These Bugs Sent Me to the Hospital!

0:00 (intense music) (objects rumbling)- Slow down, slow down.

0:06 Geez, that makes me nervous!

0:08 (intense music) Oh!

0:12 (screen snaps) Where did he go, is he on me?

0:16 (intense music)- Well, this is gonna be an interesting episode because

0:19 I think it will probably be titled "The Only

0:22 Tom Coyote Peterson "Has Ever Had to go

0:24 The Hospital "For an Insect Bite or Sting".

0:28 And the bite wasn't given by an insect or an arachnid, bites were given by me.

0:32 So we're in Thailand right now.

0:34 And for the past four days,

0:36 I have pretty much been bed-stricken with some sort of horrible stomach virus.

0:42 I'm barely able to keep any food in, I'm exhausted,

0:45 I'm sweating, I have chills, I have muscle aches.

0:49 Just to walk out here to sit down

0:50 at this table (laughing) actually exhausted me a bit,

0:53 so if you notice my energy being a bit lower than it typically is in an episode,

0:57 it's probably because I haven't slept much.

1:00 We were in Thailand, Bangkok, to be specific,

1:02 and we thought it would be awesome to make

1:04 an episode that you guys probably already saw, which was,

1:06 "Coyote Peterson Biting Back At The Bugs That Bite Him",

1:09 where I ate 12 different species of insects,

1:12 and arachnids, and including a scorpion, a tarantula, and a centipede.

1:17 And in all fairness,

1:18 I didn't swallow necessarily all parts of those three big ones.

1:22 I don't know what was inside of that, but it's the worst, ugh!

1:27 I think they made me sick.

1:29 Right now, we're kind of assuming,

1:32 guessing, thinking for the purposes of production,

1:35 making, that the culprit for what's put me in this state of ailment.

1:39 But lo and behold, while we were on this location, as luck would have it,

1:44 our amazing friend Lockie from Australian Wildlife encounters

1:47 managed to find the three creatures that I ate,

1:50 only these ones are not dead, they're alive.

1:54 So if we figured there was ever a point for Coyote to just

1:56 sit behind a table and give a test of three different creepy crawlies,

2:01 free handling them, applying a little bit of pressure,

2:03 and finding out whether or not they're gonna bite or sting,

2:06 this would probably be it.

2:07 We're gonna start out with number one,

2:10 which also happens to be the first bug that I ate when I was thinking to myself,

2:14 "Hey, you know what?

2:15 A scorpion sting isn't that bad.

2:16 "Let me just chomp down on this giant scorpion." Well,

2:20 right here, my friends, we have a giant Asian forest scorpion.

2:25 Get this guy outta the container, I'll trying not to get stung in the process.

2:30 You'll notice the massive pinchers that this arachnid has.

2:35 And they are certainly capable of giving you

2:37 a really good pinch and a really solid sting.

2:41 The green coloration is really unique as compared

2:43 to a lot of scorpions we've seen elsewhere around the world.

2:46 But I think, the thing you're gonna notice first and foremost,

2:48 is just how big and creepy looking that bug is.

2:52 Now, I feel bad a bit that I had one of these on a skewer that was cooked,

2:56 and I put it in my mouth, and I crunched it up,

2:58 but what I did learn from that process is that they're incredibly durable.

3:02 That exoskeleton that covers the insect's entire body is so unbelievably rigid.

3:07 The claws, in fact, I was not capable of crushing with my teeth,

3:11 I'd say about as hard as a pistachio shell,

3:14 so that goes to show you that these arachnids are incredibly well built.

3:18 And I'm gonna turn a little bit like this.

3:20 Mario, maybe you can zoom in on that stinger; long, incredibly sharp.

3:25 Seems like it would probably give you a pretty nasty sting.

3:29 But the truth be told,

3:30 with most large scorpions like this, they rely on their padipalps

3:34 up front to be the main weapon that they use to kill,

3:38 crush, or decapitate their prey, so the sting, believe it or not,

3:42 is not nearly as potent as one might think.

3:45 Now, in order to test that sting,

3:47 rather to prove that the scorpion is not necessarily just out there to get ya,

3:51 I'm gonna apply some pressure to the front of its

3:54 head and see if it will voluntarily sting me.

3:58 Let's see what happens, here we go.

4:00 (intense music) (lip sucking) Could be bad.

4:02 I don't really wanna get stung by something while I'm feeling this sick,

4:04 but who knows, maybe the venom will help cure me a bit.

4:08 (intense music) Look at that, not a single defensive reaction.

4:15 It's basically just letting me push down on top of his body.

4:18 He's not even trying to pinch me.

4:20 Now, let's see what happens if I pick up

4:22 his tail and go ahead and let him pinch my finger.

