I think what's worse about stonefish is that.. their defense mechanism doesn't come into play particularly often. Most animals they share their habitat with can just swim over them, and what few that might have an active interest in trying to take a bite won't see past their camouflage. This means their defense mechanism almost seems purpose-built to hold up a middle finger to humans in particular since we're just about the only species that walks along the seabed in shallow water frequently enough to justify their _thing._
My only counter is you're not really considering biting as the reason. Like yeah we step on them sure, but I highly doubt that the spines that emerge when you push on their back are for LAND based predators, I'd have to say it's to stab the upper jaw of whatever is trying to chew it. The amount of camo is an ABSOLUTE finger though
No predator takes the time to try and position a stonefish to bite them vertically, it's more likely that they get bitten from the sides where their spines aren't hitting anything before the stonefish retires from life
Humans are possibly the only land animals wandering into shallow waters with thick, flat feet unlike other birds and mammals that get close in their habitats. So yes, it's an absolute middle finger
Honestly, the venom might just be an evolutionary leftover. Basically every other member in the Stonefish's family (e.g. lionfish, scorpionfish) is venomous in the same way.
Jeremy Wade is the GOAT, the Steve Irwin of rivers, the one who taught me piranhas are shy and misunderstood, while catfish are swimming nightmares. I still miss his show.
I'm not one for subscription services buttttttttttttt discovery+ is 8.99 (effectively the cheapest streaming platform on the market) and river monsters is on there, along with mighty rivers
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 there's many predatory sturgeons out there, an almost extinct Russian example is the kaluga (huso dauricus), one of the largest sturgeon next to beluga (huso huso) and white sturgeon, which eat quite big preys
@rasmusn.e.m1064 I'm sure he's making shit up Granted there are species that jump out of the water when frightened but the people who get killed are usually fishing in kayaks and they drown
11:00 There's a reason why EU has forbidden importing anything but farmed puffer fish (that is guaranteed not to be venomous) and in US there is only like 7 different restaraunts in the entire country (5 of them in New York) that prepare Fugu. And only by order, I believe. It's just so easy to leave enough venom in it to kill whoever eats it. It used to be actually tradition in Japan, that the chef who prepared Fugu was the first one taste it before serving it to customers. Kinda motivated them to be extra sure, knowing that their lives might be on the line.
It should still be tradition for the chef to eat it first. That's the only way I'd try it, especially if there's no antivenom. No food is worth that kind of risk imo
Most fugu lookalike among each other and their poisonous organs differs too, that's why most master fugu chefs have to undergo years and years of training to differentiate between species and proper method to cut out the meat.
I've sat here for way too long trying to think of something punny to add. I give up, and thanks for the pun. If you want to hear a bunch of aquatic puns, listen to "Wet Dream," by Kip Adotta.
I mean have you seen him when he goes places, dude nearly gets eaten alive at the majority of locations he fishes by mosquitos which is incredibly dangerous especially in a lot of the regions he goes to, there was also that time with the lightning and let's not forget he doesn't shy away from areas that have very high regional tensions and that's gotten him in some hot water in his journeys occasionally
@@ashrowan2143 oh he’s cool af! It’s just funny that that’s all I think of when I think about river monsters. I also really admired him for his catch and release practice. My first roommate and I used to get off work on Sundays, crack open a couple of cold ones, and watch river monsters and turtle man. LIVE ACTION!!! YEEYEEYEEYEEYEEYEE!!! Good times.
catfish are some of THE most insane things in the water. there's even a population that lives in the cooling ponds in chernobyl!!! they're insanely hardy, they eat anything, and several families in the species are known to breathe air. once a fish gets big enough, like the arapaima or the wels catfish, simply opening its huge mouth is enough to catch most smaller prey in the cavitation that results. the first fish i ever bought for my aquarium was a species of catfish. truly the fish of all time
At the Reifel Bird Sanctuary on Westham Island in Delta, BC. There are tons of Catfish that populate along the marsh rivers and wetlands. I have been on many walks there are a kid and young adult. I swear those catfish far eclipse the size of a full grown dog. I say they could swallow dogs or cranes if that wanted to.
I had 2 Raphael Striped Catfish, owned them for 10 years and I was super attached to them, The power in my house went out 2 years ago and the digits outside were 20 below 0, I lost all my catfish, little clown pleco too which are catfish, People dont give catfish credit for how smart they are. It took a couple years for them to come out and then they danced all over the tank right in front of the glass. I called it the " snoopy dance" it was so much like the happy snoopy dance in the old cartoons, The loss really broke my heart, but I am ready now to get them again , if I can find them. They were like dogs in a tank!
6:35 this clip is so funny to me. From the dude pointing at the fish and laughing, to him swatting at it and freaking out while the fish is just as freaked out.
@@whatupguys1 thou it would be unfair to put down only the Japanese cuisine like that. In my opinion every country in the world has at least one meal that is just way too weird or too dangerous to eat. In my country for example we have tatarak which is a raw meat served with raw egg. If that's not the easiest way to get salmonela than I don't know what is. 🫠
@@messyjoy899I want it clear that Japan ALSO has dishes of raw meat and raw egg, gyutataki and sukiyaki specifically but also fish dishes like sashimi and sushi. Fugu is also eaten raw in Japan as a sashimi dish (Korea we cook it slightly), but it's really nice. But I think I've decided a few gambles of my life for a meal is enough at this point, and probably won't have it again for a long time haha.
I remember that, the documentary said she was flashing at them in aggression, but she purposely drove attention toward herself, I dunno, it was haunting
@spyderbyte975 I've heard that some tagged birds have an easier time getting mates because females think they look nice. This must be the first time the opposite happened. The animal completely rejects the tag
I had a friend who worked for the forestry service around Charlotte NC and one of his jobs was to clear the pipes of the dam. There were catfish in the estuary that grew very large as they had no conventional predators and unlimited food. They unfortunately would swim up into the septic pipes until they got stuck. Once on such a job he dropped into the water, going to the bottom were he encountered a "forest" of water plants, and as he disturbed them a huge catfish rose from the reeds. My friend who stood at six feet tall swears that the whiskers of this catfish were as long as he was tall and the fish dwarfed him. The animal as he tells it lifted itself up, looked at him for a few moments "he insists the fish was considering if the energy he would expend to kill him would be worth it or not" before eventually it settled back down below the water flora.
i believe it! We used to see videos that divers would take at Lake Whitney, against the dam. They would sit against the grates that opened and closed to let water out of the lake, and into the spillway. They got as big aa cars, no shit.
I believe it. In Oklahoma on my rez, there’s a local legend about some divers that went into the lake and encountered a catfish big as a car that could swallow a man whole (it didn’t, obviously lol), but the divers were SO spooked that they never went diving again, or so the story goes haha.
I've always heard/read these stories yet to this day I've never seen an image or video of a catfish that matched it. It's like UFOs/bigfoot. All these cameras and no proof.
Y'all ever heard of noodling? I'm from Missouri, n what you do is you go out to shallow parts of the river and blindly stick your arm into catfish dens (muddy holes) hoping a catfish will bite so you can pull it out of the den. What I'm actually most afraid of, when it comes to that habitat, is alligator snapping turtle mamas during nesting season. They WILL chase you and are upsettlingly fast on land.
Noodling has always been one of those things that I feel like a group of friends were pretty drunk when they tried it, then decided to make it a habit because it actually worked and was a "great party trick". There's no other explanation for why anyone would willingly try to get attacked just to catch a fish.
If you visit the "Blue Planet" aquarium in Denmark and use the elevator to go down one floor, the first sight to greet you as you open the door are Arapaimas. I was _not_ aware of this beforehand and got one hell of a surprise as one swam by just as I got off the elevator 😂
Dude, that episode of Wild Thornberries where Nigel steps on a stone fish freaking traumatized me as a kid. I imagine some executuve man wanted to reject the episode cuz a man almost died in it, but I'm glad it got approved cuz it taught me a super important lesson. That lesson being, it's not the monsters you see coming that will get you, it's the ones you don't see. Stay cautious.
@@gooeydude574 It's a very real episode. As I recall, the mom, who is the usual person in charge of the camera for the nature show that Nigel hosts, was unable to do her job for some reason. Eliza talks her dad, Nigel, into letting her use the camera so they can meet their deadline. So, they go a long ways away from camp, looking for a certain spot where a rare creature dwells. All goes pretty well, but something distracts Nigel and he accidentally steps on a stonefish. Even worse, they forgot the first aid with the antivenom. Nigel is already incapacitated by the venom and Eliza spends the rest of the episode trying t get back to camp, grab the kit, and head back to Nigel to administer the antivenom before he freaking dies. Of course, it being a kids show, they kinda try to make Nigel's condition kinda funny, but man, it scared the crap out of 9 year old me. Haha
@@ytyoungrichnhigh I was kind of a timid child. The thought of getting hurt, or other good guys getting hurt, always scared me back then. Still, I never really thought about such possibilities during a thrilling action scene or a chase scene. I guess the fast movements and action could distract my small child mind. This episode was something new to me. All tlat pain and potential for death caused by something seemingly so small and insignificant, and at a much slower and excruciating pace than I (as a child) ever imagined a shark or tiger would dish it out. It didn't even have a single line to speak, like how some predators in this show will kinda taunt Eliza or go on about how much they wanna eat something. This lack of dialogue made it seem a lot more ruthless and unfeeling to me as a kid. I dunno. The thought of dying from poison never crossed my mind as a kid until that day, so it really freaked me out. Once I watched this episode, and learned that stuff like rattlesnakes, water moccasins, and brown recluse spiders were potentially in my area, I kinda got too scared to play outside for a little while. Obviously those guys aren't quite as dangerous as a stonefish, but child me just heard "venomous" and resolved to stay inside and play games forever. Haha!
