STUNG by the Gympie Gympie! (World's Most Painful Plant Sting)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ส.ค. 2023
- Brave Crew - an important note about this episode. The plant we feature, known as the Gympie Gympie, is nicknamed 'The Suicide Plant' due to the horrific pain it can cause to those unlucky enough to touch it. The trichomes of the Gympie Gympie inject venom straight into the skin, which can leave a person in unbearable pain.
While 'The Suicide Plant' is just a colloquial term for this stinging plant, suicide is a very serious topic that should not be taken lightly. If you are experiencing mental health issues or are having suicidal thoughts, please seek advice from a medical professional or legal guardian immediately.
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STUNG by the Gympie Gympie, aka The "Suicide" Plant! It's the most painful stinging plant in Australia, and maybe the world. This week, Coyote Peterson takes on the sting of the Gympie Gympie plant, in order to showcase:
a) Exactly what the innocuous looking leaves of the Gympie Gympie plant look like.
b) Why you should treat the Gympie Gympie plant with respect, never handle it, and only view it from a safe distance.
c) That it's incredibly important to know about and pay attention to your surrounding environment... lest you run into a plant like the Gympie Gympie, and endure its incredibly potent and painful stinging power!
Massive thanks to Ryan, Ses and Kevin the Gympie Gympie sniffer pup, for leading this adventure!
And thank you to Meredith Joyce-Houghton for creating the incredible artwork in this episode! IG: @joycehoughtoncreative
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Should Coyote do more stinging plant episodes?? Let us know below!
Yea!
Edit- OMG THX FOR LIKESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Yes
Can u get bit by a horse fly
yes
Do the platypus.
You guys should get a thermal camera to show the heat of the skin compared to what happens normally. Would be very interesting to see how the human body reacts to all these different types of stings.
Underrated comment. Hard agree.
This is a great idea
Good idea
Would be awesome for sure
This needs more likes. Great idea
This guy’s resistance to cursing and talking to the camera is something to be impressed by. You brave soul.
He has cursed before it was censored+editing
ever think they may edit out those parts
Probably cut it out
I think he actually does pay attention to what he says at the part where he gets up from sitting and the camera turns to Trent. Check min 12:08 to 12:10
@nyeshaplays4392 I remember it being in a livestream then he deleted it 😂
Please, never let that plant leave Australia.
Too late, 😅
"Hey Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today"
I've been bit by the stinging nettles here in Northeastern US. Their syringe-hairs can affect just by being close to it. The fact that he went under the plant I mind-blowing!
Too late… its also in Indonesia
It already has we have one in Alnwick poison garden in the UK!
Your ability to keep your language clean in the face of absolute agony is legendary
We all should practice that
because his brain has adjusted to a lot of pain
@@flingofyea. Words is what we should focus on. Not starving families or anything.
@@GeneralGrievous11Bwhere tf did this come from
Editing works wonders
4 months later and STILL feeling symptoms of that plant. Honestly, that's insane. He waited 4 freaking months to upload this, just to be able to tell the world how long an estimated recovery is. This plant could be effective for life.
Imagine how bad it was for the people who discovered this plant by using it as toilet paper... And that's not an exaggeration, some of them really did commit suicide! Honestly, I don't blame them... Imagine getting the needles into anything sensitive, like your eyes.
It is a lifetime injury, like we all saw the flares up.... will continue for years.
put icy hot on your balls you'll be crying for mommy@@infinitedeath1384
You guys are both 100% right. The unexpected victims who get it so much worse and in awful places, as well as the on-going issues/flare ups to follow. What a nightmare
@@infinitedeath1384 I read somewhere that horses would throw themselves off of cliffs after brushing up against one of these plants.
This guy is going through limits we didnt know were possible, sooner or later he will be able to overcome rabies
@@donhimesamadaifutarirabies is a virus that usually ends in death.
@@donhimesamadaifutariidk but I think it’s a disease
Rabies is 100% death once you show any symptom of it
Okay but this is the best comment
@@donhimesamadaifutari Rabies is fatal
When I visited Julatten in Queensland there was a fenced off Gympie Gympie with warning signs all around it. Even just sitting under these things can have effects. I've heard tales of soldiers doing their WWII training in the rainforests, coming across these lovely big, soft looking leaves and thinking they'd make ideal toilet paper... you can see where this is going.
those poor poor humans that would be one of thee worse things to do
There's a story of an army officer shooting himself after unknowingly using a Gympie Gympie leaf as loo paper, but I'm pretty sure it's apocryphal.
Good thing it was just training.
@@Elriuhilu I heard the same thing, and something similar where they had to basically strap a guy to a gurney and he just screamed for days.
getting heart attack by only thinking
I can't imagine what hellish pain you would feel if you accidently used that as toilet paper.
