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Quite nice... but at that quality I can see EXACTLY nothing . Its a mantis and its a glass... what slow motion ?? what fish ? This pour quality clips should be banned from y tube.
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@Carbon657 - i think its more a matter of instinct than intelligence. they will try to eat anything that moves including birds, snakes, lizards, mice, and probably even a human hair if you put it up to those mouth parts
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for those complaining about the film quality keep in mind back in 1994 there was only crappy quality film stuff. >.> it would probably be very expensive to have this video restored
It's '94. I've seen much better film from the '60s. Jurassic Park was '93. My childhood home movies from '91 through '94 were better. We had the technology.
yeah but those films were done by more professional equipment. This quality is slightly less than what my family's home movies were done on and those cameras weren't good at capturing things under water. The type of film we're probably looking at wasn't on vhs but one of those things shown with projectors; and probably was not well cared for.
Also most films from the 60s have been restored by Criterion so that they look new.
big budget movie like jurassic park with highly expensive camera's or the economy vhs camcorders you used to get??. cant even compare the two you gimp
your austrailian in canada we say dude, man not that there is anything wrong with being austrailian searously and true we all do argue about that stuff even know thats kind a stupid thing to argue about
I keep them and I actually prefer their short lifetime , means you can have something the size of your fingernail turning into something the size of your hand in about 8 months , and you can watch it change , It also means you can get through lots of different species instead of keeping the same one for years
im gone make a video of my praying mantis catching a fish soon, My mantis just needs to grow a little more, ill take the video in HD so u can actualy see something.
@LeRareMovies cant anymore, i kept my mantis in the yard and observed it from there. one of the neighbors cats got to it and killed it. :( this was a while back. sorry i never go to make the vid :/
@LeRareMovies cant anymore, i kept my mantis in the yard and observed it from there. one of the neighbors cats got to it and killed it. :( this was a while back. sorry i never go to make the vid :/
it does not matter that this is an insect eating a fish. dude, even if the fish is "higher up" on the "evelutanary social ranks" (wich in my oppinion, is not), the mantis is a preditor, and its bigger. that means the fish is fair game. so drop the arguememnt.
Why do you have to be such an idiotic prick, twisting my words around to fit your argument? All I said was hating/liking bugs was subjective, which it is. Prove otherwise. Mixing it with another matter all together is a logical fallacy.
I repeat: prove otherwise. If not, pull your head out of your ass and move on...
XP Look at the previous comments. I was just pointing out that one could perceive the bug catching the fish as anything between "OMG gross" and "OMG cool". Did you not perceive said fish and bug, and did you not do some sort of "calculation" in your head as to what you were looking at (if you didn't, you're pretty much just meat with eyes).
K thnx bye now; you've managed to miss the point too many times now. I can't take this weak argument anymore... oh and congrats on being a cynical troll...
How does my comment on human perception make me an ass? All I said, essentially, is that life and the objects in it that we interact with are what you make it out to be. (not trying to be condescending, just trying to figure out why you just jumped me when, from what I'm looking at, I didn't even say anything offensive)
Unless it's about the "comments went to shit" part. Just look at them; if you see what I see, great, if not, see my beginning argument about subjectiveness... =/
Honestly, it should be common knowledge by now. It was the premise of a very popular comedy, Shallow Hal, and it even had Tony Robbins in it (fittingly) =P
Still, good thing you and I brought this up, because the comments went to shit over "OMG spiders are disgusting" and "OMG spiders are beautiful", when actually both concepts are subjective and can be changed if a person wanted to.
On the overcoming end of it: psychologically, we can in fact train ourselves to like/dislike anything. Take a look at Tony Robbin's work on the transformation of a mind for more detailed info, but essentially if you truly assert something as "X" when it is "Y" in your head, it's an "X" as far as your concerned from then on (unless you reverse the process to unlearn it). For example you can convince yourself that chocolate cake tastes horrible long enough that it actually does.
why are u guys hating on this poor helpless dude? all he said was true! big fish eats bugs! i put a huge turatula in a pond and a bad ass catfish came and ate it!
