Depends, look up some photos and decide for yourself. I can see some of the flashing itself can be a bit intense, the actual bioluminescence isn’t that far off, at least in terms of an enchanting/interesting look. • www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2957042/Beauty-beast-Photographer-captures-alien-like-glow-Portuguese-man-o-war-hunt-fish-night.html This is the first link I came across. I don’t trust the legitimacy of the site or the photos though, so I’ll check for some more.
that's the point. Bright colours in an animal usually say "don't eat me, I'm poisonous" like the monarch butterfly that or they're trying to attract a mate, like in birds
I got stung by one of those when I was a child, from the top of the inside of my thigh, down to my foot. The pain was intense, to say the least. One of the stupid adults I was with treated it as a joke, and dismissed my agony as an over-exaggeration. Thankfully the lifesavers on that beach came to my assistance.
Bind Blow: The Man O' War isn't an animal. It's lots of animals of different species that join like Voltron to form a super colony that acts like a single animal.
Yeah, they're hydrozoans. Another variety of cnidarian like corals, anemones, and sea jellies, this Portuguese Man-o-War is a type of hydroid known as a siphonophore.
I had one of these wrapped around my ankle in hawaii, think it was a baby, only 10-15 inches long, and the sting surprisingly didn't hurt to much, but what gets your heart rate jacked up is the bright blue/pink colors (Make you think of poisonous or toxic) Didn't help that i couldn't touch it and it wouldn't shake off so i ran up and down the water looking like a crack addict shaking my ankles till it let go.
Merchant Ivory You’re pretty lucky! It was probably a dead tentacle floating around, I got stung by one snorkeling in the FL keys and it looked like someone whipped me across the back with a bull whip. You can feel it stinging from one side of the tentacle to the other over a span of a second or two and the initial pain will take your breath away for a few seconds. I stay far away from them now when I see one lol.
The creaking sound effects is appropriate more than it was humourous. Sometimes I think the sound effects artists are trying to be funny but overall makes the whole thing seem more epic.
I grew up watching the blue planet. I got them vcds and dvds as presents. Now that we have these splendid clips from blue planet II on youtube. High definition footage and cinematic shots surely will amaze many generations to come
Some people hate the music and effect noises they implement but really it's used to humanize the animals so we can feel and engage with something so different from us like a Portugese Man O' War. We don't really know how it is to have the consciousness or lack of that a jellyfish experiences, but putting pirate music over a jellyfish sail is super effective.
I just got stung by one of these yesterday in Gold Coast, Australia. I can confirm it hurt a lot, but overall I'm okay and grateful for that. I feel much more sorry for the fish in this video.
You should look into taking a biodiversity class one day! It's an amazing way to learn about so many different animals on this planet that you may not know about.
The reason I love this show is for that reason...there is no fiction here, it's one planet we all share. And it is beautiful and amazing. If I lived 1000 lives I wouldn't come close to experiencing its wonder.
These are common in South Africa, but we call them Blue Bottles, we get stung all the time so when they wash up on the shore people step on the bubbles to kill them
Not 100% accurate. Being a siphonophore doesn't mean it is multiple organisms, a siphonophore is a type of animal. A portuguese Man-of-war is a colony of siphonophores working together.
@@run4walk Siphonophores are animals made from colonies of organisms. Portuguese Man o’ war are siphonophores. I couldn’t find anywhere that says they are a colony of siphonophores. (Wouldn’t this mean it is a colony of colonies) Could you show me a source that says this?
I was born in Pensacola in 1976 and once a year these things will beach themselves on our beaches. And even out of the water, the damn things are a pain to be stung by. So half the time we carry shovels on the beach and bury the damn Man O Wars in holes.
A sting from a dead one is even highly painful, I would know. One got beaten apart by the surf after its death and I was unlucky enough to be surfing in the vicinity. A detached tentacle had managed to wrap itself around my wrist in the current and immediately I was overcome with the sensation of a fiery rope twisted about my arm. They fade quickly with vinegar treatment, but do not pee on the sting, that's more dangerous than just leaving it until you find vinegar. I'm just happy I wasn't unlucky as my great grandfather, he was ensnared by a live one many years ago and had a scar down his back for the rest of his life. Stay safe my dudes.
If I saw one of those bobbing on the surface of the water before seeing this, I woulda easily be convinced I found some kind of alien 😂. The ocean is awesome!
