Daniel Stoupin, a marine biology student at the University of Queensland in Australia, gave us a wonderful video to get to know and better observe these animals that build coral reefs, play a crucial role in the biosphere and whose daily life we still know too much.
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A hard piece of coral turns into one flexible creature, whose protuberances move towards ocean currents. These living beings, like sponges, are very mobile creatures, but their motion is detectable only using different time scales than ours.
Luckily Daniel Stoupin, marine biology student at the University of Queensland in Australia, he gave us a wonderful video to get to know and better observe these animals that build coral reefs, play a crucial role in the biosphere and whose daily life we still know too much.
To make it happen, he spent nine months of work and took 150.000 photos. The result is a video just over three minutes in length. Entitled “Slow Life”, focuses on a number of corals, sponges and other sea creatures. Their daily functions were immortalized over a period of several hours. The frames were then accelerated to create a time-lapse sequence.
“All living things are dynamic, mobile and have basically the same properties of motion as us. They grow, reproduce, spread, move towards energy source and away from unfavorable conditions. However, their speed is out of sync with our narrow perception. Our brains are wired to understand and follow fast and dynamic events better, ”explains the researcher.
The colorful, bizarre and very important marine life, then, is particularly mysterious. “Time lapse reveals a different world full of movement and hypnotic. My idea was to make coral reef life more spectacular and therefore closer to our awareness, ”adds Stoupin, who says he hopes to raise awareness of the devastating impact of human beings and to desist those who remove parts of the reef for the "outrageously expensive hobby" of keeping private aquariums.
Roberta Ragni
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