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yellow stripes, sounds sorta like an orb spider, i have a few around my house i love em, need to look past all the negative publisity of spiders and realize the beauty
Ever not been a pussy around spiders and stop to look at the color pattern, designs? just because they have 8 legs and walk around don't mean they are terrifying. grow some hair on that chest boy!
dont you dare call me a pussy you ignorant fuck! i am not a pussy! i love scorpions and snakes and all creepy crawlies and even sharks! but i cant deal with spiders, i dont know what it is, its just this phobia ingrained deep in my mind, i dont know why i fint them terrifying, i just do, i cant stand them, i saw one in the middle of the night, 1 cm big, i couldnt move, i stood still and started to rear up, im not a fucking pussy, but i cant deal with spiders
lol alright then youre not a pussy. youre arachniphobic. hence the reason u find them ugly or whatever you see them as. Guess i just got lucky in not inheriting the pobia
yeah sorry for reacting like that, I just don't like getting emasculated, anyway, it's not really a genetic thing, I never used to be arachnophobic, however when I was about 10 years old I just started getting terrified by them, now I cant go near them, dunno why.
I think the nature of this project is to test whether or not a mantis would try to catch prey that is underwater. I guess a mantis would take any opportunity for food, on land, up in the trees, in air, and underwater as well.
bugger .... I had my money on the minnow. I thought this is to easy ... surely they would of evened the odds.. a small gun perhaps. Knife tucked down the scales. fin dusters. I dunno. like to see the same experiment with the mantis in a jar of water. yeah !!! not so clever with a lung full of water.
once you get to "know" a mantis it can be very freindly and loyal.i nursed one back to health and now hes living in a bush in my front yard and every day i come and check up on him and he likes to climb onto the top of my head and just sit there and watch everything its soooooo cool!!!!!
I'd like to know the answer to that myself. I feel pretty sure that in all of time it must have happened. The question might be asked, how often does the mantis fish. This only took a few hours in a fish tank to produce. A natural setting example would be priceless.
precisely my question. Oh by the way if the maker of this video abuses you in email report it. I think its a good idea to flag the video simply for the nasty thought behind it is abusive to the viewer not just the creatures.
A little blurry but mantisy goodness has the right to be blurry.. Maybe a bigger glass would be more fair ;p since the fish cant really move too much.
Yeah I wish I could go back and recover the original video. I'm trying to capture a new mantis and re-shoot it. With most of the summer gone and only seen one mantis (that got away). It might be awhile before I can remake a mantis video. However it's so popular I know I need to do a new one for sure.
Yes isn't it odd how they don't seem to notice us or maybe they do and "know better"?
I think this is one of the things that adds to its mystique. Friendly to humans... so weird. I am not afraid of them. They truly are friendly to us. Killers of almost everything else.
Yeah it was recorded in the early 90's and the orginal video has been recorded over. I want to redo it. I saw a mantis a few nights ago as if flew past me. Still hunting for one to redo this experiment. If you watch it in small size its better. It was captured for video on the web 10 years ago. haha not exactly what we're used to these days.
I'd like to see a mantid underwater. It'd be like slowmo And the fish are like..."Oh too slow! Oooh, almost. Hey Mort! Check out the rookie! He's praying for suicide"!
i had a gerbil once... but it was crazy. it would attack my ferret and guinea pig and eat its way through anything that i put in its cage... well it devoured a big mantis once. i caught it and didnt hurt it, so i threw it in the cage and bam, my gerbil owned it lol!
Again, this was a rescue. I think the tape is gone.
It was done 12 years before there was a youtube. If was immediately digitized and uploaded to a private server with the technology of the day and at half of its current youtube size. It can still be viewed at the smaller size and more clearly by using the youtube re-size option on the video page.
I've wondered why no one asked about the recording. This was a rescue. I think the tape is gone.
It was done 12 years before there was a youtube. If was immediately digitized and uploaded to a private server with the technology of the day and at half of its current youtube size. It can still be viewed at the smaller size and more clearly by using the youtube re-size option on the video page.
i don´t know why this is your most ppular video, maybe because it´s a observational experiment of nature, people love nature (i wath discovery channel), maybe...
