I Vacuum Venom from the World's Deadliest Spider
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Huge thanks to the Australian Reptile Park for having us over to film - special thanks to Jake Meney for showing us the spiders and Caitlin Vine for organizing the shoot. www.reptilepark.com.au
Huge thanks to Dr Timothy Jackson with his help and answering our questions.
Thanks to Seqirus Australia for providing B-roll footage of the antivenom production process.
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References:
Pineda, S. S., Sollod, B. L., Wilson, D., Darling, A., Sunagar, K., Undheim, E. A., ... & King, G. F. (2014). Diversification of a single ancestral gene into a successful toxin superfamily in highly venomous Australian funnel-web spiders. BMC genomics, 15(1), 1-16 - ve42.co/Pineda2014
Isbister, G. K., Gray, M. R., Balit, C. R., Raven, R. J., Stokes, B. J., Porges, K., ... & Fisher, M. M. (2005). Funnel-web spider bite: a systematic review of recorded clinical cases. Medical journal of Australia, 182(8), 407-411 - ve42.co/Isbister2005
Herzig, V., Sunagar, K., Wilson, D. T., Pineda, S. S., Israel, M. R., Dutertre, S., ... & Fry, B. G. (2020). Australian funnel-web spiders evolved human-lethal δ-hexatoxins for defense against vertebrate predators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(40), 24920-24928 - ve42.co/Herzig2020
Nicholson, G. M., & Graudins, A. (2002). Spiders of medical importance in the Asia-Pacific: Atracotoxin, latrotoxin and related spider neurotoxins. Clinical and experimental pharmacology and physiology, 29(9), 785-794 - ve42.co/Nicholson2002
Fletcher, J. I., Chapman, B. E., Mackay, J. P., Howden, M. E., & King, G. F. (1997). The structure of versutoxin (δ-atracotoxin-Hv1) provides insights into the binding of site 3 neurotoxins to the voltage-gated sodium channel. Structure, 5(11), 1525-1535 - ve42.co/Fletcher1997
Australian Reptile Park. (2022). Snake and Spider First Aid - ve42.co/ARPFirstAid
The Australian Museum. (20 ). Spider facts - ve42.co/SpiderFacts
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Written by Katie Barnshaw & Derek Muller
Edited by Trenton Oliver
Filmed by Petr Lebedev, Derek Muller and Jason Tran
Animation by Ivy Tello, Jakub Misiek and Fabio Albertelli
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Additional video/photos supplied from Getty Images, Pond5
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Produced by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, Emily Zhang & Katie Barnshaw
@leo-hao 10 місяців тому
Remember, the cure for an irrational fear of spiders is to simply move to Australia. You'll still be afraid of spiders, but now, it is perfectly rational.
@toastedbacon1219 10 місяців тому
@@tuclance you missed the joke
@ThomasJackPotter 10 місяців тому
It’s just to change your perspective. Realise they’re not interested in hurting you unless you give them a reason
@Habdabi 10 місяців тому
@@ThomasJackPotteryeah but it's the hiding spiders that you gotta watch out for. Huntsman in Australia have a famous story for dropping on your lap in a car from the sun visor being opened
@aussiebloke609 10 місяців тому
That's the argument I've been using for years when someone tells me I'm arachnophobic. My fear is perfectly rational, considering what I grew up with. 😋
@imoutodaisuki 10 місяців тому
@@tuclance or just use brain, and understand the joke.
@marshalbaek5580 10 місяців тому
Out of the top 10 most deadly critters in the world, Australia seems to have 12 of them.
@imveryangryitsnotbutter 10 місяців тому
If we harness the anomaly in Australia that allows reality to defy the laws of mathematics, we can finally crack the secret to FTL travel
@Rhapsody_Sky 10 місяців тому
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter but only in australia - wohoo
@fabrb26 10 місяців тому
Yet the most deadly , vicious , nasty species out there is the mighty homo sapiens
@mycosys 10 місяців тому
*poisonous/venomous. Theres nothing here that _wants_ to rip you apart to eat you, like a bear or wolf or coyote pack. Its mostly a case of FAFO
@DKofDAH 10 місяців тому
You‘re not so far off, although you said it as a joke. Austria actually has the top 12 most venomous creatures on this planet depending who you ask. But they also have very few death because of people like these that make antivenom
@Meekahel 10 місяців тому
The fact that no one died of that spider in 40 years, justify this guy's work. Thanks for doing what you are doing.
@PfropfNo1 10 місяців тому
Yes it is amazing. Nevertheless the video kinda lacks info that the total number of recorded deaths ever is 13. While it’s potentially deadly, most bitten people don’t show severe symptoms and even if you get severe symptoms, most likely you are gonna be fine. It’s a little bit like covid. No big deal for most people but potentially deadly anyway. And the venom is not human to human transmittable of course.
@HarpreetSingh-xg2zm 10 місяців тому
@@PfropfNo1It says it could kill in 76 minutes. It is deadly if not taken care of.
@PfropfNo1 10 місяців тому
@@HarpreetSingh-xg2zm yes, that’s true, it can potentially kill fast but that’s no contradiction to my statement. How long something takes to kill you does not correlate to the risk of death. Smoking might take years to kill you, electric charge might take a second. Both could do nothing as well. The question is how you define „deadly“. Covid is also deadly.
@tallurirahul5077 9 місяців тому
@@PfropfNo1There is a technical word for it-dosage. If the dosage is very less, you could be fine....
@YouTube 10 місяців тому
shoutout to the Australian Reptile Park for saving lives since 1981
@PingSharp 10 місяців тому
shoutout to UKposts for watching Veritasium
@Robbinthehoodreal 10 місяців тому
Im official famous than youtube itself as i got 10k likes in one day
@Cupcake2.0 9 місяців тому
Lol yt
@smizal4834 9 місяців тому
@@PingSharp😂😂😂😂😂
@jamesiyer4937 8 місяців тому
Nice one youtube
@SimBol1216 10 місяців тому
My friend got bitten by one of these guys. I thought it was weird that a spider biologist would want to randomly bite another person, but people are into weird stuff.
