The one thing stopping jellyfish from taking over - Mariela Pajuelo & Javier Antonio Quinones

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • Dig into why jellyfish populations have increased, and how leatherback sea turtles can help get their numbers under control.
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    Over the past two decades, jellyfish have begun to overwhelm our oceans. If things stay on their current trajectory, we could be headed for a future where the entire ocean is thick with jellyfish. So, is there anything that can keep these gelatinous creatures under control? Mariela Pajuelo and Javier Antonio Quinones take a look at the jellyfish’s most ancient predator.
    Lesson by Mariela Pajuelo and Javier Antonio Quinones, directed by Sinan Göksel, Emre Kanlıoğlu, Studio Big Box.
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Комментарии • 903

  • @change_pt2
    @change_pt2 Год назад +5364

    i love how every bad thing we do to the marine environment seems to harm every species except for the jellyfish

    • @mission3479
      @mission3479 Год назад +313

      And rats, roaches, mosquitos, feral pigs, etc

    • @shet3930
      @shet3930 Год назад +159

      @@mission3479 he was talking about marine animals

    • @sleverlight
      @sleverlight Год назад

      Climate change and overfishing are the main factors linked to Jellyfish blooms, so if we don't stop depletion our oceans of fishes we will have a jellyfish soup in the future

    • @-yui9763
      @-yui9763 Год назад +108

      You’ve never heard of the mersquito before? Hate those buggers

    • @cascadianrangers728
      @cascadianrangers728 Год назад

      They subsist solely on our hubris and failings. Small wonder, the population explosion

  • @beccaf262
    @beccaf262 Год назад +753

    Jellies are mostly water in content but when they’re breeding, which is a lot of the time, they are super high in fats making them a tasty meal for leatherbacks. They really are incredible animals.

    • @izdotcarter
      @izdotcarter Год назад +4

      They are bad

    • @beccaf262
      @beccaf262 Год назад +23

      @@izdotcarter based on…?

    • @fire4036
      @fire4036 Год назад +33

      @beccaf262 i assume personal experience

    • @pepe-zw4de
      @pepe-zw4de Год назад +8

      how can you be 'super high in fats' when you're 95% water. that literally makes no sense

    • @lazice
      @lazice Год назад +5

      metabolism

  • @Sunflowersarepretty
    @Sunflowersarepretty Год назад +1522

    I have to say this is so beautifully animated and the background music fits so well. I love how as we humans create problems like hunting vital animals for the eco systems at the same time some of our brilliant minds come up with solutions. Those nets that emanate light that other sea animals can see and avoid is an intelligent solution to save other species.

    • @mayhlayinkyaye8296
      @mayhlayinkyaye8296 Год назад +2

      😊😊😊

    • @Lord_Cornbread2
      @Lord_Cornbread2 Год назад +13

      "As we humans"👽

    • @livingwithpetsandplants9539
      @livingwithpetsandplants9539 Год назад +5

      I know right ❤

    • @Sunflowersarepretty
      @Sunflowersarepretty Год назад +2

      @@Lord_Cornbread2 I mean its us humans right or is there another intelligent species besides us?

    • @funveeable
      @funveeable Год назад

      We already have nets with special pockets in them that eject sea turtles if they get snagged. Also, Jellyfish are not limitless and they are even older than sea turtles yet never took over the world. Fish existed before the reptile and they lived just fine.

  • @yukeenakamura1398
    @yukeenakamura1398 Год назад +422

    I went from “WHAT?? Pepper grain sized stinging jellyfish?!?” To “WHAT?! 2-meter sized jellyfish?!”

    • @Queen_Cnidarian
      @Queen_Cnidarian 8 месяцев назад +11

      If you think a 2 m bell is impressive, wait till you hear about the lion mane jellyfish, which has tentacles that can get as long as 100 ft or 30.5 m. This species also has a bell size of 2.4 m.

  • @totalchaos444
    @totalchaos444 Год назад +1059

    Leather back turtles are also killed when they mistaken ocean plastics for jelly fish. Fishing nets aren’t the only turtle killers.