Some of those bugs could take down praying mantises but praying mantises can take down things those bugs can't take down like small birds. Plus, if you were to have them fight and you took a puny mantis from a forest and matched it up with some exotic tarantula, that wouldn't be fair. Most mantises are the kings of the bug world where they live. I'm sure if they had competition, they could easily evolve.
I sound like I'm obsessed with praying mantises but I'm not. Ha
You made me laugh TFK. Would a praying mantis hunt a fish seems to be answered here but I still wonder if it ever happens in the wild. I'd love to capture proof of that. What's the chance? Zero since I'm not out there trying to film it but even if I tried it might be a lifetime & never see it
Ping =^.^=
I wonder why I wonder?
*Thought to self*
Maybe I'm obsessed like TFK? Ha ha nah... If I were, I'd be out there hunting mantis vidie opportunities. Is my camera battery charged?
Mantises have eaten things bigger than fish! They'll eat anything they can:Small birds, crayfish, shrews, and their own kind. It's a big world out there, and I've personally only seen maybe 6 or 7 mantises in my life, so it wouldn't surprise me if my list isn't even touching what some of them have eaten. One youtube vid clearly shows a mantis eating a hummingbird. One person commented the maker killed it and fed it to it, but did you see it! It was carrying the weight of it upside-down! Strong.
thanks! also i have one theory...well its not worth ur time but i have a guess dat if u put a newly hatched mantis in any color coated area then they'll blend with dat color...(i'm trying blue and purple) maybe u can see into this...
I think I'm going to re-shoot this experiment this coming summer. I have new inspiration from your comments. I promise it will look better on modern equipment.
The odd thing is that we had no idea if the mantis was going to do anything at all. We set the camera and watched for a long time. Nothing happened. Weeks later I reviewed the video at highspeed and there it was!
Hi.. very interesting. I did something similar with an African mantis positioned on the inside wall of a container just above the water. It caught and devoured a Water Strider- then it died a day or two later. I don't know if that was the cause or just coincidence.. never tried it again.
Did you guys see the part where it said this was filmed 18 years ago?
pyr0static 1 month ago
lol even my 3yr old phone can record video at VGA(640x480, 30fps)..
MLuffyGear2 2 months ago
Did you film this with a microwave?
irko4 4 months ago
Did you film this with a pie?
TobietheHedgehog 4 months ago
did you film this with a toaster?
karutobi 5 months ago
This would be a cool video in theory, but it looks like it was recorded with a sock.
AnomalyINC 5 months ago 2
If I had a dollar for every pixel your camera had, I would have one dollar.
AZZCLOWN1022 5 months ago 3
More like praying mantis fks the fishes brains out
Predators115 5 months ago
scyther has defeated magikarp
elperretebueno 5 months ago
izzit recorded wit ur calculator..???
nottycalvinsingh 6 months ago
So which pixel is the fish?
Whodoesntloveloly 7 months ago 3
Nice toaster, is it a kodak?
alm0stlegit 7 months ago
the quality of the video didn't allow me to see the fish
but the worse is noticing that mantis didn't get the fish
at least not in this video
brunobahia19 8 months ago
,k\ghtf
bryan76317 8 months ago
mantis will eat anything that has meat, provided it can catch em XD
DOX9500 9 months ago
I like how Groupon advertises 70% off sushi on this video.
Anaris84 9 months ago
Amazing experiment... wow, a praying mantis actually killed something?!? Almost as amazing as the clarity of the clip itself.
MrDenizen 10 months ago
Have you tried giving the mantis a very small rod and reel? Two pound test line should do--or maybe a set of waders for back four legs?
pillroller88 10 months ago
hi University of Kentucky,
hey, awesome video quality. is this HD?
holla back.
nipzilla 11 months ago
ive seen em catch minnows b4 strange bug they are very smart for the insect world
WVliberty 1 year ago
one time i found a mantis on top of my hood and my sister shreeked cause it jumped on her lol
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baccaratbargaineq 1 year ago
Quite nice... but at that quality I can see EXACTLY nothing . Its a mantis and its a glass... what slow motion ?? what fish ? This pour quality clips should be banned from y tube.
