I do this job for a living, hunting these starfish, ive seen litterally 100s of thounsands (i describe them as the locusts of the reef) in 8 days diving 7 of us culled 33 thousand roughly. Needless to say they chewed the reef hard. Glad CoTS are finally getting more awareness! Weeoow thanks so much everyone! I have passed this onto many of crew that have come through the vessels. For an update still doing it and its going good! Its now may 2024 and im a skipper of one of the vessels!
The fact the bot seeds coral while killing the coral-eaters is amazing. It's like if your species was driven tp near-extinction by a single nefarious group of demons, but some divine entity sends a mechanized champion that helps your population return to bre-destruction levels and assassinates all the evil dark-starred demons.
Actually, it is a game that does exist... If you can manage to get to Brisbane Australia and use QUT's 'Cube': A giant wall sized array of touch screens at the ground floor of one of their newest buildings, open to the public. You control a simplified version of the RangerBot and help it take out Crown of Thorns star fish.
I always thought toxapex was based off of a vampire squid in its defensive position. It's listed as a "brutal star" pokemon on bulbapedia, but they refer to it's legs as tenticles, like a squid, multiple times in the article. Perhaps it's a combination of both real life animals.
It’s pretty gruesome if you think about it. Lots of sea stars are predators. The ones that prey on bivalves will grab onto their shells with their hydraulic tube feet and pull until the prey is exhausted, and then insert their stomachs into the shell and digest the prey out of it, alive. It’s a good thing even fast sea stars are pretty slow because being eaten by them would suck.
The fact that it can also seed coral and test water quality makes me think that the rangerbots would be very easily altered or tinkered with for other marine conservation jobs that may come up, perhaps in the future we'll see them using ai to do species count estimations
How amazing that they found a relatively easy to get, and inocous to other animals venom that kills the starfish fast. Like, it's usually much more complicated than that
It gets better. Turns out you can just use regular old household vinegar. Quick 20 ml injection gives 97% mortality. And it's a lot easier to source than bile salts.
@@omfgHumuhumunuku while I haven't properly looked into it, I'd think that acetic acid might be worse due to the higher acidity, while the acidification of the oceans is already a problem.
I remember in a Pokémon game a few years ago there was a Pokémon based on a crown of thorns starfish called mareanie that attacks corsola and I never realized that the interaction was based on how the starfish actually damage reefs
Nah, you just have to adapt a little bit. Let them gain control over the killer robots and use them to sink every single one of our military and cargo ships. That way it'll actually be us who'll have made their rise possible.
"I know that organ harvesting is illegal, but we need as much bile as possible in order to defeat the starfish invasion!" Am available for further script editing suggestions. You're welcome.
Nah, this is the perfect setup for you. Humans have created selection pressure so only the strongest starfish can now survive, and at the same time humans are giving starfish good reason to hate humans. They're already immune to most physical and chemical trauma. Once they evolve immunity to bile, humanity is basically doomed.
typpical aint it? a natural phenomena occurs and man tries to use its own hands and tech brain pride on its own to try n fix an issue that only nature itself can solve...
@@fallen4satan Nature doesn't have some perfect balance where every species has its place or whatever, every species looks after itself and there were several extinction periods long before humans were even a thing, nature doesn't care about anyone
My dive instructor in Hawaii always carried a net for removing crown of thorns. It's quite funny to watch a cots run in terror from a giant triton since it's such a slow chase.
Heard about these things first from a show called 'Barney's Barrier Reef', a BBC nature show that talked about various lifeforms in the GBR. Normally it was a light hearted/edutainment show, talking about various ways creatures used mucus, poop, bits of reef debris, colours, and so on. But from what I can remember, every single time the Crown-Of-Thorns was talked about, it was in a much more serious tone compared to everything else, and was in a way the main villain/antagonist of the show due to the fact that they're mostly known for how much damage they cause to the reef at large.
@@ccg2301 Animals don't have a purpose. They're just out there trying to grow and reproduce as much as possible, just like every other animal. If you're asking if they provide a benefit to the rest of the ecosystem, it's the same as any other predator. They tend to feed primarily on the most abundant fastest growing corals, which in a balanced system, increases biodiversity.
@@ccg2301 Which were held in balance by the Giant Triton Snail until humans reduced the numbers to critical levels. So who's the culprit here? A starfish that's been around for thousands of years (if not more) before the European human got to Australia, and yet the Reef still thrived, or the humans who collected the snails to near extinction because they were "pretty" and looked nice on a shelf or aquarium, along with (according to the vast majority of scientists in the field) have created climate conditions that are severely stressing coral reefs everywhere? (Coral bleaching is also devastating reefs) My money is on the human being the criminal here, as is usually the case when species go extinct.
Funnything, coincidentally if you turn the stats downside up or front to back you get the approximate "success" rate of the "deadly" wossname . Do you believe in coincidence?.🤔
Random recommendation for a bizarre beast. The naked mole rat is the only mammal that is eusocial, and it is a thermoconformer (meaning they are practically cold blooded). A university professor I had had done studies with naked mole rats and I truly learned how bizarre they were from him.
