3rd November World Jellyfish Day

 

Celebrating World Jellyfish Day makes sense as it is an invertebrate that has been on this earth for millions of years, longer than humans.

World Jellyfish Day has been slated to fall in the springtime in the southern hemisphere, as this is the season when jellyfish will begin their migration to the shores of the northern hemisphere. 

Jellyfish do not have central nervous systems. Instead, they use a loose network of nerves to sense touch, light, and changes in the water. Their bell-shaped body has only one opening that serves a dual purpose. They take in food and expel waste through the exact same hole.

As it is Nonfiction November I thought it would make sense to display all the wonderful information books about jellyfish. See these more recent ones:

And a biography

Maude Delap scoops a jellyfish out of the water and embarks on more than a year of observation of the animal, accomplishing something countless other scientists were unable to do: trace the life cycle of a jellyfish and understand the creature's metamorphosis from larva to adult.  Her painstaking observations of a compass jellyfish in 1899-1900 laid the foundation for research still ongoing today.

For more book titles see here.

For other blog entries about this day see here and here.