@brenda5511 10 місяців тому
😂
@Eyes0penNoFear 10 місяців тому
Is he the guy who got bit during a family brawl and almost lost his leg?
@chungusfootfungus 10 місяців тому
You had us in the first half
@jpfidalgo7 10 місяців тому
highly underrated comment up there!
@algirdasnausedas324 10 місяців тому
It's fun and all until you realise how many anti - spider biologists had to be milked to get antivenom.
@nickbob2003 10 місяців тому
The fact that no one has died from one in 40 years is pretty amazing
@messi8459 10 місяців тому
that we know of*
@DemsW 10 місяців тому
@@rodriguezelfeliz4623 a very painful method
@cogbait 10 місяців тому
@@rodriguezelfeliz4623there are faster and less painful ways
@MrMonkey2150 10 місяців тому
Unlikely
@maximusowo 10 місяців тому
well having people check their shoes ingrained into them since early childhood must contribute some as well
@BryStrange 10 місяців тому
Hey so the spider shown in the clip at 0:30 is a Funnel Weaver spider from the family Agelenidae and are not dangerous at all. The species this video is about is the Sydney Funnel-web Spider (Atrax robustus). They are not closely related. I hope this clears up any misinformation. Don't want people thinking the harmless Funnel Weavers can kill them.
@k00ms 10 місяців тому
How many spiders do you own?
@andrecook4268 10 місяців тому
I came here to say this.
@jtktomb8598 10 місяців тому
I realy hope they will correct this
@MasTiempoPorFa 10 місяців тому
I noticed it didn't look like a funnel web. Thanks for the info
@CrocAU 8 місяців тому
yeah like what the hell veritasium, i expected better from you
@PfropfNo1 10 місяців тому
In case anyone wonders: 13 deaths caused by this spider were recorded in total (all before 1981). Most people survive the bite even without antidote. I don’t want to talk bad about this project. Not at all. I just feel like these info were missing for a complete picture of the situation.
@HarpreetSingh-xg2zm 10 місяців тому
Do you have any sources regarding antidote not being needed? The video made it seem like the venom is extremely deadly to humans.
@PfropfNo1 10 місяців тому
@@HarpreetSingh-xg2zm Well, there is a difference between „it is useless“ and „most people don’t need it“. I would definitely prefer the antidote if i got bitten. But I also got a covid shot despite a statistical risk of less than 0.01% (I’m below 30). That’s what i mean. Covid shot is a good thing. But we shouldn’t act like death is for sure without it. I didn’t find a death rate directly. But the 13 total deaths recorded i find again and again on the internet. With 40 bites per year and 13 deaths ever, you can estimate that most people survive.
@guilhermegibertoni1299 10 місяців тому
@@HarpreetSingh-xg2zmNot every bite injects venom , just like with snakes. So, sometimes the bite is not deadly
@jhigzzz 10 місяців тому
@@guilhermegibertoni1299but I would still want an antivenom, I would rather trust science than luck
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
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@ryansandwich1086 10 місяців тому
42 years with no deaths is one heck of a success rate! They're doing great work!
@infinitedeath1384 10 місяців тому
Actually it's 44 years now, so 1979. So he was a bit off the mark, but yeah close enough.
@Volt-sn6gw 10 місяців тому
@@infinitedeath1384🤓🤓🤓
@Uuyrijies1123 10 місяців тому
@@Volt-sn6gw That emoji is used by lazy dumbasses. He was just trying to correct him.
@lukasz96 10 місяців тому
@@Volt-sn6gw Are you really trying to "diss" someone for being knowledgeable in the comment section of a science-based UKposts channel? Ignoring the fact that trying to make fun of... knowing stuff is just embarrassing and idiotic, you are an even bigger moron for doing it here.
@SnailHatan 10 місяців тому
Considering there were only 13 before the antivenom, it’s not that amazing. Especially compared to the other venomous creatures in Australia. Still cool, but with a mere 1% death rate _before the antivenom_ let’s not pretend like it’s a miraculous feat.
@StainedJ 10 місяців тому
Used to have these in the swimming pool constantly. Cleaning the pool filter was fun. Alsp jumping into the pool and coming up for air to then see a funnel web sitting on water surface near your face, start swimming backwards and the funnel web getting dragged toward you in your stream of water as you swim away from it, looked like it was chasing you. Childhood memories
@mdzaidsiddiqui4262 10 місяців тому
How are you so casual about it my bro, I would actually have a heart attack and die right there in the pool.
@StainedJ 10 місяців тому
@@mdzaidsiddiqui4262 We grew up with it just being around. Our pool had trees and ferns all around it so it was at least once a week a funnel web would be in the pool. Cleaning the filter full of leaves was the scariest part. But like Derek said, we used to have to bang our shoes against the ground to make sure there wasn't one in there. So we are just used to them
@brenda5511 10 місяців тому
Thanks for the visual, Stained! It’s a good thing this video is sponsored by BetterHelp - I’m calling them now.
@StainedJ 10 місяців тому
@@brenda5511 Hahahaha! I still have a massive phobia of spiders. But I live in the city now. Haven't seen a funnel web in years. I think I never processed my fear and just laughed it off.... ok, maybe I need to call them too
@Crock0il 10 місяців тому
@@StainedJ my bro, why the bloody hell do you guys leave your shoes outside if there are deadly spiders getting into them around?
@Amused_Comfort_Inc 10 місяців тому
Hey Veritasium, the first images you showed of "funnel weavers" were actually hololena curta, a grass spider. They are funnel Weavers, apart of a large family of spiders, agelinidae. The Sydney Funnel Web spider is a different genus, and is not a grass spider :)
@xavierdutton119 5 місяців тому
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@porkypigbaconeggs 5 місяців тому
Yep 2 different spiders, 1 deadly the other not
@DoCc7872 5 місяців тому
@@porkypigbaconeggs f* both of 'em, all my homies (me) hate spiders 💀they are cool tho, but I want none of them close to me.
