The Deadly Portuguese Man O' War | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
As it floats on the surface of the ocean, the Man O' War looks beautiful and harmless but packs a killer sting with its deadly tentacles.
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Fun fact: many of these animals have never even been to Portugal, are not in fact men, and lack any sort of military experience.
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fuck fun facts - they are bullshit terms that sheep use. I bet you ware the mask and get needle crafted up - sheep. Baaaaaaa
@@TheJack4000111 ??? Bro how stupid are you to not get the joke, has a big ego and don't wear a mask bruh
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You sir, have won the internet with this comment :D
The fact that a group of Man O’War jellyfish isn’t referred to as an ‘Armada’ is a travesty.
They'd have to be called Spanish man o' war for it to apply.
Perhaps an armada of killer tentacles
Or at least a fleet...
They aren't jellyfish
This video was so shitty, we shouldn’t blame Aidan for thinking a man-o-war is a single animal or even a jellyfish. BBC should be ashamed for this video.
One time I was swimming off a beach on the East coast of Florida and the winds were incredible. I had no clue at the time that the purple flag at the lifeguard tower meant “jellyfish spotted”. Apparently the winds had blown in the Man o War to the shore. When I was swimming a wave washed one over me and the underside of the head planted on my back and the tentacles wrapped around my ribs. The pain was immediate and I fell and spun to get it off. Unfortunately when I spun the underside of the head hit me in the armpit. Most immense pain I have ever felt. Every muscle in my body was locking up when I made it to the life guard tower. Lot of the tentacles had detached on my back and were stuck there until the life guard let me into their shower. My vision even went weird for a while. Not like blacking out, but everything was wavy.
Jesus Christ man, I can feel it just reading
The vision stuff was probably from the shock of the pain, maybe a venom?. Sounds rough rough man stuff like that's why i'm always nervous about going into the ocean unprotected. It can be unpredictable, even on the surface levels (and the surface itself for that matter)
😰😰😰Now you know why I hate and am scared of water bodies, I never did and would never ever go into water, especially oceans😥😥😥
@@RSLPAIN wow yeah theres a 0.00001% chance something bad could happen so you dont go in the water, why the fuck do you leave your house then? you have a higher chance of being hit by a car, mugged robbed raped killed hit by lightning etc.... what a dumb mindset
@@zeening jeez, let people have their phobias
When the audio starts & you recognise Sir Attenborough's voice, you already know it's gonna be an interesting and beautiful documentary. I wish it was longer 😢
he’s such a wonderful man
Ikr This video is so beautiful
Same same 😩✨
This is from the documentary blue planet 2
I’m amazed that he can speak so clearly when he’s in the water
Even more amazing is how he didn't get paralyzed by those flimsy things
I loled.
@@adrianmathews7462 same
Hahaahahahaahahahahaahhhhahah
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0:43 I was working as a deckhand for a ship in Alaska and every now and then you would come across a group of these moon jellyfish. One night I went outside and noticed the ship was surrounded by these things, must have been tens of thousands however the amazing thing was the 4 rings on their back which were glowing orange/pink and their bodies which were blue. It was one of the most beautiful and surreal things I have ever seen. I even saw the northern lights and im not sure which was more magical.
Sounds like an awesome job!
Lucky for you man . Once in a lifetime one gets to see such stuff and you already have seen it.✨
must have been gorgeous to see. Those rings you mention are their stomachs. Some have 3, some have 5, most have 4. Very cool!
Dude.. U sure that wasnt Stardew Valley instead of Alaska?
The only thing missing were mermaids and a pirate ship 😂😂 But fr thats like really cool man
I’m always struck by how gorgeous the photography is in this series. Those shots of the jellies were stunning. Really interfering stuff.
Yep, been stung twice. By this very animal. One thing to keep in mind is that tentacle that have fallen off the jellyfish can still sting; that was what happened to me the second time. I got stung by a loose tentacle that wrapped itself around my wrist. The first time I was very young, and I saw a dead Man o war on the beach. Of course, to a sic year old this was a cool shiny blue thing, so I made the wise choice of digging in the sand right next to it. I did know basics about jellyfish, so I knew don’t touch the long ouches near its butt. Unfortunately the tentacles it still had were extremely thin and practically invisible, which is another thing to keep in mind: just because you can’t see the tentacle doesn’t mean it is not there. I got stung on the ankle 😕 Be safe everyone.
