Watch How Some Jellyfish Are Born (1960) Online

At a marine biology station, a clump of algae reveals polyps, stomachs with limbs, limbs with buds, buds with poison cells. This animal reproduces by buds, which we watch close up in time-lapse images. In another kind of jellyfish, the buds grow inside then live outside for a few days until being on their own. Another produces eggs, sometimes self-fertilized. Some single eggs become buds with colonies. Another clump gathered at low tide consists of filaments of a colony - plumes with poison ends. In images taking 72 hours, we see filaments grow and produce a feeding organ from which a plume emerges. New jellyfish emerge from buds twice a day at set times to form a new colonies. Read More

Watch How Some Jellyfish Are Born online. Featuring , How Some Jellyfish Are Born is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6.4. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in France and was released on 1960. How Some Jellyfish Are Born was directed by Jean Painlevé,Geneviève Hamon. Read Less