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Some animals really are just born into the worst horrors imaginable.
Great thing they dont ave so much sense like we do talking about all the wild animals not just toads , intelligence breeds unimaginable pain as well. 😅
@@words007 I suppose its one or the other. You either have intelligence which prevents you suffering generally because you adapt, or you're born into horrors like this but lack the intelligence to suffer like we would. Its like intelligence increases your capacity to suffer because you're more aware of it.
Is just the way God balances nature
@@henrycokoli9854 Thanks God for all the pain and suffering you cause
Maybe thats why there is no intelligent life in the universe. Perhaps once a civilization reaches a certain level of intelligence the burden of mental suffering becomes too great, so they destroy themselves.
We walk past a peaceful and calming pond, oblivious to the horrors and nightmares that are unfolding within.
Every crack in the dirt in someone’s lawn is a smaller scale from THAT scene in Peter Jackson’s Kong.
We're basically mountain sized gods to them.
Reminds me of Lovecraft. I think there are sure to be great horrors in this universe that we are simply unaware of, and some may be closer than we think.
just like america and the soviet union
@@Wot50202 The fact that it was dead silent while they all died made it more disturbing
I've never before considered how disgusting and horrible a giant leech would be
facts it will be a horror movie bro
Ever seen the blob movie?
Just search for "Kong leech scene"
@@takoyakiiiiI've seen all sorts of gore videos online but I can't watch that scene lol
I thought they only suck blood
I couldn’t imagine these shows not being narrated by Sir Attenborough. He truly is a blessing to listen to.
😂
Sir David, not Sir Attenborough
*mickey mouse voice* Leeches can eat from either end!
@@patrikvavro1611 Yeah, whatever... I'm from Texas, Sir Attenborough is just fine by us.
luckily AI Attenborough is really good and getting better all the time, that voice will be with us long after we're gone
I never knew leaches have eyes, let alone five pairs. Thank you, Sir Attenborough!
It is very nice to say " Thank you ! "
Repent now, find Jesus! John 14:6
@@Mat_Mac No
Same here
@@theonlyrico9799 Of course it will. Don't get reincarnated as a frog.
Everyone else: “Oh no, so many sad baby toads being eaten.” Me: “ LEECHES HAVE EYES?!”
Worse they have a great sense of smell
Rudimentary ones, more like ocular spots.
Me: "They can eaten by a leech's back door?!"
@@vgernyc They can be grasped by either end, but only the front end eats.
The number of their eyes is even an important way to find their taxonomy
Bros had 3-5 business days to react 😂
For every one that’s taken, hundreds make it to the woods. Thanks for the reassurance Dave. You always take it easy on us
this is why we human s are the apex predators How weak can a speasie be getting eaten by a slug
@@Rachel070NLDwhat
@@Rachel070NLDdawg we get BTFO'd by a blood sucking fly hundreds of time smaller than us
They're annelids, like earthworms, and they're not that slow.
Always gotta be sacrifices for others to meet the happy ending I guess.
Who doesn’t lose a kid in the forest once in an while?
Rule 2 about Parent Club is we don't talk about those ones...
Rule 3: which ones?
Happened to me last week. We won't go over how it wasn't my kid and how I wasn't supposed to be on the playground in the first place For legal reasons, this is a joke.
Oh gosh I'm not the only one this has happened to, and I really started wondering how everyone else keeps them save .... ?! ( Keep in mind all ya Karens out there this is a joke. )
@@Lagi42800 Regardless of the accused "Karens" it's a bad joke if you have to say that it is one.
This was more horrifying than most scary movies
imagine if that leech tried to eat you whole🤣🤣🤣
The sound effects sent me. 🤮
@@ashtheviking5007 for me it's just the thought of being sucked up by a biological vacuum. The thought of slowly being swallowed alive...
