Now that I think of it, 15 minutes seems small, but my sense is that they move slowly according to our senses, but when they wish to, they can move quite a ways in a few minutes. I recall taking the movie and then realizing that they had moved out of frame fairly quickly, and only being able to use perhaps 1/4 of what I had shot.
Thanks. I was imagining something more on the order of 4 or 5 hours. I guess these little seastars move about faster than I had imagined. I'm impressed that they are able to digest the algae fast enough to be moving on to a new location so quickly.
Good questions! Unfortunately, the answers are lost in the mists of time. I make the movies by taking many stills and merging them. The stills take up a huge amount of space, and are deleted once the movie is made. I would guess I took a still every 2-6 seconds, and that the movie took perhaps 15 minutes.
Can you tell us the total duration of this clip in real time?
Also, what frame rate did you use?
This is a very nice video - I show it to my students in my general biology an invertebrate biology classes. I wish I had thought to shoot a video like this myself!
Ninja fish in background! :o
Dragonslayer10203040 2 months ago
It's PEACH!!
MilkyStreets 4 months ago
its amazing how seastars can spit out their stomachs to digest their food
woahannie95 10 months ago
OMG FACTS :)
Blahful100 10 months ago
Thumbs up if OMG Facts brought you here :)
sabrina4455 11 months ago 2
OMG FAFCTS!!!!
TheTOXICmahem 11 months ago
"NO...THIS IS PATRICK!!"
hussi434 11 months ago 24
thx for da info o do u happen to know where to get a starfish
dashah9 11 months ago
@dashah9 No, but I happen to know where to learn how to spell. School.
AznLiishii123 11 months ago
whats that species called
dashah9 11 months ago
@dashah9: No idea - they arrived on a piece of live rock. They're very small (less than an inch from tip to tip)
yajonbondy 11 months ago
@dashah9 they r called starfish
Francoladies 10 months ago
Now that I think of it, 15 minutes seems small, but my sense is that they move slowly according to our senses, but when they wish to, they can move quite a ways in a few minutes. I recall taking the movie and then realizing that they had moved out of frame fairly quickly, and only being able to use perhaps 1/4 of what I had shot.
yajonbondy 1 year ago
Thanks. I was imagining something more on the order of 4 or 5 hours. I guess these little seastars move about faster than I had imagined. I'm impressed that they are able to digest the algae fast enough to be moving on to a new location so quickly.
wcap07 1 year ago
Good questions! Unfortunately, the answers are lost in the mists of time. I make the movies by taking many stills and merging them. The stills take up a huge amount of space, and are deleted once the movie is made. I would guess I took a still every 2-6 seconds, and that the movie took perhaps 15 minutes.
yajonbondy 1 year ago
Can you tell us the total duration of this clip in real time?
Also, what frame rate did you use?
This is a very nice video - I show it to my students in my general biology an invertebrate biology classes. I wish I had thought to shoot a video like this myself!
wcap07 1 year ago
Starfish are so friggen weird lol
yet so cool... they're cute.
CarolsVideos 1 year ago
star fish are cute. i bet if we continue to dry them out and use them as ornaments they will come out of the sea and eat us all!
crimsonprankster 1 year ago 13
its adorable =D
ninds7 1 year ago
no eyes but what you are seeing is it extruding its stomach out of its mouth
NOLALongboards 1 year ago
@NOLALongboards Gotta correct you there, ace. Sea stars have simple eyes (ocelli) at the end of each arm.
Sardonicus1313 1 year ago
does starfish have eyes and mouth or anyting?
MSKittytanfrescas 1 year ago
@MSKittytanfrescas it has a mouth in the middle
badboyconor1998 1 year ago
is it trying to eat the glass?
sooperlightupthing 1 year ago
@sooperlightupthing no alge
badboyconor1998 1 year ago
hahah holy shit this is like the finding nemo starfish with dorry and nemo in the background
feastluva222 1 year ago
That was for real awesome
ledzepdog07 1 year ago
excellent video..post more .one of the best on the net .
Dave
dlindeman 2 years ago
thats its stomach coming out of its mouth.
Anzer666 2 years ago