These “Shrimp” Crashed Burning Man
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Tadpole shrimp are neither tadpoles, nor shrimp. They are a little, ancient type of crustacean that swims in water in the driest places on earth.
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I think you should've mentioned that a certain entrepreneur tried to cash in on the same egg homeostasis found in the related brine shrimp by selling them as "sea monkeys".
This was cool! I’ve never heard of them. I live in the Mohave desert. We have a toad that comes out during monsoons. Any chance you could do something on those?
Weird, I've never heard someone call Triops "Tadpole Shrimp"... but I've never heard someone call Artemia anything but Salt-crabbies or brine shrimp either XD "Sea monkeys" in America... Must be an american thing again. Sells better with kids I guess?
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When I was a kid, I had a Triops breeding kit. I named all of them and buried them in the garden after their inevitable demise. It was really fun though!
Bro, I tried and nothing happened... However, I tried artemias and it worked
Wow, you just brought back a viscerally depressing childhood memory.
I got one of those kits for my nephew. He thought that it was pretty cool.
@@vincentcyr3719where did you buy them, I’m hoping to get my hands on some
@@frostbite3756 Walmart.
When I moved away to college I got a triops kit because I thought itd be the perfect dorm pet. One triop hatched before all the others and was slightly larger. They proceeded to eat all the other hatchlings then died mid shed half a week later.
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I'm so sorry but that's so funny, that lil dude was a prick 💀
They're vicious. Preferred eating each other to the vegetables and triops food.
It makes sense, because when they hatch, there's no guarantee that there's food around. At least one of them needs to get large enough to lay eggs before the puddle dries up. I noticed too that the bigger they became, the fewer they became.
Omg same! My exact story😂 Had them as a kid and got then again when I moved out for university. And yes, the first and biggest one ate them all. Great times :)
I was about to say "those temperatures sound normal" and then I remembered I also technically live in a desert
I mean. chiming in from Ohio here and thought the same 🥲
Are you guys tadpole shrimp?
@@codybell7786
Na. Tadpole shrimp are way more argumentative.
At least no one has tried to sell them as 'monkeys'.
Nobody has ever sold “monkeys” they are called “sea monkeys” but nice try, also that is a marketing ploy it is not their legal name Lmfaoo
No but you can buy them and grow your own!
Yeah, the chap responsible for so many of those, "artistically vague" sea monkey adverts in comics growing up was a far right racist who used the proceeds of the sales to supply arms to NeoNAZI groups.
i SEA what you do here.
They did try to sell them as sea monsters or sea dinosaurs.
I actually didn't know about the thing with Burning Man but I did know about triops (as we call them here), because I live in the Arizona desert and they show up in the monsoon season and it gets mentioned in local media a lot when that happens. It is one of the weird highlights of the monsoon I love. We also get ads about not letting your dogs mess with Sonoran desert toads, staying away from flooded areas and low- lying areas, what to do in a sandstorm, and how downed power lines are lightning rattlesnakes... but those are all PSAs not just DJs and newscasters thinking triops are cool.
Cool story sis
Am I the only one who has literally never heard them referred to as "tadpole shrimp?" I have heard "triops" every time.
Me neither. Tbh, thought they were extinct for a long time.
keep up! I say...
I.note a new or un heard of name for many things now a days. command of the the "newbees" who must re name everything in as they're the new kids
@@scottmoldenhauer8908 Well TBF, the "newbies" who are renaming species are also usually also trusted scientists. Obviously "tadpole shrimp" is no Linnaean binomial or anything so formal but I don't have any reason to believe it's less taxonomically valid than "triops" for a common name at least.
That being said, I think writing down every new name you hear for a species is a great idea. Especially considering how much common names can vary by region and even interfere with other species.
For example, "daddy long legs" could refer to a spider, a non-spider arachnid, or a huge species of fly, depending on where you are. And that species of fly could also be called a mosquito hawk, not to be confused with the "mosquito hawk" dragonflies. Common names are linguistically cultural, as much prescriptivists might wish otherwise.
