Swallowed Whole - a comb jelly preying on a comb jelly

Beroe ovata (Ctenophora, Nuda, Beroida, Beroidae) preying on Ocyropsis cristallina (Ctenophora , Tentaculata, Lobata, Ocyropsidae)
Beroid comb jellies lack tentacles and often swallow entire large preys, usually other gelatinous planktonic organisms. Inside their large mouth there are a special type of cilia - the macrocilia - used to bite and seize their prey.
Beroe ovata is a voracious predator and may be found in dense aggregations.
See also:
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Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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[@Nothaut]

ASSIMILATE WITH ME, FELLOW JELLY

[@mixingof12]

lmao

[@KokoroKatsura]

A N I M E N I M E

[@saber2802]

Imagine a bigger comb jelly and eats the comb jelly with a comb jelly in it.

[@red_dulge]

Holy shit, that's crazy vore right there.

[@red_dulge]

@Patrick Bentley Comb jelly-ception bro.

[@dxuhuang]

There's always a bigger comb jelly. - Qui-Gon Jinn

[@MrSviggels]

It was so sudden and violent.

[@adrianguzman6680]

Mr.Sviggels j

[@saber2802]

Do jelly fish.. poop?

[@theshiberealm9022]

they have waited one year for this question come on

[@dweebteambuilderjones7627]

1. These are comb jellies, not jellyfish. Different phylum. 2. Yes.

[@d0ewithafro102]

The struggling makes me hella uncomfortable

[@kylieharris24]

I'm sure the digestion was more uncomfortable

[@fieldingtrevino37]

Agar.io 2 looks lit

[@vuldrae1638]

this is some intense vore going on

[@itsdragoninawagon]

i thought the same thing lmfao, it gave me weird vorish vibes

[@annavilla5564]

Me as a ctenephora: *eats BFF ctenephora* Mom: Where's your friend? Isn't she having a play date here? Me: Lol

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

It's eerie being able to witness the whole process of how a prey is swallowed whole and digested alive... Even including the moments when fragments of it start circulating in its predator's body.

[@Dieg0_Was_H3re]

Vore, basically

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

@@Dieg0_Was_H3re Minus I'm not s*xually excited by it...

[@youarelife3437]

Prey: Hey! hey! Wtf? I have to get out of here. I don't wanna be on this flight! Attendant: Sorry sir! Digestion is already in progress.

[@saywhut6436]

It's like reverse-pregnancy

[@thunderfox53]

You mean unbirth?

[@AbsoluteMongoloid]

@@thunderfox53 We don't talk about that.

[@icecreamsamwich]

most comb jellies don't seem to put much effort into actually surviving case in point, the smaller one in this video apparently didn't even realize it was dying

[@icecreamsamwich]

***** by not having a brain, apparently

[@extrasalty703]

MiltonPlayzGames jelly fish are one of the oldest living thing on earth meaning they did not evolve and stayed the same state, in that case they don't have brains so they don't think so they can't tell what's happening, instead they have other strategies to survive

[@andreashoppe1969]

@@icecreamsamwich Yet I can name plenty people who's IQ seems to be even lower than that of a jelly fish

[@elijahlopez1352]

Andreas Hoppe You promised not to tell anyone

[@loskrem]

@Gap yes.

[@kylieharris24]

I get the feeling a lot of people weren't here for education and that is... concerning

[@moderndaymedusa82]

This is pretty cool. Also, I'm here because I was watching the Octonauts (cartoon about Marine biologist ) and I expected that watching this jellyfish eat was going to be neat

[@SONofaGoddess]

That was absolutely insane.. I want more 🤲🏽

[@andreashoppe1969]

a no-brainer getting eaten by a no-brainer…

[@pandathered9724]

CW: Vore.

[@Dieg0_Was_H3re]

Yeah

[@loskrem]

It's basically 'conscious' water inside a lot of water eating more 'conscious' water.

[@etherealg3940]

tbf, that describes pretty much all lifeforms

[@shanesmith906]

This looks so alien

[@nicklerick]

How! IT'S BREAKING THE RULES! HOW DID IT DO THAT! WHERE IT IT'S BRAIN! HOW DID IT FIGURE OUT WHERE IT WAS! HE'S HACKING! AIMBOT! BAN HIM!

[@Rantsack]

Seeing the small jellyfish moving inside is like watching a human fetus kicking its mother belly.

[@colton.421]

Anybody else main the Comb Jelly in the game Outside? Nice to see them still viable in a meta revolving around intelligence builds

[@PESEDILDI]

Big jellyfish this is name beroe ovata

[@fabiomoretzsohn3290]

Very good, Alvaro! Great images, as usual! Saudades do CEBIMar. Abs, Fabio

[@AlvaroMigotto]

Olá Fábio! Estamos esperando você aqui no CEBIMar. Um grande abraço.

[@serenity_zero]

the whole nature is like this basically

[@mandysyoutubething]

Wow! That guy slurps! Heh heh heh

[@joeyskyde4552]

I know someone is going to be into this

[@pedroarruda2261]

At what level is canibalism intense? Specie? Genus? Family? I’m curious for articles that can explain my question. O know it varies for other groups, but Ctenophore is a fresh start.

[@rustyshackleford9888]

Cannibalism specifically refers to eating the same species. Ctenophores belong to an extremely ancient lineage of animals, and the Beroe and Ocyropsis genera belong to separate lineages of ctenophores that likely diverged from each other at least a few hundred millions of years ago. So this ctenophore is no less cannibalistic than you eating fried chicken. That being said, even if a human eating a chimp isn't technically cannibalism since we are different species, it still poses some of the same risks associated with cannibalism, considering we are "relatively" closely related, and diseases can spread more easily between us, than say between us and a cow.

[@andreashoppe1969]

that escalated quickly

[@santiruiz3634]

In 0:35 both of them launched themselves LOL I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING 🤣🤣🤣

[@Zero0Vampire]

What a way to go...

[@LastWordSword]

"Easy prey!" *SNAP* *FWOOMF* "Now that I've blown you inside out, you *are* easy prey!"

[@mariozambrano6230]

What’s the size of these things?

[@ekerslithery5955]

Typically around 2cm

[@kashewz]

holy shit what was the 2nd thing?

[@jaguarfacedman1365]

kashewz The big one?

[@georgieippolito9924]

just so you know those type of comb jellyfish glow in the dark when disturbed.

[@Mirシ-l1j]

They’re like giant microscopic organisms

[@muddwhistle3595]

My cousin Cletus swallowed one of these once, nothing happened to him but he died later from the poisen

[@ramielamegarde]

These dudes are like a big microscopic creature..

[@wanderirivers8151]

How big are these?

[@AlvaroMigotto]

Both were quite small, The large one (Beroe ovata) was about 1.5 cm long.

[@baybossSKS]

Looks like bacteria under a microscope

[@freshboy3968]

Aren't these the neonlight signs of the sea?

[@viloscohaagen4230]

Image if this happened to a human?

[@sparten316]

Science @_@

[@nickg.4504]

0:38 *DEJA VU!*

[@yiwoon_cr8s]

*C A N N I B A L I S M*

[@red_dulge]

It do be like that.

[@fullamorofgod8307]

are these the same type of comb jellies?

[@AlvaroMigotto]

Two different species, Christina.

[@andreashoppe1969]

Technically jellyfish can't think (no brain), but they don't know it, so they survive anyways.

[@elijahlopez1352]

Andreas Hoppe What an awesome comment