True Facts: Freaky Nudibranchs
Cuz the ocean is weird.
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CREDITS:
written and voiced by Ze Frank
thanks to Patreon supporter Sydney Brown for the Pikachu Swiffer line that she left in a comment. Join the community! It’s fun!
Hal Brindley
Hal has an amazing vid of a botfly on his channel… sooooo gross.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFpC5ryzit5KLY-0Ku24jKw
Dr. Jeffrey Goddard
, William Goddard
Dr. Goddard and his son were very generous with their time and footage! Gave me some great notes so I didn’t get my facts bungled!
msi.ucsb.edu
Dr. Jamie Seymour
Dr. Seymour has captured some of the most remarkable footage of nematocysts firing I have ever seen. Ptowwww.
Tropical Australian Stinger
Research Unit (TASRU)
Bocas Del Toro Research Station
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Thank you to the Smithsonian and to Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta for the wonderful image of the unexploded nematocyst.
Dr. Louise Page :
University of Victoria
Dr. Page’s footage of the veligers (Melibe) were a lifesaver. I wish I had more time to spend on their fantastic lifecycle.
Dr. Leslie S Babonis
: Whitney Laboratory for Marine
Bioscience
Dr.Babonis has the coolest job. Firing lasers to trigger nematocyst firing!
Phil Lemley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdossfwVHm0
Phil was so generous to allow me the use of his attacking rainbow nudi…yeah the proctologist…
Dr. Marta Pola Perez
(CIBC-UAM)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Dr.Perez has looked at the possibility of self fertilization in Nudis – and you never know!
Costasiella footage courtesy of David Palfrey/Hydra Productions Film, Photo and Training, Indonesia
www.hydraproductions.com @hydra.underwater
David let me use his Shaun the Sheep slug footage, which is really some of the best footage I have seen of this cute slug.
WetTraveler
http://youtube.com/c/wettraveler
Pinneng was kind enough to share his Pikachu footage… Quick attack! Electric Shock!
Elyse Messick captured nematocysts firing as a student and I tracked her down on linked in!
Thank you to the following photographers that uploaded their work on Flickr with commercial licenses! A huge help to people like me:
Greg Schechter: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregthebusker
NOAA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib/
Chika Watanabe : https://www.flickr.com/photos/chikawatanabe
Kris-Mikael Krister : https://www.flickr.com/photos/148835878@N08
Christian Gloor : https://www.flickr.com/photos/christian_gloor
Additional Footage from ShutterStock and Envato Elements
Music by Tom Moore: https://soundcloud.com/querflote
“Trying to tongue sponge the crumbs out of a Pringles can” 😂😂😂
“butt smuggling hand grenades” is probably the best analogy i’ve heard for an animal’s defense mechanism
“It’s like if you could transport pop rocks to the tip of your….”
[Insert joke about the banned pop rocks add here]
Paul Hollier,
I just had a memory from the eighties, but Ze has too many underage subscribers to share it. Pop rocks are overrated as a sex enhancer. Zotz don’t do much, either.
@Beach Girl People eat Tide Pods. God help us all, if they find out about all the pretty pink cotton candy up in the attic!
Due to your name, I assume you’re familiar with at least one of these.
What pop rock ad was banned and why? (pop rocks are not sold here..so no pop rock ads)
Sizzlik There was a pop rocks ad whom’s plot was a high school girl giving her teacher a blowjob to get her grades up, and she filled her mouth with pop rocks to get him to climax quicker.
Whenever he says “floppy floppy” and “fleshy fleshy”, I feel like my soul has been cleansed.
Yes
“Floppy fleshy bits”
+
Also little BEBES
Agreed
I can’t explain it but just hearing him say Babies makes me laugh, every single time
I like floppy floppy, too… he always tries to plug that in somehow… cracks me up!
We need a compilation
Craig B behbees
I ruined your 123 likes sorry lol😅
That’s how ZeFrank do.
5:41 “This one is perfectly camouflaged as an old man with his hands behind his back inspecting his garden. ‘Damned slugs, eating my azaleas!’ That’s irony. ‘You’d better stop before I assault you!’ That’s a dad joke.”
Man there’s a lot going on there.
And that’s how the nudibr—
*Advertisement starts*
*Waits patiently for 5 seconds*
*Skip ad*
—branch do.
Aw yiss
You probably don’t care but, I hAVe PrEmIuM
I don’t even know how I got premium i never payed a penny
I went back after the ad to get the full effect
It was perfect 👌👌 I died 😂
So clever lol (Also some YT’ers can place their own ads. I think he did it on purpose 😛 lol)
“It strikes with the vigor of a Proctologist who lost his wedding ring!” HJDGJISPFDJLOSKD:LLDKLSJ
I feel sorry for anyone that was eating or drinking, when he said that line; and I am even sorrier for anyone unlucky enough to be standing / sitting anywhere in the “Splash Zone”, when they explosively re-distributed the food a/o drink in their mouth.
It took a moment to realise what that meant, until I imagined the scenario.
I have *got* to stop reading comments before watching the video.
I think that was actually the anemone retracting, with the nudibranch attached
What
“Get out of your shell, and untwist.” — ZeFrank
Words to live by.
“Who knows what kind of crazy beautiful thing you might become – ist”😄😂
A dad joke from zefrank?! Oh no, hes evolving.
The first twelve seconds caught me completely off-guard.
“they teach you” oh no no no, they immediately put you in that form, without warning or permission.
“Floppy-Floppy Spikey Things”
“Fleshy-Fleshy”
“The Swimmy-Swimmy”
“Beh-Beh”
😂🤣
It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
Hidey-hole
@Carl Henry Lico you spelt it wrong
It’s Highdee-Hewl
😏
But don’t feel bad
I spelt “Thay SwemeA-SwemeA” as “The Swimmy-Swimmy”
“yes, that one does look like a Pikachu that got busy with a swiffer” this got me
“The nudibranch’s genitals are located near its head on the right side of its body…because of course they are”
Well land slugs are like that too. It is near their head and when they do their little slug dance their glowing genitals sometimes get stuck and they just break them off and regrow as well. Lol.
To be fair, ours are right next to our anus which (if I may steal from a great comedian) is like putting an amusement park next to a waste treatment plant.
…and for birds, it’s even worse, because they can be in the same hole.
Piccolo?
“…this is important because their eyes totally suck.” 😂😂
“F” is for friends who do things together
“U” is for you and me!
“N” is for anywhere and anytime at all!
Down here in the deep blue sea
“F” is for fire that burns down the whole town.
“U” is for uranium…bombs!
“N” is for NO SURVI-IVORS, when you-
Lolol
Most DIABOLICAL YouTube Ad placement EVER: “And that is how the nudibrach…” [ad for an effing bank] “…do.”
I got an ad for an online Christian university.
I’m an Atheist.
: /
“Every time you ask ‘Why?, evolution adds or removes a nipple from a cat.”
You are a genius, sir
“That’s like trying to tongue sponge the crumbs out of the bottom of a can of Pringle’s” 4:57
LMFAO!