I've only ever known them as tadpole shrimp. If someone said triops I would've had no idea what they were talking about
@@BlinkCatBeeI think it comes down to how you first discovered them. They’re often sold under the name triops in science kits so it could just be for marketing purposes to label them as ancient organisms, giving them a more unique name
What's truly "bizarre" is having an entire episode about triops and never mentioning that they are commonly sold as pets.
Isn't that more of a fact about humans than it is a fact about triops?
Like, sure, domesticated animals, that's definitely a fact about them, but if it's just a wild animal that humans put in a tank, that feels more like a fact about the humans.
@@OhhCrapGuy The narrator says, "If you've heard of these little weirdos before, it might be because _triops_ crashed the arts festival known as Burning Man in 2023."
That's a bit like saying, "If you've heard of _canis familiaris_ before, it might be because of a recent biting incident in the news." It's just weird.
@@ariochiv I'd categorize it as more of a segue into the specific subject of the video than even implying that it's the reason most people have heard of them.
They didn't say "it's probably because of", just "might be". Still, maybe a bit odd to leave out, yeah, but I think it's fine.
I know right? As an undergrad I tried doing research on them because of this fact!
@ariochiv not really
Another weird thing about them is that they're more closely related to insects than true shrimp. Insects were somewhat recently found to be nestled within the crustaceans, and relatively close to Triops.
you're saying all insects are crabs?
@@mfaizsyahmi Are shrimp crabs
Lobsters and shrimps are closer to cockroaches than we know.
@@mfaizsyahmiNo. Not all crustaceans are crabs. And crustaceans in taxonomy are understood a bit differently than crustaceans as a layterm
jesus, just look at a cladogram sometime and stop guessing maybe? not hard.
I think they are wonderful…they’ve been around for so long. And I like the way they move…like they propel themselves with petticoats!
I had never heard of these before I saw them in giant puddles in Colorado. I love to watch them because they are SO bizarre like they are motorized.
I am genuinely surprised that triops could survive at Burning Man. The playa is extremely alkaline, and normally kills bugs pretty quickly. If you pee on the playa, the ground bubbles and hisses in reaction. The dust will corrode the calluses off your feet, leaving them cracked and bleeding in just a day or two of exposure.
You're giving me playa foot flashbacks 😂
That's why, sans vinegar, you piss on your feet to get them back to a more neutral ph before the extreme cracking... 😂
@@ZenZaBill it's a misnomer that pee is heavily acidic. If it is, there is a severe problem.
@@thomasneal9291 i believe you mean "misconception". a misnomer when something's name isn't accurate (guinea pigs for example, aren't pigs, they're rodents of the genus Cavia, nor are they from guinea (west, sub-saharan africa) instead they're from the andes mountains)
Sea Monkeys/brine shrimp thrive in alkaline water too.
Shell backs is what you call a sailor that has crossed the equator.
"Three-Eyed Backshells" - band name
They're like shrimp software on horse shoes crab hardware.
Like something out of a Burning Man modjam.
I’m from AZ, never underestimate the power of River folk to simplify taxonomy, any crustacean friable form from the river’s a shrimp
My family down in Louisiana say the same thing!... I think. Hard to know for sure what they're saying sometimes, but boy, are they enthusiastic when they say it! ❤😂
Desert ephemeral triocular trilobite-horseshoe crab-shrimp seems like a reasonable name to me.
I was thinking they look more like trilobites too.
You’re telling me a shrimp tad this pole!?
*a tad poled this shrimp?!
I remember just going out with my friends and we crossed a river. One of them said damn what's that on your leg? I was like haha nice joke, then I looked and it was this thing, I got frightened by that thing
Surprised by leg fxcker xD
I'm surprised "horseshoe shrimp" isn't one of their common names.
That name is already taken by the Cephalocarida.
