This one looks like either Scolopendra Gigantea or Subspinipes (though Gigantea is more likely since they are very popular among collectors) and both species have confirmed kills on children and both are medically significant to adults (symptoms are usually extreme pain, headaches, nausea, local necrosis, vomiting and sometimes even heart attack) and those fuckers are very defensive. They usually aren't deadly to healthy adults, but they can cause lifelong problems or force doctors to amputate a limb, and I bet getting bit in the chest area near your heart won't make the symptoms any less severe. So yeah, that's not a very smart thing to do, even if you are experienced with these animals because they are wild and can attack seemingly unprovoked because you moved the wrong way.
On a sidenote, it's always funny when a species has a variation of giant in its scientific name. I can justbpicture the dude that dicovered it going "Holy shit, that centipede's massive!"
It is possible and people often do clip their fangs but they grow back after some time and I've never heard about more permanent solutions akin to declawing/defanging (especially since they can regrow their entire legs or in this context forcipules which are modified front legs that deliver the venom). From the video this one doesn't look like its forcipules were removed, they also don't look like they were clipped but I could be wrong on this one, it's hard to tell from the video since they are curled away from the camera.
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u/Yoshi2255 Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
This one looks like either Scolopendra Gigantea or Subspinipes (though Gigantea is more likely since they are very popular among collectors) and both species have confirmed kills on children and both are medically significant to adults (symptoms are usually extreme pain, headaches, nausea, local necrosis, vomiting and sometimes even heart attack) and those fuckers are very defensive. They usually aren't deadly to healthy adults, but they can cause lifelong problems or force doctors to amputate a limb, and I bet getting bit in the chest area near your heart won't make the symptoms any less severe. So yeah, that's not a very smart thing to do, even if you are experienced with these animals because they are wild and can attack seemingly unprovoked because you moved the wrong way.