According to the British "Daily Star" reported on May 8, a foreign man thought he had encountered a beautiful jellyfish on the beach, excitedly picked it up, touched and licked it, and also filmed a video and uploaded it to social networking sites. Insiders solemnly left a message warning after reading: dangerous actions, do not imitate, this is a poisonous monk hat jellyfish that stings people.
The video shows that this jellyfish floats to the beach with the waves, transparent throughout, glowing blue, and the top looks like a monk's hat, looking moist Q bomb, and the brake is cute. After the man saw it, he poked it a few times, then excitedly picked it up, introduced the jellyfish he found to the camera, and described the cold feel, a little sticky, and so on.
Next the man took the so-called jellyfish to his mouth and stuck out his tongue to lick it. You know, when he picked up the jellyfish, the thing moved a few times between his fingers, and it was obviously still alive.
Some netizens recognized that the man encountered a monk's hat jellyfish (Portuguese Man O'War), shaped like a monk's hat, and like a 16th-century Portuguese warship, nicknamed "Blue Bottle", also known as "Floating Death", is a jellyfish-like creature, actually belongs to the coelenterate phylum phylum jellyfish order. If human beings are entangled in it, they will suffer for several days, and if they are heavy, they will die. For the man's actions in the video, the netizen was very disapproving: "Don't imitate, this is why women live longer than men." ”
Distributed in the tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, the monk's hat jellyfish are typical marine organisms that can only be viewed from a distance. Although it is born crystal clear, it seems to be glowing with a little starlight under the sun, floating up tentacles behind it, like a flowing silk belt, bright colors, super high appearance, but the danger factor is not low at all. Its tentacles can reach tens of meters, and it has millions of spiny sacs, and the venom in it can easily paralyze and kill prey. Humans will feel severe pain after being stung by the monk's hat jellyfish, but for up to 3 days, there may be whiplash marks on the skin that have been whipped, and as many as 10,000 people in Australia alone are stung by the monk's hat jellyfish every year.
Light stings are relatively mild, and the venom in the tentacles may also cause symptoms such as throat swelling, heart discomfort, and difficulty breathing, which can lead to death in severe cases. "Even a broken tentacle can incapacitate people," netizens said. Tourists should pay attention to the tips when playing at the beach and avoid the sea where monk hat jellyfish are infested. If you are accidentally stung, you can gently remove the tentacles left on the skin with a clean towel, rinse repeatedly with water or salt water and seek medical attention in time.