There is folk law about this... "The gympie-gympie tree is an innocuous-looking plant with a large heart-shaped leaf that grows in the rainforests of Australia and Malaysia. But looks can be deceiving: folklore says one early settler who mistakenly used the leaves for toilet purposes shot himself to end the agony"
@@giovannigiorgio4622 it was an army officer, another soldier brushed up against one during training during ww2 spent 3 weeks in hospital undergoing various treatments, said one officer didn't realise and used it as toilet paper, he was the one who ended his life with a pistol to escape the pain. and even if the plant is dead the venom is still potent, in fact they aren't sure how long it remains potent for with stories of 100 year old museum specimans still being dangerous AF.
Yeah, and i've heard that this is how Godzilla went extinct: he ate the damn thing.
it'll not gonna give you pain but really bad scratches
😂😂😂😂
It always astounds me how Coyote is able to focus and speak clearly to the camera despite being in absolute agony. Huge respect.
Honestly it probably helps to have something to focus on other than the pain 😂but still agreed huge respect
Money
He is pretty good at this considering he put himself through so many different poisoning things in nature 😂😂
Well, if I was in that much pain, I wouldn't want to do multiple takes 😂
@@brandonliddle3419 You'd hate for the camera guy to leave the lens cap on. "Sorry Coyote, we'll have to do it again."😂
You know its gotta hurt when TH-cam links the suicide hotline on this video. Mad respect for this guy.
😂
Ofcourse it does... This plant has a death count from suicide due to the pain lasting months
@@saltedpork476 I think there was a documented case of 15 years of pain. May have been flare ups for that time.
And that probably means the whole video is demonetized :
@@ArtisChronicles yeah I remember hearing about that myself there have also been several cases of 3 to 5 years later aswell. Like I get he does it to try and be educational but there is a limit between educational and just plain stupidity
My mate & I were climbing down a mountain after a gold prospecting trip near Cairns Nth Qld, when he slipped off the ridge we were on and tumbled through the rainforest crashing straight into a massive patch of stinging trees. He wasn't wearing a shirt at the time & got covered from the front to his back, face, arms & legs... everywhere. We still had 2 hours trekking ahead of us to get back to our truck. He was in so much pain from tensing his whole body, he burst all the blood vessels in his eyes. I thought he was going to die, I had to keep screaming at him to keep walking or he wouldn't make it out of here. Unfortunately, the lower section of the mountain was so thick with vines. The fastest way out, was swim to rest of the way down which caused even more pain. I had to put my arm around his keeping him above water, so he didn't drown. That transferred the stinging needles on to my arm, so I got just a little taste of what he was going through. After he got out of hospital, we took him to a beauty salon to get waxed. Apparently, that was meant to help remove the stinging tree needles out of his skin. Some people have used them as toilet paper out in the bush, not knowing what the plant was lol...!! imagine that.
Bro this story was better than the video. Like dawg…. That was crazy.
I was on my own when I was stung on just one leg, inland from Airlie Beach. Had to drive to a doctor, nearly blind from pain. I reckon your mate was lucky to not have a heart attack! Respect for your efforts to get him to a hospital ! 👍 🇦🇺
The toilet paper thing is a lie. How would you get the leaf to the anus without being stung.
That's wild bro good job on yall for making it out of there. Not enough humans anymore understand the very real situation of "if you stop now you will die", and most of people these days would stop
Was his groin swollen?
Plant: "I hate the world and I want nothing to touch me"
Coyote: "I want to touch this plant"
Hey TH-cam, this is educational! As a Wildlife Ecology Major and a Research Scientist, this guy is honestly amazing ! Much love Coyote!
TH-cam: You’re not alone 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline 😂
@@RandomFandomOfficialyeah what a joke. Not the hotline, the fact that TH-cam thinks it needs to be here..
It's because the word suicide was mentioned.
As an Australian, can confirm it does not hurt this bad 🤣
@@LifeOfLevi Could it be a difference because he pressed it into his arm? Normal interactions are going to be slight brushes.
The most impressive feat about this guy is that no matter how much pain he gets into, he never curses .
Think its even more impressive how he manages to count and explain things while being in excruciating pain, actually requires you to think clearly
Editing is a wonderful thing lol
His voice didn’t match up with his mouth immediately after running away from the yellow jacket box. You know he probably went off.
@@zakosist Coyote definitely hams it up sometimes, though. There's another TH-cam channel that somewhat challenges his stings and stuff like that and they don't react nearly as dramatic as Coyote does lol. Like yeah it hurts, but you're not gonna be rolling around on the ground and screaming in pain. Maybe their pain tolerances are just very far apart, but I definitely think he does it for the dramatic effect.
@@Lovell93 They're looking for clicks just like any other youtuber. Pain tolerance is different for all types of people, I know one of them Jack, has the pain tolerance of a demigod. He took a severe black widow bite and was in a 9/10 pain on HIS pain scale, and he was calm and collected about it. If it was *JUST* coyote, i'd be like okay yeah, but his experiences match much of what Dr Schmidt who made the insect sting pain scale had written down.
