Dissecting Ants
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Wherein Dr. Corrie Moreau shows us how she dissects ants to learn about their gut microbiomes for her research! Check out the work happening in her lab by checking out their website: www.moreaulab.o...
Want to learn more about her work?! Go watch our 2014 Valentine's Day video, "Romantic Ants" • Romantic Ants
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R.I.P Ant #765432456782193
that's an original comment
Clover this offends me. ants are individuals too!! lol
Services will be held for her 3 million closest clan mates
R.I.P Ant #9018899792947977818179199991772198372872556276261736771616618873829399927279100028191981818832728733729920918172199190880089
There's like 10 ants everywhere
didn't know you can dissect ants😂😂😂
Kristy Travis you can dissect anything. *cackles maniacally*
Dragonsoul44 can u dissect justin bieber
Hafiz Gamingz yes. Yes you can.
Critical Oof can't. It's the only exception to the rule due to it being way too small...even underneath a microscope
I can dissect cockroach with stick, it goo
Out of curiosity, why do you plate the samples to try to culture gut microbiota instead of sequencing the whole sample? Then if some of the bacteria are unculturable they might be detected in sequencing reactions and a more accurate microbiome could be found.
I loved the shot of Dr. Moreau pulling apart the ant in the petri dish, and on the background was the pot full of unsuspecting live turtle ants! If only they knew what awaits them! MUAHAHAHAHA
(also, please someone get the poor cameraman a tripod! that camera was incredibly shaky on this episode)
we saw nothing..
Is there any concern that the microbiome of the ants are altered from being removed from their natural habitat and fed/housed in a lab for however long they are kept?
I think this is one of my new favorite episodes! Though I do feel bad for the ant.
How do ants evolve? I can imagine that it works differently because of the fact that they have a queen.
You totally need morbid-o-meter too, I find discussing about human death way more frightening than anything gross you could possibly show us.
Not to mention the dismemberment of a living animal. I'm not sure whether I mind it in this case, but it does kinda deserve a morbid-o-meter at the beginning of the video.
Naiadryade What living animal was dismembered?
Ragmatical Rachel The ant... insects are animals.
Naiadryade Yes, I am aware insects are animals. After she removed the abdomen it was still moving around, but when the leg came off it seemed to be curled up dead. :)
Okay, I see that I used the word dismember in a broader sense than its actual definition. Tearing off the abdomen of a living animal is perhaps higher on the morbid-o-meter than dismemberment, though, so my point remains.
Interesting - the fact that they live off pollen and sugar water makes me think of bees. Wonder if the reason bees are dying has something to do with their gut bacteria dying off?
RIP Ants died for science
Eyeball worms, get the flick outa here!
I wish there was a camera on the microscope so we could see what she is seeing
I know... I wanted to see the bacteria and stuff so bad...
+Alissa Frederick So you want to watch ant snuff?? You must be warped!
This is basically alien abduction for the ants.
Cannot argue with that
...oh shit....this is so trippy to think about
Invasion 😂😂
instructions weren't clear enough. My aunt is dead now
+Born Fabu You killed your Aunt !!!!!
Lol hahaha
OMG I'm laughing so hard xD
Wicked
Dank meme time
Would have been pretty cool to have some shots through the microscope.
kf7tkj We tried! Our lenses were not up to the task, unfortunately.
***** Digital microscopes are a thing, so that instead of seeing the specimen through a set of lenses, one would look at a screen. One of those may require another indigogo campaign.
+voetbalveld yep. We usually use our smartphones to take pictures of a specific specimen through the lenses. It actually works, pretty cool 👍👍
+voetbalveld ^^
Yeah.
We are all just walking rainforests! Humans and ants (and almost all of life) are ecosystems in themselves. Always great fun to share my research with The Brain Scoop!
Corrie Moreau thank YOU for sharing it with us! :D
Corrie Moreau Thank you for sharing your work with us, Corrie! Because of you I have an entirely new appreciation of ants, and all of the mites living in my face. :D
Corrie Moreau Thank you for showing us the awesome science you do!
Corrie Moreau Thank you for the insight into your work!
Corrie Moreau Ants (insects as a whole) lack the nerves responsible for feeling pain, correct? Perhaps you should have pointed that out for those who are against vivisection... Also, why wouldn't you cut it's head off first? I know it's just an ant, but these are the sorts of things that seem obvious to me when producing a video on the vivisection of any organisms.
What is this? A DISSECTION FOR _ANTS_??!