@awdragonwolf5594 3 місяці тому
Thank you for pointing this out, it was really bothering me. They're completely different spiders not even in the same infraorder.
@porkypigbaconeggs 3 місяці тому
Yep, dead within 15mins to 3 days if untreated by a Sydney funnel web.. video is up for views and money.. not educational purposes
@verybighomer 10 місяців тому
Let's all appreciate the hard work and dedication of the cute little bunnies producing the antibodies! They are the real heroes in this story. Go bunnies! 😍🐇🐰
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
😢😢
@namtrng8479 4 місяці тому
Being on every predator's menu in nature and incredible helpful to human, can't imagine the earth without these cuties.
@gmr7901 2 місяці тому
я понимаю, что это очень важно для людей, но мне всё равно очень жалко кроликов. люблю их очень сильно
@EphemeralProductions Місяць тому
Aww. ❤❤
@Disc_11 10 місяців тому
That’s incredible that not a single person has died in 40 years from a funnel web in Australia.
@MrKelsomatic 10 місяців тому
I was shocked that the program was that successful. Genuinely an amazing achievement.
@user-je2ql5jm7w 10 місяців тому
Time to identify as a spider and murder some Australians
@Ekvorivious 10 місяців тому
Any "Noted" deaths...
@SagarDas-fs6og 10 місяців тому
@@Ekvorivious Yeah basically you need to be alive till you are taken to the hospital. else jesus christ's home
@Zett76 10 місяців тому
Well, before that, 13 people died, in 54 years... so, the spider is not THAT deadly, to begin with. :)
@xXMockapapellaXx 10 місяців тому
That animation of venom spreading through the body was very visceral
@amarissimus29 10 місяців тому
Vibrating viscera, very vexing.
@qwertyca 10 місяців тому
@@amarissimus29 Veritably.
@HermanVonPetri 10 місяців тому
Literally true considering the definition of "viscera."
@MattGarcyaDC 10 місяців тому
crazy stuff lol
@skarloeythomas5172 10 місяців тому
@@HermanVonPetri I don’t know how valid ‘literally’ is. Visceral means it’s felt in the core, which is what is called the viscera, compared to cerebral in the cerebra. I guess if you know of people you call something exciting ‘visceral’ it’s valid.
@godnyx117 10 місяців тому
Thank you for bringing awareness about these organizations and people! Hope they can get more support from the Australian government and people!
@SurgStriker 10 місяців тому
Glad to see a video that's kept pretty to the point, only 9 minutes. I've been watching a lot less Veritasium since so many videos are 20-30 minutes, with lots of just repetition and padding. But this one, much more digestible and still fully informative.
@Quanazer 10 місяців тому
Veritasium the only guy who could convince me to sit though looking at spiders for 9 minutes
@gloverelaxis 10 місяців тому
well technically 7m51s before ads. shoutout to SponsorBlock and to everyone who contributes timestamps to it - blessed angels each and every one of you
@vaibhav3852 10 місяців тому
For real man
@solarctp 10 місяців тому
@@gloverelaxis cheers to everyone who saves me time and those who I save time for by flagging sponsorships
@parable2788 10 місяців тому
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@thaddaeushurst2014 10 місяців тому
Tried! Failed!
@teamneutrophils4654 10 місяців тому
My dad once said: "There are some very nasty animals in planet earth, especially in hot areas, exept Australia, which has extra nasty animals."
@Tker1970 10 місяців тому
Every time I tell my wife I'd like to visit Australia, I get a list of animals ready to kill me before I am off the jetway.
@benhumphreys1871 10 місяців тому
@@Tker1970 I don't understand this though, every place has some venomous spiders. At least there are no massive bears.
@dddmakbema1421 10 місяців тому
for me at least, the bear cant surprise you in your shoe, doesn't usually attack and if your attacked its pretty easy to tell if your gonna die or not
@pedroelias4054 10 місяців тому
@@benhumphreys1871 That's not true. Where I live there are no venomous spiders, no bears and no dangerous animals in general.
@thesquid889 10 місяців тому
@@benhumphreys1871well they have even more stuff than usual. Almost everything native there either does nothing or tries to kill you.
@ghazi707 8 місяців тому
I had no idea funnel-web spiders were so incredibly venomous! The fact that their venom can lead to paralysis and death in humans is truly alarming. It's impressive to see the dedication of the team at the Australian Reptile Park in collecting venom from these spiders to produce anti-venom. This life-saving work has saved countless lives, and it's reassuring to know that no one has died from funnel-web spider bites in Australia since 1981. Also, kudos to Derek for shedding light on this important topic and for promoting BetterHelp, making mental health support more accessible to everyone
@johnellison3030 10 місяців тому
I worked with a Chinese bloke here in Sydney once. He had no idea of what a Funnel Web Spider even was. So i showed him a picture and he laughed and said that it wan't a big spider and wasn't worried. I then told him it's the most deadliest spider in the world. He still didn't believe me.
@dionforest8326 10 місяців тому
For him, it's snack...
@taa4340 29 днів тому
@@dionforest8326racist
@gcastles3289 10 місяців тому
There's a few errors in this video. The spider in the shot at 0.30 when the voiceover says "this is a funnel web spider" is not a funnel web spider. That is a relatively harmless wolf spider. The funnel web is not the world's deadliest, that honour goes to the Brazilian wandering spider. Finally, funnel web spiders are not a single species- they are members of the family Atricidae. The species described in the clip is a Sydney funnel web Atrax robustus; so the correct term for this spider is the Sydney funnel web. Other members of the family are found well outside the range shown in the clip.
@ghost45891 10 місяців тому
NERRRRRRRRRRD!!!!! Jk this is good to know in case I visit somewhere other than Sydney. Still need to watch out for funnel webs.
@soupcake3092 10 місяців тому
Thought that spider looked very different from any funnel web I'd seen. Was just a little unsure because i know there are alot of funnel web species.
