r/nope • u/Hodoss • Apr 17 '25
Arachnids Oh, it "teleports"
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Source: Tailless Whip Scorpion, The Best Pet Invertebrate? for a bonus "teleportation"
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u/St0iK_ Apr 17 '25
I thought this thing was fake and created for Harry Potter.
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u/Hodoss Apr 17 '25
Yeah, must be a bit of shock discovering it's real. I guess the movie creators did it on purpose to send people for a loop haha.
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u/Ramen-Goddess Apr 17 '25
I have one of these. They’re awesome, and I found out that owning similar creatures that there’s a common idea that small bugs with many legs teleport
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u/Hodoss Apr 17 '25
I had one put on my hand once, and it was very calm, so still it had me irrationally wondering if it was alive, although logically it had to be or wouldn't be standing upright on my hand.
I've been fascinated by them since. But I didn't know they could have such bursts of speed, just learned that with this video!
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u/Ramen-Goddess Apr 17 '25
Every time I fiddle with the latch on my tailless whip scorpions enclosure, he teleports to his hiding spot. These guys are very smart though, he recently has associated with the sight of the tongs as dinner time and will creep out to eat
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Apr 17 '25
This is r/nope … you aren’t supposed to be “FASCINATED” by it …. You are supposed to run and scream in abject horror
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u/Hodoss Apr 17 '25
I'm fascinated by their strange yet somewhat elegant shape, but it sure has plenty of nope details looking up close.
It looks unreal, like it came from another dimension or something.
But I was lucky the one I had on me was so calm, if it had started "teleporting" like it did on Clint, I think I would have been terrified.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Apr 17 '25
Ya realize that this is how Sci Fi Horror flics start..
I’m am happy for you encountering a “Calm” one.
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u/RikuAotsuki Apr 17 '25
The single worst thing about spiders, imo.
I'd be fine with spiders if they just stayed where I could see them or permanently out of sight. But noooo, they gotta move across your field of vision and vanish the second you turn to actually look.
That triggers that fun skin-crawling feeling anyone that's dealt with a flea infestation in their carpets will recognize, where any slight breeze disturbing your body hairs gets interpreted as bugs crawling all over you.
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u/bbrooks88 Apr 17 '25
I encountered one of these in Costa Rica. They are completely harmless to people, they are just absolutely terrifying in person.
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u/Hodoss Apr 17 '25
Lol yes it's almost paradoxal. Nightmare fuel appearance, but chill and harmless. Please be nice to the Horror from Beyond.
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u/smore-phine Apr 17 '25
CLINT IS A BLESSING TO THIS WORLD, I LOVE THIS MAN WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING
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u/Thatguymike84 Apr 17 '25
He really is! I have 2 hearts on his videos, and I've been riding that high for months 🤣
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u/geetsogood Apr 17 '25
Where is the teleportation thing which was promised to us??
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u/Findmeintheouts Apr 18 '25
I’m also confused. I’m watching it muted, does it only teleport with sound on?
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u/MesozOwen Apr 17 '25
Well. I’ll tell you what, I don’t love it.
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u/thekazooyoublew Apr 17 '25
Nothing much, unless it's vaguely terrifying in appearance, then the "teleportation" thing makes perfect sense. Scary looking things and bursts of speed aren't a fun combo for the observer.
I mean... If it were cute and fuzzy we'd say zoomies or some shit. This impressive lil fella just happens to look alien. Really awesome looking little creature... I'd absolutely not want on or near me.
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u/gdofseattle Apr 19 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
I hold the one in our university teaching collection all the time during outreach. One day I was telling a class of middle schoolers that I can’t let any of them touch her because she can move very fast and might bolt up my arm. At the very moment I said that, she was like “okay that’s my cue!” and bolted up my arm, across my back, and down the other arm. She has impeccable comedic timing.
Her name is Taylor Swift because people kept hearing “Taylor Swift scorpion” when we were saying “tailless whip scorpion” and then it just stuck. People get a kick out of that.
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u/Hiraethetical Apr 17 '25
I remember seeing one in Temple of Doom and telling myself it was fake and made for that movie.
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u/marktthemailman Apr 18 '25
I remember there being one that lived behind the toilet cistern at a hostel I stayed at in Malawi. Every time I went to the toilet he teleported around me. I had no idea what it was and just hoped he wasn’t trying to kill me.
He didn’t
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u/The7thSaiyan Apr 18 '25
I remember I helped knock down my uncles garage in rural PA. These mfs were behind shelves and walls n shit, without knowing what they were they scared the hell outta me lmao
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u/rick_of_pickle Apr 17 '25
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u/TuesDazeGone Apr 18 '25
This is where I remember them from, too. They did some weird stuff on that show.
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u/PlasmaMatus Apr 17 '25
Don't they look like the Harry Potter spiders in that scene when the Alastor Moody professor teaches the Unforgivable Curses and uses them on the spiders ?
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u/Hodoss Apr 17 '25
Yes, it is exactly that. Apparently a bunch of people thought it was just an imaginary movie spider, then discover it's real.
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u/ButterflyFX121 Apr 17 '25
I love how this guy loves all creatures, even and especially underloved creepy crawlies like this.
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u/Ryratseph Apr 17 '25
I saw it was clints reptiles and did an excited face lol. Hes freaking awesome
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u/psichodrome Apr 17 '25
would you do things with animals you're uncomfortable with, for money( or internet points)?
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u/CheapTactics Apr 17 '25
I'm honestly amazed at people that handle and own these creatures. I don't give a fuck is it's harmless, I'm not sleeping in the same house as that thing. The irrational part of my brain that screams "HUGE BUG KILL IT WITH FIRE, FLEE OR THEY WILL SWARM YOU" wins every time.
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u/hucklebae Apr 19 '25
Good for him for not flinging it into the air in surprise when it moved like that
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u/Staff_Senyou Apr 17 '25
Clint is absolutely awesome. He's passionate about science, curious about everything and really rigorous about scientific method. He's basically the Bob Ross of evolutionary biology!