Didinium: The Paramecium Hunter

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@leovicctanteo4537 3 жыл бұрын

You know who else is a skilled hunter? The master of microscope, James, following the didinium at 630x magnification

@kalmah456 3 жыл бұрын

My mom!

@bluesap7318 3 жыл бұрын

Impressive

@mikesmicroworlds4566 2 жыл бұрын

Haha he really is a master!

@thesilentone4024 2 жыл бұрын

Me watching thinking. 3d person view oh God damit fuck slow down yes no stop FUCK if I can hit you I would slow down damit 🤬🤯

@SytheYT528 2 жыл бұрын

And slowed down 500%

@AngryKittens 3 жыл бұрын

"When a _Didinium_ moves, it really moves." **meanwhile, copepod zooms by and disappears out of frame in a split second**

@derpychicken2131 3 жыл бұрын

*My goals are beyond your understanding*

@moosemaimer 3 жыл бұрын

*_eurobeat intensifies_

@IDontKnowCorp 3 жыл бұрын

Was hoping someone was gonna identify that. Every time it popped in was like a jump scare moment

@plant5875 3 жыл бұрын

Yall saw that daphnia that ran over a larcymaria?

@sirsanti8408 3 жыл бұрын

@Francisco Nieves what

@evilgibson 3 жыл бұрын

The Didinium: An organic Roomba that seems to be randomly bouncing around the room but as soon as it comes into contact with any other organic, will proceed to consume it entirely.

@Blackmark52 3 жыл бұрын

"An organic Roomba" But what struck me in this video that the perception of these organisms as flat like a roomba is wrong. We tend to see the very short focus of microscopes as showing flat objects, but if you watch, the D is constantly rotating. It is much more like a very short, very fat torpedo than a like a roomba. And the idea of bouncing around the room is too simple as well. The critter is spiralling through three-dimensional space. Awsome.

@malusignatius 3 жыл бұрын

@@Blackmark52 I was thinking a very aggressive grape. :P

@billmalcolm4291 3 жыл бұрын

Man, when I eat a big meal I ain't doing shit afterwards. This little guy chomps down a critter bigger than itself and just motors right on

@zombie6364 3 жыл бұрын

Well sometimes he explodes lol

@SimonClarkstone 3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, about half of that paramecium was sprayed all over the place. Still a hungry critter though.

@billmalcolm4291 3 жыл бұрын

@@SimonClarkstone Just like my 5 year old!

@toothpasteman3400 3 жыл бұрын

@@billmalcolm4291 your child eats thing bigger than it that are living!? what kind of child do you have! a demon!?

@Ezekiel_Allium 3 жыл бұрын

@@toothpasteman3400 I believe his child is Hercules

@tichu7 3 жыл бұрын

There's nothing like another episode of Microcosmos and Hank's soothing voice to lull me to sleep after a long day. Good night, Hank.

@lazeppelini123 3 жыл бұрын

04:58 he sucks interesting thing :)

@malaakm7655 3 жыл бұрын

good to know i’m not the only one who uses these videos to fall asleep

@nickthe5th2 3 жыл бұрын

I feel this in my soul

@dementiasorrow 3 жыл бұрын

So true...I fell asleep in the middle of this one...now it's early morning and am curious so I'll just start over.

@kotzka4626 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing like some educational asmr.

@vanderkarl3927 3 жыл бұрын

That feeding was absolutely BRUTAL. Is it weird that I want to see one overeat and pop?

@santicruz4012 3 жыл бұрын

A little bit, but if its done for science, then its ok

@jungletroll3844 3 жыл бұрын

Lol imagine if we get vegans that demand rights for micro organisms.

@paramecium792 3 жыл бұрын

*Actually I think it's not weird at all.*

@ROHITJAIN-TheFrustratedMan 2 жыл бұрын

@@paramecium792 Look who's here.. A Paramecium.. 😊

@ROHITJAIN-TheFrustratedMan 2 жыл бұрын

I too wanted to see the same.

