Lobsters vs Trigger Fish | Trials Of Life | BBC Earth
An army of lobsters are going for their daily march when they are attacked by trigger fish, will any of them survive? Narrated by David Attenborough.
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The Trials Of Life
Sir David Attenborough continues his study of animal behaviour in the third instalment of his award-winning Life series. Beginning with the ways in which animals arrive in the world and ending with the extraordinary techniques they employ to reproduce, the Trials of Life is one of the most comprehensive wildlife documentaries ever made. Taking some three and a half years to make, Attenborough travelled almost a quarter of a million miles to complete this fascinating and insightful documentary.
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"first it is disarmed" "then, it is de-legged"
*slow clap *
Then de-faced
Shut up!!! 😂😂😂😂
Lobster: Tis but a scratch!
😂😂😂
Animal friends: there is nothing more cruel than boiling a lobster alive Trigger fish: allow us to introduce ourselves
@Norbero Fontanez ERROR 404 - Empathy not detected.
@@Orome96 Most arthropods don't feel pain.
@Norbero Fontanez are you having a mental breakdown or something? Whats wrong w/ you? Hahaha
LordGatar LOL
@@superenvy4030 For real? I heard worms don't feel pain either? How would that be known?
Solitary Lobster: "I shall be the sacrifice for this pilgrimage! Avenge me my brothers! Glory to Poseidon!"
Reddit
@@danielgriffin126 wut?
@@striveknight4782 your comment is reddit
@@danielgriffin126 bruh, I thought of it myself 😂
@@danielgriffin126 lmao wtf how is a comment Reddit
My drill sergeant said that lobsters line up better than us. Now I know what he mean’t.
Lol 😂
Mine said trigger fish eat faster then you , now I know what he meant .
Must have been a MARINE. Kappa
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mean't?
Damn , sometimes I forget how savage and raw nature actually is.
This is one of the most crude footage I have seen from nature that don't include hienas
Carlos D. A. Puerto N. Damn nature, you scary!!!
Humans included
Carlos D. A. Puerto N. U have a bad memory😂😂
But that is the circle of life...that is how nature works...but humans are the most dangerous creatures living on the face of earth...no one causes the most danger and damage to environment as humans...so wouldnt categorise this as wild...
Those lobsters are better in remaining in an organized line than many humans.
But not better than Prussians
Tour de Paris pelaton
Jordan Peterson thought them that.
Except defending themselves is a shit show
Yeah but can they do a goosestep? Thought not #PrussianPride
The music is hilarious! With the lobsters matching in a line, I felt like this was a medieval march before the great battle
It's so powerful
Imagine floating around and all of a sudden a snickers bar crawls by. "That is how the trigger fish dooo."
I see you're a man of culture as well
@@arcangel879 Ahhh I have stumbled upon some intellectuals.
Cringe
YES!!!
I love zefrank, what a legend
I can hear the lobster saying “my leggg”
MY EYES
....oh my other leg.....
Tis but a flesh would
'Tis but a flesh wound.'
Larry the Lobster and Fred the Fish have the same voice actor.
Imagine getting murked by something that looks like: 👁👄👁
Lol I thought they were cute, then kept watching. Appearances can be deceiving.
BAHAHAHA
I was looking for this
search the pokemon bruxxish
I can, my ex wife 😔
Humans who eat lobster: okay let’s try and kill it quick to be as humane as possible. Trigger fish : lol I got your leg
Humans usually boil them alive haha
@@RandyPKsNubs yes, but its very painless for the lobster, cause they are kept VERY cold, enough for them to be numb, THEN put head first into the boiling pot, which will typically kill it before it starts feeling pain, then the rest is history.
@@brandan5708 they can’t feel pain lol
@@brandan5708 ya not true, they 100% feel pain and they don't die instantly just being put head first.
and after your leg, than your eye..... 😅
"Hey where is Fred?" "He got triggered about a mile back"
😂
Nice pun mate
😂😂😂
Imagine getting owned by the most non-threatening looking fish ever
Trigger fish are actually quite aggressive and territorial. They will throw hands with you. They don’t do much damage tho obviously except the occasional mini heart attack.
@@dreammaker9642 they will throw fins you mean
@@SlavKnightVlad true lmao
It's always the quiet, unassuming ones
@@tomatodamashi like puffer fish
Trigger fish eats fancier than me. He just ate $30 dollars.