Also they have no sense of touch IIRC? It's speculated that that prevents them from feeling pain due to the extremely high levels of CO2 in their burrows. (Also, I *think* they're immortal/cancer-proof/senescence-proof?)
COTSBOT: Think, Starfish! Think! WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO THIS?! YOU'RE EATING AND REPRODUCING SO MUCH YOU CAN SEE EVERYONE AROUND YOU DIE! Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: ......
The crown of thorns: its your makers fault. I had few natural predators, each one your makers hunted near exstinction for there own vanity or greed. They invited me to kill.
Shhhhh! don't speak of the Emu's! They are listening, and waiting, they will strike when the time is right. Plus, humans killed every single one in my state (Tasmania) around 1865, they still want revenge.........
Just want to point out that the "army" they sent to deal with the emu's consisted of 3 men, 2 lewis guns and ONLY 10,000 rounds of ammo for 20,000 emus. Work that one out.
Fortunately, sea stars don’t have brains and probably don’t suffer pain the way we do. It’s more like a stimulus to move them away from ouch thing. Besides, predatory sea stars digest their prey alive. That inside out stomach. Death in the ocean is not gentle.
@@keithfaulkner6319 this is called projection. I get it. You care way too much about it and it makes your eyes all teary so you tell other people to shut up and you "grrr" at them. We see you.
I was hyped to see starfish footage then you brought out the sea snail... Dude you don't even know how much I love sea snails, this is making my bad morning way better thank you
I adore this hosts energy. Starfish freak me out too and he admits that even this particular species is especially weird and aggressive to boot. Glad to see these sea-locusts are being culled in a way that helps the reefs as well.
I saw an older video about a virus that was causing starfish to rip themselves apart, and stopping them from regenerating. Any chance there could be a video about that?
Growing up in North Queensland Australia next to the Great Barrier Reef I learned about these starfish from a very you age. Our first school trip to the aquarium Reef HQ was in grade 3.
Oh, so _THIS_ is what the Mareanie and Toxapex lines from Pokémon were based on. No wonder they were considered pests who feasted on Corsola (actually, they were only catchable by SOS chaining from a Corsola in SM iirc. Corsola is a coral Pokémon)
It’s sort of like snake venom in a way: the snake can eat the snake’s prey just fine after injecting its blood stream with venom. In this case bile makes perfect sense since a creature with bile in its stomach will be able to handle eating a creature with bile it its blood stream (emphasis on the bile in the blood stream as how the target died).
@@omfgHumuhumunuku still, does it justify spending millions on high tech equipment, maintenance, and staff per machine instead of supplementing the invader's natural predators?
Ah yes. Built killer robots that deploy poison and can learn to spot hidden prey. I feel like Cave Johnson was involved in this somehow. The next model probably also dispenses cake.
We use "charlie carp" as fertiliser in Australia instead, that product being made from invasive carp that are cleared from waterways to save them, using the profits their sale as fertiliser net
wonder if this is being adapted for lionfish. mind you, is it a wise idea to start making assassin bots to "manage" our oceans. im picturing a scary mix of Terminator and Sharknado
While the Rangerbot is an exciting development, is it not possible to grow more Giant Triton snails and deploy them? Or would that end up like the introduction of the Cane Toads?
Stumbled upon this channel recently and it got me thinking, are there other channels I might not know where Hank Green is in? Even as a guest? I only know SciShow and CrashCourse. Very curious as I’ve been seeing him everywhere lately 😁
It's far more effective to try and breed Triton Snails in captivity and release them into vulnerable reef zones. One or two robots won't be able to cover as much ground and control such a large population of starfish. This would also help rejuvenate the diminished population of snails too.
I am both excited and terrified of the fact we are now making and deploying real ass killer robots designed to kill specific targets for scifi reasons.
First off, this is another good episode in this series all about weird creatures. However, I do have one minor question. To be clear, I am aware of how the pin club works, and that's well-understood. However, even after the video went live, my pin still says its unfulfilled. Is this delay happening with all shipments, or is there something I'm missing? 'Cause I'm pretty sure the window of a week to ship has passed a while ago.
I remember seeing something about these critters some time ago, and there were actually divers going down onto the reefs to find and kill them. The robot is an absolutely brilliant idea. It destroys the invasive species and then replenishes what has been lost, kind of a 'remove and repair' situation. Now this is where technology is brilliant and shows what we are capable of and what we should be using it for instead of trying to kill each other.
