Portuguese Man of War facts: not a jellyfish | Animal Fact Files

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A Portuguese man of war might look like a jellyfish, but it isn't one. A Portuguese man of war is a siphonophore and is thus a colony organism. Many individual zooids come together to form the organism we call the man of war. Together, they can develop rather long tentacles which are used for catching prey and defending the colony.
Scientific Name: Physalia physalis
Range: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans
Size: sail can grow to be a foot long (30.5cm) and half a foot (15cm) tall; tentacles have been recorded up to 165 feet (50m) in length
Diet: young fish, small adult fish, and crustaceans like shrimp and plankton
Life Span: n/a
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Комментарии : 46

@ChasingDragons420 2 года назад

I picked one of these up with my bare hands when I was a little kid living in Queensland. 26 years later, I can still feel the pain just thinking about it 😖

@AnimalFactFiles 2 года назад

Oof that sounds rough!

@Emma-Maze 7 месяцев назад

🥺glad you lived to tell the tale

@akaniotevanos9861 4 года назад

So *they're like tiny spaceships with entire colonies inside them, how cool :D

@AnimalFactFiles 4 года назад

I love this description!

@Emma-Maze 7 месяцев назад

well technically not inside them, the spaceship *is* the colony, and I don't see where the "space" really comes from since it's very much a terrestrial lifeform

@dashleigh1plays Год назад

Earlier today, I was checking out the beach and saw an ambulance from the beach. When I came, I saw TENTACLES of the Man O War touching my feet, but it didn't sting. I'm pretty sure the person in the ambulance was stung.

@SlapstickGenius23 4 года назад

Wow, the Portuguese man of war can still sting humans post mortem.

@sharonkaczorowski8690 Год назад

I was stung by one as a child. I remember the pain and the rush to get me to the dr from the beach as I had a severe reaction. My parents carried adrenaline’s in the car for a sister with asthma which they used on me. This was decades ago as I am 71. Didn’t keep me out of the water later…I swore I wouldn’t go back in but of course I did.

@Col28 4 года назад

0:07 - Wow! I always thought they were jellyfish. 1:51 - Great analogy! 3:20 - That's really interesting. I wonder why. 3:50 - 165 feet?! That quite a reach. Even the average 30' is pretty long for something so painful. Thanks for another great video!

@AllieThePrettyGator 2 года назад

They are also known as blue bottle jellyfish

@SlapstickGenius23 4 года назад

Cool video!

@jadenl629 2 года назад

Awesome video! I always thought that they were jellyfishes!

@zynouger3094 2 года назад

To be like this thing means I would sting with my fingers. Bring the food up to my mouth. And instead of chewing, my teeth eats the food individually ?

@AnimalFactFiles 2 года назад

Yes something like that

@zynouger3094 2 года назад

@@AnimalFactFiles I have more questions... Like. When they reproduce. What comes out? A whole blue thing or just a segment with a set function? Where do the individual things come into play. How they all know to form this identical thing Everytime? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Like huh??

@marcvesper 2 года назад

@@zynouger3094 Like how do ants know they're workers, soldiers, queens, etc. How do fertilised eggs know what shapes to grow. Instinct. Genes programming complicated chemistry.

@seaturtle6435 3 года назад

This animal is so interesting!

@AnimalFactFiles 3 года назад

It's amazing how many different animals are alive out there

@seaturtle6435 3 года назад

@@AnimalFactFiles Yeah!

@Nagatem 4 года назад

Colony animal description, Me : oh so like Mata Nui in bionicle Matoran build and repair his insides and the toa protect the matoran ect

@akaniotevanos9861 4 года назад

Heh, yeah! Jeez, I havent seen anyone else make a reference to Bionicle in any comment sections, well other than me :D

@eunaekim9216 2 года назад

I file this in the "how in the heck is this even possible?" category with some of the other videos on this channel.

@twistedbonniesanimationand9275 4 года назад

This thing looks like a balloon someone tried to blow up

@AnimalFactFiles 4 года назад

They're quite other worldly.

@twistedbonniesanimationand9275 4 года назад

Animal Fact Files yeah that’s true

@acstarr6609 Год назад

We call them blue bottles in Australia.

@fantian3924 2 месяца назад

it looks like a sea dumping 😅

@Tewsrews 4 года назад

Hadn't you posted this before? :p

@AnimalFactFiles 4 года назад

Sure have! As we said in our recent post, we're updating older episodes that we felt needed some fixing up. ;)

@Tewsrews 4 года назад

@@AnimalFactFiles you are right, I am sorry

@AnimalFactFiles 4 года назад

Nono! It's all good!! =)) Sometimes I feel like those community posts aren't shown, so I don't blame you at all. xDDD We should be finishing the updated videos in the next month or so, but we'll be sprinkling in new releases, too. ;))

@charliekezza 2 месяца назад

So the really should be called "Portugese man of war floatila"

@enricocaponnetto3488 4 года назад

Can you do true facts about the cuttlefish

@AnimalFactFiles 4 года назад

We have done a cuttlefish video. Here's a link to it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-frTe30eBA_0.html Thanks for the suggestion! =)

@lizannewhitlow1085 3 года назад

@@AnimalFactFiles Oh boy, I can’t wait to watch this! Cuttlefish are glorious creatures and THEY SHOULD NOT BE EATEN.

@mitab1 3 года назад

When an animal is called MAN OF WAR you know you should run away from it

@AnimalFactFiles 3 года назад

This is a valid point

@jizzchugger 2 года назад

Question can I have it as a pet?

@AnimalFactFiles 2 года назад

I would say that would likely be considered a poor decision by most animal appreciators

@EckosamaGhostTsushima 3 года назад

you sounded really excited about making babies i was confuse

@zynouger3094 2 года назад

Sooooo.... Why would it not be a single animal? Like isnt every organism made of smaller organisms? And the overall is one whole organism of parts doing different things to keep existing? Whats specifically different to make this a spaceship of aliens?

@spaccoon 2 года назад

Most organisms are made of different kinds of cells, bit cells are not independent organisms. Brain, skin, muscle, bone, immune, etc. all share the same DNA in order to form a singular organism. It seems that in the case of the Man of war, it is a cluster of small, independent organisms working together to form a singular entity, but not a singular organism. Each of the creatures that make it up have slight variations in DNA, so the whole thing would be more akin to a group of people huddling together to look larger, rather than cells in a body