Nature on PBS, how do I love thee?

[servermonkey]

Last night's episode of Nature dealt with the venomous, and sometimes deadly, creatures found in Australia. I learned a couple of things, and I post them here, well, because I can:

• According to the narrator, jellyfish are large nervous systems, with no brain.
  
• Jellyfish have multiple stomachs. Moo.
  
• There were a couple of guys that were catching a specific species, tagging it, and releasing it back into the wild. I have never seen that in my life.
  
• Now, I've seen spiny urchins before, but I've never seen them moving. Pretty cool, and intimidating looking--though it probably was time lapse photography, huh?
  
• Not only are there spiny sea urchins, but there's a flower urchin. Cool looking, but not very friendly.
  
• There's a snail with venom that causes almost instantaneous paralysis to its victim. It uses this venom to catch fish.
  

The close ups of the defense/offense mechanisms were amazing.

You know, considering all this about jellyfish, I wonder why in MTG, the Man-O'-War isn't more deadly. Silly card game.

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[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

Yup, Nature was in Australia, covering all the deadly species found there. I completely left out the story about a person's canoe being attacked by a salt water croc. I changed the channel to spare Abby's eyes from it. They were also referring to the Box Jellyfish. Mean ol' suckers.

You've scored some major LJ friend points with me with your depth of biology knowledge. :)