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They are killers! They kill with unbelievable precision. They fight Kung Fu style and are seen in Japan as a symbol of vigilance - the mantises. Their triangular head with its unique flexibility is conspicuous. Two overdimensioned eyes fixate the distance to their prey rapidly and three-dimensionally. The chest segment of the mantis is prolonged and equipped with spiny appendages that can spear their prey as fast as a jack knife. The mysterious aura that surrounds the praying mantis has a lot to do with the fact that they are rarely seen. They have adapted to their surroundings perfectly. No matter whether leaves, blossoms, tree bark, sandy floors or even orchids - the mantis blends in to all environments
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-Male: *”Couldn’t copulate”* -Female: *So you have chosen death*
I have one things to say RUN!
As a child I grew up in the city. To find a praying mantis was quite a prize. My friends and I found one for the first time and named it Harold. We kept it as a pet for the summer. Feeding time would bring kids from all over the neighborhood to watch.
It could’ve been Hara,🤣🤣🤣
I had exactly the same experience! Praying mantises were THE bug to catch. Have always loved them. Now I live in Vietnam now and occasionally get one or two in my balcony garden. "Hello! Please. Make yourself at home!"
What’d you feed it? Lol
@@EP-nl6fd hitchhikers probably.. 😂😂😂
..laugh if it ate one of the kids
" the most feared insect, once something is in its grasp there's no escape" few min later...shows clip of grasshopper getting out of its grasp then killing and eatting the mantis.
Lol
timestamp
At 5:00 min mark
Everything has predators
@Ramon Furus No its a locust.
10:56 when you flush the toilet and the water starts rising
i almost pissed myself XD
Me too
FBI open up
😂😂😂
So accurate. You just stand there in disbelief, hoping that it goes down. The second before it gets to the top, you pull out the plunger at the speed of light.
Man: the Mantis is very deadly Grasshopper: hold my beer
BiGsImY you mean hold my veggies
BiGsImY 🤣
@@darknessinme5903 😆😆 Good one! When a professed vegetarian MUST yield to the carnivore deep within 👹
That grasshopper is no longer a vegan.
That not a Grasshopper that a Cricket
I laughed at the star trek style grasshopper fight scene. That zoom in on the praying mantis face killed me.
29:05: "Fair game" *Held back by a grey gloved hand*
wow nice catch, that looked fishy to me. Also all the mantids in this documentary are all species that are easily available in the pet trade. Not one rare wild mantis out of the 2400 species it mentions. Blue bottle flies are also the most common and easily acquired feeder insect for them, most scenes are just them eating flies. This is probably all set up.
Probably because time is money and they can't wait around for days for something to happen... So they fake it and make us believe it's real.. it's so sad and there should at least be a disclaimer saying it is set up and not a real documentary.
yo thats fked
Yup! Notice how the lizard has no mobility in its rear legs? Definitely being held by something.
Nice joke
I do not believe for a minute that lizard stood there and just let that thing eat it. Outside interference.
You're 100% on point, if you look at the bottom half of the lizard at 29:04 you can clearly see someone with a glove holding it in place.
Scummy people.
@@thexenomorph5363 - Times like these I wish Sherlock Holmes existed. He would get to the bottom of this mystery in no time
You can definitely tell!
@@nalusafalaya2201 Yeah, they didn't even bother hiding it...
Held lizard down for it to be eaten, shameful, they might've even gave the grasshopper a little help in that fight too as much as I wanna believe grasshopper wanted to change the game
make sure you report it for animal abuse. Shouldnt allow channels to kill animals for clicks. All for a nat geo knock off. Poor lizzy.
@@lubu4u312 vegan?
@@Hinzey98 he's clearly joking
So if you use things called eyes and other shots for reference you can see that it's a leaf 💀
I saw a hand holding the lizard down.
What’s sad is that most people don’t know the lizard is being held down at the end :(
Who was holding it down?
Horrible. You can see the white glove. They literally fed that lizard to the mantis.
Yeah all this seems clearly staged for views.
