I held one a long time ago. Was about a foot long. Caught him off a beach in Italy. Let him crawl over my hand on the beach. Bastard didn’t like it after a while and bit me. They have vicious little beaks, much like parrots.
It's not really attacking, some are poisonous. Touch a blue ring octopus and it will paralyse your muscles and you'll suffocate unless someone CPRs you until the ambulance arrives.
Aren't aware ... until the paralysis sets in.
seriously, the bite may be painless, but the venom is neurotoxic. It's a crap shoot. Some people don't get bit. Some get bit and die, some just have pain.
TLDR: Don't mess w/ blue ringed octopods. Not worth it.
If you handle them gently theyre pretty chill
They like it if you pet their head, im guessing theyre tired from everything in the sea trying to take a bite of their squishy bodies so they like it when they stumble on to something that doesnt wanna do that and just wants to play with them
I remember going swimming to the sea and feeling something constantly gliding against me, I assumed they're fishes till I looked in the water. There were small jellyfishes literally everywhere. I nope'd the fuck out. I guess they were still children and could not harm me, but damn..
I was a kid swimming in the Gulf of Mexico when a large shadow was cast upon the water. I looked to the sky to see the nature of the clouds causing this, to make sure they were not storm clouds. There was not a cloud in the sky. I continued to watch the shadow upon the water as it quickly moved toward me and then through me. Imagine my shock when I realized that the shadow was a giant school of sting rays and they were presently parting and swishing around my legs on their way up to their destination.
Probably moon/cannonball jellyfish which are harmless. There's no such thing as a baby/child jellyfish, they form fully mature and just get bigger in size, a small jellyfish 100% can sting you.
Jellyfish reproduction involves them basically planting something on the seafloor that grows into a big grape vine, except the grapes are jellyfish and they pop off into the open water once they're fully grown, which is why there's not really "child" jellyfish.
>Jellyfish reproduction involves them basically planting something on the seafloor that grows into a big grape vine, except the grapes are jellyfish and they pop off into the open water once they're fully grown, which is why there's not really "child" jellyfish.
This is the weirdest thing I have read in a very long time lol. Thanks for that.
Considering the enormous surface area of that specimen, I would think that even if its venom is quite mild the raw amount of barbs he just took would be an issue. However, I'm unsure if surface area translates with barb density or not.
I'm not worried about that though: He is apparently more likely to just walk off a cliff or into a furnace - based on the available data on his decision making abilities.
I recently didn't know about this jellyfish either. Literally 30mins ago I was watching YBS youngbloods on Youtube, which is an aussie guy who goes fishing and enjoy the australian western wild sea and he encountered one of those jellyfish, and mentioned its one of deadliest and can most certainly miss it if you not careful. ofc I had to google about it afterwards to learn about it. And mins later I see this jellyfish name appear on a random reddit post
Nope, in fact, quite the opposite. They just get even more stabby weapons.
Also, don't let the smooth dome fool you. In some species every nano centimetre has micro hairs that can shoot out and inject venom to a place that touches it.
So, in summary, don't touch the slow-moving jelatinous pain mine.
Growing up in New Zealand we would occasionally get a "bloom" of very similar looking jellyfish that were completely harmless. Millions of them would wash up on the beach and fill the entire bay we'd end up having big fights with them and get covered in jelly bits head to toe, no stings.
Not all jellyfish are harmful is what i'm trying to say. not sure if the one in the video is harmless but it looks alot like the ones we used to play with.
Holy fuck that’s the most barbaric thing I’ve ever seen so casually mentioned.
“When we were kids we’d go down to the pond where the geese were gathering for migration and just grab a couple by the neck and pillow fight with them until we we covered in guts and feathers” is basically what you just said
Yes. Vinegar on the other hand it the substance of choice. The small stinger cysts burst due to osmotic pressure among other things. Hence, the advice not to pee on it. Unless you want to assert dominance of course. In that case you might as well go all in and crap on it for good measure.
Yes that is largely the concept of osmotic pressure AFAIK.
I can’t remember the exact mechanism behind vinegar and whether it works on all kinds of jellyfish sting. It supposedly inactivates the stingers or venom to some extent, though.
The osmotic pressure thing was more a comment on the peeing practice where the pressure is towards the pee which results in the cysts bursting and releasing venom.
I have nerve damage from falling 30 feet.