Infact there is a cool interview coyote got to do with Justin before he passed away.
Just because the effect isn't the same, doesn't mean someone else is lying. There is a ton of variables, length of sting, species of insect, size of the insect, their own personal pain tolerance; for example jack and his buddy that I forget his name he has a similar channel, did an episode about the brazillian wandering spider, and hyped it all up as they were daring to hold the actual brazillian wandering spider, but it wasn't; it was a different species (not p.fera. or p.nigriventer)
So i'm not ready to condemn coyote yet; just because of their subjective experiences, ya know?
When my brother and I were young he grabbed one as he was sliding down a bank . We were at my aunt's place which bordered a national park rainforest in south east Queensland. He drove his hand straight into the mud in the creek . He said it really helped. We were taught that the sap from the cunjivoi plant was an effective pain killer for the Gympie Gympie sting . The two usually grow close by one another 😊. I never tested the theory 😅
We have a similar thing in the UK with stinging nettles usually there's a plant Dock leaves that is used to remove the Barbs and soothe away the pain, 😊👍
@@jack1d1XB interesting. Isn't nature incredible.We have stinging nettles here too. A lot of the time it's around farm land. It's usually a shortish plant you can boil it up and make a tea from it if you boil it enough
@@matthewcullen1298 Yep, nettle tea has been used by many a camper through history, 😁
Cold creek water really helps we have them here in the states too
@@isiahdaniels9771 wow. I never knew that. That's interesting. Yeah I reckon cold water would help a bit. Do you get cunjevoi there as well
His arm is like "Dude? this again?"
Imagine your entire job being to go around the world and basically self administer the most burning pain imaginable. Coyote is an absolute legend.
Hey sometimes its stinging pain
@@maggoteater2290it's a pain in the a** traveling all the time too.
My curiosity is strong. I want to touch the gympie gympie plant. Is it really that painful?
This happened to me and yes it is painful but his reaction is over the top.
@fu6555 he makes videos for a living he's also has more experience feeling pain than you'll ever feel.
i like how Coyote is so batshit that even the algorithm thinks he’s trying to unalive himself
true ngl
Haven't watched it all the way through but the gimpy is known for people unaliving themselves due to the pain. So I figured it's mentioned and that is why the discretion is there.
Yup he said it during the video it’s called the unalive plant
It's the words he used (Nickname of the plant)... not what he is doing...
@@redbear2113 that was a pretty damn fascinating thing to learn in vid, i didn’t think about that being a way for the “suicide awareness” tab to be plopped under by YT but definitely get it.
Brave man. I had a friend of mine brush a gympie plant with his leg. In severe pain as you would expect. Tried wax strips didnt work still in pain. I then remembered a remedy a long time resident told me. Sounds crazy but it worked almost instantly. A watered down solution of 33% pool acid. Soak a towel in the solution and apply to infected area. We did that and within minutes pain was gone and never came back. I know it might sound wacky but it does work
Wish I'd known about that remedy when I was stung in the Whitsundays. We always carried vinegar in the car to use if stung by box jellyfish - and I can attest to that working wonders!
Pool acid? You mean alkaline sodium hypochlorite?
What kind of pool acid?
@@SpiralclarityHydrochloric acid is used for pools, and I've read some reports suggesting it for Gympie - but I'd be *very careful* to ensure it's diluted. I drove - almost blind with pain - to a doctor, who used a scalpel to scrape away the top dead layer of skin. That did remove a lot of the barbs, but not all, and the remainder flared up occasionally for months, esp in the shower. 😬
@@maxhugen wow,sounds awful. I'm glad it wasn't even worse for you. Sorry you had that experience. Thanks for responding God bless you.
I had read about the gympie gym piece in elementary school. I heard tall tales about people committing suicide after falling in a gumpie bush. I appreciate being able to see the effects on a willing person who talked through it
I like how Coyote is in the middle of what's considered the most painful plant induced pain and he goes on to educate us about the similarities of pneumatophores in jelly fish stings. What a legend.
Me when coyete doesn't just scream 😱
I'm your 1000 likeses
@@lasanaplays1362 😄
@@LOLzum101it’s because they are basically “restricted” to show their emotions. They don’t have the normal requirements to show the emotion. Like that deer who’s back was just RIPPED off. It couldn’t show its emotions.
I'm simply astounded he even did Gympie Gympie in the first place.
This man’s willingness to harm himself for educational purposes is astounding. This guy’s immune system must be JACKED
*coyote accidentally runs into a bush of the plants* his immune system: 1 millisecond later: problem solved
Well, he’s having a strong immune reaction to this plant, hence the inflamed lymph nodes.
Broski's immune system is the rock himself 💀💀💀
His immune system is an absolute UNIT! 😂
Lots of living things to be scared of here in Australia, but I think the thought of falling into one of these plants scares me the most, and that's a big call!