I did NOT know that some tentacles are very thin and therefore very difficult to spot. Thank you for this info
Dude I got stung today and I’m probably never going to the beach again. The pool is where I will be.
@@ebonymccalop100 lmaoo 😭😭
Same thing here, only I’m 14 and was trying to save the bastard that was beached
So it's not lethal to be stung?
The ocean is so alien it amazes me everytime
Straight up!
Subnautica IRL
Each and everytime
nah , its on earth lmao
Lizardman is real
As a teenager I was out surfing with my brother, now when you're surfing you have this band on a string, that is attached to the board, around your ankle. I had just entered the water so it was just hanging loose under the board, but sometimes brushing up against my leg. After a couple minutes the brushing became annoying and it felt like the string had wrapped itself around my leg. I pulled the string up and put it on the board with the band, but the feeling remained, quick note: At this point there was still no pain. I couldn't figure it out so I went back to shore, when I stepped out of the water I saw what had happened. One of these jellyfish had wrapped itself around my leg. Most of the times when people get attacked by them the tentacles can be removed by rubbing them off with sand, not with me. They were all tangled up around my leg and so the coastguard had to remove them one by one using pincers to untie the knots that had formed. I had never been in so much pain in my entire life, and it didnt go away for what felt like an eternity. 1/10 do not recommend
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Thank you for scaring me Roy
Damn dude
Glad you can tell the tale, sorry you experienced it!
They say you can feel pain even by reading words, I'm feeling it. Sorry to hear that
If the earth were to face an extreme world wide calamity, I want this man to deliver the news to all of us
well, this did age fine
He has been trying to just that for decades. Mass extinction, pollution and climate change but nah thats boring so why bother listen...
if? microplastics,.. global warming, (most)countries failing to get population-control/incentives convincing enough to only have 1 or 2 kids,.. atomic/nuclear energy madness,.. how many do you need?
@@Nifilheimur Calling Mr. Attenborough boring is punishable by death
@@hyhyd6135 never did, read again….
I've seen thousands of these little blue creatures that had drifted to the shore once. Honestly, they looked like something you would see in a scifi movie like Avatar.
Yeah except, unlike in Avatar almost everything that's beautiful here will kill you
Bluebottles. As a small child I saw one washed up on the beach, thought it was a blue balloon and picked it up. I ran crying all the way home.
maybe they were by-the-wind-sailors!! Just washed up on our SoCal shores and never seen them before today- so beautiful
@@gibbogle9486 Man O Wars do look like they were designed to trick young children into playing with them. They're such a pretty color, if they weren't a water balloon from hell, I'd want to touch them too.
david attenborough is a force of nature himself... and still with us at 95 years old. (2021)
Hell yeah he’s the greatest my kids love his work!!
And he had achieved more before he was 40 than 99.9% of us
dude I remember when he was only 69 ! wow how time flys
Don't jinx it now
Also they pushed that little fish into the tentacles and to it's death.
You know you're a beast when you literally have "war" in your name
Bro do you even sleep
You know you watch too much yt when you’ve seen this guy for the 69,420th time today…
Are there like, multiple of you? Or do you just never sleep.
Makes sense but you being everywhere questions many people
Thanks bro my name is Edward
I was stung by a large one of these while surfing - I was paddling and accidentally placed my arm directly into it, it immediately wrapped around my arm and hand with its “bell” planted just under my armpit, I had to take it off with my other hand and threw it away from me, but it stung my other hand hand face on the way out - it hurt more than I could imagine, but if you keep your heart rate down (because the “stings” are actually venomous barbs) and immediately bathe the area in white vinegar it really helps.
How do you keep your heart rate down in the moment? Especially while surfing
Vinegar? So it’s literally the wasp sting technique?
I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about that play out... that must've been horrible
I had one wrap around my leg as a kid. Warm water and vinegar.
