True Facts: Freaky Nudibranchs

Cuz the ocean is weird.
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 has an amazing vid of a botfly on his channel... sooooo gross.

Dr. Jeffrey Goddard: Marine Science Institute, UCSB; Midland School
William Goddard: Midland School
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!

Dr. Jamie Seymour: Tropical Australian Stinger
Research Unit (TASRU)
Dr. Seymour has captured some of the most remarkable footage of nematocysts firing I have ever seen. Ptowwww.


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 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
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. 

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:

Additional Footage from ShutterStock and Envato Elements

[matthewwiegert]

Zefrank went from killing the YouTube game to MIA and then straight back to killing the YouTube game. And that is how a Frank do.

[GlassCastle]

“ You see these cows?. . . I tricked you, they’re not cows, they’re nudibranchs.”

[mickjackson]

It's like David attenbrough and Morgan freeman had a child who became a stand up zoology comedian

[jdd]

"They can only see light and dark, so the nudibranch will never be able to appreciate the beauty of its own decoration". That made me think of Beethoven not being able to hear his own compositions.

[eomersimbajon]

Me: is this another type of slug?

Zefrank: *yesn't*

[afrog]

"that one looks like a Pikachu got busy with a Swiffer"
If all narration was like this, everyone would know a lot more about nature xD

[alewiina]

"This one is perfectly camouflaged as an old man with his hands behind his back, inspecting his garden"

That is the perfect description of that nudie, I'm very impressed haha

[sauceyeti]

We caught a Spanish Dancer at the beach yesterday, I still don't know how it got passed the tight netting which prevented fish from entering the swimming area, but it was there and we caught it. It was the most vibrant critter I've ever laid my eyes and hands-on. We figured that if anybody else saw it, they'd immediately report it to the lifeguards there who were notoriously unforgiving to any fish that slips through that safety net, let alone a rarely seen wild sea slug. So I swam as far as the nettings would go and gently tossed the lil' guy out to freedom...

[WillShakes]

*"SCARY CLOWN SAYS RUN AWAY."*

That alone is legendary.
Zefrank1, you've done it again.

[yerghaizverot]

"Every time you ask 'Why?', evolution adds or removes a nipple from a cat."

You are a genius, sir

[jpegwarrior]

"This one is perfectly camouflaged as an old man with his hands behind his back inspecting his garden."

This narration is perfect.

[craven]

The simile "like a proctologist losing their wedding ring..." killed me lol

[timsullivan]

Most DIABOLICAL YouTube Ad placement EVER: "And that is how the nudibrach..." [ad for an effing bank] "...do."

[yukeenakamura]

“Every time you ask why, evolution either adds or removes a nipple from a cat”

Was literally drinking water as he said that and now I have a floor to clean

[CzarownicaMarta]

"It strikes with the vigor of a proctologyst who lost a wedding ring" lmao, sir you are crazy, please never change.

[BinglesP]

This is the single video responsible for my years long nudibranch obsession. This is one of my favorite videos on the entire internet and I genuinely cherish it. I cannot thank you enough, Ze Frank. 💕

[MMUmland]

The one looking like an old man, with his hands behind his back, looking down at his garden.... I laughed so hard. It looked exactly like that! 😂

[twdjt]

“You thought they were cows. You must be like a real dum dum man.”

Why I am.

[kevincrady]

"Get out of that shell and untwist. Who knows what kind of crazy beautiful thing you might become?" Y'know, that's not bad life advice.

[ceaslug]

If full length documentaries had this many jokes with such a calm voice I would absolutely spend upwards of $50 per movie to watch them.