@goodthings6020 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, something that DOESN'T eat rotifers!!

@FriedFreya 3 жыл бұрын

Didinium is the cellar version of Tarrare.

@jessicap4998 3 жыл бұрын

Upvote cuz I recognize that reference. Mostly from Sam O'Nella Academy.

@parryitchansamone7548 3 жыл бұрын

Only if it farts.

@not.harshit 3 жыл бұрын

Is our Lord ever coming back?

@FriedFreya 3 жыл бұрын

@@not.harshit Who knows? We miss our boi Sam though. 😔 I just hope he's doing alright in his time off.

@keithleracc 3 жыл бұрын

Is no one gonna talk about the crazy lil dude at 2:52 just speedblitzing past the screen?

@thea_kober 3 жыл бұрын

it's a copepod larva, i think its called nauplius :p

@brassen 3 жыл бұрын

"whoa, monster truck!" 😅

@JIMHusky 3 жыл бұрын

3:07 here he goes again

@shanerooney7288 3 жыл бұрын

3:13

@NewMessage 3 жыл бұрын

It being so close to Halloween, my mind automatically wondered if you call a paramecium's ghost a 'para-paramecium'.

@rotifer 3 жыл бұрын

*I remember on my 8th week cell cycle, I wanted to impress the older Rotifers by staying up with them on my birthday. Naturally, we watched scary movies. Also naturally, we watched the scariest movie at the time, Didinium: The Silence of the Paramecium. I was so shaken to my cellular membrane that I ended up staying up for the entire rest of the night. By today's standards, it's a pretty silly cell of a movie, but back then, you wouldn't find my corona anywhere near that film. Simply cilia raising!*

@Ryan6.022 3 жыл бұрын

I just love you are keeping this up

@DoctressCalibrator 3 жыл бұрын

Rotifer, what you just wrote is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this comment section is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

@FriedFreya 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was cute. °^°

@GordonFreechmen 3 жыл бұрын

@@DoctressCalibrator Looks like the Fun Police is here.

@NadDew 3 жыл бұрын

@@DoctressCalibrator stfu fun killer 😒 If you don't like something just downvote i and leave.

@raffaelloreyman6625 3 жыл бұрын

Paramecium: exists Didinium: your free trial of existence has expired

@a52productions 3 жыл бұрын

How do microbes know what is and isn't food? It's all organic stuff, and they're all decomposers, but at the same time, they definitely avoid certain things and seek out others, and some matter is gonna have less energy in it than other stuff. How do they know?

@peculiarjack617 3 жыл бұрын

Well...its like have an inside-out nose tissue for skins, they smell Though they also taste with it so its more like a snake tongue than an inverted nostril

@MysteriousAsteria 3 жыл бұрын

@@peculiarjack617 They have no noses and no tongues, so I doubt they could smell or taste anything, at least not in the sense of that we call smelling and tasting. My own guess as a non-expert is, that they can detect chemical signals from other organisms, maybe their surface proteins or trails of chemicals they leave behind and when those signals read "non edible" the microbes back off.

@peculiarjack617 3 жыл бұрын

@@MysteriousAsteria and yet biologists discovered that a catfish's skin is covered in taste receptors making them basically tounge fish, so the same might apply to most, if not all, of the microfauna

@discovaria9507 3 жыл бұрын

They use peptides.

@dreamer_canbe_achiever 2 жыл бұрын

@@peculiarjack617 they are single celled

@brochungulous 3 жыл бұрын

You should have a live wallpaper of a slide, would be cool just to watch the small stuff tumble around

@LimeyLassen 3 жыл бұрын

Did this thing inspire the sucking mouthpart in Spore? I can just hear that slurping straw noise in my head.

@jungletroll3844 3 жыл бұрын

Yea its called the same thing

@BenTajer89 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just thinking about how much this video looks like spore...