Today we learned: 1)Never go swimming in the open ocean at night. 2)Wear combat boots when tide pooling in Australia. 3)Don't order the fugu, it ain't worth it. 4)Pee on a tree in the Amazon. 5)Don't wear shiny stuff when swimming or diving. 6)Don't toy with the fish that I am certain is the inspiration for Uth Duna in MHWilds.
I absolutely love this channel. I laugh my ass off and learn so much about random topics simultaneously. Well deserved success to the owner of this channel, cheers.
You can use the ',' and '.' keys on YT to go frame by frame and check. Obviously it won't be 100%, as we don't know the recorded framerate, and compression upon upload, but it'll be close enough to tell
In regards to the Catfish and whether or not they could consume a human...look up the Sobral Santos II riverboat accident from 1981. In fact, Jeremy Wade did an episode of River Monsters covering that accident and how Catfish were partially responsible for the 300 deaths.
@@donttalktomebye it's not ganges but Kali river or mahakali river. It later joins ganges but I'm not sure. And those are goonch catfish and yes they get huge but it's rare these days because of overfishing. Goonch are rare fishes especially those one that reaches the size of humans.
The thing with piranha isn't entirely undeserved. From the same River Monsters episode where Jeremy swam in a piranha infested river, he also found a village where falling into the water was a death sentence from piranha.
yeah, most victims are propably drunk fishermen but even then would the term "usually" be misplaced ... because its just extremely rare. ... and these stories about Wels are just hilarious. I have been fishing Wels for half my life, their biteforce is rather weak to the point you can stick an arm into their mouth while wrestling one out of the water. Also you have to be extremely unlucky and weak to be knocked out or break something by the tail slap of a Wels. The large old ones aint particular agile or quick anymore, and the smaller ones dont have that much power ... no comparison to those Arapaima units.
Just another story about humans being idiots or too drunk. That ain't the Arapaima's fault, tbh. lol They could just, ya know, leave the Arapaima alone? But no, humans are incapable of leaving anything alone, due to their carelessness and hubris.
Fun fact: the way I learned that catfish had spines was by grabbing a small one and trying to put it in a bucket at summer camp, sliced clean down my finger if I remember correctly, absolute panic for a moment before I learned what had happened. Now I work at the same camp, and always tell the campers not to grab the catfish, still love that place, still love the wildlife, but I’d rather not let that happen to another kid 😂
I was told the same story at a camp I went to in NC! It mortified me to hear about as a kid so ever since then I've been afraid of touching one (that's still alive) 😂 same with petting sharks the wrong way
Did you know about "catfish noodling"? It's where you literally stick your hand in the water near a catfish, and wiggle your fingers like noodles to attract them. The catfish bites your hand, and you haul it away for dinner
Lol, I got some experience working on Catfish hatchery. I asked the staffs 'how do you deal with the spine/barbs?' they just answered 'you get used to it'. Heck it even regularily pierced the gloves they commonly used.
Large catfish have large fin spurs.. The worse part? The babies/spawn have tiny needles. Imagine my surprise when I scooped up two handfuls of them from a large cloud along the shore. Yeah.
I mean.... a scorpion who loses his tail also loses his Anus as a result.... meaning he was thus cursed of dying to constipation. I wish i was kidding.
Also I almost had my hand chopped off by a arapaima once, I used to work on a aquarium feeding them and in order to call them so they can eat we do little flicks on the water surface, and we have to be super cautious and paying a lot of attention while doing that. Once I was calling the fishes and a couple aproached and started making questions, so I started answering and for a fraction of a second I looked at them, thats when I gave the water a flick and there was no water touching my hand in response, when I looked back my hand was inside the mtf mouth and thing was just getting ready to eat it, I never pulled a hand so fast on my life, moral of the story: if you're a zookeper you better always act like you're dealing with chimpanzees
@@ageishyena3035 yeah, another zookeper almost had his arm torn apart by a shark because visitors decided to pet the shark while he was feeding it (we trained the sharks to understand a touch on the head means "be ready to grab your food", so when the guy petted the shark it tried to grab the first thing he could find, that was the zookepers arm, he was lucky it was a nurse shark and they will suck their food before biting, so he was able to pull his arm when the shark sucked it)
So there’s a story about the Mississippi River. Corp of engineers went diving outside of Memphis and saw eyes as big or bigger than their heads. Catfish just chilling on the bottom of the river more than large enough to swallow an adult human. Story goes the divers refused to go down again and that part of the river was just removed from the project all together.
Channel catfish do get pretty big. A catfish farm harvests these at about two pounds for the best flavor, but it’s sort of like eating veal being as this is a very young catfish, and adults get much larger. That description about being more than big enough to swallow a man whole seems like an exaggeration to me, but not by much. P.S. Personally I wouldn’t eat catfish unless it was farm raised. There is a certain reliability of flavor that comes from feeding them only corn. The ones you catch wild can frequently have a bad flavor, because they will eat absolutely anything, and there is just no telling what they have been eating.
Based solely on the plecostomus that outgrew a 90 gallonn tank (that's nearly two bathtubs) and is now three feet long in a pond despite females of her species supposedly stopping at eighteen inches..... don't. fuck. with catfish.
Not a chance. They definetely grow big enough to deal serious damage -> current record for any catfish is at 2.85 meters. That one would knock you out, and you'd drown if nobody is around. But it wouldn't be able to swallow you or anything like that.
As a teen, my buddies and I would float down to the old railroad trestles, and catch 20lb channel cats with 10lb line, for gits and shiggles...took a while to tire em out to land em, but it was a fun challenge...we cooked one the first time...and never again. Tasted like burning garbage.
I recommend watching River Monsters if anyone here is interested. It's got plenty of fish capable of making sharks look cute and cuddly in comparison, and they're mostly _freshwater_ fish to boot!
@@that1onesimp Username checks out, but seriously, earn a shark's trust and you'll see that most species are essentially sea puppers. They don't call one of them dogfish for nothing. ;-)
Some of you evidently haven't watched the TV show River Monsters, wild tv show guy basically goes fishing in fresh water anywhere there are either urban legends or unexplained attacks in freshwater bodies of water and rivers trying to figurebout what is responsible for the stories and then catch one himself. Oh hey you vrought up Jeremy yourself (which tracks) their you go, hut yeah the show ended because he ran out of fresh water fish to find he even started branching out to brackish and saltwater fish before the show ended
My favourite fact about River Monsters was that the reason they stopped filming was because Jeremy had caught pretty much every large freshwater fish from stories and stuff. He quite literally 100%'ed his questline.
I am so glad you are still publishing! I stumbled on one of your videos from 2 years ago and came directly to the channel page to see your most recent upload !! MAN!! What great content and INSANE script!! I truly enjoy your full length videos - great channel done extremely well!
don't know why exactly but for me there's something deeply uncanny about very large fish, especially non-sharks. something in my brain telling fish should be rather small and when they don't it really makes me shudder.
We are told sharks are big and (usually) dangerous, while fish are small and (usually) harmless. So when we see a large shark, we think “woah, thats a large, dangerous shark!” And we don’t think about it much. But when we see a large fish, we think “That fish is too large. Why is it so large?” And that thought sticks. The thought of such a large fish is too much for us to handle.
THANK YOU!!!! Every time i tell people im afraid of squids, they tend to laugh until I tell them this exact encounter 7:20, and then they immediately stfu
A squad of Humboldt squid attacking literally looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie. Something that size has no right to move that fast underwater, like it seems to break the laws of physics
Man the far cry series have the absolute worst animal jump scares of any game series I have ever played. I'm always on the edge of my seat playing that game, you'll just be walking along, harvesting plants and attacking enemy convoys then BAM! A whole ass tiger on your back out of nowhere! Don't even get me started on the water, my thalassophobia is so bad that I get freaked out going in the water even in video games (even surfing in the new Pokemon games gets to me a little bit) and far cry justifies that for me, especially 4 with the damned mugger crocs and tiger fish!