What really is "bizarre" is having an episode named These Shrimp Crashed Burning Man and then never actually say how they crashed burning man.
whew, i thought they where introduced as a Invasive Species...
kept these guys once, had a tank go on for over a year, somehow got the "summer" eggs to keep hatching, so as soon as one generation passed on the next one started to hatch.
Apparently they're a pest in California rice fields. One of my Ag professors who also works in the rice industry was NOT happy when someone gifted her kid a triops kit 😂
Do they eat the rice?
What do they do that's harmful?
@@boxsterman77 rice field get flooded for cultivation and drained to harvest, which is the perfect natural habitat for triops (temporary pools of water/ponds etc), they hatch and eat seedling leaves and roots. They also eat weeds too though!
Do they lay eggs, then die, then people dump the water and the eggs enter the local ecosystem?
When I was little in the 70s and 80s out in the desert I didn't know what those things were, I called 'em "three-eyed shellbacks" so there ya go!
I thought they were extinct. D:
I got one on my finger in a creek when I was a kid. I thought it was a muddy trilobite and I never told anyone cuz they'd never believe me.
Imagine you are at Burning Man, you are in the desert, it is flooding and you are high
You then look down towards the ground, there is shrimp everywhere and they look like they are running towards you
A three-eyed arthropod that looks like a trilobite and a horseshoe crab had a time travel accident is probably the most Burning Man thing ever, honestly.
Sounds like any old night at BM.
I remember having a ton of these little goobers when I was a kid… I miss these things man, they never lived too long but I remember when I first got them. I had just gotten home from school, and I loved anything dinosaur and prehistoric animal related, and my mom had seen these when she was at the store earlier that day, and she picked them up, and when she told me about them and how they called Dinosaur shrimp, I practically begged her to help me get the tank up. Long story short we did and I had these little things for a while before they sadly died.
Petition to change their name to Face Hugger Shrimp
I’ve grown triops from eggs and they are the cutest little guys. Seeing their designs in the sand were beautiful. I will say, They can be hard to raise. If you have 20 eggs hatch you will most likely only end up with 2 growing up-to the first molt but only one surviving its first molt. If you decide to try them out good luck!! If you have small children sea monkeys are a better option. No matter what you grow have the tank on a windowsill for the best chances
Just discovered this channel, nice to see my pets being covered here! They always are a fun conversation topic when I have people over lol
Thanks!
Props for calling it an arts festival instead of a music festival!
Near the end of Burning Man, I feel like I've developed a third eye too.
I would hope so...
2:23 -Shrimps is bugs 🦐
A few years back, when I was raising newt hatchlings, I would hatch "triops in a separate fish bowl as living food for the newts. The newts loved them and I would witness a feeding freny when I dropped some in their tank.
As a child, my parents got me one of these guys as Christmas present because they knew I was a curious person. I saw this crustacean's life cycle, from a egg until they died. It made me depressed for a bit because I felt like I failed him, but I did learn a lot about them in the process. A happy yet sad memory.
i used to keep these as a kid!
our biggest and oldest lived 3 years and we called em Jaws (big funny), it'd sit on our hands if we put them in the water and hid in a big snail shell we put in the tank
theyre such funky lil critters!!
Dang, three years is unheard of, they normally only last a couple months at best
@@macaronsncheese9835 we were shocked as well! it wasnt our first time keeping them by the time Jaws appeared so we werent expecting more than 6 months
Apparently they are also used as pest control in rice paddies…and also considered as pest in rice paddies.
I'm so happy you did a video about triops
Wait but how did they crash burning man???
Burning man 2023 got rained on big time. It was a muddy morass. Some people were trapped there for days, and there were heaps of abandoned property afterwards. The triops hatched in the rainwater and joined the party! I guess you might say burning man crashed them.
So it was the rain that crashed Burning Man?
to crash a party means to attend the party as an uninvited guest. These creatures were technically at burning man because of the rain, and they were not invited.
ya, not sure of why a single sentence wasn't mentioned on that....
Burning Man crashed them. They were there first.
