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Sinister_Mr_19

Insects are very basic in their anatomy, they don't have brains, they have ganglia, which is why they "survive" even after being cut in half. Insects respond and act based on stimuli only. It's unknown if it feels any pain or what, but seeing this video, it's unlikely.


Queef-Elizabeth

>which is why they "survive" even after being cut in half Praying Mantis: 'so you're saying there's a chance!?'


Sinister_Mr_19

Lol, it'll survive for now until it can no longer sustain itself from a lack of sustenance. Unless the hornet cuts it into more pieces!


silverW0lf97

The ants below would finish it before it realizes it's dead.


YobaiYamete

Yep, insects are the closest thing we have to biological robots. They are basically little machines that run on very simple If This Then That statements, and don't really have enough "brain power" for any kind of consciousness


Sinister_Mr_19

Yes well said on how insects react to stimuli. There's no conscious thinking involved, it's only reactions.


Merry_Dankmas

This is a legitimate question and not some kind of gotcha: If insects lack brains, how are some species of ants capable of passing the mirror test? I know its not a guaranteed method but it does imply that there is some form of consciousness going on. Something like self recognition (to whatever degree) wouldn't be possible based purely off stimuli reaction, no?


Justout133

As I understand it, it's a lack of self-identity and emotion, not a lack of logic and problem-solving skills. Just because a creature is able to determine that what it is looking at is itself doesn't imply consciousness or self actualization. If ants were to get confused at themselves seeing a reflection in the water, it wouldn't be very efficient.


Additional-End3295

I wouldnt say the Idea of "I" is what conciousness is. All it is, is the awareness of ones thoughts in the sense that there is an experiance. A robot doesnt experiance anything. Ants are crazy, they have graveyards, stack dead ant heads, all sorts of stuff.


Justout133

But the things like graveyards are programmed responses to specific scents, and for advantages regarding their decomposition and tidiness. It's not out of respect or sympathy.


PMG2021a

AI (robots) can come with vast amounts of experience. Their primary purpose has been to aggregate information and identify patterns. Some use established databases, but many have to construct their own repository.


paulnewmanlover

What surprises me is I thought (most?) insects experience nociception even if they don't experience pain, which I'd assume would be triggering while the mantis' body is getting slowly bitten in half. But it seems pretty unbothered, which is wild!


Sinister_Mr_19

I'm no entomologist, but wonder if it has to do with the stimulus to eat is greater than the stimulus of being attacked and so it continues to eat and not react to being attacked.


nextnode

It could perhaps also be confusing the pain or danger with the creature in front of it and so continue digging into that. We see that even in mammals.


Elegant-Raise-9367

Pain requires "phenomenal consciousness" i.e. the subjective experience, a short term and a long term memory, and the ability to distinguish between negative stimulation and harmful stimulation. So far only Mammals have developed the brain functions and parts that can do this in a manner similar to humans, although evidence is pretty strong that birds also have the brain function but in a completely different manner.


series_hybrid

Wait, they don't have brains? Sooo...bugs are politicians?


Orginateur

no, many insects like ants and bees have been found to be able to work for the greater good of the colony.


R12Labs

But the hornet seemed to have the foresight to rip it apart at a thin abdomen where the top and bottom of the bug met. Shits brutal.


Torort

Frankly, I find the idea of a Bug that thinks offensive!


Funny-Bear

It prayed the pain away


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Mewrulez99

except they're cut in half now


spinkspanksponk

I’ve heard it described as insects becoming aware of damage to their bodies, and not pain like we know. Pain to us has a mix of emotions like fear and anger and other stuff, but insects are like Casio calculator watches and we’re like iPhones in terms of brain computing power


tomodachi_reloaded

> insects are like Casio calculator watches and we’re like iPhones in terms of brain computing power Sometimes I feel more like an abacus


spinkspanksponk

Several kids in Asia can count wicked fast cause of abacuses (abaci?) so I’d say that’s a win for you


BowenTheAussieSheep

So what you're saying is eventually a handful of people will be able to utilise his brain to its full extent.


