Portuguese man o' war
The Portuguese man o' war looks like a jellyfish, but it is actually a colony of many tiny linked animals that work together as one. It drifts on the surface of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, and its long tentacles sting prey. Its sting is painful to people, and in some cases it can kill them.1

Ndenge ya koyeba yango
- A gas-filled bladder called the pneumatophore floats on the surface and acts as a sail.1
- Long tentacles, which can reach over 30 m, hang below the surface.1
- The float can be up to 30 cm long, 13 cm wide and 15 cm tall.1
- Groups can be large, sometimes over 1,000 animals.1
- The sail may be left- or right-handed, depending on the way the wind catches it.1
Bakosanaka yango mbala mingi na: It superficially resembles a jellyfish, but it is a siphonophore, a colonial animal made of many smaller units called zooids.1
Makasi ya venin
Ba cellule ya mike nkoto na nkoto oyo etubaka ebetaka ntango eloko moko esimbi yango.
Venin na yango esalaka nini?
Its tentacles carry nematocysts, tiny coiled, thread-like stingers that inject venom on contact. The venom can paralyse small fish and other prey. The sting is powerful enough to kill fish, crustaceans and, in some cases, humans.1
Likama na yango mpo na bato ezali boni?
Likama mpo na bato: Ya makasiSoki etubi yo, kende epai ya monganga. Kokufa ezalaka mpenza mbala moke.Its stings are painful and it is well known to beachgoers. In some cases the sting can kill humans. Large groups can also reduce fish populations and damage fishing supplies.1
Esalaka nini ntango ebangi?
When attacked at the surface, it can deflate its pneumatophore and temporarily submerge.1
Soki etubi
- Bima na mai mpe longola ba tentacule nyonso (na ba gants to na elamba).
- Mpo na ba méduse-boîte ya mai ya molunge: sopa vinaigre na esika etubami mpo na sekonde 30 to koleka, benga lisalisi mpe bongisama mpo na kosala RCP (massage ya motema). Mpo na ba bluebottle mpe mingi mosusu: sukola na mai ya mbu, sima na mai ya moto mpo na pasi.
Benga ntango nyonso nimero ya urgence liboso (112, 000, 911). Oyo ezali toli ya lisalisi ya liboso, ezali toli ya monganga te. Makambo ya moboko ya lisalisi ya liboso
Zala na libateli
- Ata mokolo moko te, simba, kanga to silikisa nyama ya zamba te, ata ya moke, mpe ata soki emonani lokola elali to ekufi.
- Tika yango esika. Soki okutani na moko, zala kimia, zonga sima malembe mpe tika ekende nzela na yango.
- Soki moko etubi yo: zala kimia, ningana te, benga nimero ya urgence na yo (112, 000, 911) to kende na lopitalo noki. Kanisa ndenge ezalaki, foto esalisaka.
Ezali koluka yo te. Esalelaka venin na yango mpo na kokanga bilei to komibatela, mpe elingaka mingi kobombama. Makambo mosusu mpo na komibatela
Wapi na mokili?
Monene na yango boni?
Molai na yango boni?
molai lokola ba brique ya masano 5 na molongo
ekoki kobeta mai molai ya piscine monene (50 m) na sekonde 180Portuguese man o' war azali monene boni soki tokokanisi na YO?
Kaka ba calcul na navigateur na yo. Eloko moko te ebombamaka to etindamaka esika moko.
Mbangu na yango boni?
Makambo ya solo
It is not a single animal. It is a colony of zooids, all genetically identical, that work together like organs in one body.1
The blanket octopus is immune to its venom and uses broken tentacles as weapons.1
Its float can produce carbon monoxide, which makes up as much as 13% of the gas inside it.1
The loggerhead sea turtle eats it regularly, because its thick skin protects it from the stings.1
The man-of-war fish can live among its tentacles and feeds on them, while avoiding being stung.1
Solo to lokuta?
Lokuta: It is a jellyfish.
Solo: It only looks like a jellyfish. It is a siphonophore, a colony of many linked zooids.1
Mpo na ba expert ya venin
- Kombo ya siansi
- Physalia physalis
- Ebota
- Ba méduse & banyama ya mbu oyo etubaka
- Libota
- Physaliidae2
- Molongo
- Siphonophorae
- Bakontina
- Océan Atlantique, Océan Pacifique, Océan Indien, Mer Méditerranée, Mer des Caraïbes, Golfe du Mexique, Ba océan
- Bana
- Each colony is either male or female, and eggs or sperm are released into the water, where a fertilised egg develops into a planula (a free-swimming larva) that grows into a new colony.1
- Likama mpo na bato
- 3 / 5: Ya makasi3
Esika makambo euti
- Portuguese man o' war (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Physalia physalis (iNaturalist): bankombo mpe classification.
- Venom Wiki: niveau ya likama, monene ya momesano mpe kokanisa ya mbangu ezali ya biso moko. Tala ndenge tolukaka yango: Ndenge tomekaka likama.
Likambo nyonso na lokasa oyo ezali na nimero oyo elakisi source na yango. Soki tosali libunga, limbisa biso, tozali bato oyo balingaka banyama, zulunale ya siansi te. Yebisa biso na [email protected] mpe tokobongisa yango.
Ba tentacule oyo etubaka

