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So OF COURSE I realize I made a mistake AFTER I posted my video. I called creatures that eat dinoflagellates "predators" but they're not predators because dinoflagellates aren't animals! Creatures that eat dinoflagellates are supposed to be called "grazers." I even flash the title of a paper on screen for a few seconds that called them grazers and I still somehow managed to mess that up! ARRRGH. So every time I say something like "predators of dinoflagellates" in this video, pretend I actually said "grazers."
Oregon classes beavers as "predators", so there's precedent.
technically "predation" doesn't strictly have to only apply to animals as food, seed predation is a thing
Its a fun delineation. In my view, not accepted Biology, there are producers and consumers, and for me the line ends here, however from there it gets very gray and opinionated as to when you truly become a predator, and it usually is only answered by a documented evolutionary arms race between a decided source of food not wanting to be eaten and those trying to eat them and biotoxicity is enough to muddy these waters even further, but its mostly boils down to can the prey actively get away from the predator which is where grazer's come into play, even the 200 TONNE versions, but in my opinion I don't see much difference between dinoflagellates and schools of mullet, if yer big enough, they're not getting away.
I'd prefer if grazing referred to consumption of sessile organisms, and predation referred to the consumption of motile organisms. Cows graze on grass. Owls prey on mice. Copepods prey on dinoflagellates, and... I dunno, what eats barnacles? They'd be grazing on them though.
(Though I guess dinoflagellates aren't motile, they're plankton. They're free-floating but cannot swim against a current or away from predators.)
@@ferociousfeind8538 cows and horses also eat infant birds and snakes when they can, opportunistic predators are always awkward to classify.
Love the whole vibe and content. You make science more interesting. Great delivery
I already liked your vids and your styles, but the appearance of the deep sea fangley fish sealed the deal. Well done. Please continue.
Super fascinating and entertaining videos!
imagine doing a poison that causes strong amnesia and diareah. That would be rly evil
To answer your question, ive always had a weird fascination with necrotic venoms so id have a poison that would work similarly, which sounds way worse than as a venom because your cells would be dying off from the inside of your body so that sounds not fun lmao
If I had a poison I’d want it to alter minds to convince the predator to try and help me recover, before an eventual death
i would like my poison to have a euphoric effect so scientists can turn it into an antidepressant somehow :D
My poison would cause immediate hallucinations, vomiting, and a floating sensation! (as well as a stabbing pain but let's not talk about that part)
Me, an indigenous Central American: oh... OHHHH... I LOVE DINOFLAGELLATES! THEY KILL COLONIZERS!!!
The creatures that are not eating the glowing ones could be doing so because they don't want to become glowing themselves.
I would want my poison to make the brain not correct the way the retina captures all of the images, making everything look upside down
life changing psychedelic poison
when i was in the navy, we ran into a glowing algal bloom. it wasn't just the wake that was glowing but there were these little breaker waves that would glow too, so you'd see all these little patches of light as far as you could see, it was truly stunning.
In the Navy
You get to sail the glowing seas!
Best part of being on the night watch. Just chilling on the brow starting at the sea. I had one time, got to watch the sun rise of the mountains in Alaska. The water was perfectly still, like a mirror. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. The fog had just cleared, too, and it was the first and only thing I'd seen in hours.
@@Notsoshady4891 in Norway, my dad was CO at night, some title that's something like "captain of the watch" basically at night he was captain. But since it was Norway, people had to fill many roles. He told me about a time where he zapped the shit out of himself trying to fix a system that had no crew on his ship. And when he was in port talking to an American crewman, that guy was SHOCKED to hear, on US ships such a system requires a minimum of like 4 people. Lol.
He has some crazy stories being in charge of the boat at night, sometimes the captain would literally go to bed and just say "bring us home." Told me about using surface search radar or various fire control systems to give himself a clearer and more precise picture of what he was coming up on. He had this massive keyring he would keep in his hand. So that when he inevitably fell asleep, the sound of the keys crashing to the floor woke him up.
This was in the late 70s? Early 80s? He served on a Storm class and later, a Hauk class patrol boat, boarded many ships, and always kept an eye on the Soviets. I sincerely could not imagine doing some of the shit they did, that he described. Going something like 35-40 knots dashing as close as possible to the fjords and rocky shoreline, explains why he wanted to use those other systems for more precise views haha. Once, he came upon a Soviet buoy as it was above the surface for its once daily broadcast back home, and pulled part of it on board as he could also see Soviet ships in the area, presumably looking for it.
