‘MAN O WAR’  (Natural History Episode 24) by MORPHOLOGIC

In this special installment of our Natural History film series, Geologist soundtracks a macroscopic view of a Portuguese man-o-war’s infamously pneumatic tentacles. The man-o-war is often mistaken as a jellyfish, but this is not the case. It does not swim, but is instead propelled by the winds, tides and currents across the ocean’s surface. In fact, a man-o-war is not even a single organism, but an entire colony of organisms called siphonophores, that live together as a singular unit. They are found floating across all of the world’s tropical and subtropical oceans. Even more impressive is that the man-o-war colony is comprised of four different types of polyps, called zooids, that each serve a different purpose to the overall functioning of the colony. 

Film + Aquarium :: MORPHOLOGIC
Original Soundtrack :: GEOLOGIST

Premiere at Borscht Film Festival | April 23, 2011 - Miami, Florida