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narragansettharco 1 year ago
I am the robots - la la la laaa
johannesskaun74 1 year ago
they should have glued a little hat on its head.. =(
johannesskaun74 1 year ago
Two researchers set up a tank in a bio lab, & filmed it with a 150 pixel camera.
two45triox 1 year ago 3
Giant Asian Mantis
cholokila 1 year ago
Miserable quality. Can't even tell there's a fish there at all (if there is one)
DavidMichaelangelo 1 year ago
thats like shooting fish in a barrel
Alfacuria 1 year ago
where is thew fish
themoonsmoon 1 year ago
Haha, The University of Kentucky is awesome!
snailsth102 1 year ago
Fuck the quality :/
lovinjustinbaby 1 year ago
is the mantis underwater?!I mean thats just weird if it was.was it?lol
carlismycoolcat 1 year ago
why?
MrMoodang 1 year ago
Why don't you put a praying mantis inside a 250gallon, with a bunch of fish we'll see who wins.
morenoaguileramex 1 year ago
@morenoaguileramex we could do the same with you then huh?
lungz420mrh 1 year ago
Kind of like shooting fish in a barrel but more of ambushing fish in a glass
11808Clover 1 year ago
Are you freaking kidding me? Experimental with this piece of shit quality video? What type of researchers are you guys? -.-
ChEnGsTaRz 1 year ago
Shows that these insects are smart enough to adapt to new situations.Also shows that a very small brain doesnt always mean a very stupid animal.
Carbon657 1 year ago
@Carbon657 - i think its more a matter of instinct than intelligence. they will try to eat anything that moves including birds, snakes, lizards, mice, and probably even a human hair if you put it up to those mouth parts
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chevezez 2 years ago
Cool Test.......Bad Video.....CLUE? Just because it was cool in 94 does mean we can even see it compresssed and uploaded to YT in 2010... Thanks...CLUE
cvsutton32 2 years ago 2
bad ass
x6h0ztx 2 years ago
OMG That is huge o.o
Boki955 2 years ago
@Boki955 OMG the resolution sucks
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jimoin 2 years ago
for those complaining about the film quality keep in mind back in 1994 there was only crappy quality film stuff. >.> it would probably be very expensive to have this video restored
MagePathfinder 2 years ago
It's '94. I've seen much better film from the '60s. Jurassic Park was '93. My childhood home movies from '91 through '94 were better. We had the technology.
JorickHorn 2 years ago
yeah but those films were done by more professional equipment. This quality is slightly less than what my family's home movies were done on and those cameras weren't good at capturing things under water. The type of film we're probably looking at wasn't on vhs but one of those things shown with projectors; and probably was not well cared for.
Also most films from the 60s have been restored by Criterion so that they look new.
MagePathfinder 2 years ago
big budget movie like jurassic park with highly expensive camera's or the economy vhs camcorders you used to get??. cant even compare the two you gimp
eddylon1983 2 years ago
gimp? ouch. You missed the second to last sentence: My childhood home movies from '91 through '94 were better.
JorickHorn 2 years ago
can't see shit!
vibrosnor 2 years ago
can we get some better quality video next time!
jellybellys69 2 years ago
lol matises r cute
xXSxKxYxLxIxNxEXx 2 years ago
i mean australian
TheLeogecko 2 years ago
your austrailian in canada we say dude, man not that there is anything wrong with being austrailian searously and true we all do argue about that stuff even know thats kind a stupid thing to argue about
TheLeogecko 2 years ago
I would like to keep these critters as pets however, they die in about 6 - 12 months, not worth it.