@AlasdairThompson 10 місяців тому
Agreed it does look like a wolf spider but it also looks quite close to the funnel weaver spider found in New Mexico and other southern US states. (It's probably a wolf though)
@afterskool444 10 місяців тому
so cool that there's a person out there for everything, like spider trivia!! x) thanks for sharing this information
@deldarel 10 місяців тому
the spider at 30 sec is a funnel web. It's a grass spider like the hobo spider, family Agelenidae. It's still a mistake since they are not even remotely related to the sydney funnel web, they just happen to have the same name. 'Trapdoor spider' has this same issue. As for 'deadly', that depends on your definition. The Brazilian wanderer has more potent venom, but the sydney funnel web injects more per dose, often multiple doses in a row. There are also spiders that are vastly less deadly per bite but still kill more people per timeframe because bites are just that common, like the fiddle-back spiders.
@caderidley2309 10 місяців тому
Im Australian so all of this was pretty common knowledge and nothing really put me off... and then i learnt they can survive underwater and ive definitely picked spiders (not these ones) off the bottom of a pool before. That sent shivers down my spine
@uddhavsaikia739 10 місяців тому
Body's aching all the time Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
@hdr2540 10 місяців тому
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
@uddhavsaikia739 10 місяців тому
@@hdr2540 mamaaaaaa ooUoooUoooU
@benlanning8795 10 місяців тому
The chlorine would kill them
@djddm8760 10 місяців тому
Maybe I am a bit rude and stupid. But I have one question: "Why do people live in australia?" I mean the sahara is probably more uninhabitable then australia. But the people there simply cant afford. Australia on the other hand is rich enough to basically live wherever they want. So australia is probably the richest country with the worst life conditions. Why?
@roander1337 10 місяців тому
Having caught and donated 3 funnel webs to the Aus reptile park over the years, so awesome to see behind the scenes on what they do with them.
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
🎉🎉
@grissee 10 місяців тому
7:00 I like how they put this short animation in the video, they don't have to, but they still did it!
@daskanguru3515 10 місяців тому
An arachnophobe's nightmare can be a toxicologist's dream
@hadensnodgrass3472 10 місяців тому
It's only a phobia if it is irrational. In the funnel web spiders case, you should be afraid, very afraid. It is aggressive and extremely venomous.
@williamthatsmyname 10 місяців тому
Toxicologist's wet dream - FTFY
@abhiravs4711 10 місяців тому
imagine an arachnophobe who is a toxicologist
@ferd1775 10 місяців тому
Wet* wet dream....😂
@bbbb98765 10 місяців тому
@@hadensnodgrass3472 It's literally the opposite of aggressive. It's purely defensive. Don't touch it and it won't touch you
@user-hw8un1vj5z 10 місяців тому
As an Australian I can confirm we all learn from school age to check our shoes for spiders, and the trees for drop bears
@whatevereyewant 10 місяців тому
Like Koalas dropping on top of you accidentally or actually attacking you?
@OverloadedDragon 10 місяців тому
im not australian, but i also sometimes shake me shoes because when i went camping once when i was 11, 3 daddy-long legs were in my shoes
@DoggosGames 10 місяців тому
@@whatevereyewant Boys, we got him
@elbertducut5838 10 місяців тому
you made me google drop bears and I got genuinely scared of the images HAHA
@absolutjackal 10 місяців тому
Well it would be weird to check your shoes for drop bears but maybe not so weird to check trees for spiders
@connorney545 10 місяців тому
I was literally at that reptile park yesterday and just found out you uploaded this now, incredible
@sonycans 10 місяців тому
Thank goodness that your sessions are below 10 minutes. It was informative, short and sweet.
@cybersteel8 10 місяців тому
It never occurred to me that the rest of the world wouldn't check their shoes for spiders when they left their shoes outside overnight
@d313m5 10 місяців тому
For one, I don’t leave my shoes outside overnight
@dioneto6855 10 місяців тому
It's common in Brazil, not really because of spiders but because of scorpions.
@naattxxnaattxx7055 10 місяців тому
I check my shoes every day, because my cats sometimes put in them dead bugs.
@FurrySoren 10 місяців тому
We do it here in the Caribbean too, but not necessarily for DEADLY creatures lol. Just harmless lizards and centipedes and stuff.
@Addison0526 10 місяців тому
Where I live there is the black widow and brown recluse, so still very dangerous spiders. They aren't super common though but also not as big so possibly harder to see than the funnel web spiders.
@Cavush 10 місяців тому
Hats off to all the people doing this hard work every day, so others can be saved. Dealing with the spiders, working in the labs and hospitals, you are the true heroes.
@billbauer9795 10 місяців тому
Your comment would make sense if they were all to be volunteers. They aren't.
@shadoww7301 10 місяців тому
@@billbauer9795 Just because they are getting paid to do it doesn't mean that's the main incentive. We don't know him personally so just leave him alone
@billbauer9795 10 місяців тому
@@shadoww7301 There is Nothing wrong with it being the main incentive. If it Isn't the main reason, the person is dumb/brainwashed, not "heroic".
@azora52 10 місяців тому
@@billbauer9795 you know some poeople actually like spiders right? working with spiders would be a dream come true for me
@LAFFEN 10 місяців тому
@@billbauer9795 It is like thanking a soldier for their national service, even if they get paid it is still honorable work
@RedDesertRoz 7 місяців тому
When I was in primary school (here in Sydney), I remember a boy in my class brought a funnel web in to school in a jar. He was passing the container around amongst the students before the teacher arrived. The boy explained that he'd killed the spider, so one brave kid opened the container. Teacher arrived and went absolutely mad. Boy insisted it was safe as he had killed the spider. Teacher asked him how he killed it and he said he drowned it. Teacher furious out of the sheer fear of what could have transpired yells that funnel-webs can survive underwater for more than 24 hours. Class was left inside and teacher went out to deal with the funnel-web. He came back to tell us that when he'd tipped it out, it was alive and well. Freaky as hell and only once more in my life did I see a teacher that angry. We were so lucky nothing happened to any of the kids. I believe the teacher killed the spider for the safety of the students, but these days we are encouraged to try to catch them safely for this anti-venom program.
