#physalia physalis

[snototter]

A Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis) in the waters of Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA

by Helene Hoffman

[angelnumber27]

Portugese man-o-war tentacles

[seasidemoonrise]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Portuguese men-of-war (Physalia physalis)

(Image credit: BSG_1974 via Shutterstock)

[eddieintheocean]

hyperspecific poll!

i have a purple mohawk

i live in a commune

i am transparent

in large groups, i am able to deplete fisheries

my venom is strong enough to kill adult squid

my tentacles can be longer than 30 metres

none of these

more than one of these

Voting ended onFeb 17, 2024

[colorsoutofearth]

Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia physalis), Sargasso Sea, Bermuda

Photo by Solvin Zankl

[thesquiddealer]

Portuguese Man O’ War

[caffinatednightmare]

what if we were portugese man of war

This is all gonna be an autism fuelled rant abt the portugese man o war

These things are so cool. You ever heard of a colonial organism? These things are made up of zooids of BOTH polyps and medusae!! (Example, medusae make up jellyfish entirely and polyps make up anemone entirely) They're a fucking colony baby!!!

They're labeled as left handed or right handed based on which way their sail chambers curve, which completely changes the direction the wind takes them!! They're free floating, so the wind direction means a whole lot of difference. Like, yk how these things are infamous for being beached in mass amounts, stinging everyone on the sand? Well those masses likely all have the same handedness! All the men o war whos sail chambers that curved the other way in their bloom were taken a completely different direction!!

forgive me if i explained something wrong I'm not an expert I'm just autistic