Finding the Worst Smelling Lifeform

What’s that smell?? Knowledge! In this video, we get into the smelliest organisms on this planet.

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[nschmidt]

I'll say it again, the dry humor on this channel is a masterpiece and I hope it doesn't change

[phileon]

Can't believe you forgot about the discord mod, who's also closely related to the the reddit mod, two of the smelliest creature possible.

[teotlxixtli]

I work at a pet store and people constantly bitch about how bad ferrets stink. Some guy will wander into the store in a wifebeater and Cookie Monster pajama pants open carrying his pistol stinking like pall malls and an Olympic pools worth of sweat but yeah that little ferret reeks bro

[davidkulmaczewski]

I went to the Cleveland Zoo back in the late 90's soon after they opened an indoor "rainforest" exhibit. As soon as you walked in, you got hit with a brutally nasty stench. Really, really bad. Lots of zoo animals stink, especially those kept inside. But this was exceptionally vile. Downright unnatural. Thank God I can't remember what it smelled like -- and I won't try to conjure the memory -- but I do remember it stunk terribly, all the way through the exhibit. And when we got to the end, where the stench seemed the worst.... there was some kind of anteater. So anteaters get my vote.

[evilcow]

I met someone who had the mutation that made skunk smell like honeyed onion sauce. So when he got sprayed he had to ask others when it became tolerable.

[notamoose]

Some fly traps have a dormant bacterial powder in them, and when you add water, the culture comes to life and starts emitting a horrid rotten stench that flies can't get enough of, because it smells like decay - it's like a fly dinner bell. But if you really need to get rid of flies, it works like a charm.

[diebesgrab]

There’s definitely something weird going on with the smell of durian. Most people, even those who like how it tastes, don’t like the smell, but there are a few people, myself among them, who like the smell of fresh durian and don’t smell all the weird stuff that people attribute to the smell, like sweat or whatever. I don’t even like eating durian—more the texture than the taste, though I don’t like the taste much, either—but I find fresh durian quite pleasant smelling.

I wonder if it’s sort of like how there are people who can taste some weird compounds in coriander/cilantro and hate it, and others who can’t and find it really tasty.

[redcloud]

I worked in a Boba Tea place for awhile once; and we could make Durian smoothies (which were delicious!) and i didn't really mind the smell; but it literally did smell just like a gas leak. EVERY TIME, someone ordered it, a nearby white person would panic and be like "THERES A GAS LEAK" and get angry when we kept telling them it was just the Durian lol. Every time. TBH im kind of craving a durian smoothie now...

[threebythestreet]

It would be interesting if you made a video called like "Fossils Lost To TIme" or somthing like that where you would talk about fossils that have been documented but no longer seem to exist like the S. aegyptiacus that was blown up during WW2, the maraapunisaurus fossil that people think disintegrated, or other possibly more ancient examples of people discovering fossils that are now lost to history.

[beautyonabarnbudget]

Fun fact: some people think durian smells and tastes like vanilla, pineapple, mango custard. Others think it smells and tastes like rotting garbage. Now, the reason why it can differ soooo wildly may have something to do with our genes! Much like our gene dependent smell and taste of cilantro. Some taste and smell dish soap. Others-herby deliciousness ! Our senses are amazing

[WAMTAT]

Just imagine Hugh Jackman running at you smelling like old cheese. Truly frightening

[beautyonabarnbudget]

I am a super smeller. I lost my sense of smell with covid and only recovered about 70% of my smell two years later. But, i am EXTREMELY thankful for this! As most of earth and everything on it stinks. I walked around most days of my life nauseous from smelling awful smells of life. Now, i can walk around not on the verge of 🤮 because my sense of smell has lessened.

[rojopantalones]

My little sister and I were hanging out with some friends in the woods. Usual early teens in the early 2000's behavior. Anyways, she came across a baby skunk. I told her to leave it alone, at most admire it from a distance. My little sister being who she is, she refused to listen to me and continued to pester it by being very close and keeping it somewhat cornered. "Aww, it's doing a handstand!" For the uninitiated, that's threat posturing and the final warning a skunk will give. At this point, I had decided to let her suffer her oncoming fate, as she had already refused to listen. Sure enough, she got sprayed directly into her mouth. She certainly learned to leave skunks alone that day, and had to spend the next several days bathing in tomato juice, along with the clothes she was wearing that day needing to be thrown out. Other animal-related incidents where she simply didn't listen:
While walking through the woods with her and my brother in law, we noticed a yellow jacket nest in the ground. We made a mental note of it for the walk back, and, on our return, my brother in law pointed at it and said, "Hey, don't step in that."
As I passed it, I turned to my little sister and repeated the same warning, "Hey, don't step in that." The second my back was turned, she stepped in it, and immediately learned why that was a very bad idea. They came swarming out and attacked her, many of them getting caught in her hair, right near her scalp, giving them easy access to bite and sting her head. My brother in law, much braver and stronger than I was, grabbed her, held her in place, and began squashing them between his fingers. Once he was done, he threw her over his shoulder and carried her home.

At a local park, we had a Chinese goose and his harem of geese. He was much larger than the others, so we nicknamed him "Quackzilla." One day, she decided it would be a brilliant idea to chase the geese there, and, as usual, corner them. Quackzilla had had enough of her antics and decided to flip the script, chasing her down, instead. I stood by and watched it unfold, as she bolted past me. Quackzilla came to a stop next to me, looked up at me, nodded his head as if to say, "You're alright, " and I nodded back, then he went back to his girls. She left him alone after that, but he never forgot, and would often be more aggressive around her.
She's not a very smart girl and incredibly obstinate, only learning something when her lack of knowledge and bad behavior blows up in her face and causes her problems. Moral of the story is: leave wild animals alone. If you respect them, they'll respect you. More often than not, they want nothing to do with you at all. Or, in essence, literally don't poke the bear.

[JesusMartinez-rrry]

I wish there's is a odor equivalent of the Schmidt pain index. And not only that, but also someone who has just as much guts as Coyote Peterson, but instead, they deliberately smell such odorous organisms and broadcast their reaction.

[zahidanpurnama]

As someone who loves durian, i can confirm that the smell is part of the charm, a more experienced connoisseur can differentiate between durian species from the nuances in the smell. It is also very delicious, if i had to describe it, it's a bit like pungent cheese with some sweet fruitiness

[skinnyskinhead]

Also, leopard scent markings smells exactly like buttered popcorn it’s insane. i smelled some grass that i literally watched a leopard scent mark and sniffed that shit and it felt like i was at a movie theater

[mercster]

Bed bugs smell pretty bad. I lived in a crappy apartment one time and the whole building was riddled with them. It's very faint but in aggregate they do smell, and when you crush them to kill them... blech. Worst stench. I know they can use dogs to smell for bed bug infestations which makes sense.

[petersmythe]

Decaying things have a whole bunch of issues:
1. They can be sources of disease and parasites to be around.
2. Eating them frequently causes disease.
3. Dead things may well be attractive to predators that can tolerate eating rotting meat. These predators are dangerous, sometimes aggressive, and often have the same dangerous bacteria in their prey growing in their mouth resulting in a somewhat septic bite.
4. whatever caused that thing to die may still be present, and could cause harm or death to you if you approach.

[CampingforCool]

I don’t know what most of these things smell like, but I can say skunk smell makes me absolutely nauseous if exposed to it for more than a minute. Living out in semi-country we get skunks that wander through and there have been many nights where I start dreaming of a foul smell and wake up to skunk smell that has permeated the house.

[bruhmoment]

man I’m actually kinda glad so many people hate the scent of durian that much, more for me I guess