If they would live for about 5 years its better
kamot3000 2 years ago 2
I keep them and I actually prefer their short lifetime , means you can have something the size of your fingernail turning into something the size of your hand in about 8 months , and you can watch it change , It also means you can get through lots of different species instead of keeping the same one for years
utterbeastage 2 years ago
I named my praying mantis Tokka
TwilightTheLuxray 2 years ago
im gone make a video of my praying mantis catching a fish soon, My mantis just needs to grow a little more, ill take the video in HD so u can actualy see something.
metalicsupra 2 years ago 22
@metalicsupra Please don't do that
LeRareMovies 10 months ago
@LeRareMovies cant anymore, i kept my mantis in the yard and observed it from there. one of the neighbors cats got to it and killed it. :( this was a while back. sorry i never go to make the vid :/
metalicsupra 10 months ago
@LeRareMovies cant anymore, i kept my mantis in the yard and observed it from there. one of the neighbors cats got to it and killed it. :( this was a while back. sorry i never go to make the vid :/
metalicsupra 10 months ago
@metalicsupra
I'm still waiting for that video.....
fishesandsnakes 1 week ago
it does not matter that this is an insect eating a fish. dude, even if the fish is "higher up" on the "evelutanary social ranks" (wich in my oppinion, is not), the mantis is a preditor, and its bigger. that means the fish is fair game. so drop the arguememnt.
adasdadinator 2 years ago
you misspelled predator.
maxlombardy 2 years ago
they're like goats of the insect world. what WONT they eat.
robchaosi 2 years ago
Coming soon - ArktosDelphi explains how nothing is subjective. (I can use logical fallacies too! Omgooses!)
Truthiness231 2 years ago
People enjoy making use of the fact that they're safe from real-life discussion/argument (and the feelings created by doing so). Nothing new, here.
ByTheFireplace 2 years ago
E=MC^Bugs, yup...
Why do you have to be such an idiotic prick, twisting my words around to fit your argument? All I said was hating/liking bugs was subjective, which it is. Prove otherwise. Mixing it with another matter all together is a logical fallacy.
I repeat: prove otherwise. If not, pull your head out of your ass and move on...
Truthiness231 2 years ago
And you're meat with eyes... =/
Truthiness231 2 years ago
XP Look at the previous comments. I was just pointing out that one could perceive the bug catching the fish as anything between "OMG gross" and "OMG cool". Did you not perceive said fish and bug, and did you not do some sort of "calculation" in your head as to what you were looking at (if you didn't, you're pretty much just meat with eyes).
K thnx bye now; you've managed to miss the point too many times now. I can't take this weak argument anymore... oh and congrats on being a cynical troll...
Truthiness231 2 years ago 2
How does my comment on human perception make me an ass? All I said, essentially, is that life and the objects in it that we interact with are what you make it out to be. (not trying to be condescending, just trying to figure out why you just jumped me when, from what I'm looking at, I didn't even say anything offensive)
Unless it's about the "comments went to shit" part. Just look at them; if you see what I see, great, if not, see my beginning argument about subjectiveness... =/
Truthiness231 2 years ago
Thanks ^.^
Honestly, it should be common knowledge by now. It was the premise of a very popular comedy, Shallow Hal, and it even had Tony Robbins in it (fittingly) =P
Still, good thing you and I brought this up, because the comments went to shit over "OMG spiders are disgusting" and "OMG spiders are beautiful", when actually both concepts are subjective and can be changed if a person wanted to.
Truthiness231 2 years ago
I concur.
On the overcoming end of it: psychologically, we can in fact train ourselves to like/dislike anything. Take a look at Tony Robbin's work on the transformation of a mind for more detailed info, but essentially if you truly assert something as "X" when it is "Y" in your head, it's an "X" as far as your concerned from then on (unless you reverse the process to unlearn it). For example you can convince yourself that chocolate cake tastes horrible long enough that it actually does.
Truthiness231 2 years ago
why are u guys hating on this poor helpless dude? all he said was true! big fish eats bugs! i put a huge turatula in a pond and a bad ass catfish came and ate it!
theJerryBoy911 3 years ago
Comment thumbs...
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
i lol, i pet an huge spider, thats in my garden, it has yellow and silver strips in her back, very beautyful.
rluix 3 years ago 5
I studied Spiders in college. Interesting creatures.
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
yellow stripes, sounds sorta like an orb spider, i have a few around my house i love em, need to look past all the negative publisity of spiders and realize the beauty
Limeboy1990 3 years ago 3
Orb was the first thing I thought when I heard this too.
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
umm, beauty? WHAT THE FUCK IS BEAUTIFUL ABOUT THESE TERRIFYING CREATURES!?
