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At the
moment, we are in Australia.

It is our very first day here,
and we are very jet-lagged.

And earlier today,
we came to this park,

and we found that
it was completely

infested with forest leeches.

Today I'm going to set myself
the challenge of trying to make

an episode in a single hour.

So it is 3 o'clock PM here in
Australia, and by 4 o'clock,

I'm going to have
been eaten alive

by these hungry bloodsuckers.

In Australia, people are famous
for walking around barefoot.

I never quite understood this.

Unless, of course, you
just want to connect

with the planet, in which case
I have great respect for that.

When it comes to walking
around in Australia,

there are a lot of things
that can bite and sting you

that are really painful.

The area that we're in right
now is notorious for its number

of Sydney funnel web spiders.

Hopefully I don't run
into one of those.

But I feel like my best
odds of getting eaten alive

by these leeches will be to
take off my socks and my boots

and let my piggies, let my dogs
out and see whether or not,

in the walk around
this pond right here,

I manage to get myself swarmed
by these forest leeches.

Probably can't see
that on the GoPro,

but already there is
a leech right there.

Here we go.

I gotta come back,
get the camera cut it,

and then take it with me.

OK, the quest begins.

And by quest, I
mean, well, there

are going to be leeches
questing for the delicious

taste of my feet.

Now, people often make fun of
my feet because, to be honest,

I got pretty weak feet.

They're really soft
for some reason.

Now, they're all buried
down in this leaf structure.

You see this?

All the leaves that
you see covering

the forest floor
here are exactly

where those leeches are hiding.

And similar to ticks,
what they will do

is quest for their
next victim, which

means they can sense heat,
body heat, and carbon

monoxide-- carbon dioxide?

Nope, it's carbon dioxide.

The heat from your skin and
the carbon dioxide that's

exuded from your skin
allows leeches to say,

that is a warm-blooded creature.

I'm going to hop on, catch a
free ride, and get a free meal.

Hm.

So far-- oh, boy, there we go.

Walking through the underbrush,
really all you gotta do

is step a couple of
spots, sit, and wait.

Yeah, it's starting to--

starting to dig in.

I can feel them
beginning to drink.

Right there, that is one's
mouth locked in place.

Got a couple more down here.

The blood
buffet line is officially

open and ready for business.

All right.

Let's work my way down here.

OK, how do I get
back up to the trail?

I'm completely lost.

One way people often get leeches
on them is just by simply

stopping to admire nature.

You look around, you're
standing in an area

that is dense with plants.

You're not paying
attention to your feet.

You look down, and you're
like, OK, this is--

this is totally good
to go right here.

Except for the fact
that leeches are

coming up and off of the
plants and onto your legs.

I think I have found a
pretty good spot here,

standing in the ferns, because
I'm seeing more and more

of them jumping onto my legs.

Especially this giant
one right there.

Look at this guy.

He just hitched on a
couple seconds ago.

Oh.

Heck, it's was starting to
get close to the shorts line.

What I don't want is for
them to crawl up my shorts.

I just keep walking and
walking and walking,

and my feet are
taking a beating.

But it's worth it.

OK, it has been a
solid hour since I

walked around the
outside of this pond.

And while I was hoping
for more leeches,

there are not just a couple.
There are many.

I'm going to count
them real quick.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,

14, 15, 16 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

21 leeches on my legs, feet,
and ankles at the moment.

And the one that
definitely took the most

advantage of my blood buffet
line was this guy right here.

Now, to remove a leech,
you have to remember,

there is the back end
and the front end.

Both ends have suction cups.

You want to remove the
back end first, which

is going to be the bigger end.

You may think, oh, bigger
end's probably the head.

Nope.

The bigger end is
actually the butt,

and the smaller end
is the head itself.

All you need to do is
use your fingernail.

Slide your fingernail up against
the back end of the leech,

like that, to get
it to unadhere.

And then the same exact thing,
you want to do by its mouth.

Now, what you don't
want to do is just

pull the leech straight off.

If you do that or if
you squeeze the leech,

you can actually cause it to
regurgitate some of its meal

into your wound.

That could cause an infection.

So you take your thumb
nail or a credit card

or anything that's
flat and smooth

and run it right from the
backside up against its mouth,

just like that, and
the leech will pop off.

And that right there
is one very full leech.

Yeah, buddy, you've had
enough to eat, I think.

Ugh, that is disgusting.

This leech started
out short and skinny,

and now it's long and plump.

And it was filled with
Coyote Peterson's blood.

Now, I'm going to remove every
single one of these leeches

in that same fashion.

As you can see there, the
blood is starting to flow.

That's always going to happen.

Now, for cleanup,
all you need to use

is a little bit of soap and
water, maybe some Neosporin.

Keep the wound uncovered,
keep dabbing it.

You don't want to cover it.

You want to just let the wound
breathe at the end of the day,

and you should be fine.

Very seldom are there infections
that are caused from leech

bites, unless, of
course, you squeeze

it and get some of
that regurgitation

into the wound itself.

