Watching River Monsters, never missed an episode Jeremy Wade is a legend, made you realize freshwater is just as terrifying as the sea, and that it is usually a Catfish...
Seen a number of these fish in the Amazon... Giant catfish, Arapaima (Pirarucu), Tigerfish (albeit way smaller than the ones shown here), Electric eels (Poraqué, in native language in Brazil), they are truly impressive. Didn't keep me or any other from swimming though 🙂. Nature calls for Respect 🙂, not fear... Most of the times. 😉🙂.
@@brigidtheirish I was referring more to the Amazon Jungle than the Amazon River, but yes, I get it. 🙂 Yet, they're not as dangerous as they're painted to be... IF you keep your eyes open and don't do stupid sh*t. 😉 Honestly, I believe it's more dangerous to walk across, let's say, ANY big city in the US or many other Countries than it is to walk across the whole Amazon basin 😅. When I hear the words "Garden of Eden", what pops into my mind is the Amazon jungle. 🙂
@@DavideBaroni Well, the dangers are *different.* In a big city, you need to keep an eye out for traffic and other people. In the Amazon, you need to keep an eye out for venomous everything, predators evolved specifically to bend into that environment, ground that isn't nearly as solid as it looks, ground that isn't ground at all, microscopic parasites, *bugs* ...
@@brigidtheirish True. But most of the jungle "predators" do NOT have humans in their instinctual list of "preys" 😉. I've been traveling in the jungle with a small group of gold diggers for months, and the most dangerous animals I've been close to were them! 😅. And a couple "tucandira" ants. 🙂 You have to be careful mostly about insects and parasites. Animals tend to run away when they perceive the presence of humans, or to not bother about us (unless we harass them so that they feel threatened). Some MAY be dangerous (big black caymans, for example), but you have to bother them quite a lot (or go to swim in THEIR waters naked at night 😁). Animals are WAAAY more reliable, in terms of their behaviour, than humans... 😉 Just my two cents. Spent about 6 months in that jungle, many MANY years ago. Never had an issue with animals of any kinds, if we don't consider ants, and even them were just annoying. 🙂 Decades later I spent one year (in three periods) in a farm in the Atlantic rainforest... Two thirds of which were covered in jungle. Same there. NEVER had an issue with animals, nor me nor any other in the farm, even those who lived there for 15 years... 🙂
@@DavideBaroni Good points, though I suspect you're more prepared for trekking through the jungle than most people. The average person would be very dead simply from not knowing what to expect.
So after hearing him talk about the 'vampire fish', I had a thought... What if the few times that it happened to humans, was because someone peed blood and that was what attracted them?
Dude, the craziest thing about that puffer fish one, is that you have to already be a school-trained chef, to start a 20-30 year course to learn and master the art of preparing puffer fish. They DO NOT allow you to serve it unless you have passed the course and are considered a master, but even then if you prepare it for someone and they die from it, then it legit counts as murder. I'm not even joking you have just spent almost 40 years of your life in school to learn how to cook in general, and then make this stuff properly as well, just to possibly get life in prison for murder. Even if it's not a life sentence like you just legit wasted almost 40 years of your school life, the moment you cause a death from it your chef license/degree is revoked. Then you tack on however much time you must serve in jail like your entire life is wasted on just one lil' fish...
Also, P.S. As a morbid/interesting fact the meme of the puffer fish moaning when it eats the carrot is actually from a much longer video of them showing you how to prepare the puffer fish for consumption. !!!!!Spoilers/Graphic content ahead!!!!! In the actual video, they feed it the carrot to help neutralize the toxin in its system to help the chef prepare it. Literally like maybe 2 or 3 seconds after it moans from the carrot the chef puts it on a cutting board, and gives it a bop in the head with the back of the knife. You see the puffer fish get like stunned when the chef does it, and then before the puffer fish can recover, they cut off its head. Which since it is a puffer fish it doesn't really look like they cut off its head, more like its face, but you can see when it happens there is only the spine and the throat opening left. Apparently, that is one of the more humane ways to go about it.
4:40 First of all, there is no such thing as evil But to answer your question, its because they look mean. Thats why sharks and piranha were marketed as killing machines
He mentions this briefly in the video but basically the whole story of piranhas being ruthless shredding killers Because way back when Roosevelt took a trip and the locals knew he was going to show up so they wanted to of course impress the president of the United States so they purposely took a bunch of piranhas starve them for days impractically got them into that murderous state so when they took the cow carcass and threw it into the water to show Roosevelt the Piranhas will go absolutely mad over it when in reality they were just poorly mistreated without the president knowing
Duhh, obviously. There is no such thing as evil, that concept is man made concept. It doesnt exist in reality aka nature or the universe, just in our human mindsets and made up society.