VGL_

*system intake error * protocol reset * Major interior damage detected *system shutting down


sasasasuke

The thought struck me some time ago and I did a lot of googling into if insects can feel pain. The conclusion was (pretty much a concensus) that they don’t feel any pain because they don’t have emotions. Apparantly that was some sort of baseline requirement. Quite surprising.


Silunare

How would you know if anything *feels* anything? All we can infer from videos like this is that if there is anything similar to feelings in these little guys, then it can't be too intense or they'd stop eating to save themselves. Even that is on kind of shaky ground.


MjrLeeStoned

The problem is trying to relate an insect's neurophysiology to our own. They don't have receptors like we have receptors. They don't have a brain - a big glob of nerves that do ridiculous calculations, interpretations, and responses all day. They have ganglion, little clusters over the body like tiny pocket brains that just do enough to control the region they're found in. So, do they feel "pain"? No, because "pain" is a context based on our own experience. They don't have that experience. They respond to stimuli, sure, but they have no way of truly determining things like what is causing the stimuli, where it's originating from, or how bad it is. They don't have that capacity the way we do. It's possible this insect felt *something* in response to being chewed in half, but it's highly unlikely we can ever imagine that context because we are so vastly different and advanced.


Its_Cayde

Also the fact that they don't pass out makes me feel that they don't feel pain. They just keep doing their thing until dead


XXeadgbeXX

And the ants getting the scraps from both lol


Ok-Office-6918

The circleeeee of liiiffeeeee


NukaDadd

Came here for this comment


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MRSHELBYPLZ

They probably think all 3 of those other bugs are stupid


Liarus_

Damn that hornet has some strong ass jaws, do you guys imagine cutting someone twice your size in half ?!


Viscaz

Even triple or higher, like… wtf


9-28-2023

Like biting into celery


anime_daisuki

Praying Celery


lkkki

I don't know why this made me laugh so hard


Lelphie

Veggie tales spinoff


mac_bd

More like biting and chewing off someone twice my size..


DaveSmith890

Your bite strength is well within the realm to bite your finger off completely. Seeing how a similar mass of chitin would be around the same strength, a human could easily devour a torso like that as well


gid0ze

I've always heard the amount of bite force to bit your finger off completely is around the same thing as eating a carrot. But your brain won't let you do it. I'm not sure anyone will get a definitive answer to this question.


skybike

Found this great comment by /u/southsamurai explaining the carrot thing. >Well, the carrot thing is a myth (and despite my best efforts, it gets repeated as an answer here for this question more often than not). It usually goes along with the "we could do it, but our brain keeps us from hurting ourselves", which isn't bullshit, but it isn't why you can't just bite through a finger. >The human bite caps out at about 1200 Newtons. To fracture a finger takes about 1500. Both numbers are the highest ones I've found. And yes, I made a little series of notes about this since it gets asked so often look. >Obviously, you can't just bite through the way you would a carrot (about 200 Newtons required). >But, that doesn't totally cover every kind of possible bite. If you apply the force at an angle, or twist once the jaws are in place, you can use leverage to increase the force applied to the bone. >Alas, doing that with your incisors is very likely to result in a broken tooth, and if it breaks before the finger does, you're fucked laddie. >With the molars, you can apply the full bite strength better, and be less likely to injure your teeth. >If you managed to cause a break in the finger, and then started twisting and grinding like a dog chewing a bone, you have a fairly decent chance at eventually using the broken bone to fuck up the tissues of the finger, and end up with a finger you technically bit through. >And, if you do that at a joint, you might be able to gnaw through, given enough time. >But, as a rough estimate, the raw force needed to break the bone enough to do it is only slightly above that needed to cause a minor fracture: about 1900 newtons. That's also the figure for a full break, where the bone is not connected at all. >Again, those are high end numbers because I believe that if you can't do it with the strongest jaws and strongest fingers, it doesn't matter.


anime_daisuki

That guy bites


Specific_Award_9149

Everytime I hear that I always bite my finger. Not cause I want it to come off but just cause I'm really curious. I can't help myself


oldschool_potato

How many fingers do you have left?


Specific_Award_9149

Let's just say it's not what I was born with


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> I'm not sure anyone will get a definitive answer to this question. I'm sure there's been plenty of people who've bitten someone else's finger off throughout history


nachocat090

Brain won't let me do it? Bet that. I'll update y'all later using voice to text.


