I work at a LFS where we have 5 fully grown piranhas on display. We had Coyote Peterson come to our store about 2-3 years ago to film a video with them. He stuck his hands in the tank, they all huddled in the corner. He held a piece of raw fish in his hand, they had no idea what the hell to do with it. Heck, if any of us reach into the tank to clean algae off the glass, they all hide in the opposite corner freaking out. They're big babies. LOL
Only reason piranhas are dangerous are one they are very hungry starving, or the nip to find out what the fuck is in the tank , and due to there power and sharpness of teeth they shred everything and when one goes they all go
@@Riebeck-the-Archeologist I've enjoyed Animalogic's World of Birds recently. Or, if you prefer to have your birds ruined, Casual Geographic is there to horrify you. Can't think of anyone doing debunking, though.
7:33 I recently rewatched a ton of Irwin's documentaries, and he is alllways mentioning how he never blames the animal for when he gets bit, stung, smacked, etc. because he knows he's the one who is encroaching on their territory and that it's his fault the animal felt it needed to defend itself. he wouldve been devastated to hear about how people lashed back at stingrays for his death and would not want people to hate them.
I just think about the one post where the guy pets a stingy ray with the caption “I forgive you buddy. I knew you didn’t mean to do it” or something similar
"They're like the size of a fucking M&M." Cool, but what should I do if it swallows me whole, and if I manage to escape, what should I title my book about it?
7:13 the worst part is, in my opinion, Steve Irwin would never want anyone to blame the ray or be scared of the ray or whatever. Like he knew he was the who messed up and apparently, according to his brother, was very distressed by the idea of people blaming the stingray and not him.
@@realdragon it was honestly insanely bad luck. The stinger just happened to hit Steve's heart or the area around it. Even in the very rare cases of stinging, it's highly rare for the stingray to get a hit on an area that can't be fairly easily treated.
I'm honestly heart broken by the amount of videos I see use Steve this way. It feels so gross. I've grown up loving all animals, fish, insects ect because he was my idol as a child. I was absolutely crushed by his death. Now I have to watch some misinformed idiots on the internet use it as some clickbait fear mongering towards animals. They really have no idea what he stood for, or what his whole life mission was about. I'm so glad I found your videos, and that you always make a point to defend creatures like he did. Really love that I found someone so passionate about sea creatures.
If Steve were still around, he would have blamed what happened on himself; it was a total fluke. Every land animal you see should scare you infinitely more than 90% of ocean bound creatures because they all could put you in a casket if chance or will had a hand to play. Squirrels will throw shit at you, mice and bugs spread disease, raccoons are godless rabies conduits, and anything with hooves can kick your skull in; yet we aren't worried about them because we're used to their existence coinciding with ours. Just respect animals and you'll generally be okay
Steve Irwin would not have wanted people to fear any animal on behalf of him, it was a freak accident that this happened to him, it isn't the fault of sting rays and they aren't scary because of what happened to him. It's so sad people think this way.
My dentist had a pufferfish in her massive waiting room fish tank. Whenever I sat next to it, it'd come over like HELLO, HELLO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING and would follow me when I walked around the tank to go to the desk. It was the cutest damn thing.
For the candiru: With an episode of river monsters, Jeremy wade actually went and found a man who had it happen to him. He also went to the hospital that treated it and had the specimen encased in formaldehyde. There’s video of the procedure as well in the episode
Ok then sure, the Candiru is dangerous and painful but really? The damn thing never even killed anyone and is one of the most dangerous? What I say is dangerous is something that kills 5 people yearly minimum.
I heard from somewhere that as Steve Irwin was dying he said that the worst thing about him being stung was that people would demonize the stingray. I've also heard that vinegar helps with box jellyfish stings as well.
Ever notice that half of those Candiru clips weren't even of the right candiru! Most of them were of Cetopsis candiru, which isn't the one said to swim in your privates (but is a really cool fish known to corkscrew their way into their prey, Steve Backshall has a great video of them). Like, half their videos were of a different fish that just happens to have the same common name!
Where would you place the hagfish on this list? Because I would argue that a flood of slime on your head is a more immediate threat to life than assorted spiky bits.
Something with the word "flamboyant" in its name I'm not going to consider dangerous. Also cuttlefish are adorable, what other animal is such a dork it pretends to be a floating coconut in the British coast? A place where there are no coconuts, such dorks.