Warm or hot water kills the pain Good luck finding a shower!
Props to the cameraman being able to do sick underwater parkour to avoid all these dangerous jellyfish
Quick fact: Although it superficially resembles a jellyfish, the Portuguese man o' war is in fact a siphonophore. Like all siphonophores, it is a colonial organism, made up of many smaller units called zooids. All zooids in a colony are genetically identical, but fulfill specialized functions such as feeding and reproduction, and together allow the colony to operate as a single individual. [Wikipedia]
Also interesting to point out that they operate like a hive mind. Literally like the ones we see in sci fi movies Mind boggling creatures. Love them
Thank you for citing your source. U are a good person
@@DLNBioletto how do you reckon they communicate? Chemical impulses and hormones?
Comunism that works
so it likes power ranger small robot that combine into one bigger robot
“That’s got to be the best pirate I’ve ever seen”
Rrrr matey
Crazy, I actually just watched that movie for the first time last night lol
So it would seem..
best movie ever
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Every time I see a Portuguese Man O’ War I am astounded by the fact that it’s a real creature.
I could listen to this man's voice for DAYS...I always have enjoyed his commentary.
Queen Elizabeth II loved his voice so much she knighted him.
When youre a fish swimming in the ocean and you hear David Attenborough speak "Most other fish... are not so lucky..."
Davin Attenbruhh
I love how the rays from the sunlight reflect off its tentacles and makes it look like electricity flowing through them.
That’s not sunlight shining down the tenticles. It actually has bioluminescence to attract prey.
@@fdavidmiller2 woah, for real? Ha, thats so cool! I thought that it was just the sunlight reflecting off its tentacles, too.
You love it? Go and give a kiss 💋😂👊
@@heavyweaponsscout9990 yeah, watch videos of them at night. They’re pretty cool. Just don’t get stung by one. 😅
@@Floridacoastwriter Yeah that sounds extremely painful. Electrical shock passes in a few minutes at most, with the actual pain vanishing immediately if you didn't get any burns.
I was diving once around the corner from Manly Beach in Sydney. On surfacing and taking my reg out, I copped a Portguese Man'o'war (or blue bottle as we call them here) across the face and neck. Distinctly remember begging at the kitchen door of a local restuarant for some vinegar to help with the sting. Not that it did much. Good times.
I watched this as a kid in a hotel on a trip somewhere, this started a lifelong fascination with the ocean and nature. One of my most vivid childhood experiences. So cool to see it again, still such a freaking cool clip.
This is from a documentary that aired five years ago.
@@aitismarka9483 might be mistaking it with an older one on the same subject :)
@@ViktorBlaskov Yeah, the first one came out at the turn of the century. Sorry if I seemed aggressive with my reply.
So gay
I did the same thing… ocean docu got me hyper fascinated
It’s crazy how a ball of stinging water with no brain is one of the most dangerous animals on earth
Republicans have no brain, but look how dangerous they are
@@DSAK55 that’s very …pointed haha I’m not American so I don’t know much about your politics but from what I’ve seen it’s fucking nuts over there 😂
@@DSAK55 wellFormer vice president Joe Biden doesn't have a brain and he is a Democrat......which makes him a puppet.
@@kevynhansyn2902 haha I have no idea about all this stuff 😂 I barely know what’s going on with my own countries political shit
@@scouser2010ify hint: recent elections in the U.S are less about choosing which president is better, it's more choosing which president is less bad. Biden is mediocre, and Trump is something else entirely, in a bad way.
I just want to say that to this day it absolutely fascinates me and takes my breathe away how the BBC team captures these incredibly amazing shots. Really. A deep thank you from the bottom of my heart.
It's all fake, done in a studio behind green screens with actors
They spend months getting those shots.
I'd be so terrified, the shot they did with the ocean filled with jellyfish from 1:00 to 1:30, that's a big nope for me lol
You spelled breath wrong
@Goodest Cat you mean thank you from the bottom of my wallet... I expect this quality because I have paid for it. The BBC is funded by the licence fee payer.