    • @burtan2000
      @burtan2000 Год назад

      Sadly, like most endangered or threatened species, the leatherback sea turtle faces many serious challenges. Their nesting sites are PRIME REAL ESTATE. They nest on some insanely cool beaches. They don't nest if there are lights. So development near nice tropical beaches seriously hurts their ability to keep a healthy population going. We want to actually see their population take off.
      We can thank places like Playa Grande on the Pacific coast of NW Costa Rica for protecting miles of pristine beaches from development - and from poachers. I was lucky enough to travel there thru my university about 20 yrs ago. We went all over Nicaragua and Costa Rica during a three-week long whirlwind tour of paradise.
      The beach was one of the last places we went. I was tired very tired by the time we reached there. We heard a lecture from this cool Biology prof from Purdue. He ran some study down there and coordinated a small army of volunteers and grad students. IIRC, they have something like 20 MILES of beach with zero development.
      I grew up in the country, but at the edge of the suburbs in Upstate NY outside a medium-sized upstate city. I've been camping out in the wilderness. i spent summers on the family farm in a more remote area of Upstate. I thought i'd seen the stars, the night sky, but i hadn't until I saw it on a moonless night without a drop of artificial light in any direction for miles.
      We had to wait for hours after the lecture. I was tired so i got annoyed like come on, let's just go to sleep. Thankfully I wasn't in charge and wiser heads prevailed. At like 2 AM, we were taken by a local guide far out onto the beach. They were incredibly strict about camera flashes and flashlights. He had the one light - a small penlight with a red filter that he only used a few times sparingly. We didn't need it soon anyway as our eyes adjusted. It was a long walk on the sand. Following directions we were silent. Finally we got to see something I'll never forget: a young female digging a hole and then laying eggs. My eyes aren't the best though they were better then than now and I saw this beautiful animal seemingly in a trance while she dug. She was only about a meter across - so a small one. we kept our distance and a few of us at a time got close enough to see each stage. Her process took a few hours so we all got a good, close view of the magic. I didn't know it was gonna be so amazing.
      We did a lot of amazing things that trip, but none matched that. Everywhere we went was amazing but that seemed extra special. It felt like something so few humans get to see.
      The preserve had armed guards IIRC to protect against poachers. One of the very rare murders in Costa Rica occurred a few years ago when a local volunteer - passionate about protecting the unique ecology of his country - was killed in relation to his duties protecting the beach. Everyone i met in Costa Rica - especially at the beach - had this amazing easy-going attitude. The truly lived this Pura Vida - the nation's unofficial motto (pure life). It sounded like this young man who was killed was just like that. The type of outgoing, smiling person that lights up a room, that everyone loves, that is so passionate about a just cause that you can't help but get wrapped up. Everyone leaves a place like that with a plan to return. Or to even move there. I did.
      I never went back. I know now that I probably never will. But at least I went once. I'd like my tourism money to support their work, but i have none.
      LB sea turtles lay hundreds of eggs. usualy about half are infertile - they lay these on top so if a predator (like cats - an invasive species there) come along and dig it up, they get full on the unfertilized eggs.
      The ones that hatch are pretty helpless until they get into the water. The scientists there collect the eggs, do their science stuff taking measurements, recording wehre and when, etc. collecting data, and then when tehy hatch, they bring them back to where they were laid and release. They get a slightly better chance of survival bc poachers and predators are less likely to get them. they release the babies at night and IIRC protect them until they get to the ocean.
      They say only one in 500 make it to adulthood. One mom must therefore lay hundreds of eggs to replace herself and the male.
      The professor from Purdue was optimistic about their rebound. He said that because they lay so many eggs, that there is huge potential for a boom in sea turtles at every hatching. I hope so because those oceans are rough - at least until they reach adulthood, when they're really too big and their hides too tough for predators to want to eat them. Aside from maybe the biggest of white sharks.
      he had previously studied them along the Gulf Coast, where the lights from oil rig platforms and refineries scare the sea turtles away. He had some scary data - like one year there were thousands of nesting, then a refinery went online. The next year there were hundreds of nests. Subsequent years got down to dozens. In a few short years tehy went from many thousands to dozens and the agency with authority - either the EPA or the texas department of environmental conservation - were powerless. IIRC, they tried and a federal judge in texas sided with the massive oil companies. It's big business. It's not a wise enemy to make in texas. And this was the early 2000's with a republican in the white house fresh from being governor in TX. A Texan with ties to big oil as POTUS, with a VP with even closer ties. Cheney was like Darth Vader to me then. And even HE divested from his companies while in the white house.

    • @richardthomas5362
      @richardthomas5362 Год назад +20

      All my plastic waste ends up in landfill, rather than "recycled".

    • @jonasshiujunhimgsps6078
      @jonasshiujunhimgsps6078 Год назад +4

      @@richardthomas5362that is sad

    • @ethanloming001
      @ethanloming001 Год назад +24

      ​@@jonasshiujunhimgsps6078 That's because of high labor and low salary in recycling jobs like plastic. It can get as low as 3 USD per 300 tons of plastic collected. Plus recycled plastic doesn't always come with the same high quality as it is with new plastic because it could be contaminated, and processing and repurifying it involves a lot more work than it already is as it is because different plastics have different types of polymer.

    • @Spiffyo
      @Spiffyo Год назад +9

      @@jonasshiujunhimgsps6078 Plus businesses love the third part of the Cycle but hate the first two, Reduce(not as much product sold) and Reuse(Less product sold over time), with Recycle being loved as it can be pawned off to a different person that they don't need to worry about.

  • @mustafaaalmosawi
    @mustafaaalmosawi Год назад +2681

    As a jellyfish myself, I think our population is slipping out of control.

