Loser Animals Who Took On the Appearance of Apex Predators

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[@artor9175]

"Hoverflies are unable to bite or sting..." HAH! Hoverflies bite HARD! They aren't venomous, but they hurt like a MFer. EDIT: I am informed that despite also hovering and sharing similar color patterns, horseflies are not considered to be hoverflies.

[@kellymenne5480]

I love your channel! Very informative and never boring. Thanks for sharing this with us!😊

[@JosephsJungle8]

this channel is *not* informative this matpat wannabe spreads false info, fearmongers and makes animals seem stupid or evil at times if you want animal content, this clone of 100s of other channels is not the place

[@joebowl8315]

Right I love this channel I don't know why there are so many angry losers hating in every comment

[@JosephsJungle8]

@@joebowl8315 sure you can love it but it’s still filling you up with false info

[@spracketskooch]

The "owls eyes" are even shaded correctly, and look like they're reflecting light. Literally a better job than I could do if tasked with drawing owls eyes.

[@realdragon]

And they can't even draw

[@lavender4370]

Mimic that mimics a Mimic. Wow that's a sentence i never thought I'd say 😂

[@GreazyChoirBoi]

Loser animals or.... MASTERS OF DISGUISE 😂😂

[@PaintedDog]

Saying "They don't bite or sting, they're just flies." Emplies that flies don't sting or bite. As far as I know, they don't sting, but some do bite

[@derekburr6761]

Can someone please bring integrity back to the Internet.. Your videos are entertaining enough without having to exaggerate the thumbnail. It used to be deceitful, but now it's normal. You don't need to improvise the pics. Your content is good as it stands.

[@sdhappyprince]

Love your video and Steve 😅

[@god6384]

It's funny how the antagonism of snakes is so instinctly ingraned in all sorts of animals. It just shows how feared snakes are through history

[@Xer-Deja]

Eagles be like : Lunch

[@user-od6ur7nl5k]

Caterpillar:"looks like a snake" Birds:PLS DONT KILL ME I WILL OFFER ANYTHING JUST DONT KILL ME Eagles:is this snake expired its squishy?

[@lexyprince5772]

I wonder if us as humans have developed something similar to mimicking or camouflage, but instead of appearance it's how we act. That's why we have so many personality disorders. We're all probably just separate developing human beings slowly adapting in a weird ways and we don't even know

[@Mr.ACruz420]

Very interesting theory 🤔

[@moriawalker1712]

Something to really think about

[@dashkataey1740]

The best traits humans have are improvisation and adaptation to whatever situation we find ourselves in. That’s what has been passed down through the generations.

[@Tokermon]

Good thought experiment,very interesting indeed..

[@Kado1609]

many disorders probably exist due to the shitty intake of chemicals and stuff like that we get each day from processed food and plastics to hormones we get through the meat industry etc... same with back in the day they see spikes in different disorders due to led poisoning... but yea psychopathy is a very good survival kit to have... fearless calculated logical thinking... and not too much emotions and feelings would help everyone... especially today where we are taught to be pussies and feminine weak and emotional...

[@zoo4U2C]

I can hardly wait for the title to change on this video because the loser animals part sucks.

[@NordiaBryan]

Your videos make my day😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@shaned7158]

I find it amazing how nature changes an animal to look like a predator for a way of defense. It's just so awesome how the world works and how much we don't know.

[@dominicsommer7187]

we do know tho... Its just evolution.

[@sanguisdominus]

@@dominicsommer7187 'Sactly. One small mutation makes a pattern that looks ever so slightly like a snake at a glance, then future generations look more like a snake, and so on, until the resemblance is incredibly convincing to predators. No guiding hand, no ultimate design or intention - just small, incremental adaptations becoming more refined and specialised over time, due to mutations and selective pressures.

[@Psilo-gn1sx]

Obviously the OP was wondering about the specific biological mechanics at play, but I love the fact that neither of you knew the answer and you were both super confident in giving one, anyway. A traditional suggestion is that mimicry evolves in a two-step process, in which a large mutation first achieves approximate similarity to the model, after which smaller changes improve the likeness.

