was a kid. You can imagine my surprise when it suddenly sprang to life and bared its fangs. Grandad had the last laugh when he squashed it with a shovel.
Thank god you didn’t have to learn it the really hard way
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Lol I failed a question in my biology exam today that was about how venom acts in the neuron. If only this video was posted yesterday.
@watsonreturns8654 that's too much effort...
i rather watch this 10 min video than reading 1 line...
i dont have arachnophobia but that animation @ 3:08 is making my brain contemplate
I had a single nightmare where I got bit by a spider and my bones rotted through my skin and the biggest take away was how it didn't scare me as much as cutting open my fretting hand and watching my tendons move like a star wars robot hand in real life.
Ever since I've been far less scared of spiders of all sizes because the idea that I'll get bit by a Brown Recluse or Black Widow by accident just doesn't seem as bad anymore.
I got bit by a brown recluse. Nasty experience
There is a real life version of your nightmare spider venom called hydrogen fluoride. It's a calcium seeker that you probably won't notice as it goes through your skin on it's way to basically melt your bones. Did I say won't notice? I meant to say won't notice right away, probably a day or so later.
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1:56 is that a grinnnnn while he is talking about how fast an adult died by the spider 😅😅 he is too proud of the spider 😂
I am an arachnologist and I would like to clarify: in the video they show two types of funnel web spiders. The behavior of creating funnel webs occurs in several groups of spiders and is an evolutionary parallel. So, the fact that spiders from the Atracidae family (those of medical importance and found in Australia and Chile) are dangerous, does not mean that all spiders that build funnel webs are. In the video, those shown in the laboratory, which have a robust and black appearance, are the truly deadly ones; however, those shown in a grayish color, thin and with white spots are spiders from the Lycosidae family, probably from the Aglaoctenus genus and are completely harmless.
Greetings and thank you for continuing to teach us so much. Blessings.
From a mathematician and physician you've changed drastically
He’s on his venom arc
@@Asterism_Desmosthat's probably why he's trying to learn about anti-venom. To end his venomous arc.
Fascinating! I had no idea, until now, how anti venom is made from these 'cute' spiders. I'm glad I live in NZ.
Pretty sure the use horses as a catalyst for snake anti-venom too.
Yeah but you guys have to deal with Saurons
did you know you are more likely to be killed by a horse than a spider.
Imagine if kiwis were venomous and used their beaks to jab you
Isn't there a growing colony of these spiders in NZ, which were accidentally introduced? I could be wrong.
It's amazing that you guys can claim that because of you, in over 40 years not a single death has occured. I would be extremely proud of it🔥
The spider that you point to and ID MIGHT be some type of funnel web, but it is definitely not a Sydney funnel web spider.
It looks like a Barn funnel web.
Was thinking the same thing, it happened a few times that he showed the wrong spider
7:31 "Fortunately, due to this program, no one has died since 1981."
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Turns out that kids poking spiders with sticks have promising careers ahead of them
Despite my fear of spiders i will finish watching this
Nevermind.
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Hi fellow arachnophobic
well, it shows why your fear could be rational, and not a phobia.
that is amazing that they saved pop from death for 40 years. People that are working there are heroes
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Thank goodness that your sessions are below 10 minutes. It was informative, short and sweet.
The female Sydney Funnel Web spider is big bodied, with hugely muscular Chelicerae connecting to their fangs. They house their enormous fangs underneath, pointing down along their Opisthosoma (abdomen) and arch themselves, rearing up to expose the fangs so that they can slam them into their prey with tremendous force. This is why their bite is arguably the most painful (as well as deadly).
I have a normal fear of spiders, but I can't be the only one that once I watch a video about spiders, It feels like every hair of my body becomes more sensitive, and I start to feel a lot of little nothing all around my body.
Oh yes, I'm much more aware of little m8vements and sounds, the hairs on my scalp and neck keep rising and I have that icky feeling though it's been over 5 minutes.
I fortunately live so far up north I don't have to worry about anything venomous. I'm pretty cool with insects, but spiders trigger a fear like no other.
@@VikingTeddy I live in the very south of Brazil, don't have to worry about any spiders, actually never even seen one in person I think. I mean really big spiders.
I recommend exposure therapy e.g., watching RUclips channels like exotic lair. Eventually you'll begin to like large spiders.
Adrenaline. It's a dangerous spiders, it's perfectly reasonable for your body to react that way.