LimeGuy101 3 years ago
Ever not been a pussy around spiders and stop to look at the color pattern, designs? just because they have 8 legs and walk around don't mean they are terrifying. grow some hair on that chest boy!
Limeboy1990 3 years ago 3
dont you dare call me a pussy you ignorant fuck! i am not a pussy! i love scorpions and snakes and all creepy crawlies and even sharks! but i cant deal with spiders, i dont know what it is, its just this phobia ingrained deep in my mind, i dont know why i fint them terrifying, i just do, i cant stand them, i saw one in the middle of the night, 1 cm big, i couldnt move, i stood still and started to rear up, im not a fucking pussy, but i cant deal with spiders
LimeGuy101 3 years ago
lol alright then youre not a pussy. youre arachniphobic. hence the reason u find them ugly or whatever you see them as. Guess i just got lucky in not inheriting the pobia
Limeboy1990 3 years ago 2
yeah sorry for reacting like that, I just don't like getting emasculated, anyway, it's not really a genetic thing, I never used to be arachnophobic, however when I was about 10 years old I just started getting terrified by them, now I cant go near them, dunno why.
LimeGuy101 3 years ago
its just cause you're a douchebag
G0odf3lla 2 years ago
And you're qualified to make that assesment?
LimeGuy101 2 years ago
That is such a one sided mach (agreed)
GrizzlyBeee 3 years ago
I think the nature of this project is to test whether or not a mantis would try to catch prey that is underwater. I guess a mantis would take any opportunity for food, on land, up in the trees, in air, and underwater as well.
jtir123 3 years ago 3
Terrible print!
fishingamna 3 years ago
I couldnt see any fish!
juanbus7 3 years ago
bugger .... I had my money on the minnow. I thought this is to easy ... surely they would of evened the odds.. a small gun perhaps. Knife tucked down the scales. fin dusters. I dunno. like to see the same experiment with the mantis in a jar of water. yeah !!! not so clever with a lung full of water.
Marty1fatbstard 3 years ago 12
LOL, you're funny as hell!
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
@Marty1fatbstard hmmm, i dont think they have lungs actually
Flamestrke 1 year ago
@Marty1fatbstard Yah, but then the fish would have to be up on the dry, dry pirch. I think they'd both lose. ;-)
ZachariasLePuertre 9 months ago
@Marty1fatbstard Haha mantises don't have lungs!
akendrum 8 months ago
This looks really good on my HD widscreen monitor.
TheGaylard 3 years ago 2
I'm sure you're joking right? I wish I still have the video tape to start over.
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
Yes, nice video, but poor quality. The mantis catches the fish right?
MrGrayish 3 years ago
your an idiot, its not underwater, read the desription.
Bleakism 3 years ago
once you get to "know" a mantis it can be very freindly and loyal.i nursed one back to health and now hes living in a bush in my front yard and every day i come and check up on him and he likes to climb onto the top of my head and just sit there and watch everything its soooooo cool!!!!!
samuraijackson09 3 years ago
you nursed it back to health? lmao
neokasuki 3 years ago 3
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thats retarded. once you let it go it would never comeback.
napalmcarcass 3 years ago
Not necesarily. Sometimes they do tend to stay in the same area for long periods of time.
clemsonfight 3 years ago 4
mantis canot be loyal lol in fact the female eats the male after mating
smutery 3 years ago
Friends? Nah, you're probably right. It might not become a friend, but they do hang around an area in a very territorial way.
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
very interesting. does anyone know if this has ever happend in the wild?
craiguk72 3 years ago
I'd like to know the answer to that myself. I feel pretty sure that in all of time it must have happened. The question might be asked, how often does the mantis fish. This only took a few hours in a fish tank to produce. A natural setting example would be priceless.
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
it would be far tougher in the wild...
The water would not be so small, and the fish could have much more room to move around.
Im sure if the wild it could happen, IN PUDDLES. Natural puddles where fish would be... Yes... its very possible
eddiehoneywell333 3 years ago
Well, yeah, it is. When the water line recedes a little around a river or lake, you can find all sorts of weird stuff in the pools.
dunderball12 3 years ago
precisely my question. Oh by the way if the maker of this video abuses you in email report it. I think its a good idea to flag the video simply for the nasty thought behind it is abusive to the viewer not just the creatures.