Marine lifes consume lobster for free, and you got scammed $30 only for a lobster
Kenta no shit marine life gets lobster for free, it was a joke
@@connor-cx5wc It was also a joke.
I live next to the sea but when I turned 13 I got allergic to crawfish/lobster
@@NileByTheMiles doesnt seem like it by the way it was told
It's interesting how the Trigger fish's dorsal and ventral fins move side-to-side. I've never seen that before, even when scuba diving.
I believe the giant ocean sunfish swims the same way.
@@Renville80 They both belong to the order Tetraodontiformes.
“I’ve got sword, don’t come near me” Trigger fish- I eat sword *chomp*
Me: How the hell is that trigger fish with that tiny mouth going to eat that big ass lobster. Oh...
I thougjt the same and looked up pictures of their teeth. They’re seriously narsty! Like a rodent from hell.
That was way more brutal than I thought it was gonna be
Casually dismembers it
There is a difference between eating and swallowing. Doesn't lion eat a buffalo with it's small mouth?
@@oneaboveall5020 The lion spits on the buffalo and lets the saliva dissolve the flesh. The lion sucks up the liquified flesh through his proboscis.
I would never want to be the lobster leading that line. Hours of walking, hearing nothing but "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?".
I laughed so hard with your comment, lol.
Lol
Immagine screwing up and everyone blames you
@@Cheezymuffin. like when they get massacred by a big fish
@@therealshino4607 nah like "aw shit I took a left turn instead of right, now we are in the wrong ocean!"
Other lobster: "What are you doing?" Lobster: "We're conquering the sea!" Other lobster: "Where are you going?" Lobster: "FOLLOW ME!" Other lobster: **Proceed to join**
Whoever wrote The Lobster March, certainly deserves much more credit. That theme is as epic as Pirates of Caribbean.
George Fenton!
Ahh man hes eating the legs like french fries
You only eat the insides of a French fry?
^ Buzz Killington
kalaban ka ni battosai a
nice and crispy
Needs more Butter and Garlic.
B L A N D
And eat them
U need to put more butter on yourself too
Buford? Is that you?
@Norbero Fontanez Peter! So u can feel the same as the lobster. It should be pleasant i am sure!
The lobster: "I tried to scream... But my head was underwater"
😂😂
Billie OP
I can’t blame the trigger fish, all he wanted is some lobster sashimi.
It's live sashimi eating show
The Knights WILL form a circle. Ready thy lances and fashion thy maces, for the foe is upon our crustacean faces.
I like so I like comment
Genius
Looks delicious 😋
Lol love it
😂 😂
Do lobsters feel pain? I cam imagine being pulled apart limb by limb would be very painful.
@@unlucky_2nd897 according to a new new study, they can feel pain and SSRI anti-depressant drugs also work on them, believing us to think that their brains are a lot more similar to ours than was first thought. They can experience sensation with their nervous system, that they're brains probably process as either good or bad, our brains respond similarly to harmful sensations by producing pain. No reason to think theirs are different.
Go vegan
@@Orome96 yes sirr
Mort you are 100% correct. But crustaceans have the capability of regeneration. Though new limbs regrow from molting
@@Orome96 ahh now im hungry, lemon butter lobster sounds delicious
Humans: The ocean is so beautiful and the reefs are amazing! Fish: This is our hood. We’ll rip you apart.
Had it on 2x speed by accident at first haha. Them lobsters were moving boy 😂
😂
How school teachers expect you to walk down the hallway: 0:03
10/10 you have achieved komedy
@@wefo4833 😤👌
With the music too
Lol
People: "It's cRuEL to boil a lobster alive." Trigger fish: * slowly shreds a living lobster apart *
Do they feel pain
@@stevethea5250 The answer for that is still not clear. Some say that they feel pain just the same as insects do, some say that they are complex enough to feel pain, and some even say they don't feel pain because they don't have a brain in the first place. Pain is a very complex mental state. Only a few animals have been proven to experience pain the same way human do, and they usually have a nervous system far more complex than a lobster's.
@@stevethea5250 Honestly, all this hooha about it's cruel to boil lobsters alive is just because lobsters are one of the few animals consumers have to kill themselves. No one ever complains when the lobster is served on the table. I personally think it's only cruel when you kill lobsters just for fun. Animals kill other animals for food. That's a very normal thing that happens.