I got stung surfing here in Qld Australia once. I had a tentacle wrapped around my thigh and I thought it was fishing line so I went about freeing myself and a few seconds later the pain set in. It was quite painful for maybe an hour and I ended up with welts on my leg and hands but nothing too bad. By the evening I was fine but the welts on my skin lasted about a week I think.
That's why you should've never lived in Australia there are spider and other predators
happened to me in qld too, i got stung but it didn’t hurt for me the way others are claiming
@@cola_stealer5719 I purposely moved to Australia, it’s one of the most beautiful countries on earth and I see more spiders/bugs in my house in Canada then I do in my Australian place. As long as your near the beach you dont get anything really. Its if your inland that when the bugs appear
Which episode can I see this on?
Your first mistake was being in Australia
0:55 just reminds me of Finding Nemo 😂
Let's take a moment to appreciate the camera-man swimming through that jelly swarm
Remote controlled camera..
@@cometomyfrontdoor joke…..
@@cometomyfrontdoor let's take a moment to appreciate the camera-man remote controlling the camera through that jelly swarm
Pure quality shot looked like angels from avitar
@@cometomyfrontdoor clownery at its finest
The Man O’War, keeping surfers alert for over 70 years and counting.
My dad was surfing once and he fell in the water. When he was upright again he could feel he was standing on something soft. Turns out he was standing on a huge swarm of jellyfish
@@Zalidia was he okay after that? 👀
Same question 😂
All will cower before us!
Portuguese man o war not a jellyfish
That last scene with the ocean and clouds was so beautiful
Anything David does a voiceover for is always on point!
I did a school presentation on this animal in 1996, and finally get to see the best footage ever of this animal, amazing
No you didn’t
@@socallawrence Is it really that hard to believe someone did a school project on a jelly fish?
@@FRSpartan I’m messing with the guy relax. Don’t get all jelly
@@socallawrence nice lol
Oh yea I remember you getting kicked out of class after your presentation 😂😂😂👊
Octopus: The most alien creature on Earth. Man of War: Hold my tentacle.
Lol hahahahaha
No doubt, four different animals from the same genes.
I'd have to say the bacteriophage is the most alien like creature on the planet. It is a virus, that uses bacteria as a host, injecting its RNA into a bacteria, copying itself until the bacteria explodes, and if you haven't seen it you should really check it out. Reminds me of war of the worlds. Although, the jellyfish is definitely up there.
Tip: Don't hold its tentacles.
And Siphonosphore is the ancient alien.
Could you imagine, if jellyfish weren’t venomous, how cool it would be to swim with a whole bunch of them? THAT would be cool.
You can definitely swim with moon jellies. They are minimally toxic, and they are gorgeous. But, the green turtles find them delicious.
@@novemberkilo3481 *quickly loads plastic straws*
I grew up on the east side of Oahu, Hawaii. If you are a waterman there, it is inevitable that you will be stung. It was always just a normal occurrence for us. If you don't know what you are experiencing, I'm sure that it can be terrifying, because the pain is unique and quite severe as stings go. For us, it was just expected and tolerated. Once I was surfing Kualoa Point and I got stung around 7 times in 1 session. lol!
So not just me. It looks like what we have in east coast of South Africa but we got stung by these as kids badly wrapped all around the arm and it sucked but I'd say the sting doesn't last that long just a few hours max. Like a stinging nettle but with odd deeper pain throbs at first then just a dull pain then gone.
Yep in auatralia they are looked at like an ant bite. Only pussies react as if its bad or if the person is allergic which is rare. As kids we used to throw them at one another. Its very wierd how alot americans over react to things like this.
you mean by a jellyfish or a man o war? bc if you meant 7 times stung by a man o war, holy shit you deserve a medal or something
@@sarahgooey by man-o-war. I'm sure there are many people in Hawaii that got stung more than that in one session. When the east wind comes in strong it brings all the man-o-war with it, and sometimes the ocean will be covered! If you get stuck in a patch, you're screwed lol.
Same thing here in Oz man,..used to get stung all the time as a kid...😂
That music is about as close as you can get to Pirates of the Caribbean without breaking copyright, loving it
Agreed!