When I was in the Navy, we visited Guam for a port visit and they told us to avoid certain parts of the water due to stonefish sightings. It was my last deployment, and I wasn't about to ruin my chances at veteran's benefits because of a fucking guppy so you best believe I kept my sandals on in the water
I should point out that the sandals wouldn't have helped, the stonefish spine just goes through sandals and flip-flops. In the video they're actually using a flipflop to demonstrate how the spine penetrates
Seems like an entirely rational concern when it's a venomous, hard to spot creature that lives near you. May it never happen that you should step on one, and may you live a safe, happy, and long life.
I remember watching river monsters as a kid and absolutely loving it! I find it hilarious that it only ended because he literally just caught everything. Amazing video!
In Czechia, we have a Folk creature named Vodník that totally originated in catfishes. He is a green man with long mustache (like the catfish has) that will pull you unther the water if you're not careful.
I grabbed one that was sunning by the tail as a kid, bastard was probly twice my height and as ya might imagine there was no way i could hold onto that big slippery bastard
Living in the south explains it lol it’s like a dead end out there not really much life going on only o ow farm life and small town life…there’s an entire world out there bro o.o you’d be amazed at the stuff you’ll learn about and see
Jeremy Wade is the GOAT at fishing! Hell, he was even lucky enough to catch a Goblin Shark while he was hunting for something else. If there’s one man who’s fished ‘em all, it’s Jeremy Wade!!! 🎣🐐
I was snorkeling at a small reef in Akumal bay in Mexico and I saw a stone fish, I made sure my feet didn’t touch the ground until I got to shore. It freaked me out. 9:51
3:10 When I was visiting family in Alaska my grandmother (75yo.) caught a 200Lb Halibut and it easily swam up to the boat putting up almost no struggle at all.....When I caught my Halibut of only 90Lbs it was a scene out of Jaws and my Uncle who had lived in Alaska for many years thought we had hooked a shark or a whale....the deep-sea rod and line snapped tight and reel shot-out line from the spool for almost 15mins, we even doused the reel with water to keep it cool and chased it with the boat for nearly 1.5hrs....needless to say I was a little disappointed when at the end of the day I had the smallest fish but he was SON GOKU of the sea. My fish fought harder then all the fish we caught that day combined....
I encounter titanic Goliath Grouper before on dives. Previously known as ‘Jew Fish’ (good thing the name changed in the early 2000s) they are “gentle” giants… ones you really don’t want to be around. I freedive a wreck called the Thunderbolt in Marathon, Fl which is about 75 feet to the top of the flybridge. One tap on the top of that old metal roof and two 200+ lb Goliaths come out as if I rang the dinner bell, and safety is beyond an 80 foot column of water. They are slow but have the suction force enough to potentially swallow small kids, or least suck in a person’s limbs. I high tailed it out.
I would guess the suction force could do a lot of work, even in relatively man sized catfish. I think casual had a story about a whale swallowing a dude, same principle
Fugus are artists. Let them draw their masterpieces in the sand in peace. They don't want you to eat them, they just draw to attract love. Leave them alone.
Stood on a cliff once about 50 meters above a lake in germany once, saw a man on a small canoe fishing. The canoe was not too much bigger than the man himself, like 2- 2,5 Meters. When he looked to his left a shadow larger than his boat appeared on his right in the water, big enough to make his boat start wiggle. He calmly looked right but the shadow just surfaced for a moment so He didn't even realise that a Catfish of probably almost 3 meters just checked out his little boat.
Here's a fun list of REAL elemental animals Electric: Electric Eel Oriental Hornet (It's stripes are Solar panels that generate electricity) Ballooning Spiders (use their threads to fly on electric currents in the air) Echidna (sense not emit. This is Knuckles' Emerald radar in Sonic Adventure 2) Electric Stingray Electric Catfish Sharks (Sense not emit, Ampullae of Lorenzini pores around snout.) Plant Pollen (Has static charge, that's how it sticks to Bees) Fire: Black Kite (carry burning twigs around to spread fire) Whistling Kite (carry burning twigs around to spread fire) Brown Falcon (carry burning twigs around to spread fire) Heat: Bombadier Beetle (shoots boiling acid) Japanese Honeybee (swarms enemy and generates body heat to cook) Pistol Shrimp (can do real Kamehameha/Hadoken) Mantis Shrimp (can do real Kamehameha/Hadoken) Water: Archerfish (Spit water at prey outside the water, can compensate aim for light bent by water surface) Walrus (Gush water at the seafloor to hunt) Whales Dolphins Octopus/Squid Jaguars Ice: Pseudomonas Syringae (Creates ice, can freeze water above 0C) Metal: Scaly-foot Snail (Iron shell) Eucalyptus trees (absorb Gold into their cellular structure) Various plants (absorb metals into their cellular structure) Light: Fireflies Angler Fish Flashlight Fish Bioluminescent Plants Bioluminescent Fungi Bioluminescent Bacteria/microbes Octopus/Squid (Some use their chameleon skin to make light) Tons of deep ocean creatures communicate by producing light Dark or Ghost: Assassin bugs (wear corpses as disguises) Cordycep (parasitic Zombie fungus) Parasitic Worm (snail eyestalk zombie infection) Toxoplasma Gondii (reduces host's fear of danger/risks) Poison: Maned Rat/African Crested Rat (Lophiomys imhausi) (Rubs poison from plants into specialized stripes of hairs) Slow Loris Hooded Pitohui Ifrita Rufous Shriketrush African Spur Winged Goose European Quail Hoopoes Ruffed Grouse Bronzewing Pidgeon Red Warbler Various Reptiles Various Amphibians Various Fish, and Aquatic Animals Various Arthropods (Insects, Arachnids, Crustaceans) Various Plants Various Fungi Grass: Sloth (Algae grows in their fur.) Mary River Turtle (Algae "hair" grows on them.)
My dad had a massive catfish try to eat him feet-first while working as a commercial diver. The water was murky, so he didn't even know the fish was there until he felt it start to nibble at his toes. I don't think he went diving at all after that, LOL.
Another reason why catfish can be dangerous is that they're much smarter than people think. I remember in the neighboring town there was one that got caught and released several times, and eventually it figured out that it gets fed every time so it would skip the tiring fight step and just swim up to people on the beach, demanding food. Of course people fed it and it was an absolute unit, at least for that specific lake. Grew up to around 60kg. We know that because it was so successful it died of old age and washed up on the shore a couple years back.
Dude, there are not enough people like you. Interesting nature + hilarious commentary, but nice and chill, instead of demanding attention and yelling "someone please think im the greatest!"
Personally, pike and catfish just make me look at my fishing tackle. Both give very good fights, both are delicious, and both are important to the health of their home ecosystems. I can, however, see how they could scare a person.
maybe it’s ‘cuz I’ve only caught itty bitty northerns but I think they’re neat. catfish too, great fishing once you figure out how to actually hook them.
11:10 what annoys me the most is that it doesn't even sound like it's that tasty, it's literally just Russian roulette for people who are rich in dollars, bankrupt in sense
@@icantthinkofaname-un3vi And shark fin soup. Apparently tastes like cardboard, it's mostly cartilage (the same thing that helps your ears keep their shape) and the only flavor comes from added soup stock. You basically eat it for bragging rights, to show off that you can afford it. Disgusting
Not sure if this is 100% accurate, but I looked it up (google) and allegedly catfish (at least some species) don't really have a size cap. Like, hypothetically, if one were to never die, it wouldn't stop growing. Once they reach a certain age, their growth slows, but it never fully stops. Iirc, their size depends on how much food they have available. The more plentiful the food supply, the bigger the catfish can get.
And then you also have the ones that are just genetic outliers, to use humans as an example the adult height might be... 6 feet some odd inches, but there are people who clear 8 feet.
Yes, it's not that rare a trait. Several other species of fish are like that too. They never stop growing and their sizes are limited to food availability.
Yes look into accounts of divers going down into the Panama canal there a a good number who came up and retired from diving after aging they saw eyeballs bigger than their heads.
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Notentirely true. There is a limit. A size cap. A ceiling mother nature made up. Nothing jut grows and grows. It's a code in the DNA how big something can get.
4:51 that's a _shimiri_ she was wearing, it's to: - ward of evil spirits - give girls shapely waists - jewelery like necklaces, anklets or bracelets - send messages to those in the know They're usually made from beads but you can make them from locally available things that can look pretty (like thrifting from your world) thys why the bottle caps.
14:24 Hold on a minute! You wanna tell me Kuno the Killer is real?! My dad told me about that bitch when I was a child and I just chalked it up to fatherly fables
Kuno is real, But he really isn’t dangerous to human, Alot of this fish aren’t dangerous to humans, The goonch being the only fish her dangerous to humans, Some here aren’t even fish
Thanks for bringing up River Monsters because that show is possibly one of the best shows ever made. The first episode was all about clearing the air on how misunderstood the Piranha are. Absolute legend.