Crazy times. The old man was technically an EW guy. I can't imagine living life like they did, couple weeks of nearly 24/7 work including hopping on ships, then back to port for a weekend of partying immediately haha.
Coming up from the mmr at 2 in the morning off the mid watch and seeing the lights in the water from the smoke pit was a cool experiance.
i would SO listen to a podcast by you. you have so much interesting knowledge and you’re so amazing at sharing it!
Omg yes! I would love a podcast! Would be great to listen to for long drives
A year has past… hope she has started a podcast. 😊
OMG, YAAASSSSS!! Ahem. Hem. Whoa. *reelin it in* Yes. I completely concur. 😅
Gets my vote, too.
i’ve always been incredibly interested in how sometimes certain afflictions can cause neurological problems, like switching up your perceptions and such. but my favorite symptom has got to be “impending sense of doom”, something that can rise from things like overdose or, more interestingly, a faulty blood transfusion! so probably something like that if i were to have my own poison.
Fucking cider
Having suffered that type of feeling with pneumonia and asthma resulting in severe difficulty breathing, I wouldn't wish that on anybody. Well almost nobody, and I'd want there to be a way to quickly reverse it.
I've always thought this was interesting too
@@dreyhawk As curious as I am, I'd be terrified to experience this, and I'm sorry that you did
@@dreyhawkI've had it with severe anxiety, as a side effect of a medication, and also still get it sometimes with postural tachycardia syndrome if I have a bad attack of it... it is an extremely unpleasant symptom but an interesting one nonetheless 🤔
Jim Lovell told a story (it's in apollo 13 which is a great movie if you haven't seen it) about his plane getting damaged in ww2 and he was trying to find his way back to the carrier but the lights were out in his cockpit so he couldn't see the map or instruments. He said it was so dark, when he looked down at the ocean and there was a trail of light. He followed it and it led him back to his carrier. it was the bioluminescent plankton churned up by the props. We live on an amazing planet.
I went an renewed my library card just so I could check out Below the Edge of Darkness because of you! My love for sea life is reigniting, because I got so discouraged by biology in high school, that I forgot how much I love the infinite possibility of the ocean! Thank you for doing what you do
I personally really like the idea of having a hallucinogenic poison or venom-- preferably venom. Like, something that if you got enough of it, it would off you, but where if you just get a little then it'll make you trip balls. Sounds like it'd be fun.
That's already a thing! There is 25i-NBOMe which isn't a toxin found in nature but it's a somewhat dangerous Psychedelic. It's as potent as LSD but taking more than 1mg has been known to make you trip for a couple days to a month and you'll usually end up in a hospital if you take too much or even die. Then there's the Colorado River Toad. It's skin contains 5-MeO-DMT which is the strongest psychedelic, even stronger than DMT itself, it's only issue is that it lacks visuals like most Psychedelics and also unlike most other psychedelics, you can OD and die. Also, psilocybin mushrooms are Psychedelic because that's their "poison" but we're immune to dying from them lol. Fun fact they also contain a form of DMT named 4-AcO-DMT. It's really interesting that so many animals and plants contain a form of DMT as defense mechanisms. Ofc there are some that have their own psychedelics/(toxins), take Salvia Divinorum for example, they contain a powerful Psychedelic named after them because it's their own toxin. Weed is also a very popular example of abusing toxins because it's fun. No psychedelic is meant to be used for fun, they're genuine defense mechanisms that plants attempt to defend themselves with so it's funny that we abuse them.
Side note: Weed is considered a quasi-psychedelic. If you eat the THC and eat over 3g of it, you can have a visual trip like any other Psychedelic due to the way we metabolize THC. Psychedelics and drugs are really interesting and you should do some research on them! I'd recommend the psychonaut wiki as it's ran by a non-profit psychedelic research organisation and each page has sources and is curated. Erowid is another decent source that's been around for YEARS and has active user to this day, I recommend erowid a little less as it's not as well curated and most information is posted by users, but, it's been around forever and people use their experience instead of research so it allows for a deeper understanding instead of a simply scientific understanding. Both are equally great sources though so check them both out. Erowid even has info that psychonaut wiki doesn't have ilon certain drugs that is curated so definitely check them if you can't find a particular drug.