Sounds like living in an apartment complex with history's worst serial killers as next door neighbors,
while the only respite you get is that most of them do you a favor of not taking the things all the way
to the end. Most of the time, that is.
Been stung by the Gympie Gympie bush on one leg, foot to knee, in the Whitsundays, QLD Australia. Pain was excruitiating. Had to drive myself to a doctor, nearly blind from pain. He used a scalpel to remove outermost layer of skin (which is dead) to reduce number of needles. I felt pain for months, especially in the shower. Far far worse than box jellyfish, redback spider, etc! 😮
God damn bro i I’ll stay on the Gold Coast lmao
@@ceaserknk6640 Watch out... I hear you're being invaded by aggressive Fire ants! 😬
Scary thing is how innocent these plants look, you wouldn't think it stings
Yeah exactly! Usually nature makes things bright red or scary looking when it hurts, but here it's just a tini tiny cute leaf, well not tiny but you get it
It looks like a normal leaf, which is terrifiying
It makes me never go outside ever again
The guy that used it as toilet paper before jumping off a cliff can attest to that.
You get nettles in uk and are annoying af but assuming these are worse lol
Thé fact that there is a viewers discretion is insane big respect for coyote
It had the s word in the title in caps, he had it coming with youtube
@Whensmahvel1 if only the world today wasn't so soft it was just the name of the plant lol
@@Whensmahvel1what’s the s word?😂
@@kylewade8704it's the unalive word.
@kylewade8704 the word for someone who croaked
As an Australian who's had an encounter with the Gympie-Gympie,I can confirm that you will never forget your encounter with this plant...
There's nothing i can say to descibe the agony accurately..
11:52 "The good news is: We've got the trichomes in and the venom taking effect..." Coyote is a true SAVAGE and I love him for it 🫶 Brave Wilderness rocks ☝️
I think the most terrifying thing about this plant is how innocent-looking it is. It looks like any other ordinary plant you might come across while on a hike or something. Truly scary.
Usually every animal/plant looks ordinary and don't seem harmful thats why ppl need to really look into whats in the places they go to thus animal species plants even terrain area
That’s what I thought and touched it
There’s a ww1/2 Australian soldier who used a Gympie Gympie leaf as toilet paper. He shot himself in the head soon after
@@irohnic473damn I have a lot of spicy food in my diet and I thought I knew what ring sting was... Clearly I knew nothing
The plant is everywhere here in the balkans and If You would ask ANYBODY, all of them will be scared of the plant cuz of the childhood trauma😂😂
The fact that this man is in immense pain and is still committed to talking to the camera and telling the audience exactly what's going on is incredible.
It gets worse over the next few weeks.
I still can’t understand why he still continued pouring water on his arm even though the pain was worse by adding water
“Immense pain” = about 3-4 hours of medicated pain. Meaning he feels nothing after the 3 minutes of filming.
@@BrownTrout1238 "Immense pain" = intense pain. Which he does feel during filming, and is still dedicated to narrating his experience, which is admirable imo.
@@BrownTrout1238 also the pain from this particular sting lasts several weeks. If you think you can get stung by it and suffer no effects because of some painkiller, then you're simply wrong.
What's most impressive to me is the fact that the leaf has bite marks out of it from some small and far-from-insignificant insect that have been eating this terror.
Bro his immune system has to be insane with the amount of poison and venom he’s put his body through throughout the years this man is a legend 😭
i wonder if it actually builds up his immunity to it
@chloway420 it'll most likely have less effect than someone who has never been inflicted by venom. So, in a way yea it does.
@@chloway420for most of them i kinda doubt it-maybe within the same species but like, plant venom versus ant venom versus wasp venom are very different types of venom so while he might build up pain tolerance and immune reaction to mild stings (mosquitoes bumble bees etc)but not to everything ya know
There’s already a man in asia if I remembered it correctly. That injects a very small amount of snake venom to himself almost daily. He developed some sort of immunity to that specific venom
He cannot donate his blood tho because it adapts to that many poison
Its insane how he can keep his words child friendly throughout this. If that was me it would just be a constant bleeping.
me too bro me too
Bro same 😅
I would only need one bleep… that lasted hours 😂
"Holy heatzone Batman!"
Definitely a bunch of f bombs
I work in the bush. I was stung once by the Giant Stinging Tree. I knew it was there but i had to get where i was going and I walked under it, thinking I was safe. BUT ...a leaf happened to fall from the canopy and land on my neck and got stuck in my collar....
I was in enormous pain for hours, moderate pain for weeks and then some pain for FIVE years !!!!!!!
I was not aware of the remedy, had i used depilatory wax tapes to remove the needles, I would have been fine and would have healed very quickly.
If you are venturing in that country take remedies with you.
Luckily it is easy to recognise from a distance, no other plant looks like it.