4:24 Do you wanna pinch me?

4:25 Okay, he doesn't even really want to pinch.

4:27 He's trying to find something to get purchase with.

4:30 You don't even wanna pinch, I don't understand.

4:34 I'm holding you by your tail, and you're just like, "Nope, let me go.

4:37 I wanna walk around." Amazing,

4:39 this is something that you would look at and think to yourself,

4:41 "It's an absolute nightmare," but it has no interest in pinching or stinging.

4:45 Look at that.

4:46 I can just basically free-handle it in any way that I want.

4:49 And all it's trying to do is get me away from squeezing with my fingers.

4:54 I'm gonna try one more time, just a little bit further back towards

4:56 the stinger and see if we get different results.

4:58 (intense music) Absolutely nothing.

5:04 I mean, I think, I would physically have

5:06 to try to crush this arachnid to the point where

5:09 it felt it was going to be killed if

5:11 it was going to use that stinger as a defense.

5:13 Now, in a situation where I were to just uncover

5:16 this scorpion in its natural environment and catch it off guard,

5:20 it may be a bit more defensive, but since we've caught it,

5:22 we've had it in container, it's pretty calmed down.

5:24 And as you can see at this point,

5:26 it's doing a better job looking creepy than it is actually pinching or stinging,

5:30 so there you have it, giant forest scorpion,

5:33 not willing to just sting, unless extremely threatened.

5:37 And when it comes to eating things like this, could that be the culprit,

5:41 and all the goo that was inside of its body that caused

5:43 my stomach to be in the state of disrepair its in right now?

5:47 I don't know, but buddy, I'm sorry that I hate your cousin.

5:50 Just trust me, I'm paying for it today.

5:53 Put this guy back into his little container.

5:54 We'll let these guys all go back off into the wild this evening.

5:58 And number two is going to be something that I

6:00 was probably most dreading putting in my mouth, a tarantula.

6:05 I mean, just the idea of taking a tarantula

6:07 with all those urticating hairs on it, and cooking it up,

6:10 shoving it into your mouth; the fangs, abdomen,

6:14 thorax, who knows what's gonna be inside of that?

6:16 Actually, it was the tarantula up that I ranked

6:19 as one of the worst-tasting insects that I ate.

6:21 Oh!

6:22 Now, we've seen a couple of these in burrows in this area.

6:25 And we'll show you guys a cool experiment of how

6:28 if you tickle a stick around the outside of the burrow,

6:32 those tarantulas will actually spring up out of the hole and attack the stick.

6:37 (African rattling music) And I very well may do that with my finger too,

6:40 but we just haven't gotten to filming that yet.

6:42 (intense music) Aah!

6:44 (laughing) (Mario laughing) It's smacking me a little when he jumped.

6:49 This is the dumbest thing.

6:53 Come on buddy, let's hang out.

6:56 Get on my hand.

6:57 Ooh, it's so jumpy!

7:00 I got you, whoa, whoa!

7:03 Just like that, he jumped out.

7:04 No!

7:05 (intense music) He's like,

7:15 "This is my opportunity to make a run for it." Don't worry, I got him.

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9:01 Oh, bear!

9:04 But as you can see, even chasing after him like that, he didn't bite me.

9:09 Now, if I apply pressure to the spider's body, it may choose to bite.

9:13 And we'll try that in a second if I could get him to calm down.

9:17 Whoop, (intense music) not easy to free-handle one of these guys,

9:21 but the blue legs are the thing that I think is the absolute coolest.

9:25 And with the tarantula that I ate the other day,

9:28 it was definitely bigger than this tarantula, but when you look at the abdomen,

9:31 you can see whatever that's full of, and any of that getting

9:36 into my stomach could quite possibly have caused some sort of problems.

9:39 So I don't want to just blame the tarantula

9:42 because I feel bad that I even ate a tarantula,

9:45 but I have a feeling that just from the taste of what this one was,

9:49 it could be one of the top culprits for what made me as sick as a dog.

9:52 I don't know if you guys can see, but I'm dripping sweat right now.

9:55 Hopefully, is was what I'm even saying making sense at the moment?

9:59 I'm so delirious, hopefully, any of this is coming across in the right way,

10:02 but at least we've gotten spider to calm down, and I feel good about that.

10:06 So when you look at the design of this arachnid's body,

10:09 you see all of those little hairs, especially on the back of the abdomen.

10:12 And those urticating hairs are usually the number one defensive mechanism

10:15 that these spiders will use to ward off a potential predator.

10:19 A bite is usually only saved for inflicting a wound on a prey item,

10:25 so it's like a worst-case scenario that a tarantula like this would try to bite.