@@InvalidUser18I didn't know about psychonaut wiki, neat. I'll say erowid is a good source for a broad understanding and their trip crisis guide, but I've found sadly a lot of pages haven't been updated in a while.
pihkal and tihkal are good too@@InvalidUser18
another note: there is a form of dimethyltryptamine found in corals!
I'm really happy you're TikTok blew up! You make some amazing educational content, so keep up the good work
Edit: oh and if I had a poison I'd love it to be similar to capsaicin
really love how accessible you make learning!! im an aspiring biologist, and am intimidated by long words and papers. i love how you take so much care to define complicated terms as they come up. you deserve so much more attention!! i would love to know your process for researching videos ^_^
oh and if i produced a poison, it would be a cure for peoples fear of bugs! and if they arent afraid of bugs to begin with, they will just love them even more post consumption 🐛💖💖
I also get scared by large words, numbers, and articles with alot of nerdy words.😅
Just found you on TikTok and can't believe you have so few viewers on RUclips! Hope people can see how great your content is!
I know right?? Me too. It’s criminal!
i understand fully why you just briefly touched on the whole 'dinoflagellates get chloroplasts a different way than typical algae' but i think its such a cool thing about them so i wanna share with the class: yknow the whole endosymbiont theory of chloroplasts and mitochondria (where a cell vored up a cyanobacterium/gamma-proteobacterium but instead of digesting it they kept em around to produce energy for them)? well thats called *primary* endosymbiosis. now imagine THAT cell gets swallowed by a _different_ cell, but instead of being digested, its kept around cos photosynthesis is pretty darn useful - thats called _secondary_ (=second-hand) endosymbiosis! some dinoflagellates have TERTIARY/THIRD-HAND endosymbiosis! so their choloroplasts are a modified cyanobacterium within a cell, within ANOTHER cell within the dinoflagellate and accordingly have THREE WHOLE MEMBRANE LAYERS surrounding them! but the fun doesnt stop there - theres also dinoflagellates that just straight up *steal* their plastids from other cells which is called 'kleptoplasty' (klepto- meaning steal, and -plasty refering to plastids like chloroplasts)! they hunt down an algal cell, kill it and then take their chloroplasts :o! this is different from endosymbiosis because unlike the russian nesting doll situation of tertiary endosymbiosis, the cell they take the chloroplasts from is killed in the process and not kept around. (side-note: several species of sea-slugs in the genus _Elysia_ also practice kleptoplasty by eating algae and keeping their chloroplasts for themselves and becoming autotrophic for months at a time!)
anyway yeah i just think its neat how everybody wants a piece of that sweet sweet photosynthesis action ;p
I swam through the bioluminescence in Holbox Mexico, it's a good thing I didn't give it a drink. Didn't know they were toxic, but the water stank. I love your videos.
Somehow I wouldn’t even want to swim trough that D:
I think a poison that makes you glow that would be pretty cool. I imagine that it would look similar to the bioluminescence in the shape of water.
people would 100% in inject that, like the do with Botox,
On theme of the video, if I had a poison, I would make it cause bioluminescence of the prey that ate it and then it would make other things be able to track it and eat it. It would make it easier for the prey to find the prey of whatever had the poison. And then I would make it not poisonous to humans so we could eat it and glow. That would just be super fun.
I ADORE your style of videos. If you have other interests I’d love to hear an octopus talk about random topics like the emu wars, 1920’s American Wild West, the history of hiking mt Everest etc etc I would eat that up especially if you’re as passionate about it as you are ocean life
Oh thank you so much! Unfortunately, I'm quite dedicated to the sea, so I likely won't be making videos like that. I might do videos in the future about strange creatures that live in deserts or rainforests, etc., but it will basically always be a biology/nature channel
@@OctopusLady omg well I would eat those videos up too!!
@@OctopusLady Nothing wrong with info dumping about a special interest! Are you planning to cover coelacanths? That would be lovely! I recently drew a coelacanth from a reference and named her Coecelia.
if i produced a poison I would like the poison to be blue raspberry icee, large please, coca-cola flavored on sundays
I wonder if horseshoe crabs will one day tell stories of the land vampires that steal their blood
I've endeared myself to your icon too much. I saw the thumbnail and thought "Get OUT of there Octopus Lady, GET OUT!!!!!"
