OuiSi Nature card 9: Golden Jellyfish. Photograph by Inka Cresswell The whole photograph behind card 9: Golden Jellyfish. Photograph by Inka Cresswell

OuiSi Nature · Card 9

Golden Jellyfish

Mastigias papua etpisoni

Location
Palau
Date
April 7, 2021
Photograph byInka Cresswell

Description

This photo exhibits hundreds of golden jellyfish swimming in Jellyfish Lake. The lake is a 30-metre-deep basin of seawater, linked to the lagoon only by cracks in the limestone, and its golden jellies are a subspecies found in no other lake. They live with algae that turn sunlight into sugar, and each day they swim about a kilometre across the lake, east in the morning and west in the afternoon, keeping to the light and away from the shadowed edge, where a jelly-eating anemone waits.

Inka Cresswell

The photographer

Inka Cresswell

Wildlife Filmmaker, B.Sc. Marine Biologist, Underwater Photographer / Researcher, Rebreather/Tech Diver, HSE Media Diver

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Golden Jellyfish

Photograph by Inka Cresswell