8:34 Your editors are from the UK, aren't they? ;-)
Seriously though, I didn't expect this one to be that bad... Thanks for always taking the heat for us!
Wsg bro 0 comments and 0 likes in 10 days is wild
@@wowzers-sv2ym Not my target audience, nobody knows who I am here. 😋
Coyote could LITERALLY create his own sting index! He's been bitten by both plants and animals and it's wild the diversity of experiences he's had
Having at least two separate people create their own sting index could also show us how subjective or objective the rating really is, how many of the insects and other stinging things will get rated in the same order according to each other?
@@apexdoxer9662 For him, he said the executioner wasp was the worst.
@@apexdoxer9662 didnt he get the tarantula hawk sting BEFORE the bullet ant? I remember that video coming out a good while before
@@zakosistwe need to clone Coyote then
@@zakosist ya i think youre right i was thinking of the executioner wasp
I like how he’s laughing whilst experiencing one of the worst possible pains any human could possibly experience
I can't speak for him, but some people experience nervous laughing. I know I do.
Sometimes, all you can do is laugh
This is ENFP behavior, I got stung 3 times by a hornet on a video, and yes, this make me feel less nervous, and I laughed.
I experienced this when in a forest i was 6 at the time and the pain was nuts
We often laugh to keep from crying.
Love your content Coyote as always and the information and awareness you bring with your videos. But we also care about your health and well-being. Take care of yourself. ❤
Just be careful, coyote, good video, nice to be back watching your videos. Great as always.
You can tell it hurts, but still has the urge to do it just for our entertainment. What a legend.
Also to make lots of money as well. Pretty smart knowing he's not going to die but make tons of money from this, and also teaching us about it. One of the best TH-camrs out there. A TH-camr who educates you is definitely someone I'd subscribe to.
@@timnik2902 yes
its edutainment
Education
Bruhh it’s not that dangerous leaf
Coyote’s left forearm has been through more pain than most people as a whole
Actually I wonder how it compares to childbirth. Some people claim it to be the worst pain in the world. If that were true, it would suggest 2.2 billion people (28% world population) to have went through more pain. Can we get a mother to join Coyote's adventure?
@@commenter4898child birth can’t be that painful. Idgaf what you or any feminist says.
It's more than the brain floods itself with dopamine and oxytocin and memory inhibiting chemicals to keep the mother from remembering the pain, or looking back on the experience fondly regardless of the pain. That's right, the body gaslights itself to block out the trauma of pushing out a bowling ball sized human.@@KermitTFYT
@@KermitTFYT I'm simply asking for some empirical evidence in pursuit of knowledge. I'm not picking sides and there's no need to bring politics into this. If you don't have any evidence you can stfu.
@@KermitTFYThave you given birth?
"Water burns like crazy!"
That is the first time I heard someone say that sentence.
goddamn scariest part of this was right at the end talking about the effects still after 4 months... this thing doesn't give up the fight AT ALL
16:23 “The water burns like crazy” Proceeds to put more water on 🤣
😂😂 fr
Ayyy its u.
I'm sub to u
lol ikr
lol, seriously! mans addicted to pain
The fact he is in that much pain and still able to talk that calm and collected is amazing
Pain tolerance,he built it
Coyote is known for over reacting most of the time..
@@alphacino3514Oh yeah? I would like to see the way you react if you was to go thru the things he went thru. I think you would “overreact” even more 🤷♀️
@@adrianahinkova5932look at when he did the bullet ant glove. Now look at other TH-camrs and over people posting their experience they don’t react as much hell even one Yter had little to no reaction to it
@@alphacino3514oh, so you could sit there unphased? Shut up
My family used to do a lot of hiking and camping when I was young. I still very clearly remember the time I was climbing a very steep incline, grabbing onto the greenery to keep myself from slipping back down.
I clutched a fistful of stinging nettle and the pain was unbearable - I was screaming! I must’ve been around four or five years old then, over 50 years ago.
This was hard to watch. 😬
I have NO idea how you can talk and be so composed while doing this.
As an Aussie, it doesn't get much scarier than walking along narrow cliff trails lined with Gympie Gympies
Idk about that one mate. Fellow Aussies can be just as scary, especially if you see a wild Aussie walking through the bush at night. You never know what could happen. But you'll just tell yourself "nah, she'll be alright."
Only in Australia you get the most scariest and deadliest things in the world. From deadly plants 50 ft spiders mini Godzillas you name it every syfy experience there is.😂😂😂
@infinitedeath1384 😂😂😂😂😂😂 omg I love it. That should be made into a commercial.
@@theloudhouse122 Haha I'm glad you got a laugh out of it.
We just call them sting leaves in the uk
It's crazy how something that looks so harmless from a distance can be so painful. I recognize insects and reptiles as being dangerous because many give off warning signs, but this is just a leaf that dangles in the wind, but if you brush against it you're in for a world of pain. Nature can be terrifying.
