What Are Barnacles? | Sea Turtle Science
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- What are barnacles and why do they attache to sea turtles? Sea Turtle Science in 4 Minutes from Olive Ridley Project.
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Ah yes. We all searched for barnacles
I actually did
lol
@@inakigodinez574 same lol
@@inakigodinez574 so did I
I just love watching it for no apparent reason , The next time I visit the beach I’m all in for removing barnacles wherever I find them
Barnacles are tough creatures and they don’t let go easily. Trying to remove them, especially on areas of soft tissue can be very painful and damage the turtle. Turtle’s can survive in fresh water for several days whereas those tough barnacles don’t do so well. They either fall off by themselves or are otherwise very easy to scrape off.-Local Earth Conservancy
This turtle was bathed in freshwater for 24hrs prior to removal, but sometimes they still need a little bit of prising off as they're very large. Neither his shell nor him was hurt by the removal process.
great to know
@@oliveridleyproject Do the barnacles survive?
@@oliveridleyproject can Human eat barnicles? (Just asking)
And do they harm turtle? Like ticks do to cows and other animals?
@@rajatdani619 people eat gooseneck barnacles, Pacific Northwest , mostly near Vancouver island I think. There’s some videos about goosenecks on UA-cam.
I just saw a video of a turtle that had lots of stuff on it, and i didn't know what it was. It said barnacles, but i asked myself what were those. I thought it was seashells glued to them somehow. Thank you for showing and explaining to us what barnacles are. Nasty things hurting the poor turtle 🐢 Shell. Yuck
oh my gosh same, the poor turtle 🐢
Wrong. They don't hurt the turtle shell. But they do slow down its movements a little.
They don't cause harm to the turtle, its a symbiotic relationship between the species. The only complications are when smaller turtles pile up a few too many of them and have complications swimming.
@@rodolfo5022 if a person is not careful in how they remove the barnacles, it can absolutely damage the turtle shell. I've seen it too many times in videos.
@@rodolfo5022 Quoting someone else: The more barnacles and other sessile critters, the slower and heavier the carrier becomes, which can eventually lead to death. The odd sessile creature’s placement over eyes, nose, anus and whatnot will definitely kill the live carrier if not removed.
i always thought that turtles would go to reefs and corrals for "maintanance" bc the fish there would eat all the algues, dirt and barnacles from them. Like a spa for turtles and a buffet for the fish. I was even convinced having seen it on tv. Aparantly I was wrong! Thanks for the great job, guys! You people are fantastic!
the music is super annyoning xD but the video is very well made thank you
I was actually wondering what the name was of the music 😅
Haha
Naw shits kinda catchy actually
That music is better suited for a sports video...The text scroll is far too slow...a little polish and this can be a excellent video.
Indeed
Amen
Jakiś polski, aby rozjaśnić swój film! Teraz jest idealny.
It's still a good one
I never thought that I’d say the life of a barnacle was something I would care about but I love turtles and this educated me a bit about these awful barnacles. Ty for sharing.
I HATE barnacles. Those poor adorable turtles 🐢
With all due respect I don't think it's fair for us to humanize animals in such a way and classify them as either "good" or "bad".
All living beings are part of a chain and serve a purpose in nature and no creature is at fault for how they operate or how they survive. We are all one and the same at the end of the day 💚
My skin did crawl a little..I mean a lot🤧.But my mind kept persuading me to keep watching
I feel you
You might have trypophobia
It's like seeing skin diseases on a human.
So geht es mir genauso daß ist wohl gruselig aber ich will wissen wie denn Schildkröten geholfen werden kann die sind schon Jahrtausende länger auf der Erde und haben es verdient gerettet zu werden danke für die Hilfe ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for the lesson. I have often seen them on rocks as I live in a coastal city but never really knew anything about them.
After watching “monsters inside me” where barnacles begin growing inside a man’s hand… and all the pain he was in from it… I gotta know if they’re hurting my little turtles and other animals they merely attach to
Wow, that one barnacle was huge . I hope that turtle 🐢 is ok after all that picking.
Wow, the music plus the insanely low speed of the text appearing on screen tells me all I need to know about this channel.
This was a very informative video. Understanding their lifestyle and food gathering ways, it makes sense that barnacles attach themselves to ships, boats, and sea creatures.
Now that I know what a barnacle is. Now I get why squidward called everyone a barnacle head
Great video. The best explanation ever. Thank you. I must say I hate barnacles. The way they stick,to the sea turtles are disgusting. Poor sea turtles.🐢😔
Thanks for the information. It will be awesome if you change the music to more subtle and easy listening ones.
I actually had to quit watching tbe video because of it
@@BonitaSixx did u try muting the video? i mean if the music bothered so much that u had to shut down the whole video then might as well turn it off?
@@minsugarapgeniusjangjangma9919Well, considering that Im aware of the volume up/ down and even the mute buttons on my phone, i guess it just didn't pique my interest enough to bother as I had watched a couple other videos about barnacles prior to stumbling upon this one.
