Copepods: The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2021
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Scientists have observed some copepods eating over 300,000 diatoms in a single day!
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I'm disappointed that there is no mention of Sheldon J. Plankton, the beloved antagonist in Spongebob Squarepants who happens to be a copepod.
Oh...OHHHH! Now that I rewatch the video with that in mind, I can totally see his design elements in the long antennae one in it
sheldon is also the king of copium :)
All hail Plankton! ALL HAIL PLANKTON
@@melskunk
And the one single red eye.
@@DinnerForkTongue and the tiny paired front limbs, like his little arms!
Can't wait to see the seethepods and the maldpods
Lol
Best joke ever
What about the Dilatepods
i hate and love this comment at the same time
... i don't get it
Omg like halfway through I realized this dude is what Plankton from spongebob was based on and I feel like an idiot for not realizing it earlier
A whole video on Copepods and not one Spongebob reference or joke. I'm impressed! My Spongebob-obsessed son, not so much :P
Indeed
when the copepods got into the larger water drop it felt like YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I was rootin' them on...
Some tiny copepods even live in trees in jungles, they move between water pockets (like the pools in bromeliads) by moving through the film of water on plants when they're wet after it rains. (they'd probably end up drying out partway through trips if jungle rainfall wasn't so absurd)
How do they end up higher up in trees?
@@sdmitch16 They're small enough to swim up the films of water on the bark when its wet, and/or can hide away in cracks where water tends to stick a little. No real idea how they move from tree to tree though.
(maybe they hitchike on other critters for a bit, but haven't heard anything about that)
Being a human is so stressful that sometimes I wish to be just a single celled organism. I always emerse myself in your videos, pretending I am in the microcosmos. This is the closest I can get to freedom from the stresses of reality. Thanks 👍
Your'e assuming they don't feel stress.......and they are not single celled organisms, they are tiny, tiny but multi'cellular.
@@1414141x ok 👍
technically, you can just walk away from a stressful life. If you give up on having expectations and wants, you can just walk away from everything and become homeless but low stress. Some young people in china are doing something called "laying flat", where they subsist on an income of $31 dollars a month, and just, not do anything and try to be stress free. I wouldn't be able to do something like that though...
So what you are saying is that these videos help you cope?
I would rather spectate as myself of a whole team of amazing cells and a ecosystem of creatures than be a copepod or anything else frantically running or running towards food with a lifespan of a few months at most..
So quite glad to be who(s) I am. But yes watching the microcosmos and wanting to immerse myself it in it is extremely relaxing.. from "afar"
Ah yes, the Copepod. The main ingredient for manufacturing Copium. Where would the Cope industry be without this little guy?
Seethe dilate
They couldn't cope with that
We'd only have Podium, so we'd just be able to showcase it
This species has been incredibly helpful in countless research areas, from studying the genetics of mitochondrial DNA to studying the effects of oxygen levels on sizes of organisms. Great video, as always! 👍💕
Of course he's the king of plankton, He went to collage.
He's trying to steal the crabby patty formula!
I am outright addicted to this channels uploads!
Dammit the soothing calming voice the extremely interesting facts and UberHD view!
This channel is so immersive and therapeutic almost. It's really one of a kind. Thank you for the free Skillshare trial as well!
Plank tong out here tryna steal the crabby patty
So weird how copepods, multicellulars animals comprised of hundreds or more cells, are not all that much bigger than some of the protists shown on this channel.
I thought copepods only lived in Mystery Flesh Pit National Park :D
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR SO LONG! In my own microscopy samples I have a TON of copepods, and though I’ve studied them a lot on my own, I am so glad you guys have discussed my favorite extremely common microorganism
20,000 species of Copepods. Amazing. This micro imagery is really beautiful and the narration is always very informative.
I keep copopods in my aquarium full of pond-creatures, and they're fun to watch at the naked-eye level as well. I think of them as Flying Dots, flying through the water at crazy-high speeds for their size. I'm a huge fan of these guys!
If you lean your ear closer, you can faintly hear at least one of the copepods shouting "I WENT TO COLLEGE!!"
Reminds me of plankton off of spongebob 😂
Watch out for those copepods. They'll try to steal your recipe for your crabby patty.
🤯 Literally Plankton
Only James can make a copepod tail flip look so dreamy and magical as a Disney mermaid’s 😆
Thank you for this amazing video!
All Hail Plankton
I had a microscope in high school. Seeing these videos makes me interested in getting one agan.
So that's what they're called. I got a sample of one that grew very big. Like 2-5mm large
Question: Most non-microscopic animals make sounds. Do any of these tiny creatures have that ability?
Essentially no. They might incidentally make tiny sounds by moving around and such, but they don't have an organelle or any other structure dedicated to making noise, especially not in the way us at our scale do.
That is unless you consider the movements in the water sounds, which you arguably could. In which case almost all of them do make sounds, and a good many of them can detect and react to them.
*tune '2 sparrows in a hurricane'
Like two copepods in a vast body of water
in response to the tinder joke, they still find each other! awww
This has become one of my favorite channels!
Fascinating, thank you for the information!
Wow Spongebob wasn't so far of with its cartoony representation of plankton
Copepod lookin' like it about to steal the secret Krabby Patty formula
Yes, because Shaldon J. Plankton is actually a copepod, look it up.
The copepod larva!! I had a bunch of those about a month ago and could not figure out what they were! yay, i love learning!!
Cool video dude! I enjoyed it!