Perhaps, but human beings and what we're capable of (Nukes) are far more terrifying. We already have enough nukes to end ALL LIFE on this planet a few times over. It's only our rationality & mercy that has kept us from completely destroying the world & that may not last much longer (WW3).
imagine if a strong wind threw the leaves around
@@bloodlove93 or if a wildfire sent all those needles airborne and a town breathes it in...
Not just that some plants or any strange looking barriers Are deadly
@@coler154imagine the needles blow into your eyes 💀
Glad to know it’s not just animals trying to hurt you in Australia
There's a tree nettle in New Zealand called Ongaonga, or Urtica ferox. It's not reportedly as painful as the Gympie Gympie, but it needs more publicity if you're ever in NZ since it's common in the NZ bush where some people come to do camping and hiking tracks. It's actually deadly if you get stung enough (basically embedding yourself in it), but the kind of stings you'd be doing are painful but ultimately harmless.
Coyote should be in a perpetual state of treating himself outside of these segments he’s earned it
this guy is going to be immune to every venom/poison in our dimension
Him on a alien world.. “im coyote peterson, and im about to experience a otherworldly experience” *looks at a weird alien creature with spines*
@@theerandomdude2375 "gonna try out what the locals call 'chest burster' "
He's already built up an immunity to iocane powder. No Sicilian's going to stand a chance.
His white blood cells are on another level....his future children's DNA will be studied by scientists
He,always puts himself in danger and pain just to make us happy wow i love his vids so so so much❤
“AHH THE WATER BURNS LIKE CRAZY!” Proceeds to add more
This guy is gonna be the only one to survive any pandemic that strikes humanity
No. Wim Hof will.
if the pandemic if sting based and in a controlled scenario...... sure.
Lets see how painful is this zombie bite. 3-2-1...
@@PREDATEURLT ahaha
@@PREDATEURLT”I’m Coyote Peterson, and I’m about to enter the bite zone… of the zombie”
Thank you for answering the questions the rest of us are too cowardly to find on our own.
i cant believe after even 8 months it still has an effect on you man
"The water burns like crazy!" Immediately pours more on. You are a freaking legend.
Looking for this comment lol
My heart genuinely winced in fear for Coyote when he said "This was a very bad idea"
That’s when u realize this kinda show and ppl are crazy because you love this kinda job can die from it like the crocodile Hunter rip 🤞🏼
He says that for all his stings, the scolopendra being the worst.
So often I have been afraid this time he might die. Wishing he'd stopped doing it... but I come back watching, fascinated, and give it clicks and likes and so pay him to go on. 😢
Every video is a bad idea.
I copped it on both shins clearing a fallen tree. Had to get the wax strips out. Still feel the sensation on occasion many years later. Luckily you only brushed the leaf. Kicking a fallen plant is a whole new level of agony. Needs to be hot water to open the pores for easier removal of the trichomes.
He has the highest pain tolerance I’ve ever seen I think. We need a regular person to try this so we can get a more realistic reading lol. The whole time he was like “gee willikers, this really hurts 🙂”
I got stung by this plant when I was about 16 in the exact same place. The friend I was with, along with my family all thought I was over reacting. Happy to watch this and feel validated lol
Lmao😂 make sure you show your family
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Dam that's dangerous
Please change the title
Stop
@@sathyang6942no, that's the nickname of the plant
@sathyang6942 you shouldn't just ban the word suicide lmao
I’ve never seen someone hate himself this much before in my entire life.
I probably like the plant videos the most. They are so sneaky!
This mans forearm is always taking a beating, but he still does this to educate. Respect man
This guys arm could solo goku at this point.. (im kidding)
Over exaggerating pain for the sake of the camera
@@thenotoriousarmstrong3.0you want to give us a more accurate reaction? There's lots of gympie gympie in Australia
@@undisclosedscientist2142 as I don't live in Australia how can I?
@@thenotoriousarmstrong3.0then how do you know he’s overreacting to the gympie? He does put on a show since this channel is mainly for children, but it’s still very painful
when a man who probably has the strongest immune system and skin in the world says "this was a bad idea" while on the verge of tears shows the power this plant
Thanks!
You guys are awesome and courageous to do such a thing on earth 🌎!
Been watching Brave Wildness for years and it’s still one of my favorite channels on youtube.
Almost 10 years he's been doing the crazy Sh**. Definitely top 10 channels to keep me entertained & actually learn something.
I’ve watched this guy for years & I’ve got one thing to say
HOW IS HE NOT DEAD.
He’s been stung countless time by insects
Stung by Fish
Biting by Turtles, crocodiles and Leeches.
How is he not permanently physically injured or missing some limbs.
Coyote is incredible that he can go through all of that.
Because he takes safety measures and doesnt mess with anything that could actually do him serious or permanent damage. Little kid comment
@@kelsey2333 I’m 22 lol
But it’s just amazing that he can keep going even with safety measures and professional help
@@kelsey2333 nah its just plot armour
Because an insect sting or a plant won’t kill you
@@kelsey2333 Lmao okay Kelsey.
