Hank Green Was Stung By This Critter

[@BizarreBeasts]

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[@JoeMWoodward]

January of 2020 I herniated a vertebral disc and was in bed for 5 months waiting for surgery, then it immediately ruptured again, and I was bedbound for the rest of the year awaiting the second surgery plus recovery. Professors were uploading lectures without privating them, because it was pandemic panic at the time, and I fell in to this tunnel of biology, anatomy, paleontology, phylogony, all the fun stuff. I spent about 2 months finding videos and reading papers about siphonphore anatomy and biology. They're my favorite animal.

[@phionella7]

I hope you are feeling better now!!

[@JoeMWoodward]

I'm doing much better now thank you

[@emvandermeulen1908]

Jeez, that’s rough. But if there was any year to be bedbound……. Glad you are better now!

[@rateeightx]

Definitely a fair pick for favourite animal, Siphonophores are awesome. Do you have a specific favourite Siphonophore? Mine's Erenna Sirena.

[@JoeMWoodward]

I really like hippopodids and cystonects I don't really have a favorite of them, but I do love studying the anatomy of the three orders

[@saltqueer]

hank, i know you said you're scared of the corrections, but i honestly love them! its good to know that people online are not in fact infallible. my mom is a school teacher and she's always talking about how important and exciting it is when she makes a mistake and her students notice and correct her

[@pattersondh]

Yeah, especially in a science video, it's like, oh someone made a mistake? There's new information? That's normal and expected, thanks for the update. 👍

[@liriodendronlasianthus]

Yes, I'm actually happy to see corrections instead of people doubling down

[@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst]

Yup, corrections are nothing to be afraid of. It's a chance to learn something new. It's also the right thing to do. A wise man once told me "When an honest man discovers he is wrong, he either stops being wrong or he stops being an honest man."

[@storyspren]

The blue sea dragon and the photosynthetic sacoglossans are so cool, they're like real examples of "eat something to gain its powers" in nature :D

[@LigmaJobs2410]

Ig poisonous dart frogs too?

[@albaaviles7148]

Real life Kirbys

[@alinapritchett9276]

As a kid, my mom hugged and popped a man-o-war, thinking it was a toy. She didn't process everyone screaming "No!" behind her. She remembers feeling searing pain under her armpits and nothing else as she passed out. She had to be taken to the hospital. It was one of my favorite stories to hear about growing up, since it sounded so adventurous.

[@missnaomi613]

Ouch! My mom got stung by *a disembodied tentacle* of one of those when walking on the beach in Florida. We found out afterward that they were "in season" at the time!

[@YunxiaoChu]

Sounds fake

[@KingdomOfDimensions]

​@@YunxiaoChuno u

[@sarahchristine2345]

Adventurous eh? Don’t know if that’s how I’d see it, but I admire your spirit 😂

[@sarahchristine2345]

@@YunxiaoChu so do you just spend a ton of time trolling the comment sections of various YT channels, looking for comments you disbelieve?

[@crackedemerald4930]

i like the two hair phases of hank, makes me feel like an avid bird watcher or train nerd.

[@CTP909]

As a train nerd I second this notion

[@KatherineCrawford67]

As a bird watcher I third this notion

[@mellissadalby1402]

I too would say "Floaty part". It is after all a highly technical term, right? And "Ouchy bits" too? Hank, you're on fire today.

[@Gnome_with_no_name]

Don't forget the "fun times bits" and the "digesty bits".

[@poodytanx8611]

The dangly doo dads, the eye bally thing, the ankle bone is connected to the back bone. I wombo. You wombo. It’s basic science.

[@roggind]

He was on fire when he got stung too.

[@MsElizaRae]

​@@poodytanx8611A plus! Big brain science

[@nils311]

I got stung at the beach in Florida when i was a kid. I remember seeing what looked like a plastic bag, and everything after that is kinda fuzzy.

[@armie4172]

When I was a little kid and got stung by one of these, I ran up and down the beach not letting my mom look at it and screaming “It’s too terrible! It’s too terrible!” 😅

[@michellewages]

I'm sorry. Can we go back to the octopuses that MAKE AND USE WEAPONS?!?!

[@matthewwelsh294]

Are you surprised? They are among the smartest animals out there

[@FellowLee]

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[@michellewages]

@matthewwelsh294 not surprised, just frightened. When they realize humans suck and come for us?