I did a school report on this starfish a long time ago (I must have forgotten their spines were poisonous though, because I was surprised by that.), They are fascinating. To be fair, it's not the starfish's fault the corals are dying...they've been eating coral for thousands of years. It's only when humans started screwing things up that the balance of nature got out of wack. Now we have to fix what we broke, and the starfish pay the price. :(
@@avacurtis2729 Nature is not "perfectly balanced", it just moves a bit slower. Species have still died out regularly before human activity. (Not saying that it's not way worse now)
There would have to be survivors for any immunity to build up in a species, and it takes a few generations and a lot of survivors to repress their vulnerability to the toxin. It sounds like the robot doesn't leave any survivors, so immunity seems unlikely at best, in this case.
Considering the lack of exposure to bile naturally, it should take a while before a mutation would appear in the population that could benefit the sea star. That being said, the massive amounts of eggs produced could be an issue if a mutation does appear and is selected for.
Bike salts is old news. It spoils three days after mixing. Vinegar is way easier to use. Also ranger bot is being moved towards surveillance instead of control. Much easier to use these bots to find the starfish then send divers in to do the injections. In high density areas you can kill 200-300 per dive and the bots just can't keep up.
I hope they also offer this technology to the poorer Coral Triangle nations up north. The Great Barrier Reef is great and all, but in terms of biodiversity, it still pales in comparison to the Coral Triangle. And the Coral Triangle is similarly becoming increasingly threatened by COT outbreaks.
In reality, it's still only prototypes, real control of the COT in Australia is handled by pure manpower, diver teams going out & injecting tens of thousands of them with vinegar. That should be even more viable to do in the coral triangle, with lower wages required for divers. Governments still have to be willing to fork out to pay for those programs though, proportionately the same costs for each government
i'd be interested in finding out where you can buy the bile salts for injection. i've come across quite a few infestations and the best we could do is try and pick them up with bbq tongs put them in a bag and then burry them in the sand on the beach. that's a 2 man job and quite slow. and thus that eats into working time/profit. if you could just prick them and move on to the next one that would be great to get dive pros to go out once a month on their local reefs with a few doses.
Imagine this situation but with humans, like there’s a bunch of artificially intelligent robots flying around injecting people with poison. All I’m saying is those starfish must be a bit confused with the situation, and Netflix has inspiration for a new original series. Edit for clarification: this comment was a joke, I do not sympathize with starfish any more then any other random brainless bottom dweller.
I feel like us interfering in a natural process will end up causing issues down the line. Like what if those starfish feeding on corals opened up area and opportunity for more corals to grow of the skeletal remains of the eaten ones?
Unfortunately it takes a lifetime for coral reefs to make any progress… lion fish are causing similar unbalanced and we should care more about these issues.
Great video, no annoying ads playing every 2 minutes. I just subscribed however, Sea slug kills the starfish. Humans kill the sea slug for pretty shell, yet The starfish kills the reef,. Humans be like: "lets keep raping the seas until there isn't a single fish left" Smart humans be like: "coral reefs attract the fish you want to eat so lets save the reefs, build a robot to kill the starfish that is killing the reef that is preventing us from over fishing" Again great video LMAO
Imagine getting your own Bizarre Beasts episode but all they're talking about is how to kill you.
I feel like that's very Black Mirror/ Tales from the Loop. Pretty dark idea, so probably more Black Mirror.
The Bizarre Beast isn't the starfish.
The Bizarre Beast is the starfish terminator.
@@neolexiousneolexian6079 yep... soon AI will be able to target and kill humans 100% of the time, avoiding the 3d printed ones even...
@@nilspochat8665 it can now, the bot is literally a proof that it can be done
@@delgermuruntsagaankhuu6951 even the 3dprinted humans?! :O (yeah it would actually, with enough vram...)
They really missed a chance here to call the robots Star Destroyers.
aw man
My god this robots name needs a revision
@Bite Em Up well that sounds terrifying
Every single starfish is now and ENEMY of the Republic!
How about "Death Star" ;)
I do this job for a living, hunting these starfish, ive seen litterally 100s of thounsands (i describe them as the locusts of the reef) in 8 days diving 7 of us culled 33 thousand roughly. Needless to say they chewed the reef hard. Glad CoTS are finally getting more awareness!
Weeoow thanks so much everyone! I have passed this onto many of crew that have come through the vessels. For an update still doing it and its going good! Its now may 2024 and im a skipper of one of the vessels!
Ppl who do cullings are ironically some of the greatest heroes of nature, my hats off to you and your fellows
I bet your job is AMAZING 🤩
@@inotaarto8719 thank you kind sir, means alot to me and the crew!
@@amandathurston2720 its pretty awesome! Work isnt really work when you love what you do.
@@toads_ftw6866 Thanks for protecting the reefs.
So now even Starfish have to worry about being dronestriked.
'MERICA F*** YEAH
They sit on millions of barrels of suboceanic oil. Naturally, they had to be liberated by drones.
How to get american funding
@@SgtSkelebone Coming again to save the MotherFk'n Day yeah!
