Tardigrades/Water Bears

Cool Facts About Animals

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we learn about a truly resilient animal, the tardigrade (aka the cutely-named moss piglet or water bear).

This animal can survive anywhere from the moon to a volcano to your own backyard. In its tun state, it can lie dormant for decades in a sort of zombie state. Very cool.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Cool Facts About Animals. Today we are doing a podcast about bears, a special kind of bear that lives in the water.
0:10.3	No, no, they're water jaguars, meow. Water bears! Water jaguars! Okay, let's decide on moss piglets.
0:18.2	Yeah, my idea. Okay. Before we get to that episode about water bears or tartar grades or moss piglets, though,
0:24.3	we have someone very special to think.
0:26.7	Thank you, Robbie so much for being our patron sponsor.
0:30.7	Yippee!
0:32.4	I'm going to use that money, ma'am, meow, so I can buy spider monkey burritos, ma'am, meow.
0:37.8	No, no, no, no, no.
0:39.1	What?
0:39.8	No, it's not for that. It's to help support the podcast.
0:43.6	Oh.
0:45.7	Thank you, anyway, ma'amia.
0:48.3	Thank you, Abby.
0:49.2	We really appreciate your support.
0:50.9	And anybody else who would like to become a Patreon sponsor, we will include a link to
0:55.0	that in our show notes for today. So with that, let's get on to water. Let's start out by finding out
1:05.1	what tardigrades look like. Teddy, you want to tell us? So there have a little hole at their, um, at their head,
1:13.6	and then there's eight legs, and on the eight legs, two, four claws, I mean, they're, um,
1:20.3	the size is one grain of sand. That's pretty small. Can you, so do you know what that hole is in the
1:26.1	front of their face, Teddy? Their mouth. Mm-hmm. Do you know what that hole is in the front of their face, Teddy?
1:32.8	Their mouth? Mm-hmm. Do you know what happens when it's time for them to eat? Um,
1:41.3	their eat? Teddy, what do you see what? Uh, they kind of like, like push their mouth out. It's kind of like a cylinder. Mm-hmm. And then they're attracted.
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