I’m an Australian, we have a bunch of these fish all over the coast and yet what are we taught to be careful of at the beach when we are children? Sun safety and not getting stuck in a rip. I hate the fear mongering so many of these channels profit from. Thanks Zak for doing it the right way 😊🙏🏻
@@lukedeakin7124 Stonefish are a good point yeah, but they’re not super common and all lifeguards are trained in first aid at least until the ambulance gets there. Basic rule of thumb is just try not to step on a rock just in case 😂
@@lukedeakin7124 lol U can't see them anyway, just don't swim alone and hope U don't step on one, U can try to share things away by shuffling your feet
I'm fairly certain the vinegar supplies is more for jellyfish stings, since box jellies are very much a concern for swimmers in Australia, but I could see it working with stonefish stings too I guess? That's definitely a new one for me
I'm australian and I've only ever seen signs instructing their use in box jellyfish stings. The vinegar is meant to disable the stinging cells along the tentacle. I can't see how it would disable venom which is an inch deep in your foot.
@@Pattamatt1998 the closest thing I can think of is rubbing an onion on insect bites helps a lot with the pain, because the acid in the onion helps neutralise the bite. I got whacked by a bull and on a friend's farm in that fucking hurt, but onion cleared that up pretty quickly
Doesn't the stone fish have a similar neurotoxin to cone snails? I mean, I guess it's neat if your foot hurts less as your body is shutting down but still
@@erikaicarman3184 I'm not sure, I know that cone snails have the most different venoms, having up to 100 different venoms because they duplicate their genes faster than any other organism
Lactantius left out “the guy who had to go diving to find the crown of thorns starfish to put on Jesus’s head” in his book on the deaths of the persecutors
There are indeed "vinegar stations" along Australian beaches! But they're more for jellyfish than stonefish. When you make contact with a jellyfish and pull away, stingers and even whole tentacles come with you. As long as they make contact, specialized cells called nematocysts will continue to pump the venom even after being detached from the animal. Contact with vinegar straight up stops these cells from firing which is potentially life saving. Stonefish, however, don't have these nematocysts so the dose you get once stung is the dose you keep until you get the anti-venom. That being said, victims have reported that the vinegar does make the excruciating pain slightly more bearable.
I've heard while vinegar won't cure the toxins of a stonefish it may help ease the pain a bit? Like you mentioned actually! I saw Coyote get stung by lion fish and he put his wounds in hot water along with some kind of bath salt, I don't remember why but would that also help a bit with stonefish?
@testerwulf3357 hot water is effective on its own. It has to be very hot. Like almost burning your skin hot. It is shown to effectively break down the proteins that make up the venom. This works for most marine venom.
My mom saw someone get "attacked" by a barracuda while scuba diving. Dude was wearing a silver watch. The Cuda did dart towards him but it then immediately realized it was a person and swam away. I'm sure that was just a shy one and the rest are man eating :)
I know the Goonch is definitely not a good idea to go near, but the fact it's called the goonch just makes it so hard for me to take it seriously Also though I wouldn't voluntarily swim with any fish that's half my size or bigger, if Masaru has taught me anything, all fish will give you ciguatera... or at least their liver. Ngl, I would kill to see you do a react to one of Masaru's videos
Barracuda are one of the few fish that have learned to eat the invasive lionfish (on their own too) Currently some divers are trying to teach our native sharks how to safely eat them
I feel like the lack of sharks was because they haven't realised they're fish, in the same way they included cuttlefish and starfish even though they aren't fish
1:50 that picture is actually a pretty well known picture of a dog (drawn very badly and was realistified in Photoshop) just put onto the face of the piranha.
Slight video correction for you: vinegar is kept by beach lifeguards as treatment for jellyfish stings. It's sometimes applied when people step on stonefish as well, but the effectiveness of this isn't well established. The method that HAS been tested as effective is to soak the stung area in the hottest water the person can tolerate for 30-90 minutes, and administer antivenom if it's a particularly severe sting. In the cases where vinegar is used and alleged to work, they're typically mixing it with the water for the hot water bath.
I think people claim the vinegar helps because it has the effect of dulling the pain which likely gives the victim the impression that it's helping cure the venom.
I was off the coast of St. John and ended up swimming between two huge stingrays. Definitely not scary. A very peaceful experience. Be respectful and don’t encroach on their space they won’t encroach on you and you get an incredible experience and cool story about a beautiful and needlessly feared creature.
4:50 joke aside, the crazy people of my country DO recreate the crucifiction, and laws had has to be made that they just tie themselves to the cross bc they were literally stabbing themselves to the cross. I swear, ppl is crazy. don't show hem that starfish or they'll acrually go for it.
4:30 My Mom's Catholic Church actually regularly reenacts the crucifixion. My mom told me that supposedly some people actually decided to nail themselves to the cross. I doubt its true though.
Even when they are hungry they still prefer things their size or smaller, so unless they are quite frankly borderline starving then they won't attack a human.
