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Welcome to my Nightmares Of Nature. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:02 | |
I'm Naomi Wilkinson... Whoo-hoo! | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
..and I'm coming face to face with the nightmares of the animal world. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:14 | |
The ones that make your spine tingle... | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
..your heart beat faster... | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
..and your blood run cold. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
Are they truly terrifying? | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
Or is there a twist in the tale? | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
Come with me, as I shine a light on wildlife's deepest, darkest secrets. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
And see if you can guess which will be my worst nightmare. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:47 | |
Hello. Recording - yeah. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
Hi, everyone! Look - I'm back, I'm home! | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
Whoo-hoo! | 0:00:59 | 0:01:00 | |
It's been an exhausting few months. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:03 | |
I've been travelling around the globe | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
looking for more nightmares of nature for you to see, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
so I thought while I'm unpacking my heavy suitcase... | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
Case explosion! | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
Promise it's normally a little bit more tidy than this. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
..I thought I could give you a warts-and-all rundown on my journeys. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
So in the last few months, I've visited six - six - | 0:01:20 | 0:01:25 | |
six different countries. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
Mexico, Borneo, Thailand, Finland, the US of A, baby, and Wales. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
Look, I sent my husband a postcard from each country I visited. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
Normally get home before them. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
That one took three months to get here from Mexico. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
Anyway - boring! | 0:01:40 | 0:01:41 | |
Tell you what, though, every one of those places gave me nightmares. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh! | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
People really do this for fun? | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
I hate it! | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
Argh! | 0:01:58 | 0:01:59 | |
GROWLING | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
Oh, I'm going to have to be brave. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
ANIMAL GROWLS Oh! | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
Look, still got a scar. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
There, see it? | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
From Digby the racoon. Thanks, Digby. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
I'm going to milk that - for ever. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
No, he didn't mean me any harm. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
And thankfully, I did also manage to squeeze in a little bit of time | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
to let my hair down, too. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
And we're off - whoo-hoo! | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
Yes, this is more like it! | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
It's amazing! | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
So in this very special show, I'm going to be giving you | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
the inside word on what were my very best... Ding! | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
..and very worst moments. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
SHE BLOWS RASPBERRY | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
Now there are just a couple of things for this show | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
that are essential pieces of kit that we cannot travel without. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
Selfie stick. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
Coats, waterproof shoes, hand gel, first aid kit. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:08 | |
Oh, passport, snorkel and mask - is that upside down? | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
Literally, this is how comfy it is sleeping on an aeroplane. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
Urgh! | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
Sun cream and after sun, | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
mossie repelling things. Zzzz. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
Powder, hard-core hairspray... | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
SHE COUGHS | 0:03:26 | 0:03:27 | |
..nail varnish, jewellery. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
Every expedition needs those. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
Oh, oh, oh - karate belt. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
NINJA EXCLAMATIONS | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
Ninja! Hah! | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
You never know when the next ninja is going to be somewhere nearby. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:44 | |
On this series, we found five. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
Ah! | 0:03:46 | 0:03:47 | |
First was that pious pretender, the head-munching, | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
boyfriend-chomping, kung fu-fighting - | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
I mean praying - mantis. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
The next flew in on a frosty winter wind - | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
that ninja of the north, the great grey owl. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
The sunbear used his ninja nous to chop through bamboo. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
Wonder if he's got any tips he could pass onto soundman Rich. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
NINJA EXCLAMATION | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
Ah, ah, ah! | 0:04:24 | 0:04:25 | |
By the time researcher Tom used my bed sheet to lure in | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
some ninja nasties, I was prepared for combat. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:32 | |
Leave us alone. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
But the limpet's martial-art moves still took me by surprise. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:42 | |
Ninja limpet? Who would have though it? | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
Ah, now this was my favourite outfit of the series. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh - yeah! | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
# Lemme see ya shake it, shake it. # | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
I did get to wear some crackers. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