It's feels like it keeps on being just one note away from being exact.
Hans Zimmer's touch all over it
Since the siphonophore has music that is pirate-themed, it's appropriate. But be warned me maties, If Disney get 'er hands on it, Then this story will be part of their chapter! Argh! ☠️
BBC Earth: When you want nature documentaries done right.
@Emerald Triangle BBC bunch of commies? BBC is somewhat balanced and fair. If they’re commies then what do you call the guardian?
@Emerald Triangle thinks anything to the left of Dubya is Commienism
@Emerald Triangle is probably an american citizen.
@Emerald Triangle The BBC isn't actually aligned with any specific ideology but rather the ideology, policies and interests of the ruling party. The BBC after all is a government organization and thus must maintain good relations with the current administration to maintain funding from the government. Which is why the BBC's reporting is generally favorable to the current ruling party and unfavorable to those who oppose it.
too morbid and sadistic about death
fun fact : the portugese man o war is not a jellyfish, and it's not a single organism. It's a colony of zoides, which are homogues of free medusae and polypes. It's a city with a floating baloon.
Amazing Thank you for wonderfully captured
Some of the most beautiful shots of sea life (and effectively every other form of life) comes from BBC Earth and it's associates. Truly masterful work.
This...is the cinderblock. Unlike it's red cousins which are solid, cinderblocks have hollow cavities enabling these workers to perform magic!
The world gets to see what we brits have to pay £160 per year to watch. Or we go to court and face a £1000 fine for not having a TV licence. So if you're thinking of moving here don't forget your TV licence because believe you me, the BBC won't.
Almost everything in this video is CGI
@@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 Mate, the world doesn't get to watch it for free. The BBC makes millions a year selling shows to other countries and running channels such as BBC America. On top of that, they're making money off this video with KZhead ads. Try thinking for yourself and finding out how the BBC works yourself rather than parroting what some dumb dumb on TV told you.
Wow. I forgot how next-level the cinematography in these documentaries are. Absolutely stunning.
Early onset alzheimers?
salty
How amazing it is to see this short video. Thank you Sir David and BBC Earth team. At the first glance I may think it's some See through balloon floating on the sea because of its beautiful reflective neon surface
I jumped on one as a small kid. My sister and I were playing in the waves and we saw it. I thought it was a potato chip bag and she argued it was a womans hat. Very unfortunately, I discovered it was neither. My father picked me up from the waves and had to be hospitalized because the tentacles left stingers in my skin and they transferred to him on his chest and he started having chest pains and his heart was racing. Scary stuff.
I truly enjoy these discoveries. The world is so dangerously and beautifully complexed.
Man when I found out that Hanz zimmer did the music I wasnt even surprised
Yep, its so good
He did?!
@@LIONTAMER3D yes
That means you have a serious aliment.
You can definitely hear the Pirates of the Caribbean influence in there.
"a more complex, and sinister creature..." sir david attenborough perfectly describing my ex...
lmao
My current. 🙄
@@warnpassion my resistance
waaaaay underrated comment.
@@warnpassion also waaaaay underrated comment.
What a wonderful show. Thanks Dave.
3:39 The man o war fish looking at the other fish like "bro gtf outta here you cant handle this thing like I can"
Awesome cinemetography its epic 🤩🤩
@Harry Harry Ngl its worth it. BBC is utter trash but their nature documentaries are gold
@CYB3R2K30 deez nuts
*cinematography
I agree 💯
@@Davidovar34 *no one cares
Got stung by one at the beach when I was about 7 years old. 43 years later, I can still remember the pain.
I got stung by one at 11 y/o 24 years later i also remember the pain - was taken to hospital. It was so painful I was vomiting the whole time
It’s quite a distinctive pain.
Same here. I was 13. Pain was unreal. I did not go to the hospital, and only learned later the next day it was a man o war.
@@dbvball damn yea that sucks but I was lucky and a tentacle from a dead one got latched onto my arm. For someone like me who’s a real bitch with pain I’m surprised i was able to deal with it until I was able to treat it
It's the itching afterwards for a week that bugs me. Unless you ice it constantly, which works.