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Ahahahahaha 😂😂😂
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I loved the part where I couldn't see anything, really enlightening
Ikr like, eye opener
🤣
I'm supposed to be studying...
I'm supposed to get a life
+Ayanna Rodriguez same
+Plasma Nuke me too
Same right now
Plasma Nuke same
This is so interesting! I only wish that her microscope had a camera. Did you shoot this shortly before you got to ask that astronaut a question? Is that why you were thinking about microbiomes?
Naiadryade Yes!! It was shortly after filming this with Corrie that I began thinking about how our own microbiomes have evolved with human life for millions of years, and how that might change if we live in space.
***** Or how we might change it?
What microscope was it? I'm currently looking for a new microscope and that sounds nice.
Loved to see some more magnified shots of the dissection as well as the cultures that are grown later!
Yes please!!!
Honestly, I doubt I have the fine muscle control necessary to dissect something so small.
I got myself the 'Women in Science' badge last year when I attended Emily's "The Importance of Science Role Models in the Media" talk. I also got a photo and autograph from her, it was the best thing that ever happened.
I used to do similar things when I worked in an ant lab. My professor often had me dissecting ant queens (and sometimes soldiers for other organs) for their ovaries and some glands in their thorax that digested their wings after their mating flights. It required a lot of patience and a steady hand.
When I dissected them though, we usually froze the ants to kill them before dissecting them. We then pinned their body parts down onto a wax candle (minus the wick) and that made our lives a lot easier. Sadly, studying gut bacteria means you can't freeze the ant. It's a shame because you can really see how much pain an ant is in when you dissect it while it's still alive.
I feel kinda bad for the other ants watching the dissection of their friend, knowing they’ll be next
being existed about bacteria inside a ants gut
i challenge you to find something that is nerdier than that
It's just so exciting tho!
ashley beaumont I seen people getting excited about one enzyme found on a species of crab.
Or what about my school project 4 years ago titled: Daily variabilities in the rate of filtration in sponges.
Nyx & Hemera 0.0 Would you please tell me about (at the least the general patterns of) daily variabilities in the rate of filtration in sponges?
Naiadryade
Top secret. ;)
Nyx & Hemera O.O
Oh, look. A successful woman in an advanced scientific position who has visible tattoos.
"Libtards and their lies! Women are biologically unable to work outside the kitchen! She f*cked her way up if it's real! And she's lazy and dumb if she have tattoos!"
*sarcasm alert (just to be sure)
I hate to break the relative peace in the comments but someone had to say it...
there are exceptions to the rules, this would be one of them
oh, look. a mansplainer who has just assumed that person's gender fluid!
you're literally worse than hitler!
@EZ Dee It's called the breakdown of society.
@Boco Corwin
The original poster didn't form any argument really, his only affliction was that he thinks conservatives have some sort of problem with women working outside of the kitchen LOL when the fact is it's completely different. These idiots random posting sarcastic comments out of anger when they have no idea just what the fuck they're talking about.
Cool! I wonder how many of the gut bacteria can be cultivated?
***** Corrie mentioned in a talk she gave recently that there are more microbes living on the back of your hand than there are people on the planet. So, I imagine quite a few!
***** I was thinking more of number of species, since most species of bacteria can't be cultivated :)
***** That I do not know. ._.
***** I don't think they're being cultivated, probably just getting a sequence of the genetic material and using that to find out what species are in the gut.
Z. L. Burington Corrie mentioned growing them on plates or in liquid media in the video
thanks for showing us your face, that's what I actually came here for. I'd dint come here to actually see dissecting ants like the title states....
ANT LIVES MATTER. THE ANT DID NOT CONSENT
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The moment I saw the words "bullet ant" on the screen 15 seconds in, I retreated a bit. I mean, I'm not irrationally afraid of ants or anything. But I think I'm quite rationally concerned about the presence of bullet ants.
Matthew Prorok Trigger warning for bullet ants? :D
Gavin Smith If you happen to be one of the people who was forced to wear a glove made of them to prove his manhood, it might not be unwarranted.
Matthew Prorok SEE WHAT YOU DID AMERICA?! Now we are all scared of bullet ants!
Is it even possible to explain to people convinced that ants suffer that ants evolved completely differently from vertebrates? They don't experience pain the same way we do? Because all it seems these people have are feelings on their side. Overactive empathy for things that don't deserve it.
Cortster No, because they don't actually have any actual knowledge of the thing they're talking about. They think all animals feel the same thing because they haven't actually fact checked anything.