Same! I’ve been afraid of tarantulas since I was a kid and I remember about 5 years ago going to a huge aquarium in a mall one time and they had a glass that had this big ass Mexican tarantula sitting on a damn rock and that mofo looked like Godzilla 😱 I started sweating and panicking to the point where I got stuff and couldn’t walk. I had to turn my head and walk past really fast to not trigger anyone that I was stressing out lol
Jake from profile: 🗿
Jake in frontal view: 👂👃👂
Yesssssss! Talking about my dream job right here and I am so fascinated by the science behind venom. Thank you for this!
-Loved your other episode about the question on why venomous animals tend to live in warmer climates. Cool channel in general, as you make learning extra fun!
Note, at 00:30 that appears to be possibly a grass spider, a genus of funnel weavers 😊💕
I believe you are correct and I think it was irresponsible for Veritasium to have included its picture.
If you hear any strange stories regarding spiders, from most surviving underwater, hiding in the portaloos or gigantic ones that looks like something from lovecraftian stories, you can just point at australia and generally you will be right.
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New fear unlocked: Spiders in shoes and pools.
As someone who was bitten by a black widow spider (not anywhere near as deadly as a funnel web but INSANELY painful) I find this extremely interesting. Definitely going to be doing my own research on how black widow antivenin is produced.
honestly, the production of antivenom is incredibly boring. It's basically always the same thing. Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly important and I'm incredibly thankful for it, but it's not an area that sees much variation.
Australia and Brazil's amazonian rainforest are not that different. We have the Brazilian wandering spider. It kills you really quick. And it's sometimes found hiding between bananas.
It's good practice to beat off shoes to avoid being bitten by a spider or a scorpion.
Yeah, the Amazon and Australia are pretty similar: basically everything wants to kill you.
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0:58 "Jake Meney- The Head of Reptiles & Spiders" got me laughing so hard for reasons unknown, my humour is broken for sure.🤣
The funnel web spider is the most deadly in the world. Black widow, brown recluse, and old world tarantula venom is tame compared to funnel web spiders. I appreciate how milking them is necessary for antivenin but I still felt bad for the spider. You have to piss them off and threaten them to get their venom. What a stressful life for the spiders!
Also, the rabbits. Damn, that got me in the feels.
4:42 how does the spider venom knows what protein to make to create that effect in another being? how can this be a result of trial and error if they can't even see the result of their bite's effect
It doesn't "know" that ain't how it works - it could be random mutation but with most things it's a build up over time, probably wasn't like a change from no poisonous venom to poisonous venom in a single mutation, some of the first ocean life probably started evolving defensive chemicals to avoid being eaten, those organisms survived better, passed it forward more than those without, then as that line of evolution continues the organisms with more potent defences survive better and pass it forward over and over, animals diverge, this happened in multiple places and times over 100s of millions of years and you end up with variation in the type, strength and target of the toxins different animals and plants have
Random mutations, or even cosmic rays causing small genetic changes lead to small changes in traits that give a animal a better chance of survival due to environmental changes and therefore a higher likely hood of passing the trait forward and over millions of years those traits get exaggerated and enhanced, like evolution of giraffe necks, starts with small growth from mutation and those longer necks access more food at higher branches so is a winning trait over and over and the ones with longer necks keep winning so long neck genes keep passing on exaggerating over time
In conclusion... Bunny rabbits are the MVPs.
I just hope Derek never stops making his videos, his videos are pure dope for youtube bingewatching philosophers.
I was curious as to why they collect venom from the spiders to make anti-venom rather than just making synthetic anti-venom. Well it seems that Funnel web spider venom contains a mixture of toxins that are challenging to synthesize accurately, and that testing the potency and effectiveness of synthetic anti-venoms is also difficult. So for now it looks like doing it the 'old fashioned way' is best 😮
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Alot of people dont believe me. But I found a Sydney funnel web spider in Georgia. Now I dont know if they live here or it was a pet got loose. But that is the same spider I found here in Georgia years ago.
It might have been a purse web spider. Related to Sydney funnel webs.
Fun fact, Australia is one of the world leaders in venom research.... what, you thought it would be Alaska?
I was certain it would have been the international space station
Washington DC,
They got the most venomous creatures in the world, *politicians*
Thought it'd be on twitter
I was convinced it was in Greenland
i thought it was a moon base or something
Question: Does antivenom expire or go bad after a number of years if not used? For spiders, but also for antivenom for Snae bites? Amazing video, I learned a lot, thank you :-)
It's basically a protein, so yeah it could lose its structure over time like most things do, but it's frozen to a specific temperature so it will stay as it is, so no it won't expire in a clinical facility if handled correctly ^^
@@SinclairWest thank you very much for the explaination, now I know😁 very interesting
0:30 “This is a Funnel Web Spider”. Nope it’s a Garden Orb Weaver.