@@dragonace119 this is the point that I'm trying ti make, they're incredible creatures that normally are skittish as they are scavengers, mine have grown used to me to the point that they allow me to touch them
I actually used to be scared of Lion Fish until I went scuba diving. There was one just sitting on a rock face and I wanted to get a picture of it and the dive instructor just started pushing me closer to it to get a better picture and I got extremely close to it and it didn't react in anyway. They're a lot more passive than I originally thought (atleast in the day)
08:20 I’m Australian and that vinegar is for box jellyfish stings. Idk if it also works for stonefish venom but as far as I know it’s only for jellyfish
8:29 "Well, no other fish can stay outside of water for 24 hours, because some of them can be on land for only 3 hours, and some of them can be on land for a year."
7:13 **joins in on the cacophony of people saying Steve would not approve of this.** It wasn't the stingray's fault, and this is legit disrespectful of Steve and his legacy.
I believe there is literally only a singular case ever where the candiru entered a humans urethra, and that’s it, these top 10/top 15 channels make it as if it’s a daily assurance🤣
tl;dr, the singular case is fake. The fish was supposedly removed by a doctor named Anoar Samed, who started the whole myth and it was later disproved by a marine biologist named Stephen Stoppe. They have been found in vaginal canals a couple times but just, like, wear anything? They can't chew through fabric.
The flamboyant cuttlefish is supposed to have a similar venom to the blue ring octopus. They certainly advertise that they are deadly though I've never heard of anyone being stung.
I thought the candiru didnt swim up the pee stream, but just follow it if you're in the water while peeing. The swim up the pee stream is probably a miscommunicated thing.
I was just about to comment that Steve would never stand for all the hate stingrays are getting but you said it too. They are adorable sea pancakes and I wish I could pet them.
I spent a few weeks up at Lizard Island on the GBR this year (April to be exact) and though I am no icthyologist I have a few things I'd like to share. 1. Cuttlefish are amazing and I made friends with on during my stay as we visited his reef quite a few times (the clam gardens reef, lots of big clams they feel really cool) even came up a few times to check out me and my camera, I didn't know they had the ability to recognise people and the particular noises they make, my little buddy sparked a ln interest in cephalopods 2. HELL YEAH TRIGGERFISH ARE SCARY!!! 3. Sharks are really sweet and lovely 4. Technically you can wear a COT as a hat, it just depends which way you put it on. They had a small fishtank with two COTs over at the labs that we were allowed to and even encouraged to touch on their undersides, they've only poisonous on top to my knowledge. I'm not an expert on echidnoderms by any stretch of the word so take this with a grain of salt. 5. If the coral looks fluffy and like für/Hair do not touch it, it bites 6. Seaslugs do not feel the way I expected them to feel 7. I didn't know that there is a type of damselfish you can play fetch with, that was really cool! 8. Fang blannies are a thing, they are out to deceive you! There's tonnes more I could list but these I feel are the more important ones lol. We were told and encouraged by our dive leaders what we can and cannot touch and were encouraged to do so. Highlight of the trip was the monitors tbh (aspiring herpetologist) and apparently I discovered two species of hermit crabs OR just found two that might allready be named but just have never been found on the island. I really love your videos, they never cease to work as a pick me up when I'm low 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
In my country people literally re-enact the crucifixion during certain religious events. People actually get nailed to a cross and use whips on themselves and stuff.
Vinegar is for stopping jellyfish stings- it neutralizes the tiny barbs that are attached to a person's leg and prevents further injury. It doesn't work well with stonefish stings but its enough to buy some time for medical professionals to arrive/the patient to be delivered to a hospital for proper treatment.
6:04 as a brazilian myself i gotta say that this fish actually exists and there is cases in the north of brazil (which is the area the amazon forest is located) of it actually happening so it's not a myth or something like that
Well in Philipines they do reenact the crucifixion on Good Friday,like with carrying actual cross and being put on it in one way or another....and stay there for like five minutes. I think one guy-Ruben Enaje does/did drive a nail through his hands and feet.
8:34 I once carried a common carp out of water one my bike one handed for half a mile for a fishing contest and when I released it back into the water, it swam away like nothing happened. Not exactly 24 hours, but it shows other fish can survive long periods out of water. On the note of the contest, I won for biggest fish.
A Baracuda once "bit" my foot and I ended up getting 4 stitches. To be fair to it, the person I was fishing with screwed up getting the hook out of it's mouth, dropped it, and I reflexivly tried to catch it with my foot before it hit the floor of the boat. If anything I should say that I managed to injure myself by kicking a Baracuda in the mouth.
13:18 A few weeks ago I was snorkeling in Hawaii and I have seen box fish, but they really didn’t mind me so I’m pretty sure these aren’t the most dangerous fish you should swim away from
Don’t know if anyone has said this but Jeremy Wade did an episode on Amazonian catfish and talked about the candiru. Met the guy in question and got to see the fish who swam(preserved in a jar). King and shirt is dude waded in waist deep and the fish swam in, the used it’s barbed something or other to wedge it’s way deeper and deeper till he had to go get is surgically removed.