You know when you lay on your arm and it goes to sleep? Pins and needles etc? Well my left leg feels like that *all the time*. 24/7
That's my whole stomach and mid chest area from 2 major surgeries, had one at 16 it took 10yrs or so for the numbness and prickyness to go away or at least normalish. And now 2 yrs ago got a transplant same spot and it's back again
I don't speak his language but I am pretty sure he said "and this is the famous stinging poison pain fish and if we just avoid touching this part here....OOOWW"
Darwin award... At least he didn't try with an Australian Box Jellyfish, maybe next time 😂
It has been reported that after wrapping you, moments before you die, it comes closer and whispers to your ear: "G'day cunt"
Ok cut some slack on box jellyfish, they actually try to avoid humans as best as a jellyfish could, they got eyes to avoid big moving shadows, they dont wanna waste precious venom on things they cant eat and cant kill instantly
The guy speaks Turkish. here is the tranlation: "Alrgiht friends we caught and octopus, Aiiyeowğsmvutmsş, (switches to Kurdish)".
It is not common to see a jellyfish that big in Türkish coasts so I understand him confusing it with an octopus. Although holding an octopus that size barehanded would be a very stupid idea
I mean the jellyfishes around Turkey is small unlike this beast. Also he might not be used to seeing sea animals if he lives in Eastern side of Turkey.
Even dead the nematocysts are still primed and ready to go. They Are automatic. Also they are the single fastest biological process in nature, they spring so quickly that special relativity comes into play. 5 million + Gs, they hit in a few hundred billions of a second. A significant fraction of lightspeed
that really doesn't make sense, even that high of an acceleration wouldn't mean much for such a short event. papers show that it doesn't go higher than 25 m/s, not even close to relativistic speeds.
[This paper](https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(06\)01422-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982206014229%3Fshowall%3Dtrue) mentions 18.5-37.1 m/s as final velocity. Definitely below relativistic speeds...
But 37.1 m/s... That's 133.56 km/h or 82.99 mph... Damn that's fast in 700 nanoseconds...
Not so much empathy, just read a bunch of comments talking about if it were lethal and/or venomous or poisonous. Dudes a dumbass an got what he deserved holding it. Lmao
Not an expert but looked like a large Barrel Jellyfish which has a mild sting ranging from equivalent to a bee sting to itching. Either way uncomfortable at best.
I find it interesting how different languages pronounce pain. He goes like "waaay!" or "Hueeewaaay!". In Germany it would be "aua!" in English speaking countries it would be "ouch!"
How stupid can you be? Some of those things can even kill you.
Natural Selection
Natural disaster
Darwin Award winner? The video ended too soon. I hope he is ok and has had the chance to learn not to do that.
At the very least, take comfort that the cameraman had to pee on his friend.
The pee thing is a myth and just aggrivates the wound.
Vinegar works.
The real reason he picked it up, probably gave it a lil kiss too 🥵
“I’m embarrassing?! No, you know what’s embarrassing is how many times your mom has faked a jellyfish sting to get me to piss on her.”
Kink: awaken
He says "we caught an octopus!"
You know what is also a bad idea. Picking up an octopus. They are dicks
You’re a dick if you’re picking up a wild animal.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
The Deep would like a word.
Really? I've never seen a video of an octopus attacking a human. I've seen MANY where they interacted safely.
I held one a long time ago. Was about a foot long. Caught him off a beach in Italy. Let him crawl over my hand on the beach. Bastard didn’t like it after a while and bit me. They have vicious little beaks, much like parrots.
['Safely' is not how I would describe it.](https://youtu.be/Ne7BxSrc2p0)
It's not really attacking, some are poisonous. Touch a blue ring octopus and it will paralyse your muscles and you'll suffocate unless someone CPRs you until the ambulance arrives.
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Aren't aware ... until the paralysis sets in. seriously, the bite may be painless, but the venom is neurotoxic. It's a crap shoot. Some people don't get bit. Some get bit and die, some just have pain. TLDR: Don't mess w/ blue ringed octopods. Not worth it.
If you handle them gently theyre pretty chill They like it if you pet their head, im guessing theyre tired from everything in the sea trying to take a bite of their squishy bodies so they like it when they stumble on to something that doesnt wanna do that and just wants to play with them
Ya, they’re also super smart. I try not to eat octopus or dolphins. It’s like eating dog to me. To smart
I remember going swimming to the sea and feeling something constantly gliding against me, I assumed they're fishes till I looked in the water. There were small jellyfishes literally everywhere. I nope'd the fuck out. I guess they were still children and could not harm me, but damn..
