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I would guess they paralyze their prey, and the cells are more effective on smaller prey.
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What are the survival techniques of jellyfish?
Jellyfish use stinging cells to protect themselves & catch food
How do tentacles help a jellyfish get its food?
Jellyfish tentacles contain stinging cells, which can cause minor irratation or even death to humans or creatures. They than use their tentacles to their food up to their mouths where it is than eaten.
Food adaptations for the moon jellyfish?
The moon jellyfish has a feeding tentacle that hangs at each corner of its mouth. The tentacle has stinging cells that are used to capture small prey and drag it to its mouth.
Where do jellyfish get their food?
In the ocean! They use their stinging tentacles to catch small fish.
What are some adaptations that help a jellyfish survive?
They sting the prey with their tentacles. Also known as Stinger's.its tentacles
How do stinging cells help a hydra captue food?
Stinging cells will paralyze the prey of the Hydra. This makes it a lot easier for them to capture their food.
What are the body parts and functions of Cnidarians?
A Cnidarian is a stinging animal such as a jellyfish or a sea anenome. They have stinging cells that they use predatorially for food. There are two body scructures for cnidarians--polyps and medusas. A polyp is attached to something and does not move, and its mouth is at the top. A medusa is free-swimming, and its mouth is on the bottom.
What animals catch food and protect themselves with their stinging cells?
Insects.
What do jellyfish captur and kill there pray with?
They use their stinging tentacles to get food. The tentacles contain stinging cells called cnidoblasts and inside each cnidoblast there is a coiled thread with a barb at the end called a nematocyst. The nematocysts are discharged into prey such as a fish, they paralyze it and then the contracting tentacles bring the fish up to the mouth.
What food goes down the wrong tube what is actually happening?
A cnidoblast is the harpoon like structure of a jellyfish and a nematocyst is the stinging cell
How does cirripedia capture food?
Cnidarians are carnivorous, feeding mostly on zooplankton but also on small crustaceans, fish eggs, worms, smaller cnidarians, and even small fish.For the source and more detailed information concerning this subject, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below.
How do jellyfish eat their food and what kind of food do they eat?
A jellyfish will eat whatever prey it can subdue with the stinging cells of its tentacles, however, prey is often limited by size or the strength of the particular species of jellyfish's venom. Some jellyfish, such as the upsidedown jellyfish, do not eat prey, instead deriving all nutrition from zooxanthellae symbiotes. Once prey has been subdued, the tentacles manipulate the prey through the mouth and into the stomach, where it is exposed to digestive enzymes and broken down into nutrients and absorbed.