@@westsidetrucker7943 Too much of a good thing and all that jazz. Doesn't matter how good looking the lady.🤪
@@ashtheviking5007 yikes
*The cameraman:* Hmm. Fascinating... But disturbing... *The Toadlets literally being swallowed alive:* Bro help. Plea- mmmph
If anyone in Australia are wondering how bull frogs and toads are kept in check in their native habitat, now you know…
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I understand that cane toads have been a big problem, though.
Unleash the leeches! (It can't go wrong a third time)
@@midgetspinner7007 leeches don't eat crops, right? Toad problems solved
@@uzn8545did you not hear the size of the leech? Now think about the size of the toad.. 🙄
this shows that most leeches actually don't suck blood and instead feed on plants or other whole animals. in fact, of about 600 species of leeches, only about 20 have adapted to drinking blood.
really? I assumed all drunk blood didn't think only a handful did that thror sorta like mosquitoes only a hundred of all species drink blood
Those 20 sucks!!
@@ksmcrafts4279 well they really only need to do it every few months. Their bites also are much less annoying than mosquitoes in my mind. I know this because I have a pet leech and I let it take my blood.
@@BMAN-eb4jk You are experiencing Stockholm syndrome my friend. The "pet" leech has completely taken your mind over.
@@BMAN-eb4jk but a leech has to actively release it's jaw otherwise it stays stuck
I cant imagine a world without David Attenborough. Edit: what the actual f*ck. I just said that I like David Attenborough and somehow it changed into a "climate change is a hoax" debate.
It’s down to him and is likes that we are in the state we are in concerning the global warming hoax.🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
@@robertgreen5217 hoax? You checked things outside lately?
AI voice mimicry will keep him around forever.
@@Tj-kp7wf no difference that I can see where I am for the past 60 years summer autumn winter spring year after year cold in the winter warm in the summer and in between the rest of the year , I live on the coast No rising water levels either, yous have all been conned by these globalists, open your own eyes.🚩🚩🚩
@@robertgreen5217 stfu. Stop replying. Your reply is trolling
As horrifying as this is, I often remind myself that these small creatures also live in a world where there are living things a thousand times bigger than them that can wipe out their entire existence without even realizing it.
Which is precisely what we humans are doing every day & making a huge success of it!
To these small creatures we are the titanic, Lovecraftian-horrors from beyond!
You talking to me?
@@JustinLCooperThis !!
David Attenborough was the best narrator for shows about wildlife. I grew up listening to him, and I always enjoyed his programs.🙏
I didn't even know leeches "ate," I thought they just latched on to animals and drank their blood lol.
Only a few species drinks blood
There's like 600+ species of leeches, and only about 20 suck blood as their food source.
Most leeches are active predators of other animals
LMFAO same
You obviously never been to a gloryhole then.
Most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen,and I’ve been to New Jersey.
you're a brave man
You haven't been to New Jersey long enough if you consider this more terrifying.
😂😂😂👏
0:19 that shit looks straight out of a cartoon
Real nature is so much more horrifying and ruthless than any scary monstrous movies😰💀
Nature is really brutal! Our crew managed to film the incredible and dangerous journey of baby green turtles off the coast of Sri Lanka. These amazing creatures also face many challenges from the moment they hatch; it's a tough journey to reach the sea. Our camera showed how they must wait until nightfall when the sand cools down to avoid predators like crows. It's heartbreaking to know that out of every thousand eggs laid, only 400 baby turtles make it to the water, and even fewer survive to breeding age. These tiny creatures are incredibly resilient, and their struggle is a reminder of how precious and fragile nature can be.
i remember joining a sea turtle hatching event. some idiot local trying to get the attention of some highschool girls (we were highschool kids on a field trip then) stepped on one i hate that guy and up to this day thinking of his appearance pisses me off
Mother Nature's a mad scientist, Jerry.
sea turtles survival rate for adults that reach sexual maturity is 2-20 per 1000. Half of them don't even make it to the ocean. The number is closer to 2 survivors now, because of humans, it'd be around 20 without
Your channel is amazing.
As it should be. The survival of the few out of the hundreds in r-strategists is all natural, ensuring population is in check and food web/chain continues. What we should worry about is how humans destroy turtle habitats.