Actually they're just as dangerous to woman, and the same rule applies to woman too, in anyway, if you're in the Amazon forest and need to pee please go anywhere but the river, puddle, pond, really any body of water
@@notazombie...notatall8577 figured as much but still, men take a leak wherever they want to in the wild so I’d imagine it’s more common and would be more on our minds
I recently got back from a trip to Las Vegas and went to the Mandalay Bay aquarium! They had a piranha tank next to a tank with an Arapaima swimming around, I told my family "yeah I'd rather be in a tank with the piranhas than that guy over there" and they were so shocked and confused. Then the nice lady who worked for the aquarium said "Smart choice!" and explained to my family the scary facts about arapaima fish. More crazy was that the tank was being cleaned at the moment by two employees in scuba gear and the employee said "oh we have to feed the arapaima before we send the divers in there, they also have to use small equipment and move slowly." So thank you Casual for the handy knowledge! I also told the lady about your videos and she might later check them out! 😊
Stonefish. Stonefish are horrific. What tries THAT hard to stay hidden, but kills you for not seeing it?
Ninjas. That's what.
Women
They get so mad when you don't notice them and then they murder your bloodline
I'm only half joking
@@Doryzitter bro you good?-
Snakes are the next bad thing xD
@@Talonistrying I woke up, had a relatively normal morning, headed home, and my day was ruined by technology being shitty. What do you think?
03:45 - Ah, yes. The Nopefish. Can be found in the I'll Never Go There River, located in Screwthatistan.
Thank heavens animals don't evolve in accordance with our fears.
Where on earth is that? That doesn't make sense.
@@serganteddy5 LOL!
I understood that reference
@Arandomdude-i3c They would to. Probably call the video "you were saying?" Out of spite.
Jeremy Wade was the person who showed little me that sharks where the least of my worries in the water
I want to watch the whole show again after this
Same
@@thatredhead3613 felt that every like 2 years I re watch the whole series
Jeremy wade is awesome 👏 more river monsters please 🙏😊
Im having trouble finding where to stream River Monsters now legally now. Anyone got any tips?
12:02 I love how the scorpion just turned around like “dude what tf”
Fr 😂😂😂😂he looked like he just got violated and couldn’t do anything about it except be in shock.
"Hey! I'm walkin' here!"
Given scorpions but is on their tail he just has a but sucked off and now can't poop or pee.
I think what's worse about stonefish is that.. their defense mechanism doesn't come into play particularly often. Most animals they share their habitat with can just swim over them, and what few that might have an active interest in trying to take a bite won't see past their camouflage. This means their defense mechanism almost seems purpose-built to hold up a middle finger to humans in particular since we're just about the only species that walks along the seabed in shallow water frequently enough to justify their _thing._
My only counter is you're not really considering biting as the reason. Like yeah we step on them sure, but I highly doubt that the spines that emerge when you push on their back are for LAND based predators, I'd have to say it's to stab the upper jaw of whatever is trying to chew it. The amount of camo is an ABSOLUTE finger though
No predator takes the time to try and position a stonefish to bite them vertically, it's more likely that they get bitten from the sides where their spines aren't hitting anything before the stonefish retires from life
Humans are possibly the only land animals wandering into shallow waters with thick, flat feet unlike other birds and mammals that get close in their habitats. So yes, it's an absolute middle finger
@@StillMintTeahuman that just too ignorant to explore place which isnt mean to be known
Honestly, the venom might just be an evolutionary leftover. Basically every other member in the Stonefish's family (e.g. lionfish, scorpionfish) is venomous in the same way.
Jeremy Wade is the GOAT, the Steve Irwin of rivers, the one who taught me piranhas are shy and misunderstood, while catfish are swimming nightmares. I still miss his show.
Agreed. And absolute legend who will hopefully be around a lot longer.
Yeah, I never saw catfish the same way after that.
That show was a staple of my childhood. I still remember staying up late on Friday nights to watch it. Good times.
I'm not one for subscription services buttttttttttttt discovery+ is 8.99 (effectively the cheapest streaming platform on the market) and river monsters is on there, along with mighty rivers
I remember my dad and I (who both love to fish) watching it all the time on Animal Planet when I was little
6:00 "Yeah, I came home from my transatlantic voyage with a burning sensation downstairs because a fish swam into it! That's definitely why."
That's what we're telling the wife, and not "the last minute hooker I picked up in Bangkok and I had to get 2 shots in the butt cheeks."
Yeah, that was my first thought, too. It'd be kinda funny if this whole myth was started by some dude trying to cover his tracks...
freaky
I'm going to use that for next time...😅
My thoughts exactly lol
He forgot to mention the fact that catfish actually GRUNT, yes they grunt.
Yeah those one kind of catfish in the Amazon, they freaking growl at you and get big 😮 That has to be intimidating when a fish growls at you. 😂
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Pretty sure if aliens ever arrive on Earth we can just show them Australia and they'll pack up and leave.
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@@TheWorstPartyMember In the wider, intergalactic community, we'd probably be considered the Australia of the Galaxy.
Shoutouts to sturgeons for being so big and yet so laid back compared to their fellow big fish. Especially considering how dirty we've done them.
IKR. I read a book called Caviar and learned a lot about the history of sturgeon all over the world and how they have been fished out 😢
Not all sturgeon! There's one species thats actually so aggressive its been known to attack small boats, and its a voracious predator.
@@SissypheanCatboy Wtf. I did not know this? Which species?
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 there's many predatory sturgeons out there, an almost extinct Russian example is the kaluga (huso dauricus), one of the largest sturgeon next to beluga (huso huso) and white sturgeon, which eat quite big preys
@rasmusn.e.m1064 I'm sure he's making shit up
Granted there are species that jump out of the water when frightened but the people who get killed are usually fishing in kayaks and they drown
11:00 There's a reason why EU has forbidden importing anything but farmed puffer fish (that is guaranteed not to be venomous) and in US there is only like 7 different restaraunts in the entire country (5 of them in New York) that prepare Fugu. And only by order, I believe. It's just so easy to leave enough venom in it to kill whoever eats it.
It used to be actually tradition in Japan, that the chef who prepared Fugu was the first one taste it before serving it to customers. Kinda motivated them to be extra sure, knowing that their lives might be on the line.
It should still be tradition for the chef to eat it first. That's the only way I'd try it, especially if there's no antivenom.
No food is worth that kind of risk imo
I mean there are like thousands of species of fishes out there, why would someone choose the most poisonous one to eat 😅
@@thesilentassassin1167 Probably bragging rights and thrill seeking.
yeah its dangerous even chefs have to have license to prepare
Most fugu lookalike among each other and their poisonous organs differs too, that's why most master fugu chefs have to undergo years and years of training to differentiate between species and proper method to cut out the meat.
Seeing a shark “blink” is like seeing my pleco fish “blink.” Unexpected but precious rarity
You could have called these 7 monster fish the seven deadly “FINS” 😏
I've sat here for way too long trying to think of something punny to add. I give up, and thanks for the pun.
If you want to hear a bunch of aquatic puns, listen to "Wet Dream," by Kip Adotta.
@@teemusid She drank like a--She drank a lot. 🐟
I spent way too long trying to match each fish/squid up to an equivalent sin...
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“I’m Jeremy wade. Last time I was here, I almost died”.
This is how every river monsters episode started.
I mean have you seen him when he goes places, dude nearly gets eaten alive at the majority of locations he fishes by mosquitos which is incredibly dangerous especially in a lot of the regions he goes to, there was also that time with the lightning and let's not forget he doesn't shy away from areas that have very high regional tensions and that's gotten him in some hot water in his journeys occasionally
@@ashrowan2143 oh he’s cool af! It’s just funny that that’s all I think of when I think about river monsters. I also really admired him for his catch and release practice.
My first roommate and I used to get off work on Sundays, crack open a couple of cold ones, and watch river monsters and turtle man. LIVE ACTION!!! YEEYEEYEEYEEYEEYEE!!!
Good times.
Dude's survived killer fish, mosquito-borne illnesses, toxic radiation, minor civil wars, and being mistaken for an Iranian spy.
He almost dies everytime he fishes
@@ashrowan2143 I remember one of his crew got struck by lightning and one time the airplane that he sitting on crash or something
catfish are some of THE most insane things in the water. there's even a population that lives in the cooling ponds in chernobyl!!! they're insanely hardy, they eat anything, and several families in the species are known to breathe air. once a fish gets big enough, like the arapaima or the wels catfish, simply opening its huge mouth is enough to catch most smaller prey in the cavitation that results. the first fish i ever bought for my aquarium was a species of catfish. truly the fish of all time
My favourite pet fish ever alongside snakehead😇
At the Reifel Bird Sanctuary on Westham Island in Delta, BC. There are tons of Catfish that populate along the marsh rivers and wetlands. I have been on many walks there are a kid and young adult. I swear those catfish far eclipse the size of a full grown dog. I say they could swallow dogs or cranes if that wanted to.
Everywhere except antartica
I had 2 Raphael Striped Catfish, owned them for 10 years and I was super attached to them, The power in my house went out 2 years ago and the digits outside were 20 below 0, I lost all my catfish, little clown pleco too which are catfish, People dont give catfish credit for how smart they are. It took a couple years for them to come out and then they danced all over the tank right in front of the glass. I called it the " snoopy dance" it was so much like the happy snoopy dance in the old cartoons,
The loss really broke my heart, but I am ready now to get them again , if I can find them. They were like dogs in a tank!