[@caileeayeshauy4875]

As a animal nerd I do kinda know but I don’t know a lot of these things

[@bengalbrown2834]

@@dominicsommer7187yea but explain it. How can one species evolve to mimic a completely different species? Small changes over time? How does evolution even know what to change into? Is it just the animal thinking man it sure would be nice to look like a snake, they never have to deal with birds of prey. Maybe it’s just my 8th grade education of how evolution works but i have a hard time wrapping my head around how this can happen. If you can explain it please do.

[@babalonkie]

You forgot to mention more detail about the owl butterfly. When looking at them from the back, they look like an owl... when you look at them from the side, they look like a snake. Look at the top rear of their wings, you will see a snakes head, upper scales, lower scales, nostril, eyes and mouth.

[@patrickh3242]

2: 33 Woodpeckers apparently not only peck holes in the dead trees, but also use these holes to hide acorns or nuts.

[@draxkenny3845]

"And this what kind of Pokemon is this"😂got m laughing hard

[@Yaratito]

The thumbnail caught my eyes

[@tranquilthoughts7233]

Pupa actually can move. Sure, they can't move away from whatever spot they are tethered to, but they can move. Usually they do a sort of head butting move when they feel threatened and that often is enough to scare away a predator.

[@vipr1142]

ngl, this is one reason to why I believe aliens have meddled with life on earth

[@rootbrian4815]

@@vipr1142 I just call them other human species. Most are human, have all the same traits, etc. Like we are visiting an unknown area of earth, we have to be cautious. They've got to also be since our fucked up military tends to be hostile to anything that isn't born on this rock.

[@caseyphelps6232]

@@vipr1142why?if your in a sleeping bag it didn’t take alien interference for you to wiggle around

[@vipr1142]

@@caseyphelps6232 Thats not what I meant

[@jc_malone8217]

Lol! I wouldn't call them losers, but great video! Just when you thought you've seen it all, nature never ceases with its wonders.

[@TnT_F0X]

Who says the Cobra doesn't imitate the Primate?

[@Nmethyltransferase]

"Loser Animals Who Took On the Appearance of Apex Predators"

[@user-rn3oc8dr3f]

only a matter of time before nature starts mimicking candy wrappers and soda cans and junk food so we start picking up seed pods and such

[@DaffneyDalilah]

Nature is so damn amazing!! The caterpillar that morphed into a half-eaten zombie snake thing is creepy but fascinating. There are many jumping spiders that mimic insects. They are cute and clever

[@funsized924]

Everyone please like this comment so WATOP sees it: it's not cry-SAL-is, it's CRIS-uh-LIS

[@amadoujalloh1932]

Putting your self near this Animals make me laugh 😂😂😂

[@jakewilson4679]

That's Steve, he works for the narrator.

[@amadoujalloh1932]

@@jakewilson4679 Thanks u Sir

[@jamesgeschwender2276]

Here i am 60 years old learning something new every 3 days. Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks lol. Keep up the great work ✌🏼🤘🏼

[@asherpowersbeingasherpower4311]

Dude. You have got to stop putting that person in the clips.

[@tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai]

Very interesting topic and put together to an informative movie quite well. But sometimes the illustration and sounding is getting too lazy and unnecessary. Two examples: To illustrate the mimicri the Kongolese Giant Toad to the Gaboon Viper you cut in a True Frog at 21:41 for 1.5 seconds before were presented the toads to good to be true version of the snake's hiss. Then, whenever you talk about bats, you're showing us some random bat and huge amount of flying foxes, which exactly don't do that specific task you blabla over. Why? You do such a good job shouting information at us. I-i-i-i see, it must have been Steeve, who sounds surprisingly like you, Watop! Strike again! 😜🤣

[@bensoncheung2801]

The mantis in the thumbnail.

[@aishahaji-ali1599]

Am I bad for feeling good when I heard a type of cockroaches might go extinct?

[@zoekassoff6003]

I want to see where that birds evolution of being a snake goes next.

[@thelonesage3146]

They also showed the Caterpillar with the fake snake head in those biology books in school. Still makes me uneasy looking at it.