That is one of the most terrifying things i've seen from your nature videos!
Me too. I never cringe at these videos but this was bad
There's far worse fates, like a Bobbit Worm, Ant attack, getting eaten by a Scorpion, but most of all Jewel Wasps... Now that I think of it wasps are the lead animal in animal cruelty.
@Galejro No, the absolute worst is being eaten alive by a Komodo Dragon. Imagine being too sick to move because your body is feverish and shutting down, but this big creepy lizard with the super slippery tongue and sharp teeth are tearing into your belly. You can't move. You can't do anything but just lay there waiting for them to finish, hoping that you'll survive. Spoiler alert...you won't.
@@EnterpriseNCC-1701 Ok let me go 1 by 1 on my proposals so you can see how bad it all is. 1. Bobbit worm literally catches you into an underwater buddy hole where it'll eat you piece by piece, because of it's prey is more nimble it only catches them in the back part yo you got like 90% chance to be eaten slowly from behind. Ants, imagine pirhanas (which are bad in itself) but much slower cause your body is pretty thought to them as well, the bigger you are the longer they'll take to eat you 2. Scorpions don't eat things fast they are one of the slowest eaters in natural kingdom, they don't usually poison a victim with the sting, so your agony may take days but 3. The absolute worst is the jewel wasp. Imagine being stung once to paralyze you then being stung in the brain so you are literally put into a state of paralysis sleep where you're totally aware of anything, yet your ability to control your body just turned but you also feel all the pain and then a third sting in you gut to lay an egg... You will sit for a week in an underground hole, having your body eaten alive piece by piece by the literal nature's xenomorph that knows instinctively which piece of you you can loose without dying too fast and then when you finally die your body is used as a cocoon.
@Galejro Terrible, Terrible all are Terrible! Which is the easiest. I'm thinking crocodile, maybe? At least they hopefully drown you first before they start ripping away.
I was having my breakfast when KZhead auto played this. Well played, Sir Attenborough, well played.
It's impossible to not love the classic voice narration of Sir Boaty McBoatface in these types of nature documentaries.
the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few or the one
The Foley work on this will haunt me for years. Excellently done and I'd love to see the behind the scenes for it.
there was no foley. this is the real sound.
Agreed! I'm a Voice Artist, with some Foley work and I'm guessing that the juicy noises were something like eating a mango into the mic while squeezing a cloth full of jam 😂
@@sapitron I think what's worse is they had to re-record it by making giant leeches eat toads all over again just for the sound...
You mean an interview with the guy in that leech costume? Me too!
Just a meal at mcdonalds
*Giant black mass approaches fast* Toad: Must be nothing
these short videos are so well made, amazing! music so well written, text dramatically narrated, wonderful!
The dramatic musical buildup with squishy sound effects to then hear the "Eep!" at 2:27 was wonderful.
Reminds me of King Kong and the slugs that consumed Andy Serkis's character and some of the other crew.
Wow I just saw that movie two nights ago and i was thinking the same thing
Exactly this
Exactly what came to mind for me too! That's an unforgettable scene for everyone that's seen it. 😁
I had the same thought. Though the description reminds me of the leeches from Lemony Snickett.
I went there myself thinking the exact same thing. I can't sleep and thought David Attenborough would help. Nope.
That's the stuff of nightmares. Seriously. Imagine being the toad? You're doing this in the dark.
Little Nightmares actually has giant killer leeches
@Michael Wilson yikes, found the vore freak.
@@downey2294 😂😂
What makes this video effective is David Attenborough's Narration, BBC's amazing camera men and those camera shots and that wonderful orchestra music. I just love it, although the fact that I found out that Leeches have five eyes is unsettling.
slurping em up like spaghetti
I am amazed every time I watch a new episode. I never knew leeches could swallow a whole baby toad. Their like 🐍 snake's in a way. David Attenborough's voice, narrating this makes it even more interesting.
I liked your comment, but they're, not their!!!
