Vincent Doumeizel
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And to be noted that plankton...
The word plankton is the same as the word planet.
I mean, the roots of the word plankton comes from the same roots as the word of planet.
And plankton are drifting in the ocean, just like the planet, our planet, is drifting in the universe.
You know, so that's a bit like this very small comes with a very large and a very big, but they are all the same.
I did not know that.
I thought plankton were just always microorganisms.
And when I think of plankton, I think of these wildly exotic and varied different types of microorganisms that don't really look like anything else.
Those sort of zooplankton that I'm thinking of, they are very important to how our entire planet functions.
Yeah, I mean, all plankton are very important to the way the planet is working, actually, which is why we are doing all of this and trying to raise awareness about the role of plankton, which is, I mean, which we start to know about it.
I mean, we start to understand because, once again, it's invisible mostly.
Even through the jellyfish are not invisible, of course, but most of the plankton is invisible.
So we don't know anything about it because it's in the ocean and invisible.
That's two reasons for us to ignore it, looks like.
But it's so important.
And some of the creatures are very, they have different forms and they are beautiful, actually.
Some of them are amazing.
The most famous one being the copepod that you may refer to, which is like a very, very small crustacean.