As far as I can tell, this video does not actually EXPLAIN how the triops "crashed Burning Man".
It's like they just injected vague mention of that to give them an excuse for the title.
In other words, it's clickbait, which is a kind of fraud.
I worked at a place that had drainage ditches that were dry most of the year.
One particularly rainy year had crawfish coming out of the sand at the bottom of the ditch.
the most reliable way for scientists to know how to classify if a shrimp like animal is a shrimp, is to bring the species to the lab kitchen and see if it can make fried rice.
admirable effort
Imagine how cool it would be if you lived near a playa desert and could hang out with tadpole shrimp once every 10 years. It would be a party to remember 😮
They live in a lot of other places too! Can be hard to find if you don't know what to look for but they have quite a range
OOOOH! THUMBNAIL! TRIOPS!
I had some as pets. They ate each other until only one remained.
When she died, I buried her in a flower pot. I can't remember what I named her, but I even made a grave marker from a popsicle stick, a cardboard rectangle, some tape, and a pen. I think it was eventually blown over by the wind and washed out by the rain. Nothing left of the corpse a few years later. I still have the sand and the aquarium some 20 years later. I wonder if any of the eggs were viable...
I'm obsessed with your earrings! They're clearly native-made! Drop the creator?
This is Sarah!
Thank you and yes, they are! The artist is Sarah Redeagle, "ancestralaesthetic" on Instagram (I attempted to post a link earlier, but maybe it isn't showing up, so here it is without the link just in case).
Well, so no one is gonna ask how they crashed the burning man festival. It's Literally in the title, that's why I clicked.
I work at my schools aquaculture facility and i breed triops for putting in resin and for people to see and handle during tours
I want to preserve mine in resin once they Pass on...any tips on how to successfully do that?
One of my favorite things to do growing up was to take a bucket to the beach and catch tons of mole crabs, sand crabs in the tidal zone. They pop out of the sand as the water goes out and then shake back into the sand once the water comes back in. I'd like to see a video covering them to learn more about them. BTW I was so mad once I recently learned that they are considered to be really good when cooked the right way. I didn't know this and I've filled buckets of them and dumped them out so many times! I love seafood so I definitely want to try them someday to see what they are like? There is such a flourishing amount of them here at the Oregon coast so I don't feel bad catching and eating some.
Dont eat my water type brothers.
Go for the ground types, their fate is already sealed to be in underground as their type is ground type.
I had these things as a kid, they quickly ate each other and left their severed heads in the tank
Speaking of bizarre beasts, what's that thing around your neck. Blink twice if it is sucking your blood.
I'm digging those vampire collar tips.
You got to say "swimmerettes"
Whenever I think of these, I think of that one line from Anicopters, "JIMMY, WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT MY TRIOPS?" "That you'll beat me?" "YES!"
One minor nit-pick - the swimmerets of shrimps do not count towards the ten legs that they have, they are separate.
3:25 nah, I’ve known about them for years, but usually hear very little info on them. Always welcome more info.
How about calling them "Water Roach?"
"Really hot, at 37 C" *laughing in Australian*
Up to10 years?
We have a 25-year flood cycle in Australia and a lot of tadpole shrimp seem quite happy with it.
I was able to see some of these, or at least a cousin of theirs. We were in Nevada, driving up a large hill in Washoe Valley and came upon some people around a vernal pond. Found out they were German biologists who were there to research and document the "shrimp bloom". We were told the ones we saw usually only hatched about every seventy years. That would make it a once in a lifetime event.
Where I live in the New Mexico Chihuahuan desert we have frogs that come out _only_ when it rains enough to make long standing ponds that last at least 2 weeks or more. Had a monsoonal week of storms and all I heard at night was frogs. Puddles lasted a month with the extra rain that we got.
oh I've seen those hatching kits for these lil guys before! they vaguely look like horseshoe crabs to me as well
Oh so this is what those triops I grew in my biology class are. Kinda neat tbh. I was one of the _only_ people in the class who was actually successful in getting them to not only hatch but survive the entire school year (and beyond!)
