They're caterpillars that travel together.

Snakes, I just can't seem to fear them - They're just big caterpillars!

>> ^mxxcon:

fear
weird how slow it is and yet flies don't react to it


This needs a * timeshift tag.

>> ^ghark:

wow, that's actually pretty scary, it's like a cross between a snake and a Predator, we shall call it Snakator!


Predapillar?

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#combustion could work with a clarifying description, though I don't find it particularly interesting.

#irony might be more than the sift can handle. I can see vicious fights breaking out regularly over whether or not something is really ironic.

#insects would be another battlefront. I'd suggest making it #bugs instead if you went with this. Otherwise people will fight over whether or not critters like spiders, caterpillars, centipedes and scorpions belong in the channel.

#90s would be an easy one, though it doesn't excite me.

#indigenous could be pretty interesting, I think, with proper clarification. I like that it promotes new types of material instead of being just another category to put the same old crap we always sift in.

>> ^ponceleon:

Hmmm the classification or tags on this video are a philosophical mess. We are claiming that an animal is evil by the method of which it preys on its food source? Are lions evil? Cockroaches spread all sorts of disease, why isn't it "good" to mess with them?
Meh, very cool video, but I don't agree with stating that it is in any way "evil." Nature is nature


I can't help but think of the Ichneumon Wasp, another parisitoid wasp about which Charles Darwin wrote:

"I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars"

I agree with you that the wasp isn't evil or even malicious. But it is, intentionally or not, cruel. And I think it's one of the best instincts of humans that we are often troubled by the cruelty and suffering we see in nature.

How many caterpillars were killed in the making of this? I know I saw at least one robot die.

^well done averageuser! It does look like hag moth/monkey slug caterpillar (genus Phobetron). And several species are listed for Brazil (I'm assuming that's Portuguese in the video)... although I couldn't find a picture of this species. Here is another Brazilian species:
http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/ref-5615.htm
It is commonly guessed that they find some refuge from predators by resembling the discarded exoskeletons of spiders. I still say the one in the video looks like a bat.

tis a type of hag moth caterpillar....it can have a pretty fierce stinging rash ability if touched.... DONT TOUCH IT

def looks like a caterpillar pretending to be a bat.

Yeah, it looks to be a bat mimicking caterpillar.
Notice that it's walking on a palm leaf. Several species of bat partially chew through the base of palm fronds so that the fronds double over and form a tent that the bat can roost in during the day.

Couldn't find confirmation on google, but did find another person who also thinks this video is showing a bat mimic.

I'm going to go with caterpillar.

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