Elasticated ankles. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
But this was by far the best. I only got to wear it once, though, | 0:05:10 | 0:05:15 | |
although that time was... | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
..really embarrassing, actually. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
So there we were in NYC, baby, and the crew told me | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
we were going to go and meet some honey bees | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
and told me I should bring my bee suit. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
Na-na! Check me out in my bee suit. Buzz! | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
-Oh, you...oh. -Bee suit. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
Oh, no! I thought you meant this sort. You didn't...? | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
I'm a bit embarrassed now. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
Most awkward. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
Anyway, I was actually there to meet some big city buzzers. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:58 | |
So, dressed in the right kind of suit, | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
I went off to join Big Smoke beekeeper Andrew. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
-Hi. -Hey, Naomi. How are you? | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
Hello, Andrew. Good to meet you. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:07 | |
Good to meet you, too. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
Wow! Look at all those bees. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
-There are a lot of bees around us. -A lot of bees. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
What could happen if you get stung? | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
Potentially, if a person is anaphylactic, they can have a | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
very negative reaction and it could be as bad as death. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
But we're talking about someone who is highly allergic to the | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
venom of the honeybee. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
That person is probably aware that he or she is anaphylactic | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
and carries around an EpiPen. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
So you could die from the sting of a honeybee, | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
but that's worst case scenario, and for most of us, | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
a sting will just give us a bit of pain and some swelling. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
Did you hear that, Rich? | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
Do you know what? During this item, Rich, our soundman actually got | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
stung by a bee on his chin. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
Luckily he wasn't allergic, but did we hear the end of it all week? No. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
"Oh, it's a bit swollen, it's all red. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
"Oh! Bee stung me on the chin - can you see it? It's all red..." | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
Oh! | 0:07:09 | 0:07:10 | |
Just play the film. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
-Oh there's the honeycomb. -There's the honeycomb and... | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
Brilliant. Oh, look at the honey! How do they make honey? | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
They suck up a bunch of nectar, | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
spit it into the mouth of one of their sisters, who spits | 0:07:25 | 0:07:31 | |
-it into another bee's mouth, back and forth, back and forth. -No way! | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
It's true. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:35 | |
-Literally they pass it from one bee to the other? -They do. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
-In their mouths? -They do, they do. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
And then they'll...eurgh! it into one of these chambers? | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
Well, let's not think of it that way! | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
I was looking forward to eating this New York skyscraper honey, | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
but I'd forgotten about the whole, you know, sick thing. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:56 | |
What you talking about? It's nice. Mmm! | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
It's disgusting. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:00 | |
Come to think of it, those honey hurlers weren't the only ones | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
with bad table manners. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
Frigate birds steal their food from other birds. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
They just chase the bird until the bird either lets go or regurgitates. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:23 | |
Vomits the fish that is inside the stomach. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:27 | |
They'll make another bird puke up the fish | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
-and then they'll eat it mid air? -Yep. -Oooh! | 0:08:29 | 0:08:33 | |
That Ninja mantis hasn't even got the courtesy to wait | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
until its dinner is dead. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
They start eating their prey alive | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
-starting with the head also. -Eurgh! | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
And a cockroach tea party would also get a definite decline from me. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:50 | |
This is stunning. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
Stunning? Not the word I'd use. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
Just a seething mass of cockroaches. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
What are they all doing? | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
They're all eating the pooh. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:00 | |
Oh! Vile. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
But there's one animal whose dining habits really took me by surprise. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:09 | |
The whale shark. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
The undisputed winner of the most massive mouth award | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
turned out to be the least offensive eater. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
With the help of marine biologist Claudia, | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
we set out to track one down. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
A shark the size of a bus. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
So, Claudia, why do the whale sharks come to this area of the world? | 0:09:29 | 0:09:33 | |
They come here to eat. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:34 | |
