WEBVTT - Creature Classic: Whale of a Tale 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.160 Welcome to Creature future production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.720 of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.200 and today on the show, we're talking about some scary 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:21.279 urban legends about animals and showing you that there's nothing 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.560 to fear. Well, okay, maybe there is, but it's not 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:28.200 what you think. From getting swallowed by a whale to 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.360 a small fish going where no fish has gone before, 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.440 we're going to see what you should really be scared of. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.160 Discover this more as we answered the asual question, wow, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.480 are you telling me that Gray's anatomy might have stretched 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.800 the truth? Joining me today is someone who puts the 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:49.440 legend in urban legends, video essays, and snake lover Maggie 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:54.760 may Fish. Hello, Katie, welcome back to the show. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:55.720 Thank you. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.120 I'm actually really excited for this episode because I'd. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.000 Like to be at greatly afraid. Yeah. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:03.480 I don't like to be afraid of things that I 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.080 don't need to be afraid about, but I like being afraid, 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.800 so I like to aim it at those responsible in 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:11.760 this case animals. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.200 Right exactly, Like when I see a bear, I'm like, 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.520 can I see, like how big your teeth. Let me 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.680 measure your teeth, Let me measure your class. See if 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.280 I really should be afraid of you? 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.160 Okay, are you still cub or? 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:22.679 You know? 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:23.560 Are you hadn't? 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.080 Oh? I see that you've like bitten my arm off. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:30.399 All right, you're right, you met criteria. You've even that 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.120 I am afraid of you. Yes, indeed. Yeah. I mean 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.000 I think that there are a lot of urban legends 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:39.200 about animals. Some of them are not really the truth, 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.959 but there is something out there that is just as scary. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.000 So which is always funny to me, because I think 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.560 it makes sense why we have urban legends, because you know, 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.920 it's fun to be scared or rationalizing our already existing fears. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.640 But then when there's something that's real that actually does 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.080 those things, that doesn't quite make it to be an 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.000 urban legend, it's like, well, okay, it's right there, you 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.440 got the truth. Yeah, exactly. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:08.680 Yeah. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.760 So, I don't know if you've seen this story yet, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.600 but someone in Cape Cod, a lobster diver, said he 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:18.440 was swallowed by a whale. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.680 I did see this, and I saw that his fellow 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.040 fisherman backed him up instaid. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:30.600 I absolutely believe that he was swallowed by a whale. Yeah, 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.720 what do you think, Katie. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.880 So he said that he was completely inside the whale 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.480 and that the whale shook its head a few times 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:44.040 before spitting him back out. So I'm not going to 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.880 call this man a liar, first of all, because he's 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.520 a lobster diver in Cape Cod, and I don't that's 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:51.920 not the demographic I want. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.680 Mad at me precisely. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.640 You could be the next gate that they put. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:00.880 But also I don't think. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.239 He really is lying. I think that, but I think 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.280 he may have misinterpreted what actually happened to him, or 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.840 at least maybe someone who was interviewing him put words 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.079 in his mouth. I don't know, but I don't think 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.280 he was actually swallowed by the whale. I think he 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.880 was sort of swished around in a whale's mouth like 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:19.679 some listing. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.240 Yeah, I was gonna say the way that he described it. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.360 The first image that came to mind is like wine tasting, 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.600 you know, like like like the whale was curious and. 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.079 Was like this human. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.320 You know, depending on where he's from, it could be 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.880 very salty, human, could be very sweet, could have some 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.680 undertoned So it seemed like he was just you know, uh, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:39.680 test tasting. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.600 Yeah, this guy was like in his fifties, so it's like, yeah, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.480 this is this is kind of an aged human. It's 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.720 got a nice bouquet, you know, swished it around his 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.320 mouth and spat him out. Yeah, because there's actually no 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.560 way for a humpback whale to actually swallow you whole. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.920 That's just not really gonna happen, at least not an 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:06.200 adult like that. So humpback whales are not They are carnivores, 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.200 but they don't want to eat humans because they actually 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:13.360 eat little tiny things like krill and small fish. So 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.760 anything the size of a human is not going to 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.120 mean food to them, right. