This Cute Fish Can KILL YOU in 7 Milliseconds
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Heads up, y'all: you're gonna wanna stick around until the very end for this one. But if you already did, reply to this comment with some captions for that photo! EDIT: I have also just been informed that the fish seen at 3:07 is, in fact, NOT a swordfish, but a striped marlin. And I am now SO ANNOYED at the stock video website I got that footage from. They lied to me! They looked me in the face and lied!
I don't have a specific caption but it is definitely giving Evil Kermit meme (bonus points because it's a FROGfish)
Top caption: POGFISH Bottom caption: pogfish!!
Howdy
Me: The music i listen to:
me: o____o Me in my mind: \\\\OvO//////
SHE RETURNS FROM THE DEPTHS
Like an abyssal... Octopus?
@@cienciandre Like a humbolt squid!
30 stories high, breathing fire! Oh wait-
Yaaay!!!
She had to go look for more fish to talk about 😂😂
Frogfish only _look_ like they're bad at being fish. It's all part of their scheme.
😲😲😲
They look like they're wearing one of those outfits you put on a dog to make them look like a person from the front (the ones with fake arms sticking out of the sides, and the legs/feet are the front legs of the dog)
Powerful deployers of the "im just a lil guy its my birthday" school of evolutionary strategies
Right? This has to be one of the most vicious predators out there. They've evolved to look incompetent and actually attractive to fish, and just like that they hold that 91% success rate. That's basically unheard of. Most predators can only dream of having such success rate. Between the lion, the wolf, and the "unknown" fih at 18:48 I would have certainly chosen the frogfish without knowing what it was because I know for a fact that lions and wolves go hungry a lot of the time. They're nowhere near as efficient.
They're the equivalent of that one guy who got aggressively questioned "choose the economy or LGBTQ rights" and the absolute mad lad said "Both" and wouldn't budge (like a badass). He used the expectations of the interviewer to absolutely WIN. Frogfish do the same.
They say if you pronounce BO-ops BO-ops eight times in front of a mirror in a dark room an octopus flies out and gives you a very disappointed glare, somehow stealthily holding up fake eyebrows to show its disdain.
I love the headcanon that she's holding up the eyebrows and they're not actually eyebrows sm oh my god 😭
Lol
I know she’s not the focus of this video but that anglerfish swims so funny😂 she looks like she’s out of breath but still in a hurry
Me walking up the stairs vibe
Well the oxygen saturation at the bottom of the ocean probably means she is out of breath lmfao
wobbly boi
@@thenonfurry girl* males are very tiny
Its similar with that footage of the swimming anglerfish
In engineering "racking" is when a structure is under restrained and rocks at its joints, the best example is a poorly made table that will "rack" when you push on the side, this likely means it "squishes" the fish with one wall pulling it down and then either semi releases or then pushes the other wall in a similar manner likely in a motion like trying to move too tight pants, move one side as far as possible and then catching up with the other
So the violent jump and jiggle into the leggings is racking, got it.
My first thought (and I could be way off) is “the rack,” which is a device used in physical therapy to stretch the spine. It’s more of a rack and pinion structure. Your explanation looks more like the science paper I found when searching “racking frogfish”. They use their gill fins (that’s about all I could grok).
So its just like sawing the prey back and forth or what?
The way that a snake works its mouth over a big prey item is like this I think. They sort of walk they teeth over the prey, first one side and then the other. In a throat, this would be pulling one side down and then the other side, like walking or raking it down the throat.
@@chuckgoecke , The paper/study I read said that the frogfish uses extra vertebrae and gill motion to swallow its food. They had to X-ray the frogfish eating, and slow it down a lot, because it takes milliseconds to do.
Now I might just have to make a shirt that says I'M HERE I'M QUEER AND I'M A SPHERE
Would certainly make some of my hard-to-buy-for holiday shopping easier
#alleyesonrafah
@@zainabzolita8436 Spamming that ignorant nonsense everywhere is extremely inappropriate!