@@ptitgavroche imagine if we found a coral that produces hydrocarbon chains and we could turn the reefs into a petrol farm 😂😂
The fact the bot seeds coral while killing the coral-eaters is amazing. It's like if your species was driven tp near-extinction by a single nefarious group of demons, but some divine entity sends a mechanized champion that helps your population return to bre-destruction levels and assassinates all the evil dark-starred demons.
So with COVID the girls are going to be in for a real treat later in isolation then.
That's just Pelinal Whitestrake from the Elder Scrolls videogame series
Terminator 2
Why do the nefarious evil demons have to be dark skinned? 😂
@@monica012077 he said dark starred lmao
-What do you do for a living?
-Oh, I manage an extra national group of robotic assassins
"Oh, do they like, protect the president?"
"No, they kill starfish"
That's a panty dropper right there
@@yourdaddy6030 Never heard that term.
@@domeen0gt895 you ever see a starfish near the President? Sounds like they're protecting the President to me.
@@masonsmith9619 Shoot! I'm all ears.
Starfish Robot Assassin is a videogame i want to exist
Isn't that part of Subnautica?
@@AnnoyingNewslettersPage6 Potential for a mod there.
Cute profile pic and yes that would be a fun game to play
Actually, it is a game that does exist... If you can manage to get to Brisbane Australia and use QUT's 'Cube': A giant wall sized array of touch screens at the ground floor of one of their newest buildings, open to the public. You control a simplified version of the RangerBot and help it take out Crown of Thorns star fish.
One where we could operate ACTUAL robots that help take down the starfish?
4:00 Now I see why Toxapex's defenses are so stupidly high, damn.
And it fookin regenerates
I always thought toxapex was based off of a vampire squid in its defensive position. It's listed as a "brutal star" pokemon on bulbapedia, but they refer to it's legs as tenticles, like a squid, multiple times in the article. Perhaps it's a combination of both real life animals.
And just like the real crown of thorns, toxapex quickly takes over a meta :D
@@BrandonJ978 pretty toxic
@@Jake.The.Snake. You missed an event in SM/USUM where the Aether Foundation explained that Mareanie and Toxapex prey on Corsola.
I'm wondering why I never thought about how starfish eat. Not disappointed.
It’s pretty gruesome if you think about it. Lots of sea stars are predators. The ones that prey on bivalves will grab onto their shells with their hydraulic tube feet and pull until the prey is exhausted, and then insert their stomachs into the shell and digest the prey out of it, alive. It’s a good thing even fast sea stars are pretty slow because being eaten by them would suck.
A lot of the ways invertbrates eat is terrifying.
Now how do they poo
Fu Updaass, their butthole is on the top.
@@evilsharkey8954 face down ass up
The fact that it can also seed coral and test water quality makes me think that the rangerbots would be very easily altered or tinkered with for other marine conservation jobs that may come up, perhaps in the future we'll see them using ai to do species count estimations
It's gonna deploy the fish variants of covid
How amazing that they found a relatively easy to get, and inocous to other animals venom that kills the starfish fast. Like, it's usually much more complicated than that
Does this make sheep poisonous to starfish, like whooly cane toads
@@casualsleepingdragon8501 Only if the sheep is feeling rather sick that day.
@@saucevc8353 or if the sheep is in a bad mood
It gets better. Turns out you can just use regular old household vinegar. Quick 20 ml injection gives 97% mortality. And it's a lot easier to source than bile salts.
@@omfgHumuhumunuku while I haven't properly looked into it, I'd think that acetic acid might be worse due to the higher acidity, while the acidification of the oceans is already a problem.
I remember in a Pokémon game a few years ago there was a Pokémon based on a crown of thorns starfish called mareanie that attacks corsola and I never realized that the interaction was based on how the starfish actually damage reefs
Not only that but Bruxish, which is Mareanie's predator, is based off a triggerfish (which can attack COTs in real life)
Well, shoot, there goes the plot of my epic sci-fi/horror story about monster starfish rising from the depths to devour human livers.
Nah, you just have to adapt a little bit. Let them gain control over the killer robots and use them to sink every single one of our military and cargo ships. That way it'll actually be us who'll have made their rise possible.
"I know that organ harvesting is illegal, but we need as much bile as possible in order to defeat the starfish invasion!"
Am available for further script editing suggestions. You're welcome.
Are we ignoring the second horror element here. Artifically intelligent, aquatic assassin robots have been unleased underwater. This is terrifying.
Nah, this is the perfect setup for you.
Humans have created selection pressure so only the strongest starfish can now survive, and at the same time humans are giving starfish good reason to hate humans.
They're already immune to most physical and chemical trauma. Once they evolve immunity to bile, humanity is basically doomed.
These Idjuts don’t know that bile is in the liver.
Starfish: leisurely devouring coal reefs, yummy
Killer robots: WE ARE THE BORG. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
Lower your metabolism and surrender your lives, you will be eliminated
We are the necrons and your on our planet get off
More like the resistance to the empire 😂
How bad is it?
