Swimming Anemone while diving Vancouver Island Canada

[BoY860]

Amazing i have seen them float around an aquarium but actually swim pretty cool

[Donut1298]

They are such interesting creatures

[Aeiutube]

I was just looking for the sports channel, Gary.

[1234whitley]

Haters gonna Hate.

[ManicRaider]

I thought those things were like plants.

[sfrance783]

ka anindot jud ani ui

[Mossclaw57]

this is actually kinda creepy...

[sandrateager]

Oh WOW!

Cool!

[1Administrater]

At 1:00 that freaked me out! But also made me say that is awesome at the same time.

[Niceboy3377]

i want to touch it :)

[LeLutinBanni]

HATER GONNA HATES

[littlerachelful]

we just watched this inzoology class last week/ My professor said the anemone was being stalked by the sea star so it was trying to sting it, that's why it kept flipping forward at first, then i guess it realized it's stings weren't doing anything so it "swam" away. I thought it was so cool because they don't even have brains, eyes, or anything like that but can tell when it's in danger...nature is cool!

[akhilennium]

anemone belly dance.........

[SeventhEve]

Now we know the truth: anemones aren't immobile, they're just LAZY.

[hernan0663530]

where did you dive exactly? and how cold was the water?! i used to live in Vancouver island back in 09, but never dived.

[djbarcode5xyz]

Looks like a severed swimming colon.

[welovetruth]

subhan allah

[milesflies]

neato

[venusflytrap99]

Cool

[theshadowaltz]

whats the name of this song? ._.

[Tekhsheen]

@theshadowaltz please can someone not ever ask that when there is something more important happening in the video?

[TheLeilisa]

Being tall such as 6ft is an advantage in swimming ?

[marnerbroman]

stop looking at fish porn!

[riderinblack57]

even if you didnt know they were an invertebrate its like c-mon everyone and their mom knows that plants are not capable of rapid and intellegent movement like this.... your all scarecrows...if you only had a brain!!!

[aopdjasldksa]

"Come at me bro"

FFFFFFFUUUUU

[to0lkj90]

am i the only one who finds this somewhat disturbing

[DaftLogic]

@to0lkj90 nope that makes 2 of us, but its disturbing in a cool way....

[buynanaimo1]

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[yungrampage77]

how in the world is it swimming, any biologists explain the type of locomotion, and muscles it uses thank u

[AcanLord]

@yungrampage77 its using a hydrostatic type of muscle system in the body column. it works by taking water in through the mouth and skin and venting the water in specific sequences. the muscle system is basicly a system of hollowed out tubual structures "septa". They are basicly hydraulic. It shouldent be suprising to see Anemones that can swim though, they are distantly related to jellyfishes. and in turn jellyfishes spend the first part of their lives structualy similar to them.

[xmazz31x]

@AcanLord It swam away because it felt the starfish with its tentacles and felt threatened... amazing creature I have one in my tank check out my vid if you care

[agenthelios1]

@xmazz31x Are starfish immune to the poison of the anemone? Someone told me that you could touch anemone with other object, but the only thing it will swim away from is a starfish.

[nemo220901]

@agenthelios1 no they just sting but no they are not and faster then u thibk if he got stong he would be of :)

[mquiroz90]

@nemo220901 is it werid how it moves like that

[yungrampage77]

how in the world is it swimming, any biologists explain the type of locomotion, and muscles it uses thank u

[cashcab1000]

funny

[lgnij]

i know what this is, is a wachu ma call it

[speedy9912]

such a weird animal=D

[mquiroz90]

@speedy9912 yea but i wouldnt touch it tho

[BenjamimRM]

Thank you so much for this video, I love this animals

[FernandoBustamanteee]

cool video.. this is kind of sophia

[Alidore4]

get outa there hese gona attack u! with his dick!

[tundrashaul2324]

That starfish could care less about those strikes he took from that nem.

[hangtight97]

Uggggh i HATE when ppl say anemones are plants, not animals" its correct but its brought up so much its almost instinct to know! we need to only hear it once and we are good.

[FiveGates]

Good lord, that's nightmare fuel....

[Fisharecool11]

Look at the way it moves. That's just awesome.

[HaloKiller1166]

i knew anemones could move but i didnt kno they could swim!!

[mquiroz90]

@HaloKiller1166 is it weird how they move

[tk20028]

That's fucking scary.

[webkinzlvr39]

canada has saltwater didnt know dat

[thelning]

Again, just incredible fottage.

Regards Tony

[Sofiaberardino]

EW THAT IS FRIGGIN SCARY

[dl432112311]

he looks like a penis, i wonder if he's self conscious...

[frogmaster421]

@dl432112311 no hes pretty big lol

[PurpleRazz]

@dl432112311 WHAT THE FUCK DOES YOUR PENIS LOOK LIKE!?!?

[inviteslockerz1]

when my teacher showed me this, i cracked up! I laughed so hard when it started swimming

[hangtight97]

Wooooooooow! I found this very amazing!! Guess the sand was not very stable.

[Badjinn]

awesome!

[Clubpenguin4456]

It looks like a Chambered Nautilus swimming!

[zlojteljonok]

O my balls,i smash his!

[samubabe101]

must be in cold water

[Daniel898992]

Simply fantastic

[jaylew1987]

lol its not stinging the starfish."Damn, screw the stinging and get to swimming. im outta here"

[chrisrrussell]

PS. Drinking red wine and watching this is priceless!!