  • @EduardoSanchez-un2hh
    @EduardoSanchez-un2hh Год назад +157

    A 200 kg jellyfish and a half ton turtle? Man the ocean makes me feel insignificant

    • @nguyenduyphuc3924
      @nguyenduyphuc3924 Год назад +14

      Wait till you hear about how much blue whale weight. Just remember not to act too surprise, I’ve heard they’re very self conscious about it 😂

  • @deborahwanessa6434
    @deborahwanessa6434 Год назад +1108

    As a jellyfish fan, i also believe they should be put under control

    • @K4R3N
      @K4R3N Год назад

      We should ban them until we know what's going on

    • @Navaneethkrishnamar
      @Navaneethkrishnamar Год назад +107

      As a jellyfish, we dont want to be controlled by yall.

    • @SpeedyJuiceMan
      @SpeedyJuiceMan Год назад +68

      As a sea-turtle fan, I agree

    • @jochemplus3757
      @jochemplus3757 Год назад +52

      As a sea turtle, I would like to live freely so I can eat jellyfish (respectfully)

    • @Stegosaurus_a_freak_of_nature
      @Stegosaurus_a_freak_of_nature Год назад

      @@Navaneethkrishnamaru are cheating, jellyfishes gonna receive a temporary ban until sea turtles can return to the game

  • @the_luggage
    @the_luggage Год назад +453

    I lived in a small fishing village in Peru and know firsthand how economically challenged, though vibrant those communities are. They absolutely need to continue fishing almost daily, so it's great to see that environmentally viable solutions exist to enable them to do just that.

    • @smeggiamagarwine
      @smeggiamagarwine Год назад

      dont care they are parasites

    • @GanyuSimpingDegenerate
      @GanyuSimpingDegenerate Год назад +18

      Damage to the marine ecosystem is especially detrimental to small fishing villages. Once the fish population starts to collapse, so does the local economy.

    • @lazylemon118
      @lazylemon118 4 месяца назад

      I've always loved TedEd animation but the info about small fishing vessels is wrong. The highest percentage will always be coming from large-scale fishing vessels. And much worse, they're even harder to regulate.

  • @K4R3N
    @K4R3N Год назад +55

    That "I like turtles" kid was right all along!

  • @KnightsofGaming2016
    @KnightsofGaming2016 Год назад +228

    For a creature that is 95% water, they sure are a notorious bunch.

  • @terramater
    @terramater Год назад +57

    Jellyfish can really adapt! Our crew got on camera jellyfish in a lake in Borneo that got trapped there, so their tentacles evolved and don't sting! And the lake looks like a scene from another planet. There are so many jellyfish living in there, it's fascinating to see the footage.

  • @lovelyserpentofthelindentree
    @lovelyserpentofthelindentree Год назад +112

    This reminds me of the Star Trek movie about the consequences of whale extinction... This was lovely to watch as well as informative.

  • @えだ-f9x
    @えだ-f9x Год назад +46

    another important reason to protect sea turtles❤

  • @benjaminlieberman3932
    @benjaminlieberman3932 Год назад +74

    The new animator and the music are both unbelievable. If this is a new style and outlook for TedEd, I am onboard. It is sleek yet awe-inspiring.

    • @solar3013
      @solar3013 Год назад +9

      They have different animators for many different videos

    • @benjaminlieberman3932
      @benjaminlieberman3932 Год назад +1

      Notice I said "A" new style, not "the" new style

    • @solar3013
      @solar3013 Год назад

      @@benjaminlieberman3932 but they might not continue with it, since they mix up the style with every single video.

  • @patrickbennett439
    @patrickbennett439 Год назад +23

    Ive been in the mood lately to give away jellyfish, just randomly like in an alley or street, just to those in need of them. Glad to see the earth is producing a lot of them.

  • @adisage
    @adisage Год назад +11

    Loved the Finding Nemo quote in the beginning! 😍
    Kudos and many thanks for another brilliant video guys!

  • @thegarbagebinprince
    @thegarbagebinprince Год назад +125

    Some species of jellyfish are edible to us humans and considered delicacies in parts of Asia! They’ve been one of my favourite dim sum dishes since I was a child.

    • @Makes_me_wonder
      @Makes_me_wonder Год назад +72

      Anything that is alive is considered a delicacy at least somewhere in asia

    • @albertusagung4461
      @albertusagung4461 Год назад +6

      Jellyfish salad is my most favorite dish to be served as appetizers during wedding celebrations.

    • @CienciaOculta2024
      @CienciaOculta2024 Год назад +2

      Essence energy from jellyfish

    • @Ganara426
      @Ganara426 Год назад +1

      @@Makes_me_wonder not wrong lol

    • @richardthomas5362
      @richardthomas5362 Год назад +2

      I am glad you think they are delicious. Me - No thanks.