"The scientists decided to create an army of murderbots to solve the problem" bad.
Enough for the terminators to change their target kind of bad
typpical aint it? a natural phenomena occurs and man tries to use its own hands and tech brain pride on its own to try n fix an issue that only nature itself can solve...
@@fallen4satan But the issue came from nature itself...?
@@door-chan from human alteration with nature
@@fallen4satan Nature doesn't have some perfect balance where every species has its place or whatever, every species looks after itself and there were several extinction periods long before humans were even a thing, nature doesn't care about anyone
Crown of Thorns: Ha ha, I'm invincible!
Snail: Who left all this free food here?
😂😂😂
My dive instructor in Hawaii always carried a net for removing crown of thorns.
It's quite funny to watch a cots run in terror from a giant triton since it's such a slow chase.
Crown of thorns can actually really run for sea stars, but they’re still super slow.
The “kill the Crown of Thorns” and “reseed the reef with coral”robot sounds fantastic!!!! Congratulations to everyone involved!! 🎉🎊🥳
Heard about these things first from a show called 'Barney's Barrier Reef', a BBC nature show that talked about various lifeforms in the GBR.
Normally it was a light hearted/edutainment show, talking about various ways creatures used mucus, poop, bits of reef debris, colours, and so on.
But from what I can remember, every single time the Crown-Of-Thorns was talked about, it was in a much more serious tone compared to everything else, and was in a way the main villain/antagonist of the show due to the fact that they're mostly known for how much damage they cause to the reef at large.
Don't they have any other purpose other than eat corals?
They're basically pest of the sea if they have no other positive contribution to sea life.
@@ccg2301 They might have some other purpose to them, but their reef killing ways overwhelm all other elements to them by far.
@@ccg2301 Animals don't have a purpose. They're just out there trying to grow and reproduce as much as possible, just like every other animal. If you're asking if they provide a benefit to the rest of the ecosystem, it's the same as any other predator. They tend to feed primarily on the most abundant fastest growing corals, which in a balanced system, increases biodiversity.
@@ccg2301 Which were held in balance by the Giant Triton Snail until humans reduced the numbers to critical levels.
So who's the culprit here? A starfish that's been around for thousands of years (if not more) before the European human got to Australia, and yet the Reef still thrived, or the humans who collected the snails to near extinction because they were "pretty" and looked nice on a shelf or aquarium, along with (according to the vast majority of scientists in the field) have created climate conditions that are severely stressing coral reefs everywhere? (Coral bleaching is also devastating reefs)
My money is on the human being the criminal here, as is usually the case when species go extinct.
@@iffracem And yet the humans put all the blame on someone else like they always do.
"Correctly identified the crown of thorns 99.4% of the time"
RIP to the lost 0.6% ⚰
...That might be false negatives instead of false positives?
@@neolexiousneolexian6079 a mixture of both
Rip for the ones the machine doesn't see and thus survive... Nice logic.
Funnything, coincidentally if you turn the stats downside up or front to back you get the approximate "success" rate of the "deadly" wossname .
Do you believe in coincidence?.🤔
That one purple starfish with only 6 arms: i feel funny…
Random recommendation for a bizarre beast. The naked mole rat is the only mammal that is eusocial, and it is a thermoconformer (meaning they are practically cold blooded). A university professor I had had done studies with naked mole rats and I truly learned how bizarre they were from him.
Also they have no sense of touch IIRC? It's speculated that that prevents them from feeling pain due to the extremely high levels of CO2 in their burrows.
(Also, I *think* they're immortal/cancer-proof/senescence-proof?)
Those are really bizarre.
Now, what we need is a psychic-water Snail Pokemon that hunts the Mareanie and Toxapex down.
Too bad they are nearly exstinct
Love this idea
Save the Corsola!
and a Steel/Poison COTSbot
evolving into a LarvalBot
O think Poison-Water with corrosion would make more sense since its the saliva that renders them useless
"is this Bizarre Beasts?" "NO, this is Patrick!"
Tank Patrick
Haha patricks cousin? There is an actual stwrfish patrick is based on theyre so cuddly 🤣
*WAS Patrick
“Radula”: a famous vampire that, wether on boards or wheels, shreds the gnar while always having a Vans baseball hat on backwards.
He only has one fang because the other got knocked out trying to land a flair.
@@chrisburn7178
I see you are also studied up on your ancient Romanian texts 😂
@@conservat1vepatr1ot Well yeah, but also whenever I'm at the bowl or pump track he's there waiting for someone to stack so he can lick up the blood 🙄
@@chrisburn7178
🤣🤣🤣
Now Lovecraft novels make so much sense.
Cthulhu is just taking revenge for his pet starfish.