[@voidify3]

I’m Australian- I only just learned that a man’o’war is the same thing as a bluebottle from looking on Wikipedia while watching this. Huh! I thought it was a separate thing. A bluebottle stung me once on a beach holiday when I was a teenager and it was awful, I had to rush back to the hotel and take a hot bath the rest of the day

[@kateh280]

Huh! Thanks, news to me, too

[@kateh280]

Actually, seems Australian Blue Bottles (Physalia utriculus) are smaller and less venomous than Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia physalis), although they are very similar

[@BierBart12]

​@@kateh280 P. utriculus also seems to only have one tentacle instead of many

[@vexile1239]

Still better then the irakanji jellyfish

[@DaveTexas]

Man, I hate those things so much. They’re just so……curiosity-inspiring in small children. I had a bad encounter with one when I was maybe four or five. I remember my mother yelling at me as I reached to pick one up off the beach. I had no idea why she was yelling and running toward me, but then my memory just turns to searing pain in my hand. It was a bad day at the beach.

[@teqqqie8991]

Glad you mentioned the blue sea dragon! Both they and the Portuguese man-o'-war are some of my favorite creatures! Seeing a man-o'-war on the beach as a kid was what first got me interested in biology!

[@lindsaykat3675]

But have you seen the Octonauts episode about them??

[@shadowscribe]

It's kinda like that classic bit of your different parts of you being played by you in different costumes

[@askthebubble28]

Oh yeah, 0:27 Man o war tentacles can still work even if the man o war is dead or if the tentacle separates from the creature

[@askthebubble28]

Fun fact: When a predator comes, portugese men o war will raise up their floating sac like a flag to alert others or raise it to look bigger and intimidate the predator. This doesn’t work a lot of the time because most of their predators are either “immune” to their stings or just because of the difference in size

[@auerbacher69]

i love this channel, it feels like im rediscovering my fascination and enthusiasm for nature and animals i used to have as a kid. thank you.

[@norikotakaya14292]

I was a US Marine stationed at Diego Garcia for a short time and had an unfortunate encounter with one of these things. During my off time I was swimming in the lagoon and got wrapped up in the tentacles. I had never felt anything so painful in my life. I made it back to shore, but collapsed on the beach. The lifeguard on duty had to call for an ambulance. Turned out I was having an allergic reaction to the venom in the tentacles. I spent a few days in the base hospital.

[@JordanLeigh]

I appreciate these update videos 🩵

[@SilverNox]

Last time I went to Hawaii was right after a big storm. For some reason, it meant the beaches were covered in Man o’ wars so we didn’t get to swim in the ocean the whole visit. Glad none of us stepped on one lol

[@NewMessage]

Someone's gotta make a jello mold of these guys.

[@Darkketyz]

When I was really REALLY young, my immediate family and I went to florida for vacation. The place we were staying at was along the beach so we frequently went out and played along said beach. However, me being my mentally undiagnosed young self was playing along the beach, saw a rich blue and inviting mysterious blob on the damp sand (in my eyes and head it looked like a big squishy gummy dolphin and like a water wiggler, but it was obviously a man'o war) picked it up and immediately put it into my mouth and WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED THAT I GOT STUNG! I was fine, just had to put like chapstick and whatever on to soothe the pain for however long that lasted. (i'm 26 right now and this was when I was like 5 or 6)

[@hughjaass3787]

I have been stung by these purple demons as a 12yr old kid at Vero Beach Florida. Felt like someone stuck metal coat hangers into a fire until orange hot, and soft, then stuck 10 of them onto my arm at once. Then fun fact, I witnessed my Aunt pick up a Blue Dragon the next summer at Vero, & like me, was rushed to the E.R.

[@zm2mad9]

A few years ago my dad was visiting a florida beach and he got stung by one of these things. He's the type to never express pain, and it was provavly the most pain I've seen him in all my life.

[@glenneric1]

Who's the cutest little Sacoglossan Sea Slug? You are! You are!

[@nuggdimmadome2192]

When i was in 8th grade i lived in hawaii, and one day, we went to my dads commander's beach house for a party near Bellows in the winter. I didn't have a liner in my trunks and was body surfing. A man-o-war got sucked up into my trunks and securely wrapped itself around where it never belonged. I ran up the beach like a cowboy that hasnt left his horse in 6 months. Dad didn't believe me at first but still poured the vinegar on me, and you should have seen the size of his eyes when that blue bastard dropped into the tub.

