#seajellies

[jellyfish-scientist]

iPhone released a jellyfish emoji, that is all

🪼

Reminder to stay curious :}

[ireallyjustwanttobepretty]

I won a pass to @sealifesydneyaquarium on a maccas coffee so I went stag yesterday and expect nothing but #fish posts for the next week. First up some hypnotic and beautiful #jellyfish 🐙 #aquarium #seajellies #sydney #solodate #selfcare (at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo5uVamlV96/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ojiieg8t2zdt

[ivancauldwell]

I haven't done many doodles in the last few years, but with design comes a need to draw, so I thought I'd try and rekindle the habit of mine. Here is a blue lagoon jelly, one of my favorite subjects to doodle in highschool. . . . #art #artist #draw #drawing #doodle #animals #jelly #jellies #seajellies #bluelagoonjellies #animaldrawing #sketch #sketchbook

[jellyfish-scientist]

There are approx. 200 species of scyphozoa (true jellyfish)! They’re separated into 4 orders, those being: stauromedusae, coronatae, semaeostomeae, and rhizostomeae.

Hydrozoans are similar, but different. They are closely related and share a lit of similarities.

To help with this: Portuguese man o’wars and by-the-wind-sailors aren’t true jellyfish. Helmet jellies, cannonball jellies, and cauliflower jellies are true jellyfish

[jellyfish-scientist]

Hi!! Sorry for not posting for a while, I just finished school on the 7th and was hanging out with friends/family.

Jellyfish are pretty cool.

1) they aren’t fish, they’re cnidarians (nai·deh·ree·uhnz).

2) they can live literally ANYWHERE. There’s saltwater, freshwater, and brackish sea jellies.

3) can reproduce both sexually AND asexually.

4) are actually alive

5) turtles eat plastic bags thinking it’s a jellyfish, so please don’t litter !!!!

[adawneveryday]

a child's love of sea jellies

I’ve never been fascinated by jellyfish before this past week. But over this past summer, my son has. It started with the jellies washing up on the beach. Just the bells without stingers that had gotten caught in a current that destined them to wind up at my son’s feet. 

They were pretty, clear, gelatinous circles with slightly cloudy circles inside of them. Their edges rippled and reflected the white sun light. 

I allowed him to touch them, but not prod them. I wanted him to know they were living things and while they were not a puppy or a kitten, he still should be gentle and respectful, which he is naturally, so he makes that lesson easy. 

While my son roars and runs enthusiastically playing war with his soldiers, using everything from a pinecone to a stick to a stuffed bear as a weapon, he also turns easily tender.

“It’s a baby jelly. Don’t touch it. Let’s put it back in the water. Bye baby jelly. See you later,” he lisps and whispers in a sweet voice as I toss a stranded jelly back past the waves for him.

At the beach he buries his buckets of water and rescues one by one jellies he finds. He floats his rubber jellies that light up in the buckets with the real jellies and surrounds them protectively with his pirates. Before it gets late, he wants to return them all back to the water beyond the waves. 

He counted the clear jellies going in, so we have to count them coming out, making sure all are out before we dump and clean the bucket in the waves.  

Luckily we live near an aquarium that has jellies, moon jellies and Atlantic Sea Nettles. While he loves visiting every animal friend from the entrance, he is racing, naming the alligators, the turtles, the snakes, the frogs, the fish, and even the sting rays to get to the center of the aquarium that is very dark with columns of bubbling lights. In this magical center are round tanks where jellies pulse and drift in spotlights. The moon jellies are in blooms that tumble and turn endlessly. The seat nettles are in a convex tank on the wall and drift dragging long streams of stinging tentacles behind them in fleshy pink and cloudy white. 

My son dashes from column to column, tank to tank, joining other families in their pictures and sitting on the ledge of a tank leaning against the glass staring up into the water. 

“Wow, look at them. They are floating. Look at the stingers. Look. Whoa,” is says in a breathy way that conveys awe and adoration. 

Only after he has done this, will he then go back through the aquarium to the beginning to see visit the rescue turtles and albino alligators and of course the slow, easy going sharks.   

He says, “I want to be a diver and touch octopus. I want to go fishing. I want to catch a crab.” 

We leave with a large, green, stuffed animal squid and a picture of him with a sea turtle swimming over his outstretched arms, with a glowing smile on his beaming face.

At home, his mind goes and goes as he measures out his imagined ocean on the tile floor of the kitchen. I imagine his mind and thoughts like blooms of tumbling jellyfish: dense, numerous, forever in motion. Our paper and crayon colored sea jellies, fish, crabs, and more all get laid out on sheets of seaweed and sand. Sheets full of black crayon scribbles are actually the midnight zone, the darkest part of the ocean. He puts only certain jellies, fish (like an angler fish with its lighting up lure) in this exclusive spot. This week the squid was allowed in the midnight zone after watching a show that showed the giant squid in a very dark ocean. 

“You can’t see him! Close your eyes!” he declares, because in the dark you can’t see them until they light up and let you see them. 

He is going into great depths himself. Following his interest unabated. 

I have to find and play videos for him, saving them for repeat play.

“What’s his name?”

“Moon jelly.” I say.

“What’s his name?”

“Lion’s mane.” I say.

“What’s his name?”

“er, lets say cauliflower jelly...” I stumble.

“What’s his name?”

“Mangrove jelly. He can see up into the canopy of the mangrove trees!” I say, triumphantly remembering a factoid from our research.”

“That’s Aus-tailing fox jelly!”

“AU-STRAIL-AIN BOX, bah,bah, bah BOX Jelly.”

“bah, bah, buh FOX JELLY!”

“ok, fox jelly” I surrender this argument to him. 

I learn about mesoglea, tentacles, bells, and cnidocytes. I learn about Eternity Jellies that escape death by reverting to an infant stage called a polyp. I learn about bioluminescence and green fluorescent protein (GFP). 

There is no end to this trench of information, especially with over 2000 types of jellies to learn about. We have only drawn over 50 of them.

[adawneveryday]

Jellyfish 101 | Nat Geo Wild 

[littlegoldboat]

Paleozoic/relics, jellies reveal all./Built for survival. #haiku #lagunabeachpoet #seajellies #prehistoricrelic #marinelife #lagunaoceanfoundation #seeninlagunabeach #simplesurvival (at Laguna Beach, California)