Start a gofundme for that lizards family. Go feed the ants while you’re at it.
@dakotah B spare me the douchey remarks. It wasn't cool to hold it down to be eaten alive slowly. Clearly your not an animal lover but try having some level of compassion
Great photographers! I can't imagine the work involved to follow a bug around the planet! Thanks for showing us this beautiful world!
Much of the footage is filmed under strict control in a studio.
@@truthhurts2879 yeah, they usually just make an environment unless they actually find something, like for example monster bug wars, they obviously have an enclosure and set up these animals to find eachother.
@@truthhurts2879 100% true. What's more cruel is, much like the lizard and mantis in the video. They purposely immobilize the prey to get the predator successfully eat it.
If anything one of the most important things to get out of this is the importance of forearm cleaning 😂
Now that you mentioned it, so true tho!! 😂
Always important as a praying mantis to shed its fore skin.
Hey even murderous face nommers have to stay hygienic.
Yup, but still not mentioned y dey do this so google gonna help me here
I learned that if your a male mantis you need to make sure your girlfriend has a snack while mating so you don't get eaten.
Before you commend this video keep in mind that the lizard and mantis battle is staged. You can see that the lizard is being held down by a green glove or somthing. It also has no reason to just let a mantis claw its face with no retaliation. (I'm not the first to notice this just trying to keep it known) The videotography was really good but it's hard to have much respect for it when the video uses misleading tactics like these.
There was an animated episode of the show "The wild thornberries" where they stop a film crew trying to make animals fight for footage, and it goes to show these things actually happen in real life.
That is the unfortunate truth, action in the wild is rare, as animals are not that vicious as people make them to be at least not every time, so to get some action quickly as possible(because these producers do have time limits and deadlines) some film producers force animals into situations where they clash, or positions where they get a "cool" shot, not everybody does this but it definitely has been done by people for shows to get it done quickly and for views.
@@DotDotDotDashDashDashDotDotDot sounds familiar... sounds like... social media in general.
After I seen the grass hopper kill the mantis I quickly told myself that video with the lizard wasn’t valid
Went through that bit frame by frame. Nothing is holding the lizard down. The green is from leaves in the background.
Mantis: "aight I gotta be sneaky to get some." Green bush cricket: " *I GOTCHU HOMIE* "
Underrated.
See... That male mantis knew what is up. You have to feed these females before you try to mate. Make sure dinner is ready first! It's not his fault the meal decided to eat her :D.
This is indeed an eye-opening documentary as far as I'm concerned. Never have I imagined such a variety of mantises in terms of size, colour and camouflage capability. It's a predator most underrated thanks to its bizarre behavior.
I think they forgot to mention the main reason it has always captivated people's attention. The way it turns its head to look at things and the fact that it has eyes it can roll like we do, something other insects do not have, makes it looks strikingly human in a scary way.
Or the stage acting xD
Why is it that whenever we see the lizard (while alive) on screen it only shows the first half of the lizard? I get that zooming in on the action makes for better cinematography of the "fight" but not once do see the whole of the lizard...Also why would a wild lizard just let a praying Mantis hold onto its face like that? Lizards are EXTREMEMLY skittish and would no doubt of ran instead of literally staying in one place. Also note @ 28:44 how when the lizard struggled, pay attention on how it pivots, its almost as if it was being held down by its tail or hind legs. I have no doubts that this video was in fact staged so that they can get footage of a Mantis "catching" a Lizard.
Lol you answered your own questions
@@Lecor_ow It's a rhetorical question. My statement is meant to draw attention to the obvious staging of the fight.
@@JohnLeon203 I get that, damn , chill.
@@JohnLeon203 you sound really smart!
@@sudoo6987 you sounds really salty
The locust at 4:06 did a real life “Call an ambulance! But not for me!”
Shocking at 29:05 someone's obviously holding the lizard's lower body if you take a closer look, seemingly, human had grabbed it on to interfere. What a disappointment.