@@al6243 AGREE with that open thought, some places treat animals even worse before it lands on your dinner plate
thats what big crab aliens will say when they come down to earth and eat us alive while we scream thry will say "ooga booga he doesnt feel pain who cares"
Everyone: wow… that’s terrible. Not funny at all. Narrator: At first he is “dis-armed”…
Narrator? Thats sir David fucking Attenburough and you will address him as such!
@@BaronMavino and that’s a fact😤
@@BaronMavino never heard something more true
@@BaronMavino Tell me Baron
The only reason you can’t hear the lobster scream in pain, is because of all the water that fills Its mouth when it opens it.
"'tis but a scratch!" ... "A scratch!? Your arm's off" ... "No it isn't!" ... "Well what's that then?" ... "I've had worse!"
Just a flesh wound
Hahahaha
such a great movie
Legendary comment
Was literally thinking of this hahahaha!
BBC knows how to work the dramatic/scary music. I felt like those lobsters were going into battle lol. 😜
that should be Elton John's "Circle of life"
Hearing young Attenborough always makes me well up with powerful emotions
I never knew lobsters behaved like this with the single file thing it's awesome
Cameraman pulled out one of the lobster for the prey and filmed it for the BBC
lmao he’s gotta show some entertainment somehow
Truth in these words
Watch the movie Nightcrawler...that's what it's about...on HBO.
:))))))))))))))))) you are incredible :))))
wait, are you one of the camera?
the lobster has armor skin after 100 billion years of evolution Trigger fish: I'll just rip off it's soft legs so it can't move.
100 bIlLiOnS
It's more like 3 billion but great comment :)
@@trulysilurian8661 fucking toy story 😂
@@fuckamericanidiot more like 1 billion for all multicellular life
More like 500 million year for more complex organism
You can tell this is so old. But I love the music. Fitted the lobster.march perfectly
“There are others ready to pick flesh from the broken limbs.” *One of the most savage things I’ve ever heard from a nature documentary.*
Aww :( I can't believe a dorky looking fish is the predator of the bad ass looking lobster 😔
Life lesson: Looks can be deceptive!!
meanwhile.. in fresh water territories, check out the puffer fish
Those spiny lobsters. Don't have pincers that's why
@@Zsharma1 wise words especially when looking for a girlfriend!!
He ate him alive, how cruel was that?
Did i just really start my day off by watching this video?
I did so you may have to
Not the worst way to start a day lol
Couldn't sleep.. lets watch a documentary video to fall asleep.. The fish starts ripping apart the limbs of the lobster..... Thank you youtube...
I just did the same too lol
[the next day] Me too
Your nature programs are great. Thank you.
0:41 me and the lads marching into a breakfast establishment at 12:40 am
lol this music is priceless
Name of song beginning. Just gives me energy.
Lobster music
Love music, but not in documentaries about nature. Hate loud music over oral commentary which makes it hard or impossible to clearly hear what David is saying, especially for people whose hearing is not quite good. In this case I don't catch the number of lobsters on the march, it irritates.
Bridge 4 brother
ما صارت الكاسيه العاريه مار الا غيرن خلقه الله إلا غيره خشمه والا غيرت عيونه والا غيرت معدته والا غيرت برطمه والا حطه العداسه والا حطه رموش والا حطه الأظافر والا البسه الا بنطلون والا البسه العاري والا والا تشجع بناته ع البس البنطلون وعلى العاري هذولي فازنا
Nature is the land of peace and harmony. The nature:
Living being: exists* Nature: well f#%^ you then…
nature is peaceful and harmonious when you're the top apex predator by miles
I free dived of the one part of the East Cost of NZ for many years but was never to ever witness this tough another diver I know had back in the mid 70's. Neat to see what an experience to see which end or where the largest was.
The background music with the marching of Lobsters is wonderful as if marching of soldiers. Outstanding choice to select the music.
Oh so this is where the” My leg!!” phrase came from in spongebob.
Barbiie Doll hahahaha that was literally all i was thinking about the whole time i watched that poor lobster
Meredith Ventimiglia So I wasn’t the only one who was thinking that.
@@barbiiedoll8390 hello
Also used by TV wrestlers back in the 70's & 80's.....
And it was Delicious!!!
Last lobster : keep moving guys, I'll stay behind... TELL MOM I LOVE HER!!
A true hero! Will never be forgotten!
I had this series in vhs. I loved this particular scene because of the music before ghe Trigger Fish appears. Such a powerfull march.
I don’t get it. That trigger fish looked so friendly.
