I Flipped 100 Rocks in a Rainforest, Here's What I Found...

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00:00Outside in rainforests, there's tons of random objects like this rock, which when you flip them,

00:05you'll find life you would have never known existed. This first one just had a bunch of

00:08random insects, but in this video, I'll be flipping 100 different rocks in the Puerto

00:13Rican rainforests, find all sorts of weird lizards, venomous spiders, and even crazy

00:18snakes you've never seen before. However, right now, I'm still pretty close to a city,

00:22but as I travel deeper and deeper into the rainforest, the animals get cooler and cooler,

00:26and maybe at the end, we'll even be able to find extremely rare ones. And so I made my way over

00:30to object number two, and literally right under the piece of wood was this insane alien-looking

00:35creature. They're called tailless whip scorpions, and I've actually made entire videos about keeping

00:39these guys as pets. It's crazy we already found something this weird and rare, and so I continued

00:43exploring. Eventually, I came across object number three, which underneath had this weird-looking

00:48white worm thing. But in fact, this is not a worm at all. It's a baby beetle. Basically, over time,

00:53these little larvas will start to mutate and eventually will break out of their shell and

00:57become a beetle. And this one is absolutely massive, so it's probably going to turn into

01:01some giant mutant rainforest beetle with a massive horn. Hopefully, we'll find one of those later,

01:06but anyways, I went and flipped rock four, which had nothing underneath. From now on, I'm not going to

01:11show anything with nothing, so it'll just be constant cool rainforest animals. And that's exactly what

01:15I found with rock number seven, because underneath was this weird white thing in a hole. But after moving

01:20around the dirt a bit, I realized this was actually a wolf spider's hole. And that massive white thing,

01:25well, that's its egg sack, and soon it'll hatch into hundreds of mini spiders. You can see the

01:30spider mom was super defensive and did not leave the egg sack at all. So, I put her home back and

01:35kept exploring. Soon after, I came across the next object, which when I tried to flip it, uh, well,

01:40it kind of broke apart in my hands. And this happened because if you take a closer look on here,

01:45there's tons of these little white bugs crawling all over it. These are termites,

01:48which you probably already know, eat wood like this. They'll literally just set up their entire

01:53colonies inside of these dead logs and just eat them from the inside out. Now, under object number

01:5810, I found the coolest thing so far. Oh, shoot. What is that? You see, on the bottom side of the

02:02log, I saw this little tail thing poking out from under the bark. At first, I thought it was some

02:07sort of worm, but if you look closely, you can see it has a bunch of tiny little scales on it,

02:11so it can't be a worm. So, there was only one thing to do. Get out the backpack. You see,

02:16in the backpack, I've packed tons of items to be able to interact with the wildlife out here. And

02:20the first item we're taking out is these tweezers. Using the tweezers, I started to peel back some of

02:25the bark on the log until I eventually revealed the animal. It really looked so much like a worm,

02:30but you can tell by how it was slithering around that it was actually a snake. These are called

02:35Bromini blind snakes, and they're the smallest species in the whole world. Basically, this species

02:40spends their whole life underground just like worms do. And a fun fact about them is they're all

02:45female. Basically, they have the ability to clone their genes into an egg, and that's how more snakes

02:50are born. So, if you ever see one of these in the wild, just know it has the same exact genes as

02:54this one does. It's pretty crazy. Now, by this point, I reached my first little water section of

02:59the trail, which was absolutely beautiful. Well, hang, I don't really know if you can hear me, but

03:03this is a pretty nice area that you can see. But basically, I just want to see if I can see

03:06something under the water with the GoPro. Now, obviously, GoPros are waterproof, which lets me do this.

03:10And at first, it was kind of just a cloudy mess, but then this fish came out of nowhere. Knowing that

03:15there was at least one fish down here, I put the camera back under and figured out that there was a

03:19whole school of them. However, since the water was so cloudy, I couldn't really tell the species,

03:23so I walked down alongside the river for a little bit until it got a bit clearer, and then I stuck my

03:28GoPro underneath again. This time, there was even more of those same fish, and now I could clearly see

03:33that these were mountain mullets, which are a species native to these Puerto Rican rainforests.