  • @skellyBones6910
    @skellyBones6910 Год назад +19

    As a sea turtle,i see this as an absolute win

  • @waltissussybakka
    @waltissussybakka Год назад +36

    The animation gets better and better with every new video ❤

  • @AnimealPlanet
    @AnimealPlanet Год назад +34

    " A world packed with Jellies." Now I'm starving. 🤤

    • @aliahmia4420
      @aliahmia4420 Год назад +6

      I wonder if humans can invent a new food as the jellyfish is the main ingredient. 🤔

    • @lukesams3349
      @lukesams3349 Год назад +4

      Are you a sea turtle?

    • @AnimealPlanet
      @AnimealPlanet Год назад +1

      ​@@aliahmia4420Humans are so crazy for the thrill of discovery so it would not be surprising if they actually did it. ( In the future of course.)

    • @AnimealPlanet
      @AnimealPlanet Год назад +2

      ​@@lukesams3349yes. I'm a human turtle who slurps jellyfish like jelly. 🍽️🤤

    • @budiharsono1537
      @budiharsono1537 Год назад +14

      @@aliahmia4420 Actually dishes made with jellyfish as the main ingredient already exist

  • @夏蟲嘗雪
    @夏蟲嘗雪 Год назад +21

    Jellyfish is a very common dish over here in China. I'm actually very surprised that jellyfish overpopulation is a thing since it's on almost every family's dining table.

    • @pierrex3226
      @pierrex3226 Год назад

      What's the water content? How do you cook it?

    • @WanderTheNomad
      @WanderTheNomad Год назад +5

      @@pierrex3226 I think Goldthread has a video about how jellyfish is eaten in China. I'd post the link, but links seem to get comments automatically hidden or removed on many youtube channels.

    • @antonzhdanov9653
      @antonzhdanov9653 Год назад

      I dunno. Is absolutely any jellyfish can be cooked? Even poisonous ones?

    • @null_pointer_deref
      @null_pointer_deref Год назад

      @@antonzhdanov9653 No, only some species. Look it up in Wikipedia, it's actually well documented.

    • @granienasniadanie8322
      @granienasniadanie8322 6 месяцев назад

      In the kettle obviously, obviously.@@pierrex3226

  • @ljka
    @ljka Год назад +425

    I love how it began with a simple scientific exploration of jellyfish -sea turtle relationship then escalated to social and political awareness

    • @tangrunhua
      @tangrunhua Год назад

      All environmental problems are, in their essense, social-political problems.

    • @Pavlovsobaka
      @Pavlovsobaka Год назад +6

      Everything has to be political nowadays

    • @royallebanini9375
      @royallebanini9375 Год назад +37

      @@Pavlovsobakabecause politics affects every aspects of our lives whether we realize it or not

    • @tangrunhua
      @tangrunhua Год назад +17

      @@Pavlovsobaka There isn't a single moment in history when everything is not political.

    • @simrin2002
      @simrin2002 Год назад +6

      I knew it as soon as they talked about sea turtles and it was absolutely necessary to go off on that tangent.

  • @Wishkeirs
    @Wishkeirs Год назад +8

    Cant believe my childhood source of stock knowledge is still spitting fax

  • @uzairnabimemon
    @uzairnabimemon Год назад +5

    Seeing Sea Turtles as an unlikely protector reminded me of Gamera.

  • @vincejoshuamartinez2409
    @vincejoshuamartinez2409 Год назад +7

    I hope this gets viral. To the point where it can influence policy makers. ❤

  • @anmolp006
    @anmolp006 Год назад +14

    the knowledge which our education system can't give-

    • @tetrisnstuff8881
      @tetrisnstuff8881 Год назад +6

      probably cuz they don't want you talking about jellyfish at your job interview /j

  • @melaniegilbert3226
    @melaniegilbert3226 Год назад +1

    The thought of a sea of jellyfish will give me nightmares for weeks. Thanks.

  • @addison3804
    @addison3804 Год назад +20

    The fact that they are the oldest living creatures before the dinosaurs ever lived, them taking over the world is likely to happen. Not even a meteor can stop them 😭

  • @earthling_parth
    @earthling_parth Год назад +2

    The starting quote from Crush in Finding Nemo sent me wheezing 😂😆

  • @ARedFeather
    @ARedFeather Год назад +68

    How am I here so early?

  • @lawnmower5197
    @lawnmower5197 Год назад +1

    Look at how caring that fisherman looks at the end.

  • @jirou6228
    @jirou6228 Год назад +4

    Im so glad my country eat Jellyfish and make delicious Jellyfish lol

  • @NoLimitsKing
    @NoLimitsKing Год назад +54

    So basically its a race between A.I. 🤖 & Jellyfish🪼 for who can overtake humanity the fastest 😅

    • @MC-nf3js
      @MC-nf3js Год назад +4

      There's always nukes if all else fails.

