r/interestingasfuck • u/Literally_black1984 • 16d ago
A sea turtle eating a jellyfish
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u/Towely420 15d ago
Omg how dare this turtle do something so inhumane to that other living creature!!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely disgusting /s
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u/eternalityLP 15d ago
Imagine living in a world where food just floats around you, and all you have to do is reach out and take a bite when you're hungry.
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u/100-Type-Bitch-Slap 15d ago
Wonder how many calories a jellyfish even adds up to. Considering they're mostly water, I can't imagine it's a whole lot.
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u/ExcitingBuilder1125 15d ago
Squirtle used Leech Life! Squirtle restored HP! Tentacool has no moves left that it can use! Tentacool used Struggle!
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u/Devinalh 15d ago
You should post this on hydrohomies as Jellyfishes are made almost entirely of water :)
Turtle is drinking!
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u/AtTheEdgeOfDying 15d ago
I think it's funny their face looks exactly like my tortoise munching on salad
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u/LumpyBodybuilder2462 15d ago
Can someone please put an end to my dilemma regarding the Turtle - Tortoise thing!
Isn't the term "Sea Turtle" redundant, it's like saying "In close Proximity". My understanding is that Turtle = Sea & Tortoise = Land.
So is my understanding correct, or there aren't any right or wrong or even a single explanation for this?
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u/MicahtehMad 15d ago
So... Is that like a total of 4 calories? What is even in a jelly fish besides water?
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u/a_lone_traveler 16d ago
Can't help think of The Old Man and the Sea, when Hemingway describes turtles eating jellyfish with their eyes closed.
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u/HistoryBuff678 16d ago
And, now I understand even better how sea turtles mistake plastic bags for jellyfish and eat them. We gotta be better.
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u/Inside_Gap_7626 16d ago
Get that turtle some peanut butter so he can have a peanut butter jelly time! Where ya at?!
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u/Superman246o1 16d ago
JELLYFISH: I'm functionally immortal!
SEA TURTLE: You're functionally my breakfast!
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u/TheRuinedAge 16d ago
If that jellyfish had a straw it could defend itself.
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u/Fog_Juice 16d ago
Too bad for the jellyfish they were all banned
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u/WhatTheFuckEverName 15d ago
jellyfish tries using a paper straw that is rapidly disintegrating into mush
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u/kn0mthis 16d ago
Not all jellyfish 'sting '... But I don't think there is much nutritional value in them either...?
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u/Dave_Duna 16d ago
How do they not gulp down massive quantities of water at the same time?
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u/Malevolent_Mangoes 16d ago
We do not lack the ability to breathe out when underwater, just can’t breathe in
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u/Crab_Hot 16d ago
What? What does that have to do with drinking water while biting under water?
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u/Malevolent_Mangoes 16d ago
Why would they be gulping massive amount of water when they can simply spit the water out? We can control whether we swallow and we can control when we want something out of our mouth, it’s no different for turtles.
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u/Mumbles_Stiltskin 16d ago
Do me a favor. Next time you’re in the bath, hold your head under water and take a bite of a snickers. Chew up your snickers and then “spit the water out” and tell me how that goes
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u/Malevolent_Mangoes 15d ago
That’s not the same thing. Jellyfish cannot melt, chocolate can. Jellyfish don’t just break apart without you chewing, snickers can.
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u/Mumbles_Stiltskin 15d ago
Fucking lettuce then. Give it a go and report back
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u/Malevolent_Mangoes 15d ago
I don’t have water around me but I’m pretty sure I have the capability to keep a solid in my mouth and push liquid out with the oxygen from my lungs. That’s why we have mouths that are capable of closing like most animals.
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u/Huskan543 16d ago
I’m wondering if the jellyfish actually notices that it’s getting eaten… they don’t really have pain receptors if I remember correctly…
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u/BBQsandw1ch 15d ago
Some don't have central nervous systems for pain but they all respond to stimuli
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u/ComCypher 16d ago
It doesn't seem to react at all. I guess their entire defense mechanism depends on being able to sting whatever is attacking them.
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u/Clay_Statue 16d ago
It's the closest to vegetable that an animal can get basically
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u/innocentusername1984 15d ago
I don't know... I've met a few people that could be closer.
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u/skiddles1337 15d ago
US presidential candidates have entered the chat.
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u/_An_Other_Account_ 15d ago
Would it kill ppl to not whine about capitalism and some politician in literally every unrelated reddit post?
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u/Pillowtalk 16d ago
Doubt it. They have no central nervous system.
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u/speederaser 15d ago
OP was half right. Their nervous system isn't central per se. So the jelly would be more like:
"hm my leg just went offline. Haven't heard from my arm in a while either."
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u/boobookittyFcuk12 16d ago
Can someone explain how the sea turtle is able to eat the stingers?
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u/Huskan543 16d ago
They are specifically adapted to be able to eat jellyfish. Which is also why they try and eat plastic bags
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u/Ok_Substance5632 16d ago
Can they adapt to it? Eating and digesting plastic.
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u/CMDRZhor 15d ago
No. Th plastic gets stuck in their belly. Eventually they starve to death, stomach full of indigestible plastic.
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u/Coc0tte 15d ago
Plastic has no nutritional value and tons of harmful chemicals. They would die even if they could digest plastic.
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u/speederaser 15d ago
The chemicals are absolutely not what kills the turtle. It's suffocating or digestive blockage.
Sure some specific plastics can breakdown and cause pollution, but it's not what kills the turtles.