It continues to fascinate me just how many and how varied and how wondrous are all the living creatures that inhabit this planet
These shots are absolutely gorgeous
I've heard that the sting from one of these is the most unbearable pain a person can experience. My father lived in Australia for many years and told us tales of giant snakes, great white sharks and huge saltwater crocodiles but he always said what he feared most was the Portuguese man o'war.
I got stung on the foot and it wasn't GOOD, but I wouldn't say it's the worst pain I've ever experienced. Appendicitis was worse
Your thinking of a cone shell but yeah
I live in Australia too. Got stung by one of these (we call them blue bottles) when I was about 7. I remember the pain being bad but not unbearable. Could be different for everyone though.
@@InspectorNeo a Portuguese man o war is not a blue bottle
@@seanoreilly1832 Yes it is
I used to swim out towards the reefs around Bermuda when living there. Almost always alone. One time I found myself with PMOW’s surrounding me at 12 o clock 3 o clock and 9 each no more than a metre away. My heart rate soared as I was a bout 200 metres from the nearest beach and assumed stings may well be severely disabling. Thankfully no JF was behind me and I back swam as carefully as possible, swam out to sea and around these lethal animals before heading back to shore. I think quite possibly I was extremely lucky that day
Lucky you are a strong swimmer.
you were extremely lucky and unlucky at the same time
I don't get half of the terms you just used
@@jebaite525 POMW is the portugese man o’ war, JF is jellyfish , and the o’ clock things referred that he saw them wandering in front of him(12o’ clock), on his right (3 o’ clock) and on his left (9 o’ clock) so he back swam”med”.
@@Ashish.1.1 damn thanks
So beautiful , nature is an amazing thing and as much as we've learned there's so much more thats unknown.
Props 👏 to the camera man for dodging all those Man O’ War’s for us & providing everyone with this amazing footage
full-body diving suits are too thick for the stingers. :)
We have to remember that these creatures are not necessarily predatory in nature and that they tend to float around the oceans and survive by chancing upon fish who think they might be a good meal (very stupid fish). Also it should be noted that, if you are ever stung by one, someone peeing on you isn't going to alleviate the pain but it will make for an hilarious story later on.
so technically... the ppl that get stung are in the same bracket as the stupid fish lmao
Just ask R Kelly
@@guyhaydu364 Or just incredibly unlucky.
yeah! aren't they like countless different individuals that operate as one, every animal taking on a separate role, as if they're giant cells?
How is an animal that has survived as a species for millions of years stupid 🤨
The cinematography in this series is INCREDIBLE!
What intimidating yet breathtakingly beautiful creatures!
Thank you.
May this man and his amazing narrating voice live forever 😭❤️
I remember being really young walking along the beach picking one of these up thinking it was a water balloon, worst pain of my life I nearly died as i touched my chest, will never forget that day
Why did you touch your chest?
Your parents didn’t warn you?! 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
My god I hope you are doing okay that must have been hell 😨
Why did you touch your chest
Why did you touch your chest?
Here i was, not knowing about this creature's existence, expecting a documentary about some big boat. I'm happy i was wrong, this was beautiful!
I don't know why I find this thing so funny, it just looks so determined when it's floating on the ocean
Portuguese Man O' War *aren't* a single animal. They are a *colony* of thousand of individual animals calls zooids. Each zooid starts identical, and they changes into different forms (for reproduction, eating, locomotion, and capturing prey)
Underrated comment here. What a fascinating creature! It challenges our finite definitions of a living creature.
Natures version of a Borg colony
@@johnnardini6140 Resistance is futile. Just ask the little fish.
I mean forgive my ignorance, but can’t the same be said for humans?
@@lpquig37 kinda. Sci show explained it better than I can: kzhead.info/sun/hbakY7qpfGuQops/bejne.html
The ocean never ceases to amaze me. That thing doesn’t even look real!!