[@FunkyWombat]

I love that John and Hank both have the same "run fingers through hair in an upward direction and grasping at the end" fidget! These two could never deny each other 😂

[@ivytarablair]

I love the season 0 videos! they're like a conversation with past and I so enjoy getting to over hear it :D

[@Fomites]

Biology never ceases to amaze me. We have these creatures here in coastal south east Australia - sometimes a lot of them at beaches depending on the wind. I've been stung about 20 or 30 times. But their sting is nothing compared to the box jellyfish which stung me in Madang Harbour Papua New Guinea in 1996.

[@gordonwerner]

I was stung by a part of one in Bermuda, back when I was 6 in 1977. I can still remember the pain to this day

[@BigMoTheBlackDragon]

Tentacles are a go! Burppy-gurgly is a go! Naughty bits are a go! Sail is a go! Form Volt--er, um, erm--Man-o-War!

[@VoidHalo]

When I was really little my family used to vacation in the Florida Keys, and these guys would wash up on the beach looking to my child brain like little balloons that would be fun to step on and pop. Thankfully my parents told me they sting and how miserable it is, and that they still sting after they're dead. So, even being 4 years old, I knew better than to test my luck. I stepped on a piece of cactus once before that and that was bad enough.

[@victoriaeads6126]

They might be scary, but they are quite beautiful... Just no touchy touchy. The pin is beautiful, the man 'o war has a rainbow finish, probably titanium.

[@robbob1866]

I can't imagine what it must be like for Hank to constantly be exposed to his younger self. It must be bizarre

[@jessicastevens5782]

wow, I have something in common with Hank Green - I stepped on a beached PMoW as a young kid, on vacation in FL. I'm afraid my admonishment to my dad that "he shoulda oughta carried me" lasted longer than a day.

[@robynpicknell7801]

In South Africa we call them "Blue Bottles". I have been stung by it plenty of times as a kid, when I was training to be a Lifesaver. They pop very satisfactorily when th have dried out on the beach, just don't stand on the tentacles because they can still sting for days after beaching. Fun times😂.

[@petermoller8337]

Australia same, 😊

[@blue.berry.]

9 years ago I was stung by something in the Mediterranean Sea and I always assumed it was one of these, but I am not sure anymore after reading your version. I haven’t seen what stung me unfortunately. But my arm was numb for 1,5 weeks and the sting became a wound after a week. It was healed after 2 months, but you can still see the three white tentacle lines when my skin gets red (during work outs or by rubbing the area). And at those moments it’s a slightly bit stingy when you touch the lines. So it probably was something else?

[@robynpicknell7801]

@@blue.berry. Hi. Sorry about your experience. It doesn't sound like a Blue bottle sting specifically, but it does look like you were stung by some type of jelly fish. They are sneaky buggers, especially the one you never see because they are invisible due to their lack of colour. Still, at least you have a cool scar with an interesting story!!

[@blue.berry.]

@@robynpicknell7801 Thank you very much for your insight! It’s always interesting to learn more about this mystery sting. I’m from the Netherlands, so I havent met someone with a blue bottle sting in real life. The only jellyfish we have will give you a sting that hurts for 15 minutes. And I definitely rub the sting to show the white lines when other people show their party tricks!

[@jaz1551]

I was stung while playing in the surf, about 5 years ago. Got lines of blisters across my calf. So I got a tattoo.. my first and only!! It's beautiful, and far less painful than the original

[@mecahhannah]

Awesome as always thanks ❤

[@donniebarbados]

got stung by one of these suckers while on a dive trip in australia. the captain suggested i put my leg behind the boat motor and blast the sting with hot water coming out of the motor 2/5 would not recommend

[@tsalVlog]

I swam into a nest of these as a kid. I don't remember the actual incident, just the weird shadow of a memory of pain.. if that makes sense. I was told I was lucky to be alive by the ER doc.

[@tsalVlog]

nest? group? not sure if that's the right word.

[@CaedmonOS]

I've seen these guys as little babies and I've picked them up, put them in my hand, felt the stingy. It was super fun. They didn't sting me super bad because I don't think they were super stingy at that age.