Funnily enough I had a good time listening to the music LOL but I know that's not the type of music that pleases everybody
@@gracianne I'm into old school metal like Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, etc. I actually dig all kinds of diff music but something about this just cut right thru me lol. Glad u enjoyed it tho ;-)
Wtf is that music
"Its a crustacean like... shrimp, lobster, crab"
Me: "so they're delicious 👁👅👁"
the sound killed it ! realy....with this sound nobody will every watch your content! good luck for the future!
The music is maddening.
The turtle at the beginning or the video is saying its not a barnacle, its a beauty mark. 😅
As captain Haddock would have said
Blistering Barnacles!!
Yes ...
I found this quite traumatic. I never liked or disliked barnacles seeing them on rocks and poles. But now seeing them on turtles....horrible...little vampires 😟
Exactly. Barnacles are disgusting. Poor turtles.
Your analogy is flawed - barnacles gain nothing except mobility when attaching to a turtle
@@Fifury161 they are still parasitic especially in large numbers making life hard for the turtles
@@KingsDaughter. Actually no, whilst there are certain barnacles that are parasitic by definition, those attached to the turtle shell are not as they cannot penetrate to feed on the host (the definition of a parasite). They at worst increase the hydrodynamic drag, but they are not parasitic within the definition.
@@Fifury161 Well you contradicted yourself right there. You confirmed some barnacles are in fact, parasitic. Also barnacles of parasitic nature have also burrowed into turtle skin if you didn't know..so yeah, turtles do have to deal with parasitic barnacles.
Came to learn something, but instead ended up throwing a dance party in my room. Thanks
Thank you. That was so educational. I was just commenting on one of the sea turtle videos about why they have become so prevalent. I don't recall seeing any as.bad as these videos. It's becoming a big problem and I am happy that enough people are coming to their rescue. Thanks for the lesson. I now know why they look for turtles and latch onto them.
Theyve always been around. Now you just have youtube to teach you about them.
Good point
I lowkey didnt know barnacles were animals and always thought they were a type of plant 😅😬
Barnacles are basically "Free Loaders"
This video was very helpful to understanding what barnacles are. I saw turtles looking very ugly with that all over, but I didn't understand how it got on them and stayed attached. This video cleared it up.
For some reason I thought the turtle had his/her mouth open 😯 or was it just me 🤣
Blistering Barnacles
The adventures of TIN TIN
Thanks for explaining that i truly had no clue until now.
What's the best method of eradicating them ,some people say they're a delicacy, but they don't look that scrumptious?
I appreciate seeing these videos about sea creatures and my heart goes out to these poor things dealing with such nasty barnicules!! If I was able I'd help remove them.
It's so great to see them get this help and great to see the turtles happy something weirdly gratifying about watching them scrape them off I don't know
Beautifully done Olive! This was very interesting after having seen a few videos of people taking barnacles off of sea turtles.
The amount of videos I’ve seen where people are removing barnacles from sea turtles and you see a large chunk of the turtles shell go with it is just horrific but none of these “good Samaritan’s” seem to realise that you can put a sea turtle into fresh water and the turtle will be fine for a few days but the barnacles will basically die and let go
Great information. Thanks. Blessings. 🙏👠👠
Hi sara
A barnacle from Earth = $0.00 Vs A Barnacle from Mars = $56,000,000,000
Very well explained !!
👍👍👍
Barnacles are kinda amazing creatures to be honest, they even kinda help clean out the ocean, the only problem they may have with turtles is that they may slow it down and impede movements, as much as they can do to boats, a turtle having just 1 barnacle on its carapace has no factual problem, a turtle having 347 barnacles on its shell has a problem. They do not damage turtle shells, why would they kill and damage the one being that facilitates their life.
You can even keep barnacles in an aquarium possibly, but you need to have special filters and whatnot.
From someone else:
The more barnacles and other sessile critters, the slower and heavier the carrier becomes, which can eventually lead to death. The odd sessile creature’s placement over eyes, nose, anus and whatnot will definitely kill the live carrier if not removed.
A parasite is a parasite not unlike a disease. They are by nature destructive to their host.
This was very helpful. I now understand a lot about what, why, how. Thank you so much
THANK YOU
Thank you
Come for the information but stay for the EDM
Love the video; however the music didn't fit well with the good content.
Thank you!
This was EXCELLENTE...I have been binge watching turtles with barnacles on them and wanted to know the what, why, and how and now this video has shown me the facts in great detail, kudos🤗
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING, YOU DO.
Video: Well done, simple but informative about barnacles and sea turtles.
Background sound: Annoying, repetitive music that one would expect to hear at a carnival or jazzercize session.
Thanks for good explanation..
Lately I have seen many videos of turtles covered with barnacles. Is there a barnacle surge of some kind (e.g. because seas temperature rising) or it has always been like this?
UA-cam algorithm
Well people realized instead of placing turtle is freshwater to kill them off they could make videos of roughly saving sea turtles for views and youtube was like we will help u too
There are not many studies on barnacles but we know that they reproduce the most between 15c and 25c. If the water column begins warming they will likely start thriving at slightly lower depths but overall the birth rate should remain about the same.