I would love a poison that randomly gives someone an op talent but they won’t know what it is. Like god-tier tuba playing or really good at manicures
I used to live in BC, and even after moving would visit almost every summer, and one summer I had the chance to go swimming with the dinos. Its was the middle of nowhere off the coast of vancouver island, and it was a new moon. So we were in complete and total darkness with a pitch black sky full of stars and a pitch black ocean. But when we got into the ocean and disturbed the water, suddenly it too was full of stars! I cannot even begin to descibe the experience. It was so dark there was no distiction between land and sky, it felt exactly like I was swimming in stars. Best memory ever.
That sounds dreamlike. Would love to experience that too D:
Hi, I hope this isn't a problem, but I got a comic on a fanfic of mine about seeing some of my writing on the background of this video and sure enough, 8:32, there's my fic! I'm not mad I'm just very confused lol and I'm dying to know the sequence of events that led to this?
I would definitely want to make my poison induce temporary colorblindness, but the kind where you can still see a couple colors, like blue and orange, so a ton of things become hard to see or invisible to my predators. and i will dress in those invisible colors, obviously.
i usually nerd out over arts and humanities stuff, stem isnt really my field. but this video left me grinning like an idiot in pure wonder of the world! this thing is so cool! its incredible that something so small individually is the backbone of so many monumental things
A 5-stage poison. The five stages being
1: the victim becomes slightly uneased, just enough for them to be too scared to properly relax, but not enough for them to realise that they are on edge. This lasts for the duration of this poison's effects.
2: after about a month, the victim becomes used to their now heightened sense of anxiety. This is when the next symptom kicks in. The victim loses the ability to taste as well as the ability to feel temperature. This happens slowly at first, so that the victim can just barely notice that they cant taste as well or feel temperature as much before they cant do it at all. Like the previous stage, this symptom stays in effect for the duration of the poison's effects.
3: this is where we really kick in. After about a week, the victim begins to struggle with short term memory. Nothing major, but they will notice that theyve been walking into a room and forgetting why they were there significantly more often than usual. This, once again, lasts the duration of the poison's effects.
Stage 4: after a week, the victim becomes extremely stressed out over literally nothing. This also lasts the duration of the poison's effects.
Stage 5: after a couple days, the victim is incredibly relaxed. This is stacked with the immense stress to make for quite the confusing mental state. Want to lay down? No, you need to panic. Want to panic? I mean ok but there's nothing to worry about and you should instead get some rest. Want to rest? Too bad, there's something that you need to panic about. But why panic when you have nothing to worry about. But theres something to worry about and you need to panic.
Stage 6(?): this goes on for about a year before all the symptoms abruptly stop. The symptoms will all stop immediately and simultaneously. Nothing else comes of this. The poison will take about another day to leave the victim's system.
Your an evil genius
@@tarane409 yes I am.
Also wrong you're
One question tho: why do different ppl see a different color from dinoflagellates? I remember seeing a green color while others said they saw yellow, orange, red, and blue. I know it's something to do with human vision perception but what wavelengths do they actually release?
I have never heard this topic discussed more thoroughly and concisely. Per end-question: I would want to produce one of those poisons that some other creature would use to protect their skin or kill off parasites with, like some dolphins that rub up against corals for their antimicrobial properties.
Rewatching your videos and your enthusiasm is just so delightful!! The best way to have knowledge delivered
Awesome channel and the historical note was something that will make me read further on that incident. History can be almost as awesome as science. Where would I look to find the Vancouver story? My Googling is not up to snuff.
If I could produce my own poison. The symptoms I would want people to experience would be 2 seperate options.
The darker option: flu like symptoms, followed by extream hinger and agression, and suppression of inhibitions. Zombies basically but they are still alive. Also basically just rabies.
Option 2 is nicer. Slowed heartrate and a sense if euphoria and wonder. Along with mild positive hallucinations.
I learned from the interview of Andrew Gallimore on the Hamilton Morris podcast that Maitotoxin exists, a very large non-protein molecule that is fatal in extremely small doses. It's produced by the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus.
These videos are super awesome and interesting! Here's another interesting thing: I clicked on your videos after watching a Mr. Ballen video, and well RUclips is suppose to link similar things. What have your videos got in common with Mr. Ballen? As far as I can tell, just the spooky background music! Hah!
PS: My poison would help people better understand AI and how things are linked together.
