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'Welcome to my Deadly Top Ten.

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'A chance to choose the top ten fiercest, fastest, most tactical,

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'toxic and well-armed animals on the planet.

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'All deadly in their own world and sometimes deadly to me.

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'Who do you think will be number one of my Deadly Top Ten?'

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'In this countdown I'm choosing my top ten lethal weapons.'

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That is a set of gnashers.

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'Ultimate talons, tusks, muscles,

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'stings and even leafy goo.

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'Fabulous weapons used to hunt and fight.

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'But it's not all about awesome artillery and fantastic firepower.

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'There are some surprising gadgets to watch out for

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'as we battle it out for number one.'

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'Time for my top ten lethal weapons countdown.

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'Swooping into ten is an eagle with truly terrifying talons,

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'the African fish eagle.

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'In South Africa, I met up with a stunning young bird called Bono.'

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Bono was taken from the wild as a chick illegally.

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Luckily, he was rescued and he spent his days happily in a rescue centre near here.

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I can tell you that he's quite heavy.

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It's quite a strain keeping him on my wrist.

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He's got gigantic breast muscles like huge pecs

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which drive those wings, and the main weapon is those talons.

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They are like razor blades.

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Feeling that with my finger,

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you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of those.

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'In the wild, eagles rely totally on these talons to survive.

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'Fishing eagles patrol African lakes and rivers,

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'keeping an eagle eye out for prey.

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'Once into an attack they swing their feet forward,

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'stretch out their toes... and with unbelievable precision,

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'lock talons on to their slippery targets.

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'Though they mainly eat fish, they use their lethal weapons

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'to snatch small birds from the sky and even to grab flamingos.

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'These talented talon-masters are so efficient,

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'they spend as little as ten minutes a day hunting.

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'That's what I call super weapons.

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'Next up for nine are two giants who fight with huge teeth,

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'the hippo and the African elephant.

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'Which is going to win the place on the countdown?'

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Jessica is a very special hippo.

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She's the only one in the world you could ever get this close to.

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Oh, my life, she's coming out of the water. Look at this!

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You would probably assume that we're in a zoo or a safari park

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but this is a wild river.

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Wild hippos pass through every day and socialise with Jessica here.

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Give us a nice, big smile, Jess.

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You see those two huge, gargantuan incisor teeth at the side of the mouth?

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They actually slot in to these two lumps at the top of her head here.

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They don't serve any purpose for feeding,

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they are purely for fighting and defence.

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'Male teeth grow even bigger.'

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I've got a couple here.

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If you can imagine those inside Jessica's mouth.

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That is a weapon to be truly frightened of.

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'Bull hippos use these over-sized gnashers

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'in dramatic clashes over territory and breeding rights.'

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'Talk about a clash of the titans!

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'These three-tonne giants are especially aggressive

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'in times of drought when the rivers become really crowded.

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'Such big teeth can inflict painful-looking stab wounds

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'and these battles can go on for days.

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'It's best to stay out of the way whilst all this drama's going on.

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'Thanks to their terrifying teeth, hippos are truly deadly.

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'So, how will the elephant's teeth match up?

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'Elephants are armed with a trunk and tusks -

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'devastating tree-smashing artillery.

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'But it's when bull elephants decide to fight each other that tusks become deadly weapons.

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'The bulls joust with them like medieval knights.

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'Each is risking severe injury.

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'These fights are about gaining power.

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'The winner will be crowned king bull.

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'Tusks are modified teeth which grow throughout an elephant's life.

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'Bull tusks grow up to three metres and can weigh twice as much as me.

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'Tusk fighting is such an important skill

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'that even baby bulls will have a go.

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'Rather than deadly tusk fighting,

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'it's more like head banging instead.

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'But, when they grow up, they'll be brandishing

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'some of the most impressive weapons in the whole of the animal world.

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'How on earth do I choose between two real mega-beasts?

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'It's a tough call but, with their earth-shaking bull fights,

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'I'm going for the elephant.

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'Slinking in to eight is an underwater hunter

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'who has a tongue with super powers. It's the queen snake.

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'In the rivers of the eastern USA, the queen snake thrives

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'on a specialised diet of crayfish and crayfish alone.

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'Food definitely fit for a queen, but quite a tricky meal to catch

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'since crayfish are armour-plated and equipped with powerful pincers.

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'But this royal serpent is one step ahead as she is armed

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'with an incredibly sensitive forked tongue.

