Barnacle facts: You may want to avert your eyes... | Animal Fact Files
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Barnacles look like they might be related to clams, but they're actually arthropods and more closely related to lobsters and crabs. While barnacles maintain their outer shell for protection, just like other arthropods they shed their exoskeleton periodically. Their shells, however, are simply added too. Barnacles produce a cement-like substance that holds them fast to whatever surface they decide to adhere to as a larva. Once settled, a barnacle is attached to it's place for life. They attach head-first.
Scientific Name: Infraclass - Cirripedia*
*this episode specifically focuses on Superorder: Thoracica
Range: marine waters worldwide
Size: less than an inch (2.54cm) to more than 4 inches (10cm) in length
Diet: planktonic particles
Lifespan: 30+ years in larger species
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Just subscribed love learning about animals...I Google what are barnacles because was wondering why or how they got on the humpback whales...appreciate your video
Never been so disgusted and intrigued at the same time
yup but God's creatures
"what a bunch of barnacle heads."
-Squidward tentacles 1991
I can relate so much. I ignored the warning out of curiosity
That's what my girlfriend said to me the first time she saw me naked.
@@trollingisasport probably most men
wait so if parasitic barnacles live in the reproductive systems of crabs dors that mean crabs can technically have krabs??
I guess???
😂
😅🤣❤yes!!
Lmao yes
I had no good comment for that. All I could think was "what a way to go"
Once my wife and daughter brought back an old glass bottle that had barnacles covering it. She wanted to keep it, so it got put in the garage. 2 days later i heard this weird high pitched sound whenever i went out to the garage. Barnacles were dying from being dried out. Wasnt sad. I hate barnacles.
@sprock LOLOL bro best reply ive seen to a post of mine since '06.
😂
They scream????
Barnacles creep me out and their existence makes me uncomfortable yet I still proceeded to watch this...
Hahaha! Same! I'm intrigued, but so grossed out!!
AWWW Barnacles !
This is THEE most VULGAR piece of literature to ever hit the streets of Bikini Bottom!
I remember finding out these things were living creatures and being grossed out. Idk why but I thought they were just a gross thing that attaches itself to ships.
They *are* a gross thing that attaches to ships. (As a sailor with a company that does most of it's own maintenance, I might be a little biased). I mean, yes, they're fascinating little critters... But they're also disgusting and a pain in the ass to get off a hull. Two faces on the same coin.
@@athena8794disgusting in what sense? Smell? Look? The fact that they eat anything?
@@TobiasTheWolf the look weirds me out, and also the goopy guts that get all over when you scrape them off. Also the shells are sharp, so you're gonna get cut at some point in the process.
I absolutely thought the exact same thing, until I watched a video earlier this week.
@@TobiasTheWolfThey kind of look like mango worms or bot fly eggs. That’s disgusting.
Oh no, Barbaracle from pokemon is 4' 03" according to the official pokedex. If my math is correct, the male Barbaracle's may have a 34' member.
O sh-
rule 34 artists: pathetic
a 10m junk? god
Figure you would know lol u do have a Cyndaquil picture
i dont get it, can someone explain
Tinder date: _"How big is it?"_
Barnacle: _"Oh, it's BIG..."_
Now you can say hung like a Barnacle.
They don't call me barnacle boy for nothing
@@LXW-Arts OMG barnacle boy's nose was....😦
Those nasty bastards. Putting such an innuendo in a kid's show
@balddicknosed asscanoe 😦
Best comment ever 🤣
Barnacles are awesome. People always get shocked when I tell them they're crustaceans, and even look like little shrimps at one point during their life cycle. If you sliced a barnacle open, it would look like an upside-down shrimp, planted head-first on the ground, with it's "feathers" being it's legs it once used to swim. Barnacles even have eyes, although they're incredibly small and completely stuff inside their shell, so they're basically useless. Just leftovers from when they were once free-swimming larvae.
Also, their larval stage has 2 parts: Nauplius, and Cyprid. Shrimp also have 2 larval stages, the first is also called a Nauplius, but the second is called Mysis. Then they become Shrimplets, which is the cutest name for a baby arthropod I've ever heard next to spiderlings. Also, I just want to reference Tadpole Shrimp, which you guys have a video on (It's awesome btw), they're very interesting because they pretty much look like their larval stages their whole lives. I guess that's part of what makes them so primitive and ancient?
I highly encourage anyone who is interested in barnacles to go look up pictures of their larval stages, they look pretty neat. The Nauplius stage was shown here, but not the Cyprid stage.
This is such an awesome comment! I wish we could fit everything like this into a 3-4 minute video! Thanks for all the information!!
definitely not cute lol. But arent disgusting either. Just is
You are a strange human lol I live in a maritime state so I hate the things they can fuck boats up
@@colemanwalsh7477 And they're a nightmare for sea turtles.