*they're
Feels like I'm watching the first movie of King kong
Nobody knew!
@@ChowChannel00that wasn't the first movie...
The sound artists (foley) had another field day with this episode 😂.
The squelching sounds were epic, reminded me of my alpha male youth with the females. Then not to mention the toadlets light barking sounds, I never knew a toadler barked like a baby raccoon
David calming us all towards the end, bless him.
3:01 The montage of the little toad valiantly using his hands to keep from being swallowed whole - and failing - is one of the most terrifying nature segments I've ever seen.
Nature doesn't usually scare me but that was... intense. A horror director couldn't have made a creepier scene
succin sounds on point
Better not look up "Komodo dragon eats pregnant deer" then
And the final sound 🥲
@@jacks1678 If it’s not in HD I’m not satisfied
The sound effects are just killing it!
I love the squishy noise there's no way it actually sounds anywhere near that but movie magic ✨️ you gotta love it lol
I can sit through a two hour horror flick and barely budge, but I watched the majority of this three and a half minute video making this face (😧). On my list of many reasons I'm glad I'm not the size of a baby toad, giant carnivorous leeches with ten eyeballs might be my new number one.
Big up to the one who sacrificed his life so his brothers and sisters could live
I learned way more about the leeches than the toads. I did not know they had eyes, much less five pairs of them, nor did I know they could CONSUME WHOLE. I thought they were strictly bloodsuckers!
Same here, I thought they only sucked blood
Learned something new I thought leaches only sucked blood never even crossed my mind they they eat whole prey like this or even could eat something whole
2:20 *giant leech slides infront of you menacingly* Baby toad: "This is fine." I never understand why animals sometimes makes so little effort to save themselves.
Toads aren’t terribly smart animals
There's actually a reason for this, they're not just dumb. Usually the case is that the animal doesn't know whether the predator can see it or not and, to play it safe, will simply stay still as to not blow it's cover by attempting a sudden escape and in turn giving off it's position. Another reason is often because they're exhausted. Amphibians don't have the same body heat regulation humans do, so they recover from being tired much slower. Another option is the fact that small animals make virtually 0 noise, so a leech advancing on you is going to be utterly silent and they honestly might not even see the leech before it's too late if it comes from behind. So these toads are either A) not aware the leech can see them and think they're hidden, B) are exhausted and literally can't move or C) can't hear the leech's approach.
Evolution has shaped them this way. The video states that for every one that is eaten, hundreds get away. For whatever reason, having a few baby toads get eaten has been selected by nature as a better reproductive strategy than not.
@@ethanstarkey8058 or D just don't see it as a threat.
Or E They are just dumb
They remind me of the slug creatures in the bug pit from King Kong (2005). I still remember seeing that when I was 14, watching Andy Serkis' guy swallowed whole. Horrific.
I was 14 when that movie came out as well! And that entire scene was terrifying to think about. That whole crew was about to die in that moment and only got out because of a rescue group shooting at the creatures on the walls. It really shows how hopeless one situation can get when you are the hunted.
Thank you, BBC, I'll never sleep again.
Just when we thought we had seen all of the horrors possible in the movies, nature comes up with another one.
Maybe one of the toads will give one of those leeches indigestion
No , it gives it outdigestion
a year or two and the toadlet siblings come back to return the favour
I gotta wonder if it eats one baby toad with its face and one with its ass, what end do they come out of later?
That's the idea basically. It's called "outbreeding" It's where there are too many babies for all of them to be killed so the next generation does continue even if the over all percentage is very bad
@@somerandomperson6511 fr
I'm 57 yrs old and love all animals and have watched many shows about animals. I thought I had seen everything there is to see and now when I watch animals show I basically have them on for background noise. But this was a new one for me. I have never and I repeat never seen a leach eat a frog. I never knew they had eyes and teeth on both ends of their bodies. Thanks Dave for this one...
Repent now, find Jesus! John 14:6
The back end has a suction pad, not teeth. Just as good at grabbing as the end with teeth.
Well at least now i know i got options.