Corydoras in fact -require- air and come to the surface to breathe. Fortunately they only get about six inches long at the absolute craziest.
"Morse Code for Crippin Calamari" might be my favorite turn of phrase for the whole year.
6:35 this clip is so funny to me. From the dude pointing at the fish and laughing, to him swatting at it and freaking out while the fish is just as freaked out.
It truly is so fucking funny
They are experiencing the same emotions
He became the Bungee Zombie
dude where the fuck is it from
That cracked me up, I showed my husband and told him it's a penis fish. He didn't find it as funny but that just made it better for me
0:42 You had a wonderfully missed opportunity to call these “Seven Deadly Fins”
Love you for that.
That is better. Your the archer to his Cyril.
I'M SAYING 😭
Oohhhh! 🤣
Get out
Pufferfish : I'm litteraly the most poisonous being alive
Japan's cuisine : Omae Umasō da na 😋
Dolphins : let's get high🤪
yeah, some weird stuff is going down on that end of the world.
Yeah, dolphins really are psychos 😂
@@whatupguys1 thou it would be unfair to put down only the Japanese cuisine like that. In my opinion every country in the world has at least one meal that is just way too weird or too dangerous to eat. In my country for example we have tatarak which is a raw meat served with raw egg. If that's not the easiest way to get salmonela than I don't know what is.
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Homer simpson : "FUGU ME!"
@@messyjoy899I want it clear that Japan ALSO has dishes of raw meat and raw egg, gyutataki and sukiyaki specifically but also fish dishes like sashimi and sushi. Fugu is also eaten raw in Japan as a sashimi dish (Korea we cook it slightly), but it's really nice. But I think I've decided a few gambles of my life for a meal is enough at this point, and probably won't have it again for a long time haha.
0:10 oohhh yeah meme from my country
Hmmmm eu gosto assim,amostradinho
Brazil I take it? If so, hell yeah.
Calma ae amostrado
What’s the name of the meme?
@@annanaiyaparker5816 eu gosto assim,amostradinho
7:46 they tried tagging a humboldt squid in a nature doc at one point... i think it lasted 15 mins before the rest of the humboldts ate it
Truly freaky creatures
"That squid is a spy!" *cannibalism*
I remember that, the documentary said she was flashing at them in aggression, but she purposely drove attention toward herself, I dunno, it was haunting
@spyderbyte975 I've heard that some tagged birds have an easier time getting mates because females think they look nice. This must be the first time the opposite happened. The animal completely rejects the tag
Nooooooo
I had a friend who worked for the forestry service around Charlotte NC and one of his jobs was to clear the pipes of the dam. There were catfish in the estuary that grew very large as they had no conventional predators and unlimited food. They unfortunately would swim up into the septic pipes until they got stuck. Once on such a job he dropped into the water, going to the bottom were he encountered a "forest" of water plants, and as he disturbed them a huge catfish rose from the reeds. My friend who stood at six feet tall swears that the whiskers of this catfish were as long as he was tall and the fish dwarfed him. The animal as he tells it lifted itself up, looked at him for a few moments "he insists the fish was considering if the energy he would expend to kill him would be worth it or not" before eventually it settled back down below the water flora.
And THAT is yet another reason why I would never go swimming in any water deeper than 10 feet.
i believe it! We used to see videos that divers would take at Lake Whitney, against the dam. They would sit against the grates that opened and closed to let water out of the lake, and into the spillway. They got as big aa cars, no shit.
I believe it. In Oklahoma on my rez, there’s a local legend about some divers that went into the lake and encountered a catfish big as a car that could swallow a man whole (it didn’t, obviously lol), but the divers were SO spooked that they never went diving again, or so the story goes haha.
I've always heard/read these stories yet to this day I've never seen an image or video of a catfish that matched it. It's like UFOs/bigfoot. All these cameras and no proof.
Y'all ever heard of noodling? I'm from Missouri, n what you do is you go out to shallow parts of the river and blindly stick your arm into catfish dens (muddy holes) hoping a catfish will bite so you can pull it out of the den.
What I'm actually most afraid of, when it comes to that habitat, is alligator snapping turtle mamas during nesting season. They WILL chase you and are upsettlingly fast on land.
Alligator snappers just freak me out in general, so if you're really only worried about them during nesting season, you are so much braver than I am!
Sounds like a great way to lose a finger or two.
Noodling has always been one of those things that I feel like a group of friends were pretty drunk when they tried it, then decided to make it a habit because it actually worked and was a "great party trick". There's no other explanation for why anyone would willingly try to get attacked just to catch a fish.
I'm south of you, there's a dam in Beaver Lake that older locals talk about having a catfish the size of a VW living around.
@@Gamer3427 maybe use something other than your own body.
6:08 probably lying about STDs 😂
Fr “no I did not bang native girls IT WAS A FISH”
Used to watch River Monsters religiously as a kid and never recovered from the catfish episodes. Jeremy Wade is stronger than us all
It's the freshwater stingray that traumatized me. 😂
@KhaeLikesCoffee IT was definitely that and the lamprey that gave me nightmares. The Goliath tiger fish episode showcased just how COOL the guy was.
@@Khaeris Valid, those things are freaky
Yo!! That show was so captivating.
@@Chris-adams-rc-journey It was such a good show, I kinda miss it
If you visit the "Blue Planet" aquarium in Denmark and use the elevator to go down one floor, the first sight to greet you as you open the door are Arapaimas. I was _not_ aware of this beforehand and got one hell of a surprise as one swam by just as I got off the elevator 😂
soooo....how pissed WERE your pants on a scale of 1-10? 😂
There’s one in the uk that has Arapaimas and other fish from the same region in the first room too, followed by electric eels
@@julsdemers4740 managed to remain dry but my pulse sure made itself known
@@mr.jglokta191 🤣 understandable!
Get jumpscared
Dude, that episode of Wild Thornberries where Nigel steps on a stone fish freaking traumatized me as a kid. I imagine some executuve man wanted to reject the episode cuz a man almost died in it, but I'm glad it got approved cuz it taught me a super important lesson. That lesson being, it's not the monsters you see coming that will get you, it's the ones you don't see. Stay cautious.
Is this a joke or a real episode
@@gooeydude574 It's a very real episode.
As I recall, the mom, who is the usual person in charge of the camera for the nature show that Nigel hosts, was unable to do her job for some reason. Eliza talks her dad, Nigel, into letting her use the camera so they can meet their deadline. So, they go a long ways away from camp, looking for a certain spot where a rare creature dwells. All goes pretty well, but something distracts Nigel and he accidentally steps on a stonefish. Even worse, they forgot the first aid with the antivenom. Nigel is already incapacitated by the venom and Eliza spends the rest of the episode trying t get back to camp, grab the kit, and head back to Nigel to administer the antivenom before he freaking dies. Of course, it being a kids show, they kinda try to make Nigel's condition kinda funny, but man, it scared the crap out of 9 year old me. Haha
Scared the crap outta me, too.
why did it traumatize you????
@@ytyoungrichnhigh I was kind of a timid child. The thought of getting hurt, or other good guys getting hurt, always scared me back then. Still, I never really thought about such possibilities during a thrilling action scene or a chase scene. I guess the fast movements and action could distract my small child mind. This episode was something new to me. All tlat pain and potential for death caused by something seemingly so small and insignificant, and at a much slower and excruciating pace than I (as a child) ever imagined a shark or tiger would dish it out. It didn't even have a single line to speak, like how some predators in this show will kinda taunt Eliza or go on about how much they wanna eat something. This lack of dialogue made it seem a lot more ruthless and unfeeling to me as a kid. I dunno. The thought of dying from poison never crossed my mind as a kid until that day, so it really freaked me out.
Once I watched this episode, and learned that stuff like rattlesnakes, water moccasins, and brown recluse spiders were potentially in my area, I kinda got too scared to play outside for a little while. Obviously those guys aren't quite as dangerous as a stonefish, but child me just heard "venomous" and resolved to stay inside and play games forever. Haha!
11:10 fun fact. It's also the same drug used to create zombies in Haiti. Was even in the true story movie "Black Rainbow "
Legendary. Casual Geographic SLAPS
That GoPro footage of the guy screaming underwater trying to shoo the catfish away was probably the funniest thing I’ve seen all week
Yeah
You mean the candiru?
@@floorman7076 13:57 its mentioned that the candiru is also a catfish
@@izmaylasarasatiM oh yeah mb
Nooo that was terrifying 😢
Today we learned:
1)Never go swimming in the open ocean at night.
2)Wear combat boots when tide pooling in Australia.
3)Don't order the fugu, it ain't worth it.
4)Pee on a tree in the Amazon.
5)Don't wear shiny stuff when swimming or diving.
6)Don't toy with the fish that I am certain is the inspiration for Uth Duna in MHWilds.