  • @thanos2101
    @thanos2101 Год назад +3

    Meanwhile in Jellyfish-Tube there's a video dealing with the issue of the rapidly growing human population

  • @patorikku4life
    @patorikku4life Год назад +9

    The irony is that, the jellyfish are just doing in the sea what humans are already doing on land. And I bet we are increasing and destroying at a faster rate. :(

    • @K4R3N
      @K4R3N Год назад

      what if there is a land version of the leatherback turtle? Just waiting for its moment. WHAT IF... 👽

    • @metal_pipe9764
      @metal_pipe9764 Год назад

      ​@@K4R3Nif there was we extincted it already

    • @aaamogusthespiderever2566
      @aaamogusthespiderever2566 6 месяцев назад

      @@K4R3Nwe actually do already have something like that, natural disasters

  • @Brambrew
    @Brambrew Год назад +1

    Gotta love the Finding Nemo quote in the beginning 👌

  • @logantrimble006
    @logantrimble006 Год назад +63

    This is why we need to protect all sea turtles. Without them, you wouldn't even be able to go to the beach.

    • @FrikknPr0
      @FrikknPr0 Год назад

      And when you eat fish you are contributing to the deaths of sea turtles as they get caught in these trawler nets that are left in the ocean. So go vegan and quit eating fish.

  • @jansmix6033
    @jansmix6033 Год назад +9

    Jellyfish boom is indeed a large problem connected with global warming. I was always kinda scared of them and an idea of sea filled with jellyfish seems nightmarish. Though I don't really want all jellyfish to disappear, nature and it's diversity is beautiful but I support protecting of sea turtles as jellyfish natural predator.

    • @antonzhdanov9653
      @antonzhdanov9653 Год назад +1

      Global warming is not a main factor. The main factor is relatively recent (somewhere from 60es progressively with continuation of development till today and mass spread of technology around the world in 80es-90es) intensification of agriculture with mass use of nitro fertilizers. They are vital for better and faster growing of plants, though, washes out from soil into water and from rivers into ocean, where ramp up massively a growth of algae consumed by marine animal life. And jellyfish is just the most rapidly breeding species catching up with explosion of marine plant life growth. Though, global warming definitely helps making their breeding lands wider. And the problem here, that jellyfish is not preferred meal for most marine predators, turtles being likely the only one highly adapted to their consumption. An due to that, in future likely there will be a quite bad explosion in growth of relatively fast breeding predatory fish which can use a jellyfish as a meal, but just in case of hunger, preferring other species as their meal, likely driving them to extinction. And while jellyfish multiplies in numbers on yearly basis, turtles need decades for yach generation to grow.
      So indeed, before turtles catch up in numbers, what likely won't be a matter for whole 21th century, we would likely have seas and oceans overgrown with algae forests and stuffed with jellyfishes. Both are notorious for their poisonous kin.
      Limiting production of nitro-fertilizers is possible, though, replacements are less natural for environmental cycle, harder to produce, less effective and more harmful for nature while susceptible to lead to the same issue. So far the best angle to solving this issue is better food processing and larger variety of food products in consumption. Bcs, "only" 11% of population suffers from hunger 20 is underfed and around 60% suffers from malnutrition due to bad diet habits mostly inspired by food products cost disparity, while 30% of all food products rot before finding their consumer. So, refrigerating, dried up packaged food processing and reprocessing of expiring products (expiring ham to frozen pizzas or expiring milk into cheese e.g.) should be largerly promoted making it accessible to the most vulnerable economically people solving at least hunger issue.
      Imo, limiting access to fertilizers is wrong practice as hurts farming in general, as well as usually farmers in poor countries suffer from it mostly due to shut down of programs aimed to grow their efficiency due to application of modern technologies in their industry. Yeah, big food corporations are totally not pummeling their concurrence....
      So much better promoting better food storage, processing and healthy varied diets (a call for vegetarians actually. They destroy planet ecology by promoting only vegetation as food source, so higher need of arable lands (so, deforestation either) and fertilizers, so higher amount of fertilizers into oceans, ruining their ecosystem stability more). We are producing more than enough food for everybody already. We fail to deliver.

    • @ShakaZoulou77
      @ShakaZoulou77 Год назад

      Didn't you never wonder all the protection towards the sea turtles, but their numbers can't really increase. Maybe protecting a nest at al costs from natural predators, smooth the sand path for the babies, incubate them outside the beach pick up any baby who runs in the wrong direction, don't leave predators to feast on them all of that isn't really a biological protection of a species which evolve to spend high metabolism to produce thousands of eggs.

    • @null_pointer_deref
      @null_pointer_deref Год назад

      @@antonzhdanov9653 I think you have failed to notice that a great portion of the agricultural production goes to feed livestock. So no, vegetarians aren't making the world worse, lol.

  • @TristanSamuel
    @TristanSamuel Год назад +6

    The easiest way to prevent jellyfish is to carve stones that can whistle and plunge them deep in the abyss, because jellyfish love music!
    (For those who don't get it, it's a SpongeBob reference.)

  • @mtpender69
    @mtpender69 Год назад +3

    Jellyfish: "I fear no man, but that... Thing... It scares me."

  • @toni4729
    @toni4729 Год назад +10

    I can't help it, I had to smile when he called them jellies. My mind looked at a supermarket type jelly. Imagine that swimming around in the sea.

