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00:00 Why are cobras afraid of this animal?
00:02 The most evil cat in the world.
00:03 Why did God leave this creature?
00:05 And we'll see more today.
00:07 Let's start with the Snake Killer Cat.
00:09 This is a wild cat that lives in the desert and literally hunts for snakes.
00:13 The war animals may not look that bad, but these are desert horned vipers and other snakes that are super poisonous.
00:18 The poison from these dangerous noodles prevents the blood clotting through an enzyme.
00:22 This triggers internal bleeding and can even be life-threatening for a human.
00:25 But the sand cat has a super fast reaction and dodges every attack of the snakes.
00:30 While she herself lands one hit after the other with her claws.
00:33 Until she killed the snake.
00:35 A real predator.
00:36 But one thing is not clear at all.
00:38 There is a super viral video that supposedly shows such a fight.
00:41 But this doesn't look like a sand cat to me.
00:44 This looks like a normal house cat that is just completely dehydrated.
00:47 Maybe I'm wrong, but I think they set it up there with the snake so that they fight for the camera.
00:53 Unfortunately, some people do that again and again for their animal movies.
00:55 Especially on YouTube.
00:56 Absolutely terrible.
00:58 But back to the sand cat.
00:59 She is really unique in a variety of ways.
01:02 She is the only cat species that lives exclusively in the desert.
01:05 In addition, the sand cat barks like a dog.
01:07 And because they communicate over long distances, the barking is even quite loud.
01:13 It is almost impossible to detect a sand cat, because these little desert bandits have thick fur on the underside of their paws.
01:20 Also between the individual toes.
01:22 Above all, she protects that from the extremely hot desert sand.
01:25 But it also looks like a cushion so that they don't sink into the sand.
01:28 That's why they leave no traces.
01:30 Real assassins.
01:31 They also hardly need any water.
01:33 They can survive for weeks without a sip and only live off the moisture of their victims.
01:38 Insects, rodents and of course snakes.
01:41 Or earthworms.
01:42 And to get to them, the cats have learned to dig incredibly well.
01:46 If they can, they also steal the caves from these rodents,
01:49 expand them further and then make themselves comfortable after they have fed the whole family for breakfast.
01:54 If it's too much at once, they dig up the rest and eat it later.
01:57 Sand cats are among the deadliest, but definitely the sweetest robbers of the desert.
02:02 This creature is known as the most evil cat in the world.
02:05 It is a Manule, a wild cat from Central Asia, which has a very natural Grumpy Cat appearance.
02:11 But are these cats actually evil?
02:13 No, but they don't like people.
02:15 We are pretty much their only enemies.
02:17 They are loners and live totally withdrawn and even in zoos they rarely show their face.
02:22 And if they do, it often looks like this.
02:25 These cats will never become pets.
02:27 Even kittens that have been raised by humans leave their two-legged parents without hesitation
02:32 as soon as they are big enough to hunt themselves.
02:34 And the Manules in the zoo don't like it at all when you touch them.
02:37 It's a shame, because Manules are the most plush cats in the world.
02:40 No other species has such a dense fur.
02:42 9000 hairs on every square centimeter of their skin.
02:45 They look like a cuddly ball, just with a grumpy face.
02:49 Because of their godless plushness and short legs, they are not as agile as other cats.
02:54 They seem rather slow and helpless, but they are still excellent hunters.
02:58 Because their fur is an optimal camouflage in their landscape, the steppes of Mongolia.
03:03 They sneak up on birds like stone chickens or eat their chicks.
03:07 But they also eat mice and these super plump pheasants.
03:11 *aww*
03:11 Just like the sand cat, Manules also like to steal the housing of their victims, like such marble buildings.
03:17 That saves a lot of work.
03:19 If they don't look angry right now, Manules are even totally cute.
03:23 They just have extremely expressive faces.
03:26 This snake killer is even more disrespectful than the sand cat.
03:29 Mongols even attack each other with terrifying cobras.
03:32 They are known as the legendary cobra killer.
03:35 That's why they are sometimes even kept as pets in India.
03:38 There are a lot of poisonous snakes there and they cause thousands of deaths every year.
03:42 Having a protector who is not afraid is already practical.