Right? If i was a lobster i'd have no idea that fish was gonna eat me. It just looks like a generic fish that eats plants or really small fish
@@boaz7028 right! I’m shook! I wouldn’t expect it to do all that 😳
Talk about picking someone apart..my god
Triggerfish like to go for the limbs/fins and eyes, first. It makes eating the rest of it all the easier.
Alive BTW , even worse
I was super horrified the first time I saw this on TV
Nobody: ..... Me in my head: *the lobsters marching one by one Horaa, Horaa....*
F where is that from I know I heard that from somewhere and thanks for the laugh
Charly Lira the movie Antz
Now this won't leave my brain lol
The real life lobster quadrille
@@charlylira9200 Civil War. "When Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrah"
Always the best music sound track for visuals with BBC
I've been looking for this clip for a while. It's a classic bit of filming.
These lobsters know their “Art of War” inside out...up until they meet guerrillas like a trigger fish...
Life lesson from nature; when you stray from the pack, you are open to attack.
Stray from the pacc open for attacc
The solitary lobsters will eventually evolve into the next super species, capable of surviving any environment.
I think there is a reason why people do certain things in majority- very often, the thing most people do, is benefitial to them. If something is too risky or detrimental, very few people will try to do it. However, that's different from doing things just for approval instead of safety. I feel like the problem nowadays with media is that people will do anything to feel included, instead of doing what actually is the better option for them.
Vajberfazile
When you play solo in an MMORPG game, but a level 99 boss appears
Attenbruh!!! Legend. Yeah boi, early days :)
every video you post is a masterclass in content creation!
The new episode of spongebob looks lit!:)
MY LEG!!!
@@doc.rankin577 ooof!
Mr krabs rather sells his body then to give the fish some money
Funny, I was just thinking that they were on their way to Bikini Bottom. 😀
@@mandarkastronomonov2962 lmao!
Trigger fish had a better lunch than me
Lmaoooo
Instagram
I’m triggered
aw you look good girl wanna go for lunch ?
Nah! You are better lunch than lobster.
WOOOOO David Attenborough is the best
Having dived in these waters several times, it’s an incredible experience to observe.
And tasty I'm sure.
Is the season open this time of year
Lobster march or Trgger fish eating?
Trigger Fish: “We can do this easy way or the hard way.” Lobster: 😲
Lobster: The Hard Way! (gets disarmed) Lobster: NOO, the easy way (gets its limbs plucked off)
The choice is yours.
២ថយោ
Amazing, thanks never thought the Shrimp walk like the Bison!
Now that's what you call "Picking 'em apart, one by one!"
See what happens when you're late... RIP Steve
Hold on I love the fact that lobsters travel in a congo line
* Conga line. A "congo line" is a bunch of people playing little drums held between their legs.
@@simplywonderful449 you are thinking “bongo drums” 🤣
That one lobster made the ultimate sacrifice.
I love the music at the beginning of the video.
Sir Attenborough voice + BBC camera = extraordinary
Getting “Ants go marching” vibes but with Lobsters.
That lobster marching music was epic as hell! Reminds of the tune from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
More than 25 years ago, how many times I've cried as a child while I watched the final battle of this lobster! 🙂
It's going to be a very dark day when David attenborough passes away. The earth in its entirety will miss him dearly. 😢
Not likely. He was a liberal hack.
Jun Gleno Tell me. How did the liberals hurt you? 😂
Jun Gleno 😬. I mean, I’m not a fan of liberals. But shame on you. He’s a global treasure
They have enough recordings of him, that they can have him narrate for the next 1000 years.
@@jungleno. yes, bringing in politics into a video about a fish fighting a lobster. Fuck off dude
Narrator: “the lobster defends itself with its sharp antennas....” *Fish chomps antennas* Narrator: “it’s disarmed” 😂😂😂😂
lo l
Spear like antennas lol
Imagine you’re a fisherman and find a group of 60 Lobsters line up like that.
The Music really adds a lot to this video!