[@apteropith]

makes me think about corals, which are also colonial - but instead of making "multi-polyp that lives in a rock (sometimes)", siphonophores divide to make "jellyfish with extra steps" (i also vaguely recall something about some corals having polyps specialized for certain tasks like reproduction, but i currently cannot confirm this so i may be incredibly wrong and would like to know!)

[@lesleyghostdragon3149]

Hank Green, you're just adorable 🤗 From "The corrections terrify me. I'm so scared. Always." to "It's iridescent." ...Adorable 💖

[@Raggles22]

In Australia and NZ we call them blue bottles, which i just think is really cute 😊

[@sainjawoof3506]

In South Africa we call these blue bottles, and they haunt my Christmas holidays.😅

[@ThatJaymsWisdom]

This was such a fun video! As always. I'm sure that the bundles sell better but I really wish you sold the year zero pins individually. I missed the first 3 or 4 and I would love to get them to complete my collection. But I don't need all the others all over again.

[@BizarreBeasts]

This will probably take some time, but we are working on clearing out our back stock and we currently do have some extras from Season Zero that should be for sale separately at eventually! -Sarah

[@ThatJaymsWisdom]

@@BizarreBeasts That's amazing! Thank you

[@bentationfunkiloglio]

Hey, Bob. What part do you want to be? Well, Fred, I'm going with gonads. Ahhhhhhh! Damn, I wanted to be the gonads! Fine. I'll be the stomach.

[@Belleplainer]

I'm sorry...Did he say that the bluebottle fish eats the man o' war's gonads? That's just the worst thing I think I've ever heard.

[@scottlyons8130]

When I was 5, I steeped on a Portuguese Man of War. Not fun.

[@Diecastclassicist]

When I was a kid, I went to a beach covered by hundreds of them, it was horrifying.

[@morsemurraidh1314]

_Thank You_ for mentioning the Octopus that nicks Man'o'War stingers to use as weapons! _(Still not the most dangerous animal in the ocean, tho.)_

[@Pfhorrest]

Instead of "handedness" you can call that kind of asymmetry "chirality"… which is Greek for "handedness".

[@xfire301]

A friend was touched by a fragment of a Man-O-War pulling a spinnaker out of the water while racing near Miami. His ER surgeon crewmate (and ER mate) addressed the trauma immediately, including procuring a cardiac defibrillator almost immediately from an adjacent raceboat and he was DEAD within 5 minutes.

[@ryanatkinson2978]

I've been surprised by a man'o'war while at the beach 3 separate times... miraculously I never got the tentacles even though one got within a couple feet of me. I knew exactly what it was each time and it filled me with more fear than any shark could

[@ana-zb7ix]

The octopus using it as a weapon is something else. These guys are awesome.

[@Pfhorrest]

Should we make an alternative to the Gadsden flag, with cool pink and blue colors instead of that garish yellow, and a man-o-war instead of a rattlesnake? Same slogan though.

[@johnwalters1341]

It's been a while since I studied this, but I seem to recall that there is only one species of Portuguese Man-of-War, found in all the world's tropical oceans. However, the float of the Atlantic population is several inches long, as you have illustrated in this video, while the Pacific individuals we encountered when I was doing my degree research all had floats about the size of a marble.

[@cyrilio]

When I was doing a summerschool course in Sidney Australia I was slightly stung by a box jellyfish. Hurt like hell. Don't get stung by a jellyfish!

[@ToxxicRomeo]

Omg Hank thank you for this video, I was literally just about to step on those but now I know better, i love u hank u just saved my life

[@Christinaanncat]

Thank you KZbin algorithm for putting this video in my feed on freaking election night!!!! Distraction is much appreciated

[@cloverdog85]

I was in cuba in 2015 and one of the girls i met was stung by one when we were all partying. The locals used lemon juice to help the pain.

[@mattdewey9846]

Getting tired of all these awesome animals I can't hug.

[@takenname8053]

Ah yes, The Ocean Phantom ancestor!

[@LilDitBit]

Living on the coast in Australia, these guys are a huge vibe killer on 40degree (celsius) days

[@disky01]

Wild to see a second Man o' War video in less than a week. Animalogic just released one too! Not complaining, I'm happy to see it!