03:46 In the past, they even tried to introduce mongooses on some islands where they had a rat problem.
03:50 But instead of eating them, these little berserkers just almost extincted the local animals.
03:55 And then they started plundering the chicken coop.
03:58 I think that happens every time you try something like that.
04:00 That just replaces the old plague with a new, even worse one.
04:03 But why are mongooses so strong that they can kill snakes?
04:07 Because they are not immune to all poisons.
04:10 But they have an extremely strong resistance to neurotoxic-acting toxins.
04:14 Like that of a cobra or a croc.
04:16 But they have no chance against hemotoxic toxins that attack blood or myotoxic toxins that damage their muscles.
04:23 The other secret is their speed, their agility and the dense fur that a snake has to go through.
04:29 Meanwhile, the mongoose has already made a counterattack.
04:32 This evasion and counterattack usually takes as long as the snake is tired.
04:37 Snakes have extremely poor endurance and they can easily overheat.
04:41 A small warm-blooming like the mongoose can make good use of that.
04:44 And if the snake is tired, it is defenselessly delivered to this robber.
04:48 So mongooses are super strong against cobras and a little less strong against vipers.
04:53 Everyone can mean the end of their life subscription to them.
04:56 Those were a few blatant predators, but this is just a beautiful bird.
05:00 Look at it.
05:01 This is the parrot and it doesn't do anything but look like a meat-eating bird god.
05:06 And it is the largest wild bird species in the world.
05:09 Incredibly beautiful.
05:10 The exact opposite of this animal.
05:12 This is an aye-aye.
05:14 A lemur that is so ugly that it is feared among the locals as a demon.
05:18 Because it means if he points at you with his ultra long middle finger because he doesn't like you, you're in trouble.
05:24 The long finger gives the aye-aye a unique ability in the animal kingdom.
05:28 Limitless mucophagy.
05:30 That means drilling your nose and eating the stuff.
05:32 And an aye-aye comes with the finger through his entire odor organ to the gills.
05:36 Absolutely disgusting.
05:38 If you're not deep-throating your nose right now, you're looking for hollow branches for delicious maggots.
05:42 To do this, you tap the tree bark with your long finger.
05:45 Your finger gets up to 6 degrees warmer, which helps you to feel the fine vibrations of the maggots in it.
05:51 A cool ability that doesn't do a good job of what God has done to this creature.
05:56 After all, aye-ayes are no longer so much hunted by the locals of Madagascar because they noticed that these gremlins actually help them.
06:04 They eat the pests of the clover trees and they are an important economic factor for the residents.
06:10 This is the absolute nemesis of the aye-ayes, the fossa cat.
06:14 Which is actually not a cat, but a descendant of 20 million years old mongooses, like all predators on the island.
06:21 It looks a little sweeter, but is an Avenger-level threat, at least for the primates of Madagascar.
06:27 Because fossas are the largest predators in the whole country.
06:30 Twice as big as a dachshund and ten times as dangerous.
06:33 Just look at those stable arms.
06:35 Oh?
06:36 Fossas hunt day and night, you are never safe from them.
06:39 They are incredibly agile and skillfully maneuver through the trees in search of their next victim.
06:44 These are lemurs like the aye-ayes, but also fish, lizards, birds, frogs and basically everything else that lives on the island.
06:52 They are the kings of Madagascar.
06:54 But there is one thing that is really extraordinary.
06:57 Maybe you know the problem with which female hyenas have been punished.
07:00 With fossas there is a similar situation. They get a temporary mini-schnitzel with spikes in their growth.
07:07 This is called "previous maleation".
07:09 Fortunately, they do not have to give birth to children from it, like hyenas, which is incredibly painful and dangerous for both mother and child.
07:16 But interesting that several animal species are similar in this respect.
07:20 And we still don't know exactly where the real advantage is.
07:23 Did you know that koalas have invented metal?
07:26 Take a look at that.
07:29 Every death metal vocalist is jealous of that.
07:32 And for everyone who would like to have a koala as a pet, that's how they sound when they're happy.
07:36 They also have chlamydia.
07:42 So not all, but frighteningly many koalas have the sexually transmitted disease.
07:46 And that's pretty dangerous for koalas, because they can become infertile.