Me: googling how to cook the lobsters so that they won’t feel pain Fish: biting and tearing the lobster apart to eat them alive
They dont feel pain just googled it
@@masteroogway1586 It's an unconfirmed myth that crustaceans are not capable of feeling pain. Strangely enough, it is perpetrated mostly by people in the business of cooking lobsters alive (or eating them). We have no scientific basis to conclude that Arthropods or any other animal for that matter does not feel pain because we have no way of measuring suffering which is usually included in the definition. A common argument used to be that if the animal shows behavior similar to a human or has a similar neurological make-up as a human, it likely feels pain. But this approach is flawed in several ways and very anthropocentric since we represent but one line of evolution. For example, there are animals that can see without having human eyes - or any at all. The truth of the matter is, we simply do not know. We don't even truly, unambiguously know if other people feel pain. Outside our own, personal and individual experience, pain is an assumption. There are however several clues that point towards animals having a pain response. Especially in crustaceans there is enough evidence to at least consider the strong possiblity that they do in fact experience pain. And unless we are 100% sure, I believe subjecting them to especially painful and torturous death during prep is just inhumane and barbaric. But that's the human way I guess. I mean we are pretty certain ducks experience pain, yet foie gras still exists. PS:. Fish can't choose the way they eat their meals. We can. That's the crucial difference.
@@Salted_Fysh lobster would boil you if it got the chance
@@alexwells7170 no if wouldn't. I'm not on the lobster menu. Also lobsters haven't figured the whole fire thing out yet. Which makes sense, given that they live in the sea. But maybe in a few hundred million years the descendant of a lobster could boil my fossilized remains. Though realistically speaking there wouldn't be any. It could piss on where my grave used to be I guess? 🤷♂️
@@Salted_Fysh but if it got the chance
R.I.P. Henry J. Lobster. Your sacrifice will not go unnoticed by the squadron! /salute
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O7
Wow! What tactic teamwork 💜 👏 I almost feel bad about eating them anyway 😂😢
Thought lobsters could only spec into claws. Had no idea they had access to the lancer tree. Very cool.
It’s too bad that their Super Armor ability, which nullifies damage under a certain amount, is no good against a triggerfish, which can deal (INSERT ABSURDLY HIGH NUMBER) points of damage, completely negating Super Armor.
"Mama, if it's safe down here, why do we leave?" Mama: "Because the lobster God demands a sacrifice, son."
Also this is horrifying to imagine if you were the lobster
I'm not a lobster. The Beatles were lobsters, apparently.
One might say that it would cause a lobster to feel "triggered."
Certain Peterson already did it for us
@Daniel Sanchez Don't worry, the conga line is a safe space.
Not horrifying at all but instead it's a miracle U die withought pain wow Lobsters don't have pain receptors
This footage looks like something I watched on the wheel in classroom television
Excellent videoclips on nature and the mysterious lifestyle of the under water living beings that really amazing! Thanks to bbc earth!
Damn that was brutal. Imagine getting eaten alive. 💀
That's the way most animals go in the wild. Nature, thy be a cruel mistress
it's a lobster not a human being...
@@domainofthesun4400 shut up punk
Cancer eats one third of us alive , is just as firghtening.
@@twickersruss damn it is true. Never thought about it that way
Larry led a lobster army. Good for him
VEMULA TINKU 🤣🤣🤣
Say hi to you’re uncle for me lol
Triggerfish: CHOMP!! Lobster: MY LEG!!
"within minutes, all that is left is an empty shell" we all know how that feels :(
I have a Clown Trigger and he ate some big hermit crabs (size of a fist). You can hear his teeth crunch. My favorite Trigger
Lil' Chungie
Aw poor little lobster buddy :(
I've night dived for lobster in California many times and it's so strange to see that lobster sit there and not thrust it's tail to escape ? They are incredibly quick when they thrust the tail under the body and shoot away from any intruder. This one just sits there and lets itself be picked apart... the narrator says (1:49) "First it's disarmed"... actually those aren't arms (or claws), but the two antenna. After which the legs are picked off. Strange indeed ! Great video either way.
The music makes it so much more dramatic than it needs to be 😆
nature can be cruel sometimes.. but it's all about survival... respect for Sir David Attenborough...
Cruelty is a human concept. Nature is as nature does
@@tomatodamashi Cruelty is when you choose to be violent when there is no benefit for you to be. To a triggerfish, this is not cruelty because it needs to eat, and it is pretty difficult to eat shellfish without hands.
Plot twist: It wasn't a real lobster. The mob left it behind as a decoy while they made their getaway.
So was it a very large Prawn?
False ass.
I think they can mold their shells? maybe not sure though
this nature! only stronger will survive... respect.
Whoever chose this music for this footage of lobsters just walking made the absolute right choice
Lobsters being boiled alive. TriggerFish: Hold my Trigger!!!