03:38You see, this species is really cool because they actually are born in oceans, and once they're

03:42born, they swim up the rivers into Puerto Rico to get to these remote rainforest streams. Then,

03:47when it's time to lay eggs, they swim back to the ocean and repeat the process. It's very cool.

03:52Also, by the way, right next to these fish were a ton of these little aquatic snails, which are super

03:56important for the environment because they eat up all the algae. Anyways, a bit later, I came across

04:00this rock with a little lizard sitting on top. When I got close, it, of course, ran away, but I figured

04:05this was a good omen, so I flipped it, and underneath, there was nothing. But since that lizard was

04:09sitting on top of the rock, I figured that underneath of it could actually be its home.

04:14So, I had an idea, and I got out the backpack, and inside, I took out this little container of

04:18super worms. Then, I basically put a bunch of them onto my hand and just put them under the rock in

04:23case the lizard wanted to eat some of them. Now, I was just going to leave them and walk away,

04:26but then I noticed that that same exact lizard that was sitting on top of the rock had actually

04:31already ran over and ate one of the worms. And yeah, he was enjoying it a ton. You're welcome, buddy.

04:36There's more where that came from. And speaking of lizards eating stuff, nearby, I also went and

04:40flipped this rock that had nothing underneath, but out of the corner of my eye, I noticed another

04:45lizard. And this guy instantly went on the run and started parkouring across the rocks to get away

04:50from me. But eventually, I did get a closer look and realized this was a green anole lizard, and it

04:54looked like there was something actually massive in its mouth. And the thing sticking out of its

04:58mouth kind of looked like the belly of another lizard, which would make sense because these

05:02green anole lizards are cannibalistic killers. And when they're hungry, they'll just straight

05:07up eat their friends. Yeah, talk about fake friends, am I right? Anyways, a bit later,

05:10I flipped this rock here. And underneath, I found my first ant colony. You see, ant colonies are a bit

05:15rarer in rainforests like this, which is why I didn't see any up to this point. So it was a kind of

05:19cool find. And then the rock I flipped right after also had another ant colony of the same exact

05:25species. Now, I'm pretty sure this species is called big-headed ants, which I can tell because

05:29as you can see, some of the workers have massive heads that are like three times the size of normal

05:34workers. This happens because at birth, the normal worker ants find the biggest and strongest pupa and

05:39spray a special pheromone on them. Then as the pupa grow older and older, they just grow up with

05:44massive heads and help move around some of the larger stuff that the small workers can't. In this case,

05:49the big-headed workers were helping move the eggs back underground since I moved their rock.

05:53Sorry, guys. Let me put that back. Now, by this point, I was starting to get deeper into the

05:57rainforest. So we should start to expect the animals to get cooler and cooler. And that was

06:01actually shown because the very next thing I flipped had a proper snake behind it. But as you

06:06can see, it was a little bit camera shy because it instantly slithered into the bushes before I could

06:10get a good look. So I got out the backpack and inside, I packed this snake hook. Basically,

06:15people use these snake hooks to pick up deadly venomous snakes so they don't get bit. And obviously,

06:19I didn't want to get bit. So using the hook, I started to dig around in the grass it slithered

06:24into and tried to look for it. But unfortunately, the hook just ended up breaking. It broke. Oh my

06:29gosh. But this was still a good sign for cool, rare animals. And trust me, we'll be finding more

06:33snakes very soon. Now, the next rock I flipped had this weird little fuzzy worm under it. Now,

06:38even after searching online, I couldn't really figure out what this is. I thought it could be like

06:42a moth cocoon, but I'm pretty sure those only grow on trees. So comment if you know what this is.

06:46But behind that crawled out this little bug, which, oh, I have experience with these guys a lot.

