Giant Scolopendra Deadly 60 Bites
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On Deadly 60 I've had loads of incredible animal encounters. | 0:00:01 | 0:00:05 | |
Here's just one of my many favourites. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
This is Deadly 60 Bites. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
I'm in Venezuela. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
I'm about to have a really creepy encounter with a toxic terror, | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
the longest centipede on Earth. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
We've just had a spot of real Deadly 60 luck. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
We've just been told that some locals have actually found | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
a giant scolopendra in their back garden. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
I'm going to have a look now. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:35 | |
Hola. Como estas? | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
-Puero bella. -HE REPLIES IN SPANISH | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
Si. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
No way! | 0:00:44 | 0:00:45 | |
No way, that's enormous! | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
Muchas gracias! | 0:00:49 | 0:00:50 | |
OK, I'd rather take this away from his family before I take it out, | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
because this is an animal that certainly could do a child | 0:00:54 | 0:00:58 | |
an enormous amount of damage. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
I have to admit I'm a little bit shaky about this. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
I've handled scolopendra many, many times in the past, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
but nothing of this kind of size. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
This is absolutely formidable. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
Look at the size of it. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
That is just extraordinary. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
It's incredibly strong, harder to handle certainly than any snake. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:29 | |
Look at that, look at the strength of it! | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
It's actually just sunk its claws right into the thumb of the glove, | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
and I'm very, very glad that these are really... Look at that! | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
It's almost puncturing the leather. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
In fact, I'm not entirely sure that these gloves are strong enough! | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
Woah! | 0:01:48 | 0:01:49 | |
That is a true living monster. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
So this is scolopendra gigantea, | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
the largest species of centipede found on Earth. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
Woo-er! | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
It can get to be nearly 30 centimetres in length, | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
which is as long as my forearm. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
And at the front of the head you can see those curved claws, | 0:02:07 | 0:02:12 | |
they're actually adapted legs, but they're linked to a venom gland, | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
which means that they can inject an absolutely ferocious toxin | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
and overpower even quite decent-sized mammals. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
And there is no doubt that if this actually got to exposed skin, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
it would definitely bite, and if it did, it probably wouldn't kill me, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
but I really don't want to take that chance. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
Wow! | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
You horrible thing! | 0:02:39 | 0:02:40 | |
You're horrible! I hate you! | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
Can I put it back in the bucket now, please? | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
Wugh-ha-ha-ha-ha! | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
Oh! Holy Moly! | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
Giant scolopendra. Definitely deadly. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 |