[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to freaky fauna Friday, where every Friday we take a little time, explore some of the freaks of nature from around the planet, we cherish so deeply.
[SPEAKER_01]: So please jump aboard and let's explore the wilds together.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's Friday again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to freaky fauna Friday.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am the
[SPEAKER_02]: And today we're going to talk about one of nature's best upside-down animals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, well, how many upside-down animals can you name?
[SPEAKER_02]: Possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that count?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they're, well, yes, no, because I don't think there is an animal called an upside-down Possible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I just thought you meant animals that I can't sit down or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, upside-down in the name.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, hmmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I guess any animal you strapped to an inversion table.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the stretch it's back out would be an upside-down animal, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, upside down, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have no idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, upside down jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you remember these guys?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, did you go to Newport with us?
[SPEAKER_02]: Be aquarium?
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't remember.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have a whole exhibit on these guys, which is pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where's the new port aquarium at?
[SPEAKER_03]: Newport Kentucky?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's one of the better aquariums in the US.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know I've been there with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know last time I was there though.
[SPEAKER_03]: because we went to the zoo down there, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: And Cincinnati.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just don't remember food today, Quaram or not.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think me and you have been to the aquarium.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know I've been to that one before, so maybe not just with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've been to the one up untilito, though.
[SPEAKER_03]: That one's pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Tleo zoo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thorquarium's pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, a new Puerto Quaram upside down jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: The genus of Casio Pied, Casio Pied, and that a star constellation, Casio Pied, and then it's Casio Pied day is the order.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh, I didn't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, the family.
[SPEAKER_02]: The order is a rise of Zontimus in the class is C-oplasia.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh, just as I suspected, did you?
[SPEAKER_02]: There's about eight species.
[SPEAKER_02]: I say about eight is because there's some arguments on these.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're fairly small jellyfish ranging from two centimeters to 30 centimeters wide.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, what makes them, you know, their namesake is upside down jellyfish, occurred naturally across the broad range of tropical locations, world ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: pretty much anywhere tropical.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have a chance to run into an upside down jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, some of their species are considered to be quite invasive.
[SPEAKER_02]: with the potential of having negative impacts on local marine environments.
[SPEAKER_02]: And even impacting the use of waterways when congregations in large numbers occur.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's why they sting like regular jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't get to that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: These jellyfish are very distinctive due to their unusual habit of resting upside down on their bells.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just them resting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not like a feeding behavior or or hunting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: When there are bells on the floor, they are oral arms extend outward.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they do start extending up.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they almost look like a like an easier.
[SPEAKER_02]: It means yeah, which are cousins of jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I didn't know that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is upside down jellyfish is a good way to see that.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're seeing an enemy swim,
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, so that I don't have they can untouch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a big suction cup on their head and they can actually use it as a tail fin and float swim around It know that yeah, so then he's are not permanently affixed to whatever they're on Didn't know that either when they when they when they used to win or when jellyfish like sit upside down You could really see the similarities between the two okay
[SPEAKER_02]: Upside down the jellyfish have a flattened bell so they can easily rest on sediment bottoms.
[SPEAKER_02]: The bell continuously pulsates in order to push water over their jellyfish's tissues, providing oxygen and bringing in food.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are eight oral arms that extend upwards when the resting are branching, sprayed, are sprayed out.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're typically green, gray, or blue in color.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: This color comes from Otosynthetic Algae's called Zoo Xelias, nice, which live inside the jellyfish's tissues.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so it's like, they have algae inside of their tissues.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's kind of strange.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are capable of swimming using regular constructions of the bell to push the water through them and swim like a normal jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_03]: They swim upside down or do they swim right side up?
[SPEAKER_02]: They swim right side up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So basically, when they're upside down, they're partially filtering, partially breathing and letting the algae in their tissues photosynthesize.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, do they metabolize that?
[SPEAKER_03]: They eat the byproducts, yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like that energy is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not their sole source of food, just partly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's almost like half plant, then.
[SPEAKER_03]: in a way, yeah, almost, algae, yeah, which is plants, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, algae isn't?
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I guess not.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're in the same, more like bacteria.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're on the same, what do you call that?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm now I'm getting my orders mixed up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe they're in the same order, let me look.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're in the same file, I'm sorry, but not in the same class, as what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Plants, and algae.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they're close.
[SPEAKER_02]: Plants and
[SPEAKER_03]: just too complicated sometimes.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're close enough to me and this is like the hybrid between.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, so they're feeding arms are crazy big like in their branch out and I mean like dozens of branches with little tendrils and stuff on them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, so they they split off and split off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like a like almost a coral like a river system.
[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: So when they're upside down, they really look like a big anatomy or even like a starfish, like a basket star.
