very informative and interesting. I was bored and was just looking for barnacle videos. But these facts are really fancinating and well presented with a nice pace. Hope you guys get high mark for this
Honestly wish documentaries were more like this one. It is actually very informative. Most TV documentaries instead of trying to inform you, try to entertain you and worry more about telling a story than giving information, and also dumb things down as well. Moving documentaries in a direction closer to this as far as the information goes, would be very nice.
You've been watching the wrong documentaries!! Watch ANYTHING with Sir David Attenborough & watch Nature on PBS. Stick to the BBC & PBS. Their nature documentaries sometimes take up to 4 years to make! They exist to educate people, not to make money. There are whole series like Planet Earth and others that are fascinating & have the most amazing cinematography!! There's nothing wrong with being entertaining as long as animals & plants are not harmed, scenes are not staged & people are learning about the natural behavior of animals & what they need to live. Animals are often very entertaining & plants are fascinating. There are other good educational YT channels, too. This is just one school project (albeit a good one). Just steer clear of the cable channels that are in it for the money, like the History Channel or the Discovery Channel. They have bowed the knee to profit & offer dumbed down programming that relies on special effects, repetition of images (usually of computer-generated images effects) & voiceovers that sound like the Honest Trailers announcer, & promote speculation & conspiracy theories to get & keep viewers. The do still offer some good programs, but they aren't consistent the way Nature (or other PBS documentaries, like American Experience or Ken Burn's docs) or Sir David & the BBC are. They offer consistently outstanding nature, history, & science programs.
Good job guys, very informative. I didn’t even know barnacles we’re living organisms and this really helped me to understand what they’re about. I’m proud of each and every one of you. You’re doing gods work. I love yall
No, because ticks suck the blood off the animal onto which they attach. These things just ride along unless they are the parasitic kind that take over the reproductive system of crabs, as described in the video. But that's just one kind of barnacle.
I thought it would be interesting to hinder a larve of reaching solid ground. Would they stay mobile, then? I wonder how "smart" they are. You can see how coordinated they move their long penisses. So they clearly have some sort of brain.
hey thanks for the video man, I was watching a video about removing barnacles from sea turtles and wanted to learn just what a barnacle is. Your video was concise and answered most of my questions, good stuff!
OMG, people should leave the sea turtles alone. Unless someone knows what they're doing the shells are damaged and infection can move in. Sea turtles can deal with barnacles unless they're really sick or REALLY STRESSED; prying the barnacles off stresses the turtles MORE than leaving them alone. Please, leave the sea turtles alone. All species are endangered. Share the word. P.S. Email any turtle rescue organization for more info. Retired librarian
Nice video! I went searching for barnacle videos to get a little background knowledge for my own trivia while writing my molecular ecology lab report. Thanks for posting :)
Well done. Thank you for taking the time to make this. You should invest a bit of time to create a higher resolution and better sound version. It's very educational and well written :) Again thanks!
Done by students in marine bio course I taught. They just used cell phone cameras, so quality not great, but goal was learning for them mainly. thanks!
James Murray are there any freshwater varieties. I might be tempted to maybe add a few freshwater barnacles on my 10 gallon aquarium. I like the natural look. I think the roughness of the barnacles add some texture and interest to the hardscapes
For real though, I was visiting my family last night and the topic of barnacles came up and I did a bit of reading and found that barnacles are super interesting!
Nice video. Well done. Barnacles are fascinating marine organisms. They have also constituted great model systems thanks to which ecological theory has advanced.
Whenever I see barnacles, I don't get grossed out like you normally would. Instead, I get borderline irrationally enraged, kinda like what I feel when I see ticks, lice, and fleas.
I was just smoking a blunt and jamming out to some 070 Shake, while browsing reddit. I came across a gif of a barnacle and it looked like the fucking Kraken or that thing from Lord of the Rings (where it comes out of the water before they enter the Mines of Moría) coming out of the shell. Right then and there I had to learn wtf a barnacle really was. Like really what the fuck is that? How big can it fucking get? I mean, does that little thing grow up to BE the Kraken?! I had no fucking clue that's what's inside a fucking barnacle. The ocean is one scary fucking place. All in all. This video; best barnacle lesson I've ever seen. Literally. Ever.
how long do they live out of water? Whats their average lifespan? Are there many different removal techniques? How often do they need to be removed from things such as ships, boats, buoys, and what benefit/or greatest harm do they cause or provide? time for part 2!
They can survive out of water for days if it does not get too hot. Not sure of lifespan but probably decades. Removing is easier when young and small, and even small ones if numerous can increase fuel consumption.
Here's my barnacle story. Back in 2007 I was rafting the Smith River in Montana on a 5 day trip. One day while we were taking a 4:20 'Safety Break' on a sandbar I was looking down into the water and noticed this unusual looking rock along with the many 1000's of other rocks down there. The rock was much, much lighter in color than the other rocks. I picked it up and there was some kind of small pattern on it the size of a quarter. It was obviously a fossil of some kind. The rock was heavy for it's size, about the size of a brick, and had some small holes in it that ran into the interior of the rock along with this bit of fossil. I kept it in my back-pack and carried it with me for the rest of the trip. A few weeks after that in Missoula there was a Farmer's Market going on in a closed off street. My friend said there was usually a rock/gemstones guy there that might be able to tell me what it was I had. There were all kinds of booths there. Some were selling farmed food, others some fragrances, another was selling candles, etc, etc. I came upon a man selling rocks, geodes, gemstones etc. After a few minutes of chatting I showed him my rock and asked him if he knew what it was? He said what I had was a piece of compacted sand. The holes that ran thru the rock were made by clams and the fossil patter was from???????.......You guessed it...A BARNACLE!!!! What was really cool was that the guy said what I had there was from 200,000,000-400,000,00 yrs ago!! All the land in Montana was under salty ocean water and over the years the beach sand formed into this kind of cement. The Barnacle was just doing Barnacle things at the bottom of the ocean when it died and formed the pattern I had holding in my hand. I thought that was pretty cool that I had this little brick that was formed so many million years ago with a Barnacle in it. I'm sure the Barnacle never in 300,000,000 years thought that it would be reunited with an ocean again. Maybe not the ocean it came from but with the Atlantic Ocean which is where I currently live near. And that my friends is my boring Barnacle story!! If you read this far I tip my hat to you for staying awake as long as you did. I wish I could give you a prize but I can't so all I can do is say THANK YOU! I now have a better understanding of my 300,000,000 yr old rock/sand, clam holes and Barnacle!!
Heather Gustafson great questions. They come from planktonic larvae. And yes they secrete their shells from their skin. And they have a remarkable underwater glue!
