14 Scary But Not Dangerous Animals

all right you're scuba diving in the ocean watching corals and colorful fish flitting by when suddenly an enormous shadow appears above you you look up and see a massive creature approaching you its mouth a gaping abyss relax just stay still and you'll be fine this leviathan is a basking shark one of the scary sea monsters that isn't really capable of doing harm to anyone basking sharks are filter feeders just like baleen whales they open their large mouths to swallow plankton and don't even have teeth it's late night in the central american jungle you're out in the wild to watch birds and you hear flapping of wings excited you look intently into your night vision goggles only to see a face out of your worst nightmares ah don't scream you'll scare it away it's a perfectly harmless wrinkle-faced bat and it isn't interested in you these are fruit bats and wrinkles on their faces allow them to collect fruit pieces and juice for later snacks by the way their latin name centuro cenex was given to them for their semblance to 100 year old humans walking around at nepali national park and deciding to wash your face in the river nearby you freeze in terror a crocodile is looking straight at you from no more than a few feets distance then it raises its snout above the water and you exhale in relief it's a gharial these reptiles have long and narrow snouts that allow them to efficiently catch fish and at the same time prohibiting them from hunting any other prey while still carnivores gharials are pretty shy and will slither away at the side of humans right now there are no more than a thousand of these crocodilians in the whole world so let it go especially if it's a girl gharial you dig your garden in the backyard and notice something moving on your shovel you take a closer look and drop the tool in horror a small creature looking like a hostile alien is scurrying away into some burrow in the ground no worries it's just a star-nosed mole these critters have peculiar snouts that look like they've been blown up from within their eyes are small and weak so the star on their nose helps them a lot to move around and seek food it's always on the move touching everything it can reach as if the tendrils were tiny fingers oh you're bathing in the ocean again well look to your right there's a real toothed shark going right at you nah don't panic it's just a sand tiger shark neither a sand nor a tiger one it's a vulnerable fish eating shark that slowly swims in the seas and chases its prey from time to time there have been no reports of it ever attacking humans but it still has rows of sharp teeth so don't try to touch it just in case it may seem placid but you don't want it to get a bite out of you do you okay from ocean to desert you're in australia and longing for some water you see a likely spot and start digging the ground only to stumble upon a creature straight from the depths of neither all covered in thorns it eyes you suspiciously and slinks away because it's just a thorny devil despite its ominous name this lizard is harmless to humans horn-like bumps on its skin are for protection from predators and birds of prey the thorns are hard but as long as you don't touch them you're fine now if you have arachnophobia it won't calm you down but tailless whip scorpions you might meet in north and south america as well as asia and africa are more afraid of you than you are of them tell yourself that these nightmarish creatures don't have stingers and won't even bite when threatened the worst they could do and only if you corner them why would you do that is prick you with their front legs leaving tiny puncture marks on your finger many people even keep them as pets and they're quite affectionate toward their owners yeah if you ever stumble upon a burrow from which a hairless big tooth creature is peeking at you just don't mind it and let it be naked mole rats are the sphynx cats among rodents they're close relatives of mole rats but well naked and they're fascinating in their own right too thanks to living entirely underground they're almost totally cold-blooded but can conform to any temperature outside and their flappy wrinkled skin doesn't feel any pain at all so pins and prickles as well as sharp teeth don't scare naked mole rats you're once again lost in the jungle this time on madagascar poor you the night has fallen and you seek shelter but when you think you've found a suitable tree to build a lean to you freeze in terror a black long fingered hand appears on a tree branch right above you and two huge yellow eyes are staring you down then you see a shaggy face and realize it's just a lemur and i i more precisely this creature is native to madagascar and only goes out at night so you're lucky to see it it fulfills a role of a woodpecker in tropical forests it knocks on tree trunks to find bugs and uses its long whizzing fingers to reach inside tired of being scared you seek your way home but your horrors aren't over yet there's a big red and white snake across your path it hisses and lies in wait for you to move you know it's a coral snake a really dangerous venomous kind you stop in your tracks and only when it finally slithers away you realize it was actually a milk snake they often mimic venomous ones not only coral snakes to protect themselves from predators still if you're not a snake expert it's always best to stay away okay this creature will infest your darkest dreams a giant african millipede it's big it's glossy black and it has hundreds of tiny crawly legs and yet if it had googly eyes it could even be cute perhaps that's why so many people keep them as pets that and because they commonly live up to 10 years giant millipedes can't really bite their only defense is curling into a tight ball and secreting irritating liquid from the pores of its skin if you dare touch it don't rub your eyes or nose afterwards it's quite unpleasant goliath bird eater is another popular pet creepy crawler it isn't dangerous for humans despite it looking like your worst nightmare this is one of the largest spiders in the world and as its name implies it sometimes hunts small birds for food but they aren't part of its regular diet the spider prefers worms and amphibians make sure you don't frighten it though it can still bite or release hairs in self-defense the bite is similar to a wasp sting and hairs can cause severe irritation on your skin but mostly this gentle giant is just shy and will crawl away at the side of you oh dear there's another snake approaching you and fast you're about to turn and run when you see a hulking eight-legged form cutting into the snake's path and leaping on it it's another arachnid and it looks even more terrifying than the snake it's a camel spider not really a spider nor a scorpion these creatures belong to a separate family they became the stuff of many urban legends but in fact they don't even have any venom sure they can bite and their jaws are pretty powerful but camel spiders can't do much more to a human than just bite they hide in the sand and burrow to leap on unsuspecting lizards invertebrates and yes even snakes and now picture a pill bug not exactly a beauty but since it's small it's okay but what if it were ten times as large no definitely not okay still such a creature exists and it's a giant isopod thankfully it lurks in deep dark and cold waters so it won't ever come up in your backyard giant isopods grow to such enormous size because of something called deep sea gigantism deep dwelling creatures have to endure great pressure of water extreme cold temperatures and scarce food so their metabolism slows down isopods don't move much and more often than not just lie and wait until some poor small bug or crustacean crawls within their reach and they can munch on it and though it looks like a mini-legged chaos from below a giant isopod can't hurt you even if it wanted to just pet it already

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Length: 9min 25sec (565 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 08 2020