MHWilds mentionned, instant like
I love me a mahoraga arapaima
Number 2 can be used in any shorelines, not for stonefish but for sea urchin and stingray
7) if you see a catfish any larger than a 6 year old it's on sight
Literally screenshotted this wisdom✨
I absolutely love this channel. I laugh my ass off and learn so much about random topics simultaneously. Well deserved success to the owner of this channel, cheers.
1:47 I'm about 60% sure that arapaima went from still to eating her hand in 3 frames total.
2? i can't quite tell but i HATE it
That's some frogfish-level striking speed.
Yum
You can use the ',' and '.' keys on YT to go frame by frame and check.
Obviously it won't be 100%, as we don't know the recorded framerate, and compression upon upload, but it'll be close enough to tell
@@kopskey1 I think those keys are used for frame by frame because they're also the "" keys.
In regards to the Catfish and whether or not they could consume a human...look up the Sobral Santos II riverboat accident from 1981. In fact, Jeremy Wade did an episode of River Monsters covering that accident and how Catfish were partially responsible for the 300 deaths.
what's the name of the episode?
Isnt there evidence that sue to all the water burials in the Ganges, the catfish there are huge?
@@fan4every1lol89 "Amazon Apocalypse"
River Monsters: Season 6, Episode 1
@@donttalktomebye I don't know about the Ganges, but its possible
@@donttalktomebye it's not ganges but Kali river or mahakali river. It later joins ganges but I'm not sure. And those are goonch catfish and yes they get huge but it's rare these days because of overfishing. Goonch are rare fishes especially those one that reaches the size of humans.
For those that don't know, Jeremy Wade was a River-bound Steve Irwin, as far as TV Shows are concerned
Wrong Steve loved everything he filed working with Jeremy was forced to do alot of things he didn't want to for that show.
I loved that show. Jeremy Wade is the goat.
The thing with piranha isn't entirely undeserved. From the same River Monsters episode where Jeremy swam in a piranha infested river, he also found a village where falling into the water was a death sentence from piranha.
Arapaima usually kill people by knocking them unconscious accidentally, then the person drowns.
@@xokltten PiraroCU!!
Bonk
yeah, most victims are propably drunk fishermen but even then would the term "usually" be misplaced ... because its just extremely rare.
... and these stories about Wels are just hilarious. I have been fishing Wels for half my life, their biteforce is rather weak to the point you can stick an arm into their mouth while wrestling one out of the water. Also you have to be extremely unlucky and weak to be knocked out or break something by the tail slap of a Wels. The large old ones aint particular agile or quick anymore, and the smaller ones dont have that much power ... no comparison to those Arapaima units.
Just another story about humans being idiots or too drunk. That ain't the Arapaima's fault, tbh. lol They could just, ya know, leave the Arapaima alone? But no, humans are incapable of leaving anything alone, due to their carelessness and hubris.
Fun fact: the way I learned that catfish had spines was by grabbing a small one and trying to put it in a bucket at summer camp, sliced clean down my finger if I remember correctly, absolute panic for a moment before I learned what had happened. Now I work at the same camp, and always tell the campers not to grab the catfish, still love that place, still love the wildlife, but I’d rather not let that happen to another kid 😂
Dang
I was told the same story at a camp I went to in NC! It mortified me to hear about as a kid so ever since then I've been afraid of touching one (that's still alive) 😂 same with petting sharks the wrong way
Did you know about "catfish noodling"? It's where you literally stick your hand in the water near a catfish, and wiggle your fingers like noodles to attract them. The catfish bites your hand, and you haul it away for dinner
Lol, I got some experience working on Catfish hatchery. I asked the staffs 'how do you deal with the spine/barbs?' they just answered 'you get used to it'. Heck it even regularily pierced the gloves they commonly used.
Large catfish have large fin spurs..
The worse part? The babies/spawn have tiny needles.
Imagine my surprise when I scooped up two handfuls of them from a large cloud along the shore. Yeah.
I love how for pretty much all of these fish you have a picture of jeremy Wade capturing one.
12:02 that scorpion really said "huh. hey bruh what? Why you do that?"
12:02 the way the scorpion turns around like "bitch, did you just snatch my tail??" 😭
I mean....
a scorpion who loses his tail also loses his Anus as a result....
meaning he was thus cursed of dying to constipation.
I wish i was kidding.
😅 brah imma need that back!
But why is it underwater xD
This guy forgot to talk about longfin eals. Just search up longfin eat attack. Actually gave me nightmares this thing might as well be an scp
@@raylenn4444 so.... it ate his ass?
Also I almost had my hand chopped off by a arapaima once, I used to work on a aquarium feeding them and in order to call them so they can eat we do little flicks on the water surface, and we have to be super cautious and paying a lot of attention while doing that. Once I was calling the fishes and a couple aproached and started making questions, so I started answering and for a fraction of a second I looked at them, thats when I gave the water a flick and there was no water touching my hand in response, when I looked back my hand was inside the mtf mouth and thing was just getting ready to eat it, I never pulled a hand so fast on my life, moral of the story: if you're a zookeper you better always act like you're dealing with chimpanzees
... dealing with chimpanzees... the animals, or the zoo visitors? "Yes."
Honestly can't even blame the couple because there's no way they knew disturbing you was dangerous
@@ageishyena3035 yeah, another zookeper almost had his arm torn apart by a shark because visitors decided to pet the shark while he was feeding it (we trained the sharks to understand a touch on the head means "be ready to grab your food", so when the guy petted the shark it tried to grab the first thing he could find, that was the zookepers arm, he was lucky it was a nurse shark and they will suck their food before biting, so he was able to pull his arm when the shark sucked it)
5:01 "-and nearly bisected the girl. Allegedly." fym "allegedly" the fish won't sue you lol
Guidelines on his ass
Considering the things that these fish can do to you, harming you financially and legally honestly doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility
He is saying that, because it may not be true
@absolutelyfookinnobody2843 he's just scared that the tiger fish might sue him
Innocent before proven guilty
00:10 "humm I like you like that, you little showoff lol" it's portuguese with northeast brazilian accent, sounded really funny 😂
So there’s a story about the Mississippi River. Corp of engineers went diving outside of Memphis and saw eyes as big or bigger than their heads. Catfish just chilling on the bottom of the river more than large enough to swallow an adult human. Story goes the divers refused to go down again and that part of the river was just removed from the project all together.
Channel catfish do get pretty big. A catfish farm harvests these at about two pounds for the best flavor, but it’s sort of like eating veal being as this is a very young catfish, and adults get much larger. That description about being more than big enough to swallow a man whole seems like an exaggeration to me, but not by much.
P.S. Personally I wouldn’t eat catfish unless it was farm raised. There is a certain reliability of flavor that comes from feeding them only corn. The ones you catch wild can frequently have a bad flavor, because they will eat absolutely anything, and there is just no telling what they have been eating.
Based solely on the plecostomus that outgrew a 90 gallonn tank (that's nearly two bathtubs) and is now three feet long in a pond despite females of her species supposedly stopping at eighteen inches..... don't. fuck. with catfish.
Not a chance. They definetely grow big enough to deal serious damage -> current record for any catfish is at 2.85 meters. That one would knock you out, and you'd drown if nobody is around. But it wouldn't be able to swallow you or anything like that.
As a teen, my buddies and I would float down to the old railroad trestles, and catch 20lb channel cats with 10lb line, for gits and shiggles...took a while to tire em out to land em, but it was a fun challenge...we cooked one the first time...and never again. Tasted like burning garbage.
I WANT TO FIGHT ALL THOSE FISH IN THE VIDEO AND SHOW EM WHOS BOSS!
I recommend watching River Monsters if anyone here is interested. It's got plenty of fish capable of making sharks look cute and cuddly in comparison, and they're mostly _freshwater_ fish to boot!
And made a convincing argument for kappa being based off of giant salamanders.
Shark are cat of the sea.
And most of fresh water predatory fish are looking like dragon. And catfishes is just sent you....wtf!!
@@Sadpotatoirl2010 Yeah, I'm seeing where a lot of lake monster lore comes from.
sharks are already cute and cuddly (ofc, the cuddly part is only if you earn their trust)
@@that1onesimp Username checks out, but seriously, earn a shark's trust and you'll see that most species are essentially sea puppers. They don't call one of them dogfish for nothing. ;-)
Some of you evidently haven't watched the TV show River Monsters, wild tv show guy basically goes fishing in fresh water anywhere there are either urban legends or unexplained attacks in freshwater bodies of water and rivers trying to figurebout what is responsible for the stories and then catch one himself. Oh hey you vrought up Jeremy yourself (which tracks) their you go, hut yeah the show ended because he ran out of fresh water fish to find he even started branching out to brackish and saltwater fish before the show ended
That man completed his questline. And made me afraid of the water.
That was a damn good tv show
I remember an episode where he caught a shark on a fishing line! I was terrified he would get pulled into the water the entire time
My favourite fact about River Monsters was that the reason they stopped filming was because Jeremy had caught pretty much every large freshwater fish from stories and stuff. He quite literally 100%'ed his questline.
One of my favorite shows of all time.