They feed on very tiny creatures called plankton | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
and we have a lot of that in here. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:39 | |
Now that's a real surprise, isn't it? | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
Because it's such a massive creature | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
but, actually, they're eating something that you can't even see. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:46 | |
They have to eat millions and millions of them | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
to be able to make up for a big meal. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
They just swim through the water, filtering everything that's in it | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
and they have to take huge amounts of water | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
so they need that huge mouth. | 0:09:57 | 0:09:58 | |
Now how do we know that we're not going to go into that mouth | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
and get sucked in? | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
Ha-ha! Don't worry about it. They're not after humans. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
There's never been a record of an attack. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
Good to know. Good to know! | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
Now we just have to find one. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:13 | |
There are a couple of ways to, um, spot them. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
One is by the white spots all over their body. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
The pattern can be used to tell individual sharks apart, | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
like a fingerprint. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
The other clue to their presence is less appealing. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:33 | |
Also the dorsal fin. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:34 | |
You'll see the big fin come out of the water. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
-But it's, like, rounded. -OK. -It's not like the normal. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:41 | |
Jaws, shark-shape. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:43 | |
-No, it's round. -A round fin. -Yup. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
Our eyes are peeled and it's Claudia who comes up with the goods. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:54 | |
Oh, no! Here. Here, Naomi. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:55 | |
Oh, my gosh! I can see the shape. Argh! That's enormous. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
Whoa! I can see the white spots! | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
There's its fin. Yeee-aah! | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
Oh, really round, then! | 0:11:09 | 0:11:10 | |
-It's still the shape of the shark, though, isn't it? -It is. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
Still a big shark-looking fish. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:18 | |
Oh, gosh! | 0:11:19 | 0:11:20 | |
At only 7m long, | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
this one's just a juvenile, but it's still MASSIVE. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:28 | |
Oh, yeah - and if you haven't already guessed from the wetsuit, | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
I'm going to swim with it. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:36 | |
It's time to grab our masks and snorkels | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
and join the behemoth in its watery world. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
It's such a mental battle. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
I know this shark is going to do me no harm whatsoever. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
My gut is screaming, "It's a shark, it's a shark - you're scared." | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
And my head is going, "No, it's fine. It'll be fine. You're safe. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
"Stop worrying." | 0:11:54 | 0:11:56 | |
And I want to grab this opportunity with both hands, so come on! | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
The water is dark and murky. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:17 | |
It's impossible to tell what's around us. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
Where is the shark? | 0:12:21 | 0:12:23 | |
Then suddenly out of the gloom... | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
It is in fact beautiful - an elegant giant. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:46 | |
Then, as gracefully as it appeared, it glides away. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
What an absolute privilege! | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
I got in the water and it was there. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
Its head was there | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
and then the whole creature just swam past me | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
about a metre away and I saw all along its body. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
That was amazing. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:17 | |
So I never, ever thought I would ever say this, | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
but I don't think I can call a bus-sized shark | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
with a gigantic mouth and over 300 teeth my worst nightmare. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:30 | |
I just want to show you some of my favourite photos from the trip. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
Oh, look at these guys! | 0:13:37 | 0:13:39 | |
Ooh, I miss the crew already! | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
Oh, no. Hang on, maybe I DON'T miss them. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
They made me do some pretty awful things. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
Cue wibbly-wobbly memory moment! | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
What's this? | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
That's the wrong way round. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:02 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
What a nightmare. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
No, I don't miss them at all. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
So what was the worst thing the crew made me do? | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
Well, they put me in a cardboard box and fed me yoghurt through a tiny, | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
weeny little hole. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:16 | |
Hello, husband. What have you brought for me? What's this? | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
Poor old female hornbill. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
I can't eat that. It's going everywhere. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
No, there was worse than that. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
Oh, I know - they made me jump off a cliff like a guillemot chick, | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
