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 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 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.
***** 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.
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.
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
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.
"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...
@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.
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.
***** 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 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!
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.
I would not define dissection as yanking various parts off the body. Understand the size of what they are dealing with would make a true dissection extremely difficult.
Insect dissection is so cool- I did a locust las semester at university, cut the gut apart to find out where digestion occurs via an enzyme assay. Fun!
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.
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.
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.....
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.
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'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?
***** 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 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.
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.
The stuff that you show in this channel to me is totally biology in its purest form! Studying directly how species co-evolve with each other is so fascinating. As I bio major I just can't get enough of this kind of stuff, and I am gradually starting to 'desensitize' myself from the 'gross' factor. :)
wow! thanks for the video! i just started learning stuff about ants, hemolymph instead of blood, no lungs, heart shaped like a tube, and a badass exoskeleton! facinating little alien creatures.
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.
Can the camera be connected to the dissecting scope so we can see the magnified (and clear) image of the work being done instead of the camera shooting from the side of the stage?
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)
holy shit I just watched a radiolab where they talked about ants and dissecting one and I was like how the fuck and then this comes a long a week or so later, I needed this so badly
Hey Emily - for not that much money you can get a dissecting scope that has a camera mount on it, so that you can take video of the objective view. It's super easy to set up, and would mean that we could see what was going on under the scope much more easily! (I'd hazard a guess that someone at the Fields Museum has one already). Just a friendly suggestion from a fellow scientist!
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.
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).
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! ~~~ 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?
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
I dissects flies with a BB pistol (without any BB's/ammunition)...get 3" away from them and pull the trigger, pieces everywhere. Easy and fast dissection and rid of the annoying noise.
The co-evolution of the microbiome that accompanies any animal raises interesting questions with regards to resurrecting extinct species. Say we were to bring back the wooly mammoth or a passenger pigeon. How could we recreate the intestinal microbe colonies that would be essential for the animals health and survival? Perhaps after going through all the trouble to resurrect the species we would find that it sickens and dies for the lack of a colony of gut bacteria that we are unaware of.
Apart from all this wonderful information my brain is currently processing about ants, i can't help but notice Emily's stunning earrings! @ - @ So pretty
Hello! I do not know if you will respond but I am a hs sophomore conducting a self-led research project for my lab class and school and I am trying to dissect an ant..... would it be possible to know what kind of tweezers are being used for this dissection?
Insects don't experience pain. For anyone wondering about the ethicacy of this procedure, keep in mind that pain (or suffering if that's what you are thinking) is a very complex response to stress, it is not something intrinsic to life, plants don't experience pain, fungi don't experience it either, do all animals experience it? No, we are still trying to figure out if fishes do experience pain in the same way we do. Insects do react to severe stress but that is not the same as suffering.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
This is basically alien abduction for the ants.
Cannot argue with that
...oh shit....this is so trippy to think about
Invasion 😂😂
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
🤣
Lol😂
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.
Loved to see some more magnified shots of the dissection as well as the cultures that are grown later!
Yes please!!!
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.
Oh. Dr. Moreau's final comments about how we are all ecosystems was amazing and really made me think. Wow.
Whenever I get a notification that there's a new brainscoop, I'll drop whatever I'm doing and watch it.
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!!
***** (╯°□°）╯ ┻━┻
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.
expectation: using state of the art microscopic scalpels or super fine lasers to dissect ant
reality: using regular tweezers and go "yoink"
I feel kinda bad for the other ants watching the dissection of their friend, knowing they’ll be next
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
One of the best educational channels on youtube.
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.
Honestly, I doubt I have the fine muscle control necessary to dissect something so small.
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 :-)
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
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!
I love these discussions. It's cool to hear science lovers talk shop. Great video!
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
WOW, I would never thought you could dissect an ant. That's pretty insane. :D
I would not define dissection as yanking various parts off the body. Understand the size of what they are dealing with would make a true dissection extremely difficult.
Dr. Moreau is both so educational and so engaging! Love this episode!
Insect dissection is so cool- I did a locust las semester at university, cut the gut apart to find out where digestion occurs via an enzyme assay. Fun!
We all did that casually as kids
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!
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.
I've never felt this bad for an ant
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.....
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
More videos like this one please! I like Corrie, she's got such a fun energy about her!
Fun fact: Ants don't feel pain.
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'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.
For a lady dissecting Ants, she has the most contagious smile on the channel lol
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
Them: use tools
Me: *nails*
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.
Been watching Brain Scoop all day. Happy to see something new!