@Coexisties 10 місяців тому
Yesssssss! Talking about my dream job right here and I am so fascinated by the science behind venom. Thank you for this! -Loved your other episode about the question on why venomous animals tend to live in warmer climates. Cool channel in general, as you make learning extra fun! Note, at 00:30 that appears to be possibly a grass spider, a genus of funnel weavers 😊💕
@BahFelix5k 10 місяців тому
I believe you are correct and I think it was irresponsible for Veritasium to have included its picture.
@ReveredMaster 10 місяців тому
3:06 the animation is scarier than a real person suffering🗿
@yazi_b0i63 10 місяців тому
As a person living in Australia, i can confirm this place is an absolute hellscape when it comes to animals
@jappojappy 10 місяців тому
But platypuses are so adorable! ... Oh, the males have venomous spurs they'll stab you with on their hind legs 😅
@juanignaciolopeztellechea9401 10 місяців тому
Not going there, even of you paid me a billion dollars
@geraldtoaster8541 10 місяців тому
I also live in australia and i have no idea why some people think this. I'll take our wildlife over bears and moose thank you
@jappojappy 10 місяців тому
@geraldtoaster8541 I agree with you actually. Australia's beautiful and her wildlife is incredible. I'd rather snakes and spiders that actively avoid human contact, than bears, big cats, elephants etc. No way I'd go into the water though. Salties scare the crap outta me.
@BM2759 10 місяців тому
Yeah but cmon the risk of getting bitten is quite low
@salamsourjah6147 9 місяців тому
Thank you , for the valuable information Derek cause my brothers living in Australia, your actually doing a decent job in this channel. I always find the information you give thrilling and important . Good luck for you and your family! ❤from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
@RickyL305 6 місяців тому
My brother also lives in Australia and is employed on a part time basis besides his full time job with being employed to remove venomous animals from people's homes and such dispatched by the Australian government themselves. He is dispatched from his home residence in Perth Australia and has been doing venomous animal removal for many years now from snakes to spiders alike. The government does keep him pretty busy doing this line of work.
@anirudhs1618 4 місяці тому
0:58 "Jake Meney- The Head of Reptiles & Spiders" got me laughing so hard for reasons unknown, my humour is broken for sure.🤣
@unlostm8 10 місяців тому
2:57 this animation sequence gave me the worst anxiety ever
@Raivex967 10 місяців тому
Their collection of spiders is almost as good as the one I have in the corner of my room (I live in Australia).
@casbot71 10 місяців тому
I just have a huntsman, great for cockroaches.
@musman9853 10 місяців тому
might i suggest burning your place down, i think that's the best way to keep you safe
@treedai7787 10 місяців тому
true
@marcelocoutinho1476 10 місяців тому
for real tho? they never creep out on you, just harmonically coexisting?
@patriknovak6264 10 місяців тому
@@marcelocoutinho1476 they lay eggs in ears when person sleeps
@ryanforgo3500 10 місяців тому
1:56 is that a grinnnnn while he is talking about how fast an adult died by the spider 😅😅 he is too proud of the spider 😂
@goodthiefphoto 10 місяців тому
Great to see you back in Australia!
@SSmitar 10 місяців тому
As always animation team putting in an absolutely phenomenal work in these vids. That animation about why this venom affects humans & how it spreads, just top notch.
@ThomvanVliet 10 місяців тому
Man that animation of the person twitching and dying was disturbing
@jiminboo 10 місяців тому
6:01 Wow I love how aggressive and feisty it gets, just lounges at the pipette in attempt to pierce it with those fangs! Nature is truly terrifying at times but always fascinating.
@Clarste 10 місяців тому
Reminds me of a cat when you try to pet its belly.
@jiminboo 10 місяців тому
@@Clarste it’s adorable in a creepy terrifying way 😅
@tphotos3485 10 місяців тому
they also play dead. Saw one under a couch while helping a friend move house, they threw a container over it even though it was all curled up. after a while of everyone freaking out over it, they lifted the container and started checking it out with some tongs. poked it one too many times and BOOM this thing sprang open and ran straight outside. so terrifying, one of those heart-stopping shocks. But yes, call wires or something and they'll remove them safely snd use them for this kind of work.
@jasonpatterson9821 8 місяців тому
He mentions it in passing at the very end of the video, but after saying things like, "The fastest we've seen an adult die is in 76 minutes," and, "What is in this pipette could kill 250 people," (paraphrased) it should have been made much, much clearer that A) people don't die from funnel web bites at all anymore and B) even before this program, only 13 people were known to have *ever* died from funnel web bites. I'm not volunteering to be bitten and I think they're doing great work, but the exaggerated danger level is not helpful to anyone.
@senthilkumaran1473 10 місяців тому
Veritasium's videos made my life better actually... I love his works on all science fields... Really it means a lot to me
@iv8923 10 місяців тому
keep learning ❤
@janofb 10 місяців тому
In the mid 60's my father was a pharmacist. We used to hunt rattlesnakes, and he taught me how to milk their venom for sale to a pharmaceutical company to make anti-venom. I was a stupid kid back then. I don't think I could do that today.
@robtk3 10 місяців тому
Well, at least you were a stupid kid with adult supervision.
@nadarith1044 10 місяців тому
What do you mean by 'hunt' here? catch and release?
@thebestscienceclips 7 місяців тому
Interesting stuff as usual!
@boo3046 10 місяців тому
Hey Veritasium, I think it would be really interesting if you updated your bowling video or made a follow up. More so regarding what makes a bowling ball crack and break over time and when storing it for months while its not in use if rotating the ball time to time actually helps it to prevent cracking. Thanks for the videos, hoping for more! Regards from Sweden.