It's always been like this. They cause no harm to the turtles but youtube sensationalists want you to believe they're saving the turtles.
yes because overfishing is causing that all the species humans dont fish or feed on the fishes we eat are getting a population explosion.
Barnacles in particular are getting all the food that shrimps and crabs would usually eat and their natural predators whelks are getting overfished too.
IT'S SO TIRING HAVING TO WAIT WHEN YOU READ FASTER THAN THE WORDS APPEAR...
Good from last 10 min i trying to find this 👍👍
The garbage dance music is wholly unneccesary
I'm glad they spelt it out letter by letter or I wouldn't have been able to keep up.
Thank you so very much for for the information.
Thanks A lot for this information. I was watching them removing barnacles from turtles n was really thinking what?and sp when they didn’t discard those peeled off nodules!!
Barnacles like some sick beats
This was very interesting all your detail so I looked up and found the Oliver Ridley project !!
Nicely explained
🤔 informative! So, does anybody believe that if the ocean cleaning critters were not caught and eaten, like crabs and lobsters, bottom feeders, that barnacles would be following suit and feeding off the bottom of seas and ocean floors, instead of turtles, do people eat the barnacles found on turtles?
NO!!! Los percebes pegados a las tortugas no, los que estan pegados a las rocas, yo ni unos ni otros, ni ningun animal, pobrecitos!!!!
@Gary Allen uuuh Yuck! lis
I love this info, bravo, guys
I had to stop watching and started dancing during the video, so I missed it.
Can I just say I freakin hate barnacles!!!
Seeing what they do to those poor sea turtles just hurts my heart 💔
This is the best and most informative video I've ever seen, i was really confused before this, thank you ❤️
I have a theory.
Could it be that floating sea trash is contributing to this problem?
Barnacles stick to floating trash elevating the concentration of Barnacle larvae, also trash forces Turtles to swim slower facilitating the adherence of Barnacles to them.
I watched one Japanese video of these things being pulled off a sea turtle that couldn’t move and now I’m getting these videos.
Thank you for sharing. Cape Town
TY!!!! I always wanted to know what those lil Sea Buggers were!!!!!
The background music is so off here. Needed to mute. But vid was very informative.
So basically they're the animal kingdom hitchhikers
Love the turtles!
People can also get barnacles growing on their bones. wicked stuff
I was watching bare knuckle boxing. Damn you Al Gore rythms!
they had no reason to put this banger ass song over this
They should start eating them as a food source so they don't over tax the crab and lobster it would cut back on the damage caused from cleaning them off other animals and property
Learn something new every day, good video, thanks
So are they dangerous to sea turtles? If not why do people remove them, it looks like its painful to the turtle
I think the turtles look like they feel better after you’ve remove the barnacles !! Thank you
A few barnacles on a turtle are normal, but many can make it difficult for the turtle to move around and eat
I have a pretty nice barnacle collection Ive found over the years. Got them on a whole variety of things. Got a new subscriber. Was fun and informative to watch. Great video
Fun? Barnacles are disgusting nuisances. Those poor sea turtles and whales. You don’t care about them maybe
When comes down to filter feeders the Vampire Squid has to be the coolest of all!! Creepy looking too!!
Barnacles are very delicious better than scallops and haddock very yummy food with or without lemon or tartar sauce.
I can do without the music just noise, I enjoy watching what you doing, but the music is a turn off.
They are even finding barnacles attached to trees close to water. The one thing I hate is to see a whale or other animal over run by them.
Nice video!
They also attach to whales.
Awesome!! This video answered all the questions I ever had on barnacles in the easiest most understand way 💕
Would be a greater video if the music wasn't giving me a migraine.
Why must i be a crustacean in love
This is the answer of my long serching question
I’ve never seen so much growth on a sea turtle. Besides barnacles, was some of that coral? Thank you for saving the young turtle. God bless you.❤️🙏🏻
Ty
I think this video is informative and I like that we can trust the source. I wish you went one step further and clarified (in the video) that regular folks shouldn't aggressively pry barnacles off turtles and then just drop them back in the sea. As I understand it, that's really dangerous for the turtles as it can lead to further damage and infections. Right now, there are a lot of people rehashing and compiling videos of others removing barnacles and I worry that it makes it seem like a great idea. I'd love to be able to throw a link to videos (like this one) on those pages to help spread awareness (and to clarify any misconceptions that might be out there). Thanks!
On another channel it was explained that if a turtle is completely covered in barnacles it typically indicates they have other health problems already. So even though it can cause problems chances are they were going to die shortly soon anyway. Thankfully there are safe ways to remove the barnacles so you can actually help them without harm.
Ahhh...Barnacles !
This is the most positive comment section lol. Just a bunch of barnacle fans, hangin out
Billions of blue blistering Barnacles.
Much better with no sound. Ahhhh.
Definitely. lol.
I did. A while ago though. The google algorithm remembered that and showed me this video
Thank you for the information. If only the letters were not typed one by one.
I have eaten steamed barnacles and found they taste good.
thank goodness for the mute function
Educational 💯