Dicranophorus Rotifer About to Hatch From Its Egg

Movies

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About to hatch....dynamic movement of chewing apparatus......
rothatchtroph_3764.DIVX    26 seconds      4.3 MB

Lots of movement and red eye spots visible.......
rothatchmovement_3779.DIVX    34 seconds      5.4 Mb

And it hatches......feet first
rothatching3792.DIVX         43 seconds           6.9 Mb

First stretch out of the egg......
rothatchheadout_3814.DIVX   21 seconds     3.5 Mb

(Soon I will process these movies in Quicktime format for Macs.)

Any comments and/or corrections welcome.
 
Thomas Ashcraft
New Mexico

ashcraft(at)heliotown.com

DivX movies should play in Windows Media Player if you have the most recent free software updates.

Otherwise a free DivX player can be downloaded from :
http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/download/index.php

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Meiji microscope and objectives
Canon S3 IS camera