Just in case you guys didn't notice.. At 2:34, Man-O'-War Fish also got "unlucky". But, the narrator is still talking about the other fish caught @ 2:00. -_-
@@Mr.Obongo nope, they're not alone. you see, this sad attempt at a joke _might_ be funny, if a rational person thought _you_ could be trusted _to not throw plastic fucking bags in the ocean._ but the evidence says otherwise, so there's nothing to laugh about here. FIX IT.
Would/do the jellyfish ever dry out when they are above the water line, acting as a sail? If so, what happens when it starts to dry out? If not, how does it keep itself wet? I imagine the ocean is calm often enough, so waves wont always splash on it. Does it have to dive back under to stay wet?
I've seen hundreds of these when I took my vacation to the bahamas it was actually a beautiful eye opener being I'm from the projects in NJ & we don't see stuff like this in the water.
The sound effects are getting more and more unrealistic. First the shark that sounded like a flare and now this... I love these short clips, but what the hell?!
I was stung by a manowar when I was a kid. It was in Mexico, I was swimming in the water close to the beach. One of the tentacles must have broken off because I saw this blue line in the water and thought it was a stray fishing line. I picked it up and realized it wasn’t a string so I threw it back, but when I got out of the water my whole body started stinging. Very very painful, I had to go to the ER to get treated.
These things are not 1 organism. They are around 4 different kinds of organisms bunched up together and they work like it is 1 thing. Really cool things.
I love how the light from the surface hits the tentacles making them look like there is some type of energy running through them
MrWotsItoya Some fishes are attracted by those light shades, thats how the jellyfish hunt.
I don't think that's light from the surface. It's bioluminescence, which is even more amazing
Half_Centaur
Even the fish is flashing like this... I doubt that it's bioluminescence.
Depends, look up some photos and decide for yourself. I can see some of the flashing itself can be a bit intense, the actual bioluminescence isn’t that far off, at least in terms of an enchanting/interesting look.
• www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2957042/Beauty-beast-Photographer-captures-alien-like-glow-Portuguese-man-o-war-hunt-fish-night.html
This is the first link I came across. I don’t trust the legitimacy of the site or the photos though, so I’ll check for some more.
I meant intense as in, it’s more intense than I can imagine being plausible, however I admit I don’t know.
If theres one thing all these nature videos have taught me....if i see an animal of any kind with lots of pretty colors....stay the hell away from it.
that's the point. Bright colours in an animal usually say "don't eat me, I'm poisonous" like the monarch butterfly
that or they're trying to attract a mate, like in birds
Like SJWs with bright blue and purple hair
Heinrich Dethahal
*LMMMAAAAOOOOO*
@@Autechltd I do what i must...
* Get's the flammenwerfer *
That is right. It's called aposematic. Bright colored creatures are nature's way of warning everyone else.
0:30 I love the Pirates of the Caribbean-esc music and sounds when it's shown "sailing" haha
Ps. 1:10 This thing is gorgeous. It looks like high class jewelry or a chandelier
Aye set sail to Tortuga *Floats away*
It was really well done.
Both composed by Hans Zimmer.
Tatsusama you don't say shown you say played
"...are not so lucky" I've heard that line used SOOO many times in documentaries like this
I got stung by one of those when I was a child, from the top of the inside of my thigh, down to my foot. The pain was intense, to say the least. One of the stupid adults I was with treated it as a joke, and dismissed my agony as an over-exaggeration. Thankfully the lifesavers on that beach came to my assistance.
Those stings are no joke! I've never been stung, but I have seen people writhe in pain from the stings.
That one adult is the type of person to think animals are stupid and harmless to humans
@@thegrimreaper9552 Some people be like, "If you didn't lose a limb, walk it off."
@@highchairman6428 Haha yes. But imagine if it stung his upper chest....which is near his heart.
@@highchairman6428 That could've have killed him.
As a Portuguese man o war, I can confirm that these are the type of sound effects we make .
Good to know thanks.
Thanks bro, remember to be careful around turtles
lol
I like the creaking wooden boat sounds in the beginning
cool now please don’t sting me :(
Great job to the editor who made a jellyfish sound like a wooden boat at 0:27. Definitely the most logical option.
I was thinking how stupid that was then I saw this comment 😂
Plastic bags are evolving
touch it and it'll show you where the body bag is, to put your dead body.
congratulations! Your Plastic Bag evolved into a Portuguese Man-o-war!
All the bags are in cahoots with each other.
theyre fighting back
Lol good one
I like the sound effects in the beginning that make it sound like a ship ⛵
Because it looked like a ship sailing through the ocean. That's BBC trying to be humorous and I admit, I chuckled.