I work at a LFS where we have 5 fully grown piranhas on display. We had Coyote Peterson come to our store about 2-3 years ago to film a video with them. He stuck his hands in the tank, they all huddled in the corner. He held a piece of raw fish in his hand, they had no idea what the hell to do with it. Heck, if any of us reach into the tank to clean algae off the glass, they all hide in the opposite corner freaking out. They're big babies. LOL
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Piranhas are cool I like how sparkly they can be :)
Just feed them well and they won't attack. They usually attack humans because their starving, its not like their full feeding frenzy 24/7.
shit fucking pog Cayote
Only reason piranhas are dangerous are one they are very hungry starving, or the nip to find out what the fuck is in the tank , and due to there power and sharpness of teeth they shred everything and when one goes they all go
AVNJ: That's not a fish, that's a flamboyant cuttlefish.
Also AVNJ: *casually calls pterosaur a bird*
I'm waiting for a good bird biologist that will debunk bird videos for us
@@Riebeck-the-Archeologist I've enjoyed Animalogic's World of Birds recently. Or, if you prefer to have your birds ruined, Casual Geographic is there to horrify you. Can't think of anyone doing debunking, though.
Well you can see where his expertise lie. :3
@@Eloraurora those damn devil birds
Pterosaurs and birds are both archesaurs, so not that distantly related. Fish and cuttlefish are a lot further removed than that.
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I recently rewatched a ton of Irwin's documentaries, and he is alllways mentioning how he never blames the animal for when he gets bit, stung, smacked, etc. because he knows he's the one who is encroaching on their territory and that it's his fault the animal felt it needed to defend itself. he wouldve been devastated to hear about how people lashed back at stingrays for his death and would not want people to hate them.
Exactly. People also rarely can tell the difference between stingrays and well... any other rays, even mantas.
I just think about the one post where the guy pets a stingy ray with the caption “I forgive you buddy. I knew you didn’t mean to do it” or something similar
I pet a stingray when I was really young and it was really fun, I don't know how the fuck they call a stingray one of the most dangerous fish.
I stepped on one and got stung, I'm not mad at it. It was just defending itself . I was surf fishing , I should have worn shoes.
That guy was holding the most poisonous snake next to his face and said he likes them. Yea I think he wouldn't want us to hate sting rays
"They're like the size of a fucking M&M."
Cool, but what should I do if it swallows me whole, and if I manage to escape, what should I title my book about it?
"I was swallowed by a flamboyant cuttlefish and survived", obviously
If that happens to you, you’ll definitely want your memory erased.
"Man got swallowed by a flamboyant cuttlefish, what happened next will shock you..."
“Flamboyant Cuddle Fish swallows man whole, Lives to regret it,”
Or you can just let it bite your arm off
7:13 the worst part is, in my opinion, Steve Irwin would never want anyone to blame the ray or be scared of the ray or whatever. Like he knew he was the who messed up and apparently, according to his brother, was very distressed by the idea of people blaming the stingray and not him.
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That man is a legend
Yea shit happens, that stingray just thought it was in danger and did they only reasonable thing for stingray
@@realdragon it was honestly insanely bad luck. The stinger just happened to hit Steve's heart or the area around it. Even in the very rare cases of stinging, it's highly rare for the stingray to get a hit on an area that can't be fairly easily treated.
I'm honestly heart broken by the amount of videos I see use Steve this way. It feels so gross. I've grown up loving all animals, fish, insects ect because he was my idol as a child. I was absolutely crushed by his death. Now I have to watch some misinformed idiots on the internet use it as some clickbait fear mongering towards animals. They really have no idea what he stood for, or what his whole life mission was about. I'm so glad I found your videos, and that you always make a point to defend creatures like he did. Really love that I found someone so passionate about sea creatures.
Facts! it's so dumb >_>
He was actually very much against people hating/being scared of stingrays because he was attacked. He never wanted anybody to blame that ray.
I hear you, and this woke some thoughts. Thank you for this comment
If Steve were still around, he would have blamed what happened on himself; it was a total fluke. Every land animal you see should scare you infinitely more than 90% of ocean bound creatures because they all could put you in a casket if chance or will had a hand to play. Squirrels will throw shit at you, mice and bugs spread disease, raccoons are godless rabies conduits, and anything with hooves can kick your skull in; yet we aren't worried about them because we're used to their existence coinciding with ours. Just respect animals and you'll generally be okay
Steve Irwin would not have wanted people to fear any animal on behalf of him, it was a freak accident that this happened to him, it isn't the fault of sting rays and they aren't scary because of what happened to him. It's so sad people think this way.