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.400 They would see it as like a floatation device, maybe 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.640 a safety and floatation device. 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:29.120 Right right, right exactly, some kind of strange curiosity to 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.400 maybe taste but not eat. In fact, they don't really 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.640 typically want to taste you. Even we're kind of just 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:40.159 joking about the whale somalie thing. Probably what happened was 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.800 a mistake. So probably it was taking in a big 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.599 gulp of water to try to get some krill or 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.560 get some small fish because they have baling. They don't 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.000 even have teeth to bite you, and baling is like that. 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.120 It's like it's got a bunch of brooms in its 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.120 mouth or something, and it's it's not teeth, it's to 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.400 filter out. They suck in a huge volume of water 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.560 and then goosh it out, push it all out, and 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.720 then trap all the fish uh in the uh in 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.000 the balens. So like when it's a human, they can't 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.160 even really bite your teeth, so they're not going to 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.760 chew you up and swallow you. It's a total mistake. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:23.720 And their throat just can't accommodate a human. Like typically 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.960 the throat is only about the size of a human 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:33.159 fist like in diameter. It can ex yeah, especially for 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.520 a huge whale that is beat because it's just for 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:40.520 krill and tiny fish. It can expand to about the 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.280 size or diameter of a pizza, And that's like the 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:49.279 biggest it can really expand. And so for a human 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.680 to fit through that like it would be a struggle 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.680 because if it's about fifteen inches wide, like about the 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.800 size of a pizza, human shoulders are about fifteen inches 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.800 wide if not wider, and so to get down the 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.039 whale throat you'd have to kind of like like put 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:09.560 your arms forward, like. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.200 Yeah, yeah, you'd have to treat it like a slide, right, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.799 you have to like dive into it and like probably 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.000 lubricate yourself a little bit so that you go down 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:20.640 coat yourself in butter. 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.280 And then probably the whale is gonna be highly resistant 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.800 to this because it's not used to having something so 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.880 big in its throat. So I feel like the human 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.240 would have to be the one really trying to get 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:34.760 down there for whatever. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.839 I'm already in the mouth, but I'm getting the stomach 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.279 is not gonna be a story. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.520 Yeah, get down. Yeah. So, in fact, there's really only 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.599 one whale in the world who could without chewing, just 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.720 easily swallow a human hole, and that would be a 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:56.760 sperm whale who can and have swallowed giant squid, and 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:01.440 they've found like hold giant squid in their stomachs. But 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.359 you're probably never ever going to be swallowed by a 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:09.320 sperm whale simply because they don't live where humans can 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:10.600 easily survive. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:15.120 So I didn't even think about that. It's a huge os. Yeah. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.360 Yeah, not only are they probably not going to pursue 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.840 humans as prey because they just wouldn't really recognize the 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.120 human as normal prey that they would encounter, but they 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.840 also live. The reason you've like when you go whale watching, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.200 you typically don't see a sperm whale is they live 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.320 at around ten thousand feet or a little over three 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:38.520 thousand meters under the sea. So encounters with yes. We 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.560 Actually it's a problem for biologists because we don't know 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:47.080 that much about sperm whales, given they live so deep 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.520 in the ocean, and it's not very easy to observe 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.800 their behaviors, like I don't even think we know exactly 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.400 like how their mating goes and all these things. There 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.920 are a lot of mysteries about sperm whales and another 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:02.160 deep sea living whales, and they do come up to 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.680 breach to the surface, but they spend a lot of 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.640 their time very deep in the ocean. So a human 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.440 diver would have a lot more problems to worry about 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.240 if they're hanging out at ten thousand feet under the 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.080 ocean and getting. 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:21.440 Swallows by way pressure. Yeah, yeah, sinking into their goals. 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.360 I mean, their lungs and internal organs would turn into 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:28.560 a kind of jello salad at that point. So the 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.360 furthest a human can dive without getting their lungs crushed 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.520 is about sixty feet or eighteen meters compared to three 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.480 thousand meters or ten thousand feet, So you'd be very 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.600 you'd already be pretty dead at that point. You'd be 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:43.520 extremely dead. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.360 You'd be big dead. You'd be big dead, big. