Received your microscope for my birthday on the 14th of January. I am....WAY more impressed than I thought I was going to be, and I thought I'd be super impressed by the tiny world before! You're right, the youtube footage can't begin to show how AMAZING the 3D effect of actually looking through your own microscope is. I've already collected multiple samples, and goodness I've seen so many moving critters! It's almost impossible to tear myself away, if I'm honest. It really is like peering into some mythical dimension of gemstones and wonder. I'm actually about to move from California to England, where I'll be living aboard a narrowboat and cruising the canals-- this gives me a fantastic opportunity to sample all along the routes. I'm buying myself a journal so I can note down locations and conditions and I'm going to catalogue as much of what I find as possible. Hopefully I'll be able to share my journey into the microcosmos too. Thank you for inspiring me to find such a wonderful hobby, and a new purpose in life.
First of all: they sell microscopes 🤩? Second of all: I hope you the greatest days and discoveries on your journey, what ever happens to you never ever give up this hobie and specially journaling it cus at the end , when you see all your data you have collected, and all of your adventures in the micro world, you will be the happiest 💐
@@fractale4322 Seconded! I hope you find a warm welcome in our country. I'm sure our many miles of canals will have something interesting to talk about. Just watch out for the Canada geese if they've got goslings; they love the canals, as well as being annoying.
@@ZoopsMind Thirded! I'm not the most into biology but the idea of seeing proof of just how many different microorganisms love in the different parts of the world is so very very interesting :) OP, PLEASE enjoy that microscope 🔬💕
It /should/ be possible to gather the required information by just sweeping the focus, but you'd need someone who can handle the truly horrific mathematics to turn that into a voxel image. You're looking at the most hellish of deconvolutions.
"But we're getting away from our original topic." Good, that makes it more fun to learn. Sometimes things become more interesting when you learn more unrelated stuff about them.
Great intro! Excellent episode, well as usual. If I had to introduce someone to this channel, this might be the one. I'm so happy these organisms are in fact, microscopic.
Bizarre certainly it is,beautiful when understand more than only the surface ,but it is a fascinating sphere where I believe we only grounded with our small knowledge! Thank you again for this upload !
Collotheca responsible adult in the room: I'm thinking of eating in tonight. Collotheca family members: oh, er, um, youth club/visiting local unicellular pals/not hungry, off to gym🤭😱
Having been introduced to microscopy while I was still in elementary school, (a Jason/Empire as I recall), I must say it was a _wonderful_ surprise to hit this channel by chance. As many microscope films as I've seen, I _still_ didn't know there was a microscopy version of Stanley Kubrick out there. The magic is in the details!!!
It's hard for me to think of life as being just a very complex variation of wind blowing through tree leaves, but then I hear the reliable anthropomorphic descriptions.
Quick question - after I download this video in the English setting, the file is saved with a spanish audio track instead.....does anyone have an idea how this happened? No other YT channels have had this problem for me.
check the 'audio track' settings on the video and make sure you have the right one selected. most youtube channels do not have to worry about this because they do not provide audio in anything other than english.
From the scale refs in video, adult collotheca can be about 50 um (micrometers) across - roughly the same as a human hair. Their bodies also appear ~2-3x as long as they are wide. With enough contrast, it may well be possible to see something that size with the naked eye, though it'd probably be impossible to tell what you were looking at.
There are other animals who eat their own and it is a surprising method of species survival. Then there are animals who will keep their clutch of eggs only a certain number, and to add one in only causes the mother to kick one out to return to the right number. There might be an optimum number of offspring so that nutrients can rightly be given to all. Too few, and the species might die out. Too many, and the species might overpopulate and starve. Given the opportunity where resources aren't limited and control of the family lies with the childbearing person, a human person would choose to have 2 or 3 children. In the 1970's, I believe I remember the average to be 2.38 children per family. (the .38 child only appeared in a fiction book, _The Phantom Tollbooth)_
I'd love to know more about the species of rotifers that are all female. Honestly, I'd just love more rotifers. Remember in a vid talking about growing a fondness for certain microbes? Yeah, rotifers for me.
Whoa I did not think these little dudes could reproduce sexually - is the male rotifer classified by the y chromosome or by his role in reproduction? edit: are those separable?
Hey I'm a physics major student but i really love your videos. Can you mark organisms with red circle or like in this video you are tell it's eating it's babies so which one is exectly baby 🐣 i couldn't identify.... So can you mark organisms.... thank You
I love your channel...but, the Spanish version sucks! The voice has no personality, and no pause... The English female voice is great! Keeps the charm, the tone. Believe me in Spanish sounds just cheap.
