By-the-wind sailor
The by-the-wind sailor is a small, deep blue animal that floats on the surface of the open ocean. It is not a single creature but a colony of tiny linked animals, and it moves by catching the wind with a small stiff sail. Its stinging tentacles are generally harmless to people, but they can irritate the skin.1

Ƙarfin dafi
Dubban ƙananan ƙwayoyin harbi suna harbawa idan wani abu ya taɓa su.
Me dafinsa yake yi?
Its nematocysts contain toxins that are effective against its prey, which are mostly plankton. The nematocysts are relatively benign to humans, but each person may respond differently to the toxin. Contact may cause irritation to exposed skin.1
Yaya haɗarinsa yake ga mutane?
Haɗari ga mutane: Mai sauƙiKamar harbin ƙudan zuma ko ƙasa da haka. Kusan ba shi da lahani ga mutane.It is relatively harmless to humans. Its main effect is possible skin irritation after contact. Mass strandings can leave large numbers of dying and rotting animals on beaches.1
Idan ya harba
- Fita daga ruwan kuma ka cire duk wasu zarurruka (tentacles) da suka manne (da safar hannu ko kyalle).
- Don box jellyfish na ƙasashe masu zafi: ka zuba vinegar a wuraren harbin na aƙalla daƙiƙa 30, ka kira taimako kuma ka shirya yin CPR (farfaɗo da zuciya). Don bluebottles da yawancin sauran: ka kurkure da ruwan teku, sannan ruwan zafi don ciwon.
Kullum ka fara kiran lambar gaggawa (112, 000, 911). Wannan jagorar agajin gaggawa ce ta gaba ɗaya, ba shawarar likita ba. Muhimman abubuwan agajin gaggawa
Kiyaye lafiya
- Kada ka taɓa, kada ka kama, kada ka tsokani dabbar daji, ko da ƙarama ce, kuma ko da tana kama da tana barci ko ta mutu.
- Ka ba shi sarari. Idan ka haɗu da ɗaya, ka natsu, ka koma baya a hankali kuma ka bar shi ya bi hanyarsa.
- Idan ɗaya ya harbe ka: ka natsu, ka zauna ba motsi, ka kira lambar gaggawarka (112, 000, 911) ko ka je asibiti da sauri. Ka tuna yadda yake, hoto yana taimakawa.
Ba ya neman cutar da kai. Yana amfani da dafinsa don kama abinci ko don kare kansa, kuma ya fi son ya ɓuya. Ƙarin bayani game da kiyaye lafiya
A ina a duniya?
Yaya girmansa yake?
Yaya tsawonsa yake?
tsawon tubalan gini na wasa 2 a jere
zai iya yin iyo tsawon babban tafkin iyo (mita 50) cikin daƙiƙa 180Yaya girman By-the-wind sailor yake idan aka kwatanta da KAI?
Lissafi ne kawai a cikin burauzarka. Ba a adana komai ko a aika ko'ina.
Yaya saurinsa yake?
Bayanai
Its floating colonies are mirror images of each other, either 'left-handed' or 'right-handed', and this affects where they drift. In the northern Pacific, one form tends to drift to North America and the other to eastern Asia, such as Japan.1
Each blue 'animal' with a sail is really a colony of linked polyps that share food through a canal system.1
Each colony is either all male or all female.1
Its sail is not a fin. It works like a sail, so the animal tends to drift downwind at a small angle to the wind.1
Its tiny jellyfish carry zooxanthellae, single-celled organisms that use sunlight to provide energy, a feature also found in corals.1
It has no means of moving other than its sail, so it depends on prevailing winds, and mass strandings on beaches happen in many parts of the world.1
Mai karya tatsuniya
Tatsuniya: Each blue sail is a single, simple animal.
Gaskiya: Each apparent individual is a colony of many connected polyps that share food and divide the work between feeding, reproductive and protective polyps.1
Don ƙwararru a kan dafi
- Sunan kimiyya
- Velella velella
- Rukuni
- Jellyfish da masu harbi na teku
- Iyali
- Porpitidae2
- Tsari
- Anthoathecata
- Nahiyoyi
- Tekun Pasifik, Tekun Atlantika, Tekun Indiya, Bahar Rum, Tekun Kudu, Antatika, Tekuna
- Jarirai
- Each colony's feeding polyps (gonozooids) bud off thousands of tiny jellyfish, each about 1 mm wide, over several weeks. These develop into a free-swimming larva called a conaria, which grows into a new floating colony.1
- Haɗari ga mutane
- 1 / 5: Mai sauƙi3
Inda bayanan suka fito
- Velella (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Velella velella (iNaturalist): sunaye da rarrabuwa.
- Venom Wiki: matakin haɗari, girman al'ada da ƙiyasin sauri namu ne. Ga yadda muke lissafa su: Yadda muke auna haɗari.
Kowane bayani a wannan shafi yana da lamba da ke nuna tushensa. Idan mun yi kuskure, ka yi haƙuri, mu masoya dabbobi ne, ba mujallar kimiyya ba. Ka gaya mana a [email protected] kuma za mu gyara.
Zarurruka masu harbi (tentacles)
Yadda za ka gane shi