Timfish Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 New video from National Geographic shows coral plyps collaborating to eat jellyfish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sWsY962tD4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra Bravo Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 I had seen that and read a brief blurb about it somewhere recently. I don't know if I'd call it collaboration, however. There are multiple polyps all in the process of eating the jellyfish, sure, but I don't know how much of a collaborative effort it is other than the jellyfish touched the tentacles of other polyps. Now if some of the adjoining ones stretched over of their own accord and attached themselves as a response to the other polyps trying to hold the jellyfish. . . I would say that would qualify. P.S. - Re-read this. . . to be clear I'm not disputing Timfish directly; that's the word they used in the article and video description. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 Here's a quote from the researcher's paper "The colonies display synchronized capture of the jellyfish". They didn't see the behavior they observed in their research as random behavior that just happened to be coincidental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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