    • @oksowhat
      @oksowhat Год назад +5

      to be fair, both are around 95% water

    • @thenovicenovelist
      @thenovicenovelist Год назад +5

      Well, according to SpongeBob SquarePants, jelly comes from milking jellyfish like a cow 😆

    • @toni4729
      @toni4729 Год назад

      @@thenovicenovelist Good one!

  • @odoylerules360
    @odoylerules360 Год назад +3

    This should be the immediate answer readily avalilable whenever anyone asks why protecting sea turtles is important.

  • @xXTheBennyXx
    @xXTheBennyXx Год назад +2

    Human activity need to be put under control not the jellyfish. The jellyfish is just a byproduct of our actions

  • @nunyobidness2358
    @nunyobidness2358 Год назад +9

    This is exactly why I keep a whale shark in my living room!

    • @K4R3N
      @K4R3N Год назад +1

      I keep two, in case the first one dies

    • @nunyobidness2358
      @nunyobidness2358 Год назад +1

      @@K4R3N now that's just silly

    • @K4R3N
      @K4R3N Год назад

      @@nunyobidness2358 ok when the jellyfish surround you don't come crying to me 😭

    • @nunyobidness2358
      @nunyobidness2358 Год назад

      @@K4R3N will you at least pee on my stings?

  • @numidia-n2w
    @numidia-n2w Год назад +1

    THE BEST RUclips CHANNEL IN THE WORLD

  • @huette
    @huette Год назад +15

    Your videos are always great, but the artwork in this one is probably the most beautiful one so far ❤

  • @dougmhd2006
    @dougmhd2006 Год назад +3

    The background music I would've loved to hear on this video is...
    "The Jellyfish Song" by Caroline Konstnar. Here's the opening lyrics:
    "Some say jellyfish are lazy,
    but I don't think their lives are all that crazy,
    Soft-bodied sea creatures,
    showing off their curvy features.."
    There are a couple of 'family-unfriendly' words beyond that point that might need to be bleeped out, but it's a great lo-fi tune nevertheless.😊Check it out right here on RUclips.

  • @adventureswithneville1385
    @adventureswithneville1385 Год назад +1

    I ate jellyfish in Manhattan, NY 2 years ago! It was delicious!!

  • @wa5657
    @wa5657 Год назад +4

    love love love how sea turtles are portrayed as an eldridge nightmare (to jellies) by animation :D

  • @Levi_yeager
    @Levi_yeager Год назад +4

    The fact they have such a cute name but aren't cute at all is concerning

  • @kaunghlamyat
    @kaunghlamyat Год назад +2

    ah yes,jelly fish,the one i though it was made out of jelly in my childhood

  • @ccooper8785
    @ccooper8785 Год назад +4

    and here was me prepping for the coming of the crab overlords....

  • @Densuii
    @Densuii Год назад +4

    Just wait until there are jellyfish that use a plastic casing, then it's over for those pesky turtles.

  • @lecoeurbaptiste9830
    @lecoeurbaptiste9830 Год назад +3

    TED-Ed how do they eat no more than 1000 metric tons through their 50 year lifespan (18250 days) given that this number of 0.4 ton of jellyfish a day ? Cause otherwise It would rather be like roughly 7300 tons ? Maybe I did not understood, and still I really like this episode thanks to you guys !

  • @matth9254
    @matth9254 Год назад +3

    Last year while diving an underwater canyon in Honduras I swam through a jelly and it startled me and I slapped it…… suddenly its jelly buddies surrounded me and stung me. Ruined the rest of the trip.

  • @edgychico9311
    @edgychico9311 Год назад +1

    Jellyfishes overpopulating entire sea in the whole wide world.
    Sea turtle : *"It's free real estate"*

  • @ThemeticulousRealtor
    @ThemeticulousRealtor Год назад +5

    Before I clicked on this, my initial thoughts were " I thought sea turtles do feed on jellyfish?" 😅

    • @metal_pipe9764
      @metal_pipe9764 Год назад

      My initial thought was "land could definitely stop jellyfish" my second thought was "mola-molas"

    • @metal_pipe9764
      @metal_pipe9764 Год назад

      Also the other person is 100% a scam

  • @Hexstream
    @Hexstream Год назад +1

    "I like turtles!" boy was right all along!

  • @dragonluvver975
    @dragonluvver975 Год назад +2

    I believe one of the sources of the problem isn't just tied to people littering, but companies purposefully making cheap and non-biodegradable products that people consume far more quickly than they degrade. Sometimes it isn't about changing your lifestyle, its about charging those responsible and making them change. The same goes for veganism. A lot of people wouldn't be vegan if animals weren't treated so poorly by companies. Change the COMPANIES not the PEOPLE.

  • @God..of..infinity
    @God..of..infinity Год назад +3

    Make a movie about Mutant jelly fish.

  • @Cresc3n1
    @Cresc3n1 Год назад

    Let me be honest, I don't care about any of these. I am just here to appreciate the art. And its amazing.

