Animal of the week|The researchers made the comb magnets fuse together in the laboratory.
The summary is made by artificial intelligence and checked by a human.
Scientists discovered the fusion of scallops in a marine biology lab.
The American campaign can fuse with another individual as a result of damage.
Experiments showed that manatees merge with the nervous system and digestion.
What from one broken heart, is sung in an old song. It’s okay if you happen to be a comb magnate. As a result of the damage suffered, two comb magnets can fuse with each other so that they become one unified organism.
Soon they are already beating together at the same pace, even though they don’t have a real heart.
Special magnetic fusion was observed at the Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory in Massachusetts, and researchers published a paper about it Current Biology in the journal.
The subject of the study was the American comb magnet, the same creature that has been feared to spread to us as well. It would be a harmful alien species here, as the jelly-like creature reproduces quickly and eats zooplankton, such as fish roe.
As one on the day the researchers noticed that a kind of double magnet was swimming in the water tank of the laboratory.
The creatures were glued to each other from the side and formed a single, larger than usual manatee.
Then the magnet was poked and it was found that the whole creature responded even though only one side was touched. The jellyfish had fused together, down to the nervous system and digestion.
The critters were probably damaged when they had been handled the day before, and when they healed, they fused together. The researchers verified the phenomenon with other magnets.
They cut small pieces from the sides of the creatures and placed the magnets in bowls, in pairs to heal. 90 percent of the jellyfish had fused together during the night.
Jellyfish clearly do not recognize foreign cells, or at least do not reject them. In this way, two separate organisms can merge up to the nervous system. The researchers wondered if there could be something to be learned from this for organ transplants.
Perhaps the magnet will also heal faster with the help of another magnet, if one happens to be floating nearby. In nature, in the sea, the partner can still be far away, even if the jellyfish misses the other person.
Let’s go back still to music. If a comb manet wrote an e-mail message and ended it hopefully with the words “there’s still summer left”, would it then be a Mamba manet?