I find these so often. They are pretty cool to view 👍🏾
4:06 I was so afraid you guys were gonna cut away before we got closure on this struggle
Finally... Copepods!! These animals, especially the Harpacticoids copepods, live also between leafs, mosses, soil.
diatomivore :)
delicious crunchy diatoms
I'll have a plate of the semi-icosahedral ones please, and a couple of cubes for afterwards.
These little guys are so critical to everything, that we even need them in reef tanks to keep the system in check. Without them all sorts of gnarly things can happen and your tank then crashes. Some people even go so far as to set up a refugium in their sump to remove waste and grow pods, especially with the use of macro algaes.
I have many copepods living in my fish aquarium and ciliate(loxophyllum I think) that congregate on the glass walls. It’s fascinating!
Great video! They all are, of course, but I'm more familiar with the parasitic varieties (especially that one that attaches itself to the eyes of Greenland sharks... yeah, it's as unsettling as it sounds) so getting a look at more kinds was very illuminating! I had no idea there were so many species. I always learn such cool things on this channel.
I love how copepods look like transparent aquatic silverfish with comical antennae.
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So the copepod in the room .... how many of these do I swallow a year? The horror, the horror.
Yep, more microscope footage that blows my mind! I dream of having a set up like James.
100% of Tinder profiles are about 60% water.
I think this is one of the most important channels here.
I love these guys !
My bed is my Cope Pod
what is that adorable green ball that shows up at 3:18 and can I learn more about it please?
it's Volvox, green algae that lives in fresh water, maybe rare to catch.. I always wanted to catch it :D
Subscribed immediately
Not only fascinating, but learning how to pronounce some of the crazy names of the organisms…
4:04 this gave me a "racing water droplets in a car" vibes
It's Kingdom seemed to be quite clearly bound by the edge of that waterdroplet though.
So this is where plankton ended up.
Cool video. I am about to start culturing my own copepods. To feed my fish and keep my tank clean
Their talent: Stealing a Krabby Patty Formula from a crab
7:36 the irony 😂
How does a copepod digest the glass shell of a diatom? It seems like that would be hard to digest.
I'm always amazed to see microbes STUFFED full of diatoms, looking like the glass just has to poke right out of them...and yet amazingly doesn't. How does that work? I mean...those things are sharp, as anyone who has used them for pest control knows! They are pretty even inside other critters tho :)
Great music!
I have an ecosphere I made from a jar and some sand and algae I got from the beach and it's full of copepods! They're wonderfully delightful creatures
These videos make me hungry, thanks science! 😂❤ God I wish I could filter feed! 🤣
With a new upload: Now today is a good day ☺️
would it be possible to include the microscopy technique used for each clip in the corner in future videos? i'd be interesred to know which ones yield each bit of footage
I'm surprised there wasn't a comparison to how rotifers eat. It sounds like the same feeding mechanism, but I would've liked some details
I love copepods and diatoms. Culturing them is free, low-effort and feeds a lot of the critters in my aquariums.
F is for fire- that burns down the whole town
U- is for uranium
Bomb
N- is for No survivors!
Plankton! That's not what fun is all about.
digging a tunnel though the air :)
These are the best watch while stoned
FYI: I've been subscribed to your channel since the beginning and I haven't received any notices about new videos for six months.
isn't this the coolest channel on UA-cam ??!
Ooooh King OF Plankton. I thought King Plankton...like in the SpongeBob movie.
Looking at this creature for 2 seconds and I knew this had to be the inspiration for "Plankton" from "Spongebob," and what do you know, Hillenburg was very exacting that Plankton is a copepod.
If you'd uploaded this a week earlier I could have used this in my Ecology finals
trippy !
That's cool.
In some scenes they very much reminded me of silverfish, though those are insects.
They look like they're about to steal your secret fermeler
I know they aren't exactly the same, but I raise daphnia to feed my fish, and they are so cute. I find myself watching the daphnia as much as I watch my fish. Love the little buggers.
I found a species of Copepods in my ocean samples on day..It looked quite interesting but it was being eaten.
Damn I didn’t know Sheldon’s family had a long-living royal dynasty
He has a large family, that's for sure
That's the villain from SpongeBob Square Pants.!
Oooooh. That’s why they are called cyclops. That always made me a bit confused because the food you get from the pet store just look like tiny dots. I was wondering what Greek myth had to do with it.
Do Amphipods next!
It took me so long to find out this species of animal. I have plenty of them in my fresh water ecosphere they are very fast
Subbed.
A cool little organism that might just steal the Krabby Patty formula
Any spongebob fans here?
I was listening to this, and thought to myself: man, he sounds just like Hank green. Until I had the realization
I like how copepods scale.
floating around at the whims of the ocean currents hoping to bump something to eat or mate with.... sounds like my younger days.
Love One Another God Bless Everyone
They look like microscopic shrimps.
You guys might be interested in the "Artificial Life Environment (ALiEn)" project, really cool simulation software which partially imitates the microcosmos
Juvenile copepods are colloquially know as nauplii amongst scientists :)
2:07 was that a volvox colony casually floating by???
This explains why I'm suddenly seeing a lot of copepods in my aquarium - after my fish died of some unknown illness I treated the whole tank with an antibiotic, hoping to kill off whatever it was that killed my fish under the assumption it was some kind of bacterial infection. Of course this also messed with my biological filter and so I've been seeing some diatoms again, which I never get anymore in a tank that's been established for close to two years. So I'm getting more copepods because there's more diatoms in the tank to sustain a larger population! I saw them skittering around on the glass and was uncertain what they were, all my various googling eventually led me here! I'm very happy to let them eat up all my diatoms.
Damn.... the microscope magnifying power in killing
Copepods live in nearly every aquarium. In fact, I was looking at a copepod in my aquarium while watching this video 😂