07:51 But where do koalas get chlamydia?
07:53 Most likely from sheep.
07:55 But it's not as you think.
07:56 Or maybe it is.
07:57 Because to be honest, you don't really know how koalas got infected.
08:01 Only that the genetic information of the bacteria indicates that the type of chlamydia that koalas have
08:06 originally comes from infected cattle.
08:09 In some areas, the transmission rate among koalas is 100%.
08:14 Real freaks.
08:15 But no kidding, that's really a big problem for the animals.
08:18 Chlamydia can even be life-threatening for them.
08:20 But there is a solution, namely the koala vaccination.
08:23 In the last two years, hundreds of koalas have been protected with a specially developed vaccine.
08:28 And so far it seems to work.
08:30 The koalas in the test run were spared from the disease.
08:32 Let's hope that will solve the problem, because koalas are just way too cute.
08:37 Just like this red panda.
08:39 But be careful, this guy is serious.
08:41 He stands up and shows his claws to look as big and threatening as he can.
08:46 And he just looks a lot sweeter.
08:48 But this is really the threat sign of these animals.
08:52 And they couldn't look any cuter if they tried.
08:55 Red pandas have one thing in common with the sand cat.
08:58 They don't leave any footprints.
09:00 Because they have really thick fur on their soles.
09:02 That keeps their feet warm and prevents them from slipping off the wet, frozen branches.
09:06 Because these animals live at up to 4000 meters above sea level.
09:09 And in winter, it gets damn cold in their habitat.
09:12 To warm themselves, they wrap themselves with their super fluffy tail and use it like a pillow.
09:17 Incredibly cute.
09:19 But don't underestimate them. The claws of red pandas are incredibly sharp.
09:22 So sharp that they are one of the few animals that can climb down a tree with their head forward.
09:27 Like a squirrel.
09:29 So cute.
09:30 In contrast to this monster here.
09:32 This is the shoe snob.
09:33 A bird that can only extinguish everyone with its gaze.
09:36 At least it seems like it.
09:37 But it's even more terrifying than you think.
09:40 Namely when it shows you its spine.
09:43 When it walks, it looks like it's pushing it out of its mouth.
09:46 Above the spine, there is of course still soft tissue.
09:49 But that's still super creepy.
09:51 But they're not the only ones.
09:53 Pelicans do that too.
09:54 Some people claim that they do that to cool off.
09:57 But as far as I know, that's not true.
09:59 They just walk and that's what it looks like.
10:01 But it doesn't have a special function.
10:03 And if you think that's weird, then take a look at this creature.
10:06 What the hell is that?
10:07 Who crossed Bambi with an alien?
10:09 This is a munchak.
10:10 An Asian deer species that grows as big as a dog.
10:13 And these strange holes in the head that move are actually antlers.
10:17 And with them they mark their territory.
10:19 On the forehead are the frontal antlers and the preorbital antlers are under the eyes.
10:24 The ones in front of the eyes have a lot of hoof animals.
10:26 But with none of them they are as pronounced as with the munchak.
10:29 The frontal antlers, on the other hand, have no other hearing species except the munchak.
10:33 Closed, they don't look that bad.
10:35 But when they start to mark, they just become aliens.
10:38 They use the antlers on the forehead when they rub themselves against trees.
10:41 To spread their scent and mark the territory.
10:44 But sometimes they open them when they are excited.
10:47 For example, when big hairless primates feed them.
10:51 They can even turn the antlers in front of their eyes from the inside out.
10:54 And that looks really crazy.
10:56 As if that weren't strange enough, they have another ability.
10:59 Munchaks can bark.
11:00 That sounds like a mixture of dog bark and a scream.
11:03 *Bark*
11:04 And with that they make it clear to others that this is their territory.
11:07 And they try to scare off predators with their bark when they feel threatened.
11:11 In addition, they grow hovers with which they then fight their species.
11:15 Really weird birds, but they seem to be doing something right.
11:18 Because no matter in which country they live, they spread super fast.
11:21 In England, a few individual specimens from the 19th century,
11:25 which came from a park there, have now exceeded 80,000.
11:29 And since 1995, their population has tripled there.
11:32 Munchak invasion on the foremarch, can we stop them?