into the water. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:32 | |
I don't want to do it! | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
Yoo-hoo-hoo! | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
SHE BLOWS RASPBERRY No, actually, that was quite fun. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
Oh, I know! | 0:14:40 | 0:14:41 | |
They did make me swing through the jungle 15m up above the ground | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
to be like a gibbon. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:45 | |
Go! | 0:14:45 | 0:14:46 | |
Oh! Ha-ha-ha! | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
SHE BLOWS RASPBERRY | 0:14:51 | 0:14:53 | |
No, I'm sure there was worse than that. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
Oh, I know. Ding! | 0:14:55 | 0:14:57 | |
They made me fish for my dinner at the bottom of an icy-cold lake | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
when the outside air temperature was minus A LOT. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
And let me get one thing straight - I do NOT like being cold | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
and wet, AT ALL! | 0:15:07 | 0:15:09 | |
I don't remember having a conversation with my careers | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
advisor saying, "When I grow up, I'd like to wear a really | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
"fetching wetsuit with matching hood, gloves and goggles | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
"and nose clip, please, straight out of London Fashion Week, | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
"and then I would like to go and dunk myself into some ice cold water." | 0:15:20 | 0:15:24 | |
I don't remember that conversation. What happened? | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
So this was definitely the worst thing the crew made me do. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
It's making my nose rather long! | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
My challenge was to fish like a dipper - | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
a little bird that finds its food | 0:15:43 | 0:15:44 | |
by diving into Finland's ice-cold rivers. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
Do I really have to do this? | 0:15:51 | 0:15:52 | |
BIRD OINKS THREE TIMES | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
-What? -Battery's died in the cold. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
The cold water's killed our camera. Is it that cold? | 0:16:03 | 0:16:07 | |
That cold! | 0:16:07 | 0:16:08 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:16:08 | 0:16:09 | |
I don't want to play. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
And what would be the one thing you wouldn't want to happen | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
just before get into that ice-cold water? | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
I'll tell you what - a member of the crew to put some | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
snow down the back of your wetsuit. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
That's what happened to our cameraman Steve. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
Not saying who did it - Soundman Rich! | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
The crew set me the challenge of retrieving my own plastic tub | 0:16:30 | 0:16:34 | |
of tasty treats from the riverbed! | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
Ho-hoh! It's so cold. Argh! | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
Ugh! Oh, oh! | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
What am I doing? | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
Oh, here we go. Oh, come on. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
Ow, ow! That's so cold. Ooh, that burns your skin. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:55 | |
Ow! | 0:16:55 | 0:16:56 | |
There it is, there it is, there it is. Right! | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
I feel a bit hysterical, because this is so stupid. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
Right, here we go. I've got to go and get my prize. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
Oh, no, I can't find the c... | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
Hah! | 0:17:15 | 0:17:17 | |
Ow! | 0:17:17 | 0:17:18 | |
Ah! Ha-ha-ha! | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
I got it, I got it. Ow! | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
This better be something good. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
Oh, good. Oh, it's a couple of chocolates and a rock | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
all covered in water. I'm so glad I went to all that trouble for that. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:43 | |
Can you find an animal that I can imitate that likes to sunbathe | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
and drink coffee, please, maybe like in the Maldives or somewhere? | 0:17:47 | 0:17:52 | |
Yeah, be careful what you wish for, people! | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
I did in fact end up sunbathing on a tropical beach, | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
but it turned out NOT to be the stuff sweet dreams are made of. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
This was the dirtiest trick the crew played on me this series. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
Ah! I'm in heaven. Tropical sun. Crystal-clear seas. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:12 | |
Pure white sand. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
I could stay here all day. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:15 | |
Oh, what a way to relax. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
Oh, what now? | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
"Just thought you might like to know you are lying in pooh." | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
Ugh! Fish pooh? That's disgusting. Urgh! | 0:18:24 | 0:18:29 | |
But I was intrigued to know whose pooh I'd been lying in - | 0:18:29 | 0:18:33 | |
so with sub-aqua Simon as my guide, I hit the seabed. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
It wasn't long before we found the culprits. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
UNDERWATER SPEECH | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
But so huge! | 0:18:53 | 0:18:54 | |
Amazing, isn't it? So these are bumphead parrotfish and you can see | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
that from obviously the large, large head that they have. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
Yeah, big bulbous forehead, don't they? | 0:19:00 | 0:19:02 | |
-And you see the big beaks, as well, like parrots. -Yeah. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
Which is why they get the rest of their name. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
They've got the weirdest teeth I've ever seen. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
Well, that's what they're using to scrape the coral. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
You can see there, they're scraping coral, taking chunks off. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:15 | |
You wouldn't think you'd get much goodness from eating rock. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:20 | |
