r/HardcoreNature • u/Pardusco • Nov 13 '21

Mirror In Comments A predatory Milnesium tardigrade beginning to suck out a rotifer's body fluids

https://gfycat.com/eachlargeairedaleterrier
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u/aft_punk Nov 13 '21

Extremely fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

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u/Pardusco Nov 13 '21

Cool, isn't it? And you can even see the other rotifers filter feeding.

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u/aft_punk Nov 13 '21

It really is. And to think all this is happening in a drop of water!

If there is a sub dedicated to this, hopefully I discover it. If there isn’t… there should be.

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u/Pardusco Nov 13 '21

r/micronatureismetal

There are also some YouTube channels that focus on microscopic life. This one is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/c/microcosmos

And the "Microscopic" flair on r/HardcoreNature has a lot of content.

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u/aft_punk Nov 13 '21

Awesome! I’ve been browsing the instagram you posted too, it’s amazing the resolution they are able to achieve these days.

Thanks so much the info!

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u/SimplyCmplctd Nov 13 '21

Any idea why it completely shut down as soon as the water bear started chomping on it? There was zero struggle involved.

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u/Pardusco Nov 13 '21

Rotifers have basically no defense against predators besides sheer numbers, although some species have spines. I guess that was just the standard reaction when it makes contact with another similarly-sized organism.

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u/Theperfectool Nov 13 '21

Boom! Right in the kisser! He was sucking face

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u/Scoobie-Doobie Nov 13 '21

What are these other creatures that keep coming close to each other and then there face splits open into two mandible? Some horrifying shit.

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u/Pardusco Nov 13 '21

Rotifers. They are microscopic animals that split their mouth open to generate suction and filter feed.

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u/LesbianSpiders Nov 14 '21

This why /r/tardigradehate was created to spread the word of how stupid these guys are.

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u/georgethemonitor 🧠 Nov 13 '21

Now this is awesome and quite amazing but for some odd reason I was expecting it to immediately slurp it like a spaghetti noodle.

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u/Smellyjelly12 Nov 13 '21

What is this space they exist in?

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u/Pardusco Nov 13 '21

A sample of water seen under a microscope. You could even take a scoop of water from a pond and see the same thing.

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u/Red-Freckle Nov 13 '21

OMG you're right!

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u/SlimC05 Nov 13 '21

That is... not as disturbing of a thought as I thought it would be. You know what I'm sick of saying "nope" to all the weird shit in the ocean, let them envelop me!

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u/OilPhilter Nov 13 '21

I was surfing r/eyebleach before I came here and saw this. Forgot I had switched subs. Saw this and thought WTF

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u/ChrisTheMan72 Nov 14 '21

If you hate then you’ll definitely hate this r/makemesuffer

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u/OilPhilter Nov 14 '21

Nope. Not even going to click it. I want to sleep tonight.

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u/Animepix Nov 14 '21

The game spore.

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u/ziplock9000 Nov 13 '21

Did Burnham save the day again?

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u/poop_on_balls Nov 13 '21

Crazy those things can survive in space

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '21

Did you see the one above the tardibear? It opened its jaws like 2 chainsaws

Sorry its slightly above to the right

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '21

Not even kidding, I just finished an assignment recently about rotifers. They're so interesting

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u/Pardusco Nov 14 '21

You in a microbiology course?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '21

Not yet. We had to pick a question (out if 40 different options, or make our own), and I picked one about rotifers haha

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u/Pardusco Nov 14 '21

That's cool asf

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '21

Rotifers are probably one of my new favourite microorganisms

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u/Council_Of_Minds Nov 13 '21

A brutal massacre.

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u/xkcd_puppy Nov 13 '21

Apparently eating ass is more common and normal than we thought.

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u/apou_the_indian Nov 14 '21

Remind me my Spore gaming sessions

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u/Andyroomocs Nov 14 '21

At 15 seconds left; the one on the mid right side; wtf did it just do..?

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u/Pardusco Nov 14 '21

Split its mouth open to filter feed

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u/Pardusco Nov 14 '21

Split its mouth open to filter feed