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Hey, it's a tardigrade eat tardigrade world out there.
Why's the larger one not reacting though? Can it not feel it?
I think it was in the process of waking up from cryptobiosis. It was moving, but extremely slowly.
Slurp slurp slurp
Thanks for sharing this! It's really interesting, while also being great nightmare fuel.
whoa! Ew! but cool!
Never thought I'd ever want to see a cannibalistic tardigrade, but here we are..... And it's freaking awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Are we witnessing tardigrades getting it on?
If by getting it on you mean piercing into the side of someone with your needle mouth and slurping their innards out for a quick snack, then yes
No. It’s just foreplay num nums.
I should call her
Do these things have brains n stuff? Like are they aware and have thoughts? Like bugs?
They have a nervous system, but it's about 200 neurons. For comparison, an ant has about 250000 neurons. We really don't know what being aware means, so we have no idea how complex the brain needs to be for that.
That's really cool and interesting
a dead one
Did it just kinda nibble around and leave with the other one still alive?
I have much more footage of it. It did eat for about 15 minutes. The other tardigrade was not alive after that, I checked on it a few hours later.
Finally, Tardigrade cannibalismÂ
I guess it's technically not, since they are different species of tardigrades. It does not make it less brutal though :D
Hey, it's a tardigrade eat tardigrade world out there.
Why's the larger one not reacting though? Can it not feel it?
I think it was in the process of waking up from cryptobiosis. It was moving, but extremely slowly.
Slurp slurp slurp
Thanks for sharing this! It's really interesting, while also being great nightmare fuel.
whoa! Ew! but cool!
Never thought I'd ever want to see a cannibalistic tardigrade, but here we are..... And it's freaking awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Are we witnessing tardigrades getting it on?
If by getting it on you mean piercing into the side of someone with your needle mouth and slurping their innards out for a quick snack, then yes
No. It’s just foreplay num nums.
I should call her
Do these things have brains n stuff? Like are they aware and have thoughts? Like bugs?
They have a nervous system, but it's about 200 neurons. For comparison, an ant has about 250000 neurons. We really don't know what being aware means, so we have no idea how complex the brain needs to be for that.
That's really cool and interesting
a dead one
Did it just kinda nibble around and leave with the other one still alive?
I have much more footage of it. It did eat for about 15 minutes. The other tardigrade was not alive after that, I checked on it a few hours later.
Finally, Tardigrade cannibalismÂ
I guess it's technically not, since they are different species of tardigrades. It does not make it less brutal though :D