The MOST VENOMOUS Centipede? Malaysian Tiger
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Welcome to an (admittedly rather short) video about a very enigmatic centipede that has been dubbed the "Malaysian Tiger" by hobbyists. It is a yet to be described Scolopendra species that inhabits Peninsular Malaysia and the Riau Islands, and likely possesses one of the most potent venoms of any centipede known.
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The semi-aquatic aspect is something I've never considered. It makes sense, particularly knowing the general ancestry of such arthropods. Great info again.
Wonderful video! It amazes me how many species of centipede are completely undescribed! (makes me wanna do something about it...) Just wanna say to keep up the good work! You're one of the only people out here giving proper information about centipedes instead of demonizing them for shock value. I would absolutely love to see centipede species profiles like this one become a series!
I definitely plan to make a series out of this. And hopefully I’ll have more to say about other centipedes that aren’t undescribed. I’m thinking the next species I’ll cover will be either Scolopendra heros or S. hardwickei
@@BugsandBiology Nice! I know virtually nothing about S. hardwickei, so that would be great to see
@@BugsandBiology Yeah making this into a series would be pretty cool. Excited for the next one!
More Centipedes content pls
Thanks!
Appreciate it!
This was absolutely fascinating.
Hey man. Great video indeed. As a Malaysian myself and I was an active hiker I have seen a couple of wild specimens before actively crawling around the base of trees as well as scaling their way up to the top. Large buggers indeed and from what I remember, rather reactive to light.
Anyways, great video! Personally enjoyed it man.
Must be awesome to live somewhere where such impressive inverts can be encountered on hikes.
I'm always amazed by the diversity of equatorial places like Singapore and Malaysia.
Here in the Americas the biodiversity just seems to explode once you get about half way down Mexico.
My dad is currently staying at his sister's house in Costa Rica and they recently found a kinkajou in the guest bathroom there. I definitely had to Google that to even see wtf it is!! 😂
Great info from an expert in the field. Thank you.
Fantastic presentation! I love your music!
Bugs and biology: “Do some f****** breeding”
was that an intentional pun???
Love your content, i'm so happy I stumbled on your channel ✌
There's another mysterious centipede that I was curious about which is the cave centipede (thereuopoda, looks like an enormous house centipede) which have conflicting reports about either being harmless or being highly venomous. A video about them would be interesting but there might not even be much information on them out there.
1:18 - haha, nice one, you got my like, sir!
Centipedes/Milipedes are animals you don't see too many vids on, but some of these are strikingly beautiful.
The centipede in the thumbnail has a beautiful coloration.
Informative and enjoyable -- thanks for the upload👍
Glad you liked it!
A fine video as always👍 Next a “reaction” video? You can do those inside 👌
Beautiful centipede ❤
I’m bout to buy one these, another cool looking species will add to my collection
Spread the knowledge keep up the good work
So funny! And informative
The issue is that breeding information is not readily available and also accidents happen all of the time. I tried once with local Scolopendra cingulata and the male ate the female. Unfortunately The Pure Life stopped posting the wonderful videos.
I spat out my drink when you went to do the sponsor 😅😅
That millipede like centipede is really interesting. Can't find a video of it aswell
if i saw one of these guys i wouldve thought i came across a giant polymorpha and grabbed it like a dumbass
Great video! Also have you heard of the armored centipede? convergently evolved similarly to the millipedes, and even feeds and preys on them as well. The genus name for these Armored centipedes are called Edentistoma sp. with quite a number of species and even have a defense like a millipede! Though are very little known about cryptid, and currently relatively obscure,
kinda like how the Borneo earless monitor was at a time, and still is a lot that Isn’t known though. Also these armored centipedes are probably the closest things to the carnivorous millipedes from the 2005 King Kong game on the ps2, Xbox, pc, and 360. Also if I’m not mistaken there are some millipede species that do consume carrion, and other small species. Also great video! It’s also wild there are semi aquatic centipedes.
I have heard of them, and do plan on making a video covering the topic. Super interesting centipedes, and very unique too.
Awesome! Also my apologies, I just realized you mentioned this group of centipedes in the video, also indeed, wonder how many species there are to? And if there are any other cryptic armored species Similar to it. I’ve also heard of armored spiders, also hope to see a video on the hooded tick spiders, wonder if any grow the size of a common house spider? and opiliones, some have some really powerful lobster like claws, and other unique grasping arms.