I am so glad you are still publishing! I stumbled on one of your videos from 2 years ago and came directly to the channel page to see your most recent upload !! MAN!! What great content and INSANE script!! I truly enjoy your full length videos - great channel done extremely well!
If it's from the water, it's a nightmare waiting to happen. "180 kilograms of kill a man" the wordplay is gold
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don't know why exactly but for me there's something deeply uncanny about very large fish, especially non-sharks. something in my brain telling fish should be rather small and when they don't it really makes me shudder.
We are told sharks are big and (usually) dangerous, while fish are small and (usually) harmless. So when we see a large shark, we think “woah, thats a large, dangerous shark!” And we don’t think about it much. But when we see a large fish, we think “That fish is too large. Why is it so large?” And that thought sticks. The thought of such a large fish is too much for us to handle.
"Here" Parts Curtains.
LARGE FISH
"Do you see why Reality is wrong?"
I bet you never really stop to think how large commercial Tuna gets
@@thomascoleman594 all my time goes thinking about oarfishes and ocean sunfishes and how to avoid them
@@bigboykenob2244sharks are fish
THANK YOU!!!! Every time i tell people im afraid of squids, they tend to laugh until I tell them this exact encounter 7:20, and then they immediately stfu
Squid, Orcas, Sharks. The 3 things i don't trust in the ocean in that order.
A squad of Humboldt squid attacking literally looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie. Something that size has no right to move that fast underwater, like it seems to break the laws of physics
I'm not scared of them just because I think they're REALLY REALLY COOL
@@marcussantiago also I feel like the chance of escaoe/survival is less
I'm not a fan of Humboldt Squid.
This kid makes learning about these animals actually entertaining and interesting. Props to you my man, every school needs a teacher like you!
7:37 "crippin calamari" mannnnn I swear that you are my absolute favorite when it comes to animal explainations! Keep doing your thing bro!
12:05 Mr crabs got violated fr. Pufferfish are like that
Makes you wonder what he was thinking in that one episode where they dated.
@@ccvcharger He loves dangerous Women
Not gonna lie, I lost my shit and cried laughing on it. Idk why. RIP Mr. Krabs.
3:43 Ah yes, this fish that is the cause of my far cry 4 ptsd and why I hate going in the water in that game
RIGHT? These fish made such an impression on me that I get a fight or flight reaction if I see pictures of them.
Man the far cry series have the absolute worst animal jump scares of any game series I have ever played. I'm always on the edge of my seat playing that game, you'll just be walking along, harvesting plants and attacking enemy convoys then BAM! A whole ass tiger on your back out of nowhere! Don't even get me started on the water, my thalassophobia is so bad that I get freaked out going in the water even in video games (even surfing in the new Pokemon games gets to me a little bit) and far cry justifies that for me, especially 4 with the damned mugger crocs and tiger fish!
River monsters, i stop watching animal planet for years after the death of steve irwin, but jeremy wade brought me back because i loved his show.
When I was in the Navy, we visited Guam for a port visit and they told us to avoid certain parts of the water due to stonefish sightings. It was my last deployment, and I wasn't about to ruin my chances at veteran's benefits because of a fucking guppy so you best believe I kept my sandals on in the water
I should point out that the sandals wouldn't have helped, the stonefish spine just goes through sandals and flip-flops. In the video they're actually using a flipflop to demonstrate how the spine penetrates
@@marcussantiago It might help with their psychology, though. It feels like you are safer, while you are not
Zeus: I remember saying this but imagine living among sea creatures?
Hades: I’d still rather live among the dead
Poseidon: Y’all are adorable
Arapaima: I fear no man, but that _thing_
*cut to Animal Crossing character*
Arapaima: _It scares me_
Bonus if said character is a jaguar
3:46 BABY 🥺
Are you ok???
@@JoeWholingnah but it’s still cute
that is NOT a baby 😭
@@samanthaleahy6799 ITS MY BABY💔
i hope you get to meet your baby soon, hun 🥺❤
I was raise on an Island in the Indian Ocean (Mayotte)
Stonefish was my boogieman. I had nightmare thinking of the possibility of walking on one.
Seems like an entirely rational concern when it's a venomous, hard to spot creature that lives near you.
May it never happen that you should step on one, and may you live a safe, happy, and long life.
Valid, tbh.
I remember watching river monsters as a kid and absolutely loving it! I find it hilarious that it only ended because he literally just caught everything. Amazing video!
The 7 Deadly Sins of the Ocean
More like the 7 deadly fins
@@GibusnipuBa-doom *_TISS!!_* 🥁
@@Gibusnipu*applause* Huzza! This gave me a valorous chuckle.
I love that anime but these sea monsters make it look like we (humans) are going on natural geographic. 💀
@@Gibusnipu That was clever. Take my like, you absolute madlad!!!
In Czechia, we have a Folk creature named Vodník that totally originated in catfishes. He is a green man with long mustache (like the catfish has) that will pull you unther the water if you're not careful.
Idk if these count as fish but if you look up phantom jellyfish and imagine seeing one at a depth of 3000ft... I'd just lowkey shit myself atp
Ahhhh omg I'm so scared now
1- It's just a black jellyfish....2- if your 3000ft deep your dead because of water pressure anyway
They are so elegant though
fair, tho i would likely be enthralled by how majestic it looks, then again that totally could be how it hunts which is terrifying in fairness
Cnidarians
I just saw the Giant Catfish and as a Southerner I Never knew they Got that big
I saw the ones at the DC zoo and had a panic attack
I grabbed one that was sunning by the tail as a kid, bastard was probly twice my height and as ya might imagine there was no way i could hold onto that big slippery bastard
Living in the south explains it lol it’s like a dead end out there not really much life going on only o ow farm life and small town life…there’s an entire world out there bro o.o you’d be amazed at the stuff you’ll learn about and see
Catfish get as large as some of the Big Cats Ironic
As someone who owns a catfish farm, yes, they grow like goldfishes
Jeremy Wade is the GOAT at fishing! Hell, he was even lucky enough to catch a Goblin Shark while he was hunting for something else. If there’s one man who’s fished ‘em all, it’s Jeremy Wade!!! 🎣🐐
12:07 so this is what actually happened when Mrs Puff went on a date with Mr Krabs at a restaurant when he refused to pay the bill
13:33
"What should we use for a size comparison"
"A toilet"
"A what, what did I tell you about sniffing highlighters"
I think he’s referring to the thing just above the text.
16:22 that clip triggered a phobia I didn't even know I had. Not even terror just... Disgust and discomfort.
Lol
Same...
They’re so slimy and wriggly and icky that’s what got me
"River Monsters" and Roanoke Gaming convinced me sharks aren't the only monsters in the water
River monsters is goat among animal planets shows
ah yes the anglerfish are true demons lol
If Roanoke teached us anything, is that Anglerfish are spawns of the devil.
And I’m not going in the water in Australia!
Out there be dragons.
I was snorkeling at a small reef in Akumal bay in Mexico and I saw a stone fish, I made sure my feet didn’t touch the ground until I got to shore. It freaked me out. 9:51
3:10 When I was visiting family in Alaska my grandmother (75yo.) caught a 200Lb Halibut and it easily swam up to the boat putting up almost no struggle at all.....When I caught my Halibut of only 90Lbs it was a scene out of Jaws and my Uncle who had lived in Alaska for many years thought we had hooked a shark or a whale....the deep-sea rod and line snapped tight and reel shot-out line from the spool for almost 15mins, we even doused the reel with water to keep it cool and chased it with the boat for nearly 1.5hrs....needless to say I was a little disappointed when at the end of the day I had the smallest fish but he was SON GOKU of the sea. My fish fought harder then all the fish we caught that day combined....
it’s always the small ones that put up the most fight 😆
@@oscaranderson5719 I find this is also true of rabbits
I encounter titanic Goliath Grouper before on dives. Previously known as ‘Jew Fish’ (good thing the name changed in the early 2000s) they are “gentle” giants… ones you really don’t want to be around. I freedive a wreck called the Thunderbolt in Marathon, Fl which is about 75 feet to the top of the flybridge. One tap on the top of that old metal roof and two 200+ lb Goliaths come out as if I rang the dinner bell, and safety is beyond an 80 foot column of water. They are slow but have the suction force enough to potentially swallow small kids, or least suck in a person’s limbs. I high tailed it out.
I would guess the suction force could do a lot of work, even in relatively man sized catfish. I think casual had a story about a whale swallowing a dude, same principle
Fugus are artists. Let them draw their masterpieces in the sand in peace. They don't want you to eat them, they just draw to attract love. Leave them alone.
Stood on a cliff once about 50 meters above a lake in germany once, saw a man on a small canoe fishing. The canoe was not too much bigger than the man himself, like 2- 2,5 Meters. When he looked to his left a shadow larger than his boat appeared on his right in the water, big enough to make his boat start wiggle. He calmly looked right but the shadow just surfaced for a moment so He didn't even realise that a Catfish of probably almost 3 meters just checked out his little boat.
