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Portuguese Man-Of-War
The man-of-war is, in fact, a siphonophore, often confused for a jellyfish. What is that heck? It is an animal made up of a colony of bacteria working together to function as one Weird.
Its lengthy tentacles produce a painful sting, poisonous and strong enough to kill fish and human beings.
The Portuguese man’s war is not a genuine jellyfish, despite its appearance, but a siphonophore, that isn’t indeed a single multicellular organism, but a colonial organism consisting of many creatures of the same species, called zooids or polyps.
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