Pirates of carribean vibes
In the spanish language they are called Fragata portuguesa and "fragata" is a type of ship
Diato Windstille exactly
Man-of-war is after all a classifications of warship during the "Age Of Sails" .
God was like, "What if I make a bag, in the water, but make it dangerous"
God: "What if l like, put a unicorn horn" **hits the blunt once** "...on a whale and call it a Narwhal"
SDD525 He wasn’t being literal. That joke flew way over your head.
+SDD525 well then cheers to your sense of humour mate
...And call it the blue bottle? Of course.
dit to I'd like to pop it with a nail
I'm always blown away by these BBC videos. Every single time I walk away saying "Wow! Amazing!"
Heh
BBC = BIG BLACK COCK
Tbf BBC vids always blow me away, especially seeing those girls reactions to it..
Do you ever just question “how the hell do they get these camera angles?”
underwater camera thats under the boat or submarine.
tv license
Unfathomable patience.
Maybe they have them in a fish tank. ???
They use the predator drone.
Bind Blow: The Man O' War isn't an animal. It's lots of animals of different species that join like Voltron to form a super colony that acts like a single animal.
Yeah, they're hydrozoans. Another variety of cnidarian like corals, anemones, and sea jellies, this Portuguese Man-o-War is a type of hydroid known as a siphonophore.
I see what you did there
Wait ok thx, but what does 1 look like?
More like Hunters from Halo
Yeah I too am curious about what an individual organism of the siphonophore looks like
I had one of these wrapped around my ankle in hawaii, think it was a baby, only 10-15 inches long, and the sting surprisingly didn't hurt to much, but what gets your heart rate jacked up is the bright blue/pink colors (Make you think of poisonous or toxic)
Didn't help that i couldn't touch it and it wouldn't shake off so i ran up and down the water looking like a crack addict shaking my ankles till it let go.
I was in Alabama and saw one of these dudes, weird lookin fellas.
better than having it wrap it's tentacle around your waist 5 times
Noodled Salt no just no
Merchant Ivory
You’re pretty lucky! It was probably a dead tentacle floating around, I got stung by one snorkeling in the FL keys and it looked like someone whipped me across the back with a bull whip. You can feel it stinging from one side of the tentacle to the other over a span of a second or two and the initial pain will take your breath away for a few seconds. I stay far away from them now when I see one lol.
Merchant Ivory might want to feel drown up ones the hers like shi* so yea
I love how people complain about the sound effects but i think they add to the clips.
In a series like this, having accurate sound effects would mainly be a bunch of glugging sounds. Which is boring.
Yeah. This is also the reason people complain. They don't want those exaggerated alien sounds
abrox
But the exaggerated alien sounds are hilarious! I think they wanna get kids to watch this as well which is basicly tricking kids into learning.
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Lol no
Yeah, I love it when my educational documentaries sound like live action Japanese tentacle porn. Don't you?
Wow looks amazing!
it's computer graphics. BBC sucks
Maz Ox i
The creaking sound effects is appropriate more than it was humourous. Sometimes I think the sound effects artists are trying to be funny but overall makes the whole thing seem more epic.
I grew up watching the blue planet. I got them vcds and dvds as presents. Now that we have these splendid clips from blue planet II on youtube. High definition footage and cinematic shots surely will amaze many generations to come
This is so beautiful and disgusting at the same time.
My thoughts exactly.
That's Nature.
Disgusting?
@@mikasaackerman1762 yes
@@raff6501 wrong
0:30 Gotta be the best pirate I've ever seen
Some people hate the music and effect noises they implement but really it's used to humanize the animals so we can feel and engage with something so different from us like a Portugese Man O' War.
We don't really know how it is to have the consciousness or lack of that a jellyfish experiences, but putting pirate music over a jellyfish sail is super effective.
What if they have the soundproof ability?
I just got stung by one of these yesterday in Gold Coast, Australia. I can confirm it hurt a lot, but overall I'm okay and grateful for that.
I feel much more sorry for the fish in this video.
Big respect to the sound designers. They did a great job.
Man o war: exists
Blue dragon sea slug: I'm about to end this man's whole career
2:00 "Don't give up! Swim down! Just keep swimming! Keep Swimming!"
1:48
The fish that feeds on the Portuguese Man O' War just looks at the other fish like,
"hey, it's dangerous around here. u know what ya doin'?"
this is jellyfish venom Dewey, and you don't want no part of this shit!
Ayye we caught a fish captain!
This creature was once a Ziploc bag that got dumped in the ocean.
