Why jellyfish?
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August 17th, 2008
I read that a fluther is a group of jellyfish, but was there a reason to choose jellyfish? As opposed to orangutans or mealworms or chickadees?
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Hey Pam, Welcome to Fluther ! If you check out this past thread and this thread, you should get your answer :)
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Yup yup. Great answer. ; ).
And Pam, welcome! =)
I don’t know if this was intentional on the part of the Founders, but I find it especially significant that Siphonophores (the group jellies belong to) are colonial animals. Each jelly is a colony of specialized zooids—integral animal-like organisms—all doing their bit to make the whole critter work (more here)
Fitting metaphor, don’t you think?
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