Erin Spruill My conclusion as well. It's all about feelings to them. It's a shame, really. Too much of anything, even empathy, is detrimental. In extreme cases, people will cry because a worm was killed. I bet they would feel differently if they shat out a nest of tapeworms.
Bose-Einstein lmao eww you’re making me squirm but you’re right people just come up with random bull shit without fact checking instantly saying that because it’s living it can feel pain the same way we do and that it apparently has 100 iq where they can comprehend stuff that we can.....
Oh. Dr. Moreau's final comments about how we are all ecosystems was amazing and really made me think. Wow.
It's not okay how much I got excited for the new episode.
I screamed when my phone buzzed with the notification ahahah
Paraesmic I'm imagining you sitting in a quiet library or at your desk in an office and all of the sudden you yell and flip your table over and run out of the building screaming BRAINS
***** or in this case: TINY ANT BRAINS!!
***** (╯°□°）╯ ┻━┻
Kinda bummed about the live disection.
That said, I've killed ants in my house before, so I'm a hypocrite. Eeh.
Yeah, I know it's an ant but it's kinda a morbid thought.
The video should probably be titled 'Vivisecting ants'
Joshua Mcateer I agree
Trish Prescott An animal doesn’t need to be alive for the whole procedure. The definition is only that an animal is “operated or experimented” on while alive. It’s not unusual for the subject of vivisection to die during the procedure.
Joshua Mcateer True, but I’d call it Blurry Vivisection of an Ant. LoL
Contemplating how vivisecting an ant is fundamentally similar to vivisecting a dog made me think about how ethical review boards would go about deciding which experiments are okay and which cross a line. Since you've touched on this subject in many videos - maybe dedicate a video to ethical research considerations?
BlackBobby69 It's really not the same as vivisecting a dog. Different protocols, procedures, and permits exist for conducting research on invertebrates vs. vertebrates - these are mandates determined by committees both in the host scientist's country, as well as for any specimens collected or studied out of the country. This research has been reviewed, and the methods had to be approved by peer committees and boards before the study is allowed to continue. TL;DR - Dr. Moreau is not doing anything rogue or unusual in her field.
BlackBobby69
An excellent question! Different groups of species receive different treatments based on ethics. Invertebrates, such as ants, are free for almost all sorts of experimentation provided the species as a whole is fine. Fish have some restrictions on what you can and can't do, reptiles have more protections than fish, and birds and mammals have some of the greatest protections on what you can and can't do. Even within birds and mammals, greater restrictions apply to certain species (IE chimps and crows), which largely seems to follow the trend of "The more intelligent it is, the less cruel you must be." Mice and rats for example, have fewer restrictions than chimpanzees do.
There's some formalities too -- you have to notify different governmental agencies and request permission to experiment on different species, particularly mammalian and avian species. Often when experimenting with animals, the number you are allowed to experiment with is determined by the governing body. Invertebrates are functionally limitless (provided you aren't damaging a significant portion of the species), but animals like chimps rarely have more than a few dozen animals to test.
***** It just hit me that her name is Dr. Moreau. Her name is Dr. Moreau. And we're discussing vivisection. And now I feel a little nauseous.
***** Presumably ants don't have the necessary neurostructures for suffering in the first place. Do they even register "pain" as a separate type of stimulus?
Rauron Well, we would have to define "pain" first, wouldn't we? Trying to avoid circular reasoning (pain is when it hurts), I would say that pain is a stimulus that makes you avoid certain situations. Pretty sure ants have those... they avoid heat and acid, etc. But I'm no expert, hence why I would be interested in hearing what experts think about this topic :-)
I'm interested to know what the process is like for bringing live creatures and samples from a foreign country into the states for study purposes - do you need to declare each individual ant at the airport? For stuff that there are regulations on, do you need to completely destroy it or securely contain it after investigating, to ensure different... things don't get into the ecosystem?
JaffaCakeGecko You need permits. Lots and lots of permits.
can't you just put them to sleep before doing that instead of making them suffer? not kill but knock them out?
Like +SGB/Mikko said, ants don't experience pain, so it wouldn't make a difference weather they were conscious or unconscious.
Just because they don't feel pain doesn't mean they don't suffer.
I've never felt this bad for an ant
Whenever I get a notification that there's a new brainscoop, I'll drop whatever I'm doing and watch it.
poor thing
Isolation party You're rihgt
Yhou are poor
Jdogg Mercenary Okay, if that's the best you could come up with
Isolation party lmao it’s just an ant it probably didn’t even know what the liquid it was in was called I mean they’re pretty much little robots who try and find sweet stuff and then bring it back to there nest to only repeat that everyday every hour.