My dentist had a pufferfish in her massive waiting room fish tank. Whenever I sat next to it, it'd come over like HELLO, HELLO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING and would follow me when I walked around the tank to go to the desk. It was the cutest damn thing.
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For the candiru: With an episode of river monsters, Jeremy wade actually went and found a man who had it happen to him. He also went to the hospital that treated it and had the specimen encased in formaldehyde. There’s video of the procedure as well in the episode
Was just about to type this lol
I think that was the episode someone got bitten in their testicles by a pufferfish
@@Tino_mg Nope, different episode entirely. Both did happen though and had their own River Monsters episodes.
Ok then sure, the Candiru is dangerous and painful but really? The damn thing never even killed anyone and is one of the most dangerous? What I say is dangerous is something that kills 5 people yearly minimum.
@@smickothesmickest yeah it was definitely just an oddball occurrence.
I heard from somewhere that as Steve Irwin was dying he said that the worst thing about him being stung was that people would demonize the stingray. I've also heard that vinegar helps with box jellyfish stings as well.
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It helps with jelly stings in general
the vinegar at beaches in aus is for jellyfish not stone fish
@@HD-co4mb can confirm vinegar works on jellyfish stings
Ever notice that half of those Candiru clips weren't even of the right candiru! Most of them were of Cetopsis candiru, which isn't the one said to swim in your privates (but is a really cool fish known to corkscrew their way into their prey, Steve Backshall has a great video of them). Like, half their videos were of a different fish that just happens to have the same common name!
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4:40 - Top 10 fish you should avoid wearing on your head
Number 9: Blobfish
#1: Whale Shark. Because how?
Where would you place the hagfish on this list? Because I would argue that a flood of slime on your head is a more immediate threat to life than assorted spiky bits.
Something with the word "flamboyant" in its name I'm not going to consider dangerous.
Also cuttlefish are adorable, what other animal is such a dork it pretends to be a floating coconut in the British coast? A place where there are no coconuts, such dorks.
Flamboyant doomslayer
Flamboyant Kirby
Flamboyant sea cucumber
@@Ilikebugs2464 flamboyant seahorse
Well the flamboyant cuttlefish is indeed venomous, so yeah keep a distance
@@Sceptile29 Flamboyant Crabzilla
I’m an Australian, we have a bunch of these fish all over the coast and yet what are we taught to be careful of at the beach when we are children?
Sun safety and not getting stuck in a rip.
I hate the fear mongering so many of these channels profit from. Thanks Zak for doing it the right way 😊🙏🏻
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What about stonefish?
@@lukedeakin7124 Stonefish are a good point yeah, but they’re not super common and all lifeguards are trained in first aid at least until the ambulance gets there. Basic rule of thumb is just try not to step on a rock just in case 😂
@@lukedeakin7124 lol U can't see them anyway, just don't swim alone and hope U don't step on one, U can try to share things away by shuffling your feet
Depending on the area you should also be aware of jellyfish, but it's not much better on land with the brown snakes
I'm fairly certain the vinegar supplies is more for jellyfish stings, since box jellies are very much a concern for swimmers in Australia, but I could see it working with stonefish stings too I guess? That's definitely a new one for me
I'm australian and I've only ever seen signs instructing their use in box jellyfish stings. The vinegar is meant to disable the stinging cells along the tentacle. I can't see how it would disable venom which is an inch deep in your foot.
@@4dragons632 yeah, that's what I was thinking. Plus, having gotten vinegar in a wound before, I can't imagine it easing the pain all that much
@@Pattamatt1998 the closest thing I can think of is rubbing an onion on insect bites helps a lot with the pain, because the acid in the onion helps neutralise the bite. I got whacked by a bull and on a friend's farm in that fucking hurt, but onion cleared that up pretty quickly
Doesn't the stone fish have a similar neurotoxin to cone snails? I mean, I guess it's neat if your foot hurts less as your body is shutting down but still
@@erikaicarman3184 I'm not sure, I know that cone snails have the most different venoms, having up to 100 different venoms because they duplicate their genes faster than any other organism
Lactantius left out “the guy who had to go diving to find the crown of thorns starfish to put on Jesus’s head” in his book on the deaths of the persecutors
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I’m filled with joy whenever i see a new video has been uploaded
Same but not as much
He syaed some similer things
I don’t know much about fish but every single video I learn something new! It’s very entertaining
There are indeed "vinegar stations" along Australian beaches! But they're more for jellyfish than stonefish. When you make contact with a jellyfish and pull away, stingers and even whole tentacles come with you. As long as they make contact, specialized cells called nematocysts will continue to pump the venom even after being detached from the animal. Contact with vinegar straight up stops these cells from firing which is potentially life saving.
