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

Maziviro ayo
- 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
Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: It superficially resembles a jellyfish, but it is a siphonophore, a colonial animal made of many smaller units called zooids.1
Simba reuturu
Zviuru zvemasero madiki anobaya zvinopfura kana chimwe chinhu chazvibata.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
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
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: YakakombaKubayiwa kunoda chiremba. Kufa hakuwanzoitiki zvachose.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
Inoitei kana yatya?
When attacked at the surface, it can deflate its pneumatophore and temporarily submerge.1
Kana ikabaya
- Buda mumvura ubvise matentacle ose (nemagirovhosi kana nejira).
- Kune jellyfish yebhokisi yekunzvimbo dzinopisa: dira vhiniga pakabayiwa kwemasekondi 30 zvishoma, shevedza rubatsiro ugare wakagadzirira kuita CPR. Kune bluebottle nedzimwe zhinji: suka nemvura yegungwa, wozoshandisa mvura inopisa kuderedza marwadzo.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana imwe ikakubaya: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Kupi pasi rose?
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
yakareba sezvidhinha zvematoyi 5 zvakateedzana
inogona kushambira kureba kwedziva guru rekushambira (50 m) mumasekondi 180Portuguese man o' war yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
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
Kuputsa ngano
Ngano: It is a jellyfish.
Chokwadi: It only looks like a jellyfish. It is a siphonophore, a colony of many linked zooids.1
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Physalia physalis
- Boka
- Majellyfish nezvimwe zvinobaya zvegungwa
- Mhuri
- Physaliidae2
- Odha
- Siphonophorae
- Makondinendi
- Gungwa reAtlantic, Gungwa rePacific, Gungwa reIndia, Gungwa reMediterranean, Gungwa reCaribbean, Gulf yeMexico, Makungwa makuru
- Vacheche
- 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
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 3 / 5: Yakakomba3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Portuguese man o' war (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Physalia physalis (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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Matentacle anobaya