It looks like something from TRON or Aeon Flux not an actual animal in the ocean
I grew up next door to a shipyard and we'd jump the bridge and swim, every August the jellyfish would come in the bay, the size of hubcaps, millions, we'd jump right into them and swim through them, kinda weird feeling but they were harmless, horseshoe crabs would also come into the shallows. Jellyfish are amazing creatures.
colony-lifeforms are not jellyfish. very similar though. easily mistaken.
I really like Sir Attenborough’s narration It just touches ur heart
If he eventually dies, nature loses her biggest champion
You would call him sir you potato
@@ramonvandebeek well lets not think about that yet, holy crap i just searched his age and he's 95! He look way too young to be 95.
Heart attack? 😱
@@ramonvandebeek we should digitally clone his voice so he can narrate into the future
I'm surprised they didn't mention one of the most interesting aspects of the Man O' War: that it isn't one creature. It's a colony of hundreds of individual creatures.
really?
@@Ashish.1.1 yeah so the Man O’War is a type of Siphonophorae which are made of individual creatures called Zooids, which start out identical but can specialise for feeding or breeding etc. Zooids can be connected by tissue or live within one shared exoskeleton. Zooids can’t be fully independent and need the colony (in this case the Man O’War). So the Man O’War isn’t one creature like a fish, more so like a hive of bees, where an individual bee couldn’t function alone. Interestingly, all the individual Zooids forming a single colony will be of one gender and reproduce by releasing eggs or sperm, depending on gender, which is fertilised by the opposite gender. This creates a single larvae which goes through a process know as asexual budding, which basically and simply put is the larvae cloning itself. This is why the Zooids are all identical to begin with as they are all genetic copies of the original larvae.
@@tommybradly3735 So like the Man-of-war ship, it's made up of hundreds of different types of specialist crew.
@@Choppytehbear1337 Affirmative, dude. It's literally like a living brain
So basically they're just a pirate, cool lol
David Attenborough” Watched hi for the first time when I was about 10 in 1982 Bless him. Even now there’s no one like him. 🥰 👍👍👍👍👍THUMBS UP👍👍👍👍👍
This is the single most terrifying thing I have seen on any Earth/Animal show
1:10 Uhhh cameraman? You gonna be alright?
Yes. The cameraman never dies.
What I find most surprising about the Man o War, is that it's not acting as a single entity but smaller parts of it working together kinda like an ant colony I guess is what I remember reading somewhere. It makes my head hurt trying to understand that there could be so many different species behaving like this one out there that we haven't discovered yet. Truly amazing.
You is correct! Man o’ War are a species of siphonophores-which is essentially a colony of specialized zooids. Absolutely beautiful and seemingly alien!
I've heard that jellyfish reproduce by dropping these things at the bottom of the ocean that straight up manufacture columns of the creatures. Edit: I just looked it up, they're called polyps, really fascinating things that are like little jellyfish factories.
Great footage!
That has got to be the best Pirate I've ever seen!
I was in Galveston, TX once, and saw thousands of those littered across the beach in a mass die-off. I recognized them from the float. As the video mentioned, portugese man-o-war are not jellyfish, but Siphonophores, which are even weirder. Look into those and how they grow if you want to have your mind blown.
Siphonophores are cnidaria bro, one is an order, the other is the phyllum
@@Booklat1 You're right. I had it in my head that they were their own phylum, kind of like brachiopoda.
2:30 Thats the best pirate ive ever seen!
Ok cool
So it would seem
@@badihassan9873 for info, man of War is a type of big ship. That usually being used by privateers and pirates. Hence the joke. Hope you understand now, normie.
@@zondor8123 lmfao!
2:22 that’s got to be the best pirate I’ve ever seen!
I love how the light shining through the waves makes the tentacles look like they're shimmering, like it's charged.
2:14 “Thats gotta be the best pirate I’ve ever seen” “So it would seem”
I hope this guys voice lives on forever. Cause man this voice has taught me a lot about the world
Fantastic photography in this wildlife programme.
I’m utterly Amazed
I went to this beach once and saw a lot these "blue plastic baloon" stranded, even some still floating I knew that it was some sort of jellyfish so i didn't try to touch it's tentacles, I didn't want to take risks Thank god i have some sense
The fun fact is that it isnt actually a jellyfish at all but a much more complex organism.