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
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@joaomrtins 10 місяців тому
This is such an important work. Australia gets a lot of attention for it's dangerous fauna but here in Brazil it's not that safer, at least in the 21st century we have antivenom.
@gamechip06 10 місяців тому
I'm here on vacation right now, and I've already seen 3 different kinds of spiders on separate occasions and noped out of the vicinity each time.
@talkshow69 10 місяців тому
Australia gets a lot of hate and fear for it's dangerous fauna FTFY
@soupcake3092 10 місяців тому
South america really deserves more credit for its bugs.
@tanostrelok2323 10 місяців тому
The only real difference is the humidity levels and that there's no big cats in Australia
@xBox360BENUTZER 10 місяців тому
I would rather worry about crime then dangerous animals in Brazil
@user-hw8un1vj5z 10 місяців тому
"Behind these black curtains are deadly spiders. Hundreds of them." So just your typical Australian curtains...
@drcgaming4195 10 місяців тому
"thats not grass behind that curtain"
@MasterBerlin 10 місяців тому
Yo Derek you are graying out man. really ❤love your effort as per you effort & the time you have given to the youtube
@gnarlow996 8 місяців тому
Most dramatic death of a stick figure I’ve ever seen.
@OwlishFun 10 місяців тому
My coworkers in Canada always shudder at Aus wildlife, but its hard to explain how accepting you are of the danger when you grow up there. We had funnel webs in out backyard and pool, and once at a scout jamboree the site near us had to move because they were on a funnel web nest...and we all just rolled with it. Sometimes I remember playing spot light in the Aus bush, literally crawling through the underbrush and no one ever got bitten by anything.
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
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@Mrdestiny17 2 місяці тому
Used to have a pet black widow. Spiders are awesome creatures. I'm still scared of them but I have a new respect for them after I kept it as a pet. Widows aren't really that dangerous unless you have heart/breathing issues or are like a baby or extremely old. They Neurotoxic venom so unlike brown recluses which necrotize the skin, it just paralyzes neurons but at a small scale. Not to mention widows are extremely docile and would rather pretend to not exist when bothered than biting like active hunters like the recluse. Shame they only live a couple years. Luckily I caught mine when she was young so she stuck around for a while
@xtrplpqtl 10 місяців тому
The first still frame where you can hear "this is a funnel web spider" is actually not a funnel web spider. Funnel web spiders are in family Atracidae, which are mygalomorph spiders, closer to tarantulas than the one in the picture. You seem to have confused it with funnel weaver spiders, which are araneomorph spiders in the family Agelenidae.
@Swordflash4 10 місяців тому
See I thought they had made a mistake when they pointed to it! Funnel webs are velvet black. That one was grey and looked closer to a wolf spider.
@elroyfudbucker6806 10 місяців тому
Details, details.
@Amused_Comfort_Inc 10 місяців тому
@@Swordflash4it was a hololena curta, and those chevron stripes and spotted legs are the biggest indicator 😊 I had one as a pet for a year, beautiful spiders
@Shazzkid Місяць тому
Actually it's not even a funnel weaver from Agelenidae, but one of the few web building wolf spiders, such as those in the genus Sosippus.
@SirSpinalColumn 8 місяців тому
It’s important to note that Australia has absolutely no native primates, so the toxicity of the venom to primates is truely a mystery. It’s also worth mentioning that those super dangerous male spiders are the ones you’re most likely to encounter while they’re wandering around looking for a female during the warmer months.
@MrOvergryph 10 місяців тому
7:31 "Fortunately, due to this program, no one has died since 1981." ☝
@elijahmitchell-hopmeier182 10 місяців тому
I’m ecstatic to see that Veritasium is back at it again trying to answer the age old questions of how we milk spiders. Great work! I can’t wait to see what other things they find that can be milked
@20motu08 10 місяців тому
This is so weird, is has to be a bot 😅
@baksatibi 10 місяців тому
I just realized you can milk both the male and the female platypus (among a few other mammals).
@nickhadfield3192 10 місяців тому
Almonds are milked, but it's very difficult to extract the milk from such tiny nipples. This is why almond milk is more expensive.
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
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@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
@@20motu08🎉🎉🎉
@davidchang-yen1256 10 місяців тому
This process seems like an excellent candidate for replacement by B-cell fusion/immortalization. Then the antibodies can be produced in bioreactors in much higher quantities. Although the venom probably has a pile of variants so you’d have to combine a lot of antibodies from different cultures together to make up an effective antivenin cocktail. Still seems like it would be worth the effort.
@henriqueoliveira5270 10 місяців тому
It is incredible to realize that the behavior of funnel-web spider (when it gets angry) is very similar with a brazilian spider called "armadeira".
@pippy4658 9 місяців тому
Absolutely fascinating video. 🔥
@0ptixs 10 місяців тому
I really feel that last little bit was way way over looked, no known person has died in 40 years from a funnel web spider. And this spider can kill you in days. I think that's just amazing, kudos to the people working on this project
@snuscaboose1942 10 місяців тому
Kill you in minutes or less than 2 hours, not days...
@maybe4549 10 місяців тому
It can kill you in hours. Prevention makes it all and the anti venom saves the few unlucky enough to face one.
@Tesserex 10 місяців тому
0:30 that looks to me like a member of the grass spider family, which are also sometimes called funnel webs, because they indeed make funnel shaped webs, but they're araneomorphs, not mygalomorphs (tarantula types) like the Australian funnel webs. Someone must have just searched for a funnel web spider picture and got the wrong kind. I'm not 100% sure though because I can't see the fangs and can't tell if the prosoma is hairy or hairless (should be hairless in Australian funnel webs).
@OG_BiggusDickus 10 місяців тому
I was seen that photo and was like hold up, that's 100% not a sydney funnel web...
@PedroFerreira-fh3dk 10 місяців тому
It's a spider from the Lycosidae family, since it clearly has 3 rows of eyes (4 in the bottom row, two big ones in the middle, and two in the top row). Grass spiders have only two rows of 4 eyes. But yeah, definitely not a funnel web.
