Tom "The Blowfish" Hird on Weird, Wide, and Wonderful Waters | Earthx2024 - video Dailymotion

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00:00So these are my weird and wonderful creatures from the deep and here we have the humble barnacle

00:06It's one that people know they'll see quite often. But you know, what is it? What is the barnacle?

00:10Okay, cuz it looks well, it looks kind of like a snail like a mollusk, right?

00:15Well, actually that thing in there is a crustacean so it's related to shrimp

00:20Lobsters crabs all that kind of thing

00:22In fact, the barnacle is best described as a shrimp lying on its back with its head glued to the rock

00:28That uses its super hairy arms like there to kick food into its mouth as you can see there

00:35Those are the hairy arms coming out filter feeding getting all that delicious plankton the soup of the sea

00:40Chucking it into its mouth. That's not a barnacle. That was a shiny. Sorry. I'm gonna be using this one. Sorry Randy. Sorry

00:46back on this one now

00:49Fabulous creatures very very successful. You see them all over the rocks, which is good. But um

00:55How how do they get that they're fixed in one place, how do you get more barnacles?

00:59Well, this barnacle here is showing us how because the barnacle happens to have the longest penis to body size in the world

01:08This massive schlong. That's a technical term

01:11Can be used to reach between individual barnacles for a bit of the old house your father and that's a British term

01:18But it's very very useful because of course they can't move to mate

01:22So they have to have that very long prehensile

01:26Member to go and see all its different friends

01:30It's kind of like a swingers party, but nobody moves. It's very good. So

01:37They've given me a TV show, I don't know what they were thinking

01:41They pay me for this nonsense, right?

01:43I'm gonna skip on to another one. That's a barnacle arm. At least I hope it is

01:48No

01:50It's no idea what that is, right? Let's make another one happen

01:54There we go. Okay, the jellyfish. This is a good one. I like jellyfish. So

01:59Probably one of the first organized sort of life on earth before jellyfish

02:04It was just kind of slimes and like single cells

02:07But jellyfish and potentially sponges were the first things that you could recognize as creatures now

02:13Jellyfish may seem very very simple. You know, they certainly are very basic body plan, but it's those

02:19Tentacles that make them so very very cool. So we all know jellyfish can sting right some jellyfish things

02:26Like getting stung by some nettles or a wasp or something

02:31There are other jellyfish that can sting you and kill you in six minutes

02:35All right, don't mess with the jellyfish unless you're a sea turtle unless you're a sea turtle in which case you can buff it

02:42I don't know what this giant murder. Panda is doing orca of their own creatures

02:46They're just like the thugs of the sea

02:48But it that sting is very very cool and it works in a very very simple but effective way

02:54So all across their tentacles, they have thousands of these things called nematocytes

03:00Those are the actual stinging parts of the cells and if I am timing this, right? I

03:07Think I am brilliant. Here we go

03:10Here's a living representation of what happens when something gets stung by a jellyfish. So here I have a van

03:18And this thing here. This is my nematocyst

03:22Okay

03:22So it's a harpoon hidden inside a cell that can fire out in two milliseconds

03:29In fact the pressure inside an individual nematocyst

03:33Here's an individual nematocyst

03:34The pressure in there is the same as a diving cylinder and when they fire you can see they pop out in their

03:41Thousands like that very very cool. So let's see what it looks like

03:45They sent me I had c4. They gave me c4. I mean, I wouldn't have given me this laser pointer

03:52but anyway, so you can see there that's the the cell representation of the nematocyst firing into its prey and

03:59The first thing it does is obviously jellyfish you get stung they're sticky it latches on to you

04:04So it's got that barbed end hooks into its prey, but that's not the end of it. Okay, because okay stuck to something

04:10What do you do then? Well, if you're a jellyfish, you don't have teeth

04:13You need to start digesting your prey and that's when this comes in

04:17So that isn't a silly string that is actually highly venomous

04:21Toxin and the jellyfish starts pumping the toxin into the cell that digests the cell and then

04:28boom

04:29The cell will explode

04:31Okay, how cool is that? Just this is just an excuse for me to show you blowing up a van

04:35We just watch that in slow-mo for the next 10 minutes. I'll be fine

04:39But that's how jellyfish works

04:41You've got to imagine you've got thousands of nematocysts sticking on to thousands of cells and blowing them all up

04:46That is why there are some jellyfish that can kill you in six minutes

04:51boom cop all of that

04:53Guys he's a handsome chap any if you kind of like going for Shrek's or like Lord of the Rings extras, right play

05:02Play you

05:03Molecular beast. Here we go. What have we got now the lobster? I'm big fan of the lobster

