Alien-like sea creature: Live Caravela Portuguesa on the Brazilian beach

in #dtube • 7 years ago (edited)

I filmed this beautiful sea creature - amazing Caravela Portuguesa (Portuguese man o' war) - Physalia physalis on the beach in Olivenca, Bahia in Brasil. A jellyfish-like marine cnidarian of the family Physaliidae. Its venomous tentacles can deliver a powerful sting which can be fatal. It is organism made up of specialized individual animals (of the same species) called zooids or polyps. Each part of her body are attached to one another and physiologically integrated to the extent that they are unable to survive independently, and therefore have to work together and function like an individual animal.
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