[chrisrrussell]

isn't just amazing how such a creature has no brain, nervous system, and just knows when to move its body to protect himself from predators. OMG it just blows my socks offf1!!!

[AcanLord]

@chrisrrussell

Actually it does have a nervous system.

but its not a centralized one like ours, instead its more like a web, with no central ganglia for interpreting stimuli.

[SARGod]

@xbk62x - its of the genus Stomphia.

[PKarklouse]

reminds me of the episode in spongebob where he watches a dancing anemone on TV =D

[jman4208]

@PKarklouse it was porn he was watching but it was doing a belly dance

[gig603]

I know i said that on purpose to sea what some what people would say. It is a type of coral. I have a salt water fish tank so i know some stuff about saltwater life.

[NoChikenStrips]

@gig603 not corral, it's an invertebrate

[SARGod]

@NoChikenStrips - but coral are invertebrates... but it's still not a coral :D

[AcanLord]

@SARGod Well not quite. Actually anemones technically ARE corals.

they are part of the Cnidarian clade called Hexacorallia along with the stony corals ""Scleractinia" , Coralimorpharians, Ceranthids and zoanthids. Strictly speaking each one of these is a type of coral. The distinction between "coral" and Anemone is a paraphyletic one and thereby not natural.

[SARGod]

Fair call - I should have said it's not a stony coral, but as I was responding to the coral is not an invert comment above. I realise they are the same subclass, but for the general person - a coral is a reef builder - which spomphia is most definitely not!

[AcanLord]

@SARGod

i was just nitpicking.

in the common colloquial sense, no its not a coral. i just don`t like using paraphyletic classifications, they are not accurate. Yeah i know where you are going. you are referring to the Hermatypes right?

 True those are generally just scleractinians. Although interestingly there are a few hermatype Athecate hydrozoans like "hydrocorals" including the millepora "firecorals"

[ParadigmPenguin]

@gig603

You're an idiot.

[gig603]

@ParadigmPenguin How am i an idiot? "paradigmpenguin" is that some kind ok pokemon or somthing???

[FiestyCat86]

@gig603 Anemone aren't a TYPE of coral, they are predatory invertebrates. They are akin to, but NOT, corals in that they are sedentary creatures that tend to remain in one place through out their lives. Again...not corals.

Not nit picking, but I don't think its good to misinform when you are defending yourself.

[bubblevision]

fascinating! did it land on a sea urchin?

[gig603]

Wow, What a neat looking fresh water plant!

[CuteRaccoon14]

It moved! :O 5/5 starz!

[thalazar]

wow..thats so weird...cooooooool

[123Polopen321]

spongebob saw that

[xxGingerminger]

LOL I remember that episode

[monsoycortz]

Very rare sight!!

[sowrongitsright05]

you should have had techno music in the background, it would be more fitting than that that ambient..crap..

[Almost2old4this]

omg...so intreiging

[kadeywow]

That's incredible... and at the same time, very creepy. It's such an alien movement, very foreign to the way things move on land.

Very nice video.

[pgiuliana]

that is soooooo coool!! so cutee how it gooooz back and 4th and bakkk and 4thh!! hahaha cutiee madness!~~

[youmantube22]

amazing. you always think of them as plants and then boom they start acting like animals!

[otiz357]

I guess you might think of them as plants if you are completely retarded. Those of us that aren't recognize them as animals because they are in fact animals.

[youmantube22]

those of us that know how to type, can also make sense. please revise your comment so that i can make some sense of it.

[musicalrebellion]

@otiz357 have you ever seen a worm jump away?

some things are purpose built and this is (was) one of them.

[musicalrebellion]

@otiz357

have you ever seen a worm "jump" away instead of dig?

the fact of the matter is that some thing are purpose built and the anemone is (was) one of them.

[kertbert1]

@otiz357 Even so it looks pretty neat to see something like that swimming. I only see them attached. Now I'll think and look more closely.

[maddie9696]

wow , the only other time i havhe seen them is in my science book and on finding nemo , but they didnt swim , so that was pretty cool .

[southindian59]

wow.

[minisergod]

wow

[wingsonwater]

Amazing! Just incredible... (and weird).

[Poot94]

Anemones are the most bad-ass creatures on the face of the earth... besides mushrooms.

[Cnidarious]

mushroom the fungi or mushroom the coralimorpharian?

[maddenedcow]

I could almost imagine the anemone thinking, "oh snap, STARFISH!"

(I'm pretty sure the starfish was gonna get around to eating the anemone eventually)

[kotk05]

That Anemone is a real go-getter!

[artemia15]

This reminds me of my friend.

[UltimateDorito]

Um... what?

[artemia15]

...don't ask.

[maddie9696]

haha , weird ?

[jackdal39]

ha funny how it swims

[bonez201]

thats mad fucking weird and creepy. i dont think my girl will like shit like that i have to take anemone's of the list. hell.. i dont even like it. good video though.

[Cnidarious]

Eh not all anemones are able to do this.

Just a few.

All however are able to walk, clone themselves and regenerate from just a small amount of tissue.

Some are very hard to keep alive while others are not.

[ROYALNOZGUL]

It was only dancing... is it weird or what? Geesh leave it alone.

[abtuben]

great footage

[froggyfanatic]

that really cool

[immitationation]

amazing