Stonefish, however, don't have these nematocysts so the dose you get once stung is the dose you keep until you get the anti-venom. That being said, victims have reported that the vinegar does make the excruciating pain slightly more bearable.
Yes hot water is used for stone fish and other stinging fish.
I've heard while vinegar won't cure the toxins of a stonefish it may help ease the pain a bit? Like you mentioned actually! I saw Coyote get stung by lion fish and he put his wounds in hot water along with some kind of bath salt, I don't remember why but would that also help a bit with stonefish?
@testerwulf3357 hot water is effective on its own. It has to be very hot. Like almost burning your skin hot. It is shown to effectively break down the proteins that make up the venom. This works for most marine venom.
My mom saw someone get "attacked" by a barracuda while scuba diving. Dude was wearing a silver watch. The Cuda did dart towards him but it then immediately realized it was a person and swam away. I'm sure that was just a shy one and the rest are man eating :)
They are said to like shiny objects!
I was bitten by a barracuda a few years ago. Wasn't wearing anything flashy, just felt something clamp down on my toe and there it was lol
I wish watching you counted as a credit towards my graduation because I never thought I'd be into fish but you changed that
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I know the Goonch is definitely not a good idea to go near, but the fact it's called the goonch just makes it so hard for me to take it seriously
Also though I wouldn't voluntarily swim with any fish that's half my size or bigger, if Masaru has taught me anything, all fish will give you ciguatera... or at least their liver. Ngl, I would kill to see you do a react to one of Masaru's videos
The *Goonch* sounds like a Dr. Seuss monster or smth ngl
“Jesus got crossified” is now the correct way to say it
Barracuda are one of the few fish that have learned to eat the invasive lionfish (on their own too)
Currently some divers are trying to teach our native sharks how to safely eat them
I feel like the lack of sharks was because they haven't realised they're fish, in the same way they included cuttlefish and starfish even though they aren't fish
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Fish in name must be fish _amiright_
The people who made that video think “oh well it has fish in the name so it’s definitely a fish”
1:50 that picture is actually a pretty well known picture of a dog (drawn very badly and was realistified in Photoshop) just put onto the face of the piranha.
Slight video correction for you: vinegar is kept by beach lifeguards as treatment for jellyfish stings. It's sometimes applied when people step on stonefish as well, but the effectiveness of this isn't well established. The method that HAS been tested as effective is to soak the stung area in the hottest water the person can tolerate for 30-90 minutes, and administer antivenom if it's a particularly severe sting. In the cases where vinegar is used and alleged to work, they're typically mixing it with the water for the hot water bath.
Should note: reason the hot water is used is because the venom is highly heat sensitive, and degrades rapidly at non-scalding temperatures
I think people claim the vinegar helps because it has the effect of dulling the pain which likely gives the victim the impression that it's helping cure the venom.
I was off the coast of St. John and ended up swimming between two huge stingrays. Definitely not scary. A very peaceful experience. Be respectful and don’t encroach on their space they won’t encroach on you and you get an incredible experience and cool story about a beautiful and needlessly feared creature.
"Top 15 ways to lie to kids about fish so they are scared"
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"Lionfish: They have no natural predators."
There are videos of Bobbit Worms absolutely wrecking Lionfish.
Oh yes, the most dangerous fishes:
The Stargayzer and the Femboy Cutlefish
“Femboy Cuttlefish”
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Can we stop fear mongering rays, I'm pretty sure Steve would not approve.
Also Steve content
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the weird piranha is a photoshop of a dad who makes some animals look like his sons drawings
Once I was in an aquarium
When they fed the Piranahs a hunk of dead makrel it spooked them and they didn’t touch it
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The video be like: see this is a cuttlefish it has the word fish in it see meaning it has to be a fish
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It is a fish as much as anything else is a fish
Silverfish, starfish, and crayfish: Hold our fishiness
The picture at 1:39 is genuinely hilarious. I spent a couple of minutes cackling at it.
The juxtaposition of going from your taxonomy videos to this is something special lmao
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4:50 joke aside, the crazy people of my country DO recreate the crucifiction, and laws had has to be made that they just tie themselves to the cross bc they were literally stabbing themselves to the cross. I swear, ppl is crazy. don't show hem that starfish or they'll acrually go for it.
14:26 Ouch, is that buffalo's horn stuck where I think it is? Lmao
Once my grandpa was just walking next to a barracuda for like five minutes before someone noticed it
Once, I didn’t want to kill a spider, then my cousins called me the reincarnation of Steve Erwin
I mean Irwin
4:30 My Mom's Catholic Church actually regularly reenacts the crucifixion. My mom told me that supposedly some people actually decided to nail themselves to the cross. I doubt its true though.
