How and Why Do Oysters Make Pearls?
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Oysters make pearls as a defensive response to foreign objects. The process begins when some foreign body, such as sand, a parasite or some other organic material, manages to make its way inside the oyster’s shell and comes in contact with the mantle, a layer that protects the oyster’s internal organs, sometimes even damaging it.
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There are videos showing nearly perfectly round, brightly colored (red, blue, pink, purple) pearls being extracted from what one would assume is a type of oyster. It looks completely fake to me.
Can you comment, is it possible to get intensely colored, nearly perfect spheres from any oyster or other creature?
Today I found out what slave labour pearl farm is...🤣
I realize I am kinda randomly asking but do anybody know of a good site to stream new series online?
By zues's beard........
Idea for a movie; Aliens have figured out that humans can create kidney stones which are valuable to them, so they begin abducting and farming people for kidney stones until they're no longer useful.
Man's spitting straight facts
That sounds so f*cking horrifying because passing a kidney stone is one of the most painful things a human being can go through 😩😩
Amazing movie idea 11/10 I’d invest
😂
Someone get Jordan Peele on the phone
This is now my real life reason aliens ubduct people
look at our boy, so young and full of life.
No beard….
Fact Baby, not Fact Boy. Lol
Rofl!
Its honestly terrifying. I can only imagine him with hair
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I worked for 'The Pearl Factory' in SF's Warf, we sold Mikimoto cultured pearls in the oyster.
There was a whole presentation we gave to the tourists to explain everything about the pearl creation process. Those who bought one would pick an oyster, we'd open it and pull out the pearl and then try to sell them a mounting, but the pearl was theirs either way. Some would have two pearls and in my time there I saw every color from white to silvery black.
*That’s actually wicked sick!!!👏🏼💯*
As someone relatively new to Simon's channels (just got drawn in by The Casual Criminalist), his lack of beard here is unnerving.
Same. Been watching him for a month. He looks waird with no beard
I was like "Wait, I am on the right channel aren't I?"
I didn’t even know this was his channel until half way through the video
baby without the blaze
I thought it was someone impersonating him at first!
Whilst asking myself, "who the fuck is this dude on Simon's channel?", he goes; "hello I am Simon Whistler(...)", and I am like "WTF!". Dude, you have changed a lot in the last 5 years. Only been watching your stuff for like 2 years or so, holy cow.
It's the beard
He was in his "Before beard oil" evolution
At first when I clicked on the video, I didn't look at the date it was posted. So when I saw him, I was like "maybe he hired a new dude or something", but then I heard his voice and name, realising this has to be an old video. But it was a funny experience, he looks like a baby compared to how he looks now in 2021.
Thank God the voice stayed 🙌🙏🤣
@@Annaspopoff hahaah yes 😁😂
This is one of the weirder things humans do IMO
Idk man, enslaving entire populations, profitting from their work and suffering (cuz you know, slavery), and justifying it with our materialist and vain ideals. Sounds pretty human to me :/
@@PBthesquirrel There's nothing "weird" about that, it makes sense.
@@neoasura unfortunately, I think you're right about that 😓
That just sounds like slavery with a few extra steps
Rick and Morty
Well put
nightterror007 meat industry all over. Don't get involved with it
Nah, oysters can't think or feel pain. There's nothing wrong with it ethically.
Somebody didn't get laid in college
Just got home from work, and had a whole lesson on oysters. That of which I am very sure I never learned in school. So fascinating..
You, sir, have taught me more than school ever did and that includes college and as an independent scholar always thirsty for knowledge, I have a high appreciation for you and what you do. Thank you ever so much.
so theyre basically oyster tumors. cool
Tumors are over-proliferations of cells. Pearls are not.
It's made of dirt in ocean
@@rolfmichaelsantos1664 this would have saved me 6 mins
So people be spending so much money on dirt,
@@abdel2695 lmao
I can explain in few words.
it's calcified sand, rock/stone or bit of shell. the oyster coats it in a slim trying to get it out and fails so it sits there and hardens.
just like how an egg is made and how that lady ended up being pregnant for 30 yours. her baby calcified inside her body on the outside of her womb.
as for the price it's expensive cause of how long the process is and people use to have to go searching for a long time for them. natural ones are till far superior than to man planted ones. man planted being a bit of shell is placed in the oysters flesh.
