Animation clip for "I Believe You" by Rotifer (off the album "Coach Number 12 of 11) Script & Illustrations: Robert Rotifer Animation: Lelo Brossmann

Robert Rotifer's tribute to Margerete Schütte-Lihotzky in music video format. The track is taken off his album "Coach Number 12 of 11", available via www.wohnzimmer.com

Long rotifer with 4 pronged tail long snout and fuzzy coat

Film mikroskopowy

Music video for Rotifer's song "Schengenländer Die!" (taken from the album "Before The Water Wars" - available via Wohnzimmer Records www.wohnzimmer.com) Produced by: Shock & Awe Video Productions www.shockandawe.at Directed by Lelo Brossmann & Stefan Csáky

Rotifers are tiny zooplankton (~250 microns, four times the diameter of human hair) that eat algae and in turn feed fish larvae, so they are vital to our ecology. Look at the Rotifer inside the "O". It has an egg sac attached to it's body and will rotate counterclockwise then clockwise, finally tearing the egg sac off it's body! These fascinating animals reproduce by cloning (parthenogenesis), giving birth only to females unless they are stressed, then they also give birth to males that can't eat, they are just there to fertilize eggs that can survive drying for up to 100 years.

Rotifer in action

Rotifer meets fast Copepodo.

Music video for Rotifer's song "Now That I'm Here" (taken from the album "Before The Water Wars" - available via Wohnzimmer Records www.wohnzimmer.com) Produced by: Shock & Awe Video Productions www.shockandawe.at Directed by Lelo Brossmann & Stefan Csáky

When I don't play banjo, I try to make time for a little microscopy. Actually, this little Philodina could live for another decade in this dessicated state. Don't be scared, these little guys are really little animals with specialized cells....about 1000 of them. Rotifers can be found in lakes, mud puddles, moist soil, mushrooms and tree trunks. Just another unsung link in the food chain. This was captured at 600X magnification and shot with a Nikon S2 on macro function. ,,,,,,enjoy!

A pious Rotifer attacked by vicious Paramecia protecting his life with prays.

this was originally a culture dish of stentors, but rotifers took it over.. see the result shot by: Esther Jang random comments by: Diana Lee and maybe Terry SeeToe? produced by Hunter College High School students

Video presentation on the Rotifer Philodina shot using a Nikon E200 Microscope

A rotifer happily devours its neighbors.

A stalkless vorticella, an ostrocod or "Seed Shrimp", and a Philodina rotifer are captured together in the same microscope view.

Rotifer and amoebae Microscope Will Wetzlar 100x Canon S50

http://www.theyshootmusic.com They Shoot Music Dont They video / Rotifer plays a special gig at Stadtpark in Vienna, January 2008 / see more on http://www.theyshootmusic.com

The same rotifer from the other clip. Corona retracted and moving in classic inch-worm fashion.

I got some water from a bird bath and looked at it under my microscope. There were tons of these rotifers in it, but what I'd like to know is why are mine red when the other ones I saw on youtube were clear. This is a video of a rotifer feeding, the two protruding parts at the front are how it feeds, the cillia scrape in bacteria and other food like a vacuum cleaner. This was taken at 100x magnification.

Several interesting things in one video. At the bottom right are a bunch of rotifer eggs. The one near the centre of the screen looks like it's almost ready to hatch. Looking at the two rotifers at the upper left, you can see how they 'irritate' each other and how one uses its 'feet' to move around.

Un rotífero despliega sus apéndices ciliados para alimetarse. A rotifer using its ciliated corona for feeding.

pramecios e rotiferas, ao som de Rise up

rotifer in a microscope

ROTIFERO BRACHIONUS EN ESTA OCASION CON HUEVOS EN ALGUNAS ESCENAS SE OBSERVA BIEN EL MASTAX -ESTOMAGO MASTICADOR- SE HAN EMPLEADO DISTINTOS TIPOS DE ILUMINACION

Two rotifers hanging on a piece of hair algae. Rotifers contract into their transparent cuticles when they find the external environment threatening (e.g. extremely low pH, drying environment). Only when they feel safe enough would they come out again.