@@MatthewTheWanderer being appropriate on the internet is inappropriate
@@saturationstation1446 Wrong.
Imagine you walk past a beautiful apartment in a nice part of town and there's a for-sale sign on the side (it's in your price range!). You catch a whiff of something delicious and see there's a hotdog stand set up right outside. Then 7 milliseconds later you're being dragged into the basement and the stairs have teeth
But at least I never have to worry about paying rent or student loans again, so I guess I'm okay with my new scary basement?
sounds like a magnus archives story
oh dear
@AllTheHappySquirrels The problem is, the basement is flooded in a lake of acid and while you're down there, your body is going to slowly dissolve away.
@@FreedomTalkMedia I guess you haven't tried to rent a place in this economy fresh out of grad school, eh? Acid lake sounds delightful!
the Octopus Lady name drops D20 and Bobby Broccoli. truly a cephalopod of taste.
Hearing the stat of 91% success rate makes me think of the toadfish I feed, failing to eat food I gently insert into his open mouth because he is constantly blorbing water around and accidentally spits it out >:-T takes me 4 attempts lmao
oh hey, I might be able to answer the racking motion question! Think gears, a rolling grinding motion.
@@tomhomunculus Racking motion. Like racking the balls for pool. Multiple objects moving in unison.
These bois are basically IRL D&D mimics
Except that mimics don't swallow adventurers whole in 7 miliseconds!
shouldnt mimic be called “resembs”? they don’t imitate behavior. they just look like chests
@@user-sc7ld7cj6hThere has to be game balance. 😂 Player: "I touch the treasure chest". DM: "You see nothing but darkness, you are confused with where you are or how you got here. Now what?"
If I ever set up a dating profile, "I'm here, I'm weird, and I'm a sphere" is gonna be my bio.
Better than my idea... I was planning on making it the nutritional value of the average human. Though I'd probably contain a few extra servings of long pork by now... xD
@@geoffreyentwistle8176lovely!
If a frogfish ever made a dating profile it would be a catfish and it would accept cashapp, paypal, or gift cards.
nothing proves the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule of nature than the frogfish lmao. with a 91% catch rate and no eating standards it's not gonna die off soon. long live the frogfish🤟🏾 (and rest well octopus lady! you show that corporeal form what's up- with love and kindness❤)
no shade on froggy's success rate... but i think we need to also consider total catches per hour or something? ultimately the froggo's gonna win purely on calories spent per catch tho.
Also, as someone with EDS as well as lots of mental illnesses, I totally feel it. It’s frustrating as hell to be at the mercy of your bad days and to have no idea when you’ll have a good day again. I hope you pull through it, we’re all here for you. We love you, you’re our favorite cephalopod
You know, I think I’m glad that our distant ancestors decided to evolve out of the ocean if that means I will never have to worry about being swallowed by a frog fish
In 7 ms that is 😐 Imagine blinking while haning out with your friends and when you open your eyes, all of them are gone.
Yep lions, tigers, and bears are all easy to get away from in the wild! No worries at all... Where's my bear mace? 😅
Mother has graced her little isopods
I’m going to caption the photo with something I have actually experienced multiple times Me at the bar, one drink in and already tipsy: excitedly explaining the biomechanics of human vision My much cooler coworkers: genuinely fascinated by what I'm sharing
:)
I don’t need that one drink, it’s just how I live haha
How could anyone possibly be tipsy after only ONE drink!?
@@MatthewTheWanderer I can answer this because I am also the type to get tipsy after one drink: I am 5'2" and I don't drink much except with friends so I am both tiny and have next to no tolerance. I also hate beer and usually drink fancy cocktails. "One drink" is something with two shots and a liquor in it while I weigh 10 stone, of course I'm tipsy :3
@@veggiedragon1000 Why would you say weigh 10 stone on the internet? No one outside the UK knows what that means. Also 140 pounds is a lot for 5'2". Also, I weigh less than twice that (I'm 6'0" and 270 pounds), yet it takes 10 times as much alcohol to get me even tipsy. And I almost never drink anymore and hate alcohol with a passion.
