Boiling mass of jellyfish
From the depths of a mysterious lake, hidden amid dense jungle on one of the remote Pacific islands of Palau, galaxies of shimmering phantoms rise towards the surface. This weird life-form is composed of jellyfish — millions of them — a boiling mass of medusae. The lake has other bizarre inhabitants, from cardinal fish to delicate white anemones which,
despite their benign appearance, are capable of grabbing passing jellyfish and consuming them with one gargantuan swallow. But all are prisoners in this peculiar marine underworld, and time and isolation have changed their behaviour — as seen in this evening’s Wildlife episode, “Lost World of the Medusa”(7p.m.onOne). During this first filmed
exploration of Palau’s wildlife, the underwater camera crew encountered a thick swirling red cloud, several metres below the surface of the lake.
Blinded and disoriented, unsure of which way to turn, they floundered around helplessly, before bursting through the could into a dense swarm of stinging jellyfish.
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Press, 27 January 1988, Page 15
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