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.520 Dead hashtag big dead. Yeah. So, I mean, like the 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.600 only time you would really encounter a sperm while is 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.760 one of the rare times they come up to you know, 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.320 because they are mammals, they do need to breathe, but 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.320 I don't think that they would particularly be in a 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.920 hunting mood at that at that time. You know, they're 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.600 they're like coming up to take a breath and then 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.800 they'll dive back down. They don't like hang around and like, ah, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.360 who's this is this lobster dive? Alt try this out? Yeah, 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.840 So that's why people don't typically get swallowed by sperm whales. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.960 So I mean, and I'm thinking about like Pinocchio, that 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:27.240 whole thing. If Geppetto got swallowed by monster or whatever 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.400 that whale was, like again, he would already be super 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:36.040 dead and jellyfied at those depths, right Pinocchio, though, he's 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.960 like made out of wood, so he could potentially go 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.720 down to ten thousand feet under the sea without immediately dying. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.640 But as soon as his wish is granted to be 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.160 a real boy, he would just instantly be crushed, yeah, 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:50.480 by the weight of the ocean. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.040 So you're saying in the film Pinocchio and geppetto actually 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.040 die within the whale and everything after that is yeah, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.760 just a fever dream of a puppet wooden boy. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:00.560 Yeah. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.560 Yeah. Also, yeah, I don't think a whale's stomach is 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.400 a big, empty, air filled cavern with fire. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.600 There's like, right, with a little fire and a pull. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:14.920 The problem with that is actually a whale deep diving whales, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.480 like sperm whales, will push out all air that isn't 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.640 like all the air and their lungs and certainly like 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.560 they're not going to have a lot of air in 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.800 their tummies so that when they go down and come up, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.040 they don't get the bins, which as a result of 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:33.960 like the the dissolving of air into the blood stream. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.240 It's it's not it's bad, bad for your cells, bad 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.800 for your tissues. And then it's also their their lungs 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.200 and because they do have lungs again, they breathe there 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.800 when they come up, they exhale and then inhale with 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.080 their blowholes, and they do fill their lungs up, but 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.360 they have such a huge volume of blood their blood 0:10:54.360 --> 0:11:00.559 gets oxygenated, and then as they go down, they'reungs can 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.360 collapse and then push out all the air so that 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.760 but by that time their blood is already super enriched 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:12.440 with oxygen, and their lungs are also their rib cages 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.400 and lungs are sort of designed to collapse and expand, 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:20.160 so so they can withstand that, whereas we we can't. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:20.360 Are frail bodies. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.840 Now it just becomes sort of I mean, like the 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.720 exterior of our body probably won't look that weird. Uh, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.840 like maybe our eyes will like blood vessels in our 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.880 eyes will burst or something, but inside it's gonna be 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:39.680 a hor show. Yeah. Yeah, so actually, so do you 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.040 know I sperm whales are called sperm whales. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.080 I feel like maybe I've been told, but I don't 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.679 know what the truth is. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.520 Quite frankly, Katie, Well, I'm gonna admit that I just 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.840 learned this, so don't feel don't feel bad about obed. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.400 And I was thinking, like, there's got to be like 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.120 an innocuate because like it's like a little sperm whales. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.000 Oh you know, can yeah, go for it. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.199 Okay, I think maybe it has something to do with 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.199 this thing, like their blubber resembles sperm. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.880 You're very close. You're very very close. Yeah, ok yeah 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.880 they are. Actually they used to be called, uh, spermachetti 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.439 whales because inside the whales head cavity because like their 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.480 heads are very fatty, they have uh, it's not just 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.320 skull and like they have a lot of sort of 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:35.320 area around their skull. They have an waxy, oily white 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:42.840 substance called spermachetti. And it's called spermachetti because people thought 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:44.520 this was the whales semen. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:46.960 Wow, it's not. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.600 Wow, it is not. Uh. It is in fact a 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.920 sort of waxy, oily substance that has nothing to do 0:12:55.960 --> 0:13:00.600 with reproduction. But because they were dirty sailors, they called 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:05.240 them spermachetti whales and they made candles and stuff out 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.280 of this. It was it's so crazy because they're like, oh, yeah, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.120 this is probably the whales sperm, let's make some candles 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:11.520 out of it. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.120 Candles, family. