Sea snails scavenging dead jellyfish. Finger plough shells (Bullia digitalis) eating a dead Portuguese man o' war (blue bottle,Physalia physalis) jellyfish on a beach. Finger plough shells are marine gastropod molluscs that scavenge on dead animals. They can pick up the scent of decaying animal matter from a large distance away and converge from all directions to feed. The Portuguese man o' war is not a true jellyfish,but a marine hydrozoan siphonophore colony. Photographed in Wilderness,Western Cape,South Africa | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Overy, Dr. Neil |
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