Feeling angry, rejected, and alone, it evolves and kills everything it can.
love this series so epic discovered clownfish can speak to each other and it sounds like purring truly life changing
man If only my eyes can see the world in such beauty and majestic quality! like the camera used to shoot this video.
Jzone Ozone does human eyes has more quality than a camera?
Rizqi dian Saputra, I don't know...but this video has some crazy quality lol
Imagine being a pirate back in the day and seeing something like this floating next to your ship
There are so many beautiful creatures out there that I dont know about, that makes me kinda sad.
You should look into taking a biodiversity class one day! It's an amazing way to learn about so many different animals on this planet that you may not know about.
The reason I love this show is for that reason...there is no fiction here, it's one planet we all share. And it is beautiful and amazing. If I lived 1000 lives I wouldn't come close to experiencing its wonder.
Why sad? Thats why we all love learnning!
That's probably because the ocean isn't fully discovered yet.
These are common in South Africa, but we call them Blue Bottles, we get stung all the time so when they wash up on the shore people step on the bubbles to kill them
The Man of War fish looking at the little silver one like "you're gonna regret this decision"
I can't tell if this is the best CGI I've ever seen or just the best film I've ever seen.
I saw one of these in the ocean when i was 9 while i was swiming and it freaked me out so much I never want to go into thr ocean again.
These clips never seem to disappoint! Amazing as always!
Man O' Wars are unique in that they aren't quite a single organism, but at the same time they aren't a colony of independent organism.
IIRC, all hydrozoans are like that, which the man-o-war is one of.
I love the juicy sound when it feeds
The Portuguese man-of-war isn’t a jellyfish. In fact is a siphonophore, which means it made from multiple organisms working together.
Thank you QI!
Not 100% accurate. Being a siphonophore doesn't mean it is multiple organisms, a siphonophore is a type of animal. A portuguese Man-of-war is a colony of siphonophores working together.
@@run4walk Siphonophores are animals made from colonies of organisms. Portuguese Man o’ war are siphonophores. I couldn’t find anywhere that says they are a colony of siphonophores. (Wouldn’t this mean it is a colony of colonies) Could you show me a source that says this?
@@run4walk siphonophores is the name of the colony, zooid is the name of the single animal
I was born in Pensacola in 1976 and once a year these things will beach themselves on our beaches. And even out of the water, the damn things are a pain to be stung by. So half the time we carry shovels on the beach and bury the damn Man O Wars in holes.
Love the pirate music and sound effects ! Adds a humorous tone. :)
The music and sound effects are awesome! It's like a sailor taking his adventures at sea.
How ea drains your wallet
With fish-brained victims just sitting there while it cruises in with its DLC and micro-transaction tentacles?
Lame band wagon joke.
Real. Your ignorance is pitiful, lol
Fantastic.
It's so shiny
A sting from a dead one is even highly painful, I would know. One got beaten apart by the surf after its death and I was unlucky enough to be surfing in the vicinity. A detached tentacle had managed to wrap itself around my wrist in the current and immediately I was overcome with the sensation of a fiery rope twisted about my arm. They fade quickly with vinegar treatment, but do not pee on the sting, that's more dangerous than just leaving it until you find vinegar. I'm just happy I wasn't unlucky as my great grandfather, he was ensnared by a live one many years ago and had a scar down his back for the rest of his life. Stay safe my dudes.
woah woah woah woah alien
But it’s so pretty. I mean like look at those strings of pearls, and ruffles, and rosettes
2:34
"If only you knew how bad things really are..."
This commentators voice has always gone right through me! It is absolutely amazing
David Attenborough
Portugal 🇵🇹: That's our jellyfish...even comes with a sail!
Those sound effects at 2:00...
If I saw one of those bobbing on the surface of the water before seeing this, I woulda easily be convinced I found some kind of alien 😂. The ocean is awesome!
The sound design of this show is incredible
As much as it's horrifying I'm am impressed.
respect for the cameraman for being so brave
i want to know how many TB of footage they shot, and how much of it they end up using
zeta555 Thousands of hours were distilled into 350 minutes.
Just in case you guys didn't notice.. At 2:34, Man-O'-War Fish also got "unlucky". But, the narrator is still talking about the other fish caught @ 2:00. -_-
I'm surprised they didn't mentioned that this is technically several individual organisms living together at 1.
It's not just 1 animal here
i love the way sound effects exaggerate up the moments...
This happens when you throw a plastic bag in the ocean
Oshe Shango looks like your alone there
@@Mr.Obongo nope, they're not alone. you see, this sad attempt at a joke _might_ be funny, if a rational person thought _you_ could be trusted _to not throw plastic fucking bags in the ocean._ but the evidence says otherwise, so there's nothing to laugh about here. FIX IT.
