…or more commonly known as the jellyfish.

It’s the animal of the month on my Ocean Conservancy calendar. It’s really quite beautiful in these photos.

Doing a check of the internet, I don’t see where it is endangered, although one site mentions that jellyfish are getting caught up in fishing nets, so the potential is there.

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In other marine news, a small whale was left stranded for thirty minutes while trainers stood on the sidelines. Another whale tried to help, but could not. You can hear people screaming at the trainers to do something.  (Warning: it’s tough to watch)

Their excuse was that there was lightening in the area….so, you know, it’s okay to leave this animal that you took from the wild (or bred in captivity) stranded so it might possibly die from dehydration or lightening strike…?

This is why we have no business imprisoning these animals.

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