Poor Cthulhu
Starfish:
• no responsibility
• no need to pay taxes
• no sand in swimsuit
• can regrow lost limbs
• stay on mermaid's booba
*Become starfish*
Underrated
@@Ampedcrafter shut
@@prestongonzalez3836 NO LET THE MAN SPEAK.
what's that last point? you spelled it wrong 😅 you should have payed more attention in school instead of wanting to be a starfish ☝️
@@JoeMama-1diot booba is a thing 🤣
COTSBOT: Think, Starfish! Think! WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO THIS?! YOU'RE EATING AND REPRODUCING SO MUCH YOU CAN SEE EVERYONE AROUND YOU DIE!
Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: ......
The crown of thorns: its your makers fault. I had few natural predators, each one your makers hunted near exstinction for there own vanity or greed. They invited me to kill.
@@mlpfanboy1701 and you accepted it..
seems Australia had a knack to launch war with animals just like like the infamous The Great Emu War
This time it seems that they're winning.
Shhhhh! don't speak of the Emu's! They are listening, and waiting, they will strike when the time is right.
Plus, humans killed every single one in my state (Tasmania) around 1865, they still want revenge.........
This angered the Emus, who punished the Australians severely
Just want to point out that the "army" they sent to deal with the emu's consisted of 3 men, 2 lewis guns and ONLY 10,000 rounds of ammo for 20,000 emus. Work that one out.
Imagine dying to allergic reactions for up to 24 hours.
It's a starfish, not your sister. Get over it.
Fortunately, sea stars don’t have brains and probably don’t suffer pain the way we do. It’s more like a stimulus to move them away from ouch thing.
Besides, predatory sea stars digest their prey alive. That inside out stomach. Death in the ocean is not gentle.
@@evilsharkey8954 nature is not gentle. You ever watch fish crunch up crayfish, or Komodo dragons rip up living deer?
@@keithfaulkner6319 this is called projection. I get it. You care way too much about it and it makes your eyes all teary so you tell other people to shut up and you "grrr" at them. We see you.
@@V1ctoria00 ok
When you play New Pokemon Snap and watch Corsola desperately flee a swarm of Mareanie in the distance.
Magnezone...
Invasive species massacre now
Tyranitar eating entire mountains also imagine monster hunter x Pokemon
Followed by Porygon Star destroyer evolution
I was hyped to see starfish footage then you brought out the sea snail... Dude you don't even know how much I love sea snails, this is making my bad morning way better thank you
I adore this hosts energy. Starfish freak me out too and he admits that even this particular species is especially weird and aggressive to boot. Glad to see these sea-locusts are being culled in a way that helps the reefs as well.
I feel like the giant snail and the robots deserve their own pins. Everything is so cool!
That was simultaneously really interesting and several different kinds of super creepy.
"..and you are being hunted by robotic assassins'."
Netflix.. you listening?
Octonauts made a movie about their invasion on the great barrier reef! Its a good watch for all ages
Funny they left out the killer bile robots though...
Toxapex is based on the Crown of Thorns Starfish
*explains why its so hard to kill Toxapex*
somehow I can imagine the whole thing as Magnezone go on Toxapex KO-ing spree
@@tsuribachi SAME!
@@tsuribachi
It's an electronic steel type so it probably could.
The starfish surrounded by all the fighting, time traveling robots is the one.
We built a mechanical predator. This isn't good. We've created an ocean terminator XD
I saw an older video about a virus that was causing starfish to rip themselves apart, and stopping them from regenerating. Any chance there could be a video about that?
no. there is no chance.
To fight the monsters we built monsters of our own
-pacific rim
Definitely need a camera for live streaming on the rangerbot
Sounds to me that you need to do a Bizarre Beast on the snail that eats the starfish up 😁
Why did your pfp make me so happy ☺️🖖
@@Samson16436 Because I went out of my way to grab the TNG emblem to show everyone how "old" I am 🖖😆
"You are, by all accounts, a fairly standard starfish..."
NO IM NOT MY MOM SAYS IM A SPECIAL STARFISH
Growing up in North Queensland Australia next to the Great Barrier Reef I learned about these starfish from a very you age. Our first school trip to the aquarium Reef HQ was in grade 3.
Oh, so _THIS_ is what the Mareanie and Toxapex lines from Pokémon were based on. No wonder they were considered pests who feasted on Corsola (actually, they were only catchable by SOS chaining from a Corsola in SM iirc. Corsola is a coral Pokémon)
Ok I’m super impressed that the bile poison is safe after the fact
It’s sort of like snake venom in a way: the snake can eat the snake’s prey just fine after injecting its blood stream with venom.
In this case bile makes perfect sense since a creature with bile in its stomach will be able to handle eating a creature with bile it its blood stream (emphasis on the bile in the blood stream as how the target died).
Robotic assassins seem like a good way to control introduced and invasive species without harming the rest of the ecosystem.
Am I the only one who thinks that protecting, breeding, and deploying Giant Tritons will be better for the environment in the long term?
Probably. On the other hand: Autonomous Killer Robots!
That was pretty much my first thought...
It takes time and effort, so while I'm certain that's happening it's not enough for what appears to be a more immediate problem.