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:19.160 But it is actually probably used by the whale as 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:24.880 a resonance chamber in their head to aid in echolocation, 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.440 or it could also in addition help with buoyancy. So 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:35.760 regulating buoyancy because again, like a lot of animals, not 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:39.199 just whales, but fish as well that are deep sea divers, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.640 they don't want any like gases inside their bodies because 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.480 that is a problem when you're under those pressures and 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.640 then you you know, so. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.080 So burst out your head instead of your body. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:55.080 Yeah, they get they get too well, they get too compressed, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:56.920 and then you can get the bins and so it 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:01.600 just doesn't really work. So so fish off and instead 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.440 of a swim bladder full of a gas like like 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.160 fish that are more near the surface might have, they 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.680 have like oily substances in it. So similarly, these sperm 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:16.240 whales there, if they need to regulate their buoyancy, they 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.000 don't want to have any like air filled chambers. They 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.000 want to have an oily substance, a liquid that because 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.720 liquid can't get that compressed, but air and gases can 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.120 become compressed, and that's a big problem underwater. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:33.720 Hence sperm in the head. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.800 Hence sperm in the head exactly sperm the head. So 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.480 basically you don't need to worry about being swallowed by 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.360 a whale. It's not gonna happen, and this guy again, 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.600 he was probably swished around in the whale's mouth, not 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.160 really swallowed, you know, the. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:55.720 Whale in honor actually at the end of the day. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.000 Right right, the guy was. The guy was a good 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.840 sport about it too. He's like, I just like to 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.720 apologize to the whale for like having to taste me. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.600 So yeah, I don't, I don't really necessarily, I know that, like, 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.480 you know, fishermen like to tell fish tales. But I 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.840 think he probably something did happen. He probably did have 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.120 an encounter with a humpback whale, but it was just 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.680 a little it was a little love nibble by the 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.920 by the whale or you know, a mistake. Probably It's 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:26.400 like when you get a fly in your mouth. You're like, oh, yeah, 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.320 that's what we are to whales. But can we be 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.960 swallowed whole by an animal? Is there such a thing? Yes, 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.040 we could be swallowed whole by a reticulated python. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.800 Boy snakes. Yeah, I love game. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.080 I know you do. You have a little python of 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.960 your own, not a reticulated python. But uh, he's a 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:53.680 ball python, right, yep, yep, baby, yeah, yeah, he's not 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.960 gonna he's not gonna swallow you whole anytime soon. But 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:03.040 the reticulated python, while this is very rare, they can 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.400 swallow a person whole, and in fact they have so. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.560 Giant reticulated pythons in Indonesia have been known to once 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.200 in a while swallow a person and kill them. These 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.200 pythons can grow up to twenty feet or six meters 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.400 long and way up to one hundred and sixty five 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:27.800 pounds or seventy five kilograms, and their jaws can expand 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.880 as far as its skin can stretch, So they don't 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:35.640 have the same hinge joint that human jaws have. They don't, 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.600 and I think it's often said that their jaws like dislocate. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.640 That's not really true because they're never located in the 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:42.520 person place. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.400 They've never been located right right, They just aren't. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:50.320 They aren't connected like a human jaw. So they can 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.240 expand their jaws much as their mouthskin can stretch, and 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:59.560 they can swallow enormous prey such as pigs and even 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:05.120 small cows sometimes. Eh. Yeah, Unfortunately, this means they can 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:10.160 also swallow a human. In twenty eighteen, a fifty four 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.679 year old woman was killed and swallowed whole by a 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:18.520 reticulated python, and there have been other cases of farmers 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:24.080 and kids potentially getting swallowed whole by these pythons. It 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:28.440 is very rare. So again, even if you live in 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.760 an area where there are reticulated pythons, your chances of 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.080 being killed by one are very low. But when it 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:41.600 does happen, it is very horrifying. So you might wonder like, well, 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.000 how can you know, how could they just swallow a person? Like, 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.159 how could they? Because you know, you would imagine like 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.840 you'd run away, right, you know if a python's just 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:51.440 like try, I. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.560 Feel like you try, right, you know, maybe h right? 