Siphonophores, Drifting Colonies of Life

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Channel: Natural World Facts

Views: 200,550

Keywords: deep sea wonders, deep sea, natural world facts, siphonophore, pyrosome, siphonophore exploding, zooid, zooid colony, colonial organism, siphonophore evnautilus

Id: ZvPrR0lMMb4

Length: 7min 8sec (428 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 10 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/needathneed]

It doesn't seem to matter how many times siphonophores are explained to me, I still don't get it. If the digestion ones are specialized from the mobilization ones, how do the mobilization ones get nutrients?!

[u/Bandoozle]

How is this distinct from, say, animals?

[u/Accuracy_whore]

I learned about them from the Octonauts my daughter watches over and over.

[u/rilsaur]

These are super cool. I heard about a cryptid/urban legend (I'm not a big believer but I think they're such interesting stories) of something called the Black Carpet which occurs on the sea floor, that sounded like a plausible siphonophore. I wonder if we will ever discover anything like that/the inspiration for said creature

[u/Blad3d]

Wow, that reminds me of Hunters from the Halo games

[u/RealisticIllusions82]

Doesn’t that basically describe all complex organisms?

[u/slugsinmybutt]

link is broken

[u/Smellzlikefish]

Remind me! 6 hours

[u/7billionpeepsalready]

I was first introduced to this idea of creature in Howard Bloom's book "the Lucifer Principle"

Edit: a word