🎵Look at this critter, isn’t it neat? Siphonophores make the deep sea complete. Drifting around here you think, the deep sea has everything.
There are fishes and jellies aplenty. There are crabs and sea stars galore. You want isopods? There are many. And we care, they’re a big deal, we want to know moooooooore!
We want to be where the siphonophores are, we want to sea, want to sea them drifting…🎵
While siphonophores look like one animal, they’re actually colonies of individual animals, called zooids, that work together. Each connected zooid has a specialized role—such as swimming, feeding, or reproducing—and shares a single gut.
This photo of a common siphonophore (Nanomia bijuga) shows off its delightful orange stinging tentacles, circular zooids called nectophores that contract to help the colony swim, and a tiny bubble-like pneumatophore that helps the animal float.
The best part about this animal? It’s part of your world!
quick thing for them - happy birthday zen'in twins <3
[ID: An image of Maki and Mai Zen'in from Jujutsu Kaisen. Both are wearing their school uniforms and are visible bust up. Mai stands to Maki's left and glares at her, annoyed, teeth gritted and a vein popping in her forehead. She wears a pink and white birthday cone hat with sparkly gold tinsel lining the rim and the top. Maki looks up and to her right, irritated, and holds a red balloon in her left hand. The words "Jan 20" are written in all caps in yellow color.]
This was the moment Straw Hat Luffy became "Bucket Hat Luffy" at the 97th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 23, 2023. A lot of balloons experienced tears and deflation because of windy conditions.