I agree. That's a harsh way to go, even for an ant.
What is this? A dissection for ANTS!?
*hopes people find her generic pop culture reference witty even though she didn't watch the show it's from*
jacksonbegg It's from the movie Zoolander.
Now I understand why my boyfriend says it then smiles at me as if he knows something I don't. Thank you. XD
jacksonbegg *movie
***** A movie is a show
"We have to dissect them alive"
Ok I'm done, this video is fucked up.
Well, it may be terrible, and it is, but most medical advances in history came from testing and killing animals. Also: Ants outnumber humans like, 1 million to one, so losing a few for the sake of research that can better our knowledge seems like a pretty OK thing to me.
- Coming from a huge environmentalist, animal rights activist and Vegetarian.
"losing a few for the sake of research that can better our knowledge seems like a pretty OK thing to me"
"huge environmentalist"
"Vegetarian"
These are not compatible in any way, sorry :P
Try again with a coherent text.
-Coming from an actual environmentalist and vegan (which is the very first step of being environment-friendly).
For the sake of clarity, let's put that first sentence in perspective by replacing a few words: "Asian people outnumber other humans, so losing a few for the sake of research that can better our knowledge seems like a pretty OK thing to me"
Still ok? I think not.
And before I get a shower of hate, I am NOT against dissections like most of those that are performed in the Brain Scoop... because the animals were donated dead to the museum. And I am not against any kind of study of animals as long as they are respected.
I had to stop watching. As soon as she said she has to dissect them while they're still alive, that was bad enough. But then, of course, it was shown on camera.
WOW, I would never thought you could dissect an ant. That's pretty insane. :D
This made me so sad. Dissecting an animal while still alive is... I don't have words. This is the first Brain Scoop video I couldn't finish.
expectation: using state of the art microscopic scalpels or super fine lasers to dissect ant
reality: using regular tweezers and go "yoink"
I wonder if Dr Moreau likes doing fatalities in Mortal Kombat
when u squash an ant with ur finger, then smell ur finger, it smells nice as, why??
I wanted to see an ant dissection, not two people talking to one another with small blurry clips of hands and tools on a dish.
So is there any usefulness to any of the data found by studying their gut microbiomes and/or the bacteria?
I'm always amazed by people who are so enthusiastic about things most of us have never heard of. Dr. Moreau probably knows more about ants than everything I know. :D
Can't know until you inspect it. If it has a use, then by studying it you can determine what it could be used for.
It's more about understanding the way each species' body works and any close relatives that may have a more or less "advanced" versions of the same things (like the chemical secreted by bee and ant queens to stop sexual development of the colony).
Will studying the gut bacteria of these vegetarian ants contribute to helping (human) vegetarians/vegans get all the essential amino acids in their diet?
***** That's such an interesting question! I know there is some thought about using kangaroo gut bacteria in cows to decrease the greenhouse gas emissions of cattle because kangaroo bacteria digest cellulose with less methane waste than cow gut bacteria. I could see that working in humans too. We could be inoculated with cellulose digesting bacteria or the ant bacteria and get more calories and protein from plant sources!
+suetying c. They already do... vegans just tend to lack B12 (an enzyme cofactor). Just take a vitamin pill. And babies can't be vegan.
Dissections! Only on a tiny scale... freezing cool stuff. And research. And very, very steady hand... kudos!
I love the observation Dr. Moreau makes about co-evolution of the micorbiome and its host: animals such as ants, cows, humans... etc. are not only complex organisms in their own right but, in order to function, they had to evolve as true ecosystems. This is just awesome to think: in a small scale, an animal is not so much different from a region of the earth and the life that inhabits it. And this makes me wonder about to how huge an extent this planet has been shaped by life. And... I should probably stop here.
Question: I know that some species of ants have a very structured society and workers look quite different from one another in order to perform their task at best, despite being all sisters after all. Does these morphological differences reflect on the gut bacteria populations?
Thank you for sharing this research with us: it's amazing!
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P.S.: I think it's eyeball worm. A worm eyeball sounds more like an elongated, self sustaining eyeball that crawls all over the place, staring at things...
Do such eyeballs exist?
Fascinating information, and very interesting and important research, but I do question the ethics of dissecting an animal while it is still alive. Since the gut bacteria act normally for a bit after death, wouldn't it be better to kill the ant first? At least to pull off the head before the abdomen.