10:04 : the definition of there being a fine line between bravery and stupidity
Animals are just Pokémon to him at this point, gotta catch em all
Here's a fun list of REAL elemental animals
Electric:
Electric Eel
Oriental Hornet (It's stripes are Solar panels that generate electricity)
Ballooning Spiders (use their threads to fly on electric currents in the air)
Echidna (sense not emit. This is Knuckles' Emerald radar in Sonic Adventure 2)
Electric Stingray
Electric Catfish
Sharks (Sense not emit, Ampullae of Lorenzini pores around snout.)
Plant Pollen (Has static charge, that's how it sticks to Bees)
Fire:
Black Kite (carry burning twigs around to spread fire)
Whistling Kite (carry burning twigs around to spread fire)
Brown Falcon (carry burning twigs around to spread fire)
Heat:
Bombadier Beetle (shoots boiling acid)
Japanese Honeybee (swarms enemy and generates body heat to cook)
Pistol Shrimp (can do real Kamehameha/Hadoken)
Mantis Shrimp (can do real Kamehameha/Hadoken)
Water:
Archerfish (Spit water at prey outside the water, can compensate aim for light bent by water surface)
Walrus (Gush water at the seafloor to hunt)
Whales
Dolphins
Octopus/Squid
Jaguars
Ice:
Pseudomonas Syringae (Creates ice, can freeze water above 0C)
Metal:
Scaly-foot Snail (Iron shell)
Eucalyptus trees (absorb Gold into their cellular structure)
Various plants (absorb metals into their cellular structure)
Light:
Fireflies
Angler Fish
Flashlight Fish
Bioluminescent Plants
Bioluminescent Fungi
Bioluminescent Bacteria/microbes
Octopus/Squid (Some use their chameleon skin to make light)
Tons of deep ocean creatures communicate by producing light
Dark or Ghost:
Assassin bugs (wear corpses as disguises)
Cordycep (parasitic Zombie fungus)
Parasitic Worm (snail eyestalk zombie infection)
Toxoplasma Gondii (reduces host's fear of danger/risks)
Poison:
Maned Rat/African Crested Rat (Lophiomys imhausi) (Rubs poison from plants into specialized stripes of hairs)
Slow Loris
Hooded Pitohui
Ifrita
Rufous Shriketrush
African Spur Winged Goose
European Quail
Hoopoes
Ruffed Grouse
Bronzewing Pidgeon
Red Warbler
Various Reptiles
Various Amphibians
Various Fish, and Aquatic Animals
Various Arthropods (Insects, Arachnids, Crustaceans)
Various Plants
Various Fungi
Grass:
Sloth (Algae grows in their fur.)
Mary River Turtle (Algae "hair" grows on them.)
My dad had a massive catfish try to eat him feet-first while working as a commercial diver. The water was murky, so he didn't even know the fish was there until he felt it start to nibble at his toes. I don't think he went diving at all after that, LOL.
Pretty sure I remember a news article about a 400+ lbs catfish that was discovered with Na. Zi medals and bones inside
Man, I don't blame him. That's the sort of thing that makes you rethink your life's choices.
I read this as "crawfish" at first and had to do a double take
Another reason why catfish can be dangerous is that they're much smarter than people think. I remember in the neighboring town there was one that got caught and released several times, and eventually it figured out that it gets fed every time so it would skip the tiring fight step and just swim up to people on the beach, demanding food. Of course people fed it and it was an absolute unit, at least for that specific lake. Grew up to around 60kg. We know that because it was so successful it died of old age and washed up on the shore a couple years back.
Dude, there are not enough people like you. Interesting nature + hilarious commentary, but nice and chill, instead of demanding attention and yelling "someone please think im the greatest!"
I love sharks and think they're adorable. Catfish and northern pike though? Holy shit they scare me.
Personally, pike and catfish just make me look at my fishing tackle. Both give very good fights, both are delicious, and both are important to the health of their home ecosystems.
I can, however, see how they could scare a person.
Pike are scary
maybe it’s ‘cuz I’ve only caught itty bitty northerns but I think they’re neat. catfish too, great fishing once you figure out how to actually hook them.
Muskie get big too and are quite toothy. In the pike family.
You know what, I'm fine with staying out of the water. There's enough stuff going on down there that I don't need to be a part of.
The piraiba is also a big catfish eating people, there are many online photos of them eating humans
Are those the ones that growl ? I remember a big catfish species that freaking growled.
That turtle getting impaled by swordfish is just scary.
Not going to the ocean anymore. Nah. 😂
11:10 what annoys me the most is that it doesn't even sound like it's that tasty, it's literally just Russian roulette for people who are rich in dollars, bankrupt in sense
Just like truffles and caviar
@@icantthinkofaname-un3vi Caviar is pretty tasty though. Truffles, I'm not sure about.
@@ShadeSlayer1911 never had caviar, but truffles are delicious imo
@@icantthinkofaname-un3vi And shark fin soup. Apparently tastes like cardboard, it's mostly cartilage (the same thing that helps your ears keep their shape) and the only flavor comes from added soup stock. You basically eat it for bragging rights, to show off that you can afford it. Disgusting
Same with shark fins. No taste, cruel to get, but people just want the prestige
Not sure if this is 100% accurate, but I looked it up (google) and allegedly catfish (at least some species) don't really have a size cap. Like, hypothetically, if one were to never die, it wouldn't stop growing. Once they reach a certain age, their growth slows, but it never fully stops. Iirc, their size depends on how much food they have available. The more plentiful the food supply, the bigger the catfish can get.
And then you also have the ones that are just genetic outliers, to use humans as an example the adult height might be... 6 feet some odd inches, but there are people who clear 8 feet.
Yes, it's not that rare a trait. Several other species of fish are like that too. They never stop growing and their sizes are limited to food availability.
@@marcussantiago I believe that can also be the case with reptiles.
Yes look into accounts of divers going down into the Panama canal there a a good number who came up and retired from diving after aging they saw eyeballs bigger than their heads.
Notentirely true. There is a limit. A size cap. A ceiling mother nature made up. Nothing jut grows and grows. It's a code in the DNA how big something can get.
4:51 that's a _shimiri_ she was wearing, it's to:
- ward of evil spirits
- give girls shapely waists
- jewelery like necklaces, anklets or bracelets
- send messages to those in the know
They're usually made from beads but you can make them from locally available things that can look pretty (like thrifting from your world) thys why the bottle caps.
Stephen Spielberg really wasted multiple opportunities to make some horror films on these fish
We'll have to wait for someone like A24 to do so.
oh dont worry someone with make one these fish into a horror star Catfish is a surprising entry
The writers at The Asylum certainly missed these.
Steven King as well.
Jaws was based on a book, so you can blame the author
14:24
Hold on a minute! You wanna tell me Kuno the Killer is real?! My dad told me about that bitch when I was a child and I just chalked it up to fatherly fables
Kuno is real, But he really isn’t dangerous to human, Alot of this fish aren’t dangerous to humans, The goonch being the only fish her dangerous to humans, Some here aren’t even fish
Thanks for bringing up River Monsters because that show is possibly one of the best shows ever made. The first episode was all about clearing the air on how misunderstood the Piranha are. Absolute legend.
the catfish in the mississippi are monsters. They gave me all my thalassophobia.
I would get out of there as soon as possible if I saw that thing 0:12
Fr those things are terrifying
No wonder demonic folklore exists.
I can't help but laugh at that clip. That fish's eyes glow in fcking red, but this guy talks to it so affectionately
Eu gosto é assim, amostradinho
Realistically WHERE, if you're on a boat 😭
5:22 NOT THAT THING! EVERY MANS NIGHTMARE!
The PP fish
Actually they're just as dangerous to woman, and the same rule applies to woman too, in anyway, if you're in the Amazon forest and need to pee please go anywhere but the river, puddle, pond, really any body of water
@@notazombie...notatall8577 figured as much but still, men take a leak wherever they want to in the wild so I’d imagine it’s more common and would be more on our minds
No it's just a myth@@notazombie...notatall8577
It’s absolutely terrifying
12:25 i was NOT ready XD lmao
I love your videos thank God you have a TH-cam channel with longer topics
7:36 "it's like Morse Code for Crippin calamari" - you never fail to impress me with your wordplay!
I love your comical turns of phrase. Hilarious, and they flow, seemingly, without effort. Great stuff.
I can't believe how awesome this turned out!
I recently got back from a trip to Las Vegas and went to the Mandalay Bay aquarium! They had a piranha tank next to a tank with an Arapaima swimming around, I told my family "yeah I'd rather be in a tank with the piranhas than that guy over there" and they were so shocked and confused. Then the nice lady who worked for the aquarium said "Smart choice!" and explained to my family the scary facts about arapaima fish. More crazy was that the tank was being cleaned at the moment by two employees in scuba gear and the employee said "oh we have to feed the arapaima before we send the divers in there, they also have to use small equipment and move slowly."
So thank you Casual for the handy knowledge! I also told the lady about your videos and she might later check them out! 😊