This is the one of the stupidest fish I've ever seen and it's a crime that I can't hug it.
Are there ANY kind of fish you can hug, though?
@@MatthewTheWanderer A shark
@@olasdorosdiliusimilius2174 No, you can't hug sharks.
@@MatthewTheWanderer Yes you can.
"...and it's a crime that I can't hug it." ...and live. :P
2:19 it may not be aquatic but my all time favourite HAS to be gorilla gorilla gorilla
I fancy bubo bubo. More aquatic: bombina bombina.
Not to mention Gulo gulo.
Hottentotta Hottentotta, the Alligatorback Scorpion. So fun to say!
Not quite as funny or cool, but Vulpes Vulpes - my favorite animal, the red fox - is my go-to example :)
@@lykonic1763 Vulpes Vulpes was my first thought, too, haha.
When the premiere notification popped up, I was talking to my friend and freaked out shouting "OCTOPUSLADY" and confused the hell out of them 😂
The scientific name of The American Bison is Bison bison bison if you like those repeating names.
Oh god no, it's an odd number, that makes it bad via the law of negatives
@@hayuseen6683 Nah, odd numbers are the only valid numbers. Even numbers cancel out.
As someone who is recovering from spinal surgery after a literal lifetime of back pain, I truly understand how your physical state affects your mental state and ability to work. I'm rooting for you, I really enjoy how you educate and I look forward to browsing your previous videos again to fill the time. Take care and be well, you've got this!
imagine walking down the street when a car starts dangling a new in box iphone over the sidewalk and you grab for it and the hood opens up and sucks you in and it's actually a predator and you've been eaten. That's this fish.
Everyone wake up! A new octopus lady video just dropped!!!
I vibe so hard with The Octopus Lady and her love of weird goofy creatures...... I'm right there with you sister! On a more serious note i suffer with chronic pain with my disabilities..... my heart goes out to you for what your going through right now.
What a roller-coaster it was to see that there is new The Octopus Lady video. The intial excitement there being a new video, but then the realization it has not been released yet. Then resurgence of excitement for getting watching the video this evening.
Racking motions are like 'pool ball racks' where things come from around /the sides and begin to pull in objects in order to align them within whatever structure is housing the objects. As for your picture prompt, Frogfish: How I feel I look. Zebra Fish: How others see me
The Sarcastic Fringhead is such a crazy fish.
OMG, that orange frogfish looks like a boglin. I haven't thought of those toys in over a decade.
The original "funk o pop" as they say
To describe the racking motion in the simplest of terms, the motion you do when you pump a shotgun is called racking a shell. It's a motion of compacting and expanding that pushes the object further down.
Just watched on Nebula, another absolute triumph.
idk if this helps but this is genuinely one of your best videos yet
Oh gosh! That is SO NICE of you to say!! Thank you!
That was an extremely wholesome baby-fish squee there at the end. Good luck with your corporeal form.
2:26 while it's not a sea creature the best example of this has to be "gorilla gorilla gorilla"
D'awwe, thanks for giving me more than just their adorable paw-fins to love about frogfish. I learned a lot in this episode! I'm very sorry to hear that your body is being stupid (or your "boat", as my autocorrect insisted...). My body also likes being chronically stupid. My best wishes to you on your journey, and I'll happily await your return, regardless of how long you need to take for yourself.
I love that you love Dimension 20. It's always great seeing creators love the same weird things I love!
A Gulper Eel! Gulper Eel! It's a Gulper Eel! It looks like a Gulper Eel! Gulper Eel? Gulper Eel! It's a Gulper Eel! Gulper Eel. -Time!
It’s supposedly a frogfish
“What is it doing?” Probably sucking in food.
"You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like."
"Racking motion" must be back and forth like a shotgun, but its recurved teeth in a fishes throat.
