Really cute, actually, for something so ugly. I'm hoping that in my older senility that's what's going to happen to me as well. Parties will just watch you ingest and think, "Oh, that's cute." Yeah, "He ate so fast." In a instant, we're going to do an experiment displaying the mouth of a Mata Mata turtle. But first, we spoke to a bloke called Webster. - He'll be right with us. - Okay. - Webster, how's it going? - Good.
Good, good. Get a couple of questions for you about our quick animals. First of all, chameleon-- how does it actually controls stuff with its tongue? Okay, so the tongue enclose the prey. So it's the saliva that's sticky. So after it enclose, the saliva does the job. Okay. Have you ever had your finger hit by one of them? - Yeah. - Is it disgusting? - No. - No? It's fine? - No, it's fine. - It feels good? It doesn't feeling all right, but it's not disgusting. It'd be weird if it felt good. - Ooh. - Ooh, that's nice. How quick is a chameleon's tongue? Webster: So there is an opportunity project it out at 97 kilometres per hour within 1/100 th of a second. - Wait, so-- - That's-- that's insanity. So how does it actually get that quicken with its tongue? They have accelerated muscles within their mouth which shoot the tongue out.
Yeah, I find on the footage it's almost like there's a rigid table within the tongue that it fuels off, and then when it's raveling it in, it's still strict. What is that within the tongue? Is it like a bone or-- Oh, it's not actually bone. - It's cartilage. Yeah. - It's cartilage. So it's almost like your nose. It's, like, a strict ... - Yeah. - ... hard-handed nose flake. Except I can't shoot my nose off.
It's big enough, I'd say. It kind of was like that. Offensive. I conceive my favorite mortal we filmed today was the Mata Mata turtle. Do you mean your favorite as in, like, it was cute? I just liked everything about it. It's such an interesting path to chew. - Yeah? - Yeah,' cause the amount of work it abruptly gets. It doesn't have a highly fatty neck until it sucks all that liquid. Dan: Then it gets a fatty cervix immediately. Gav: Highly jowly all of a sudden. Where do it is usually find those turtles? They're found in the rivers and rivers of South America in the Amazon. So they are only sit in-- they just wait for material to hover by in the flow? Yeah, because of how they gape. - They look like baked buds. - Yeah. Webster: And their noses are like straws with a hit out. Gav: It approximately had a minuscule pig nose almost. - Webster: Yeah. - It was very similar. When they poke their snouts out, the target can't see them. So it's almost like they use it as a snorkel and they just-- it's like a camouflage snorkel.
I feel like if you merely recognized the foreman, you'd remember, "What am I looking at? " Dan: A needle. We recognized that when the Gaboon Viper hit, it left a little bit of toxin on the holder for the mouse. How much toxin does it commonly insert into a target? They can administer however much they demand. Sometimes they don't inject at all. But a full grown-up Gaboon Viper can administer about this much. That's about six milliliters. It's enough to put down a pig elephant. - Yeah. - That seems superfluous. Well, you know, wouldn't have to-- - wouldn't have to hunt for the rest of his life. - Hungry snake. That's so much. Like, visually that's so much. Realize that in your veins. - Oh. - You'd be toast. How long-- if everything there is went into you, - how long would you have to live? - I don't know. I don't think anyone has tried and lived to tell. It's probably a good thing that we don't know that. - Thanks very much, Webster, for your help today. - No problem.
It's been interesting. - Had a lot of fun. - Back to you Gav and Dan. - Thanks, us. Now that we're back and we've got all our footage downloaded, why don't we era accurately - how long that snake strike was? - Yeah, sounds good. Let's take a look. Here is our Gaboon Viper footage. So, on paper, these bad sons ten-strike at between 500 ths and 900 ths of a second. - Is that right? - Yes, it is. Okay, so we've got our timecode up now, and we'll romp and we'll occasion it. You'll notice that there's absolutely no pre-movement. It's from zero to "I'm eating the rat." Dan: It precisely looks like the rest of everything is completely frozen , not moving in time.
So, 40 -- - Gav: It's pretty much in. Dan: Yeah, he hasn't impressed down yet. That's 50 -- so that's the minimum. There "theres going". Gav:. 06 of a second. - Tell you what we should do. - Yeah? Your blink from birds. Three, two, one, continue. - Absolutely demolished me. - Right? - Yeah? - We'll frisked it side by side. - Be a good likenes. - And we'll see if you blink, do you actually miss it? I feel like I'm gonna lose again here. Gav: And extend.( chiptunes playing) Okay, so we've learned a lot about our serpent. Why don't we now go the tongue of the chameleon? - Okay. - That'll be good. Chameleon's up. It's got a nice little blap going on. - Blap? - Bleh. He's already sort of got his tongue out a little bit - as, like, a pre-bang. - Yeah. He sort of easy the tongue out, and it's-- Bap! All right, let's play this. So, the actual shoot off bit is cruel swiftly. 40 milliseconds from when he's sort of like-- to when he actually smashed the bug.
He's faster than the Gaboon Viper.( chiptunes toy) - So he's winning so far? - Yep, he's winning. Let's have a look at the turtle. Turtle's up. We're gonna start the timer right before his gob starts moving. - Okay. - "Gob" is English for "mouth." Okay, let's play it. So, I suspect this one would vary depending on the dimensions of the the fisheries industry, but, yeah, - about 8/ 100 ths of a second? - Yeah.( chiptunes playing) So the move of all these animals, if we included up these amounts of time-- - it's less than a second. - Yeah. Why don't we, in real hour, represent each one back to back? That was immediate. - Wasn't that quick? - It was speedy. All privilege, shall we now move on to our turtle venture? - Yeah. - All title. Glance, okay, I lost the blink to the fledgling. - Yeah. - I want to claw one back. So you think you can beat sea turtles? Give me assure. Let's placed some popcorn on now. I'm gonna try and suck it into my lump quicker than sea turtles did.
Bit smaller than a fish. Bit lighter. - Not actually a fair analogy. - Just film it. I'll get on the camera. All right, Dan, a thousand frames a second. Let's see if you're faster than a turtle. Ready after you. All right, I suspect. Okay. -( coughs) -( giggles) That was actually quite good.( Dan chokes, groans) Slow motion gold. - Did I prevail? - Well, let's see. Let's see. Did you win? I'll tell you what, it's pretty-- it's up there. But anything can be quick if you simply do it - a millimeter through the breath. - Oh! -( Dan sighs) - End of venture? - Yes. - Gav: Yeah. Well, there we go. Today we learned a great deal about quick animals and a lot about Dan's mouth. A little too much about my mouth. - Way too much. - All right. Hopefully, you enjoyed that video, feel free to subscribe to the Slow Mo Guys, and make sure you check out other incidents from "Planet Slow Mo" over here. Yeah. - Dan says yeah. - Yeah . .
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