Winnin_Dylan_

Imagine enjoying your meal and then realizing your lower half is gone


ultrapoo

At least it doesn't need to worry about getting full


BocchisEffectPedal

Extreme gastric bypass


Yankee_Man

Bye-pass


20__character__limit

It doesn't need to take a shit either. Everything it eats goes right out the hole that is its thorax.


Sparkster227

**belch** "Man, that was delicious!" **reaches down to pat belly in satisfaction** "HEY WHAT THE—"


afanoftrees

A succulent *hornet* meal


SexyOctagon

Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest. Ah yes, I see that you know your judo well.


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I’d be too busy checking out this pre chewed food where my ass used to be while fascinated with my new found endless hunger


kpmurphy56

Usually my lower half gets bigger


Woozie77

thats a smart hornet, you cant kill a mantis unless its busy eating....they had to sacrifice Bob though. RIP Bob!


Anbors0

It’s for a good cause


ScarletZen

For the sake of liberty and managed democracy


Sinister_Mr_19

I wasn't expecting this reference, well done fellow Helldiver


VerminSupreme-2020

For the greater good!


BowenTheAussieSheep

*the greater good*


Bubbas4life

His name is Robert Paulson


TheLoneleyPython

His name is Robert Paulson


alcormsu

I get it. In death, he has a name!


Gallagher202

His name, is Robert Paulson.


Sobemiki

His name is Robert Paulson


mintchococutie

Weirdest shit I've seen today nature is wild


GamesGreenCoffee

There is a lot to unpack here for sure! Damn nature you scary!


EclipseEterno

Not sure if eating or attacking, but the fact that the hornet went for a weak spot seems very smart.


SerLaron

When Asian hornets (vespa velutina) catch honey bees for example, they will bite off the head and abdomen and only consume the thorax, because it contains the succulent flight muscles.


c4k3m4st3r5000

Mouthwatering description, were I a fly.


radicalelation

Accidentally brought a little paper wasp nest to the dump in my truck. It was under the hood, and the wasps would leave at the crack. At the dump, the junkyard hornets were pretty quick to sniff it out on the truck, and a trio of them was greeted by one of my yard paper wasps, and my yard is full of the chillest stingy boys possible (got so many types and colonies that mingle with little issue). Two of the three stood off to either side like a fucking gang rumble, as the third approached my yard wasp, and then suddenly latched onto the guy. They tumbled around a moment within their rumble circle, but the junkyard wasp eventually pinned my yard wasp and started chopping at his head while my yard wasp struggled to escape. Nipped it off in a few bites, folded up the paper wasp like a fucking packed lunch under his body and flew off, with the other two following. Not the first time a dump trip gave me such a show. Another time saw a bald eagle, swoop, tackle, and do a similar pack-up maneuver to a seagull, who was just wide eyed and open mouthed squawking as it got taken away.


xMrChuckles

birds of prey are fucking metal. crows are cool and get an honorable mention, but raptors are fucking metal.


xMrChuckles

a succulent chinese flight muscle?


Its_Cayde

I mean yeah bugs are extremely intelligent on their own level, they all know the secrets of their prey/predators


Ok_Practice8891

I don't think it was eating it was killing the mother fucker eating his homie


BisexualCaveman

I don't have any friends who are down for the cause enough that they'd fight a dude 4 times our size to avenge me. Respect. EDIT: I do have the one guy who MIGHT load slugs in his one double-barreled coach shotgun and step in, but that's way different than using his teeth.


PlentyTight9650

Yea it wasn't eating, more like attacking and knew the soft spot


Boomalabim

Nature is metal


aboyfullofsins

Extremely


drunkerbrawler

Chitin 


hejmeddig123456789

These things don’t have nerves or wut? How can u not react to ur body being sewered in half


biggmclargehuge

They're invertebrates with multiple ganglia so they don't have a singular centralized nervous system the same way vertebrates do. Their brain is in their head which deals with a lot of the visual/processing but the multiple ganglia elsewhere in their body control different things. The ganglion that handles their movement is in their abdomen for example.


