hawksbill turtle eating jellyfish

A hawksbill turtle, (Eretmochelys imbricata) is feeding on a jellyfish.
In this case it is a real jelly, but very often sea turtles feed on drifting plastic as it looks like jellyfish.
The turtles cannot digest the plastic. They have downward facing spines in their throats which prevents them from regurgitating the rubbish.
The plastic gets trapped in the stomach and is blocking other swallowed food to be digested and being afterwards released in a normal way.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• diving
• scuba diving
• diving videos
• french polynesia
• rangiroa

[jaimelespoptarts]

could a sea turtle eat a box jellyfish or an irukanji?

[underwatercam]

@jaimelespoptarts

...I am not really sure, but I believe so.

[laoboyken]

awesome quality too.

Turtle: "Sting this bitch!"

[underwatercam]

@laoboyken

thanks! fortunately she got a real jelly. Thousand die after eating plastic bags which they take for jellies. here the scene is incorporated into a movie i made.

[underwatercam]

@laoboyken

...go to underrwatercam dot tv ,go to movies and click on "allways look on the bright side of life" Sorry for the inconvinience, but here they refuse direct links to other movie sites.

[Masoukishin]

@TheTurtlelover09 jelly fish stingers do not electrocute... they' inject toxic with microscopic needles... that's why it hurts so much so fast...

[MegaSuperPWN]

Jelly got owned!

[Bloxkorner]

a huge pudding just for the turtle :D

[joshdaugherty1111]

turtle said om nom nom nom

[theoneandonlymrthc]

@dbzplayer4fun why did you find a way to record audio for your gay ass youtube comments?

[CaiqueLover]

jelly: HALP!

[techanstuff]

Nom nom nom

[dbzplayer4fun]

"Hey all you people, hey all you people, why don't you listen to meee"

[TheTurtlelover09]

@sadhound I know i was just giving an example showing how strong the actual skin is, i was not relating to the jellyfish just giving another example of how strong the skin is.