But coral is made up of tiny little animals like anemones. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
And algae grows on its surface too. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
But it's not the richest source of food. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
So the parrotfish have to eat a lot to get enough goodness from it. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:34 | |
And what goes in must come out. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
Just constantly poohing all the time! | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
Everywhere you look, there's just these clouds of sand coming | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
out of the back of them. Gross. Gross! | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
And that corally sand can play havoc with your hair. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
When you dive with bumphead parrotfish like this, | 0:19:53 | 0:19:57 | |
they end up getting sand and... | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
-Pooh in your hair. -..pooh all in your hair. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:03 | |
But a beach made almost entirely out of fish pooh? | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
Still seems a bit far-fetched. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
I don't quite understand how one species of fish can produce | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
not just one beach worth of pooh, though but hundreds of beaches. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:16 | |
Well, it's been estimated that an adult bumphead parrotfish can | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
produce five tonnes of sand a year. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:23 | |
Five tonnes a year from one fish? | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
And they live up to 40 years, | 0:20:25 | 0:20:27 | |
so if you imagine over the course of the lifetime... | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
-Yeah, makes sense now. -There's some big beaches. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
'Mystery solved!' | 0:20:33 | 0:20:34 | |
To tell you the truth, | 0:20:36 | 0:20:37 | |
I was dreading the whole bumphead parrotfish shoot, | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
but, actually, with many of the experiences that I always fear, | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
they turn out to be some of the best experiences of my life. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
And I get to meet some amazing people along the way | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
and find out about their passion for their brilliant projects. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:53 | |
Like the lovely Alonkot in Thailand, | 0:20:53 | 0:20:54 | |
who's using elephants to give blind children some fantastic experiences. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:59 | |
Oh, hold on. Hold on. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:01 | |
THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
-She's OK. -She's having the time of her life. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
And I get to meet the animals, as well, like I got to take an | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
orang-utan orphan to her first day of school. Oh! That melted my heart. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:19 | |
This is what I was like on my first day at school. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
Believe me, I know what it's like when you don't want to do | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
something that's scary. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
Come on, then. Let's go. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
This is going to be fun, you're going to make new friends. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
I've got an orang-utan on my leg. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
'Then there was swimming with turtles, the bat volcano, | 0:21:33 | 0:21:37 | |
'baby raccoons - oh, baby turtles, husky riding.' | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
So many special moments, | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
but if you're anything like me, | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
you probably enjoy watching the things that go wrong, | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
and we try and show you one of those at the end of each | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
programme, but there are so many! | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
Sorry, what was that, Naomi - you go wrong? No. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
Be honest. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
Yes, Well, just a couple. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:00 | |
Ha-ha! | 0:22:00 | 0:22:01 | |
Ow, ow, ow! | 0:22:06 | 0:22:08 | |
Whoo! | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
Well, the king cobra. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
My next nightmare contender is the UK's largest meat eaties... | 0:22:16 | 0:22:20 | |
Can't say it! Sorry. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:22 | |
Meat eatie. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:23 | |
Meat eaters. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
No, meatiee... | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
Meat eater! Meat eatis... | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
This is so embarrassing. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
Hey! It's not just me that misbehaves! | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
Did you hear me? | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
They're like funny little old men with bald heads, aren't they? | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
Like our crew. Ha-ha! | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
Right behind you, there's the biggest pile of pooh. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
Just don't step back. SHE LAUGHS | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
I shouldn't have told you, should I? | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
Nightmare! Danger! | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
I feel like I've seen Steve Backshall here | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
and I thought, that is somewhere I never want to go. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
Ha-ha-ha-ha! | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
It's like fishy, smelly feet. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
SHE RETCHES | 0:23:29 | 0:23:30 | |
Want a whiff? Want to smell that? | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
Eurgh! | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
Heeby-jeeby! I don't like it. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:23:39 | 0:23:43 | |
Jeeby-jeeby! | 0:23:43 | 0:23:44 | |
It's like the heeby-jeebies, but worse. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
Jeeby-jeeby! Eurgh. Ragworms. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:53 | |
They really were disgusting, | 0:23:53 | 0:23:54 | |
but even they weren't the worst thing I had to deal with this series. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:57 | |