I'm so glad you made this video, it's so funny! I hope you start feeling better, and take care of yourself. Speaking for myself I have a desire for ocean content at all times.
7 hours until premier and I'm already vibrating with excitement ❤🐙 We've missed you so!
racking is a motion of sliding back slowly, and then rapidly moving forward, back into place. Like racking the slide of a handgun, for example
I really hope whatever ills you're facing rn cease
"Heat death of the universe". Thanks, I haven't had an existential crisis in a while. Lol
Dont worry! There's almost no way you'll live to see it! 😊
Your channel is one of my favorites, I'm so content waiting however long it takes as you fight with your physical being. I wish you plentiful spoons as you continue through this world 💕
It is always a joy when a new video drops. I hope you’ll get well soon!
I'm pretty sure I speak for all your subscribers when I say that no matter how long it takes for you to put out another video, if I'm still alive then, I'll watch. Your videos are an absolute delight to watch, and when I see one I get as excited as when I see a new HBomberguy or Contrapoints video (and I picked those points of comparison for a reason: they also put out videos on a very sporadic schedule and yet people still love them... rightly). If you're good enough, you earn loyalty which will endure even if there is a long wait between videos. The sheer curiosity and excitement of your presentation style is just so charming and sweet but also rigorous, and you don't shy away from making it clear when there's some point you don't personally understand or an word you don't know how to pronounce. So many others (such as me, probably) would let their vanity win there and, though I wouldn't profess to know everything, I also wouldn't specifically bring things up which reveal the limits to my knowledge. You, though are so admirably upfront about these things (which are rare, don't get me wrong!) that I find it really ingratiating. I'm so sorry you're having personal problems, and I hope that taking a break will help you to deal with them and maybe fix them. Sorry also for your health issues, something my disabled ass understands all too well. Just remember that you'll have an audience here no matter how irregular your videos are. They're too good for anyone to be able to justify depriving themselves by unsubscribing. Thank you so much for the videos you've already made; even if you never make another you've made KZhead a better place already. (Please do make another though) PS. It's me that's disabled... the way I phrased it makes it sound like I have a very specifically disabled ass. I would ordinarily have rephrased that whole sentence but I feel imbued with your spirit and I think I'll just leave the ambiguous phrasing there for everyone to enjoy and to demonstrate the limits of my ability to write a good first draft. Thanks again for everything!
YAY!!! so happy to see you back
You are amazing and worth waiting for! take care of yourself and we will try to be patient :)
It's great to see a video of your again, I wish you a good and fast recovery
Bruh ive been missing this channel so much. Im so happy youre back!!!
Glad to see you back 💚
I love this channel and your videos, probably the best aquatic life related informational videos Ive seen anywhere
im so sorry about health issues taking everything from you - I've had to cope and suffer through that for years and I really hope things take a good turn for you!
This is great, you are great. I didn't know i needed to watch a video about frog fish... Also i love the amount of edition this videos have, small jokes evrywhere, is amazing.
The Joy of my day hahaha i can finally stop looping your older videos and loop this one
So happy to see a new video from you!!!
YOU’RE BACK!!!!!! I love your videos, and I want you to keep pushing so I don’t lose a reliable person to learn from!
i'm so happy you are back, honestly. I love alien ocean sm
Yayyy this came at the perfect time for me and was well worth the wait!! Take care of yourself please! We really love your content and I for one am more than happy to wait for such incredible high quality content
Great video. Love the info, humor, delivery, energy .. basically everything. Sucks that you're dealing with health issues and I hope you recover quickly and fully.
Missed your vids, welcome back!
That was extremely entertaining to watch. And very informative. I love your style and humor. The amount of effort that went into this video is much appreciated. Hope you feel better soon.