06:51These are called isopods and they're sometimes called roly polies because they roll up into a

06:56ball when threatened. But I love these guys because I always put them in the terrariums I build at home

07:00because they eat all the dead matter and keep everything clean. So yeah, thanks for existing,

07:04guys. You're awesome. I kept on venturing through the rainforest and eventually came across this fence

07:09with a few bricks laid on the floor under it. It looked like the perfect spot for animals to be

07:13hiding under. And I was right because under that first brick was this massive beetle. And after

07:18getting a closer look, I could tell this was some sort of rhinoceros beetle, which are called

07:22rhinoceros beetles because the males grow these massive horns on their head, which they use to

07:26fight each other with. But this is a female, which is why it doesn't have a horn. In fact, if you

07:30remember that massive beetle larva from earlier, I think that actually turns into one of these. So yeah,

07:36that's pretty cool that we got to find one of these. Under the next brick was this little centipede bug.

07:40And under the third brick was this little slug. I'm not sure what species this is, but I left my

07:45phone pointing at it for a couple minutes and got this cool time-lapse footage of it slugging around.

07:49Now, as I kept on venturing, I found a cool bug under this rock. At first, I know you can't really

07:54see anything, but if I zoom in and highlight this spot here, there's actually a cave cricket right

08:00here, which is just super camouflaged. But these guys are cool because they basically have the ability

08:04to teleport when they sense danger. Yeah, they really just move so fast that it looks like

08:09teleportation. That's pretty crazy. But this next rock I flipped had something I've never seen

08:13before. Of course, right there, you can tell that there was a little worm under the dirt,

08:17but above and to the left of it was this weird little white thing. I thought at first it could

08:21be like a termite or something, but after getting a closer look, I realized it resembled the shape of

08:25a worm egg sack. For some reason, I just never thought that worms came out of eggs. Yeah, apparently

08:30this is what it looks like when they're born. They just got to rip their way out of an egg.

08:33Dang, that's cool. Now, by this point on the trail, I had gotten to this little section

08:37of paved road, and while I was walking on it, I ended up coming across this. Oh, shoot. Wait,

08:42look at this. Oh, shoot. It's a snake. Look at that. But if you're wondering why it's not moving

08:46and blurred, well, that's because it was actually run over by a car here. Unfortunately, accidents

08:50like this are bound to happen on roads, but this is still a good sign for finding more cool animals

08:55like this. And thankfully, that's exactly what I found as I made it back to the trail. You see,

08:59the first rock I flipped, I saw a little burrow underneath, but I didn't even realize that there

09:03was something sitting on the rock I was grabbing. Oh my gosh. Oh, I did not see that. Hold on.

09:09There's a hairy spider camouflaged on this rock right now. This is actually a Puerto Rican tarantula,

09:14and they're extremely rare to just find out in the open in the day like this. Yeah,

09:18they usually spend their entire days underground in some sort of burrow. For this tarantula,

09:22I had to get out the backpack, and from inside, I once again pulled out this container of superworms.

09:27Then, using some tweezers, I basically just started to wave around the worms in front of the

09:31tarantula's face to see if he'd eat them. Um, and yeah, it didn't really seem like he was liking

09:35it too much because he got really defensive and ran into his burrow. He even started to run towards

09:40me. Since these guys are venomous, I did not want to make him any more angry, and I put his home back

09:45on top. Sorry, buddy. I'll leave you alone now. Anyways, I kept flipping random objects as I

09:49continued down the trail and wasn't finding many animals for a while, but I did find some pretty

09:53random stuff like just a whole fruit under this leaf, which was like kind of mushy and moldy,

09:58so I didn't try and eat it. And also, while walking, I found this weird bone thing on the

10:02side of the trail. I'm not 100% sure what this bone belongs to, but I do know Puerto Rico used

10:07to have some like wild pigs running around back in the day, which I guess this would make sense

10:11if this was a pig bone, but let me know in the comments if you're a bone expert. I'm not really.