10:29 And what I am gonna try to do, same way that I did with the scorpion,

10:33 is I'm gonna apply a little bit of pressure to the thorax

10:36 of the spider and see whether or not it's gonna choose to inflict a bite.

10:41 Let's see what happens.

10:41 (intense music) Oh, you know what?

10:47 He did, he just bit my arm.

10:50 He definitely just bit my arm right there.

10:53 And now, he's crawling on my face.

10:55 So the tarantula did want to give me a little bite.

10:58 You guys didn't see that.

10:59 I barely even felt it.

11:00 I looked over, I was like, "Oh,

11:02 are those his legs or those his fangs?" But he got me right there,

11:07 and it basically feels like a bee sting.

11:09 Now, he's on my shoulder.

11:12 I really don't want you to come over here.

11:14 (intense music) He's all the way on my back.

11:20 Mario, can you come over and just coax him over to the front?

11:22 (intense music) I did not expect him to bite.

11:27 I honestly thought that the tarantula was gonna do nothing at all.

11:30 He is rather frisky though.

11:33 I'll keep him.

11:34 Come here, whoo, whoo, whoo.

11:37 And I always try to be extremely gentle with tarantulas because

11:41 their bodies are more fragile than a centipede or a scorpion.

11:46 But when I ate one the other day,

11:49 I was surprised to see how rigid those legs and that thorax was.

11:53 The abdomen definitely squished like a gusher,

11:56 but when it comes to the rest of its body,

11:59 much more resilient than you would think, so there you have it.

12:02 Tarantulas, more likely to try to skitter off than they are to bite.

12:06 We're gonna let you go in just a few minutes back in your box.

12:09 (intense music) Well, we'll look at this in a second.

12:17 It is starting to swell up a little bit.

12:19 Now, (clears throat) the next thing that's coming out

12:24 of the box is going to be a centipede.

12:27 And Lockie caught this centipede the other day while looking for some snakes.

12:31 And it's not the most colorful, but it's still a centipede!

12:35 And you guys know how much I do not like getting bitten by centipedes,

12:39 so fortunately, it's been staying pretty calm.

12:44 I'm gonna attempt to free-handle it,

12:46 and try that same idea of, "If you apply a little pressure,

12:50 is it gonna bite?" We know because centipede bites are so bad.

12:54 Actually, my hand is starting to hurt a little bit from the tarantula.

12:56 I'm not gonna lie, a little bit more than I thought,

12:59 but still about on par for bee sting,

13:01 but I know the bite from this would be significantly worse!

13:05 So I'm not gonna necessarily take a bite intentionally, but you know what?

13:09 I kinda deserve to get bitten by all of them, having eaten one of their cousins.

13:14 Oh!

13:15 (vomits) Let's see if little centipede wants to come out and play.

13:19 Come on, buddy.

13:20 Oh, this makes me nervous.

13:24 (objects rumbling) (mouth blows) Ah, slow down,

13:38 slow down, slow down, slow down, slow, slow.

13:43 Not at my shirt, slow down, slow down.

13:49 Oh, geez, that makes me nervous.

13:51 You see how fast they move and how

13:53 quickly you've gotta move from one hand to another?

13:56 And so far, even after even plopping onto the table

14:00 and me getting it up and off the ground, (sighs) still haven't been bitten.

14:04 Now, I'm sweating bullets because I have no idea

14:07 how potent the venom of this centipede species is, so it just makes me nervous.

14:16 Sweating bullets over here guys.

14:19 No, no, no, no, I don't want you going up my shirt!

14:20 Whoo, that feels so weird!

14:22 Now, their legs have these tiny little hooks on them,

14:24 as of course we've talked about in previous episodes.

14:26 And that's what makes these myriapods so scary,

14:30 is you feel like the second they latch on, you can't get them off.

14:36 But lo and behold, here we have a centipede freely

14:40 walking all over me without it necessarily wanting to bite.

14:45 And I'll try to stay focused because if I don't, it might fall off my hand.

14:49 And try to pick it up off the ground again is definitely gonna cause it to, ooh,

14:56 it's risky little game there, whoop!

15:00 Now, (sighs) I'm gonna say this quietly so the centipede doesn't hear me.

15:04 When I bit into the centipede the other day,

15:07 I bit the head off to start with, and it was very crunchy.

15:11 And the fangs themselves are incredibly rigid.

15:15 Those fangs are actually modified legs that produce venom.

15:21 And one of the coolest things about

15:22 centipedes is that their heads and their tails,

15:26 essentially the backend of them looks identical.

15:28 And that's something called defensive mimicry.

15:30 So that if a predator comes into the environment,

15:32 it may think that this end is the head and bite there,

15:34 then the centipede can swing around...