  • @Vugen18
    @Vugen18 Год назад +18

    This is one of the first time ever someone who is talking about saving the environment also takes into consideration that ppl living on the edge of poverty like peru etc cant just "stop fishing" and die... and that they cant be the solution when they are only thinking about surviving. Its easy to say u want to save the environment if u only have to stop using plastic bags and turn of ur lights when u leave ur house when u come from a first world country.

  • @SMToonLarvaHeroes-9898
    @SMToonLarvaHeroes-9898 Год назад +1

    I pray you’ll find the courage to start over. Stay blessed guys!! 🙏🏼

  • @jimmysgameclips
    @jimmysgameclips Год назад +3

    I stopped buying fish years ago, little LEDs aren't going to stop the fishing industrys destruction

  • @MartinGroßkreuz
    @MartinGroßkreuz Год назад +2

    Jellyfish translates to “Mother of seas” in my language, Turkish. Well, now I get the reason behind it.

  • @lindildeev5721
    @lindildeev5721 Год назад +14

    That could be the theme of an animated movie: a group of fishes protected by one old turtle and one decides they should take part of the conflict beetween their old protector and the Medusa Gang.

  • @wrahttia
    @wrahttia 5 месяцев назад +1

    Leatherback's esophagus is really vicious looking; good thing they're only terrible for the jellies.

  • @koriw1701
    @koriw1701 Год назад +6

    I saw a special about a year ago that stated definitively how jellyfish overwhelmed the sea of Japan. Evidently, when fishermen would encounter these animals in their nets, they would chop them into pieces, not knowing that they were essentially helping them to breed asexually. Each part that was chopped apart, turned into a brand new jellyfish! It took them *years* to figure out this mistake. And, as is par for the course, they *did not remove all those jellies* preferring to allow "nature to take its course," which it did; by making so many that the fish and wildlife agencies in Japan were *forced* to step in and start pulling tons up out of the ocean.
    Though they turned off the cycle by using them as turtle food in the zoos, as well as using the others as fertilizer! What a unique response to something that had a curative solution!

  • @langolier9
    @langolier9 9 месяцев назад

    Of all the things that were tearing down the world now I can add jellyfish something I never considered before gosh darn it

  • @muthanna8804
    @muthanna8804 Год назад +4

    some heroes don't wear capes .....they have shells💪

    • @K4R3N
      @K4R3N Год назад

      umm..did u even watch the ninja turtles movie? We know this!

    • @muthanna8804
      @muthanna8804 Год назад +3

      @@K4R3N I know you know this and I want you to know it more

    • @muthanna8804
      @muthanna8804 Год назад +5

      @@K4R3N some heroes don't wear capes....they have shells💪

    • @nordicnostalgia8106
      @nordicnostalgia8106 Год назад +1

      Heroes in a half shell

    • @amushakya91111
      @amushakya91111 Год назад

      @muthanna8804 *insert overused joke with lame emoji* = how not to be cool

  • @anixmer
    @anixmer Год назад +1

    3:02 New fear unlocked: Leatherback turtle

  • @davidpak271
    @davidpak271 Год назад +4

    The best predator are actually humans

  • @mikemcconeghy4658
    @mikemcconeghy4658 10 месяцев назад

    What a nice idea - allowing poor people to work AND saving turtles. We need more solutions like that.

  • @howdoiplaythisgame1841
    @howdoiplaythisgame1841 Год назад +4

    Yeah the turtles can't do their job properly with plastic around

  • @ethanwoods1133
    @ethanwoods1133 Год назад

    I love how the quote in the beginning was from crush

  • @jashanestone
    @jashanestone Год назад +3

    I live, for a short time as a child, by the water in Far Rockaway and use to be mesmerized when i would spot jellyfish and horseshoe crabs (not actual crabs). As i gotten older? I then became a bit bothered and concerned by the sight of jellyfish because, it was so many of them!
    My assumptions was correct after seeing this.. I always felt this was a deeper problem. Not actually knowing it was us humans, AGAIN, "being human" that is the culprit.
    We are the WORSE species to this planet of ours. Yes, we have done good and continue to try to do good by this planet but, we have done WAY MORE BAD than GOOD.
    We can and need to do better. I love this planet and NO i am no "tree hugger" what ever that means but, this is my home and i love to keep my "home" in order for a peace of mind. 🤗❤🌍🌎🌏❤🤗

    • @jashanestone
      @jashanestone Год назад +2

      Sidebar: my friends and I, at the time, as kids, used to also THINK we were saving the horseshoe crabs by grabbing them by their stems and throwing them or placing them, past waist deep, back into the ocean. 😇
      *Only for me to learn, in recent years, that they were actually coming to land to lay their nest.* 😳🤦🏽‍♂️😔

    • @antonzhdanov9653
      @antonzhdanov9653 Год назад

      Yeah, from ecosystem point of view, humies are absolute cheaters, overgrown to a point, we are transforming it without breaking a sweat on worldwide scale. Before invade into any guy business its important to learn what is his business actually and how you would impact it. Its a quite universal rule of interaction. From a person next door to a weed growing in your yard.