[SPEAKER_02]: Website out jellyfish are usually found in settled coastal areas, such as lakes, lagoons, and estuaries and are often associated with their areas surrounded by mingros.
[SPEAKER_02]: They typically occur in shallow water less than a meter deep, so they get enough sunlight for their zoofiles in their tissues to eat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Distribution around Australia upside-jell and jellyfish are fine or generally found around the north profitable distributions from the yampai sound north-western Australia to the Golden Coast in Queensland.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our multiple species have recently been recorded in temperate coastal lakes in new south whales, including Wallace Lake, Lake Marcula, and Lake Iliwari.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is also an additional population of sight and jellyfish located near a power plant outlet in
[SPEAKER_02]: where water temperatures are rising five to eight Celsius above ambient temperatures.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: So an outfall.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, there's populations these guys are spreading.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seasonality, it is unknown how long upside down jellyfish live for in the wild.
[SPEAKER_02]: But in captivity, they are known to live up to four years.
[SPEAKER_02]: Populations in New South Wales appear to be middle of summer until the end of winter, so July through August.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is unsure whether they disappear due to the movement into deeper waters or mortality causing by basically the coldness, lower water temperatures, starvation, predation, and other factors.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we don't really know if when they kind of disappear, are they all just dying, or are they moving off?
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, or are there numbers just plummeting?
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, when they congregate like that is that for breeding, it's feeding zones, feeding zones.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they need that shallow coastal water
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, maybe they're what up they're doing immortal jelly fish stuff or not immortal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, is that what they're called immortal jelly fish?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, what up there do you stuff like that?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's where they're going away.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not close or related to those guys whatsoever, but, right, but you never know how.
[SPEAKER_02]: You remember, I mean, they had to shred, like, they melt their body down and nothing.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why that's why they couldn't upside down, Jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I simply got a relationship with their allergies in their body that live in their oral arms.
[SPEAKER_02]: These allergies are provided in the shelter.
[SPEAKER_02]: In her turn, they provide the jellyfish with up to 90% of its nutritional needs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, so that's a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: with only about 10% come from feeding on zoo plankton's okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: The jellyfish captures a zoo plankton by studying them with its stinging cells, name assist, located in the oral arms used with mucus are using a mucus they release.
[SPEAKER_02]: They then consumed a zoo plankton through their mouth located on their oral arms, lay up dozens and dozens of mouths.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, say almost absorb it through their arms.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's unlike a normal steam, town goals of a jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are like the mouth bits inside out hanging down.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, with algae growing in them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, whether, or sorry, whether the upside down jellyfish can swim, like many other jellyfish by pulsating its bell in the water comp, why they can do this?
[SPEAKER_02]: This is very rare.
[SPEAKER_02]: They would see them doing this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very rare to see a moving unless you are the one that like, kick them up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that disturbed them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very, yeah, they don't really do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: The life cycle, the adult stage of these jellyfish is called a medusa.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, many, many jellyfish have our medusa stage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, the male medusa will release a reproductive cell in their little water column, which will fertilize the female's eggs.
[SPEAKER_02]: The female will then release the eggs into the plump as a plumbia larva, which attaches to hard structures such as mingra roots and jetties, becoming what is called a polyp.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so this is that zygote that's from around it almost looks like a little fish the tiny little Then it fuses to a rock or something hard and then becomes a pulp which looks like a plant Okay, the pulp stage looks very similar to even c r c and then we cucumbers and that kind of stuff
[SPEAKER_02]: And when the water conditions are suitable, the pulp will go through a sexual reproduction process called strobellis, sorry, strobellation.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the budding of the Medusa stage from my polyp and multiple news that came from a single polyp.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I've kind of talked about this before with other jellyfish, or the polyp will produce like it almost looks like flowers inside of flowers inside of four hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, and those will each become a Medusa jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there and don't get confused.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's weird wording.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is a species jellyfish called a bit of a suggestion Right, and then there's a life-state jellyfish called a bit of a suggestion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like the marine reptile Mosesore There is an animal called a Mosesaurus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, and then a family group called a Mosesaurus.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so there are many like there is one species called Mosesore and there's many Mosesores though
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, danger to humans, up and down jellyfish blooms, haven't recorded to reach up to 30 individuals per square meter.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's the bottom.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's all over the bottom.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, gosh, yeah, the whole square meters.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's like, sometimes they're double stacked and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dang.
[SPEAKER_02]: They can affect the surrounding environment by dramatically decreasing the auction content of water.
[SPEAKER_02]: And shifting the structure of the food chain by out-competing many other species and consuming a disproportionate amount of zoo plankton.