0:35 “They live around Sydney, one of Australia’s largest cities”. It’s Australia’s largest city.
I'm reasonably happy to have our regular house spiders wandering about our home, the webs are a bit of pain but otherwise the spiders themselves are no cause for concern. That said, I'm not planning to visit Australia any time soon, sorry mateys but you gotta draw the line somewhere...
Yeah stay there where it's nice and safe with all those gun murders every single day. Meanwhile none of us have died from a funnel web bit in forty years, or a mass shooting in 25...
1:53 who is that adult???
@Veritasium The believe the spider pictured at 0:30 is from the family Agelenidae. They are common where I live in North America. I actually enjoy having them around. They are sometimes called a funnel web spider, but a better common name to use is "funnel weaver spider" or "grass spider". They are not medically significant. I'm not the only one who noticed. Please correct this.
Huge mistakes in this video. The spiders shown between 0:30 and 0:49 aren't the same type of "funnel web" spider that this video is actually talking about. The spiders you showed are instead, actually completely harmless. The one shown at 0:30 is a Wolf Spider(eye arrangement is a giveaway), and it's one of the rarer ones that actually can create a web(nearly all wolf spiders do not use webs in any way for catching prey, instead they are ambush predators). Then, the spiders between 0:38 and 0:49 look like Grass Spiders in Agelenidae. They share a similar common name of "Funnel Weaver" and sometimes "Funnel Web", but they have absolutely no relation at all with Atracidae(Sydney funnel webs). They aren't even Mygalomorphs. They are true spiders(Araneomorphae).
Honestly kind of sad how such a careless mistake this is from this channel. Like, they just googled "funnel web" and clicked on the first things they found and didn't bother to actually research them further to make sure. However, I actually see this mistake all the time from amateurs and laymen alike. If I tell them the spider they found is a Funnel-Weaver(Agelenidae), they might freak out thinking it's related to a Sydney Funnel Web(it's not at all). This is why the scientific name should be used as the definitive answer for what something is, rather than a common name. You should fix this as nothing good can come of this misinformation.
Also, the spider at 1:00 - 1:02 is AGAIN, not a Sydney Funnel Web, it looks like a harmless Desid, likely Badumna sp.
@trapd00rspider haha yeah i desperately missed r/spiders. Thank goodness it's back
@@chimpanzee243actually im the Mod there, i just came here to correct all the people failing to correct Veritasium, by saying its actually an Agelenid, when you are right, it is one of the few web building wolf spiders.
2:29 why is only Na+ shown and not Ca+ etc.?
Because Ca2+ mostly serve as second messengers inside the cell. Like for example, a hormone binds to the receptor on the extracellular space, the second messenger is the effect of this binding. Examples of such second messengers are cAMP, IP3 and Ca2+.
Derek sir wanted to scare us by that scary music (0:10) 😊 But we feel joy!!
They’re highly aggressive too. They’ll actually chase you from meters away. They’ll go out of their way to bite you.
Im going to choose to believe youre lying
Yeah, no
@@damanOts That didn’t come from me originally. I learned that from Discovery Channel documentary about venomous spiders. The Sydney Funnel Web is a little monster.
No, they wont. they wont chase you unless you keep taunting it without leaving it alone, they are defensive and only bite when you dont leave.
@@Phenamia Well I wouldn't turn my back on one.
In 2 weeks I'll leave from Rome (Italy) to Sydney for few months and surely this video didn't help me with anxiety! I wasn't scared by spiders until now! 😂
By the way fantastic video Derek, love the channel and topics you're choosing!❤️
You’ll need to call BetterHelp now!
A friend of mine was visiting Italy and had a persistent lesion on her foot that stumped the doctors there. She called me on the phone and mentioned this. I immediately thought it might be a dangerous spider bite and suggested she ask the doctor if they had a toxicology book from the US. They found one in the library and confirmed it was a Brown Recluse spider bite.
My friend was OK for those who are worried. She didn't have to have her foot amputated.
dont be scared lol the chances that you run into one are miniscule, they are more scared of you than you are of it and they do their best to run away from you.
If your only staying in the city I can assure you the risks are very low, since moving out of the bush I only really come across pretty harmless spiders like huntsmans (might scare you though), I imagine because your only visiting that you'd be staying in an apartment opposed to a house and in that case you could go without meeting any uninvited guests. I'll add that it will be winter by the time you get here and there will be even less spiders about. Anyway, I wish you well on your travels.
It's wild to me that this isn't done synthetically somehow. Milking spiders and creating rabbit antibodies seems so archaic (same with snakes and horses).