THIS may look just like a straw, | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
but it is no ordinary straw. No - this is a KCRD. KCRD. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:06 | |
King cobra resuscitation device. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
Talk about drawing the short straw! | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
This gets my vote as the most terrifying moment of the series. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:19 | |
I joined Colin and his Thai jungle team as they sedated this | 0:24:19 | 0:24:23 | |
wild king cobra in order to give it a health check. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
Look, it's still awake - its tongue is poking out. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
It's still awake, but it will go down. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:34 | |
This snake is enormous. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:36 | |
Which end shall I... I don't want to go up the head end. Stay down here. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
-You sure? -Shall I. Yeah, cos... | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
He's asleep - he's nearly asleep. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
Yeah, he's not dangerous at this point. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
First thing was to find out exactly how long he was. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
What's the length? | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
Three thousand, one hundred... | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
..sixty-nine... | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
-3.16 metres. -He's grown a little bit, but not too much. | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
That's huge. Is that as big as they get? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
No, not at all. They can get up to 5.8 meters. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:07 | |
Even more intimidating than their size, though, is their bite! | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
You can go unconscious from the king cobra's | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
neurotoxin in about 10-15 minutes, and if you are not taken to | 0:25:13 | 0:25:19 | |
a hospital after that, then you will surely die. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
An adult male of five meters or so | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
maybe could inject enough to, say, kill an elephant. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:29 | |
Really?! | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
However, they probably wouldn't. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
They might run away. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
Chickens. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
Easy to say when it's asleep, | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
but it was time to draw that short straw. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
Would you like to try? | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
I'm going to wake it up. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:46 | |
-Yeah, well, I'll cover the head if you just... -What do I do? | 0:25:46 | 0:25:50 | |
All you need to do is take a very, very deep breath. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
We are going to put this in the glottis | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
and you will actually be able to see the fangs if you wish. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
I'm going to breath into a king cobra's mouth. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
-I'm looking right into its mouth. Wow. -Those are the fangs. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
And you're putting that tube right into its mouth. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:04 | |
-It's in its glottis. -Oh, my gosh! -OK, and then you're just going to... | 0:26:04 | 0:26:08 | |
-I'm going to breathe into its mouth. -Yep. -Are we ready? | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
'You're never quite ready to give mouth-to-mouth to a snake | 0:26:12 | 0:26:16 | |
'with venom strong enough to kill an elephant!' | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
Excellent. OK, that's enough. OK, push the iso out. Excellent. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:24 | |
-Excellent. -Do I do it again? -Yup. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
And this time, try to push more, | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
because you actually didn't fill up the whole lung. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
More, more, more, more, more. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:37 | |
There you go. Excellent. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:40 | |
Perfect. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
And see - you're starting to wake him up. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
Got a half-tongue flick. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:46 | |
Oh, his tongue's started going really... I'm so nervous! Oh! | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
Look at its tongue, its tongue's nearly touching your skin. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
OK. Definitely getting tone back. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
-Guys, is the box ready? -Yeah, it's behind us. -OK. | 0:26:56 | 0:27:00 | |
This could be one of the scariest things I've ever done - | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
breathing into a king cobra's mouth. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
OK, I've got movement. Let's definitely go. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
'With the cobra waking up, | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
'the team wasted no time getting it safely back in the box.' | 0:27:10 | 0:27:14 | |
-Ready? -Yeah, I'm ready. All good. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:16 | |
OK and one, two, three, go. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
-Good. Well done. -Thank you. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
Well done. Thank you so much for that. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
Well, all I can say is I'm glad that's over. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
I am not doing that again. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:29 | |
I'm just going to take some time to chill out, put my feet up, | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
get over all those nightmares. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
Sorry about this. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
Excuse me. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:39 | |
Hello? | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
Yes, it's Naomi. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:44 | |
What, another series? | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
More Nightmares Of Nature. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:48 | |
You want me to pack now. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
SHE EXHALES | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
Go on, then! | 0:27:54 | 0:27:55 | |
Ninja! Hah! | 0:27:55 | 0:27:56 | |
SHE GIGGLES | 0:28:03 | 0:28:04 | |
Is that all right? | 0:28:09 | 0:28:10 |