I have 3 piranha in a tank, they're docile and literally come up to my hand to let me pet them. Sooo dangerous lmao
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Even when they are hungry they still prefer things their size or smaller, so unless they are quite frankly borderline starving then they won't attack a human.
@@dragonace119 this is the point that I'm trying ti make, they're incredible creatures that normally are skittish as they are scavengers, mine have grown used to me to the point that they allow me to touch them
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6:52 there are actually documented cases of that fish getting in pee hole ... so it is not just a myths it is actually a thing
2:35 HE'S SO CUTE WDYM
I actually used to be scared of Lion Fish until I went scuba diving. There was one just sitting on a rock face and I wanted to get a picture of it and the dive instructor just started pushing me closer to it to get a better picture and I got extremely close to it and it didn't react in anyway. They're a lot more passive than I originally thought (atleast in the day)
This man produces some of the best content on the platform, your awesome brother keep it up and thank you
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08:20 I’m Australian and that vinegar is for box jellyfish stings. Idk if it also works for stonefish venom but as far as I know it’s only for jellyfish
The Hawaiian Boxfish script sounded like it was copy-pasted out of a Wikipedia article. Word for word. Not changed at all.
10/10
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I want to be shrunken, and ride a flamboyant cuttlefish around like a horse.
8:29 "Well, no other fish can stay outside of water for 24 hours, because some of them can be on land for only 3 hours, and some of them can be on land for a year."
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9:33 There was that one guy on river monsters that had a puffefish bite through an artery behind his knee and died.
7:13 **joins in on the cacophony of people saying Steve would not approve of this.** It wasn't the stingray's fault, and this is legit disrespectful of Steve and his legacy.
4:41 Churches on Good Friday, obviously.
man put barracuda above stonefish 💀
trigger fish are actually scary when i would spearfish in HI they would bite chunks off your feet if you went over their bed which were invisible
They hurt apparently, but aren’t life threatening...
Unless you do something weird
1:44 ahhh yes the half minion half piranha
I believe there is literally only a singular case ever where the candiru entered a humans urethra, and that’s it, these top 10/top 15 channels make it as if it’s a daily assurance🤣
I will say I'm still never peeing in the Amazon river just in case.
tl;dr, the singular case is fake. The fish was supposedly removed by a doctor named Anoar Samed, who started the whole myth and it was later disproved by a marine biologist named Stephen Stoppe. They have been found in vaginal canals a couple times but just, like, wear anything? They can't chew through fabric.
The flamboyant cuttlefish is supposed to have a similar venom to the blue ring octopus. They certainly advertise that they are deadly though I've never heard of anyone being stung.
Probally acts similar to how a rattler acts so probally only ever uses it as a last resort or something.
Flamboyant cuttlefish are poisonous if eaten if memory serves closer to puffer fish than blue ringed octopuses.
9:25 I never heard him say "you'd die if you touch it." Unless you edited that out.
12:58 I didn't see any footage of the barracuda eating a lionfish. Unless you edited it out.
I thought the candiru didnt swim up the pee stream, but just follow it if you're in the water while peeing. The swim up the pee stream is probably a miscommunicated thing.
idk, as a tiny fish, i thought it was a great list of fish to avoid
Literally my favorite yt channel rn
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Every diver ever: I disagree
I was just about to comment that Steve would never stand for all the hate stingrays are getting but you said it too. They are adorable sea pancakes and I wish I could pet them.
AVNJ: "who reenacts the crucifixion?"
Filipinos: "uhm..."
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1:30 My face at 4 in the morning after staying on my phone for 7 and a half hours straight on a school night
1:56 just Kerns pet fish don’t worry she says it’s fine.
In a episode of river monsters a big gonch catfish was getting away with the current so he jumped in the water to drag it out
I guarantee you using those big words to describe the box fish's poison was nothing more than an attempt to pad the script and make it sound scary
I spent a few weeks up at Lizard Island on the GBR this year (April to be exact) and though I am no icthyologist I have a few things I'd like to share.
1. Cuttlefish are amazing and I made friends with on during my stay as we visited his reef quite a few times (the clam gardens reef, lots of big clams they feel really cool) even came up a few times to check out me and my camera, I didn't know they had the ability to recognise people and the particular noises they make, my little buddy sparked a ln interest in cephalopods
2. HELL YEAH TRIGGERFISH ARE SCARY!!!
3. Sharks are really sweet and lovely
4. Technically you can wear a COT as a hat, it just depends which way you put it on. They had a small fishtank with two COTs over at the labs that we were allowed to and even encouraged to touch on their undersides, they've only poisonous on top to my knowledge. I'm not an expert on echidnoderms by any stretch of the word so take this with a grain of salt.