05:08Okay, and not by eating them about not seeing them in the ocean

05:11So there they are now

05:13Obviously the first thing we know about lobsters is they've got those big claws and I would like to point out they are blue

05:18Don't believe those lying cartoons. All right, you see the red lobster. No, no. No, that's a restaurant

05:23Lobsters are blue

05:25Now of those two claws, you've got one big massive crushing claw

05:28You can see it there and then one slicing and dicing claw and that means that this bad boy can eat pretty much whatever he wants

05:35He can crack open shells crack open bone with one and he can tear and rend flesh with the other

05:41They're serious job one of these guys easy take your finger off. No problems with that

05:46But of course lobsters like like the rest of us they have the trials and tribulations of life and

05:51Lobsters occasionally have to settle their differences. Maybe they've got particularly nice hole. Maybe they're arguing over who's gonna win the Premier League

05:58I don't know. This is lobster sort of community stuff

06:01I'm not I'm not involved with that. But what I can tell you is that lobsters do fight fair

06:06All right, they don't use their claws when lobsters fight

06:10They know that they're all packing and no one wants to get the face ripped off with one of those big meat cleavers

06:16So when lobsters fight they hold their claws out of the way and proceed to we in each other's faces

06:23Because lobsters excrete they pee from their nose

06:28This is the world's greatest pissing contest

06:32They get their claws out the way and they start jetting urine at each other and it's in that urine that contains a lot of

06:38Chemicals that allow lobsters to figure out who's the strongest who is the toughest?

06:43Very very clever because the claw really is damaging

06:46Now what I've got here is just an example of how the claw actually works

06:50Because yes, there's a lot of power coming down to crush it as you can see here crushing a very soft piece of fruit

06:57Very underwhelming after watching that van explode, but never mind

07:00But you might also have seen in restaurants and stuff if you see the lobsters in there if these claws are so strong

07:06How come they're a little elastic band holds them shut because and you sit here

07:11Most of the muscle in that big meaty claw is designed to close it

07:15It's not designed to open it and that's represented by we've got this red banding here

07:19That's the muscle closing the claw and then the blue banding there is the muscle opening it. So it's all

07:25Involved in doing this and not in doing that hence why you can keep them closed with just a tiny elastic band

07:34Seeing what's next. I've no idea. What's next play?

07:38Way there we go. What is next? Oh the mantis shrimp. This is a good one. I like this. So this

07:45Technicolored murder machine fabulous animal not very big on the about sort of so kind of size tiny little creature. Very very clever. So

07:53Let's talk about those eyes those eyes right each individual. Eye has

07:59Trinocular vision, right both our eyes combined give us binocular vision, but just one of their eyes has

08:07Trinocular vision. All right, they can see colors. We can't even imagine

08:11We have three color sensitive cells in our eyes. They have upwards of 30

08:17All right, so they can see things we can't even imagine

08:19They can also see UV light infrared light and all these kind of polarized lights

08:25In fact, they have a very special secret way of communicating you might notice that on the front of them

08:31They've got these wonderful flappy paddles again another technical term. They are you can see in there

08:36They will actually use those panels to send signals to each other by reflecting polarized light

08:41The only other mantis shrimp can see but this this is the real deal here

08:45Well, this is why the mantis shrimps on my real that punching power. Boom. Look at that

08:52That's not just knocked his claw off look at that amazing they can punch

08:56So very hard that they will kill most animals outright

09:01Okay, they have the same punching force as a 0.22 caliber bullet

09:07They can punch so hard that they split water when they punch and you can't split water

09:14Physics doesn't like that. So as the water tears apart and then forms back together

09:19It actually pumps out a tiny little lightning bolt so these guys can punch lightning which is amazing

09:26The way they do it is very very simple. They don't have a huge massive muscle like the lobster

09:30They just use a bit of physics. So you see here

09:33This is a representation of the claw and we've got this area up here known as the saddle and it's like a bow and arrow

09:39You've got all the tension which is held weirdly in the shell. Okay, so the shell

09:45Compresses and by compressing the shell it holds a lot of power and then when it lets go it fires that claw forwards

09:52I don't know why that's footage of me playing a guitar. That was really random

09:56Okay, but back to reality. Apparently, here we go

09:59So when it fires forwards it fires forwards with a huge amount of power allowing it to punch through many a thing and this was an

10:06excuse apparently for me to fire a cannon

10:09They pay me to do this. They actually pay me to do this

10:13So here we see a cannon punching its way through some

10:16hardened blocks of old oak timber that stuff was as hard as steel and this is just trying to give you a

10:23Representation of what happens if we scaled up the mantis shrimp, so it wasn't this big punching crabs, but it was this big punching us

10:31Now I wish you could actually sort of you know

10:33Get the sound effects and this and all that jazz but you can see huge amount of power going on here

10:37And even then this doesn't cover just how powerful the mantis shrimp is put it this way if you had the same

10:45Acceleration in your arm to throw that punch. You'd be able to throw a tennis ball to the moon. All right

10:51Seriously cool critter blowing the top off there and smacking that crab. I feel sorry for the crab

10:58Right. Okay. That is the end of my little slide stuff, but not the end of the nonsense that continues

11:04so a couple of other weird creatures for you

11:07There is an animal in the deep sea called the hairy anglerfish, right?