[@JohnStrange-q8r]

I was surfing when i was younger and a blue bottle wrapped around my chest a couple of times. I didn't know i could move that fast. Felt like being burnt with many cigarettes.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

Superorganisms as the intermediary stage for complex life is endlessly fascinating.

[@rikrikonius1301]

Long long man (o war)!

[@jakeshapiro389]

I always thought man o' war were cool and I was never really freaked out by them until you said 165ft WTF

[@AsheeBree]

how do the different colonies know what to differentiate into to create the different organs and then how do they know to have the right ratio? chemical signaling pathways from neighboring colony cells?

[@AndrewTBP]

These bizarre beasts make regular appearances on Bondi Rescue every season.

[@gustavgnoettgen]

I first heard about them a few years ago. Didn't even know yet that they're common!

[@Oceanblue_Art_]

Not me being like "omg are you okay???" for an event that happened to you years ago

[@ZeusMcKraken]

I'm just grateful Hank's curls have lasted this long.

[@slsmedia-515]

I hate it when things are in limited quantities, because i have 9 years of waiting until i can buy anything...

[@alliesealock]

I stepped on a dead one when I was 12 and it felt like stepping in a cut open coke can. My foot hurt for the rest of the day. What a way to ruin a beach trip.

[@ana-zb7ix]

I thought they were deadly as hell, how you’re alive, Hank?!?!?

[@user-me6td1up1m]

Can confirm from experience, do not touch. It hurts!

[@Renastarsong]

I hope you keep doing the bundle; the only reason I'm not part of the pin club is because shipping internationally is almost half as much as a single pin. ^^;;

[@mikaeljohansson291]

Named after war ships? Well that is what pops up when I search for the name origin but I could swear that I had read somewhere that they were named after the helmets that that were popular with Portuguese soldiers - the morion - which does have a striking resemblance with the siphonophore. More so than the ships, in my opinion

[@gilao]

Even with the intro, I was not ready for young Hank.

[@askthebubble28]

6:06 THANK YOU

[@yzScott]

They look like plastic bags floating in the ocean when crossing the Atlantic on a sailboat. There are patches of ocean where they are everywhere.

[@armie4172]

Oh yes, I was stung by these little eldritch horrors a number of times back when I lived near the Gulf of Mexico. They hurt like crazy- like a thousand electrified needles searing through your skin. 😬

[@archiox0628]

Hello! Ive just learned about the Antlered Flutterflies. And there's a genuine lack of videos, even google search articles about it, that it's making me itch for information. Could you maybe feature these little creatures and make people aware of them finally? Please and thank you!

[@Nick-qy3hu]

Squid and Octopus are whacky... This is not the first time I've heard of them using venomous stingers as weapons... 🙂

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

Those green sea slugs are cute as buttons!🥰😁

[@unadomandaperte]

life finds a way

[@marsbase3729]

Don't be scared Hank, corrections are our path to improvement! 😝 👍

[@Steaphany]

Do a video on the Velella

[@FunkyHonkyCDXX]

CHIRALITY!

[@falcolf]

I had no idea these things had literal sails 😅

[@LandonSeaAdventures]

One of my favorite "critters" in the deep blue!!

[@crackedemerald4930]

very strange animal, crazy that we live in the same era as they.

[@Lloue-kg3sr]

I do thunk they are beautiful and amazing but don't really every want to be near one again. Because it freaking hurts!!!!! Been stung many times by jellyfish and yes they huet but the man o war was on a whole new level. Not only hurt for horribly for more than a day but would still fire up days on and off and i felt nauseous and just sick too.

[@SamAronow]

The original Bluey.

[@turbotreehouse9780]

Corrections horrify me too 😂

[@fleachamberlain1905]

Violet Snails eat Pacific-Man-O-War (Blue Bottles). I don't know if Violet Snails occur outside the Pacific, but if so, they'd be another animal eating Portuguese-Man-O-War to add to your list. It'd be good, as they are very pretty..

[@twistedpixie6972]

I wish I could afford the pins. I have over 1.5k pins and jellyfish, Portuguese Man O War, and octopus are my favorite sea animals!

[@sarahlouise7163]

(it's iridescent!) 😆

[@JohnDoe-xr8dz]

Growing up in Hawai'i we had to be tough, and just have someone pee on the sting and get back in the water.