@AlasdairThompson 10 місяців тому
@@PedroFerreira-fh3dk I thought wolf spider or american funnel weaver. I'm certainly no expert though
@amicaaranearum 10 місяців тому
It’s definitely not a funnel-web spider (Atracidae) or other mygalomorph. I think it may be a funnel weaver (Agelenidae) - the similar common name is probably how it ended up being selected as a stock image.
@pseudechis 10 місяців тому
yep, it's a wolf spider, then followed by a different spider, and a black house spider, before they get to the funnelwebs proper
@parthchaudhary3570 9 місяців тому
Great work dude ❤
@Borg8 10 місяців тому
Incredible as always! And I event didn't saw the video yet.
@adamweb 10 місяців тому
5:03 Drown proof funnel-webs, new nightmare unlocked!
@hughesd22 10 місяців тому
I didn't realize how scared I was of funnelweb spiders until today haha. Banger of a video Derek
@ImperiousKing 9 місяців тому
Great info about funnel web spider
@sergemerto256 10 місяців тому
It's amazing that you guys can claim that because of you, in over 40 years not a single death has occured. I would be extremely proud of it🔥
@ouo5634 10 місяців тому
1:44 "We only milk the males because they are 6 times more toxic" lol
@chrisdonovan8795 10 місяців тому
So that's the origin of toxic masculinity?
@Fantastic_Mr_Fox 10 місяців тому
they took the meme "leaving toxic masculinity behind. I'm going fully lethal" to a whole new level
@easternhills1329 10 місяців тому
I heard the dude go: "We only milk the male..." and had to scroll down to find a comment about it XD
@gregbors8364 10 місяців тому
Those are the ones who use Twitter
@SirFaceFone 10 місяців тому
😳
@GuitarSlayer136 10 місяців тому
I had a single nightmare where I got bit by a spider and my bones rotted through my skin and the biggest take away was how it didn't scare me as much as cutting open my fretting hand and watching my tendons move like a star wars robot hand in real life. Ever since I've been far less scared of spiders of all sizes because the idea that I'll get bit by a Brown Recluse or Black Widow by accident just doesn't seem as bad anymore.
@Geoplanetjane 10 місяців тому
I got bit by a brown recluse. Nasty experience
@Milkmans_Son 10 місяців тому
There is a real life version of your nightmare spider venom called hydrogen fluoride. It's a calcium seeker that you probably won't notice as it goes through your skin on it's way to basically melt your bones. Did I say won't notice? I meant to say won't notice right away, probably a day or so later.
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
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@MrKangdon 10 місяців тому
Derek, you should totally do a piece on Aussie Ark up in the Barrington Tops!
@BahFelix5k 10 місяців тому
@Veritasium The believe the spider pictured at 0:30 is from the family Agelenidae. They are common where I live in North America. I actually enjoy having them around. They are sometimes called a funnel web spider, but a better common name to use is "funnel weaver spider" or "grass spider". They are not medically significant. I'm not the only one who noticed. Please correct this.
@casbot71 10 місяців тому
"Better help, hello? Yes... _I'd like to talk about my arachnophobia"_
@DJvvAZZ 10 місяців тому
Fascinating! I had no idea, until now, how anti venom is made from these 'cute' spiders. I'm glad I live in NZ.
@davidkendal1361 10 місяців тому
Pretty sure the use horses as a catalyst for snake anti-venom too.
@gregbors8364 10 місяців тому
Yeah but you guys have to deal with Saurons
@Inv1ns1bl 10 місяців тому
did you know you are more likely to be killed by a horse than a spider.
@crackwitz 10 місяців тому
Imagine if kiwis were venomous and used their beaks to jab you
@tadcastertory1087 10 місяців тому
Isn't there a growing colony of these spiders in NZ, which were accidentally introduced? I could be wrong.
@social.2184 10 місяців тому
Video was so good I didn't even noticed until it ended 😃
@tricore6408 6 місяців тому
went to the reptile park and heared about this beginning of the year! kinda mind blowing to see this in action now
@justaddwata 10 місяців тому
Customer of mine when I was a mechanic worked milking spiders at the Australian Reptile park (Near Gosford). Never did I drive her car without thinking about spiders crawling around (as if she would ever bring her work home with her).
@jackbuff_I 10 місяців тому
The thought of one hiding in the sun visor until it drops out on to your lap while doing 90mph is honestly terrifying.
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
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@afonsomachado31 10 місяців тому
Lol I failed a question in my biology exam today that was about how venom acts in the neuron. If only this video was posted yesterday.
@beautycuti 10 місяців тому
or you could have just listened in class or read your textbook
@vaisakhkm783 10 місяців тому
@@beautycuti that's too much effort... i rather watch this 10 min video than reading 1 line...
@uCruz_ 10 місяців тому
I have a normal fear of spiders, but I can't be the only one that once I watch a video about spiders, It feels like every hair of my body becomes more sensitive, and I start to feel a lot of little nothing all around my body.
@VikingTeddy 10 місяців тому
Oh yes, I'm much more aware of little m8vements and sounds, the hairs on my scalp and neck keep rising and I have that icky feeling though it's been over 5 minutes. I fortunately live so far up north I don't have to worry about anything venomous. I'm pretty cool with insects, but spiders trigger a fear like no other.
@uCruz_ 10 місяців тому
@@VikingTeddy I live in the very south of Brazil, don't have to worry about any spiders, actually never even seen one in person I think. I mean really big spiders.
@mauricenestler6559 10 місяців тому
I recommend exposure therapy e.g., watching UKposts channels like exotic lair. Eventually you'll begin to like large spiders.
@Vexas345 10 місяців тому
Adrenaline. It's a dangerous spiders, it's perfectly reasonable for your body to react that way.