The key word there is long term. Plus the snails can only eat about 1 starfish a week. Some reefs have 50k + starfish
@@omfgHumuhumunuku still, does it justify spending millions on high tech equipment, maintenance, and staff per machine instead of supplementing the invader's natural predators?
Hank green:
“You are, by all accounts, a fairly standard starfish.”
this episode only just finished and I'm already wondering if I dreamed it.
Imagine you're little nemo sleeping in his coral and out of no where this machine drives by and STABS your next door neighbor.
Ah yes. Built killer robots that deploy poison and can learn to spot hidden prey.
I feel like Cave Johnson was involved in this somehow. The next model probably also dispenses cake.
That does sound like something he would make his scientists do, now that I've thought about it...
All fun and games until the starfish starts programming the assassin bot to hunt swimming humans
As long as we don't wipe out the crown of thorns sea star species entirely I am totally okay with this
I work for the COTS programs in Townsville Australia! this would be amazing to have!
Wow really? That is so intresting
Well,they are making breakthroughs.maybe they will be available for purchase in a few years?
@scott appelbaum yeah bro we are up in cairns! Smooth travels and culling to you and the crew G!
this is solarpunk as all hell i love it
Scientist: Rangerbot can be trained to identify,target and terminate Crown Star fish.
CIA: 🤔
Oh come on, you know the CIA had it first
Fish heads are usually used by some home gardeners from where I'm from and I'm wondering that if this starfish can be great for gardening as well.
We use "charlie carp" as fertiliser in Australia instead, that product being made from invasive carp that are cleared from waterways to save them, using the profits their sale as fertiliser net
This needs millions of more views why is this so underrated
wonder if this is being adapted for lionfish. mind you, is it a wise idea to start making assassin bots to "manage" our oceans. im picturing a scary mix of Terminator and Sharknado
You know what will also help. Put a bounty on them like they did to Lion Fishes so people will also have some motivation to get rid of them.
We're now drone striking starfish, what a time to be alive...
Imagine one day our AI creations declare us an invasive species and start jabbing us with nature friendly bile.
This is quite hopeful for the lives and preservation of coral reefs. That’s nice to hear
God I hate waking up as a starfish getting haunted by assassin robots
I remember this from Tangents! It's nice to get some footage to go along with that nugget of knowledge 👍
You see a starfish. I see a Toxapex.
While the Rangerbot is an exciting development, is it not possible to grow more Giant Triton snails and deploy them?
Or would that end up like the introduction of the Cane Toads?
I had to lol at 0:50 when that fish noticed the camera and tried to give room to the star fish but still wanted to get to the other side 😂
Stumbled upon this channel recently and it got me thinking, are there other channels I might not know where Hank Green is in? Even as a guest? I only know SciShow and CrashCourse. Very curious as I’ve been seeing him everywhere lately 😁
he is on pbs eons occasionally and vlogbrothers of course
He’s a narrator on Journey to the Microcosm
It’s kind of funny to think a starfish is just minding its business then BAM stabbed by a robot
It's far more effective to try and breed Triton Snails in captivity and release them into vulnerable reef zones. One or two robots won't be able to cover as much ground and control such a large population of starfish.
This would also help rejuvenate the diminished population of snails too.
Yeah but that isn’t as cool
My only worry: how many captive bred tritons are being released on the reef as opposed to how many are being plucked OFF the reef by divers.
I am both excited and terrified of the fact we are now making and deploying real ass killer robots designed to kill specific targets for scifi reasons.
I actually read about this thing years ago.
I’ve been waiting to see it in action!
Starfish : * eats *
Coral reef : "i don't feel so good..."
Scientist : "and i took that personally"
First off, this is another good episode in this series all about weird creatures. However, I do have one minor question. To be clear, I am aware of how the pin club works, and that's well-understood. However, even after the video went live, my pin still says its unfulfilled.
Is this delay happening with all shipments, or is there something I'm missing? 'Cause I'm pretty sure the window of a week to ship has passed a while ago.
You are correct! It looks like there has been a delay in the manufacturing process! Unfortunately the pins may not ship for another two weeks.
@@BizarreBeasts Okay, that's all I wanted to know. Not sure what's caused this delay, my best guess being the plague that's sadly still going on.
0:29 Well, that escalated quickly.
So that's what Caster's been summoning in Fate: Zero!
Hank don't stop man. Love this guy.
wow, Hank really is all over the place :D
Subscribed! ^^
King of educational youtube
@@myboy_ s.o. make him a crown!
I remember seeing something about these critters some time ago, and there were actually divers going down onto the reefs to find and kill them. The robot is an absolutely brilliant idea. It destroys the invasive species and then replenishes what has been lost, kind of a 'remove and repair' situation. Now this is where technology is brilliant and shows what we are capable of and what we should be using it for instead of trying to kill each other.
I did a school report on this starfish a long time ago (I must have forgotten their spines were poisonous though, because I was surprised by that.), They are fascinating.
