Box jellyfish couple
Copula sivickisi, a species of box jellyfish that is a little bit unusual that it has got a mating ritual and internal fertilisation. The male will pull the fem...
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Copula sivickisi, a species of box jellyfish that is a little bit unusual that it has got a mating ritual and internal fertilisation. The male will pull the female around with one tentacle and then pass over a spermatophore (parcel of sperm) for fertilisation. The male can be identified by his orange gonads on the "bell" and the female by her translucent feather like ones. This species is nocturnal and during the day they attach themselves to the bottom of the ocean with an adhesive pad on top of the bell and tuck their tentacles into the bell making it very hard to see
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