I can't wait for the day aliens show up on our planet and find something about us they want to exploit. It's gonna be a fun experience when we end up being the victims of extra-terrestrial high-fashion or fancy dining. 😂
Well said. Humans. The skirg of the planet!!!
We don’t even know if aliens are even friendly or not
@@lunarscopeshapeshifterprod7004 safe to assume there are groups that fall into both categories. I'm sure we'll find some that wanna be our BFFs then find some that wanna make us their sushi.
That’s kind of sad, like they make pearls to protect themselves.
Omg..
Jhonny sins have changed his profesion to youtube
Johnny
@@Paul-wg7mh Jhnnoy*
@@TheToonpimp ok
@@Paul-wg7mh K*
truth lol
Please make a video on this: Why don't hibernating animals decay even when their body processes slow down to a point when they are undetectable?
RV Hybernating animals don't sleep all winter. they do wake up to use the bathroom and drink.
The cells do not go into apoptosis. Their tissues are alive and healthy, not dying. Slow metabolism is not cell death.
Because ketosis
RV because they produce glucose that help cells not dying, in case of the wood frog
DivideByZero no they don't😂
poor oysters
Oysters aren't conscious, don't feel undeserved sympathy for them.
Oysters may think much differently than humans, but to say they are not conscious is simply asinine. Furthermore, they deserve just as much sympathy for their plight as any other living being.
Jacob Garland yeah but I guarantee you people still eat the meat from the oyster it's not like it's going to waste
Nikita Ng I'm not sure anyone would eat an oyster that dies and sits in the water rotting until the divers/farmers decide to check on them. He already said in the video that they are discarded.
Oysters have no brain or central nervous system & are therefore incapable of conscious thought. Oysters are among the most primitive taxonomical class & were among the 1st things to evolve after single celled organisms Their response to their environment is not dissimilar to vegetables slowly growing in the direction of a source or sunlight or a Venus flytrap closing its "mouth" as a response to stimuli.
They do not experience "pain" in a fashion anywhere close to resembling a vertebrate such as a mammal or fish or even an arthropod such as an insect.
Eating an oyster is about as unethical as inadvertently consuming the tiny microorganisms on your lettuce and in your salad dressing...
I found a pearl in an oyster one day. I was very excited. The person eating with me convinced me it wasnt a big deal so I was immediately shut down and flicked it .
Now years later, I am reading the price range can vary from $20-5000. I read it on the internet so it must be true. Is it true?
I like how you always go all out on these videos
A question on how oysters make pearls?Here's also an in-depth description of oyster cultivation,etc
After seeing this, I'm really glad Simon grew a beard.
Wow, look at how young Fact Boy is in this video! Who knew he'd grow into a RUclips mogul ranting away on Business Blaze and 12 other channels? Go Simon!
I love the way you say Pearls. It has a satisfying pop to it.
There might be a correlation with his popularity compared to his beard length #Blaze
Accurate.
How many dudes said “I’ll show you a high end pearl necklace “.
A bunch. A bunch of dudes said that
This is horrible for the oyster population indeed. We all need to be more aware of what going on just to have “pretty” fancy expensive things. One day there will be no more oysters and natural Pearls. Breeding oysters in a cage is unjust
That was HORRIFYING! Consider me anti-pearl from now on! No more oysters should have to suffer just cause people want to look nice. Never liked pearls anyway.
I've never been a huge lover of pearls for this exact reason, they force oysters to produce them and a lot die from it, it's cruel, one necklace can have seen the deaths of hundreds of oysters, if you want pearls just get glass or resin ones, they look the same and do less damage to our worlds creatures.
Its more plant like than animal like they dont even have brains just genetic code that tells them to reproduce
Hearing this makes me sad and hurt
It's like using a cheap organic 3D printer for pearls that takes a long time to complete the 3D shape due to the compounds used take a long time to manufacture inside the printer. Biggest difference is you can eat the printer once you're done with it, or use it for feeding fish. No waste material.
Does this process involve or require the death and discardment of the cultivating oysters, or can they sere multiple cycles? If not, can and do they serve post-cultivation purpose as food?