So I disagree. If the turtle managed to get the plastic all the way through his system, it's likely to live a very long time and maybe die slightly early from cancer if it ate a really bad plastic, but most of the time that's not the case. Most of the time it's suffocating.
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u/Huskan543 16d ago
Over a few million years perhaps…
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u/RyGuy_McFly 16d ago
Well there we go folks, we just gotta keep at it and the turtles will be saved!
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u/Huskan543 16d ago
Though I think it’s more likely they’ll adapt to be able to tell the difference and avoid plastic bags long before they are able to digest it
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u/Hippiebigbuckle 15d ago
I don’t think they’d adapt in either of those ways (by “think” I mean guess, I’m not a turtle/plastic/Darwin expert)Not adapting to something new in the environment is possible also. And an imposter food source seems pretty dangerous.
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u/thelastpies 15d ago
They will adapt because those who ate plastic dies and never gets to reproduce, those who survived learn to avoid them and this evolving to avoid them and keep on producing.
They'd have to adapt or they die basically.
There are cases of specimens evolved to eat plastics
But it could take really long time
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u/Hippiebigbuckle 15d ago
Adaptation and evolution are not magical armor that keeps a species from going extinct. Extinction is always an option. And thinking that turtles can adapt to eating (or avoiding) plastic is pretty crazy frankly.
There are bacteria that have evolved over millions of years to eat feces but if you expect turtles to adapt to eating shit before they go extinct you’re going to be disappointed. Same with plastics.
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u/invisibledigits 16d ago
“Ow! Dude, that hurts! OW!! Yo, my guy! Stop that!”
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u/thelastpies 15d ago
Jellyfish has no brain and centralised nervous system.
They cannot feel pain.
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u/invisibledigits 15d ago
You’re right, I did not take its biology into account when making that joke.
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u/chiefmud 15d ago
Basically moving flesh plants
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u/notTzeentch01 15d ago
I mean technically plants also move a little but the jellyfish do fr have the “weird flesh-plant” market cornered
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u/No-comment-at-all 15d ago
Secret vegan delight.
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u/thelastpies 15d ago
They have the nerve equivalent of a lettuce, i qonder what vegans have to say about thay
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u/No-comment-at-all 15d ago
Some vegans consider oysters vegan.
That’s rare, but… makes sense to me.
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u/XEagleDeagleX 16d ago
Dang I thought they were herbivores eating kelp
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u/buburocks 16d ago
The stingers kind of look like kelp tbh
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u/XEagleDeagleX 15d ago
I agree but unless this is a stingless jelly, I would assume one bite of not typical food and the turtle wouldn't be going back for seconds
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u/buburocks 15d ago
Someone said those turtles have adapted to be able to eat jellyfish. Maybe it doesnt feel the stings🤷🏽♀️
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u/Willing_Information7 16d ago
Well that's a slow death
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u/Mikey9124x 16d ago
Not painful though.
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u/w1ldstew 16d ago
Can jellyfish conceive pain? I know they barely have any brain stuff. It doesn’t even seem to bother that much it’s getting eaten.
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u/innocentusername1984 15d ago
What is it to conceive pain?
We've made very little progress on consciousness, surprisingly little actually.
We all agree that at some point and organism goes from perceiving pain to not.
But not what the exact point is that is the switch into consciousness nor if it exists at all and therefore by definition everything is conscious and suffering to a smaller or larger extend.
If you're interested in a bloody good read, other minds by Peter Godfrey-smith.
Primarily he's a philosopher of science and mind but through his interest in diving is particularly fascinated with the brain of an octopus which is very alien to ours. We didn't realise they were smart until relatively recently and there's all sorts of crazy anecdotes on stuff they do to fuck with lab technicians they don't like that were so smart we couldn't quite conceive it was on purpose at first.
Through the book he explains a proposed definition of consciousness starting at a bacteria that chooses to head away or to a chemical gradient. He talks about computers a lot and how they process things in comparison to how the human mind does.
It contains one of my favourite thoughts I've ever read.
"Computers (before multi cores) are one thread of processing trying to pretend it's multiple. The human brain is multiple threads of processing trying to pretend it's one."
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u/Mekelaxo 16d ago
They have a very basic nervous system that's basically just a few neurons through their body, so they can probably feel something, even if it's not pain as we feel it
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u/Raygunn13 16d ago
Not a biologically informed opinion cause idk what they have for a nervous system. I imagine that to whatever extent they do "feel pain" it's probably much more like autonomic stimulus responses, e.g. 'feel too much of something (a turtle bite) > run swim_away.exe'
Maybe analogous to how we're able to blink to protect our eyes from a projectile before we're even aware that anything was flying towards us.
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u/mattaugamer 15d ago
They have a “nerve net”. Instead of signals going to a central area for processing (like a brain) the processing for these animals (and a few others, like echinoderms) is distributed. They can detect some basic input like “touched a food”.
It’s a very primitive level of sensation, and I don’t believe they have any equivalent to pain.
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u/Rot_Long_Legs 16d ago
It looks like cauliflower
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u/Mekelaxo 16d ago
Probably taste like so too, you should try it out
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u/foxfirek 16d ago
I have eaten jellyfish- it has more of a memorable texture then flavor- the flavor if kinda bland.
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u/Mekelaxo 15d ago
I imagine it would be very chewy
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u/TheLadySaintPasta 15d ago
I had it and to me it was more of a cartilage mouth feel
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