The video showcases several unique animal abilities, including the diving bell spider's ability to breathe underwater using a natural aqualung, some spiders' ability to fly or float in the air using webs, the lyrebird's talent for mimicry, and the velvet worm's use of slime to hunt prey. Additionally, the video features the giant leafy insect's impressive camouflage skills, the common basilisk lizard's ability to run on water, and the jacana bird's unusual legs and ability to walk on floating leaves. The video also touches on the cuttlefish's hypnosis ability and the mudskipper's ability to survive on both land and water.
1. The diving bell spider can breathe underwater without gills or other devices that fish have.
2. The diving bell spider creates a bubble of air around its body using abdominal hairs covered with a special fatty substance.
3. The spider can stay underwater for a long time using a primitive natural aqualung.
4. The diving bell spider also creates an underwater storage made of spider web and an unknown substance to retain precious air.
5. Some spiders can fly by using their webs to rise several kilometers into the air.
6. The air is similar to a thick liquid for spiders, allowing them to neutralize the effect of gravity.
7. Small and very light spiders are the only ones that can fly.
8. Flying spiders test the wind before flying by lifting their front paw.
9. The preferred wind speed for flying spiders is about 11 kilometers an hour.
10. The reason for spider flight is colonization, where young spiders go on flights to find suitable places for themselves and to give life to a new generation.
11. Lyrebirds are amazing creatures that can imitate natural and artificial sounds with amazing accuracy.
12. Lyrebirds can imitate other birds, koalas, dingos, chainsaws, and even car alarms.
13. Lyrebirds can teach each other different sounds.
14. There was a known case where a man played the flute next to his domestic lyrebird and the bird sang the melody to its wild congeners in the park.
15. Velvet worms are found in Australia and have a unique ability to hunt using a special slime.
16. Velvet worms can shoot the slime at a distance of up to one meter.
17. The slime solidifies around the victim, allowing the worm to eat it.
18. Velvet worms are masters of camouflage and can be difficult to detect.
19. Giant leafy insects are found in the tropics of Malaysia and can reach 10 centimeters in length.
20. These insects have divine camouflage skills and can behave like leaves.
21. The common basilisk lizard can run on water using its huge claws to paddle.
22. The basilisk can run up to 500 meters on the water surface at a speed of 12 kilometers an hour.
23. The basilisk can easily do without oxygen for up to half an hour.
24. The jakana bird has elongated toes and claws that allow it to walk on leaves floating in the water.
25. The jakana bird can hide its chicks under its wings and protect them from predators.
26. Cuttlefish have the ability to hypnotize their victims using running stripes on their bodies created with chromatophores.
27. Mudskippers are fish that have made it to land and can survive everywhere.
28. Mudskippers can climb up roots and trunks of trees using their suckers.
29. Mudskippers can put up a fight for territory and then calmly return to the water and behave as a decent fish.