+Zoe Powell they usually even still move even after you remove their heads,but i would still remove the head first before dissecting it.
Let the, die. No pain
I used to dissect ants and shit just like the way she’s doing. I wasn’t doing it for science tho
Vivisections are creepy! It was really interesting but I couldn't help flashing back to some sci-fi books I've read with human vivisections, because from the aliens perspective we were essentially ants. You made the other ants watch, that's horrible!
Christian Akacro "you made the other ants watch" That actually made me giggle lol
You can see their container next to the microscope in a few of the shots. I imagine it went something like this:
Bill: Hey Frank, good food eh?
Frank: Oh ya Bill, it's the best.
*Hand reaches in to pick up Frank"
Frank: Wooooaaaaahhh!
Bill: Wait, what are you doing with Frank! Frank! I'll save you Frank! Wait... No! What are you doing to Frank! Oh god, you're pulling out his guts!!! You MONSTERS!!!!!!!1111!!
my question before watching:
how the f*ck are you going to dissect an ant?!
😂😂😂💀💀
Tiniest Brain Scoop dissection ever?
Also, an interview with Corrie Moreau would be awesome, like Anna Goldman awesome!
Ah, great video. Pulling limbs off of a live critter! If the Ant was already dead, I wouldn’t mind, buuuut...
One of the best educational channels on youtube.
Fun fact: Ants don't feel pain.
put the ant in your car in the garage run a hose from the exhaust pipe to the slightly open window leave the car running...retrieve ant corpse
This would be exactly the wrong room for giant ant aliens to make first contact with earthlings. "I for one welcome our new insect overlords." Emily flashes her trademark smile...
Cool video.
There are six or seven stages after a human being dies after that it is totally dead .
Those stages take around 21 days .
dissecting live ants is ok but with a any other animal it would be wrong right? because human logic
So you ripped someone's head off while they were still alive. How thoughtful.
We all did that casually as kids
Such an awful death for the ant can't you come up with a. A better way of doing it :(
poor ant :(
Them: use tools
Me: *nails*
I don't know why, as a person who has had bad experience with and hates ants, but I think those turtle ants look so friendly and oddly cute.
Phew, the ant was dead. I would dislike if it was alive.
:( a little bit sad
even though they are just ants, i feel it is still animal(insect) abuse which quite francley upsets me
Theresa Falaniko we did it for education.
So, you're looking for microbiota in/on ants, but dissecting in ethanol? I assume capture conditions don't influence bacteria (sterile tube, outside container was at least exposed to the rainforest and they're sacrificed pretty quickly after being released), and ethanol will at least keep the local lab bacteria at bay, but do you worry about it killing off bacteria on/in the ant? If it's 70% ethanol, you're probably okay on short timescales, but 100% is assumed to be instant, right? Also, why not pull off the head first?
I'm glad there's somebody thinking about bugs and the bugs on the bugs.
goat325 If I had to guess, the point isn't to keep the bacteria alive after the dissection, but rather to have the profile of bacterial species (which you get from gene sequencing) be as close to the living gut profile as possible. Ethanol is used as a preservative of genetic material until it can be extracted and purified. It's not as great as some other preservatives, but it's the standard and easy to come by.
And I suspect they don't pull off the head first because the gut is firmly attached to the head and they don't want to pull out or break the portion of the gut that's in the gaster. I've run into this problem when dissecting caddisfly larvae.
Ahhhh, I had not considered this. I had assumed they would culture and characterize rather than just sequence. Sometimes I forget that genomics is a thing. I would guess then, that the ethanol does actually kill the bacteria and causes it to precipitate the DNA on the surfaces of the insect for easy purification later (rinse with water, resolubilize DNA, destroy ant DNA {cleave non-methylated DNA} and then PCR and sequence).
Also I never would have guessed re:head/gut connection causing problems. A+ comment, would read again. Thanks!
Brainscoop rocks , every video seems more interesting then the last. Thanks to all the little people who make it so and , of course, Emily to for such an awesome job hosting, educating and entertaining me.
Emily, I want to have a museum date with you ☺️
Worm eye balls..... CUTTTT thats a wrap people
I’m on the weird side of RUclips again
This was hard to watch
AndreaMGC I felt so sorry for the ant. I think her research is important, but when she pulled the ant apart I teared up a little bit.
Jan Christian Refsgaard I did too, but animals like ants don't even have what we would consider a brain. Just a bundle of nerves that respond to stimuli. There is nothing going on that is even close to being considered a thought process.