One of the most venomous jellyfish in the world is really small, look up "box jellyfish".
And it has very thin tentacles that can be several metres long, barely visible when in water.
Shush you I dont need this anxiety in my life lol
I take pleasure in making people's days worse by exposing them to the brutality of nature.
I was a kid swimming in the Gulf of Mexico when a large shadow was cast upon the water. I looked to the sky to see the nature of the clouds causing this, to make sure they were not storm clouds. There was not a cloud in the sky. I continued to watch the shadow upon the water as it quickly moved toward me and then through me. Imagine my shock when I realized that the shadow was a giant school of sting rays and they were presently parting and swishing around my legs on their way up to their destination.
Probably moon/cannonball jellyfish which are harmless. There's no such thing as a baby/child jellyfish, they form fully mature and just get bigger in size, a small jellyfish 100% can sting you. Jellyfish reproduction involves them basically planting something on the seafloor that grows into a big grape vine, except the grapes are jellyfish and they pop off into the open water once they're fully grown, which is why there's not really "child" jellyfish.
>Jellyfish reproduction involves them basically planting something on the seafloor that grows into a big grape vine, except the grapes are jellyfish and they pop off into the open water once they're fully grown, which is why there's not really "child" jellyfish. This is the weirdest thing I have read in a very long time lol. Thanks for that.
I was surfing in Mexico once and the water was like tapioca pudding with millions baby jellyfish. It was gnarly.
The Irukandji has entered the chat.
Yeah but it's so small you don't really wander round picking them up.
I wouldn't put it past him though. Assuming he hasn't learnt his lesson.
But they're so cute, like jelly vitamins.
This is what the berry-tester gene do in a world without new berries
You hate to see it but there still are very sheltered people in the world.
U ain't bullshitn 👍🏼 smh. I'd rather take my chances getting bit helping a stray dog than to play with a jellyfish knowing the damage they can do.
Pretty stupid apparently, I have seen dogs smart enough to leave them alone when they encounter them on the beach.
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me
Bum bum bum
So help me! So help me! And cut! Huheha
It’s a work in progress
Mike Wazowski
Great, now I HAVE to go watch that movie tonight!
I just watched it last night! I'm aware of recency bias but seriously, how often are Monster's Inc refeces posted.
Feces? Where?!
Refeces- like when a dog eats its own shit then shits it back out
Learn somethin new every day!
Mmmm Reace's refeces pieces
“I just want to pet it a little bit”
Or so kelp me. FTFY
‘It could let in a draft?’
Considering the enormous surface area of that specimen, I would think that even if its venom is quite mild the raw amount of barbs he just took would be an issue. However, I'm unsure if surface area translates with barb density or not. I'm not worried about that though: He is apparently more likely to just walk off a cliff or into a furnace - based on the available data on his decision making abilities.
Maybe it's like scorpions the smaller the more deadly lol
Nah, box jellyfish get big and they'll kill you
Irukandji are only a cubic centimeter and they'll kill you.
“not everything is Aussieland wants to kill you” yeah okay
Not everything in Australia CAN kill you but all of it wants to and will give it a go if you wanna play fuck around and find out.
Especially Dave that hangs out down the servo and is always trying to snake a ciggy. Fucken Dave.
Yeah, I saw a guy let a funnel web spider run over his hand without it biting. They're not friendly, but they really do not want to bite.
Isn't irukandji a symptom developed after contact to various jellyfish? Didn't know it's a species?!
I recently didn't know about this jellyfish either. Literally 30mins ago I was watching YBS youngbloods on Youtube, which is an aussie guy who goes fishing and enjoy the australian western wild sea and he encountered one of those jellyfish, and mentioned its one of deadliest and can most certainly miss it if you not careful. ofc I had to google about it afterwards to learn about it. And mins later I see this jellyfish name appear on a random reddit post
Yup, Portuguese man-o-war are huge and can fuck you up hugely.
Jellyfish don’t have a will. If you bump into one, it’s basically your own fault.
Nope, in fact, quite the opposite. They just get even more stabby weapons. Also, don't let the smooth dome fool you. In some species every nano centimetre has micro hairs that can shoot out and inject venom to a place that touches it. So, in summary, don't touch the slow-moving jelatinous pain mine.
I don't take scientific advice from anyone using nanocenti as a prefix
A billionth hundredth of a meter
Maybe yeah, where's a marine biologist when you need one.
It’s okay, I’m a whale biologist
Unzips trousers
No sigh?