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'Her weapon is used to exploit a chink in the crayfish's armour -

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'the time when it's most vulnerable.

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'When it moults.

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'As crayfish grow, they must shed their hard shell.

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'This happens once every three to four weeks.

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'When they emerge, they are soft and defenceless.

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'It's now that the snake has its chance.

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'Soft crayfish look no different to hard-shelled ones,

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'but they emit very different chemicals.

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'Her tongue is so sensitive,

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'it can taste these chemicals leaking from soft crayfish.

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'Armed with her tasting weapon, she's able to track them down.

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'She's got it! Those thrashing legs can do her no harm at all.

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'She can swallow it whole since it's as soft as a boiled egg.

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'Fine dining made possible by her sensitive,

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'soft shell-detecting tongue.

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'What a weapons stash this is turning out to be!

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'Terrifying talons, titan tusks

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'and an underwater taster tongue.

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'It's an even stranger weapon next.

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'Winkling it at seven, it's the animal whose weapon

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'is its dastardly, deadly finger, the aye-aye.

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'I'm dying to get a closer look at this strange digit and show you how it works.

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'This research station in Madagascar

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'is the perfect place for a close encounter.

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'It's a bit spooky getting so close to such a bizarre-looking primate.'

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Crikey!

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I think she thought my finger was something edible for a second.

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When it comes down to it, they are pretty fierce.

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The aye-aye is a very specialised feeder.

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If you look at that front foot,

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you'll notice the middle finger is kind of weird-looking.

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It has no flesh, no muscle,

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it's just one long, jointed, pencil-like digit.

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Look what he's doing now. Look at that.

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Just using that finger to dig out

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little grubs that are beneath the bark.

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That is crazy!

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'At night, the aye-aye hunts for grubs living deep inside wood.

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'It taps on trees with its middle finger and listens for cavities

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'where wood-boring insect larvae might be moving under the bark.

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'Aye-ayes have excellent hearing,

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'helping them detect something tasty hiding inside the trunk.

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'Once the grub's located, the aye-aye rips through the bark

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'and the special skeleton finger is deployed as a fishing hook.

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'It's so slim and dextrous that this finger can squeeze through

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'the tiniest of gaps and bend around the tightest corners

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'to scoop out the grub from its hole.

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'Who needs a penknife when you have such a powerful finger as a weapon?

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'Shooting in at six,

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'an insect with the most powerful sting in the world, the bullet ant.'

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These are bullet ants.

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They're called bullet ants because being stung by one

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feels a bit like being shot.

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They've got the most painful toxin,

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the most painful venom of any insect.

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I'm just watching to make sure they don't run up my trouser leg.

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I can confirm the bullet ant's just about the most painful experience

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because I've been stung by these many times.

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The reason for its sting isn't for overcoming its prey.

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They spend a lot of time hunting in the canopy or on the ground

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and they usually use their powerful jaws to overcome their insect prey.

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The sting really is used for getting rid of animals that might want to hunt them.

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And the reason it's so painful is just really so that

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if something big sticks its nose into the bullet ants' nest,

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it'll get stung and think that it's in real danger.

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Now, because I've been stung by these so many times before,

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I know that if I get stung again,

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it's going to hurt a lot

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but it's not going to be dangerous to me.

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I won't have an allergic reaction. If I didn't know that,

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I wouldn't do what I'm about to try now.

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And I suggest that if you ever go anywhere with bullet ants,

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please don't try this. I'll see if I can get one of these little fellows...

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One of these little fellows! They're huge, what am I talking about?

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Biggest ant in the world!

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I'm going to see if I can get one of these ants to walk over my hand

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without biting me.

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OK. So, I've now got the world's

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most painful stinging insect on my hand.

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And I have to say, I am very nervous.

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Although I've been stung by these before,

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I can remember how badly it hurt.

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But if you look at it up close,

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it's one of the most awesome creatures. An animal this size...

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Look at it, cleaning its antennae there. Isn't that beautiful?

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Running them through his mandibles, keeping them clean.

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Those are his primary sensory mechanisms as he's running along.

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It is just extraordinary that an animal of this size

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has a sting that is powerful enough

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to incapacitate an animal the size of me.

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I mean, think how many times bigger I am than this ant.

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But one little sting is going to have me

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absolutely crying on the floor.

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That has to be one of the absolute miracles of mother nature.

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'Time to check our weapons.

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'We've had the fish eagle's talons.

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'Elephant tusks.

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'Queen snake's tongue.

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'Aye-aye's deadly digit.