@Rico401Prov 7 місяців тому
Same! I’ve been afraid of tarantulas since I was a kid and I remember about 5 years ago going to a huge aquarium in a mall one time and they had a glass that had this big ass Mexican tarantula sitting on a damn rock and that mofo looked like Godzilla 😱 I started sweating and panicking to the point where I got stuff and couldn’t walk. I had to turn my head and walk past really fast to not trigger anyone that I was stressing out lol
@Shazzkid Місяць тому
At 0:30 you refer to a spider as a funnel web spider, it is infact actually of the few web building wolf spiders, such as those in the genus Sosippus. Many people here have tried to correct you and say its a funnel weaver in Agelenidae, but they too are wrong. Observe the eye arrangement to confirm, 2 large forward facing Posterior Median Eyes, and 2 medium sized Posterior Lateral Eyes, set further back on the head, with the remaining 4 Anterior eyes, smaller and of equal size, aligned in a straight row beneath the PMEs
@olly1oo6 10 місяців тому
I still remember fishing out a "poor" drowned funnel web spider from our backyard pool when I was a kid. You can imagine my surprise when it suddenly sprang to life and bared its fangs. Grandad had the last laugh when he squashed it with a shovel.
@goldenfeather3687 10 місяців тому
Thank god you didn’t have to learn it the really hard way
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
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@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
@@goldenfeather3687😂
@michaelscott6687 10 місяців тому
The spider that you point to and ID MIGHT be some type of funnel web, but it is definitely not a Sydney funnel web spider.
@Haldthin1 10 місяців тому
It looks like a Barn funnel web.
@athloner 10 місяців тому
Was thinking the same thing, it happened a few times that he showed the wrong spider
@snuscaboose1942 10 місяців тому
Depends where you live in Sydney. In the Inner West redbacks are far more common and you have to check your shoes. Closer to the bush like say Hornsby (a suburb of Sydney) the funnelwebs are far more common. They're usually chill but the wandering males need to be terminated. But most funnelwebs can be left alone, they're a cool addition to a garden.
@shlock1558 10 місяців тому
Great anf informative video. Eventhough it was a hard watch for me personally as I have a phobia of spiders!
@scientificon 10 місяців тому
With such dangerous spiders comes great responsibility. Great video 👍
@Kamil_O 10 місяців тому
that is amazing that they saved pop from death for 40 years. People that are working there are heroes
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
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@almondigasconpatatas7491 10 місяців тому
Great move making a vid about spiders and having it’s sponsor be betterhelp Derek! Genius marketing.
@OllieBeeston 10 місяців тому
Literally saw one the other day hiking in a very narrow track in Kangaroo Valley. We were a loooong way from help. Never been so scared 😂
@lotsofstuff9645 10 місяців тому
I’m an Australian now living in the UK. Used to live in Canberra, so never actually came across a funnel web. I can however attest to banging my shoes together every time they were outside for any length of time. Have definitely found loads of red backs and huntsman’s hiding in my shoes before. Really interesting video, but I would have preferred instead of showing the actual spider you just used a cartoon or hand puppet of a friendlier looking spider so I don’t need to have nightmares for the next few months.
@drcgaming4195 10 місяців тому
bro i would freak out so much. im aussie, yet i have a massive fear of spiders lmao.
@lotsofstuff9645 10 місяців тому
@@drcgaming4195 Why do you think I’m living on the other side of the world! I’ll come back once all the spiders and snakes leave
@AndersonPEM 10 місяців тому
Australia and Brazil's amazonian rainforest are not that different. We have the Brazilian wandering spider. It kills you really quick. And it's sometimes found hiding between bananas. It's good practice to beat off shoes to avoid being bitten by a spider or a scorpion. Yeah, the Amazon and Australia are pretty similar: basically everything wants to kill you.
@sayyamzahid7312 10 місяців тому
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@joshuagharis9017 10 місяців тому
Hey Derek, how do you feel about supporting worker coops? Very interested in starting one
@Advcrazy 10 місяців тому
And there I was catching them and taking them outside when I grew up in Sydney. Shoulda be taking them in to this program!
@Virvum_Juggernaut 10 місяців тому
The female Sydney Funnel Web spider is big bodied, with hugely muscular Chelicerae connecting to their fangs. They house their enormous fangs underneath, pointing down along their Opisthosoma (abdomen) and arch themselves, rearing up to expose the fangs so that they can slam them into their prey with tremendous force. This is why their bite is arguably the most painful (as well as deadly).
@lindseymercuria3971 10 місяців тому
The funnel web spider is the most deadly in the world. Black widow, brown recluse, and old world tarantula venom is tame compared to funnel web spiders. I appreciate how milking them is necessary for antivenin but I still felt bad for the spider. You have to piss them off and threaten them to get their venom. What a stressful life for the spiders! Also, the rabbits. Damn, that got me in the feels.
@isaacmarks31 9 місяців тому
As an Aussie, I can confirm we check our boots before putting them on. It's not just the funnel webs you need to look out for, but also red backs and white tails.
@You_Ate_My_Soap 10 місяців тому
Oh my god this tutorial is so helpful. Now I can extract as much spider venom as I can. This video finally gave me the inspiration to do it thank you so much
@You_Ate_My_Soap 10 місяців тому
Won what? A scam?
@ricotaline 10 місяців тому
I hate seeing a spider in my house, but I love seing them in nature. Such an elegant animal
@obi-wankenobi1750 10 місяців тому
As someone who was bitten by a black widow spider (not anywhere near as deadly as a funnel web but INSANELY painful) I find this extremely interesting. Definitely going to be doing my own research on how black widow antivenin is produced.
@annoy4nce648 7 місяців тому
honestly, the production of antivenom is incredibly boring. It's basically always the same thing. Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly important and I'm incredibly thankful for it, but it's not an area that sees much variation.
@mityaboy4639 10 місяців тому
And another reason not to move / visit Australia - nice place, love it... but lets enjoy it through my monitor :) Good video as always
@juankruger2598 10 місяців тому
Interesting to learn about the venom effects on us and that I only thought they used horses to produce anti-venom (but that was for snakes) I had no idea that rabbits are used as well. Veritas vos liberabit (how fitting to have that end in 'rabit')
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