over half of all animals in the open
ocean drift in currents
jellyfish cross entire oceans feeding on
whatever happens to tangle with their
tentacles
some can grow to a meter even two meters
across
and when by Lucky chance they encounter
a patch of sea rich in plankton their
numbers explode
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strategy the jellies are one of the most
common life forms on the planet
but among the jealous and looking
somewhat like them
is a rather more complex and Sinister
creature
Portuguese man of war
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it floats with the help of a gas-filled
bladder
topped by a vertical membrane
with that serving as a sale it maintains
a steady course through the waves
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threads trail behind it some as much as
30 meters long
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each is armed with many thousands of
stinging cells
a single tentacle could kill a fish or
in rare cases a human
-aged lethal tentacles looks a Mana War
fish
that feeds by nibbling them
whilst this fish has some resistance to
the stings it must still be extremely
careful
most other fish are not so lucky
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the tentacle has caught this one and
reels it in
it’s already paralyzed
specialized muscular tentacles transfer
the victim to others that digest the
catch
liquefying it with powerful chemicals
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eventually all that is left
is a scaly husk
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War May collect over a hundred small
fish in a day