Posted on 07/12/2020 5:41:32 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Every summer an influx of jellyfish is seen off the Israeli coast. This year the jellyfish are bigger than normal.
As Israel's yearly jellyfish influx approaches its apex, University of Haifa's Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences has been studying the ecology and life cycle of jellyfish along Israel's coast. And as a huge swarm of jellyfish appeared off Haifa's coast, the University's researchers took the opportunity to get up close and personal with Israel's all-too-familiar summer marine animals — and this year they're larger than ever.
"Overall, this is the summer bloom of jellyfish that we anticipate, but there's a slight difference in the size of jellyfish — on average, they're bigger this year than in other years," explained University of Haifa Professor Dror Angel.
"We had a very rainy winter this year, and the runoff that reached the sea provided a lot of nutrients that contributed to the formation of the jellyfish bloom. The nutrients feed the algae; the algae bloom and are eaten by small plankton herbivores, and these are then eaten by the jellyfish."
Could increases to the size of the jellyfish have anything to do with the coronavirus pandemic we're experiencing and decrease in human presence along the country's shores? According to Prof. Angel, that's unlikely.
"I don't think the coronavirus has anything to do with the jellyfish," Prof. Angel insisted. "I think nature is the bigger player. We're looking at cues like changes in temperature, as these probably play a role in determining when jellyfish appear. Rainy winters or more arid winters could determine the size of the bloom the following summer.
"We haven't identified human-driven factors, like pollution, which could also be affecting the blooms...."
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Wearing their masks too tight.
“ We could also train jellyfish, but they don’t have much of a brain.”
True. Look at Mitt Romney. Someone house trained him.
No. But I do remember the Iranians complaining about flying locusts that had spy cameras attached.
How did you guys fit all those transistors into such a small package ?
Do you employ Jewish leprechauns ? You know; the 'wee folk' ?
And I thought that those jolts he gives off on contact were just carpet shocks.
“Do you employ Jewish leprechauns ? You know; the ‘wee folk’ ?”
SHHHHH! The Irish must never know.
oops. Too late.
Jellyfish are amazingly intelligent. They’re helping protect Israel. And they’re also great spies for the “Zionist entity” too. You didn’t think the Israeli Defense Forces were limited to just space satellites, remote viewing, QR vision,, and Mossad, did you? Those jellyfish can sense an Iranian nuclear bomb factory a thousand miles away. Smile smile
“Rodents of Unusual Size”
I don’t believe they exist.
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*ping*
Yes, there are lots of large jellyfish in the congress on the R side. In fact, the GOP is infested with them.
Doesn’t the Wuhan bio weapons lab have a jellyfish tank?
I’ll have to ask the resident expert on Jewish leprechauns, Dr. Shamus O’Cohen.
Little Trivia: St. Patrick was ethnically Jewish of rather noble birth. Not a rumor, but well established genealogy.
No, but there are butter fish. I've never eaten one, but small ones are good baitfish.
I remember encountering a huge lion's mane jellyfish while scuba diving off Catalina Island many years ago: the "bell" had to be well over 2 feet in diameter and the tentacles a good 10+ feet.
But how do they communicate with people?
Are jellyfish Kosher?
No.
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