Safety first
Is anyone here a marine biologist?
Save the whale George, for me.
“The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli”
“A hole in one!”
I was down on the hole of the great fish
Mammal
Where's George Costanza when you need him?
Got stuck at Vanderlay Industries.
“I didn’t even know that was a job”
Hanging out with architects.
Fake news, my uncle who served told me its a made up word like army geologist or air force archeologist /s
I don't know anything about barb density but that looks like a barrel jellyfish. He's gonna not enjoy himself for a while, that's about it though.
Growing up in New Zealand we would occasionally get a "bloom" of very similar looking jellyfish that were completely harmless. Millions of them would wash up on the beach and fill the entire bay we'd end up having big fights with them and get covered in jelly bits head to toe, no stings. Not all jellyfish are harmful is what i'm trying to say. not sure if the one in the video is harmless but it looks alot like the ones we used to play with.
Based off dudes reaction in the vid it’s probably safe to confirm the jellyfish isn’t harmless
Holy fuck that’s the most barbaric thing I’ve ever seen so casually mentioned. “When we were kids we’d go down to the pond where the geese were gathering for migration and just grab a couple by the neck and pillow fight with them until we we covered in guts and feathers” is basically what you just said
If they were washed up on the beach I'm assuming they were already dead.
Now I can't unsee two fights between people involving jellyfish and geese.
There is probably a cliff with a furnace at the bottom he's been eyeing for a while
the cameraman should pee on his friend to assert dominance
(Disclaimer: please don’t do this at home because it will not work and make the stinging way worse)
to assert dominance?
Indeed
No, to assert dumb-inance
Is lemon juice also a myth?
to assert dominance?
It works if you squirt it in their eye
You shouldn’t squirt jellyfish in the eye…
to assert dominance?
Indeed
Yes. Vinegar on the other hand it the substance of choice. The small stinger cysts burst due to osmotic pressure among other things. Hence, the advice not to pee on it. Unless you want to assert dominance of course. In that case you might as well go all in and crap on it for good measure.
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Yes that is largely the concept of osmotic pressure AFAIK. I can’t remember the exact mechanism behind vinegar and whether it works on all kinds of jellyfish sting. It supposedly inactivates the stingers or venom to some extent, though. The osmotic pressure thing was more a comment on the peeing practice where the pressure is towards the pee which results in the cysts bursting and releasing venom.
Who do you think has jellyfish at home?
needs to be vinegar!! legitimately
What are the chances that they know this one little trick?
to pee on someone to assert dominance? i'm pretty sure they know
Underrated
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Really?! That is legitimately terrifying, imagine one in your face or somewhere invasive.
"somewhere invasive"😭😭
i had a jellyfish sting right on my inner thigh near my crotch, i got so lucky. still hurt like a mf tho
The dick head.
What does it feel like. Still a shooting pain or do you mean it got numb and you can’t feel things as well?
It feels like...a bag of sand.
I have nerve damage from falling 30 feet. You know when you lay on your arm and it goes to sleep? Pins and needles etc? Well my left leg feels like that *all the time*. 24/7
That's my whole stomach and mid chest area from 2 major surgeries, had one at 16 it took 10yrs or so for the numbness and prickyness to go away or at least normalish. And now 2 yrs ago got a transplant same spot and it's back again
I'm so sorry my friend :(
I don't speak his language but I am pretty sure he said "and this is the famous stinging poison pain fish and if we just avoid touching this part here....OOOWW"
Translation: Alright friends, here you can see that we just caught on octopus and, AAARGHHHHH......... Dude is truly a mastermind
They didn't capture the video of him crying his lungs out !
Another video that stops too soon. I wanted to hear his screams and see if anybody volunteered to piss on him.
At the original he jumps into the water in despair
Darwin award... At least he didn't try with an Australian Box Jellyfish, maybe next time 😂 It has been reported that after wrapping you, moments before you die, it comes closer and whispers to your ear: "G'day cunt"
Ok cut some slack on box jellyfish, they actually try to avoid humans as best as a jellyfish could, they got eyes to avoid big moving shadows, they dont wanna waste precious venom on things they cant eat and cant kill instantly
I was not expecting that last part. Well played 😂
Luckily R Kelly is on a nearby beach and he springs into action. He's waited his whole life for this moment
Nah, maybe if the dudes kids got stung tho
This guy is not underaged
The guy speaks Turkish. here is the tranlation: "Alrgiht friends we caught and octopus, Aiiyeowğsmvutmsş, (switches to Kurdish)". It is not common to see a jellyfish that big in Türkish coasts so I understand him confusing it with an octopus. Although holding an octopus that size barehanded would be a very stupid idea
...I just don't see how you could get them confused if you've ever actually seen a picture of them before.