CapnHolic "Just a bundle of nerves that respond to stimuli." - that's all any brain is! I think it's fair to say that not many animals have a "thought process" in the same way that humans do... Ants are actually one of the most intelligent lifeforms that there are because of their architectural abilities and their teamwork - horses, for example, are far more "stupid" and don't have abilities at all like that - but if she dissected one of those alive then she'd be put on a register!! I think it's wrong to say that the ant didn't know it was in danger and was clearly trying to get away.
thecassman Except an ant or a termite doesn't build a structure because it knows that's the best way, it does it because "I see rock, I move rock"
Same with other actions. See food, eat food. Wriggling ant grub, clean it/give food.
There was an experiment done on wasps that clear burrows and bring paralyzed spiders down to feed their young. It was an automated process. step 1: Check tunnel is clear. Step 2: put spider in burrow . Step 3 lay eggs or w/e. No matter how many times they took away the spider when the wasp went to check for obstructions, the wasp reset. "Well better find another spider. Found one, let me check if the tunnel is clear." Dozens of times, and the wasp didn't change anything in it's process.
The "brains" of these animals is like a simple computer program. line 1 goto line ten. line 10 if X then got line 20.
CapnHolic Interesting! Sounds like a useful experiment... But I'll still (slightly stubbornly) stick to my point - that a horse, for example, is also very basic in it's thought process... It's all based around feeling; I'm hungry, I'm tired, I'm in pain, etc... It's hardly intelligent to that degree.
Everybody is suddenly an ant activist
And people ask why aliens abduct people
Just something I now realized/noticed: A lot of the (female-presenting is who I have noticed, but that might be who you have interviewed/what people have been wearing) Field staff, like Dr. Moreau, have really cool tattoos. So, Emily, going to get epic Soon Racoon tattoos sometime? :D
She must be amazing at Operation.
So cool that ants puke on the ones they love just like we birds do! I am going to start calling my crop my "social stomach". Want some used berries? Mmmmm!
Why is this filmed like this, I don't care what these two people talking look like, they should show the actual ant and footage of what they are talking about instead
Girls
no, it's the cameramen.
That's sick dissecting a poor ant, unsubbed :'(
Catarina May Good riddance.
Catarina May Look on the bright side, this ant's sacrifice will make other creature's lives better with the research it's given scientists.
Catarina May I had to scroll down quite a bit until I found 'the obligatory animal cruelty comment'. I'm impressed.
NVaizard I hate myself a little hehe.
When I look at ants I get a weird shiver...for some reason I thought these ants weren't as creepy and stuff.....weird
Ant man will not like this story
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This video in any other context would be disliked so hard. Like hey, today Im gonna pull apart ants for no reason! .... you'd get called everything from monster to psycho. But for science, it's awesome! = )
Good episode, but an excellent point at the end about "if were to wipe out any one species; there's never JUST ONE species". I think something that people often have problems understanding, on both a micro and macro scale.
Dissecting ants🤔hmmmm what's next dissecting bacteria
SaVagE ChOl0 it's possible! :3
I love these discussions. It's cool to hear science lovers talk shop. Great video!
All I see is two scary people.
This video was so great! I love the discussion about bacteria & such evolving with hosts, that's so interesting to think about and kind of mind blowing, but also seems really obvious somehow? I would love to read/hear more about the research on that. Also really mind blowing to think about the little tiny species that go extinct with their hosts. Though I agree with some others that it would have been awesome to be able to see inside the dissecting microscope, I fully understand the camera limitations and Dr. Moreau's explanations & discussion more than made up for the lack of detail shots.
i was loading a game on my pc and the sound track kicked in while the video played, watching someone dissect an an ant while a booming orchestral soundtrack plays is the most surreal and epic things i've ever experience!
So is she trying to say that when we die, the bacteria in us lives as it was before death, but now it doesn't have resistance. So if we couldn't naturally fight off the bacteria, we'd just decay??
Killing ants and learning about science, this would be four year old me's dream job (not that I wouldn't love it now).
Question: how are you protecting the anaerobic bacterial samples? When I was in school
(a long time ago) my teacher took samples from a sheep’s stomach
that had a rubber cork in the side of it’s body. Then all bacterial
procedures were conducted under strict CO2 cover gas. (It tastes just
like coca cola, lol) . . . . . So wouldn’t the ant have a population of anaerobic
bacteria in it’s gut too?