So as long as you're careful
when removing leeches,

you hopefully
should be just fine.

But I have to say, it is very
creepy feeling to have something

on you, drinking your blood.

Is there any pain
that I'm experiencing?

No, absolutely none whatsoever,
because of that numbing agent

in their saliva.

You may feel a little
bit of a pinch.

I did feel a pinch a
couple of times, especially

the ones in between my toes.

You know,
there are many methods

that you may stumble
across on the internet

for removing leeches.

You know, people say, use salt
like you would melt a slug,

or use a lighter.

This is absolutely the
wrong way to do it.

It's all about properly
removing the back end

using the edge of your thumb.

I find that, honestly, the best
thing to use is a credit card.

Yeah, get you off
of there like that.

Oh, man.

Look at this beast here.

Oh, that is so slimy.

Ah!

Gross.

Oh, god, don't
stick on there, too.

Yeah.

Come on.

One thing I'm
not looking forward to

is-- the last time we
did a leech episode,

the itching was a big
part of the aftermath,

and I have a feeling
that that's going

to be the same with these guys.

Oh, yeah.

And there you have it.

Coyote Peterson turning
himself into a blood

buffet line for forest leeches.

But at the end of the
day, we showed you guys

how to properly remove these
creepy, alien-looking creatures

from your body if you
ever find yourself

in the blood buffet line.

I'm Coyote Peterson.

Be brave, stay wild.

We'll see you on
the next adventure.

What a way to start
off Australia.

As I learned from our
previous leech experiment,

these bites had more to give,
as exactly a week after filming

the scene, I experienced intense
itchiness, weird seepage,

and around a dozen
nagging wounds

that eventually turned to
scars that I still carry today.

Moral of the story?

Do your best to avoid
becoming a leech buffet line.

So why in the world would
I want to be intentionally

stung by this plant species?

Well, we want to figure
out a couple of things.

Number one, how susceptible
am I to plant venoms?

Number two, is the sting really
as bad as I've read about?

And number three, if you do run
into this plant in the wild,

what are some ways that you
can help alleviate the pain

and remove the
nettles from your arm?

That's what they
call in the industry

the devil's toilet paper.

All right, should we
keep hiking and find one

that's a little bit bigger?

Well, this whole hillside.
Look.

Holy
cow, the hillside

is literally filled with these.

That is all giant stinging
trees right there.

A lot easier to find
stinging plants than it

is the stinging insects.

Looks like we've got our
pick of the crop out here.

Now it's just a
matter of finding

the right leaf that's
going to put this forearm

into a world of pain.

This tree behind me right here
would not be considered a giant.

It's just a baby.

But believe it or
not, this species

can grow to be nearly a
hundred feet in height.

Now, as they get bigger, the
spines on their main stem,

their trunk, so to speak,
begin to evolve away.

And all of the
irritating nettles

are just on the stalks
and the leaves themselves.

As you can see, these
leaves have holes

in them from caterpillars.

You think that this defense
would have evolved to take care

of things like insects that
are going to eat the leaves,

but really this toxin
only affects mammals.

OK, so this is the leaf I'm
going to go for right here.

And,

Plant, thank you for letting
us use one of your leaves.

I'm going to be very
gentle about this,

almost like a game of operation,
to work my arm in here.

So that I don't accidentally
bump any of the other leaves,

I'm going to cut this
right at the base.

OK, there we go.

The Australian
giant stinging tree.

Looks very unassuming.

Now, before we get into the
exciting part, the sting of it

all, I want to just take
a look at this leaf.

We're going to show you guys
some macro shots of the nettles

that are on the undersides.

These are known as trichomes.

And the trichomes, specifically,
are like little barbs

filled with a neurotoxin.

Scientists believe
that this neurotoxin

is very similar to that
which you find in the cone

snail, one of the
most painful stings

in the marine animal kingdom.

Now, I've never been
stung by a cone snail,

because it's said that if
you take a cone snail sting,

you will be hospitalized.

Now, the way those
trichomes work

is that if you picture
a needle with the tip

of it being very sharp,
hypodermic in nature,

that tip breaks off.

Once those little
hairs touch skin,

and they release that toxin,
causing massive irritation,

which triggers your
pain receptors.

And what's really unique
is that scientists don't

know why the pain
receptors are set off

and last as long as they do.

Now, those trichomes are
located on the top of the leaf,

but also on the underside
and all along the stem.

OK,
I think it's time

to get down to business here.

What's crazy about this
is I'm not going to be

able to remove these nettles.

They, in a sense, are
microscopic, especially

once they get into your skin.

And like shards of
fiberglass, they're going

to work their way down and in.

The pain will begin to come
on within a matter of seconds

and will get worse and
worse as the minutes go by.

Now, we do have a
method that I've

read about that could possibly
remove some of those nettles

from my arm.

But first things
first, we've got to get

the nettles into the skin.

I'm Coyote Peterson,
and I'm about to enter

the pain zone with the
Australian giant stinging tree.

Here we go.

One two.