Ralfrobot 3 years ago
thats ridiculous, the mantis has to eat.
Im sorry that nature isnt full off pussyass vegetarians, for you. But here in reality you need your protein.
ScinoBasher 3 years ago
ebay mate ebay
ratgreen 3 years ago
Wow, that's amazing, I didn't know they would fish something out of the water like that!!! wow!!!
PantyMython 3 years ago 5
Smiles... thus the observational experiment. I wanted to know. Even though the video isn't very clear I learned something. haha
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
I tried to catch one all summer ling. I only saw one and it got away. I want to reshoot this video on modern equipment.
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
Mm.. alot of videos about Praying Mantis's.
A little blurry but mantisy goodness has the right to be blurry.. Maybe a bigger glass would be more fair ;p since the fish cant really move too much.
StrangeKiddd 3 years ago
Yeah it really should be re shot. I'm trying to catch another one. I saw one a few nights ago but it just flew on by.
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
wheres the fish oO??
KingHelmer 3 years ago
In the shot glass.
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
o,o wow thats crazy. i wish the video was clearer though.
sergilus 3 years ago
Yeah I wish I could go back and recover the original video. I'm trying to capture a new mantis and re-shoot it. With most of the summer gone and only seen one mantis (that got away). It might be awhile before I can remake a mantis video. However it's so popular I know I need to do a new one for sure.
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
lol thats kind of mean.
FallenCrimsonTears 3 years ago
I have a Praying Mantis as a pet :P
IN a big tank! It can kill a rat :P
LOL!!!! they rock!!!! and there friendly to humans!
Aaron1046 3 years ago
Yes isn't it odd how they don't seem to notice us or maybe they do and "know better"?
I think this is one of the things that adds to its mystique. Friendly to humans... so weird. I am not afraid of them. They truly are friendly to us. Killers of almost everything else.
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
Too bad the video quality was so poor, it was so blurry all potential was lost.
100fry 3 years ago 3
Yeah it was recorded in the early 90's and the orginal video has been recorded over. I want to redo it. I saw a mantis a few nights ago as if flew past me. Still hunting for one to redo this experiment. If you watch it in small size its better. It was captured for video on the web 10 years ago. haha not exactly what we're used to these days.
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
I'd like to see a mantid underwater. It'd be like slowmo And the fish are like..."Oh too slow! Oooh, almost. Hey Mort! Check out the rookie! He's praying for suicide"!
Firecloud500 3 years ago
A land mantis underwater? I thought that they couldn't survive underwater?
Rsmith19756 3 years ago
GAY you could barely see wats happining
hoganho123 3 years ago
praying mantis:great fisherman or GREATEST fisherman?
blendtecfan 3 years ago
i had a gerbil once... but it was crazy. it would attack my ferret and guinea pig and eat its way through anything that i put in its cage... well it devoured a big mantis once. i caught it and didnt hurt it, so i threw it in the cage and bam, my gerbil owned it lol!
Nenz82 3 years ago
hahahahaha loved that comment Nenz82. You're the only one of thousands of viewers that wanted to mantis to lose.
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
Gerbils are aggressive little SOBs I two before and they sometimes would fight each other and had to be separated.
Membrane556 3 years ago 2
and u din't film it (mortified look)
LANKEYUK 3 years ago
srry :c
Nenz82 3 years ago
no only when there bigger ther stronger
nemasisarbi9 3 years ago
shit quality
YTworker 3 years ago
Again, this was a rescue. I think the tape is gone.
It was done 12 years before there was a youtube. If was immediately digitized and uploaded to a private server with the technology of the day and at half of its current youtube size. It can still be viewed at the smaller size and more clearly by using the youtube re-size option on the video page.
1995 bandwidth wasn't what it is today.
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
what did u record this with game body camera?
kai3214 3 years ago 2
I've wondered why no one asked about the recording. This was a rescue. I think the tape is gone.