Oh, a poison xd... although I no guess we've been given infinite creative freedom, I'm gonna go for one based on somawhat realistic things
One of the symptoms of CS2 exposure is... paranoia and psychosis. Domoic acid is also fun, as it causes permanent damage from rather short exposure. Elemicin, muscimol, and tramadol are also cool. However, this basically lacks a phisical sense of pain, so urushiol and poneratoxin may come in handy.
The idea is to cause a general state of confusion and delirium, mixing in some pain with that altered state of consciousness, to really make the memory stick.
So yeah, that's it, a mixture of 7 poisons: carbon disulphide, domoic acid, elemicin, muscimol, poneratoxin, tramadol, and urushiol.
Confusion, hallucinations, pain, some paralysis, paranoia, ireitated skin, and permanent brain damage.
Sry for being a nerd about poison of all things...
If I were designing a secret poison, I would make it increase the activity of another poison. For example, make opioids suddenly far stronger. That way a person attacked by this poison would not suspect me but rather a bad batch of a drug.
the poison would make art even worse and unable to make sense
Like if they want a blue color , not green!!
They’ll do that and it’ll only look green , they draw squiggly lines no matter how straight they want them , if they try drawing squiggly lines , they get scribbles!
They will mistake pens for pencils and will be unable to erase it
And when they do digital art they will keep forgetting to change layers unless they do one layer art
it lasts for a month and would come from crabs.
I'd dub my poison a rizzotoxin, anyone affected by it would suddenly find me extremely charismatic and would find my points unreasonably convincing as I see this as very useful in getting out of a wide range of dangerous situations.
My poison would make people marathon Octopus Lady videos so that their last moments would be equally enriching and entertaining...on that note, I might need to get to a hospital.
If my poison made people good at colour theory, would that even be considered a poison though? Doesn't poison have to be harmful in some way in order to be considered one? Some poisons have silly side effects like hallucinations which some people may find pleasant, but they are still harmful, if not for humans then for other creatures.
All that being said, I'd want my poison to be sneaky, not something that can easily be detected and treated and I want it to be cruel. I want to make the bodies of my enemies to turn on themselves. I want to cause the organism to destroy itself, to kill its own cells, I want the victim to feel terrified their own flesh and frustrated by the inablity to stop it.
My perfect poisson would be to induce empathy and self awareness and to impart logic and reasoning skills. 🤗
My poison would probably inflict a brain dead effect and make people subscribe to underrated scientific RUclipsrs and my own channel
If someone ingested my biotoxen it would result in the following symptoms
Within minutes they would start feeling tingling in their hands feet tongue and throat
Minutes after that they begin hallucinating as well as the paralytic effects kicking in to all muscle groups that are responsible for locomotion
Then the hallucinations become absolutely terrifying resulting in the person questioning their own beliefs values and choices in the light of their own mortality and every second feels like a year
After all that they pass out and they have hallucinogenic dreams that are on the opposite side of the spectrum that shows all the best things the person in question can be
Then they finally wake up after being comatose for 1-3 days with a new perspective on the world and themselves
My poison would make it so you could see all wavelengths of light and hear all frequencies of sound for 24 hours, also so can't go blind or deaf
9:18 I’d make it so that they get tetrachromacy(having four color receptors) so they have to suffer from being sensitive to yellow and orange with me ^^
I'd always wanted to go swimming in the glowing algal blooms at some point in my life. So I guess they're actually poisonous enough to kill me? Or is that only with ingestion?
I used to wonder why the snails in my reef tank fall over an die. I thought they were stupid not getting up again and lie there till the end. Turns out dinoflagellates poisoned them. But that doesn't make the fact less true that many species of sea snails actually do fall over and are too stupid to get up again, indeed. Some are better at this than others. And some don't seem to be capable of travelling on the sand bed. Like Stomatella, it seems to be a death trap for them. However, *they* seem to be intelligent enough to not go on the sand deliberately. That is until there is no eatable biofilm let on ther rock. Then they seem to reach out onto the sand, that might still have some food left, only connected to the rock with their very tails and that's when they might pop of the rock onto the sand completely and are literally stranded and might not be able to get back to the rock.
I would like to see the poison perform the following. While the poison is in effect, the colors the people see are wrong. Like red would be blue/green color, blue could be a hue of orange. If they take to much, it would look like the skin would be gone from other people and animals. What a trip..