Neither are sharks & pirahnas, 🤷♂️yet people still need some convincing, (🙌NOT directing to those with actual Phobias of the creatures; 🙂I can understand fears aren't something to easily wave away), and horror-movies about them do not seem to be ceasing anytime soon (😑with at least 1 movie focused another shark attack).
@@sir.goat4595 yes and no.... we actually share a LOT more in common with other animals than we once thought. and plenty of animals can do acts that we can call petty revenge, some might be rather cruel (orcas playing with deals for instance) but the point is... you cannot judge it on a species level but more... and individual level
the blowfish movie, the 1 i remember is charlies angles, when they had thier friend bosly try the fish to blend in with the crowd at a party. it was the charlies angles with tim curry as one of the villans.
Your comment "their eating blowfish, might die, cool" made me laugh. Then I thought "wait that's kinda .....cold...". lol You're so wholesome so much of the time I forget you are human and have your "might die, cool" moments too.
oh no that's 100% the venom load stonefish deliver. there's a guy named Mark on here from the Brave Wilderness channel and he purposely jabs himself with a stonefish (on land of course) to show how if you can really just try your best to stay calm and also use hot water, it wont affect you nearly as badly as you'd think. but that's the thing. it's a controlled setting with a medical crew ready and he fully expected it. the danger comes from ppl in the water experiencing such sudden pain and thus panicking. plus bad reactions of course since everyone's body is different. some will have allergic reactions and even if they surface, they still cant breathe. it's wild
Oct 2,2024 3 Off-Grid 150 Person Enclosed Liveaboard Lifeboats Fully Inside Of An Amphibious Ship-Bunker Tent Is Best For Staying Safe and Warm Inside Of While Traveling The Roads and Waterways Of The USA For Work Or Vacation Thank You Very Much + I See and Love YA RUclips Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots
Watching River Monsters, never missed an episode Jeremy Wade is a legend, made you realize freshwater is just as terrifying as the sea, and that it is usually a Catfish...
Seeing Arapaimas at an Aquarium was a truly humbling experience because they are massive!
As a lover of the ocean and horrifying animals, this was my favorite Casual video in a while
Can't wait to see all the reactions to it!
arapaima are living missles of the water
I love river monsters, own all the seasons on prime video
I might have to start watching it.
Seen a number of these fish in the Amazon... Giant catfish, Arapaima (Pirarucu), Tigerfish (albeit way smaller than the ones shown here), Electric eels (Poraqué, in native language in Brazil), they are truly impressive. Didn't keep me or any other from swimming though 🙂.
Nature calls for Respect 🙂, not fear... Most of the times. 😉🙂.
Yeah, the Amazon should really be called the River of Monsters.
@@brigidtheirish I was referring more to the Amazon Jungle than the Amazon River, but yes, I get it. 🙂
Yet, they're not as dangerous as they're painted to be... IF you keep your eyes open and don't do stupid sh*t. 😉
Honestly, I believe it's more dangerous to walk across, let's say, ANY big city in the US or many other Countries than it is to walk across the whole Amazon basin 😅.
When I hear the words "Garden of Eden", what pops into my mind is the Amazon jungle. 🙂
@@DavideBaroni Well, the dangers are *different.* In a big city, you need to keep an eye out for traffic and other people. In the Amazon, you need to keep an eye out for venomous everything, predators evolved specifically to bend into that environment, ground that isn't nearly as solid as it looks, ground that isn't ground at all, microscopic parasites, *bugs* ...
@@brigidtheirish True. But most of the jungle "predators" do NOT have humans in their instinctual list of "preys" 😉. I've been traveling in the jungle with a small group of gold diggers for months, and the most dangerous animals I've been close to were them! 😅. And a couple "tucandira" ants. 🙂
You have to be careful mostly about insects and parasites. Animals tend to run away when they perceive the presence of humans, or to not bother about us (unless we harass them so that they feel threatened). Some MAY be dangerous (big black caymans, for example), but you have to bother them quite a lot (or go to swim in THEIR waters naked at night 😁). Animals are WAAAY more reliable, in terms of their behaviour, than humans... 😉
Just my two cents. Spent about 6 months in that jungle, many MANY years ago. Never had an issue with animals of any kinds, if we don't consider ants, and even them were just annoying. 🙂
Decades later I spent one year (in three periods) in a farm in the Atlantic rainforest... Two thirds of which were covered in jungle. Same there. NEVER had an issue with animals, nor me nor any other in the farm, even those who lived there for 15 years... 🙂
@@DavideBaroni Good points, though I suspect you're more prepared for trekking through the jungle than most people. The average person would be very dead simply from not knowing what to expect.
So after hearing him talk about the 'vampire fish', I had a thought... What if the few times that it happened to humans, was because someone peed blood and that was what attracted them?
Dude, the craziest thing about that puffer fish one, is that you have to already be a school-trained chef, to start a 20-30 year course to learn and master the art of preparing puffer fish. They DO NOT allow you to serve it unless you have passed the course and are considered a master, but even then if you prepare it for someone and they die from it, then it legit counts as murder.