Too cool! Thanks to you and Emily for another great episode!
The stuff that you show in this channel to me is totally biology in its purest form! Studying directly how species co-evolve with each other is so fascinating. As I bio major I just can't get enough of this kind of stuff, and I am gradually starting to 'desensitize' myself from the 'gross' factor. :)
What did I even do before knowing The Brain Scoop? Lovely episode!
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.
This is so cool! It is so interesting how much you can learn from the insides of ants. Bug videos are my favorite.
She must be amazing at Operation.
This was so interesting! Thank you for letting us see a bit of your work.
wow! thanks for the video! i just started learning stuff about ants, hemolymph instead of blood, no lungs, heart shaped like a tube, and a badass exoskeleton! facinating little alien creatures.
I should be studying for my finals! Oh well, time to binge watch the rest of these interesting videos!
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.
Can the camera be connected to the dissecting scope so we can see the magnified (and clear) image of the work being done instead of the camera shooting from the side of the stage?
I love Emily's look at 05:08 " All we are is bacteria colony" - Emily
my question before watching:
how the f*ck are you going to dissect an ant?!
😂😂😂💀💀
ANT LIVES MATTER. THE ANT DID NOT CONSENT
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I'd love to see one on dissecting mosquitoes.
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)
holy shit I just watched a radiolab where they talked about ants and dissecting one and I was like how the fuck and then this comes a long a week or so later, I needed this so badly
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
I wonder if Dr Moreau likes doing fatalities in Mortal Kombat
Always interesting videos, you never disappoint :D
it was more interesting than I thought it would be
I love this channel!
Dude every bad ass scientist at the field museum has kick ass tattoos
Hey Emily - for not that much money you can get a dissecting scope that has a camera mount on it, so that you can take video of the objective view. It's super easy to set up, and would mean that we could see what was going on under the scope much more easily! (I'd hazard a guess that someone at the Fields Museum has one already). Just a friendly suggestion from a fellow scientist!
I never realised how cute ants were
Everybody is suddenly an ant activist
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.
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).
3:47 My heart stopped
I imagine this is how it will be when aliens come to study us. "It's unfortunate for them."
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.
It's interesting to see someone using a dissecting microscope.
How about a Brain Scoop segment on those microscopes and what it's like to use one?
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....
I live in Panama! yay!
Tiniest Brain Scoop dissection ever?
Also, an interview with Corrie Moreau would be awesome, like Anna Goldman awesome!
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?
dissecting live ants is ok but with a any other animal it would be wrong right? because human logic
Where on the internet can I learn more about these ants, and Microbial ecosystems in general? Are there any more insects that can glide?
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
wow, how do you keep your hands steady enough to pick apart ants?
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.
Surgery on a ant within 10 seconds: Alright just gotta- FUCK WE LOST HIM!
when u squash an ant with ur finger, then smell ur finger, it smells nice as, why??
I dissects flies with a BB pistol (without any BB's/ammunition)...get 3" away from them and pull the trigger, pieces everywhere. Easy and fast dissection and rid of the annoying noise.
Worm eye balls..... CUTTTT thats a wrap people
The co-evolution of the microbiome that accompanies any animal raises interesting questions with regards to resurrecting extinct species. Say we were to bring back the wooly mammoth or a passenger pigeon. How could we recreate the intestinal microbe colonies that would be essential for the animals health and survival? Perhaps after going through all the trouble to resurrect the species we would find that it sickens and dies for the lack of a colony of gut bacteria that we are unaware of.
Apart from all this wonderful information my brain is currently processing about ants, i can't help but notice Emily's stunning earrings! @ - @ So pretty
Hello! I do not know if you will respond but I am a hs sophomore conducting a self-led research project for my lab class and school and I am trying to dissect an ant..... would it be possible to know what kind of tweezers are being used for this dissection?
What is the liquid in which you are disecting the ant.
Which preservatives you use?
I was impressed if we had a chance to take a look with the microscope
Insects don't experience pain.
For anyone wondering about the ethicacy of this procedure, keep in mind that pain (or suffering if that's what you are thinking) is a very complex response to stress, it is not something intrinsic to life, plants don't experience pain, fungi don't experience it either, do all animals experience it? No, we are still trying to figure out if fishes do experience pain in the same way we do. Insects do react to severe stress but that is not the same as suffering.
I have graduated from pulling live insects apart as a kid to thinking a little bit of Anesthesia should be explored. Personal Growth, yay me.
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.
2015: Disecting ants
2018: *DISECTING GRAPES*
Please, please post a list of your favourite books, Emily, :)!
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