[SPEAKER_03]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: So when these guys bloom.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they can destroy any ecosystem.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, stuck up all the oxygen out of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can that kind of stop a fish and it's tracks if it's swimming through.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not it's tracked it'd be like it'd be like you.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh, walking into a room with no oxygen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you do have some time to get out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not like a toxic fog, for say.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's just the lack of oxygen in the high build up of CO2.
[SPEAKER_02]: So could, I mean, think of it like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you walk into a room with oxygen, you'd start choking immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Could you panic your way out, maybe?
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But depending on how big these areas are, if you swim or walk the wrong way, yeah, and you're just deeper into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you can't, you'll cause these giant dead zones.
[SPEAKER_03]: You gotta be like a buffalo.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll go in into a storm.
[SPEAKER_03]: You ever seen that before?
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Walk towards the storm so that way they just walk through it faster.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it goes over and faster We're as you know other animals turn and hide and run from the storm.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they got to be like a buffalo face it head on and you'll get through it faster I don't know if that's true or not, but I've seen it somewhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: I bet they may face into a storm
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what there's, that's what this little article I don't know either, but you know what, it had a good message behind it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the absolute demolishing of zoo plankton populations, which is the basis of the food chain.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, in the ocean.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that can affect like everything from baby fish populations to adult fish population like it.
[SPEAKER_02]: To whales, to whales, it can whales.
[SPEAKER_02]: Additionally, upside down jellyfish can sting swimmers.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... with the severity of their sting ranging from mild to severe hang so we need to get the japanese wailers off whales and switch to upside-down jellyfish
[SPEAKER_03]: in just in the areas where they're invasive, right, highly targeted jobs and down jellyfishments.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the reason they're spreading is partially due to like, some of the ocean current, like changing and temperature and stuff like that, areas are becoming warmer that weren't traditionally warm.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the problem with that is that they spread through their polyps, which can travel hundreds of miles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha, and landing in areas where they don't normally, and their predators aren't there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they just, when they get there, they just take over.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: If they have, there's nothing there to eat them.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, so you can, like, that's been problems because we're to these guys like to hang out in shallow coastal waters where do people like to swim shallow coastal waters in warm water.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's been accounts of people like jumping into these and not realizing the entire bottom covered in the building.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stinging jellyfish, shouch and like I said, it can be mild to severe and the number of sting is can greatly impact that that'd be one heck of a case of athletes foot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, excuse me, how do you treat them slightly down jelly fisting?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do not apply fresh water or vinegar.
[SPEAKER_02]: You gotta pee on it, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: As they will cause more neosis to be released.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, if you have any stinging cells that I haven't fired on your skin, yeah, that old cause and fire.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do not rub the sting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because if there's more neosis there, they'll sting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fire them off, yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Basically, they say the best thing you can do is just apply ice to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: In that fresh water though.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but not liquid fresh water like cold and cold.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not pee on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that was that's been a myth forever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why was it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Why was that a thing?
[SPEAKER_03]: They did on friends because people like to pee on each other.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's at all it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was the only one here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You sell the out and same thing with vinegar.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it really doesn't work at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, you're just going to make him mad.
[SPEAKER_03]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: It will kill a jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pean on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the problem is he on the jellyfish and he on this thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the problem though.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is the neocest will fire.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they remember we talked about this before.
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't have to be attached.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the P pulled him out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, or neutralized him.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: myth busted or are they my mind's my whole world used change now and then even some decorator crabs and such will use upside down jellyfish as hats oh sweet those crabs and Tonya they fly on jellyfish and they use them as hats
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you saw that video, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: We're someone, someone shared it on our Facebook page with the, the jellyfish with a crab right on top of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was it jellyfish or was it a, I think it was a jellyfish?
[SPEAKER_02]: A jellyfish with a crab right on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so that's a jellyfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was a crab.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, with the crab on top and he's just cruising.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because I think someone said like that would be, that's us, like a version of us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's funny, but yeah, I would like for you for upside down jellyfish and cool little creature if anyone at home has a freaky fauna Friday They like this the cover.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, like share and subscribe to show and email us Send us your freaky fauna discovery or animal you'd like us to talk about I think occasionally would do a freaky fauna to or a freaky or a flora why do I say that freaky flora are freaky fungi
[SPEAKER_03]: or freaky fun guy, and they're all F names.
[SPEAKER_03]: What if they plan that on purpose?
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they did.
[SPEAKER_03]: A floor in fauna, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I didn't fun guy just happened to fall in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because fun guy was our floor, I forever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that why they named him fun guy to make it a, to make it another F name?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's just a, yeah, what do you call that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Coincidence.
[SPEAKER_03]: No such, no such thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.
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