You must be fun at parties...
Lighten up will ya?
Thousands of harpoon-throwing cells. It looks exactly like a battleship with cannon lines.
That's gotta be the best pirate I've ever seen....
So it would seem.
2:00
Fish: Aight imma head out
Man O’ War: Hippity hoppity you are my property
Sir David Attenborough_Great knowledgeable man.
Im always Amazed by Videos posted by BBC Earth
"Hello I am a pretty small fishy"
*"JUST KIDDING I AM AN EVIL FISHY"*
The quality of this video for being 2 years old is amazing
Did you know that its not a single organism?
Care to explain?
Did you know I don’t care?
ETHAN SEBASTIAN LAYANA GAMARRA do they find eachother and group up, or are they born together?
Chinese Himmrah why did you have to comment that if you didn’t care?
@@benedict8720 he's a great master baiter
what alien nightmares are made of, the way it feeds is so different and out of this world
horrible way to go i cant imagine the amount of pain that fish endured
ronell cowens fish can't fill pain
@@gamecity5132 fish still possess a self-preservation instinct, which basically means fear, and fear is just as bad as pain.
Circle of life I’m afraid.
I looks relaxing and satisfying
i saw this documental serie in spanish and there is no that much of sounds effect. its pure
i have to rewatch pirates of the Caribbean now
If you told me this was CGI, I would believe it. Incredible colors!
Would/do the jellyfish ever dry out when they are above the water line, acting as a sail?
If so, what happens when it starts to dry out?
If not, how does it keep itself wet? I imagine the ocean is calm often enough, so waves wont always splash on it. Does it have to dive back under to stay wet?
They are able to deflate the sail
give it a hug
My Lord! How do they shoot this stuff?
I love this sos much, I watched so much Blue Planet as a kid.
Were those sound effects added?
Monokuma
Gosh damn it I wanted to say that...
Not at all, a sound engineer dives with the cameraman.
Monokuma
Dead
Jesus Christ
ThatOneEngineeringStudent - lol at you’re name and the subtext to the joke.
These videos are so good that they almost look animated.
"Release the Kraken!"
I've seen hundreds of these when I took my vacation to the bahamas it was actually a beautiful eye opener being I'm from the projects in NJ & we don't see stuff like this in the water.
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag...
simmytime drifting through the wind wanting to start again...
peepeepoopoo
This thing is scary, interesting, beautiful, ugly, weird, amazing... All at the same time :D
Very... Lovecraftian.
Looks like cthulhu's deformed child.
Love the fact the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack and this are composed by the same great
Hans Zimmer you legend
The sound effects are getting more and more unrealistic. First the shark that sounded like a flare and now this...
I love these short clips, but what the hell?!
deaglebeagle the only sound effect that bothered me was the swirl from the coral episode. didn't feel right
Personally, I've learned to just take it all in stride and let my imagination run wild with that creaking wood sound effect.
DONT LISTEN TO THIS COMMENT BBC EARTH. KEEP THE SOUND EFFECTS!!!
once I was paralyzed in the belly of a jellyfish, and it sounded the same for me.
Ottokár Hering
😂😂
these things are god tier. they just float around and get fed. what a life
I'm quite convinced this is an alien and not a so-called "jellyfish" stay woke ppl
It actually isn't a Jellyfish, it is a colony of animals called "siphonophores" that group together and hunt.
It's eary how similar it is in hunting style to a fishing boat
Throw the whole Sea away.
When he caught the fish it looked like a fishing line !
dude this episode in 4k is gonna kick balls!!!!!
I SAW FLIPPING BLUE PLANET 2 LAST NIGHT! The big blue was the thing I was waiting for because of the man o war!
I was stung by a Man-O-War in the early 70's, my knee, t'was very painful indeed.
I shall never forget it.
I'm amazed by the camera work. Good job whoever did it.
I was stung by a manowar when I was a kid. It was in Mexico, I was swimming in the water close to the beach. One of the tentacles must have broken off because I saw this blue line in the water and thought it was a stray fishing line. I picked it up and realized it wasn’t a string so I threw it back, but when I got out of the water my whole body started stinging. Very very painful, I had to go to the ER to get treated.
I like the added sound effects and pirate theme.
You're telling me this thing and reach me from 90 feet away!?!?! Dammmmn
These things are not 1 organism. They are around 4 different kinds of organisms bunched up together and they work like it is 1 thing. Really cool things.
BEAUTIFUL AMD TERRYFYING