5. If the coral looks fluffy and like für/Hair do not touch it, it bites
6. Seaslugs do not feel the way I expected them to feel
7. I didn't know that there is a type of damselfish you can play fetch with, that was really cool!
8. Fang blannies are a thing, they are out to deceive you!
There's tonnes more I could list but these I feel are the more important ones lol. We were told and encouraged by our dive leaders what we can and cannot touch and were encouraged to do so. Highlight of the trip was the monitors tbh (aspiring herpetologist) and apparently I discovered two species of hermit crabs OR just found two that might allready be named but just have never been found on the island. I really love your videos, they never cease to work as a pick me up when I'm low 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
In my country people literally re-enact the crucifixion during certain religious events. People actually get nailed to a cross and use whips on themselves and stuff.
I don't know about you, but I've never been more scared for my life, and intimidated, by that threatening display from those Hawaiian box fish.
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Vinegar is for stopping jellyfish stings- it neutralizes the tiny barbs that are attached to a person's leg and prevents further injury. It doesn't work well with stonefish stings but its enough to buy some time for medical professionals to arrive/the patient to be delivered to a hospital for proper treatment.
6:40 I didn't think they swimed up the stream, I was told the orifice extreting the urine had to be submerged.
Best part of this is when AVNJ says Jesus was "crossified"
6:04 as a brazilian myself i gotta say that this fish actually exists and there is cases in the north of brazil (which is the area the amazon forest is located) of it actually happening so it's not a myth or something like that
I like how the flamboyant cuttlefish walks, and I like how it talks, and I like how it’s face disintegrates into chalk
Does it have a wonderful wife? A powerful job?
I like who he put the a tiger fish in the thumbnail when his most scariest fish (not spooky) is the goliath tiger fish
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There's actually a group in the Philippines that does crucifixion reenactments every year with nails in the hands and everything
for some reason whenever i see a goonch i think "yeah... he goonchy"
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Well in Philipines they do reenact the crucifixion on Good Friday,like with carrying actual cross and being put on it in one way or another....and stay there for like five minutes. I think one guy-Ruben Enaje does/did drive a nail through his hands and feet.
Honestly if you go that far maybe you should be put in a mental institution
did he say crossified instead of crucified LMFAO
Edit- 3:55
He later does say crucified but I wouldn’t be shocked if some people thought it was that
Me and the boys about to reenact the crusifiction near a coral reef
you know it’s gonna be good when an actual scary fish is in the thumbnail
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8:34 I once carried a common carp out of water one my bike one handed for half a mile for a fishing contest and when I released it back into the water, it swam away like nothing happened. Not exactly 24 hours, but it shows other fish can survive long periods out of water.
On the note of the contest, I won for biggest fish.
Movies can make anything seem scary that really isn't like the piranha and the barracuda
8:00 watch how the stone fish flops around so cutely
2:49 bro just went: 💃💃💃💃💃🕺🕺🕺💃🕺💃🕺🕺💃💃🕺🕺💃🕺💃💃🕺🕺🕺💃💃🕺💃🕺💃💃🕺🕺🕺💃💃🕺
i love how when the guy talked about the surgeonfish it claimed it was poisonous and then said it would slice you up while envenomating you
A Baracuda once "bit" my foot and I ended up getting 4 stitches.
To be fair to it, the person I was fishing with screwed up getting the hook out of it's mouth, dropped it, and I reflexivly tried to catch it with my foot before it hit the floor of the boat. If anything I should say that I managed to injure myself by kicking a Baracuda in the mouth.
So it's a rare case you can say "It didn't bite me, I shoved my foot into it's mouth"? That's actually wild! 😆That must of hurt honestly..
These really never get old.
Had a barracuda swim right in front of me before while on a visit to the ocean. Bro did not care that I was there, just swam on his merry way
I had little expectations from you at first but your videos bring a whole other mood that I love
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A few weeks ago I was snorkeling in Hawaii and I have seen box fish, but they really didn’t mind me so I’m pretty sure these aren’t the most dangerous fish you should swim away from
Re: The red-eyed piranha: "Dude... dude... we should go over to the Orinoco and mess with the crocodiles!"
3:35 okay but that’s pretty fucking metal
Don’t know if anyone has said this but Jeremy Wade did an episode on Amazonian catfish and talked about the candiru. Met the guy in question and got to see the fish who swam(preserved in a jar). King and shirt is dude waded in waist deep and the fish swam in, the used it’s barbed something or other to wedge it’s way deeper and deeper till he had to go get is surgically removed.
The candiru thing is probably just something local villagers tell their kids so that they don't think the river is a toilet
*grabs a handful of flamboyant cuttlefish and stuffs them in my pocket like a child on halloween*