@@colemanwalsh7477 I'm strange for finding an animal interesting? Ok. I find you strange for hating them, even if they cause problems. To them, it's your fault for owning a boat. We're the unnatural ones here.
Cleaning boat hulls gave me a healthy respect for barnacles. I've taken over a ton of them and black mussel off individual vessels at a time. Hard work. Respect the barnacle.
Respect the barnacle lmao
They are also really good eating
@@scotch4890 You nasty.
@@scotch4890 i didn't know they were edible... You can have my share tho lol that's a hard pass for me
@@kristy3041 never ceases to amaze me, americans will eat mystery meat shoved into an intestine just cause it’s called a hot dog but a barnacle is just too much, if I fed it to you and didn’t tell you I guarantee you’d like it
2:10 Didn't know barnecel where this well packed
Damn, take note
Get some English lessons! lol
@Sub Zero saem
@@youthoughtiwasjotarobutitw8642 Your comment translation to "come out"
@@tville4358 saem must be closet code for gay men
So in spongebob, when they call someone a barnacle, theyre saying that theyre ass hats as they burrow head first and moon everyone
Two of my duties as a crab boat deckhand were to clean pots and twice a year scrape barnacles off the hull. The smell was absolutely the worst! Twice I was cut by shells which required antibiotics to heal.
What do they smell like? Can't be worse than a javelina (peccary) when you gut it. As for the sharpness, I already knew, but I think you can get a parasite from them if you are not careful.
@@alkpaz
No doubt javelina guts reek, but barnacles exposed to air have a special stank all their own.
I drew them on a rock in one of my mermaid drawings in middle school. I wish I knew where it went, I was proud of that thing.
Barnacles on rocks is the first step to making super detailed art.
so where did you specifically put the barnacles on your mermaid drawings?
Wow ya needed to share that huh
@@TrevorScanlan what's wrong with it? Jealous?
I grew up on the east coast of Florida, what this video doesn't tell you is that barnacles slice you up like razors. they attach to the docks and boats and you learn real fast to spot them.
I live on the Gulf Coast of Florida and I know how badly barnacles can cut you. He didn't mention the in the video.
I have trypophobia and this video was actually quite refreshing on how knowledgeable it was. I still had to skip parts of the video and I have goosebumps all over, but the video was very well done!
Thanks so much ❤️ Glad you learned something new!
Yeah yeah. Everyone has it self diagnosed
Not a real phobia.
Not even close to a real thing.
No, no you don't
What a load of barnacles 😂
Personally, I think barnacles are kind of cute. But, then again, I also think Metroids are adorable when they're not trying to eat you, so who the hell knows if that's even a valid opinion?
It is valid lol, I find naked molerats cute
I want a metroid. I also want to burn all barnacles alive with a heavy flamer.
@@bossman13666
No. No barnacle hate in this comment thread. You wanna hate on barnacles, you can do it in someone else's comment, but not here.
@@bossman13666 I second that
I understand, I personally find snails cute.
I've been familiar with barnacles for my entire life, but never knew many of the facts. Thanks for the video.
Have you ever done a video of fiddler crabs?
We have not done fiddler crabs! We'll add them to the list! Glad you learned something new
Barnacles are edible.. they taste like a very "fiber-y" crab/scallop mix, with a very strong smell... border line smells like "spoiled" flesh smell. They are good eating, though.
Doesn't sound like it
.... im interested
Only the "Rocky" ones are edible... the gooseneck one's (as far as I know) are not.
In Philippines we get those on rocks, bringing vinegar and spoon to get them off the rocks and break the shells to eat it with vinegar.
sounds great
Most underrated channel on UA-cam
I agree.
Trueee
Aww thank you so much
agreed!
Most overrated comment
I used to have terrible nightmares as a kid about barnacles being attached to my skin as a kid after seeing a group of them on the beach undulating. Ugh.
Yikes that sounds awful!
@@AnimalFactFiles Trypo be like that sometimes. Thanks for the cool video though.
The reason why the myth of goose barnacles transforming into barnacle geese lasted for so long was because it was a convenient way of getting around the Catholic prohibition of eating meat on Friday. If the barnacle goose was just the adult form of a barnacle, it was "technically a fish" and therefore could be eaten on Friday.
beavers are also still classified as fish for that reason lol
🧐 Slowly, lethargically, angrily, humanity is improving.
The world's most dangerous cult is truly full of mind-boggling wackiness.
@@carolgibson-wilson4354 I'm skeptical.
@@carolgibson-wilson4354I disagree.