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.160 But they actually it doesn't seem like a python could 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.080 like outrun a human. But they're actually ambush predators and 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.560 they kill their pay Yeah, they kill their prey by 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.840 suffocating their victims. So they sneak up on you and 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:14.000 then they strike at their prey and bite down, not 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.280 to inject venom because they don't actually have venom, but 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.240 just to hold you in place. Well, they very like 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:25.040 surprisingly quickly can wrap their coils around you, and then 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:29.440 once you're in those coils, you're kind of doomed unless 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.359 you have a machete and you have the strength to 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.600 like fight it off where there are people around who 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.040 can help extract you. If you're on your own and 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.840 you don't have any means to defend yourself, you're kind 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.280 of doomed because once those once it gives you that 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:49.639 hug of death, it will literally crush you until you 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:54.600 can't breathe and then you will asphyxiate. Which, yeah, it's 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.200 very scary. It's a little less scary than like being 0:18:58.240 --> 0:18:59.880 swallowed alive, I think. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.520 Yeah, say it kindly puts you out of your misery, very. 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.760 Sweet of it, very kind of it. Yeah, well, kindness 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:09.840 has nothing to do with it. It just doesn't want 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.200 you to choke it, like to wiggle and fight while 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.400 it's still inside of you, because that can kill. That 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.320 can kill a reticulated python. 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.239 You know, from the python's point of view, what a 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.840 masterful way to eat you. Just you kill it, You 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:27.080 crush until it's just a tiny little tube of you know, 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.760 like you can stuck it down like a yogurt a gogurt. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.760 Well, to be fair, they don't. When they crush their 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:38.119 their victim, often the body is actually pretty intact. In fact, 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.040 this is a little bit horrible. But when they cut 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:47.040 open a python. They can find bodies completely intact if 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.119 they haven't started digesting them. And this includes unfortunately, human 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:55.000 victims who they find their bodies intact, but they are 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.119 sadly already passed away because they have been asphyxiated. So 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.640 they actually swallow their prey head first because that's just easier, 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:04.520 easier to cow. 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.800 And when I feed my snake, yeah, always eats the 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:09.439 head first. 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:11.800 Yeah, you see it, like make it makes sense, you know. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.919 Yeah. The body, well, it's like it's the arms, you know, 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:19.679 it's it just kind of smooshes down pretty easy, and 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.160 they have very strong muscle contractions to get it down 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:27.760 into their very expandable bellies. Like you see one of 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.119 these pythons, and when it has a big meal, it 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.000 doesn't have to be a human. It can be like 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.760 a pig or a deer or something like. It's just 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:40.040 there's this huge bulge in its stomach and then it 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:44.800 can like not eat for like many many months like 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:46.720 it like if it has a big I think it 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:50.160 can even like hold off for like over a year 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.920 like once it has a big meal like that. Yeah, 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:58.199 So unfortunately, both for the human and for the snake, uh, 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.240 if it does eat a human. This is ideal for 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:05.000 the reticulated python. Obviously it's not ideal for human either, 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:10.639 but clothes cannot be digested, so it will actually kill 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:15.159 the reticulated python if like often it is actually killed 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.959 by by humans because like they're looking for a missing person, 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:22.000 they find a python with a suspicious bulge and then 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.040 they kill the python. And when they do that, they're 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.120 actually probably sparing the python a lot of misery because 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:30.920 they are not going to be able to digest all 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.159 of that all of those clothes, and they'll get a 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:38.160 stomach impaction. They can digest bone, though it's not necessarily 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:41.959 that they can like digest bone completely, but they like 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.680 they can, like they goose it out, like they they 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:51.680 push out sort of, they'll like regurgitate sort of the 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:53.080 skeletal remains. 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:57.639 That it too graphic, but yeah, when my uh little 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.400 python goes to the bathroom, there's like he's regular a poop, 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.800 but then there's like a little ball of white which 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.760 is like, yeah, like fur and bone kind of a 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.760 just yeah congewoled together, right exactly. 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.920 I think they can actually poop it all out. I 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:16.840 think they only regurgitate things if it's like too big 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:21.400 or something. There's actually been problems with pet pythons when 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:24.320 they eat like accidentally, like I think a towel is food, 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:25.960 and then they eat it and then they have to 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:27.600 be taken to the vat for the towel to be 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:28.080 pulled out. 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:29.520 I've seen that video. 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:34.160 Yeah, baby, baby, of course, we feel so sorry for 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:37.879 for the python that ate a human. I mean no, 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:42.080 I also I feel very very bad for the human victims. 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:44.320 It's just a sad it's a sad thing all around, 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:46.959