It was done 12 years before there was a youtube. If was immediately digitized and uploaded to a private server with the technology of the day and at half of its current youtube size. It can still be viewed at the smaller size and more clearly by using the youtube re-size option on the video page.
1995 bandwidth wasn't what it is today.
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
oh....!!!
kai3214 3 years ago
i don´t know why this is your most ppular video, maybe because it´s a observational experiment of nature, people love nature (i wath discovery channel), maybe...
sjmalabo 3 years ago
ha-ha, maybe it's because they only have to put up with it for 25 seconds?
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
They eat anything. They're stronger than wasps,ants,scorpions and tarantulas anyday. That settles it I'm getting one.
TFKforever 3 years ago
true they are very strong
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
i think wasps are stronger sometimes, and of course scorpions/tarantulas.
YTworker 3 years ago
Some of those bugs could take down praying mantises but praying mantises can take down things those bugs can't take down like small birds. Plus, if you were to have them fight and you took a puny mantis from a forest and matched it up with some exotic tarantula, that wouldn't be fair. Most mantises are the kings of the bug world where they live. I'm sure if they had competition, they could easily evolve.
I sound like I'm obsessed with praying mantises but I'm not. Ha
TFKforever 3 years ago
You made me laugh TFK. Would a praying mantis hunt a fish seems to be answered here but I still wonder if it ever happens in the wild. I'd love to capture proof of that. What's the chance? Zero since I'm not out there trying to film it but even if I tried it might be a lifetime & never see it
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I wonder why I wonder?
*Thought to self*
Maybe I'm obsessed like TFK? Ha ha nah... If I were, I'd be out there hunting mantis vidie opportunities. Is my camera battery charged?
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
Mantises have eaten things bigger than fish! They'll eat anything they can:Small birds, crayfish, shrews, and their own kind. It's a big world out there, and I've personally only seen maybe 6 or 7 mantises in my life, so it wouldn't surprise me if my list isn't even touching what some of them have eaten. One youtube vid clearly shows a mantis eating a hummingbird. One person commented the maker killed it and fed it to it, but did you see it! It was carrying the weight of it upside-down! Strong.
TFKforever 3 years ago
mantis could own a snake lol
Liiy9 3 years ago 2
a worm snake.... I'll bet it could. I have a video of a worm snake.
It's called, "There's no snake in there" if you'd like to see it.
I'll bet a mantis could maybe eat that snake... maybe
haha
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KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
watch?v=NhtHDK2K73A
icebarrage1166 3 years ago
i seen that video its quite amazing isnt it?
icebarrage1166 3 years ago
watch?v=NhtHDK2K73A
its amazing
icebarrage1166 3 years ago
that is true TFK, ..
and i am obsessed with hem, they are a wonder to me..
velosiraptor23 3 years ago 2
thanks! also i have one theory...well its not worth ur time but i have a guess dat if u put a newly hatched mantis in any color coated area then they'll blend with dat color...(i'm trying blue and purple) maybe u can see into this...
elite6565 4 years ago
that a be cool but i think they stay brown bro
yoboyjean 4 years ago
yer i think they only have a choice between brown and green, and they only change colour after shedding
ratgreen 4 years ago
hmm i fed mine shrimp and they were satified i tried live ones and cooked ones and perfer both
elite6565 4 years ago
I think I'm going to re-shoot this experiment this coming summer. I have new inspiration from your comments. I promise it will look better on modern equipment.
KentuckyGiant 4 years ago
where do you get a mantis?
jakeknotthead 3 years ago
Just a chance find. They are fairly common here.
KentuckyGiant 3 years ago
That is too bizarre. They will eat anything they can catch, and will try even if catching them kills the mantis, itself.
Mikado69 4 years ago 2
The odd thing is that we had no idea if the mantis was going to do anything at all. We set the camera and watched for a long time. Nothing happened. Weeks later I reviewed the video at highspeed and there it was!
KentuckyGiant 4 years ago
Hi.. very interesting. I did something similar with an African mantis positioned on the inside wall of a container just above the water. It caught and devoured a Water Strider- then it died a day or two later. I don't know if that was the cause or just coincidence.. never tried it again.