On the latest episode of CreatureCast, from Casey Dunn’s evolutionary biology lab at Brown University, we meet the Fried Egg Jellyfish and learn about “some of the dramas that play out on jellyfish stages.” Sophia Tintori interviewed Trisha Towanda, and animated and edited the video. The music is by Amil Byleckie. From the episode description:
In the vast ocean, without walls and far from the floor, jellyfish can become drifting islands of activity. Creatures from far and wide will congregate on them to act out the ups and downs of life and death. Jellyfish have symbiotic relationships with living things of all sizes, from fish and shrimp that feed off them or off the pieces of food left between their tentacles, to single-celled photosynthesizing organisms that take shelter inside the cytoplasm of the jellyfish’s cells.
CreatureCast- Jellyfish Theater