The Animal That Can Live for Years Without Seeing

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00:00What if I told you there's an animal that literally never sees the sun

00:04and can live for years without food?

00:07No, it's not your roommate during finals week.

00:11Meet the Oum, a bizarre salamander that lives its entire life

00:15in pitch black underwater caves in Europe.

00:19These guys are the ultimate masters of ghosting.

00:23The sun, they're completely blind, with pale, almost translucent skin.

00:28Think of a cave dwelling, aquatic ET.

00:32But here's the craziest part.

00:35Their metabolism is so slow, they can survive for up to a decade without a single meal.

00:41A decade.

00:42Imagine skipping every meal from now until the 2030s.

00:47So while we're out here chasing sunshine and counting calories,

00:52the Oum is just chilling in the dark, unbothered, living its best slow life.

00:57It's a real-life lesson in patience, or maybe just extreme laziness.

01:03What a legend.

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