Jeez, when I heard you say "raid shadow" and "sponsor" I immediately went to skip forward lol. Glad I didn't.
Great video thanks for that it opened my eyes on many things about our many legged friends at the video start It wasn't you handling the one on the maroon blanket due to the large tattoo on the left for arm lol any way fabulous video educational enjoyable
I love insects and arachnids (im a tarantula keeper) but i can not get my self to like centipedes 😣 but still lovely looking ones!
Actually ive no clue how to go about breeding centipedes. Do you have any videos of yours or links to good channels?
Amazing video! I too have watched ThePureLife’s videos! They are great and simple. Very sad that he does not seem to be uploading anymore. Although he did upload a short video a little while back - so maybe he’ll return?
He’s has had brief periods of activity but I don’t think he’s been consistently uploading for years.
That giant African centipede looks super chunky.
Ethmostigmus in general tend to be heavy-bodied centipedes.
Even though I love critters, I…don’t have the nerve to keep gargantuan centipedes that are venemous. Literally a ticking nuke.
However, I do know that they aren’t mindlessly aggressive, just uncomfortable for clumsy old me
Wow what a treat, just caught this video right now 👍🏻💯
Good timing! At least you resisted the urge to comment “FiRsT!!1!”
do you like brontoscorpio
Hello kitty
Oh no, give me a large Huntsman spider any day!!
Centipedes are probably my favourites, but I’ll admit they’re pretty much objectively scarier than any huntsman.
@@BugsandBiology I’d rather have 8 legs than those crawling on me anytime. They give me the willies 😂
Question, why no sicientific papers have been written for this animal?
Centipedes in general aren’t very well studied. And there’s very few records of this species.
@@BugsandBiology Thank you for the reply!
Tho i cant help but wonder why would that be the case? Is this also true for other species as well?
Can you make guide for centipede breading? I want to be first in my country to do that.
I’ve posted a video where I paired Ethmostigmus rubripes (the female is wrapped around babies now), but the actual mating happened off camera, as I left them together overnight.
@@BugsandBiology yes i saw this.
I would let that thing bite me for 20$
Is that u handling those centipedes?
No. The only media that was filmed/photographed by me is any that are without credit.
"id like to mention our sponsor raid shado-justkidding" very funny
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frankly i don't understand why people don't try to breed centipedes and other exotic arthopods in captivity more often because with here and there introductions of unrelated members into one controled breeding pool i'm pretty certain that it becomes a near endless source of revenue (making the greedy arguement only not endorsing it).
Yeah, even when speaking only from a monetary perspective, and not an ecological one, captive-breeding still seems to make so much more sense than just importing/collecting and selling inverts.
As someone who has bred centipedes for over 15 years, and have done big legal exports to try to get CB plings all over the world, it isn't profitable because it isn't stable at all, and the market for non-tarantula or beetle arthropods is tiny.
People don't try to breed them because the vast majority of people recognize them for the truly vile creatures they are 😫
They taste like shrimp 🦐
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Good for you! Guess you don’t have to deal with “you know who” anymore haha
The brighter the color usually the more dangerous.
Kinda depends. Scolopendra metuenda is quite drably coloured and possesses really potent venom. Meanwhile S. laeta is quite vibrant and is nearly harmless.
How would this centipede do in a fight against a Sydney funnel spider? Who would win?
Centipede, easily. Unless it’s a very small centipede.
@@BugsandBiology but the Sydney funnel web has such deadly venom that all it needs to do is bite one leg of the giant centipede and it's dead , right?
@@BugsandBiology also the largest frog in the world and the largest centipede in the world , who would win that fight ?
The centipede is easily venomous enough to kill the funnel-web in one bite too, so the difference in venom potency doesn’t matter at all. Plus funnel-web venom doesn’t work as insanely fast as you’re saying; I’ve seen small roaches shrug off funnel-web bites. And centipedes have practically every other advantage conceivable: they’re faster, bigger, more agile, have better senses, and are much better at grappling. It’s barely even a fight, it’s a predator-prey relationship.
Thanks!