Wow, it’s cool to learn that barnacles are ‘upside down’ Thanks for creating & sharing this, Animal Fact Files 💐
Glad you enjoyed it!
I just feel sorry for the other creatures they attach to.
I don't think turtles ever notice it, would be like having a piece of tape glued on your fingernail. Its there, but you won't notice it. Plus they are not parasitic feeders, they only take a hike on turtles.
@@MrKlausbaudelaire Obviously you've never seen an infestation of them where they build up to the point of being a health risk.
@@MrKlausbaudelaire nah you're way off here. Barnacles are Satan's little helpers
I've got multiple goosebumps watching this video 🤣
My disgust has reached all time peak
Imagine having a pennies 8 times your size lol you could clap cheaks on in a completely different room.
I saw these for the first time in my life this summer while on the beach, was intrigued to know what were they. Finally today I discovered they were barnacles! Thank you 😊
This shit just made my skin crawl.
Wow, the production quality is so amazing , so I was genuinely shocked to see the lack of comments?? Definitely subbing!
Thanks so much! Welcome to our adventure squad
Can't believe the Skyrim (set in another planet full of magic) Barnacles (clustered, harmless, edible) is closer to real life than Half-Life (set in either modern day or alternate future Earth) Barnacles (often grown individually but can be clustered as well, very harmful with gaping teeth and hanging tongue, definitely not edible)...
Well i think the main difference is that a skyrim barnacle is a proper barnacle, while the one in half life has the naming convention because of their similar appearance and traits, but it hasnt been properly studied to categorize it as anything else since its an alien lifeform from pretty much another dimension
The half life barnacles are also not supposed to be earth barnacles, they're from the border world Xen
Half-Life barnacles are my worst nightmare
After watching this video I'm now convinced those things aren't grabbing Gordon Freeman with a 'tongue'.
teeth cannot gape.
This popped up on my recommended section and i couldn't be more pleased by it, amazing quality!
Thanks so much! So glad you found us ❤️
This is why barnacles is a swear word on SpongeBob
THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY REQUEST! Keep up the great work!
Thanks for the request it was a really fun episode to make since I didn't know much about these animals!
These things straight up wave 24/7. They love to greet
They are certainly a bit gross but also kind of cool in like a freaky alien sci-fi way
Tiny facehuggers :)
I got cut by these barnacles back then when I was a kid. I got hit in the back and saw tons of blood after. Their shells are sharp as hell
When I worked in a Tampa, Fl hospital in 1983, a Latino woman was transferred to our hospital from a smaller hospital south of us. Her house was on a channel. She was getting into or out of their boat and scraped her leg on barnacles on the dock. She developed Hepatitis and was in bad shape when she came to us. Her skin color was orange. She died a few days later. You were lucky.
"The trypophobia triggers cant be that bad right?"
So glad you learned something new! Thanks for watching ❤️
barnacles, the crustacean that evolved into clams.
I had the most repetitive goosebumps my entire life while watching this.
Bc why not?
"Wow this is so cool" I say as I furiously scratch my skin.
me seeing the warning at beginning and watching: "maybe i'm not trypophobic"
google search:
me: "nopei'mtrypophobic"
💀 same
I have trypophobia but this video was still very cool
Barnacles has always been a mystery to me until now.
The coolest thing about barnacles is that whales prefer to keep them when they attach since they form an armor
I didn't know that. Jehovah God makes everything for a purpose!
1:48 Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps.
100% real
I guess that's what I have....😢
I feel like throwing up but at the same time new knowledge is always a welcome.
What a price to pay
Thank you for the great video. Barnacles are fascinating to me! I really enjoyed observing them on the WA coast two weeks ago. There are so many tiny creatures that can be taken for granted or over looked unless we take the time to appreciate them.
Agreed. I hope videos like this help to encourage more of that appreciation. Thanks for watching and commenting ❤️
Alls good until a barnacle enters your bloodstream.
I have never really thought about looking into Barnacles cuz.. they never caught my fancy to look into.. but.. this 4min video did enough for me that I don't want to lol.
3:43 That revelation somehow made these flesh nightmares wholesome, and I can't believe I'm saying that.
I do appreciate the warning and I have that phobia but it's like a fucking car crash that I can't look away... and ironically i'm watching this while squirming at my seat.
Your forgot to mention under threats to Barnacles "Jacob Knowles when he catches a lobster with barnacles on its shell."
Guess I'll have to start saying I'm hung like a... barnacle? Seriously though, beautiful creatures. I like how the one was fanning out and changing direction to catch its food.
I remember many years ago helping my boyfriend scrape them off the bottom of his boat…after every season we would have the boat pulled from the water so we could scrape off all the barnacles. What a job that was….then we repainted the bottom of the boat before putting it back in the water.