10:15Now, under Object 92, there was this little millipede, but also right next to it was this weird black

10:20bug I've never seen before, but I figured out it's called a rove beetle, and what makes them so cool

10:25are these spikes on their back. You see, when they dig under the dirt a bit, they poke out those

10:29spikes on their back to mimic little claws or pinchers poking out of the dirt, which will scare

10:33away predators. Also, apparently, they have wings they can just unfold like a robot and let them fly

10:38away. I have no idea how nature evolved to do this. Now, by this point, I was starting to get worried

10:42because it was starting to get late, and I knew there were still bigger tarantulas and scorpions to

10:47be found out here. And yeah, the next few rocks I flipped also had nothing, but that was until

10:50object number 96 when I found this. It was another tarantula, and this one is actually a

10:56Puerto Rican pink toad tarantula, which is a slightly different species. Okay, now this

11:00is cool. It's bigger than that first tarantula we just found, and since this guy's a bit bigger,

11:04I think I actually have something in the backpack for it. From inside, I pulled out this stick,

11:09which actually lets me attach my GoPro camera to it. Basically, I want to use this stick to get the

11:13GoPro super close to the tarantula without having to worry about getting bit, and that's exactly what I did

11:18because I went and gently nudged the leg of the tarantula with the GoPro, and it actually woke up.

11:23Then I bumped it again, and this time it ran around to the other side of the log. Finally,

11:27I just waved it around a bit more in front of him, and he wasn't really doing anything. To be honest,

11:32I don't really know what I expected. And now, as you can see, I was getting pretty near the end of

11:36the trail, and underneath some of the final objects, I was finding no new animals. And eventually,

11:41it got time to flip object 100, so I looked around for the best thing to flip. And while I was

11:46exploring, I actually came across this dirt area with this metal piece of trash in the middle. Of

11:50course, I looked inside of it to see if there was anything, and I didn't see anything at first.

11:54But for some reason, I decided to turn on my phone flashlight to double check, and that's when I

11:58found this. It's a scorpion. And not only was there that, because when I moved the trash to get a better

12:03angle at the scorpion, I found a second scorpion also on the walls of this trash. These are Puerto

12:08Rican bark scorpions, and they've actually got pretty painful stings. Bro, this is so insane. This whole time,

12:14I've been trying to find scorpions. And literally, on object 100, this is where the scorpions are.

12:19Wait, I'm not complaining, because I've packed something in the backpack, specifically for if

12:24I found these guys, and it's a flashlight. And you may already know this, but if you turn on the

12:28flashlight and go through the modes or something, eventually, it'll turn blue or purple, as you can

12:33see. And now, if we go and shine this inside of here, look at that. Scorpions are able to glow in

12:40the dark. And that's how you know these are real scorpions, everybody. If you saw my last video

12:44about rock flipping, you know this is the same exact way it ended, because I had found scorpions

12:48on one of the last objects and made them glow in the dark, which it's kind of poetic in a way that

12:52it ended the same way. Well, hey, I guess that's rock 100. We're done. Let's celebrate. I actually

12:57have one last thing, baby. You see, in this backpack, I've packed the new Terra Green merch. Check this out.

13:03As of today, you can now get this cool new design with so much cool stuff. It's basically got the

13:08animals from all my videos. So a two-headed snake, a turtle, Pac-Man frogs, archer fish,

13:12paradas, axolotl, real dragon, chameleon, you name it. We literally got everything, even scorpions.

13:18And with it, we're even dropping a completely new sticker pack collection. So seriously,

13:21if you just want to show everyone you know you're a part of this community, you can buy this shirt,

13:25and it would mean a lot because that would support the channel, of course. Oh, guys,

13:28that was 100 Rock Flips in a Rainforest. Hope you liked it. Make sure to subscribe if you're not,

13:33because if you do subscribe, then YouTube will recommend you more videos like this. So, good.

13:39Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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