I'd assume they would end up in the food industry in one way or another, if not for humans then for animal feed. No point throwing something away if you can make a bit more money with it.
there’s ways to get the pearls out without killing the oyster
@@drln1ghthaunter Could be poisonous to humans and and other mammals, and not have much of a place in human-managed food chains that way? I don't mean they are, I have bo idea, just thinking principally.
@@quackplayshorn Would you care to elaborate?
@@pr0xZen pry open the oyster just enough to get tools in, use said tools to extract the pearl, place whatever is needed to be placed inside the oyster, done
That is amazing! Thank you so much for your videos, we all appreciate your hard work.
If I ever buy pearl jewellery - they’re gonna be synthetic after watching this
Youre so brave
Levi Patterson ?
Are you vegan?
No
Important distinction: Is it because of what the pearls are made of (like the natural process seems disgusting to you) or because you're thinking it's cruel to the oyster? If it's the first reason, then that is what it is. If it is for the second, let me help clear it up. Pearl cultivation has actually kept many species alive. Before people learned how to do this, tens of thousands of oysters were killed to try to find the rare "natural" pearls. Pearl farming has allowed the species to survive, both in the farms and in the wild. Humans would have hunted them to extinction, which would have seriously hurt some ecosystems. Pearl farming is a sustainable practice. They also have to keep their farms pristine. Freshwater pearls are mostly cultivated in China. The farms have beautiful, clear water and are eco friendly. It's very different from the meat industry. It's also different from other jewels. Pearls don't involve destroying the land to mine them out. Synthetic pearls are probably worse for the environment than real pearls (especially if they are plastic with a pearl finish applied). They are much cheaper though. So, there's that.
I wish edible oyster pearls had the luster like pearl oysters XD... I don't care about the value I just want to find some cool pearls by having tons of oyster roasts 😁
It's 3am right now, and I propably should sleep, but I want answers!!
Big man switched up from being vsauce to a casual criminalist
*Aliens abducting humans*: these kidney stones are gonna make for some sick jewlery.
i was so lucky i found one in a oyster but the oyster is already dead
Paper Valley _ because you killed it
Slick and Thicc 😂
How did u know that he was death?
T_ YécHōė how do you know it's a he? 😂😂
Slick and Thicc 💀💀😂😂
what splendid informative facts on Pearls. thank you!
I have given a few pearl necklaces, as well as a few pearl ankle bracelets in my day.
My eyes
My burning 🔥 eyes.......
I can't handle fact boi without that majestic beard
It sounds like a dictator became a jeweler. I bet thats how pearl farming was invented.
There are loads of mussels where I live, and we've picked them since I was a kid. I once bit onto one that was full of tiny 1-2mil black peals(about 12) and cracked a tooth. I didn't give a damn how they had formed! Everyone finds great entertainment watching me prodding at at any mussels I eat in case the fight back.
Aaaaaaaaah the Before the Blaze times!
When I could still take Simon seriously :v
The sand thing has been debunked, but most of this jives.
He looks so different without his beard!!!
WOW.. That was another great video.. I really enjoy your work.. Thanks... 😃
Cvyf
And then someone saw these lil clam deposit tumor things and was like "man, I really want a necklace of those things"
This is worse than browsing Wikipedia because I can hit auto-play. xD
When I was a kid, I was told that pearls are made up of oysters tears.
Oh it was a story in my book 😁😅
Awesome information. I love your videos, and I also love pearls.
These oysters are being traumatized 😭
Holy shit. Simon looks almost like a completely different person in the past.
So remember that folks. Next time someone’s wearing pearls tell them that some of them may have dead parasites inside them.
I used to think the pearls were the oysters babies 🤦🏻♀️
I think that would be even more inhumane, because if that was the case we would be wearing dead children
You came a long way from this video pal good job 👍🏻
Today I Found Out oysters have internal organs.
What a beautiful world.
Same here
At school im leaning about the oyster and the butterfly
With a foriegn object within the Osters shell, why does the oyster just not spit it out vs creating a pearl/hard shell around that object?
So basically it is kidney stones for a oyster
This video was just recommended to me and omg baby Simon 😂
Wow super helpful information!! Thank you!