Imagine having a tongue. That's it. Nature is an amazing teacher if one could compare and contrast properly.
A tongue, a penise, and a vagina.
I mean hey...they got the largest penis in the world compared to their bodies so you cant have it all 🤣
I hate many things, like spiders, tics, centipedes, millipedes. BUT NOTHING EVER BEATS MY FEAR OF BARNICLES
There was a whale with barnacles in Sesame Street’s Elmo the musical.
Was the whale pink? I think I found the one you're talking about
As soon as I saw them gathered on a turtle’s shell my trypophobia was triggered. 😧😧
Why do I do this to myself
Does anyone feel anxiety or somewhat a little weird watching this?
I felt i want to bite, tear something off, i want set things on fire LOL
You might have trypophobia 😬
Thumbs up if your skin is crawling right now
I’m too indecisive to be a barnacle. I’d never be able to pick a spot to be cemented to and live the rest of my days. Also, I wonder if they get bored.
This was fascinating to learn about the barnacles.
My brain: *Spongebob shouting barnacles*
Me: brain leave it alone im trying to learn
Aren't barnacles supposed to attach themselves on ceilings and mostly prey on humans who touch their long tongues, which then wraps around the humans neck and pull them up to chew on their heads?
They eat everything even steel barrels
Not me looking up barnacles and there's a trypophobia warning lol. I screamed at the end 😅
I always feel so sorry when I see turtles and whales full of barnacles. So I came to see what the heck they are and I'm quite surprised to learn they clean the water.
"I would like to be spliced with a barnacle."
But why tho?
"Reasons"
I loved this episode!!!
Thanks so much, Tracy!
As an artist i have to say this is pure inspiration
Sorry, can't watch this episode. I have trypophobia 😭 I'm terrified seeing little holes. Please do African Fish Eagle aka African Bald Eagle.
Ugh I hear ya. It was kind of a nightmare to make not even gonna lie 😭
Yeah...... its gross
Humans get crabs, crabs get barnacles… got it.
I thought they were a freaking fungus rock thing that had no inside… oh boy was I wrong… I f*cling hate these things now, with a passion and now I will never proceed to enter water anywhere near a rock face or coral.
Not sure why this was recommended but hey that was fun to watch!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching ❤️
You guys heard of valonia ventricosa before? It's apparently a giant signal-celled organism!
Oh it's so interesting you bring this up! Eli was just telling me about these a week or two ago. I think he must have come across them in another video. They're really fascinating!
Don't you just love it when a video takes a decade to load because it is trying to load a stupid fucking ad.
I find it odd how recently there's been such a big catering toward those with trypophopia, a very rare type of phobia, yet I don't think I've ever seen a single form of media that gives a warning for arachnophobia, one of the highest phobias in the world. More people are afraid of spiders than they are of death but we gotta make sure we don't have a bunch of holes lumped together without warning some one!!!
Not saying don't put the warning, just saying it's a weird thing I've noticed.
Good point! I've never thought of it that way! Appreciate the perspective 😄
Probably because it is easier to guess if a video has spiders in it than it is to guess if it has holes
Feels like I wanna poke it... I'm shivering for an unknown reason.
Oh god
Whenever I see these things I get the urge to get something sharp and pick at the barnacles
Ive never heard so much swearing in one video.
Imagine those barnicles moving back-and-forth inside your urethra
My eyes: "Lol well I'm definitely not watching that"
My brain: *_click_*
Same 💀
Fun fact; if a person was getting keelhauled during the maritime era, it was likely for someone to get wounded by a barnacle due to the sharp shell around the barnacle's body once the human was submerged underwater
Hung like a barnacle is no longer an insult 😂
I was doing.... Alright till 3:15 and then my trypophobia kicked into overdrive...
I feel ya. This one was tough to make 😭
Thank you for the good information on barnacles. I had no idea there are more than 1400 species of barnacles.
feeling something crawls inside my skin while watching 👁️👄👁️
Just looking at those things makes me itch
0:35 "While they might look like clams, acorn and stalked barnacles are actually crustaceans and are more closely related to lobsters and crabs than they are mollusks."
WHAT?
This is one of those things that not only did I not know, but I didn't know that I didn't know. I never would have _imagined_ that.
When your tryptophobia kicks in before the video evem starts lol
I always itch with videos like this...but kept watching
ugh i feel sick from watching but couldn't look away
I don't know why this was recommended to me, but I'm not disappointed.
Quite intresting, but damn they make me feel slightly uncomfortable
Billions of blistering blue barnacles.
Shells close when not submerged...
Shows barnacles just partying outside of water... lol