To be fair, it's not the starfish's fault the corals are dying...they've been eating coral for thousands of years. It's only when humans started screwing things up that the balance of nature got out of wack. Now we have to fix what we broke, and the starfish pay the price. :(
This ^
Anyone who has looked deeper into this matter will know about this.
Exactly. Just like its not an invasive species fault they do harm. Nature is perfectly balanced until humans mess it up
@@avacurtis2729 Nature is not "perfectly balanced", it just moves a bit slower. Species have still died out regularly before human activity. (Not saying that it's not way worse now)
This episode just saved me from failing my final exam. I learnt more here than I did in my class where we went to the great barrier reef
that's scary!
This is a very cool idea, but wouldn't the star fish become immune to the "bile" over time
There would have to be survivors for any immunity to build up in a species, and it takes a few generations and a lot of survivors to repress their vulnerability to the toxin.
It sounds like the robot doesn't leave any survivors, so immunity seems unlikely at best, in this case.
Considering the lack of exposure to bile naturally, it should take a while before a mutation would appear in the population that could benefit the sea star. That being said, the massive amounts of eggs produced could be an issue if a mutation does appear and is selected for.
@@JohnSmith-mk1rj thank you for your answer I appreciate it.
@@romanmeneghinister1584 thank you for your answer I appreciate it.
"Capable of delivering a lethal dose of a starfish-killing toxin"
*proceeds to shoot torpedo's at them*
This was good to hear. Lots of negative things going on in the world with no possible solutions, and this seems like it's viable.
Bike salts is old news. It spoils three days after mixing. Vinegar is way easier to use. Also ranger bot is being moved towards surveillance instead of control. Much easier to use these bots to find the starfish then send divers in to do the injections. In high density areas you can kill 200-300 per dive and the bots just can't keep up.
I’m sure those scientists have been binge watching Michael Reeves videos
I didn't know this channel existed, saw the video was interested, Immediately recognized hank's voice and was sold, glad I found this.
If you like getting told bulshit by someone who believes they know more than they do, you should watch CNN Fox any other major News Network
@@riddell26 Actually has nothing to do with what I said, but ok buddy.
I hope they also offer this technology to the poorer Coral Triangle nations up north. The Great Barrier Reef is great and all, but in terms of biodiversity, it still pales in comparison to the Coral Triangle. And the Coral Triangle is similarly becoming increasingly threatened by COT outbreaks.
In reality, it's still only prototypes, real control of the COT in Australia is handled by pure manpower, diver teams going out & injecting tens of thousands of them with vinegar. That should be even more viable to do in the coral triangle, with lower wages required for divers. Governments still have to be willing to fork out to pay for those programs though, proportionately the same costs for each government
Cots sounds like Kots in my language and that means Puke. Quite fitting since the bile is an internal fluid so now I will call it Kotsrobot
star: fish
symmetry: radial
crown: of thorns
assassins: robotic
hotel: trivago
Whoever came up with this is a genius.
I just love when you watch a video and you realize how good Pokemon gets their science!!!! It's Mareanie
i'd be interested in finding out where you can buy the bile salts for injection. i've come across quite a few infestations and the best we could do is try and pick them up with bbq tongs put them in a bag and then burry them in the sand on the beach. that's a 2 man job and quite slow. and thus that eats into working time/profit. if you could just prick them and move on to the next one that would be great to get dive pros to go out once a month on their local reefs with a few doses.
Imagine this situation but with humans, like there’s a bunch of artificially intelligent robots flying around injecting people with poison. All I’m saying is those starfish must be a bit confused with the situation, and Netflix has inspiration for a new original series.
Edit for clarification: this comment was a joke, I do not sympathize with starfish any more then any other random brainless bottom dweller.
It’s ok they wont be confused long, seems like the biles takes care of that.
It's a starfish, not your sister. Get over it.
Sea stars don’t have brains. They don’t really think about it.
Great episode, glad i found this channel!
I feel like us interfering in a natural process will end up causing issues down the line. Like what if those starfish feeding on corals opened up area and opportunity for more corals to grow of the skeletal remains of the eaten ones?
Unfortunately it takes a lifetime for coral reefs to make any progress… lion fish are causing similar unbalanced and we should care more about these issues.
@@javis9950 We should really care more about human pollution, especially plastic.
@@justanuff no kidding. Recycling is such a scam in America, and I wonder if plastic waste isn’t going to be something we all pay for at some point.
Great video, no annoying ads playing every 2 minutes. I just subscribed however,
Sea slug kills the starfish. Humans kill the sea slug for pretty shell, yet The starfish kills the reef,.
Humans be like: "lets keep raping the seas until there isn't a single fish left"
Smart humans be like: "coral reefs attract the fish you want to eat so lets save the reefs, build a robot to kill the starfish that is killing the reef that is preventing us from over fishing"
Again great video LMAO