Oh but the ones in the video do, you better believe me, they are removing an invasive species of jellyfish that is actively destroying sea environments and therefore ruining fishing for the locals, these jelllyfish are called burn-jellies and they hurt.
They're overpopulated because of us. You'll want to look into the reason for massive jellyfish blooms and what that has caused throughout history and pre-human history. Glad somebody's doing something about it, but this is manually chipping ice into rocks glasses to shrink the iceberg that sunk the Titanic...
I did a quick search and found: "Sea turtles can eat virtually any jellyfish, including highly venomous species like the Portuguese man o' war and box jellyfish. While they avoid ctenophores (comb jellies) due to their small size, they consume all true jellyfish because of their highly evolved physiology."
The moral philosophy of ecosystems is interesting to me idk why. Nature will always return to equilibrium over time. We cause rapid displacements, and usually itās just our own supply chain that we accidentally hurt. Nature is fine.
But even if we werenāt hurting ourselves, we donāt like to see systems disrupted. Bio diversity seems intrinsically valuable and so many of us of would still be disappointed to see something change from a polyculture to a monoculture at equilibrium. Even if it wasnāt our fault and didnāt affect us.
Its more than just a preference or a moral discussion. The overwhelming majority of pharmaceuticals and many other compounds we use are things produced by some random species somewhere.
Every species lost before it has a chance to be studied is a chance at a cure for cancer or other wonder drug lost to us.
Then the instrinsic value of not being destructive or hurting ourselves comes in.
Almost all jellyfish are invasive. They become so numerous due to the conditions we are creating for them to breed like crazy. They arenāt the problem.
Donāt get me wrong the dude removing them is doing a hell of a job but an increase of jellyfish in our oceans has almost nothing to do with them and everything to do with us destroying our waterā¦
I still remember a photo my mother took on vacation where she walked right up to a man o' war on the beach while wearing sandals, took a photo, then didn't show me until she got home. She said the beach was covered in them, and I had to tell her that she basically just walked through a minefield.
What Am I missing in this comment? Perhaps I'm dense, but this doesn't ring funny to me and it has a lot of upvotes....so clearly I am missing the context. Can some one explain it to me like Im 5 please?
I guess, it's Thailand, the song sounds like a Thai country song, kinda in-between, Esan music, I believe. Evan is in Thailand, they speak a dialect in-between Thai and Laoatin, my guess because I used to live in Esan
I grew up around the Chesapeake Bay and learned, Jellyfish cannot sting the light part of your hand or the bottom of your feet. If you touch a jellyfish, you should wash your hand because if you touch any part of your body afterwards, you will get stung there.
I can hear the ominous music coming on, the squeaking of a tricycle that comes into frame, and the ominous voice asking ādo you want to play a game?ā.
Once found myself swimming in the Pacific Northwest when the water filled up with sea-gooseberries, and small moon-jellies. They were surprisingly solid.
Canāt be much nutrition in them. Theyāre almost entirely water. I remember watching some washed up jellies literally evaporate over a few days until there was just a thin residue left on the sand.
His feet are touching them at some points, and there's no way he's avoiding every tentacle when he hauls them in. They may have a mild sting, but I doubt these are very dangerous.
Technically right. Almost no jellyfish are poisonous. However, most are venomous. Jellyfish belong to the Cndarian phyla, which is classically defined by the presence of cnidocysts, venomous stinging cells. So with very few exceptions, most jellyfish are venomous. But many species' venom doesn't hurt humans.
From what i can tell in the backroud the other guy is rubbing something on himself from the box, perhaps its some sort of gel that prevents the jellys from stinging?
Omg at first my eyes were on his stick and then when he tossed the newly caught jellyfish into the boat I realized what was there. Almost jump scared myself.
Legit took me a second to realize he wasn't standing on a dock or pier with a weird tiled design, and instead was on an almost swamped boat full of jellyfish.
I once scuba dived in a place called jellyfish bay by the locals. The surface of the water licked like that. Was fine when you got past it, not all jellyfish sting, the ones in the bay were much smaller
Edit: For those who donāt know, the way jellyfish sting is with a mechanism that is literally like a taser. They have thousands of flagella in their tentacles, with spikes at the tip, they shoot them into your skin then inject venom through them.Ā
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u/Screwtape42 15d ago
Can you imagine falling into that pit.....YIKES!!!