At least that scene exist
I agree. Really poor taste
Wow, thats horrible
That’s fckedup, people shouldn’t interfere with nature
Can't see anything
13:20 watching 2 lion cubs play fighting with slightly intense music... Me: These are some weird looking praying mantises...
Fr tho. This documentary got so off topic so often.
For a mantis documentary you sure did include a lot of other animals most of the time I felt
yeah the narrator got a bit off track! Talkings about mantids in a grape orchard then they cut to some birds
Narrator: the praying mantis is the most feared in the insect kingdom Ants: is this a joke?
@@thelunchking4069 get some help
@@cardheon6091 yeh
@@thelunchking4069 ur mom is a joke
@@thelunchking4069 you think you are tough and badass for doing that ?
@@infectedinfantry1887 I'm pretty sure he thinks you are an idiot for biting his hook.
28:45 that lizard was tied from behind or clamped by its tail. Whoever set that up, I hope next time you go to wilderness, you fall from a high edge and break your arms and legs. So, the predators there can devour you slowly and painfully.
*I thought documentaries about nature were purely natural, but it turns out that there was evil human intervention. That's really bad. He held the lizard's tail so it couldn't move and was bitten by a praying mantis*
Totally true. This 'documentary' was not only made by a sadist - it also tryis to smuggle some untrue 'facts' about mantis
Fr that was was cruel and unnatural
@@noktrum2794 such as?...
Exactly...it cheapens the documentary because it now becomes unrealistic. I lizard that size when moving freely...the mantis wouldn't really stand a chance. U can tell by the movement of the lizard it was limited. Lizards are very quick, and they made the lizard move at a snail pace
Good job on staging all those mantis attacks. You are an awesome human being.
I doubt those are staged
@@palkbarragouhtti2254 your ability to read between the line and see what’s not there is very poor.
@@changsterville y'know, people like you literally can not enjoy anything without trying to figure out some type of problem with it.
@@palkbarragouhtti2254 the lizzard strangely did not move away from the mantis attacks.
Why do you have to hold down the lizard for?
The religuous mantis is the most poweful predator from its genre of insects. They use efficients strategies to catch their preys. Really, our nature is fascinanting. Thanks for sharing this documentary. 🦗🦗🦗
That male mantis got out of there quick time when that grass hopper started to fight back. 😂😂
I live in Philadelphia and I once had a mantis that would visit my front step every morning,chill for a bit then disappear. But then re-emerge the next day. This went on for about 4 months. I chronicled the whole thing and was very amazing and intriguing.
If you have a sharp eye you can spot them all over the Wissahickon Creek.
where are your chronicles uploaded
They are your guides. 👽
@@privateaccount5400 on my phone
“Wolves in sheep’s clothing” You kidding me?! They even look terrifying!
5:16 , LOL , I thought the Mantis will defeat the grasshopper, but very surprise to see the grasshopper killed the Mantis very easily and had the lunch. So, don't underestimate.....
Mantises the deadliest killer in the insect kingdom. (Gets killed and eaten by its first prey)
Grasshopper isn’t afraid
@@THE-NC2 that's a carnivorous katydid/locust
Centipede sAys hi
I love this because it makes mantises look like hilariously ineffective hunters
Idk ...ain't that a bit racialist?
Cannot think of a much worse way to leave this world than in the loving embrace of a Praying Mantis.
I had no idea that a Mantis was so formidable 😮 Great docu video 👍🏼👍🏼👏🏼
The orchid mantises are my favorite. That color!
Not sure super gluing a lizard to a tree counts as natures
Them holding that lizard down to be eaten by that praying mantis was pretty low of them
I know right
@@danielvideos575 the first time I watched it I didn't know that someone was holding the lizard and it was still kind of gruesome but I was like "that's the way it goes in the wild". Now that I know it was being held by some sick individual it's horrible to watch. Of course youtube finds torturing animals fine but right leaning opinions are a big "no no".
@@shelbyspapabear Looking closer, it's a leaf.
@@joshuagross3151 it is absolutely a hand. What are you even talking about
@@shelbyspapabear The part where it's a leaf, not a hand.
