animals you should think twice before picking up

There are creatures you should not pick up. Imagine walking along the riverbank, enjoying the peaceful waters and the hot sun. Suddenly, you notice something strange on the ground. It looks like a quarter-sized black coin with a weird pattern. You bend over for a closer look, thinking it might be an ancient seal. You consider selling it and making a fortune. As you reach out to pick it up, fear wells up inside you. The coin moves. Your heart jumps in your throat as you realize it's not a coin, but a huge spider. It's a ravine trapdoor spider, to be precise. The spider is venomous, but its bite isn't toxic to humans. However, you wouldn't want to feel those sizable pincer-like fangs. So much for your riches. Perhaps fortune awaits you elsewhere. In Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, for example. As you walk on dried up ground, you notice a long white stripe up ahead. It looks like a super long worm, but it moves differently. It turns out to be a Mexican mole lizard, a pale creature with black beady eyes. It rarely comes out, so you're lucky to have seen it. Now, you find yourself in a rainforest in northeastern Australia. You spot something large and round, covered in black hair. At first, you think it's a sleeping bear, but that wouldn't make sense. There are no bears around. As you get closer, a twig snaps under your foot. The thing hears you and springs to its legs. It's a bizarre and beautiful bird. That black hair is actually a thick coat of long beautiful

feathers this formidable fowl has a

bright blue head with a large horn on

top

it stands on two strong legs with a

dagger-like claw on each foot that can

be as long as your hand take away those

feathers and you might mistake this

thing for a velociraptor but it's

actually a cassowary the most dangerous

bird in the world it could jump straight

over your head if it wanted to

definitely high enough to kick you in

the chest and its blows are strong

enough to break bone not to mention that

claw that can cut through anything like

butter this bird was made to hunt and

avoid being hunted don't even consider

running away not unless you too can

Sprint over 30 miles per hour

diving into that Lake over there won't

save you either this bird is an

excellent swimmer best just to back away

slowly and hope it doesn't come after

you

another creature that proves it's best

to keep your hands to yourself is the

panda ant the naming is obvious it's

black and white and furry like the

Beloved panda

this furry little bugger lives in the

forest of Chile but don't go to pet this

fluffy little ant what you're looking at

is no ant at all it's a species of wasp

that black and white coloring serves one

purpose to warn others of this insect's

powerful sting and if that doesn't make

you back away the WASP will let out a

squeaking sound it sounds cute to us

humans but it means a painful sting is

around the corner these insects are

loners they don't live in colonies and

don't have nests they're also parasites

a female panda ant lays eggs next to the

larvae of another insect then the hatch

babies use these larvae as food surely

you've seen bugs that look like leaves

and twigs but what about a creature that

looks like a beautiful Orchid you can

find this fragrant flower in the forest

or a green field among other plants but

make sure that's a flower you're leaning

in toward the smell if it's not you risk

being bitten by a praying mantis the

Orchid mantis is nearly impossible to

distinguish among the flowers it has

pink white coloring with legs and claws

that look identical to little petals it

uses its resemblance to the plant to

hide from predators and Hunt insects

that love these flowers a butterfly or a

bee flies up to the flower when one of

the petals starts moving the

unsuspecting meal might take it as

simply the wind but then the pedal turns

into a sharp claw that suddenly grabs

the insect

now imagine you're in the jungles of

Costa Rica you notice a brown snake

sitting on a tree branch in front of

your face the snake looks like it's

about to strike well you want to run

away as far as possible but notice that

this snake is unusually short and it

doesn't lash out at you you wait but the

snake keeps staring at you it doesn't

even hiss lucky for you it'll never bite

because it's not a snake but a

caterpillar the hawk moth caterpillar

can change the shape of its body to look

like a menacing serpent this easily

scares away any hungry foes the coloring

and pattern on the skin imitates a snake

scales and eyes this insect also knows

how to move like a reptile a Master of

Disguise this one

let's get out of the hot jungle and head

to Central Europe you're in the middle

of a sunny Green Meadow colorful flowers

bloom around birds sing and bees buzz by

among the bees some are not what they

sing you'd hardly be able to distinguish

the imposters but if you look really

closely you'll see the golden bee fly

moving through the air it looks like a

bumblebee but it's the buzzer's biggest

enemy the golden bee fly sneaks into bee

nest and lays eggs there its larvae

hatch and feed on the bees and flower

nectar the yellow and black coloring

allows the Intruder to go undetected the

whole time

the camouflage also keeps enemies away

nothing would touch this fly if it

thinks it'll get a bumblebee sting

the next spot on your journey is the

rainforest in southern Thailand now be

extra careful and watch your step not

because the next animal is poisonous or

bites but because you might actually

step on it the leaves from the trees

have fallen and turned a gray brown Hue

among these leaves it's tough to

distinguish the Malaysian horned Leaf

fraud its body shape coloring and

especially those pointy Groves coming

out above its eyes all allow this

amphibian to hide perfectly among the

Fallen foliage this frog can sit for

hours in one place waiting for its next

meal to come close enough to

now you're in a garden you see a

beautiful bright flower and a small Bird

hovering near it the bird flaps its wing

so quickly you can hardly see them and

that long needle-like beak makes you

immediately assume you're looking at a

hummingbird but as soon as you get

closer you realize this is not a bird

but an insect

fortunately the hummingbird Hawk moth

isn't venomous and doesn't sting it's

just a lovely little creature that

decorates the garden with its presence

many people even grow plants rich in

nectar to attract these moths hey that's

an idea. that's all for today thanks for reading