I don't need to smack my arm.

All I need to do is
gently graze the leaf

over the forearm like
this, and I'm going

to be nettled multiple times.

Oh, boy.

Three.

Oh, my-- ah.

Shh-- jeeez.

Oh, the immediate searing pain.

Oh, my gosh.

That is instantaneous.

OK, it's not a slow lead on.

It is-- the second the
leaf touches your skin,

it feels like-- if you were
to put Pop Rocks in your mouth

and they start exploding.

Ah!

And then they just start
hurting right away.

Holy cow!

Holy cow!

That is getting worse
as the seconds go by.

OK, so you
can start to see

all those little welts forming.

The arm is beginning
to turn red.

This is sort of like the
jellyfish of the plant kingdom,

and those tiny
nettles are almost

like the pneumatophores
that come off

of the jellyfish's tentacles.

Ah!

Oh, I want to, like, rub
it or do something to it,

but I know if I do
that, it's only going

to work the nettles in deeper.

Now, it's important to note that
this is the second most painful

stinging plant in Australia.

The number one,
top tier, the one

that they call
the suicide plant,

is called the gympie gympie.

Now, we once ranked the bullet
ant as the number one sting

in the insect kingdom.

From there, it climbed
up to the giant hornet

and the execution wasp.

So supposedly, this
sting from this plant

is like the comparison of
the Japanese giant hornet.

Honestly, at this point,
I'd say the pain is starting

to get into that realm of
sticking my hand into a box

full of yellow jackets.

And I've been very
public in saying

that the hand and the
angry yellow jacket box

is the most painful experience
I've ever gone through.

So far, this has
not eclipsed that,

but if the pain continues
to increase, as it is now,

I'm in for a very
painful next 24 hours.

OK, so
when you think about it,

I barely grazed that
leaf over my forearm.

Imagine, if you were to be
hiking on the side of one

of these steep inclinements and
you slipped and you fell and you

rolled down that hill like
Humpty Dumpty, head over heels,

through these plants,
how bad that would be.

It feels as if somebody
has taken a hot glue gun

and spread the
glue on my forearm,

and I can't actually get
the glue off of my skin.

And it's beginning
to radiate, and I

can feel it coming
in these surges of

womp-womp, womp-womp womp-womp.

Like, that's the
pacing of the pain.

And scientists
don't quite know why

this neurotoxin reacts
to humans, to mammal

DNA, the way that it does,

All right, so what
we're going to do now

is let this set in
for a bit longer,

and then I'm going to
try one of the remedies

that I saw online,
using hair wax

strips to remove some of
those trichomes from the skin.

What I want to do is lay the
wax, starting at the back,

into the nettle
zone, just like that.

Slowly.

Ah!

Oh, that does not feel good.

Massage that wax in.

Now, a little bit
of heat is what's

going to help that wax adhere to
the skin and, at the same time,

hopefully, those nettles.

I want to remove as many of
those from my skin as possible.

Now, if you can get yourself
to wax strips faster

than 3 hours and 30 minutes that
I let go by, it would be better.

Because, remember,
these are going

to constantly be
working themselves

down and into the skin.

All right, I feel like
that's on there pretty good.

You guys ready?

Here we go.

Peel off the strip
fast and quickly.

One, two, three.

Ow!

Whoa!

God, that really hurt.

And I don't know--

I don't know if that
made it any better.

It might have made it worse,
to be honest with you.

I maybe can see some
very fine little--

Yeah, I definitely can.

There's no way you're going to
see this on camera, but I 100%

can see that it has removed
some of the nettles.

And I'm wondering,
from an angle--

this is how I was able to
see the nettles earlier.

From an angle, don't see
any nettles remaining.

But to play it safe,
I'm going to use my one

other side to this wax strip.

All right.

We'll work that in
there, just like that.

Wax strip
number two coming off.

One, two, three.

Oh.

Yowzers!

Well, hopefully I got
all the rest of them that time.

Oh, yeah.

They are definitely pulling out.

That is fantastic.

They just look like these
little white fibers.

And, essentially, that's
exactly what nettles are.

All right.

Well, if you happen
to find yourself

in this worst-case
scenario where you stumble

upon a giant stinging tree
and you get those nettles

in your arm, that is proof right
there that wax strips will help

remove those that
have not worked

themselves down beneath
the surface of the skin.

And I know what everybody
out there is thinking.

Coyote, are you going to
put yourself into the sting

zone with the gympie-gympie?

Yeah, we're definitely
going to film that.

I honestly don't feel like
this was nearly as bad as I

thought it was going to be.

And I know you guys all want to
see what it's like for a coyote

to be stung by the world's
most painful plant,

and I think that episode
is definitely necessary.

OK, there it is, the
gympie-gympie leaf.

Oh, the water definitely
makes it worse!

This is terrible at the moment.

Absolutely terrible.

I'm Coyote Peterson.

Be brave, stay wild.

We'll see you on
the next adventure.

All right, I'm going
to get up and shake

my arm off a little bit.

This is very painful.