I had all arms and legs 'stung' once... very painful. The best thing to do is pour some type of acid over the area to counter the alkali. I used straight hydrochloric but probably citric might have worked/been safer. It was like being on fire and pouring cold water on the area was like pouring petrol onto flaming skin. Took a long time to recover.
Its that arm alone that went through the most pain from stings and bites
I don’t know how this guy is still alive. Man is giving him the worst pains for our curiosity and support. Mad respect
Pain can’t kill you my dude, it’s when pain is absent then you’re in trouble.
@@RyanYoxo i mean the amount of poison he has went through. He’s immune system must be like Superman’s lol
@@RyanYoxo of course you can die from pain wtf there is a reason we pass out from to much pain and if the pain is bad enough you entire system could shut down
@@rydogjkjr3325 it’s only mild venom though. There’s a dude who gets bit by dangerously venomous snakes and they used his blood to make ALOT of antivenin. I don’t remember his name but he is in the Guinness book of world records. I’m talking about casually taking cobra bites which are like top 2 for most deaths per year of snake bites. What Coyote does is lightweight, but understandable, never take dangerous risks for entertainment
Also toxins break down when in the body, they don’t just stay in a big pool building up, so he really has nothing to worry about unless allergic.
@@maggoteater2290 your body goes into shock, and when it does YOU DONT FEEL THE PAIN hence why it’s the absence of pain that will kill you
Coyote: I am in horrifying excruciating pain
Camera man: nice angle
Several years ago, a good friend/colleague (the late Justin Schmidt, whom Coyote also knew and who is also famous for his study of stings) and I were discussing how, when one goes out into the deserts, it's the plants that do most of the "attacking", especially during the daytime. The venomous animals are mostly hiding. Of course we were referring to plants that have various kinds of thorns, barbs and spurs as opposed to being venomous.
I've been in the three eastern mainland states of Australia but have never encountered these venomous plants. I've also been in New Zealand, and I was a bit disappointed that I never saw the nettle tree (Urtica ferox). However, I've been told it's relatively common in the Coromandel Peninsula (on the eastern side of the North Island), so if I go back, I'll try looking there. However, sometimes dangerous plants become rare because people make an effort to seek and destroy them, so parks and preserves end up being the plants' "refuges".
Gympie Gympie sting is way even more worse than bullet ant sting because bullet ant sting only lasts 24 hours but gympie gympie sting CAN last for 3-5 months
It’s been 8 months and it’s still hurting his arm
This man is a real hero scientist. Sacrificing himself as a human test subject, but only when knowing that he'll survive to convey the results. The man will endure possible lifelong pain to inform and possibly save others from the same fate.
The downside to this is because you can clearly tell Coyote has a higher than normal tolerance to pain so it really downplays the danger. Without his honest commentary one may think they could also handle the Gympie Gympie.
Imagine brushing it off with your hands and then you accidentally wipe the tears from the pain
This was really brave of you. I've heard stories from some of my Australian friends who know people who have had symptoms for years after exposure to this plant. It doesn't actually cause any damage to the body but it can just keep releasing the toxin overtime for a really long time.
You've done some really crazy videos, but this one could have really been a life changer with no remedy or cure. I think the only other episode You've done that made me more anxious was the water bug toe bitter - cause that happend to me too and omfg those things are truly a terrifying nightmare.
Thank you Coyote for taking this one for the team.
For showing us the EXACT reason why it is not smart for us to do certain things.
Such as shake hands with a crab. Hug a particularly spicy plant. Or poke a literal hornet’s nest.
That’s like the most intense pain you can feel and it goes on for days, weeks even months so for coyote to just do this for us is amazing
9:06 That’s the camera Plainrock124 uses in his videos 😂
@@ThisGuyDannyyy HAHAHAHA i saw it
So, Im an Australian who works FIFO in Far North Queensland. Most of the time they're light brushes against the skin, though I did hear of a local dying from cardiac arrest after slipping into a bush of them. Another person I worked with got it on his leg and it took 11 months for his leg to stop hurting in the shower.
The cook thing about the plan though, is because of the nature of the needles and toxins, you'll likely feel more intense pain from other stings in that area for the next 3-6 months according to the locals
Also... imagine that water BEFORE the mud :)
Man, he's so lucky that the nettles didn't transfer from the glove - cause first thing he did was wipe his eyes. Yikes.
