Jon Sullivan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.mvpgame.dev/@mads" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mads</span></a></span> The animal that most blew my mind when I found out about it was the sea swallow.</p><p>I'm not sure how I'd not heard about these before.</p><p>Just look at it!</p><p>They float upside-down under the surface of the open ocean, scooting about looking for food. They eat things like Portuguese man o' war and steal the stinging nematocysts to use for their own defense.</p><p>And, they're just crazy-levels of elegant.</p><p><a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2670813" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inaturalist.org/observations/2</span><span class="invisible">670813</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/SeaSwallow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeaSwallow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/molluscs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>molluscs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/nudibranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nudibranch</span></a></p>