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'And bullet ant's sting.

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'Can you guess which weapons are next

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'as we battle towards number one?

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'Well, next up is a Deadly first.

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'Two predatory plants.

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'The European sundew and the North American Venus flytrap.

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'Don't be fooled by their beauty.

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'Both have massive meat-eating weapons.

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'Lurking in the marshy wastelands

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'lives a breathtakingly beautiful plant.

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'The sundew.

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'Their firework tentacles are laden

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'with deadly, sticky gel.

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'This carpet of flowers is actually a deathbed for careless insects.

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'Unsuspecting mosquitoes emerge in huge numbers from the boggy water.

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'And the sundews are ready.

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'The dazzling sticky-tipped globes are sweet-smelling and attractive.

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'Careless mozzies are soon stuck fast to the squishy stalks.

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'The more they wriggle, the worse it gets.

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'These plants are hungry for animal tissue,

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'so as the insect struggles, the sundew tightens its grip.

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'As more and more tentacles envelope the prey,

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'the droplets spread across its body.

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'Eventually the insects drown in sticky fluid

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'and the plant digests its dinner. What a way to go!

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'The Venus Flytrap is a very different beast altogether.

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'These are the jaws of death. Piranhas of the plant kingdom.

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'And they use an explosive snap-happy strategy.

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'Venus makes herself very attractive

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'by oozing nectar across the brim of each leaf.

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'But any visitor must watch out,

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'for these tiny hairs are trip switches for a dangerous device.

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'If the insect touches one hair, it can carry on feeding.

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'But a timer has been set.

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'A second contact detonates the system...

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'..and the insect is destined for a messy end.

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'Prison bars seal them in

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'to their leafy tomb,

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'where they're sucked dry and digested.

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'What a ferocious bit of foliage!

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'Well, I'm absolutely blown away by all that flower power,

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'but for me, the Venus Flytrap's steely jaws

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'really do steal the show.

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'Swooping in at four is a bird with ultimate surround sound hearing.

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'The Great Grey owl.

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'The owl's challenge is to locate rodents

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'under the snow in a seemingly empty landscape.

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'It's listening out for tiny rustling sounds.

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'Deep under the snow, this lemming makes minute noises as it moves.

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'Far too weak for human ears to respond to,

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'but this owl has the ultimate amplifier.

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'Its face acts like a satellite dish,

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'able to pick up micro sounds.

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'The dish is formed by a ring of stiff feathers.

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'They collect and reflect noises towards the ears,

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'which are hidden on either side of the owl's eyes.

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'It's like having a giant cupped hand behind each ear.

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'To find the hidden lemming, the owl scans with its dish-like face.

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'As soon as the lemming makes a noise, the owl can home in.

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'It locks onto its target like a sound-seeking missile.

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'Soft, stealth feathers ensure the owl is silent in its flight.

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'Nothing interferes with its hearing.

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'The head remains focused on its target at all times,

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'even if it has to fly around obstacles.

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'The lemming has no idea of what's going to hit it.

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'Now it unleashes its lethal talons.

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'This lemming's game is over.

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'With its extraordinary audio sound-scanning face,

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'the owl rarely misses its target.

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'There's simply nowhere to hide from the Great Grey owl.

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'Throwing its muscles in at three is a giant snake.

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'The python. Its deadly weapon is a killer squeeze.'

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That's heavy!

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'The biggest one I've ever met was an reticulated python in Borneo.'

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The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world.

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Believe it or not, the anaconda from South America can get larger

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and heavier bodied than this.

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But in terms of pure length,

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the reticulated python has it.

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I have to say this is the thickest,

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heaviest-bodied retic I've ever seen.

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'It's called reticulated because of its repeating pattern

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'of diamond markings along its body. Reticulations.'

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Crikey!

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I tell you what, it's a good job it's quite tame, isn't it?

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If this was snappy, I wouldn't be quite so keen

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to be handling it like this.

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Do I need to worry when its head starts heading towards me?

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-He's getting used to you.

-Yeah.

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So this snake's been held in captivity for about 15 years,

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so it's not very aggressive. Believe me, I wouldn't be handling it

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if this was a wild snake.

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The reticulated python can get to be actually much bigger than this.

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The longest recorded specimen was about 28 feet.

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This one's about 20, so it would be an extra me

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plus a bit more.

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And I have to say, this isn't even constricting me,

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but just the pure weight and power of it...

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Look at that on my leg.