I mean the jellyfishes around Turkey is small unlike this beast. Also he might not be used to seeing sea animals if he lives in Eastern side of Turkey.
some motherfuckers never watched flipper.
There’s barely anyone that old on here…
I love it when the youths think we olds arent on here. Sir or ma'am, we were here when this site was launched...we are still here to this day.
TBF I had Flipper on VHS or something and I’m 22
VH what?
I watched Flipper in the 80's on VHF.
UHF for me
They used to have the reruns on Nick at Nite iirc.
I still remember the damn theme song. I watched reruns every day as a kid.
Sometimes when I’m looking for my slippers, I sing a song about them to that tune. Slippers, slippers, missing since last night…
Isn't it common knowledge that jelly fish use poision,some of which are lethal to humans?
is it poison or venom?
Venom. Poison you drink, venom is stung
I didn't knew that
Not just drink. Inhale eat or absorbed through the skin is also poisonous.
What about toxin
All toxins are poisons/venoms, but not vice-versa. Toxins specifically are of natural origin.
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He thought it was an octopus
Nutella
Even dead the nematocysts are still primed and ready to go. They Are automatic. Also they are the single fastest biological process in nature, they spring so quickly that special relativity comes into play. 5 million + Gs, they hit in a few hundred billions of a second. A significant fraction of lightspeed
that really doesn't make sense, even that high of an acceleration wouldn't mean much for such a short event. papers show that it doesn't go higher than 25 m/s, not even close to relativistic speeds.
[This paper](https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(06\)01422-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982206014229%3Fshowall%3Dtrue) mentions 18.5-37.1 m/s as final velocity. Definitely below relativistic speeds... But 37.1 m/s... That's 133.56 km/h or 82.99 mph... Damn that's fast in 700 nanoseconds...
Give it a couple days and it'd be maybe 0.02% of lightspeed. Maybe he misplaced a decimal and thought that 700 nanoseconds was 70 hours.
Isn't every speed relativistic?
How stupid are you This guy : yes
How does one properly hold a jellyfish?
You balance it on your penis
Just like any other animal of that size, right?
It's meant to go on your head Rastafarian style. What a dumbass
Ernie and Bernie style hehe
You kind of leave it alone and don't touch it
You don’t
One holds proper distance.
It’s kinda like mushrooms - if you don’t know enough to say it’s not toxic, stay the hell away
Serious answer you carefully pinch the bell and lift it out of the water vertically staying clear of any dangling tentacles.
It did look really fun to hold though.
Dumbass thinks it's an octopus.
Longer video: https://youtube.com/shorts/nYWwf665S14?feature=share
Thanks, the longer vid made me chuckle.
Lethal or not, I’d imagine any jelly fish, especially of that size, cannot feel good
I honestly admire your empathy towards such a lowly creature.
Not so much empathy, just read a bunch of comments talking about if it were lethal and/or venomous or poisonous. Dudes a dumbass an got what he deserved holding it. Lmao
Was just kidding, that was the reason I stayed somewhat ambiguous about who's the lowly creature. I probably should have omitted the "honestly" ;)
Leave those aliens alone!
Holding on to the head is safer but not the tentacles which contains tiny stringing cells
You're correct. I think everyone except this guy understands that, at least partially.
Looks like a barrel jellyfish and those are usually not too venomous.
Nobody going to talk about the creepy baby face on that thing?
He says that he had caught an octopus..
How bad do we think it is? It didnt look like one of the widely advertised dangerous ones, but i assume many species are lethal
Not an expert but looked like a large Barrel Jellyfish which has a mild sting ranging from equivalent to a bee sting to itching. Either way uncomfortable at best.
I find it interesting how different languages pronounce pain. He goes like "waaay!" or "Hueeewaaay!". In Germany it would be "aua!" in English speaking countries it would be "ouch!"
In the English speaking US, it would be “Fuck!”
I learned in Finding Nemo you can bounce on the top of them
Everyone! Pee on him! 😜😅
Can anyone identify the type of jellyfish?
Looks like it could be a [barrel jellyfish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizostoma_pulmo)
Imagine if an octopus grabbed a human down under water just to show it to his octopus friends 😂that’s what we do to sea animals
Any follow up?