Got some more strange nature features for you then, buddy. Search the parasite that eat the fish tongue, than install itself as the new tongue
I'm 49...and no one cares I'm 49.
The toadlets just letting it happen getting swallowed whole like "Well fellas, I'm outta here"
Man you learn somthin new everyday. That was crazy!
Jesus Christ it's like that scene from King Kong
This reminds me when cell absorbed 17 and 18.
Good good
@@johnwi-l_l-iamsf3763 Perfect!
Lol!
Makes me think of Berserk
Leech: "Hiya toadie! I got your boat, do you want it back?" Toadie: "Dude, screw you."
FIVE sets of eyes?!? It just went all deep throat on that tiny toad! 😅 David Attenborough will be the featured narrator in my nightmare tonight. 😅
I always thought leeches were only blood suckers. Had no idea they also ate like that. Learned something new this morning, thanks!
Giant leeches in a swamp sounds like an area straight out of Dark Souls
The added sounds effects on that last one got me.
Reminds me the scary ravine scene in Peter Jackon's King Kong, and there's another movie called "Deep Rising" using the same type of fear. 😨
Crazy how the crew gets such a tiny microphone onto the toadlets to capture all that squishing and sucking sound. Very impressive!
Not to mention the cameraman shrinking to the size of a baby toad just to give us this footage, i salute him
Unfortunately most of the sounds are added in afterwards at a sound studio. BBC is known for doing this especially in the planet earth series. "Beeb bosses have now admitted 'recreating' some sounds as ambient noise and distance from wildlife subjects can make it difficult for film crews to capture high quality sound"
@@nicoleouellette4066 no shit Sherlock
@Matityahu-the-God thanks, I wasn't directing my comment to you lmao 😅🤣 obviously my friend that I was originally replying to didn't know this so I thought I'd help. Clearly you've got the bigger penis so I'll back off though!
@@nicoleouellette4066 obviously you weren't directing the comment at me, you didn't even know I was here until I replied. I'm sensing a lack of intelligence from you.
My nightmares have become intolerable, thanks a heap David!
3:07 goodnight sweet prince.
If you get caught by something that slow you had it comin
As always the cameraman,,such an amazing talent, skill and patience..how on earth does he/she find those and the perfect moments to film those,, watching a frog laying eggs is simple but filming it is almost impossible,,I am not sure if a frog does that when a giant human being is watching it.. very impressive..
Sadly the truth is pretty sick. The producers involved in documentaries like these set this sort of thing up.
I was amazed and disappointed when I learned that. But it makes sense though; it is tough to find everything working perfectly for these shots without a bit of mise-en-scène!
They’ll set up a habitat and wait. The guy from nat geo waited 6 months in a blind in a little created habitat just to get that video of that bird that dances for its mating call.
Because a lot of these are in terrariums and they even get caught doing cgi sometimes, even these high production value ones
@@marcusweathers3070 Aren't they using camouflaged robots to shoot these situations? they aren't doing doing anything to disrupt the balance in natural and I don't mind if they set these things up to bring us this incredible footage.
It's only David Attenborough who can share this piece of knowledge in an interesting way.
I really do appreciate the added slurping sounds added to the video. It really adds to the horror.
Lol thanks David now I'm scarred for life.
And we all thought they only sucked blood! 😮
Most do, to clarify.
in central europe we have one leech who feeds mostly on earthworms these guys get really big horse-leech
Not just wildlife film makers.
@@jordanjefferson8334 Maybe don't talk out of your a$$?
@@jordanjefferson8334 most leeches can and do get their food by other means than sucking blood, very few of them rely on it
As always the sound engineer did an excellet job with those sound effecta
The nature and the control of the ecosystem is amazing... but terrified too.
I Love the fact that some of the scenes really look like a obscure horror movie
I'm imagining a giant leach prowling through the sewers and reaching out a manhole to grab a puppy.
*toddler
@@davidtogi5878 Toddler was my first thought. 😆
toilettes
@@chrisprescott2273 In the village where my father was there was a baby which was caught by an eagle. The villagers searched the hills everywhere for the eagle's nest. The baby was never found.