  • @SalreixVonOtsuu
    @SalreixVonOtsuu Год назад +1

    i was absolutely not aware this was an issue, damn

  • @FantabulousFail
    @FantabulousFail 3 месяца назад

    Jellyfish haven't made it through all 5 mass extinctions and 500 million years of existence for nothing. They're so adaptive, it's amazing.

  • @pthein9245
    @pthein9245 Год назад +53

    It’s not the jellies fault… they’re just reproducing under favorable circumstances… just as mentioned in the video, it’s the humanity’s fault.. it always is

    • @Likkivi
      @Likkivi Год назад +1

      That's also the guilt and self-contempt power holders want you to hold.

    • @juhanaranta9445
      @juhanaranta9445 Год назад

      one could argue humans are also just thriving under favorable circumstances

  • @mccama19
    @mccama19 Год назад +2

    I love jellyfish, they're sooo cute! But they are little troublemakers so it's okay if we support sea turtles that help control jellyfish populations.

  • @theonepieceisreal2020
    @theonepieceisreal2020 Год назад +5

    Yey teenage mutant ninja turtles to the rescue!!

  • @Ron-rs2zl
    @Ron-rs2zl Год назад +2

    An army of cloned SpongeBobs and Patricks would help.

  • @aestheticstudio007
    @aestheticstudio007 Год назад +3

    Ted Ed Best animation yet !!! ❤

  • @respectableaf9061
    @respectableaf9061 Год назад +1

    Narrator: Is there anything that can keep these gelatinous creatures under control?
    Turtle: EAT THEM!!!!

  • @joshuaharper372
    @joshuaharper372 Год назад +3

    I certainly support protecting sea turtles, but given their slow reproduction and maturation rates compared to the ballooning population of jellyfish, sea turtles alone won't do much to fix the current imbalance.

  • @keithowen4875
    @keithowen4875 Год назад +1

    I believe the huge Ocean Sunfish also consume jellyfish almost exclusively.

    • @antonzhdanov9653
      @antonzhdanov9653 Год назад +1

      Yeap, but ocean sunfish gets use of them as their meal just in a case of hunger, preferring hunting another pray over jellyfish. Growing those would devastate ecosystem driving a lot of species into extinction, while turtles chew jellyfishes casually non-stop, preferring to stroll like a sea-cows and amass number of less nutrient ones over more pro-active hunting of something better.
      Though, indeed, the issue of turtles, they can't solve issue of jellyfish number explosion bcs they are too slow-breeders, some fishes are way safer bet.

  • @pedropistorius701
    @pedropistorius701 Год назад +5

    400 kg per day = 146 t per year = 7 000 t per 50 year lifespan, math does not checks out

    • @avinashbharti4366
      @avinashbharti4366 5 месяцев назад +2

      Cuz they don't whey 500kg from day one

    • @bluespics1317
      @bluespics1317 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@avinashbharti4366 the first answer after 7 months but 11hours before i wanted to say the same😂

    • @huhsaywhat
      @huhsaywhat 5 месяцев назад

      He said an average 500kg turtle consumes 400kg per day

  • @swellestorc975
    @swellestorc975 5 месяцев назад

    I love how we activly do everything we can to promote harmful things while destroying the things which stop said harmful things.

  • @THEGAMER-cc2eq
    @THEGAMER-cc2eq Год назад +3

    Everything is balanced until humans intrude

  • @svetlanadelight8969
    @svetlanadelight8969 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you 🙏

  • @C4MMU5
    @C4MMU5 Год назад +11

    Why does climate change only favour the worst species ☹️

    • @experience741
      @experience741 Год назад +5

      There is no worst species but survival of the fittest

  • @anixmer
    @anixmer Год назад +1

    New fear unlocked: Leatherback Seaturtles

  • @johnsamuel6096
    @johnsamuel6096 Год назад +2

    Finding Nemo hidden details

  • @Victoria-vd2li
    @Victoria-vd2li 6 месяцев назад +1

    im here for the jellyfish revolution

  • @mehedihasanevan3302
    @mehedihasanevan3302 Год назад +3

    I love how global warming and ecological disasters theaten all life forms except for helping some of the creatures like cockroach and jellyfish to overrun the planet.. 🥴

    • @itsarali
      @itsarali Год назад

      Yeah and mosquitoes too
      The creatures that thrive in polluted areas are usually the most damaging

  • @thisismetrying17
    @thisismetrying17 Год назад +2

    New fear unlocked 🔓

  • @hadoct1315
    @hadoct1315 Год назад +1

    Bruh how am I here right now

  • @irun_mon
    @irun_mon Год назад +2

    They use metric system in this video so they give the Americans an example with a grand piano as measurement 😂

  • @primenumberbuster404
    @primenumberbuster404 Год назад +2

    "Bros plotting" ☠️