Snorkeling with Turtle Eating Jellyfish Great Barrier Reef.m4v

[BearyKen]

i wonder if they would eat the Nomura or Lion's Mane Jellyfish? if so, we have food for the sea turtles (in abundance) and a possible solution to the proliferation of the giant jellyfish

[EMOGIRL5384]

this is kinds not anoutg the vid but if you go to deep you will implod

[changoloco06]

SOOOO cool. in a few weeks im taking a trip to cozumel and im going to go snorkeling, are turtles pretty common there? i totally want to see some

[sk8terboi2125]

man i just love seeing jellyfish get their payback

[99redrain]

nice!



[inno1980]

good video

[Ackar29]

Cool vid

[Ackar29]

Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom

[AUSworldcuphosts2022]

Awesome video, we need more sea turtles in the oceans, otherwise the scum jellyfish i.e box, man o war, irukandji etc are going to takeover and nobody will be able to swim without a stinger suit

[popocacahead]

awsome efect on 1:19 looked like turtle went hyper jump!!

[randomboyy]

i want one

[WavelengthIII]

@randomboyy

Both jellies and turtles are very hard to keep in aquariums without large investment. Might I suggest you come out with us and we can show you these critters in the world ? Thanks for posting.

[randomboyy]

@WavelengthIII Thats an amazing offer, although near impossible because i live in England... other side of the globe haha xP thanks anyway :D

[WavelengthIII]

@randomboyy

We take many Englishmen out to the Great Barrier Reef - almost every day in fact ! IF you take a holiday this way you should look us up my friend :-)

[juliannemoore]

You go turtle! Eat those scary monsters!!

[WavelengthIII]

@juliannemoore

One would argue that the turtle is more a scary monster than the jelly which is just floating along doing its thing whilst the turtle is actively chasing down and attacking them ! All life forms have an impact. Jellyfish are a part of nature, they are only scary if one does not understand them and they are certainly not monsters ! Remember, beautiful coral is the same group as jellies and can sting just like jellies. Just because corals cant move means they are not scary ? ;-)

[juliannemoore]

@WavelengthIII I have been scared of jellyfish ever since I was young, I can't help but thinking of them like monsters. Even pictures scare me! No matter how small or big the jellyfish. I wish I could like jellyfish but I seem to have this primal fear for them that won't go away. Same with other things in the sea, like coral, crabs and squids. Am I glad I don't live in the sea!

[HeartSeamstress]

Whoa, how is the turtle not getting hurt by the stings?

[WavelengthIII]

@HeartSeamstress

The stinging cells of jellyfish and other members of the group Cnidaria (such as corals) are commonly too short to penetrate thick skin - even the thicker skin of humans such as on our hands. Whilst some jellyfish species can and do sting big animals like us, this Moon Jelly in the video has typically weak stinging cells and low venom potency so that the scales and leathery skin of the turtle cannot be penetrated - except for its eyes which is why it closes them when it bites.

[HeartSeamstress]

@WavelengthIII That's really awesome, for a long time I thought jellies were unstoppable! Their reputation as "killers" is misleading?

[WavelengthIII]

@HeartSeamstress

We would certainly not want to stop jellies as they are a massive and important part of natures food chain/web and life in the ocean. A very few species of jellyfish can kill in the right situation so unfortunately the whole group has been labelled "killers" based on extremely rare events.

[HeartSeamstress]

@WavelengthIII Ah I see :) I think I'll appreciate jellies more now. What would be their main purpose?

[WavelengthIII]

@HeartSeamstress

Yes they are very under appreciated as a group :-) Well, the idea of animals having a "purpose" is kinda out-dated nowadays as it sounded as if a living thing has to do something beneficial to us to be worthy of concern or appreciation. However, in terms of ecological function, jellyfish are important members of planktonic life that provides nutrition at broad-scales for both larval stages and adult stages of many many ocean critters.

[Ghazzawi9]

So very cool.

[WavelengthIII]

@Ghazzawi9

Yep it sure was.