The cycle of life and death is both amazing and brutal. Much respect to the toads who make it.
So you mean much disrespect and fu to the toads that didn't make it? 🤦
@@miriambamford6513Yah🫣
It pays to be quick and nimble. Good thing the slow ones wont pass on their DNA
@@miriambamford6513people like you make the world worse lady
@@miriambamford6513 the toads that didn’t make it are not worthy of respect !
I love the soundtracks to these nature shows
I felt exactly like watching a horror movie. Extremely frightened
“Sir sir but sir” “I DONT CARE SOMEBODY GET ME THAT LEECH” *repeatedly punched table with credit card in hand”
Only Sir David Attenborough could tell a horror story with a happy end!
Thumbs up to the camera team. Awesome camera angles.
The sound designers had a filed day with this one "slimey slurp sounds? Of course we got the perfect sound byte!!" 😅😅
This is such a happy video. The leeches got to enjoy large, easy, meals! It was a good day to be a leech.
This is like the scene of King Kong with those giant leeches....
"Animals are better than us, we must keep learn from them" 😂😂
So that's why they were so dangerous in little nightmares.
The leeches have eyes and can grab from either end? I know a lot less about leeches than I imagined!
Some walk on land using them, making them technically a biped (2 leg walker) just like us but with using their face and rear instead of 2 sticks with knees
Each end has a sucker for latching on to things.
The concept of an invertebrate being large enough to swallow a vertebrate still creeps me out every time I see it...
These short documentaries are way more exciting than most thriller movies out there😂
From long links of spawn to giant leach chow, what a life.
Didn't know leeches can eat like that 😢 so sorry for the baby toads 😢
If u and i were given chance to decide. The chains of ecosystem will get distributed by the decisions of our emotional minds.....
RIP toads
@@cacophotographer Blablablabla, stop acting like a know it all with all that spiritual nonsense
@@temeria1986 what he's saying is right and that's not spiritual at all what he means is that we should not interfere with the way nature works, with our emotional feelings and decisions makings the ecosystem will go into havoc, they teach this in school (the ecosystem part)
@@MMM-tv4xr We are animals, we are nature so ofcourse we "interfere", this is why I say don't act like a know it all with all the spiritual nonsense like "the chains of ecosystem" wtf does something like that even mean lmao. "Emotional minds" blablabla, another sentence in which he doesn't actually say anything except trying to sound smart. Well if you went to school you'd know theres a lot of people working towards making ecosystems better and even protecting it, should we stop that as well? Just let ecosystems die out and the animals with it? Do you people even think for one second? He even talks about distributing the chains of an ecosystem? Either a typo or I don't have a clue what point he's trying to make. Not to mention the English is worse than an 8 year old here and its not even our first language, so why does he talk about complex matters like this. But I already know you won't reply because that is what people like you mostly do.
It's just so amazing how every animal, every tree, every part of nature has a cycle that contributes to the future of existence..
2:50 Turn on CC "once caught a toilet has no escape" 🤣🤣🤣
These images are incredible! I really wonder how they make them! 😮
This is honestly one of the most disturbing things I've ever watched. I wanted to close my videos the whole time.
😨😬Nature is sure impressive, and rather cruel at times. I see Where they take some of their ideas for horror movies.
00:01:50 Amazon giant leeches (Haementeria ghilianii) have 10 eyes, but their eyesight is poor so Leeches rely more on other sensory mechanisms, such as touch and chemical cues.
The first part when he swim down he’s like in shock😂
Shit reminds of King Kong and the bug scenes 😬
sound engineer should have a raise.
last line a horror story with a happy end..... damn
Me when I see a whole chocolate cake.
Cinnamon Roll 🤤
You swallow food from both ends? Yikes.
@@Jaisha26 if you're too slow, someone else would eat it... you'd hold back?
What the f..... This is some scary PJ's KING KONG scene.
Awesome storytelling