@Mimiczeylon 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, playing spore, do you remember those guys with 4 pairs of jets with the probuscus killing everyone in its way

@erstwhilegrubstake 3 жыл бұрын

"Seizing its prey with its proboscis". Intense.

@unclekanethetiberiummain1994 3 жыл бұрын

I believe the scientific term would be *V* *O* *R* *E*

@ethanhahn5621 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@erstwhilegrubstake 3 жыл бұрын

@@unclekanethetiberiummain1994 That could be moving into some pretty dark territory.

@chopin65 3 жыл бұрын

I just read online didinium can live up to ten years. I guess they could make a good pet. No?

@PhillipYewTree 3 жыл бұрын

I’m an amateur microscopist, and therefore know how much. skill, effort and time is needed to photograph these small motile creatures. Fantastic. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@SquirrelASMR 3 жыл бұрын

I like how you allow such a fitting company to sponsor you. Seems like a great way for kids to get interested in science early on. The education system is failing. I even want some of those boxes hahaha.

@v-sig2389 3 жыл бұрын

2:52 Holy crap, spaceship casually passing by like an alien saucer while the commentator speaks about the weird movement of his organism.

@xule1010 Жыл бұрын

2:18 that Paramecium will never know how close death came to it

@paramecium792 3 жыл бұрын

*It is very worrying to know these ciliates exist.*

@amoebaproteus. 2 ай бұрын

Hmm

@theresamcmullen4841 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible ! I very much enjoyed the micro and the commercial. Thank for both.

@teenanguyen217 3 жыл бұрын

This is beautiful. Like a bloodsucking mole. Watching the microcosm reminds me o watching a finished machine learning A.I that has completed forming its strategy for completing a specific goal. The Didiniums goal is to effectively move and suck the insides of Parameciums. I wonder if over enough microcosmic evolutionary time and generations, Parameciums can come up with a survival strategy to avoid Didiniums.

@protercool8474 Жыл бұрын

Phenomenal camera work, James coming in REAL clutch

@deakenwylie3819 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, these guys are GREAT. We studied them a bit in high school, lo these many years ago.

@trenaebowers1968 2 жыл бұрын

It's a good thing all these micro things are micro

@titusprecision 3 жыл бұрын

Found this channel today. Utterly addicted. Learning near stuff. But does everyone else also freak out when some giant organism blasts through frame and also wanna know wtf they are?

@niramaygogate7904 3 жыл бұрын

Hey man, awesome! Very refreshing content. much needed in these times.

@petergray2712 3 жыл бұрын

Speaking of Lachrymaria: Didinium will occasionally attack and consume them. That is a big meal.

@davidvegabravo1579 2 жыл бұрын

They´re talking about Didinium´s speed and then that Barry Allen organism flashes at 2:51. And at 4:27 that Paremecium just gives up, sort of "Ok, enough of this shit, just do it fast" situation.

@SrMarkavian 3 жыл бұрын

When you said that inject something to paralyze the other organisms. How exactly that is working? Do you it stop the flagella or other areas of the cell? How you can difference between a cell that is paralyze to one that is death?

@petergray2712 3 жыл бұрын

It depends on the genus. It's usually a protein delivered into the interior cytoplasm by a flexible, extending organelle called an extrusome. The toxin interferes with cellular metabolism, either temporarily or permanently. There will probably be a future episode on this topic, as it is a common form of both protection and predation, and comes in five different structures.

@SrMarkavian 3 жыл бұрын

@@petergray2712 cool! Thanks for the answer 🙂

@UnhandyDeadman 3 жыл бұрын

The perfect video to come back to after a long evening in the lab 😊

@WireMosasaur Жыл бұрын

I watched a microbe documentary on uk tv in the 90's that described Didinium as a "rogue jet engine" and I haven't been able to unsee that ever since lol

@journeytomicro Жыл бұрын

That's a perfect way to describe them!

