what is your favourite animal?? (neat)(pics)

[noddy]

My favourite animal is the Turritopsis nutricula

Turritopsis nutricula, the immortal jellyfish, is a hydrozoan whose medusa, or jellyfish, form can revert to the polyp stage after becoming sexually mature. It is the only known case of an animal capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage.[2][3] It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation.
Cell transdifferentiation is when the jellyfish "alters the differentiated state of the cell and transforms it into a new cell". In this process the medusa of the immortal jellyfish is transformed into the polyps of a new polyp colony. First, the umbrella reverts itself and then the tentacles and mesoglea get resorbed. The reverted medusa then attaches itself to the substrate by the end that had been at the opposite end of the umbrella and starts giving rise to new polyps to form the new colony.
Theoretically, this process can go on indefinitely, effectively rendering the jellyfish biologically immortal,[3][4] although, in nature, most Turritopsis, like other medusae, are likely to succumb to predation or disease in the plankton stage, without reverting to the polyp form.[5] No single specimen has been observed for any extended period, so it is not currently possible to estimate the age of an individual, and so even if this species has the potential for immortality, there is no laboratory evidence of many generations surviving from any individual.

what is your favourite animal??





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[sex]

mine is elephant can i just want one i love them ever since i seen a depressed baby one crying over its dead mum

[MKR&*42]

That's the animal that never "dies" correct? I found it out the other day and thought it was amazing.

Erm mine's the duck-billed platypus:



just cause the name

[FlyingJesus]

Immortal jellyfish are cool I reckon if you whacked a few out in captivity you could literally keep them going forever but my fave animals are bees or cats

[Red]

elephants!! followed by giraffes




so cute

[Zelda]

Tiger for me find them absolutely adorable and always have LMFAO



find the immortal jellyfish rly cool too as well as that like microscopic bear thing that can live for millenia and can't be killed by anything lmao

[Absently]

gotta be either:

llamas



they smiling cus they pleased to see you



beautiful

chinchillas



although, i am a major animal lover and love 'em all :Heart:

[buttons]

hey i like sharks

[geo]

hey i like sharks

we r made for each other xxxxxxxxxxx





sharks r so cute and cool 3 they scare me (like if im in the ocean i get scared) but id love to do the cage dive thingo

[Kardan]

I don't really have one, so I guess it'll be dogs



No, it's not mine, just a generic picture, I would like a husky in the future though called Kimi