I get more excited to see a new octopus lady video than a zefrank video, which is saying something. Never knew how amazing frogfish were before today. I really do hope you can get better, as I really love your videos and hope to see many more. Chronic illnesses gape and suck, from my experience, so I am amazed you are still doing these.
yay i was waiting for you to come back
i cant comprehend the timeline at 2:41 because of the sole thought of pufferfish having been around and being silly for over 91 MILLION years and then mantis shrimp for almost 4 times that amount
As always I really enjoyed the video. Thank you. And I hope you get better soon.
Best of luck I hope you can return fully healthy! I wish you a speed recovery love watching your content.
The most shocking thing about these things for me was finding out that the many different colors and shapes could potentially be the same species!
Yay more Octopuslady stuff. I love how happy you sound to talk about this stuff. You just love talking about sea creatures and it really shows. It is why I love your stuff.
Hi octopus lady, your videos are a little light in the gloom (: your energy and devotion and humor are so magnetic. Be so kind to yourself! The body and brain are treacherous! I will be supporting you on Patreon from here on out. Take such good care
yayyyy!! i’ve missed you! i hope you’re okay 🥺💜💕 i’m sorry you’re going through so much - we will always be here for you
racking motion, I assume is related to the medieval rack, the device with spikes that rolls, pulls, and stretches the guest to relieve any tight joints. So perhaps a rolling & pulling motion?
Yaaaay! We missed you!
Your passion is infectious, keep up the good work octopus lady! And know that I'll still be here in-between videos despite the irregularity and gaps
great to see you back! take care of yourself
I’m so glad I found ur channel again I love binging ur vids. Can’t get over how they walk lmao, also hope ur health improves!
another joy to watch! keep up this amazing work!
Oh hell yeah! more alien ocean >:D super glad to see you upload and I hope things go well in the future for you. Also loved the raunchy energy throughout
YOURE BACK!!!! 👌 incredible content as always
Good to see you back.
Wishing you all the best in the health department!Love your videos.
Always love your content! I truly hope things start going your way.
Please get well soon, Octolady! Your disarming presence and captivating topics are such a bright bioluminescent light in the inky depths of this platform. I'm strugglin too, but lemme see if you have a patreon level I can afford.
I don't understand how, despite spending as much time as I do on youtube AND studying marine biology, I only just found your channel. Very cool video, loving this style of content!
We appreciate you, I wish you the best, and don’t feel bad if you can’t upload regularly!
Octopus lady feel better!!! Im aleays excited to watch your videos. I fall asleep to them since your voice is very comforting. Now my partner also knows cool ocean facts since he has to listen to them on repeat as well
i missed you
I love your content, and I'm so sorry to hear about your recent illness. So please take care of you and I hope you recover quickly. Sending good vibes and prayers.❤
Thank you so much for posting a new video, after three months I was beginning to worry you left KZhead. So happy you are back!!
There is sth special, about the passion you have for this content. I'm so sorry to hear you're dealing with shit in life, so all the more reasons to wish you the best.
Awesome video. Thank you for making it so much. I really look forward to these!
I hope you get better. Just wanted to let you know that I’ll support you whenever you need it 😊
I love dumb fish! And I love how you talk about dumb fish, it's so funny. Your channel is one of my favourites and I love watching your videos if I feel sad. I hope you feel better soon, but don't feel any pressure to upload! I and I'm sure many others will stay here subscribed :)
Hi OctopusLady, I'm glad to see you upload another video! I hope you and your tentacles and many tentacle brains recover soon.
I love sitting here and listening to you geek out over the most intersting and weird animals in our oceans. It make my day. Please never change that about yourself.
It's good seeing you again! No matter how long the wait. The best parts for me have to be when you discover words that are almost part of everyday vocabulary in French. Deglutition, for exemple. You wouldn't use it in small-talk but you could definitely read it in a description in a novel (or at least its verb form, déglutir). Anyway, I just love to see those words from your point of view. Thanks for the great content as always, and best of luck with everything you're having to deal with at the moment. Until next time!
Yay, you're back
From one cartoony octopus to another, thank you for sharing these videos with us! I love learning more about animals and then sharing that with a student at work. He loves animals so much!