@smellycat249 3 жыл бұрын

Your critters are the coolest mr James

@malusignatius 3 жыл бұрын

Oh thank you, I've been trying to remember the name of these little guys for ages!

@shanerooney7288 3 жыл бұрын

The fast and the fluidous.

@KombuchaBuzzed 3 жыл бұрын

Loving the new microscope images. So cool.

@red7255 3 жыл бұрын

I will not watch this with anything less than my full size monitor, 4k res, and my full attention.

@jonsey3645 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for feeding my brain.

@actionkey8042 3 жыл бұрын

Journey to the Microcosmos -AWESOME

@sandreid87 3 жыл бұрын

2:43 Sonic, the Hedgehog - Is that you? :O

@Norwyn 3 жыл бұрын

Somehow the Didinium reminds me of an aquatic Echidna.

@kayemonk9712 2 жыл бұрын

Me: "I'm so stuffed, I could explode lol" Didineum: "Hold my beer."

@armydillo1013 3 жыл бұрын

You should do an episode covering how protists coordinate movements of different parts of themselves and respond to stimuli without nervous systems

@tlomax2768 3 жыл бұрын

This is so Amazing💓💓thanks

@maryroberts3196 3 жыл бұрын

"Exploding from eating too much...", you say! I think I have found my spirit animal.

@KY_CPA 3 жыл бұрын

Can we get a special release edition for election day tomorrow? We need the relief these videos provide! 💆‍♀️ Actually, on second thought, we probably need videos every day this week...

@Treksh 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the episode~~

@OXXOI77777 3 жыл бұрын

3:49 now that is some impressive camera work

@Gazpolling 3 жыл бұрын

I think its time for hank and james to make the pinnacle of youtube microcosmos video, the comparison video! 10 fastest microcosmos!

@pscwplb 3 жыл бұрын

The didinium's movement reminds me of the motion of a roomba.

@aacc8466 3 жыл бұрын

Godamn I love this channel!

@nikbestfriendofamatispro8023 3 жыл бұрын

very cool to understand how didinium moves I support you to bring more videos about science

@AnuragYadav-dp4ir 3 жыл бұрын

Hero in your knowledge..👍

@NeaeraNeaeraNeaera 3 жыл бұрын

They look like wee little echidnas!😍

@timsullivan4566 3 жыл бұрын

Acorn? Didinium looks exactly like a tiny aquatic hedgehog!

@simpleman5688 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Been since 10th grade… man!

@albertmarti2718 3 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a didinium, but the way James chased it reminded me of chasing nematodes around

@Zunree1869 Жыл бұрын

I just gain brain cells every time i watch u. I want to thank you for providing me with this helpful info :D

@johnopalko5223 3 жыл бұрын

Didinium: If I eat another bite I'll explode! Paramecium: But I'm waffer thin...

@robbed_copy 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video

@yaasameenperez6648 2 жыл бұрын

The Paramecium are no exception to the food chain they are single celled and hunted by another single cell organism called the Didinium. Its interesting how moving rapidly in all directions increases its chance of finding food.

@windowsvista7633 3 жыл бұрын

even though my teacher plays this in class, i still love these videos

@YassinElMohtadi 3 жыл бұрын

4:00 the microscopic equivalent of chasing the laser pointer

@wonderwend1 3 жыл бұрын

It was like it ate it's meal and then went round and licked the plate. James deserves an extra donut for following that fella around!

@marcelojcsilva 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@drew899 3 жыл бұрын

Those little corkscrew things at 7:30 are pretty interesting. I wonder what those are.

@4638000 2 жыл бұрын

The existence of these microscopic organisms amazes me, but it also makes me wonder if as significant as we think we are if we are being sampled and studied by greater beings without our knowledge

@zipbangcrash 3 жыл бұрын

It's like a tiny, ravenous roomba!