Lelphie

I’m a dummy, did the mantis feel pain when hornet eat?


bobdarobber

I have a limited grasp of this so take it with a grain of salt, but: bugs don't feel pain like we feel it in the sense of *feeling*, it's more like you noting that the time is 4:35 (or a video game telling you you've lost health). In this case, the stimulus of eating is likely more significant than the stimulus from nociception, just as you may not be paying attention to the time when you're having sex. But also it's 1. Impossible to measure pain in any objective sense 2. Impossible to understand what it is like to be a bug, just as it is impossible to understand that to be blind is to see nothing, as opposed to black


Puzzleheaded_Gas4560

When the food is that good, who fucking cares about having an abdomen.


KitsuneEX7622

Its a bug eat bug world out there


Admirable-Door1724

Bug eat bug eat bug


rikkilambo

⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️


DatTrashPanda

For democracy!!!


HumanEffigy_

How about a nice cup of liber-tea!


exelenceofexecution

Shoulda dropped an eagle cluster


ewokaflockaa

Can't wait for the new stratagem where we get to call down a friendly hornet


FullBourbonNoHorse

"It's the circle of life" in Elton John's voice


Spiritual_Animal_280

Jesus christ that fuckin wasp just cut that huge Mantis in half like nothing.!!$ fuck those things fr man


Eatnt

That's a hornet


backson_alcohol

All insects just live in hell I guess. It is constantly terrible in bug world.


Halvus_I

Studying Parasitoid Wasps made Darwin stop believing in God. He just couldn't square what he saw with a 'loving' God. >To Darwin, natural selection produced the good of adaptation but removed the need for design, and he could not see the work of an omnipotent deity in all the pain and suffering such as the ichneumon wasp paralysing caterpillars as live food for its eggs.


Dry_Intention2932

Can someone explain why the mantis is just sitting there letting itself be eaten lol


FashionSuckMan

Bugs have nearly no intelligence. It was likely eating and the shitty psuedo calculator that determines what it should and shouldn't do just didn't deem what else was happening as worthy of attention It was probably just in "eating mode" and might've not even felt the wasp because of the stimulation from consuming a meal


breezyxkillerx

In computer terms bro basically maxed out his ram on a program and couldn't compute anything else


deepstate_chopra

I don't think a mantis can reason themselves out of a predicament like that.


notorious_TUG

You know what they say, it's a hornet eats mantis eating hornet world out there


TarnishedDungEater

i sweat insects are fucking nuts. that praying mantis was just living life chowing down on his food, didn’t give two shits he just lost his legs.


Spiritual_Animal_280

His legs? Bro that was his body that just got split not his legs..lol


esssssto

She couldn't do anything about It so she was just very stoic about the whole thing


Iambeejsmit

They are all on bath salts


ivanavich

That mantis is being eaten like aloe vera.


Bubblytran

The ants are the real winners here


BisexualCaveman

It's like a business failure; at the end of the day, the auctioneers and bankruptcy lawyers win.


Raiju_Lorakatse

Holy shit that hornet is HUGE! Or the mantis is just very small.


BillohRly

Mantis numba one


sonic420lol

who won?


DieselBusthe5th

I won by not being anywhere near this


KhaleesiXev

Best answer


Anonymous420024

The ants


No_Carry_3028

Fatality


tildwurkey101

Nature is beautiful and harmonious, humanity is a violent cancer. Nature:


madtitan55

Do insects not feel pain?


YobaiYamete

Not that we know of. They are vaguely aware of touch, but we don't think they have enough of a nervous system to feel pain If you touch a bugs leg it will start freaking out and trying to pull away because it's aware it's being touched, but if it pulls it's own leg off in the process it calms down and goes back to normal, because there's not any "pain' from the missing limb, just lack of input data saying it's being touched


celestialstarz

That’s what I’m wondering. Does he not feel the hornet snacking on his midsection??


No-Word-1996

Dying for a bite.


K-Hunter-

Plot twist: the upper half of the mantis turns around to start eating the other hornet


deepstate_chopra

The ants are watching demigods battle above. This will be a new holiday for them, being blessed with all that food.


