A Few Minutes With Wild Sea Nettle Jellyfish In Monterey Bay
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- A few minutes of pelagic magic with wild sea nettle jellyfish, filmed just off the back deck of the Aquarium, for your littoral relaxocean needs!
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We filmed this video a few weeks ago along Cannery Row, just off the back deck of the Aquarium! These jellies are Pacific sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens-the same ones you may have seen on our Jelly Cam! ( • Live Jelly Cam - Monte... )
Sea nettles are very seasonal here in Monterey Bay, usually showing up in mid to late summer, and sometimes in massive numbers that turn the water very spicy.
Sea nettles are plankton, meaning that they drift with ocean currents. “Plankton” isn’t a size thing, it’s a lifestyle. If you’ve got friends drifting through life with no real direction, then you know a plankter or two. Sea nettles are also planktivores, meaning they eat drifting critters, like tiny shrimps and larval fishes and other jellies.
Lots of animals are planktivores, and many animals eat sea nettles, from sunfish to sea turtles and even the blue rockfish in this video at 1:20-with one even thinking about enjoying a jelly donut for a second there!
Sea nettles are a type of jellyfish known as a scyphozoan, or “bell animal.” The top part here is the bell, housing the famous jelly of the jellyfish. Scientists call this the mesoglea, or “middle jelly”, because it's sandwiched between two layers of skin, the orange epidermis (outside skin) and the clearer gastrodermis, or stomach-skin. The frilly folds of gastrodermis behind those red stinging tentacles are the jelly’s mouth arms-essentially long lips that slurp up plankton soup as the jelly swims. (Heads up that jellies don't actually have "skin" like us, as they only have tissues and not organs.)
Watching jellies swim is simply mesmerizing-and there’s a lot going on with each ring of a jelly’s bell. Muscles contract against the mesoglea, accelerating the pulse to the thin edges of the bell like a whip, creating water currents that pull food toward the jelly’s mouth arms! A swimming jelly isn’t really trying to go anywhere, so much as it’s vacuuming up planktonic pieces of pie with every blobby scull-like if a lava lamp joined forces with a roomba.
There were some huuuuge sea nettles that day-the one at 2:03 had a bell almost two feet across! These open ocean beasts often show some wear and tear on their bells, battle scars from their long voyage through the inner space of planet ocean.
At the end of the video you'll find a northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, hanging out in the giant kelp, watching current events go by… Solid plan if you’re feeling crabby.
On the way back to the Aquarium, little blubber bud came by to say hey-harbor seals are like curious cats in the kelp forest, sea lions are much more the “ocean doggos” you’ve heard about on the Internet. Ah yes, and then a few senorita cleaner wrasses came by to see if we needed any help tidying up the end of this video-thanks for the kelp!
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Sea creatures have such grace!
I saw one of these in the tides of Panther Beach in Santa Cruz, CA. They’re absolutely beautiful, one of the most hypnotic animals to watch 😍❤️
This is the only thing that calms me from my rage thx😃
my spirit animals
Very ethereal! Looks like their from another planet. Beautiful! ❤️
I just woke up in the middle of the night and then stumbled across your jellyfish livestream. I've always had a thing for ocean documentaries- on the one hand they could make me feel terrified and disgusted, but on the other, I was just amazed by maybe excactly the mixture between the beauty and eeriness I was perceiving. Anyways, besides being absolutely gorgeous to watch, I really started wondering how sea nessels work- that's an understatement, I felt the sudden urge (and still feel it) to research everything that there is to know about sea nettle jellyfish. I guess, I'm far too tired now to do that properly, but the description of this video was a great start (can all science articles pls be written like this?). Will probably now go binge watch some jellyfish living their best life in the ocean and try falling asleep. Thank you so much though (whoever is doing the vids, writing the description etc, I assume several people), this really added something to my (insomnian) life, stirred interest (that I thought I lost concerning basically everything recently) and just genuinely makes me happy to watch/ read. Lots of love to y'all!
PS: I'd consider myself a plankter ^^
Wow 😮💕 so beautiful!
I gotta visit this place!
D7C
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is _amazing!_ Whatever the admission is, it’s worth it. My favorite spot is in the room with the recovering creatures.
So beautiful and relaxing.. the magical creation of Almighty God!
Beautiful!
So beautiful but dangerous 💞✨
Pacific Sea Nettles to be exact
So bewtifull jellyfish 😍❤
0:47 I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy.
Come here squishy come here little squishy😘 (talks in babyish) OWW!
Wait wait
*Is jellyfish a erb?*
When yall gonna be live
lupe cardenas
They have a live cam on now!