@vey_4227 3 жыл бұрын

3:49 I can already see the guy who is using the microscope get frustrated

@DunmerSG 3 жыл бұрын

This is like playing the first stage in Spore

@muquiranasrecords 3 жыл бұрын

What are theses ciliate made of and how do they move? Chemically speaking. Thanks in advance

@JMDinOKC 3 жыл бұрын

Hank is the Mr. Rogers of microbiology. (That's a compliment.) "Will you be my, won't you be my, will you be my Naegleria?"

@spookydirt Жыл бұрын

really sinister music to soundtrack the murder! good work

@jamielacourse7578 3 жыл бұрын

Great. So much for drinking tap water ever again.......and your narrative style is great.

@projectrunwaywatcher 3 жыл бұрын

I have questions about sleep in the Microcosmos. That would be a cool episode

@theuproar3914 2 жыл бұрын

Didinium looks like someones first spore creation

@spyglass1005 3 жыл бұрын

What a strange and great channel!

@Dsuranix 3 жыл бұрын

hee, kinda reminds me of a little mole

@megaforse 3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree! A micro-mole.

@Golem33 3 жыл бұрын

I’m shocked how much this looks like spore, I didn’t realize how realistic the cellular movement was.

@gibbogle 2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know what happens to the prey (e.g. paramecium) inside the didinium. How does it digest it? The internal structure of a unicellular organism is a mystery to me.

@DracarmenWinterspring 3 жыл бұрын

it just found and ate something bigger than itself in under 2 minutes real time. Imagine running around in the dark for a while, bumping into, say, a live full-grown sheep, and just devouring it...

@ketoonkratom Жыл бұрын

God Bless Everyone Love One Another

@eleventhprimarch5303 3 жыл бұрын

The music is giving me serious Pokemon Mystery Dungeon vibes.

@justinove7521 3 жыл бұрын

Are those bubble/droplet looking things inside these cells the organelles?

@GordonFreechmen 3 жыл бұрын

Damn, you can see the Paramecium's membrane rupture as it's being compressed into the Didinium. It would be quite horrifying if it was a human.

@g4do 2 жыл бұрын

The didinium is the microscopic version of the shrew ... crazy 🤪

@sergiourquijo4000 3 жыл бұрын

awesome

@themoojuice89 5 ай бұрын

5:27 what is the fascinating twirling organism crossing the left of the screen from top to bottom??

@FunyunsAreGreat 2 жыл бұрын

Do a video about the zoan and logia type microorganisms next!

@Spartan1-1 3 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video on coleps?

@zekiyecoskun5706 3 жыл бұрын

Hello, I will be glad if you answer what kind of microscope you have the light microscope by the way, I liked the video?👍I am türkish so I may have written messy

@shamariridley4890 2 жыл бұрын

I’m shocked how much this looks like spore, I didn’t realize how realistic the cellular movement was. How do microbes know what is and isn't food? It's mostly organic stuff, and they're all decomposers, but at the same time, they definitely avoid certain things and seek out others, and some matter would have less energy than others. How do they know?

@ksanchez8095 2 жыл бұрын

This! Asking the real questions!

@zombie6364 3 жыл бұрын

Everybody gangsta till the didinium uses his probuscus

@rafaelfcf 3 жыл бұрын

Weird question, do bacteria sleep? Like after it eats that HUGE cell, does it need some "sleep" or some stasis state to digest it?

@TNaizel 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know the answer, but it's not bacteria it's a unicellular animal; check out their episode about lacrimaria, that one did alternate between rest and predation

@blankspace8758 Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of a shrew or Mole. Voracious appetite included

@TD_JR 2 жыл бұрын

It's like an intelligent HEAT round that fires off a load of paralyzing agent instead of a jet of molten copper which, thereafter, sucks the stew of the crew out including the entirety of the tank.

@murielvaillancourt3855 3 жыл бұрын

The micro world is as fascinating as the cosmos universe. And more enjoyable because humans can’t go into it and put their destructive boots on virgin worlds.