11:12Now when science first found these things, they only used to find these big fat beautiful fish

11:18Covered in hair with these great big lumps hanging off them. It sounds like me basically

11:23And they're like, well, you know, what is this is the female we know this is the female

11:28Where's the male? Where's the male for this thing?

11:30So we the science look for ages trying to find the male anglerfish couldn't find it couldn't find it

11:35Until science realized that

11:38What they got was both male and female anglerfish and they're not hermaphrodites. Well, I eat male and female at the same time

11:47Anglerfish while the female is this big beautiful creature that goes around feeding. However, she wants

11:53The male is a tiny weedy little thing with a huge nose and all he does in his brief life is

12:00Swim through the ocean

12:02Sniffing out for a female the minute he gets the scent of a female he swims right up to her without saying hello

12:09Hi, how you doing without getting a phone number or even following her on Facebook or anything like that?

12:13he swims right up to her and bites her right on the bum and

12:17Then he doesn't let go

12:19He then loses his internal organs. He starts to suck her blood through his body

12:26Hello Maggie

12:28She's given me the five-minute warning, but that means nothing to me

12:34He starts to suck her blood through his body and he physically becomes an extension of her

12:40So these lumpy bits that we were finding on female anglers were the male anglers

12:45They essentially just become hanging pods of testes that the female can use at any time to get pregnant. That's pretty weird

12:53I'm glad we don't do that

12:55You know young gentleman today if you're you know ever courting a woman

12:59Make sure you get the phone number off her first. Don't just bite her on the ass. She won't be in for that

13:04She might be in for that in which case I don't know maybe run that could be dangerous

13:08So with my so with my last five minutes, I know so many disgusting things about the ocean

13:14With my last five minutes. I talked about it. Yeah yesterday. I'll talk about it again. I love it

13:19We're gonna talk about the hagfish also known as the sly meal, okay

13:24Now this thing it's like a long tube and it's it's a fairly sort of boring fish to look at

13:30It's very very ancient fish so ancient. In fact that it doesn't have a jaw like we do

13:35Okay, because our jaw is evolved from fish

13:38Its jaw is actually like two cheese graters that go together like that

13:43We know this fish from watching it scavenge on like whale carcasses where it gets hold of a piece of flesh and then because it's

13:50so slimy and so

13:53Pliant it can just pull off chunks of flesh by tying its body into a knot and pushing the knot

13:59Down onto the prey or onto the carcass and we thought wow, this is you know, this is pretty cool

14:04These things are scavengers. That's great. But then deep ocean

14:07We know more about the surface of Mars than we do our deep ocean

14:11All right, and so only recently we found out that they're not just scavengers

14:15They're hunters because the hagfish has the other name of the slime eel

14:20And that's because they are the leading exponent in snot

14:24They can make make snot very very quickly and slime eel mucus is very very sticky

14:31They use it as defense if something comes along tries to eat them

14:34They can jet snot into the mouth of a predator clogging its gills and they can make an escape fine. Cool. No worries

14:41They use this snot not just for defense

14:43but during their predatory actions because a deep-sea robot caught one swimming along the bottom and

14:50In front of it a fish saw it coming away. Oh and went straight into the sand

14:54All right hidden the sand and the hagfish went straight for it

14:58The hagfish went into the burrow with with this fish

15:02Gripped it by its tail

15:03So the fish couldn't escape and then put its slime glands into overdrive and filled the burrow up with snot

15:11Drowning its victim in mucus. Okay basting it in slime, right?

15:16So however, you might feel about the catering here today be glad it's not done by hagfish

15:21All right, because that would be pretty grim and and I need to turn around. Okay. Yep

15:27Is that the simp the turning around symbol?

15:30Yeah

15:31Yep. Nope. Yep. Brilliant. I've got a watch of you

15:35You don't not today. We're doing the chicken dance now, are we I'm just annoying people now. It's fun, isn't it?

15:41I was filling in a slot. I've done my best and now I'm done. Thank you very much. Ladies gentlemen

Tom "The Blowfish" Hird on Weird, Wide, and Wonderful Waters | Earthx2024

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