I'm not even joking you have just spent almost 40 years of your life in school to learn how to cook in general, and then make this stuff properly as well, just to possibly get life in prison for murder. Even if it's not a life sentence like you just legit wasted almost 40 years of your school life, the moment you cause a death from it your chef license/degree is revoked. Then you tack on however much time you must serve in jail like your entire life is wasted on just one lil' fish...
Also, P.S. As a morbid/interesting fact the meme of the puffer fish moaning when it eats the carrot is actually from a much longer video of them showing you how to prepare the puffer fish for consumption. !!!!!Spoilers/Graphic content ahead!!!!!
In the actual video, they feed it the carrot to help neutralize the toxin in its system to help the chef prepare it. Literally like maybe 2 or 3 seconds after it moans from the carrot the chef puts it on a cutting board, and gives it a bop in the head with the back of the knife. You see the puffer fish get like stunned when the chef does it, and then before the puffer fish can recover, they cut off its head. Which since it is a puffer fish it doesn't really look like they cut off its head, more like its face, but you can see when it happens there is only the spine and the throat opening left. Apparently, that is one of the more humane ways to go about it.
10:23
he already said squid AREN'T fish
Doesn't fully change his statement Too much, but yes.
@@notagreen-fiend9029 indeed
4:40 First of all, there is no such thing as evil
But to answer your question, its because they look mean. Thats why sharks and piranha were marketed as killing machines
Well, there *is,* but it's mainly a human thing.
as a fisherman born and raised, I wanna tangle with some of these beasts!
He mentions this briefly in the video but basically the whole story of piranhas being ruthless shredding killers
Because way back when Roosevelt took a trip and the locals knew he was going to show up so they wanted to of course impress the president of the United States so they purposely took a bunch of piranhas starve them for days impractically got them into that murderous state so when they took the cow carcass and threw it into the water to show Roosevelt the Piranhas will go absolutely mad over it when in reality they were just poorly mistreated without the president knowing
coming from @theblackalphadxb because of the video he just made and I’ve subscribed to your channel ❤
Best casual geographic vid
I love this channel for some reason 😂
13:54 Is the movie you are talking about Charlie's Angels? I remember a scene like that in there.
none of the fish he's talking about are "evil" just more aggressive t6han others
Duhh, obviously.
There is no such thing as evil, that concept is man made concept. It doesnt exist in reality aka nature or the universe, just in our human mindsets and made up society.
Neither are sharks & pirahnas, 🤷♂️yet people still need some convincing, (🙌NOT directing to those with actual Phobias of the creatures; 🙂I can understand fears aren't something to easily wave away), and horror-movies about them do not seem to be ceasing anytime soon (😑with at least 1 movie focused another shark attack).
@@notagreen-fiend9029 indeed
No animal is evil except for humans
@@sir.goat4595 yes and no.... we actually share a LOT more in common with other animals than we once thought.
and plenty of animals can do acts that we can call petty revenge, some might be rather cruel (orcas playing with deals for instance)
but the point is... you cannot judge it on a species level but more... and individual level
imagine not being in the first 200 couldnt be me
River Monsters was my shit when I was a kid. Jeremy Wade is a legend
the blowfish movie, the 1 i remember is charlies angles, when they had thier friend bosly try the fish to blend in with the crowd at a party. it was the charlies angles with tim curry as one of the villans.
Your comment "their eating blowfish, might die, cool" made me laugh. Then I thought "wait that's kinda .....cold...". lol You're so wholesome so much of the time I forget you are human and have your "might die, cool" moments too.
you should watch his older video called "top ten criminally misunderstood animals" it has more insight into some :D
oh no that's 100% the venom load stonefish deliver. there's a guy named Mark on here from the Brave Wilderness channel and he purposely jabs himself with a stonefish (on land of course) to show how if you can really just try your best to stay calm and also use hot water, it wont affect you nearly as badly as you'd think. but that's the thing. it's a controlled setting with a medical crew ready and he fully expected it. the danger comes from ppl in the water experiencing such sudden pain and thus panicking. plus bad reactions of course since everyone's body is different. some will have allergic reactions and even if they surface, they still cant breathe. it's wild
How are you doing today
0:36 anyone who's a One Piece fan probably immediately thinks of a Sea King. Those eyes are terrifying.
The fish in the Amazon that scares me the most is the Aimara Wolf Fish. If you know you know.
Stonefish are probably the scariest. They have some awful venom, and you can't see them. 2 words: HELL NO.
Oct 2,2024 3 Off-Grid 150 Person Enclosed Liveaboard Lifeboats Fully Inside Of An Amphibious Ship-Bunker Tent Is Best For Staying Safe and Warm Inside Of While Traveling The Roads and Waterways Of The USA For Work Or Vacation Thank You Very Much + I See and Love YA RUclips Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots
algorithmic comment