I think one of the most interesting parts of this is that Coyotes pain tolerance has significantly increased after taking many bites and stings over the years, many of which were filled with venom. Its interesting how when taking the Bullet Ant sting the first time, Coyote was writhing on the ground in pain, but now, comparing this plant on the SAME LEVEL AS THE BULLET ANT and many other stings that were that painful, Coyote seems to have maintained his composure much more than before. I think that shows the great adaptability of the human body. We may not be as strong or as fast or as durable as many other animals, but our bodies do learn from experiences and adapt in order to be prepared for the next time such a thing happens. Like exercise and training muscles I would say that increasing pain tolerance works the same way with the body. Great video, Coyote, you've come a really long way and its paying off. 🔥
I wouldn't jump to such an arbitrary conclusion without any actual evidence. Look at all the other people who were stung by bullet ants. None of them reacted anywhere close to how he behaved in the video (except for if you watch a Tik Tok or similar bs, I guess). My proposal in opposition to yours is that he dialed back the overacting. And I've seen so many reactions to multiple stings that were much calmer than his that I still can't really believe him anymore when he talks about pain.
If his pain tolerance had actually increased, there would have been no comparison with a bullet ant. It would mean that an equally strong venom for him would feel *less painful* than it does for other people. For it to be comparably painful, it would have to be a *stronger venom* and his composure would have to be *the same* as when he got stung by the ant. Pain tolerance doesn't mean you're calmer under pain or have better composure. It means you feel less pain overall from the same amount of damage.
@@Nitidus You're like the wildlife youtube version of those people who look at world class athletes and deadlift record holders and say "I could totally do what they do too", huh? Come back when you've been stung by something worse than a bumblebee.
"water causes searing pain......"
"I'm going to pour water on it"
"......OMG, IT HURTS BAD!! I'ma do it again!!" 😂😂😂 Coyote, you crack me up!!
😂😂😂 so underrated comment 🥲
I've never seen the sting beat him. Took him 20 minutes and he was begging for the remedy. That's a win for the plant if you ask me.
This man put his hand in a box of yellow jackets. Beast
I’ll never forget when I fell into a bush of nettles as a child it was so excruciating and felt like I was bathing in lava so props to you 😂
Jesus Christ bro
😂 my cousin used to dig up stinging nettles by the roots and chase us with them, beating us with them like whips. Not great memories, but I can laugh at them now. Closest approximation I can say is I fell in an ant hill taller than me when I was like 6 in Texas. I legit blanked out the pain and recovery period after the initial freak out, it was so bad. I can't imagine falling full bodied into stinging nettles though. Are you talking about the stinging nettles in America, or these in the video? I really hope you mean the former, because the latter I feel like would cause psychological damage 😥
I did the same apart from my mates dad was playing football with me and I bounced off him and I landed down a hill in nettles and I’ll never forget that experience
But these were just English stinging nettles
man wtf
Coyote, you are the bravest person who is amazing!!
Try cow parsnip next, it’s located in Alaska. I’ve heard stories about people getting second degree burns, and how one day a lady decided to try to do a control burn and smoke of the plant, and gave them second degree burns down her throat
What scares me about the Gympie plant is how similar it looks to so many other bush plants. How does anyone easily identify these in the wild???
Believe me, once you've been stung by one they become very identifiable.
The hairs, large leaf
same way you identify poison ivy, which looks a lot like other plants at first glance. You look for little indicators in the leafs/etc
I just started the video and thought it looks like a common boring bush leaf like we have in Germany 😄 but no, it's not the same 😄
You just stay the eff away from anything that looks remotely like it.
Honestly, I used to be sort of sad that the best performing videos required Coyote to put himself in danger, and that does still suck. But I see now that you guys have really taken this formula and made it a fully educational experience for viewers, but as a warning and wrt treatment. So, hats off to you man, you're a real one, and I hope it doesn't cause too much chronic pain.
I went to Bunya Mountains, Queensland, with my family for a getaway and brushed my forearm against this plant.
It was insanely painful and thought it was a stinging nettle until I found out it was in fact the gympie-gympie plant.
I tried sticky tape to remove nettles, Stingose and washing with water. It's fair to say it ruined my weekend.
Coyote: don't worry, we have a full first aid kit
Me: you need a full doctor and a poilce escort on speed dial🤣🤣🤣
His ability to withstand pain and to keep composure is insane.
The worst I’ve ever experienced is a brush with stinging nettles here in Central Texas. It wasn’t horrible, but it was worse than I imagined it would be. I can’t even imagine that pain cranked up to 100…
Yea stinging nettles are a pain I was at states for cross country crossing in between brushes watching the girls team right before my race I got rubbed with some it sucked for a bit but duck tape worked
Some nettles are stingier than others, and I hear their stings are nastier when they’re young. Some nettles are barely itchy, while others have stung the crap out of me.
The worst I’ve ever had is when I fell into a very thorny bush and I can’t even imagine this level of pain
Stinging nettles are common used in Poland, people would sleep on a bed of it because it would boost their immune system. I just brush my arm or slap them on my body on walks or hikes. They only last an hour unless you get hit with old ones could last 3-5 days.
@@Zmaghurphy You’ve been super lucky if that’s the worst pain you’ve ever felt! You’ve never had a 2nd degree burn?