[@jakewilson4679]

Nice job pronouncing those scientific words! 👍

[@CBarber22]

Bugs had a billion year head start yet here we are so far advanced that we are observing their evolutionary progress. It makes sense when you really break it down but also, it doesn't.

[@Kitty-no6sy]

The glowing cockroach that the video mentioned that is not a cockroach at all, that is a pop beetle. If you push them down, they will jump and make a popping sound.

[@cheweyh]

That’s six flys lol 1:40 love it we have a few hover flys in northern mn

[@S4NSE]

it's crazy that evolution tricks.. evolution like what

[@omarhossam4118]

The creator is so great

[@DrSpooglemon]

I mimic someone who is hardworking to keep my manager off my back.

[@kevingoodhope7768]

Hover flies are one of my favorites and I still confuse wasps and bees and wonder why I need an epi pen

[@cdk1016]

Some of these really make me question reality.

[@DrachenGothik666]

Please learn how to properly pronounce "chrysalis". It's pronounced "CHRISS-uh-liss". Batesian Mimicry is super cool. One of my favourites is the Leaf-tailed Gecko. It really does look like a leaf when it's not moving.

[@opheliellanikolai6643]

The leopard crab looked like a sleeping cat 4 a sec

[@DemidTishin]

I actually once saw a a caterpillar that looked liked a stick and almost missed it. Then i touched it and realized that it was a caterpillar.

[@Omega_101]

Interesting

[@the503creepout7]

i will definitely name my first born child: Dynastor Darius Darius

[@horpdorb40]

but how did they know how those other animals looks like

[@pecachediaz7717]

the thumb nail with the mantis having over seized balls

[@KRUNWAY1]

🇹🇹 mek d list!!! 🔥🔥💯😂

[@InimicalWit]

1:44 This language you're using to describe the evolution of these creatures is intriguing. I don't believe any of these harmless flies ever made the deliberate choice to mimic a wasp. It was surely a creature that benefited from the way predators learned to evade that appearance. It takes a keen eye to be interested in certain details that others might overlook, after all.

[@dimaantfrancis1656]

Wings with eyes ..👹

[@JUMPTR00PER]

Intelligent design points to an intelligent designer.

[@darronjames9671]

Animals can mimic everything 😍🤩😱🤯🐛🐍🦉🐝🐙

[@SarcasticBeingYes]

They can't mimic your parental figures since they don't exist.

[@Jupiter_Rsabbit]

is that- is that a talk talk cover in the background? life is what you make it?

[@demonickaiju7020]

my school has the fish mimicing the electric eel in the aquarium i think

[@deanevangelista6359]

My cat used to mimic a meatloaf, perfectly!

[@letmesmash7266]

HE MENTIONED TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO THATS MY COUNTRY

[@jupiterjo]

🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@michaelggriffiths]

Great video, ditch the superimposed chappy in black, it cheapens the whole thing

[@mchevre]

That’s the person who made the video. If you watch other videos on the channel you’ll see whenever he appears on screen that’s how he looks - always has that disguise.

[@ARedMagicMarker]

Being smart enough to find a way to keep predators or things that want to hurt, kill, or eat you off your back doesn't come off as "loserdom" to me.

[@jeanannd]

These are really amazing creatures. The caterpillar that looks like a snake - I'd leave it alone.

[@rsuriyop]

It's still beyond comprehension how this even happens whether you believe in evolution or not.

[@justintran272]

‘the eel’ Electric eels are in the knifefish group, which contains catfish and carp.

[@christineMaccallum-uo3qx]

The leopard Crab is the first time seeing 😊

[@jordanfasey607]

Crab 👍

[@TheThunderinghammer]

I get a bird taking advantage of its neck to mimic a snake and then it catching on throughout the generations... but how the hell does a bird evolve to mimic a caterpillar? Like... How did that come to pass, right down to the bright orange, im baffled

[@christineMaccallum-uo3qx]

Animals who try to look like other animals here is the reason why interesting event and other stories are facts and Mistry 😮

[@EmpressOfExile206]

How did you get so much information flat out *wrong* in this episode WATOP⁉️ The bluntnose knifefish *_does not_* "mimic an electric eel" by trying to "look like an eel".... Electric eels actually *are not eels at all‼️* They are *_also knifefish_* and therefore closely related to all other knifefish 💯 (btw *all* knifefish look like that w/ long bodies & a long fin that undulates to propel them)

[@chezmoi42]

Thank you.