My poison would called nartoxin and be sweet cause hallucinations confusion heightened heart rate and stiffening of muscles and numbness more erratic behavior and death in extremely high amounts which could last for a few days or hours are in extreme cases a week in low doses causes An increase in confidence And widens blood vessels but heightened sensitivity to pain and nausea
Ooooh if made poison I think it would be cool to make the thing be able to see the full color spectrum followed by cardiac arrest within a day.
If I made my own poison when people ingest it then say crack there knuckles they would light up like a glow stick🎉
I’ve consistently surfed in them every year and it makes my blacklight tattoo reflect
Seeing the ocean glowing blue at night is one of my favorite memories. I took a short video, but nothing compares to seeing in front of you.
Bioluminescent dinoflagellates saved the life of astronaut Jim Lovel.
He was flying off the coast of Korea and trying to follow the nav beacon back to his ship, but he ended up locking onto the wrong bacon and got lost.
He found the glowing trail left by the carrier and followed that back to the ship.
If he had not discovered he was on the wrong beacon he would have flown out to see and run out of fuel., and likely been lost.
This is mentioned in his autobiography Lost Moon aka Apollo 13.
I would want to poison to make annoying people not be able to be passive aggressive. ;)
I would make people be smarter with their choices and they would be kinder😊
my poison would put people to sleep so i can help people get some goddamn rest (and i can have some alone time to read books or something)
I would just copy ergot but minus the havoc on the digestive tract
I love your voice and all the great videos you are making, so soothing and educational, thank you kind lady!
I would want people to have a cold for 4 weeks and have their eyes, nails, and teeth glow
my poison would make things fell blue and taste sharp
you don't need to go to space to find aliens
just visit new mexico!
I wonder what ancient civilizations thought of the glow algae
Thank you for posting this video, you don't know how much you have helped my research. Thank you.
I caught that Homestar Runner reference
kinda looks like chernkov radiation lol
To be fair to your intro, I’ve absolutely been in a location down in Puerto Rico (I think… I might not remember correctly, this was during a semester at sea and I was constantly sleep deprived)we got to swim in pond that was a bit like a tidal pools that has an extremely high concentration of dinoflagellates. We kayaked out and saw some of the highest concentrations found anywhere! It was incredible! It’s a salt water pond separated from the sea 90% of the time. We swam around a bit and moving your hands and feet caused little trails of stars to form in the water around you. The semester at sea was on the Spirit of Massachusetts, a 125 ft gaff rigged schooner. Man… she had a good bow wake that dolphins would play in, and the dinoflagellates would light them up on dark nights, glowing starry torpedoes through black foreboding waved. Cold nights alone on bow watch at sea were tough. I was like 15 or 16 when I did that… it was a crazy trip…
This was great! Looking forward to seeing you improve going forward 😁
I really like how you say HABs
Because a lot of poisoning symptoms cause a decrease in sensation and awareness, i think it would be cool to cause the opposite of that. Colors become blindingly vibrant, sounds are magnified, sensation awareness is increased. Basically a poison that renders people immobile via overstimulation. Just for an extra blow, i'd throw in a traveling tingle, akin to walking on a numb leg, that would move across the body sporadically.
So a poison that causes a migraine or a hangover then. lol Or for me, just a really loud noise.
Your enthusiasm is so infectious!!
My poison would make people stop being pedophiles.......and BECOME A PATREON TO THE OCTOPUS LADY OF COOOURRSSEEEE
what's the text behind the dinoflagellate at 8:31 from? it seems really interesting!
EDIT: nvm i found it lol
@The Octopus Lady-you are so correct for including that, and i SALUTE YOU ❤❤❤❤
Protomolecule
Hmm... Poison symptoms...
Salt cravings, irritability, and urge to touch something soft looking.
Whoaaaaaaa...... 😲
Gotta respect admitting to the clickbait. good vid. can't blame ya, still got the point across was more fo a slight hyperbole than straight up lying.
*watches 2 videos gushing about dinoflagellates and how they're soooo multifaceted
BUT I BET THEY CAN'T PRESS LIKE ON YOUR VIDEOS!!
I'm loving this channel! So informative and so funny!
Side note - when you say 'dinoflagellates', I cannot help hear 'Dino flatulence'! 😂😂
I would like to produce LSA.
This would cause them to experience a wide number of unpleasant things.
Disorientation, unpleasant hallucinations, delusions, blackouts (losing time), disregulation of the uninary tract (generally overactivity, resulting in unavoidable dehydration) and potentially death.