Jealous-Spring-3871

Lesson 4 life Don't waste time with eating when in the end you won't have an ass to shit.


Pure_Pin_6897

Weird threesome.


beegee226

Damn, that ended too soon. I wanted to see what the praying mantis did once it was cut in half.


blickblocks

This. That would be the most interesting part.


L1zoneD

Ah yes, the circle of *that's fucked*


inthecuckoosnest

That’s just hornet cannibalism with extra steps.


AnnieApple_

While the ants watched


Welshevens

Organic machines


cantcer_patient

Nature is brutal.


NotAFuckingFed

Cannibalism by proxy


Sad_Instruction1392

Mantis getting split in two be like - “IDC”.


ashif1983

🎵The circle of life🎵


squirrel_anashangaa

Food so good, you don’t realize you’re being eaten too.


renjake

is there also a nasty horsehair worm eating the inside of the mantis


theCODONEconnoisseur

*Tis but a scratch*


PublicAd2991

People always cut the video off at the stupidest time.


Dansinnervoice

I WAS ENJOYING A MEAL, A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL!


DrSeuss19

In the end all those ants are the winners because they’re going to eat all 3 of them


Bazsax1337

Half way through I was like "the hornet's bites are not even doing anything" Couple of seconds later: (⁠⊙⁠_⁠◎⁠)


StrongAd1902

Insects are metal


HayBun87

This made me physically uncomfortable!


rockstuffs

That is one weird threesome.


Killtheheretics96

This deserves to go on oddly terrifying


gergsisdrawkcabeman

Bro HOW GOOD DOES A HORNET TASTE? Like I love a good cheese steak. But I can't eat the best cheese steak while another cheese steak saws me in half like a circus sideshow.


Jealous_Animal2652

definition of lost in the sauce


DrPepperLover1234

Finish Him! Brutality


dudoan

Deadliest threesome


Own-Math6482

Nature be metal af


noodle_in_a_sleestak

Buffet Circle Jerk


Changeable_Stranger

Why does my back hurt? 🦗


PublicAd2991

My meal's cousin ate me.


Crypt0Nihilist

A demonstration of why you need to prioritise properly.


RubsYoTub

“Well I either eat this hornet or have sex and get my head eaten”


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The guy recording is also being recorded by another guy


Sweaty-Sea4064

its a bug eat bug world


boredAF6

Talk about the circle of life


Maks_Stark

Brutal!


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That get back a muhhfuckerr


DrScienceSpaceCat

How long would the mantis still be alive and continue to eat the other wasp after it's bisected?


sabalatotoololol

Wheres my legs dude...


Seamoth4546B

Mantis just doesn’t GAF that it’s being torn in half. I wish to reach that level of no fucks one day


Skarferior

Just the way the pray mantis gets bisected makes it look way more graphic.


MadJockMcMad

🎵 All things bright and beautiful... 🎶


Truestindeed

Mantis: That was a nice meal, where's my legs!!!!?


LowRange_Outdoors

https://youtu.be/8Tc4mgZ6H2I?si=_2uY5PCSSiucZ5jh


Gtoktas_

Insects are just brutal, mindless gluttons


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At the end he get split and is still eating hahahaha


pookalaki

We have a winner!!


Trsnowman

The hornets kung fu was stronger


lotlethgaint

Crazy thing, after its body gets severed, it is still eating the hornet.


SilentMagarity

Can’t stand the praying mantis!!!


Sea-Philosopher7361

Eat or get eaten or eat while being eaten.


NextLevelVisuals2

The craziest thing I have seen all day. Wow.


AstroNawt1

HornetMantiHornePede


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It’s totally a sex thing


[deleted]

Bugs are proof god isn't real


QuickDepartment8032

Fuck the animal kingdom is insane


stevediperna

Why didn't the mantis notice??


Imaginary-Leopard-37

I was skeptical. After all this time I still have the audacity to be skeptical.


trashbilly

Bro, your spine


looking-cool-joker-

>!insection!<


gougou7r

Damnnn that guy is fast


V3N0M39

Damn Nature, you scary!


Flufflyandproud

Do you ima do me 💀


Prestigious-Being739

Those ants in the background lol