Just Been recommended. How does Simon look older than he is now 😅😂
When you're a new watcher and you find a video before the beard!!!
it's 5 am but i just had to know this. Off to bed... I gotta be up for 11 lol
Oysters make pearls out of wisdom.
according to the geographic channel, sand entering a oyster causing a pearl to form is a myth…… i don’t know which is true lol
wait....so your telling me there wearing clam/oyster barf around there neck ?.............
Midnight Gemini It's more like a calcified cyst!
Midnight Gemini
Ambergris is in many perfumes. Look up what that is
There's so much horrible grammar, I won't even try to correct you.
Cinnamonmouse *E D I T E D*
Commenters: on no! Your hurting them 😠😩😫😠 this is unfair!!!
Proceeds to eat hamburger and chicken legs, creature that are much more sentient and feel more pain.
I tried giving your comment two likes but alas I did the best I could with one like.
Does it hurt for them?
Simon without a beard is really unnerving for some reason.
OH MY GOD HIS CHIN WAS BALD AT ONE POINT
This is abuse and torture on oysters.. 💔
OMG poor oysters 😢
I will not wear pearls anymore :-(
Watching this in 2021 freaks me out
This is the most amazing thing on the face of the earth!!!!
thankyou so much!! it helped me a lot in my assignment!!!
WHAT? DID U FI8ND ONE
2:07 so they’re keeping them as Slaves basically?
it made me sad
They're not slaves. They're too simple to be considered slaves. It's not like they feel disdain with their environment and the definitely don't have any consciousness!
Pearl separating sounds like one of the most reasonable applications for automated machine vision system.
This is epic. So cool
very informative
Someday this will be outlawed
matthew popp nope
Please no. Its actually cool how they discovered this. To me, anyway
matthew popp it should be
Never shall this be outlawed
I hope it will be...
I make pearl necklaces differently than most people 😉
Great video!
I wonder if the oysters themselves will eject the pearls, without the aid of humans removing them or killing the oyster to get them? Then again, can clams also produce pearls? I seen similar enough in the way that they live and operate, that if a foreign body got into a clam, it could produce a pearl in the same way.
Do you think *just* placing a grain of sand in them(without any other damage or implants) would be enough? If so: how long do you think it'd take?
@@s12y6o24 I don't see why wouldn't be conceivably possible that sand couldn't cause one of these shellfish to create a pearl out of the that. I don't know how long it would take, but I think they said somewhere in the span of a few months, maybe qulicker depending on the shellfish? It takes several months for them to recover after harvest though. I would just like to think that there is a great pile of pearls under these shelves full of oysters.
“Nacre”. Haha. I had to rewind, put closed caption on to make sure I heard him right😂😂😂
That's interesting, I can make a few pearl necklaces in roughly 45 minutes, 15 if im in a hurry
Such a shock to see you like this after so much time accustomed to the beard.
Who's that dude impersonating Simon?
Can pearls be made with 2 colours or more?
No, only one color per pearl. But the colors are white, black, red, green, black and blue.
Pearls can form with 2 or more colors...
Iridescent colors too, not only pearl white...
And not necessarily by only a grain of sand .....
How many channels does this guy have?
Wait. Simon didn't have a beard 5 years ago? It feels like the beard is iconic anymore lol.
I keep thinking Steven universe while watching this video.
Sound like a TV show host from the 90s
Neverland Nights #stevenuniversefanclub. lol I love that show
Some cultured pearls are tissue nucleated and the tissue gives yet a different X-ray result
Thank you very much for your precious Informations. 💐🌹❤🌻🦁🇱🇰
Oyster: Pearl
Human: Gallstone
RUclips randomly recommended this to me and I got to see a baby Simon.
As a fan of casual criminalist. Holy shit beardless Simon.
I found out how and why oysters make pearls back when I was in school.... ffs... over 20 years ago.....
Rhys Tal Cernunnos Good for you, not everyone did. On average, around 10,000 people are learning about any given subject every day for the first time. And given how schools lean more on competitive grading instead of useful knowledge unimportant things like pearl formation aren't high on the list. We have to make sure our kids are better at trigonometry than Sweden, dang it.
So essentially a pearl in a clam is equivalent to a human tumor.
Geremy Quillosa 'oyster'
More like a protective pus pocket.
Contrition So... more like a kind of beautiful, spherical dried booger, then?