Live in a big city and go years without seeing one but yesterday a small one was hanging upside down on my storm door window for over 15 minutes. Amazing how well they blend in on grass & bushes. Our parents told us to never kill or even bother these great bug eaters.
The lizard vs mantis was staged some one is holding the lizard so the mantis can eat it alive
I think the grasshopper / mantis / mantis male mating scene is staged too. There's a certain unwillingness to pull the cameras back.
Lol you funny
Good show about nature's different types of animals insects 👍👍👍
Praying mantises are fascinating creatures. We have quite a few of them on our farm in southwest Iowa. We see them frequently in my wife's butterfly garden and in our vegetable garden.
Probably eating the butterflies
I thought I clicked on a praying mantis video but so far I seem to have stumbled upon a insect and bird pornography on KZhead lm. Lmao
Insects are amazing....they can do so many things ...they are truly amazing creatures ...
9:00 the praying mantis is not only cleaning his weapons, but he’s chewing on the edges of each point in order to sharper their arms and make their slashers more deadly and accurate while hunting prey
22:19 Speaker ::- ... this articulated neck and the large stereoscopic eyes afforded all round vision that misses nothing ..... '' Mantis ::- "Darn it! :(
8.4.2022.First class and excellentThanks for sharing.
this should be titled "forcing a lizard to be eaten by a praying mantis"
Bruh
One hardly needs much of an imagination for writing movies such as Alien, Aliens, etc., with horrific monsters such as these! The footage of mantises hunting, mating and being predated themselves is extraordinary--well done. I remember being amazed by the site of a hummingbird's husk of a body after a mantis attack on another program. The female's death upon laying her fertilized eggs reminds me of the end of the octopus, once her eggs hatch, having starved herself to tend carefully to her developing offspring. Some advanced predators don't live long, and their lives are sacrificed as soon as the next generation has been secured--perhaps even sooner for males!
It's the kungfu master and founder of mantis style...very impressive!
4:52 when you see someone reaching for the last slice of pizza
29:12 not a leaf but a green glove. Lizard could easily have backtracked when mantis initially struck but didn’t get hold of it. Instead it moved its body around like its back legs were paralysed and just stayed put so that the mantis had a second chance to strike. Disliked.
I SWEAR ON MY LIFE that Chameleon was planted there by the TV producer. I promise you, a healthy, non sedated chameleon has the bite force that can snap praying mantis in half. one bite, you know the rules.
I get bothered when a fly lands on my lunch, can you imagine a fly the size of your head land on your face? 😱
Very enjoyable. One of those gems you stumble upon while surfing the net.
Mr. T is doing some award worthy nature docs.
Ok so this is supposed to be filmed in the wild right? So why does that pray mantis vs the locust fight look like it was filmed through a glass tank? You can even see the little white specs on the glass and the camera man reflection as he moves the camera.
29:06 Literally holding the lizard with tongs alive to let the mantis eat it. 'nature'
Salute a man who has recorded all these videos amazing ☺️☺️☺️.
The orchid one is stunning!
Superb documentary with superb narration
This reminds me when me and my friends playing at the backyard we let mantis katydid dragonfly and grasshopers fight to see who has the best catch
Got to love the squishy sound effects they add for eating
what an absolutely amazing looking insect ! wow 🤩
7:16 even birds like getting their hair pulled. 🤣
07:08 😂😂
26:35 Interesting to add an appropriate sound effect to a scene that would normally be silent . well done !
The walking flower mantises are my favorite. So pretty.
Great work. After watching this I was able to solve an issue we were having with a noise LED driver.
way to hold the lizard in place so it couldn't escape
Yes, un the real life the lizzard would scape
I literally watched 2 of these things get beasted by 1 hornet
I love hornets. The wasp is my animal totem....my spirit creature. Fearsome creatures! Are you drawn to hornets?
@Astro Bastro I've seen lots. Do you watch "Monster Bug Wars"? I like the one where it shows a vinagaroon taking down a giant centipede. I was born in Roswell, New Mexico (UFO place) and loved catching the vinagaroons. They are such interesting creatures and look terrifying
hornets are tougher than mantis, armour, bite force and manouverability.