This is also very much a revenge toxin, as it takes hours for the onset of symptoms.
You are the greatest, Octopus Lady. Love your channel and the fine scripts / presentation style you have. Think I have watched most of your videos at least twice. The Diatoms one I saw when I was in the Sahara, so the idea that the dust from these critters on my doorstep, were fertilising the Amazon was particularly moving. All the best.
Loss of appetite. Suppressed sensation of touch. Headaches. Complete lack of sexual desire,( that's just there for clickbait btw). Hair erupts from feet and the victim will feel an overwhelming urge to return to the cosmos...ocean; return to the ocean. But how does one dose the victim? Tempted to deliver toxin by projectile vom..no.
Let us go with three meter long tendrils which can be quickly extended out of the tear ducts coated with nematocysts. Sorry. I'll go.
Ooooh! Super Easy! The symptoms of my toxin would be compulsive cooperation and aversion to unjust hierarchy, with long term exposure leading to irrational desire to hug traditionally livestock mammals
Dont eat shellfish ever again, got it
A poison that makes your predators' whole body glow (or more fantastically, emit a distinctive noise or some other active, easily sensed signal that identifies them at a distance.) for a while would be my choice. Like how skunks apply a difficult to remove signal (in this case by scent) that makes it impossible for things that bother them to hide for a prolonged period (and may seriously interfere with the predator's own senses too). Whether your predators have their own predators that might be alerted, or whether it makes it difficult for them to sneak up on other prey in the future, their day, week, or month has been completely ruined without technically harming them directly. If they survive their ordeal, they certainly aren't going to mess with that type of creature again (assuming they're capable of learning, and if they're not, repeated mistakes will eventually have evolutionary effects).
And if it's not directly harmful, it isn't going to make humans fear/hate you as a species like a dangerous toxin would! (Well, skunks are at least not _feared,_ but the disgusted reaction we have to even low concentrations of the marking chemicals kind of makes some humans resent them anyways, but much less than we would if they were more effectively venomous like spitting cobras, and I think a glow would be seen as even more 'harmless and a little funny'. "Heh heh. Hey, Greg! Did you step on a glow-fish on your vacation? Everybody look at Greg!" "Grumblegrumblehrm... shut up! It'll wear off... eventually...")
But I suppose this is an obvious choice on a video about glowing dinoflagellates, given visually highlighting things that tamper with them is kind of their 'thing'.
I think I would take some inspiration from the movie '' Liar,Liar.'' My poison would cause anyone who ingested it to be incapable of lying. FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE. They wouldn't even be able to agree with someone if they knew the person was lying.😅😅😅😅
Ha in harm or ha in hazard toxic blooms are a toxic hazard.
As for their glow maybe a rave party?
As for your question: I have misophonia so some sounds I can't stand so my poison would likely impair others organs used for speech or noise.
Probably some other effects to really tell them just leave me alone.
Bruh, if I could make any kind of poison that'd affect people that ate me, I'd HAVE to do something that'd make you trip balls. But I'd probably make it so it makes you super sick too, just so people and animals don't want to eat me all the time. But if DID you survive eating me, it'd be a GLORIOUS time all around. You know?
Thanks for the fun engagement question! Now I want to go draw fictitious poisonous sea creatures. And it's Mer-May, so I have an excuse! o((>ω< ))o
Can you do a video on pfisteria and how a suppsedly plankton class organism is able to manuever and swarm prey that is much more mobile then the dinoflagellates? Has there been any research on the swarming behaviour(of which communication is a requisite) and prey detection?
4:46 Your honor, I love him.
Edit: If I was poisonous, the main side effects would be critical thinking and compassion 😅😂
I found your channel and watched every video in arou d 36 hrs. I've wanted to comment on a few of them. But have this whole 'why its a year or two old it won't be seen' buuuuut. I noticed a mistake, and my stupid brain won't let it go. At 3:36 the right picture is of the Spencer Gulf. I used to live on the beach at the very bottom centre of the picture. I remember seeing this satellite image shortly after it happened. Sadly, it is not an algae bloom. It was after heavy rains in the north, and this is an image of the runoff into the ocean from that event. But it still applies to algae blooms because the influx of nutrients from this created a bioluminancent algae bloom. That resulted in blue waves, similar to footage you also showed in this video. Which I thought was neat.