[@slytheringingerwitch]

Seacrates made me think of Bill and Ted.

[@marcorossi8873]

what's the song's name at the beginning?

[@nova2512]

*Look at tobacco and tomato horn works. The eyes on them look crazy*

[@christineMaccallum-uo3qx]

Nature and animals and other stuff and more 😮

[@martinalladin8981]

The mantid fly has eyes like a dragonfly but a head more similar to a mantis

[@chezmoi42]

Very interesting, but why on earth use footage of megabats from SE Asia, when discussing a European microbat? There is a big difference between a bat with a wingspan of 40 cm, like the Myotis, and 150 cm like the Pteropus, which decidedly does not buzz. This is the first video I've seen from you; I'll check out some others, where I hope you take more care about such details.

[@ArticAkita2830]

Butterflies are actually quite fearless of danger and it should be a compliment to tell somebody they are bold and fearless as a butterfly! Think of it they can walk on the face of a mighty lion and dance in the jaws of alligators and around the teeth of crocodiles all without fear.

[@EmpressOfExile206]

Damn WATOP how you gonna get the topic of *the entire video* wrong right out the gate⁉️ It is *not* called "deceptive mimicry" when a harmless organism imitates a more dangerous one.. It's called *_batesian mimicry‼️_* Even a bug mimicking a rock is being "deceptive"... That has _nothing to do with_ mimicking a more dangerous animal in particular!

[@realdragon]

I winder if insects mimic other more dangerous insects and it fools animals does that means sometimes the wrong species of insect copulates with them?

[@kennnnnnnnnnnnnnn]

I can see that backfiring

[@GreatMossWater]

Spot the imposter among us animals.

[@micahparris4493]

I live in Trinidad

[@slicknick4272]

lmao i live in trinidad and i odnt even realized that

[@iwishyouhappinnes1125]

Damn owls are racist towards bees, hornets, and wasps.

[@frould7203]

IMO too much silliness added.

[@arlenepace3104]

1:39 Animals dont bother to identify them, if they see yellow and black stripes on a flying thing their instincts kick in. Theyre pretty easy to differentiatiate from bees, if you look at them upclose, ive even been fooled by them a couple times even though i know Bee-mimicking animals existed.

[@edigudiel2092]

Why does this remind me so much of news fix

[@joshl6310]

I too would have been tricked and definitely scared if I was a predator

[@tomgunn8004]

If you think mimicry is the result of evolution, I've got a bridge you might be interested in buying!

[@opstellar]

22:55 what's up with that snake (or other thing?) crawling?

[@JPmaxlevel]

"in the new world rainforest"??? WTF! did you receive an american education or what loool

[@codycardin]

Buttereyes!

[@Mokop_vom]

hi

[@mercedeslaster2392]

Honestly that looked like a squid more than a crocodile (9:32)

[@MushuJF]

Bro's just messing around with the titles at this point💀

[@kevinavillain4616]

More often than we wish to admit these changes occur in one or two generations rather than over hundreds or thousands or millions of years. If you want a perfect example of this the munchkin cat just popped into existence on a farm under a truck.

[@coletanner5193]

Why would a hawk be repelled by a snake? It would not be.

[@PSSOMA]

Yeah!

[@tuna22lm]

Why did nature give bats such ugly faces, some of them are real scary looking.

[@hezzi3283]

So that explanation of natural sellection why was it assumed that that there was one caterpillar born differently and passed down a gene, why isnt it that it was always like that with all of them?

[@kathleenmartin7498]

Seeing these creatures, some with very tiny brains, ...develop camouflage to survive... It sure makes a person believe in a higher power!!!

[@tatmat4369]

But why gaboon viper mimic caterpillar?

[@realdragon]

Honestly I would avoid some of these animals just because they look more dangerous than they really are. Like that caterpillar snake like I don't know maybe there are some short snakes and I don't want to find out if it's venomous

[@sythekkkk]

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