@@mangjose5446 yes they are, but a big mantis will often defeat the big hornet when it has the element of surprise
But they were small ones
I love mantises .. so many cool colours and shapes ...
If a Mantis was the size of a sheep, it'd eat a human in the same way as it ate that lizard. Would probably blend in camouflaged with the local Bus Stop and then hollow out your face from the inside-out.
😆🤣😋 Shhh! ! ! Don't give God (or Mother Nature) any psychotic ideas. Geez- - we've already got orcas, bears, sharks, & the big cats
The lizard was held down
No, it won't. Mantis are weak sauce. The lizard at the end? That lizard was specifically held down by a human clamp (or something similar) so that it can't move. It was a sitting duck -- couldn't move forward or away. You can even see the lizard struggling to get out of the clamp at its rear.
Any bigger than that they could probably kill elephants
Yes, please. It would be so lovely to watch from the bus stop across the street. 😅
Im stoked at the GG Bush Cricket beating the Praying M
Mantis tries to eat locust and gets eaten instead. lol
I'm convinced that they keep putting the last 2 together to get those shots
That last bit was awesome
3:21 did someone yawn? 😂
16:18 That's breathtakingly beautiful. I mistook it for a painting at first edit: spelling
so happy to finally see something eating those mantis, way to go hopper
WOW that was GREAT ty
Wasn't that a katydid that ate the mantis in the beginning? I don't think that was a locust
If it was a katydid its not like the ones here in the states.all the ones ive seen are green but i could be wrong.
Yes it was...def wasnt a locust
@@CatMomForever nope
Best asmr 11/10 would recommend
Mantises are strong😮
8:49 awe a lil hat kinda cute
HAHAHA
mantis: a predator with good reflexes and is very fearsome giant cricket: eats mantis* eh? what was that again?
Ghost Mantis ...coolest name ever!!
I'am so much enraptured with this interesting & didactic video.
I got in mycar one day and I was riding down the street getting ready to get on the highway and I kept feeling this prickly thing touching my leg so I kept brushing it off like it was a fly or something and then it kept doing it again so I look down and it was a praying mantis I nearly wrecked my car I started stomping and going crazy in the car but I managed to pull the car over safe and got out. He was huge dont know how he got in I kept my Window up. It was a terrifying experience
Are u serious?
29:06 that lizard putting his hand up in agony. 😖😖
The video is very interesting, I really like watching insects, especially mantises. Thank 😊
i loved it thx so much!!!
This all started cus of joe n bill
I was expecting a comment like that
I just paused the podcast playing on my laptop and grabbed my phone to look this up, i typed "pra" and KZhead took care of the rest
I remember going to Florida as a young boy and we rented a villa. The villa had a net surrounding the pool and on the outside was what can only be described as the biggest Spider I have ever seen and a simple Preying Mantis. I am from the UK so I had never seen anything like this before, but I was fascinated to see what would happen. The Mantis smoked the Spider in seconds and didn't even eat it, just walked off.
Spiders often win. I had a mantis catch and kill a spider, but not before the spider bit the mantis, which also died.
It's amazing a male mantis who mated and lived
wow such a great documentary!
Gotta appreciate the synth in the backround
These gorgeous things are so beautiful. I watch them forever when I find one...and IT WATCHES ME TOO 👀 😆
😳😖 Yeah, & as soon as it realizes your FRIENDLY, it wants to examine every millimeter of your face. Aghhh! ! (I'm sure your affectionate boyfriend or husband feels the very same way)
I started taking photos of a few I found in my garden and they started posing! Praying Mantis are awesome little hunters.
So beautiful ❤️❤️❤️ I'm in love with mantises
The Pink one ... Was the most beautiful mantis I've ever seen 😍😍😍
Mantis: “the most feared insect among insects” In The very first attack, mantis is killed by grass hoppers. 🤔😒😒
I can't believe it literally ate that lizard's head off! 🤯
It was staged.