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This is how a reticulated python kills its prey,

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by wrapping some coils around the animal and as it breathes out,

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the retic clenches a bit more and every time the animal breathes out,

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it clenches more and more and more and more until eventually

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there is just no lung space left and the animal suffocates.

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'Although the muscular coils are its main killing weapon,

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'the python then has the problem

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'of swallowing prey,

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'which can be as large as an antelope.

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'Luckily, it has hyper flexible jaws

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'and an amazing skull which allows it to walk its face along its meal.

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'It can even engulf the horns.

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'Strong stomach acids and enzymes

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'then digest the meal, skin, hooves, horns, the lot.

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'A tad gross perhaps, but necessary.

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'The python can't risk its meal rotting inside its body.

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'This truly is an awesomely armed reptile superpower.

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'A seriously squeezing snake.

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'So, what could beat those muscles?

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'Well, with both ferocious teeth and claws,

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'at number two, the grizzly bear.'

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BEAR ROARS

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'Grizzlies are built like tanks.

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'They have many weapons in their ferocious toolkit,

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'but it's their massive teeth

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'and claws the size of kitchen knives

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'which makes them top of the food chain predators.

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'During the annual salmon run in Alaska,

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'grizzly bears gather to dine on this fishy feast.

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'They're seriously smart when it comes to using their weapons.

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'Pouncing on fish in shallow water is how the experts do it.

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'In autumn, salmon are so abundant, even this little guy has a go.

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'He's already learning the skills

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'he'll need to survive as an adult.

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'Away from the feast on the riverbank, some ingenious grizzlies

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'have taken their weapon wielding skills to the next level.

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'In this coastal landscape,

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'bears have had to learn to become beachcombers.

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'With their keen sense of smell,

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'they can sniff out clams 30cm down in the sand.

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'They then use their paws as shovels to dig down to their prey.

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'Finally, their claws become

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'dexterous and delicate can openers,

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'as they unlock the clams from their shells.

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'A tasty treat courtesy of a beastly set of clever cutlery.

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'So if the great grizzly's claws are two

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'and python's coils were only at three,

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'who on earth has the ultimate weapon?

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'It's definitely a deadly surprise.

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'Time for the top ten lethal weapons countdown.

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'Razor-sharp ten, fish eagle's talons.

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'Bull-fighting nine, the elephant's tusks.

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'Tasty eight, the Queen snake's tongue.

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'Squirmy seven, the aye-aye's finger.

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'Agonising six, bullet ant's sting.

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'Snap-happy five, the Venus Flytrap.

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'All ears at four, the Great Grey owl's hearing.

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'Mighty three, the python's muscles.

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'Tearing in at two, the grizzly's claws.

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'And at number one, it's a kung-fu ninja.

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'The praying mantis.

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'Armed with not just one, or two,

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'but an entire arsenal of weapons.

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'They may be mini, but armed with their monstrous weapons,

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'the mantis is an adept assassin.

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'Equipped with some brutal spines and killer mouthparts,

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'capable of demolishing animals twice their own size.

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'I've come to prime mantis habitat to show you exactly

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'how they wield their wily weapons.'

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Look at that!

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It's like something out of a monster movie.

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Those eyeballs really are

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the best eyes you'll find in the insect world.

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This is probably the very last thing that a butterfly or a moth

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would ever see in their life,

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would be those eyes and these mouth parts.

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Look at those brutal spines.

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Those are the mantis's chief way of catching its prey

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and at the moment, the forearms are drawn into the side of the body,

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just ready to spring open like a steel trap

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and catch any soft-bodied insect flying close by.

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With reflexes so quick,

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these really are living booby traps.

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There's no doubt the praying mantis has ferocious artillery,

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but they also use their wardrobe as a weapon.

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Masters of disguise, camouflage is their ultimate weapon,

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allowing them to transform into almost anything,

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even an orchid flower.

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But there's one mantis who steals the show

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in this deadly fashion parade.

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It's called the pebble mantis and it really lives up to its name.

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It's taken camouflage to the extreme.

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Its skin is even pitted to look like gravel.

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Able to withstand the severe desert heat,

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it stands brandishing its weapons totally undetected.

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This cricket has attracted some unwanted mantis attention.

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It doesn't even have a clue.

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After gobbling up every mouthful,

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it cleans and polishes those primary weapons, ready for the next target.

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The praying mantis. A master of disguise.

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Absolute alien when you look at them close up.

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And to a flying insect, the equivalent of a great white shark.

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Don't forget to join me next time for more Deadly Top Tens.

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