03:48. In Spanish, "playa" means "beach" or "riverside," as long it is flat and sandy.
yes but I think she’s referencing the geological term
Burning Man attendees: "We should just like, you know, get in touch with nature."
Also Burning Man attendees: "Not like that."
‘Tadpole Shrimp’?!? I’ve only ever heard them called ‘Triops’.
When did these alternate names become a thing?
The topic in the literal title (crashing burning man) was not even addressed.
It rained at Burning Man, and tadpole shrimp hatched.
I used to keep triops as pets as a kid, and I thought they were so cool!
Unfortunately, the first batch died, so with the second, I decided to clean their tank after a bit.
I then discovered I was mildly allergic to triops! So unfortunately, that second batch was the last batch. To add insult injury, cleaning the tank didn't help.
these little dudes look like they overslept by about 480 million years, bro took a wrong turn on the way to the ordivician
Burning Man? i was told there would be funky mini horseshoe crabs crawling on desert hippies 😢
yeah the title was more clickbaity than usual
I wanted to hear a story of how they crashed Burning Man
Oh thank God I've a platter of toasty shrimp in my fridge it's snack time
I'm proposing "centipede shrimp" as an alternative common name, if their hindquarters look like that, and they have approaching-100 legs
I laughed at 37°C.
I live in Abu dhabi. Gets up to 45-47°C here. Thank God for air conditioning.
You mean, thank science?
@@greensteve9307 he lives in abu dhabi dude
Aw triops are great! You could get them as pets much like how brine shrimp are sold
You are telling me that a shrimp burnt this man?
I watched this video expecting a breakdown of how exactly they "crashed" Burning Man. What? Did a bunch of drunken, belligerent triops roll up and start flights or something?
Surf Wisely.
Really hot = 37'C That's a regular summer's day in Perth. It will hit 44'C this week.
Damn, that’s a living trilobite! Fascinating! Never knew this animal existed until today.
There is a ton of these when monsoon season happens in my city.
The biggest shocker was that they're more related to shrimp than horseshoe crabs
They cute - what wrong you say about them? I say you were once a shrimp! Hah!
You are _killing it_ with that color scheme.
1:54 or just call them triops like everyone else. That's what they're typically sold as.
They really do look like Mini Horseshoe Crabs!
I think we should call them horsetail crabs. Since they look like horseshoe crabs but with a tail but aren't related
No, you're not stuck calling them tadpole shrimp, because it's pretty common to call them Triops.
You could at least have mentioned that.
There are, in fact, way more listings for triops on eBay than tadpole shrimp. As an example of how NOT stuck calling them tadpole shrimp you are.
this was an awesome video, but I can't believe how many people don't understand the use of the word "crashed" in the title OR didn't remember that these guys were all over the news after last year's burn
How is this video already 3 months old with no comments mentioning the TMBG song “Triops Has Three Eyes” from _Here Come The 123s_ ?
K...but I'm still unclear how exactly they crashed Burning Man...
Through clickbaiting people.
I love these things. I used to see these swimming in the local rice paddies all the time.
I didn't know what they were exactly at the time, but I thought they were cute as hell.
Girl that hair! Love it!
I got my pin today and I love it!!!! It will go at the top of my backpack where my pins live.
And some eggs need more than one wet season to develop and hatch.
As a survival strategie if one wet season is to short to reproduce.
As a person that grew up next to the black rock desert, the shrimp there are faerie shrimp. There is a difference
So stinking cool!!! So much Cambrian awesomeness!!!
What kind of shrimp is that at 2:29? Is it both symbiotic and camouflaged to the sea slug they are on or is that a coincidence?
How did they crash burning man? Like, they were just there?
excellent video, very informative.
The organism that most resembles tadpole shrimp to my mind are silverfish. weird, since both animals are misnomers. tadpole shrimp aren't shrimp or tadpoles, and silverfish aren't fish.
They call me triOpps the way three gangs in different ends want me dead