@@benhook1013 Your "fun fact" isn't so fun if you're the one stung! And This is why I lived in Florida for 3 years & never went in the Gulf Once! (my kids did tho, either ignorance IS bliss or they're fearless)
@@marshawargo7238 lmao you’re fine. I swim in the gulf all the time and have never come across any man of wars in the water. You’d know not to swim if you see them on the shore but any other time you’ll be alright
@@cjwhite7801 Yah, but it's not Just them! There r A Lot of things out there, lurking under the surface-hiding-waiting! (Too many movies) I've lived on Lake Erie when I didn't live on the Gulf & I have no problem going in that water. & I Know there's stuff in that water too, but it doesn't bother me. (Back to the movies again)
@@benhook1013 It's a cnidarian called Physalia. Jellyfish belongs to the the same Phyllum, Cnidaria, as well.
I watched a massive swarm of man O war small fry blow onto the shore at Mission Beach California. They were amazingly mobile with the slightest breeze moving each one this way and that. Their small fleshy sails reflected the setting sun and were very colorful.
Such a chill and awesome thing.
I’m just wondering how the cameraman manages to survive swimming through the jellyfish forest without getting stung
drone.
They use a seadrine camera
Trial and error.
Everytime I visit the BBC channel im amazed by the true beauty of nature over and over again... Earth is so stunning and breathtaking. In combination with the great pictures this is a true mind therapie
Absolutely amazing creatures, no one captures the wondrous shots and close ups of the Natural world quite like the BBC and God forbid anything ever happens to David Attenborough, the world will be a much poorer place without him. An absolute national treasure. Watching a nature program without his narration just seems so unnatural to me. Come on BBC, get Blue planet 3 and Planet Earth 3 made while we still have this man around to present them :)
@Atomic-Wedgie Inc. BBC or PMOW?
The natural world, is not one of Jehovah's fortes. A bit preoccupied with imitating roman-brats to the point of absurdity & hypocrisy? , i'm led to believe? There's only so much that he-alone, could possibly help with. Perhaps a god of healing, or protection, would be a better idea.
Amazing production
Shout-out to the cameraman for letting himself be stung by jellyfish so that we can enjoy this beautiful footage.
this guy can narrate a brick and make it sound intresting 🔥
Well he has been doing narration of some form for around 81 years
Lol, true!
My first thought when seeing all those jellyfish was “imagine how terrifying it would be to swim in the middle of all those, trying not to get stung” - and then j realized that someone had to do that to get that shot 😂
The clear ones aren't poisonous.
Could have been a remote controlled drone lol
it probably was a drone, but same thoughts went through my mind too!
No, it’s drones for sure, divers are actually a liability, since they can spook animals too easily.
My first thought was to search for nemo
I can listen to his voice all day everyday of my life
This video is clearer than my own vision
Portuguese Man O' war is one of my favorites, learning about them is fascinating to know, great video love it.
The seagulls flying past are warning, “Hey, human, you’re getting too close to that nasty thing floating nearby. Better create some distance, if you want to live.”
How nice of them
Watching this before my marine biology exam 🤣. Keeping jokes apart it was quite informative.
I got stung while surfing in Florida. I paddled over it and got stung in the legs as I went over it. The pain started at the feet, then slowly worked its way up to knees, groin and stomach. It hurt like no tomorrow. I went home and laid down and slept for a few hours and the pain started going away. Amen!
Listen, I had a swarm of these on my legs whilst I was on the Gold Coast. I can tell you the sting feels like really, really, really severe sun burn right under a hot sun. You begin to feel weak and sleepy. Then if the pain gets too much usually the doctor will give you augmentin for a week or so Then after a couple of days the swelling starts to go down. But it’s a horrible memory.
Holy cow, did it leave scars? Can they kill you or do you just wish you were dead at that moment?
Liar
@@cathy_p637 You aren’t loved by anybody, are you.
@@froglobster left hand or right hand.
I'm from Sydney, and I've been stung a number of times by them. It's one of those experiences where you really know you're alive, but not in a pleasant way.