15:36 Oh, (chair falling) ah, (laughing) he went through my shirt!

15:43 Where did he go, where did he go?

15:47 Is he on me?

15:51 [Trent] He went and took off.

15:52 Is he still on you?

15:54 I don't know.

15:54 He went up my neck.

15:57 No, I saw him fall down here.

15:59 Where did he go?

16:03 Are you sure he is not on me?

16:04 Yeah, I saw him fall.

16:08 [Mario] You'll soon find out if he's on you.

16:14 Oh, as soon as it got by my neck I freaked out!

16:20 How could it disappear that quick?

16:23 There's no way.

16:26 Maybe he's in my pocket.

16:30 You guys saw him on the ground?

16:32 I'm pretty sure.

16:33 [Mario] I did not see him on the ground.

16:35 I mean, I feel like if he was in your shirt,

16:36 you'll still feel him moving, right?

16:38 [Mario] Maybe.

16:39 I would say take off your vest just to look.

16:43 Is he on my back?

16:45 [Mario] No.

16:49 Yo, that's the disappearing centipede.

16:52 Maybe I'm just delirious 'cause I'm sick.

16:54 That really just happened?

16:56 Okay, (laughing) wow.

16:58 [Mario] Now, if I were you,

16:59 I would go inside and double-check everything real quick.

17:01 Yeah.

17:02 Why don't you do that?

17:03 Wait, hold on, just keep the cameras rolling, keep it rolling.

17:05 Just here, Mario, just investigate into my shirt.

17:08 Make sure he is not in here.

17:12 I don't, I feel like he'd be crawling, though.

17:15 Is he in my boot?

17:17 [Mario] Honestly, though, you gotta check your pants.

17:22 Oh my god, that'd be so terrifying.

17:24 Nope, that's not a centipede!

17:26 Oh my god, that was so crazy!

17:28 I don't know how that just happened.

17:30 That thing ran up my neck, I jumped out of the chair, and it disappeared.

17:36 That's why you don't make episodes when you're sick.

17:38 I'm sitting back down.

17:39 We've have officially lost the centipede,

17:42 unless it magically reappears and bites me.

17:47 (sighs) Oh, empty container,

17:51 but that goes to show you something really important.

17:54 That centipede was far more interested in escaping than it was biting me.

17:58 And how did I react?

17:59 The way people typically react when a centipede runs onto their body.

18:04 And that's how people get bitten.

18:06 You see something like that, and you start smacking at it!

18:08 I wanted to start smacking at it, and I knew not to!

18:11 That was just my natural reaction.

18:13 And I jumped up out of the chair, (laughing) not very bravely,

18:18 but I didn't want it to go down my shirt!

18:20 (sighs) Sometimes if you just remain calm,

18:25 the animal is trying to do nothing more than get away.

18:28 And what do we just prove?

18:30 That all three of these creatures,

18:32 arachnids and myriapods typically don't want anything to do with humans.

18:36 And they will only bite as a last resort to get away.

18:40 In the instance of the tarantula,

18:41 it used its fangs more as a gripping mechanism than it did

18:45 to actually give me a predatory bite or maybe even a defensive bite.

18:49 I am dripping bullets with sweat.

18:52 And we have booked me an appointment in Bangkok.

18:55 Tomorrow, I will be going to the hospital to get medication.

18:59 And we'll probably wrap up this episode

19:01 with that experience and what I end up getting

19:04 prescribed that will hopefully bring an end

19:06 to the situation that is happening with my stomach.

19:08 But I think the moral of this story is,

19:11 be humble in all instances because it was fun and games

19:15 when we were at the market eating insects and I was saying,

19:18 "Coyote Peterson finally gets to bite back at the bugs,

19:21 but lo and behold, it's the bugs that got the final chomp.

19:25 And now, since having eaten those bugs,

19:27 that's gonna be the first time I get sent

19:29 to the hospital for doing one of these crazy stunts.

19:32 I'm Coyote Peterson.

19:34 Be brave, stay wild.

19:37 We'll see you on the next adventure.

19:39 (sighs) I don't know what to do.

19:40 (bright music) So I just saw the doctor.

19:45 He was very helpful.

19:46 I'm getting prescribed three medications just to be safe.

19:49 One that I'll take for five days just as a contingency,

19:52 and the other two will be backups just in the event

19:54 that for some reason vomiting or massive diarrhea comes back,

19:58 but I think, I'm in the clear on those too.

20:00 It sounds like it was probably just extreme food poisoning,

20:03 which could've been bacteria on the outside of the insects' exoskeletons.

20:08 So the moral of the story is, bugs are friends, not food.

20:12 (logo rumbling) (birds chirping) (gentle music)