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Hydra

Hydra vulgaris

Hydras are tiny, freshwater creatures with tentacles that help them catch their food. They can regenerate if they're cut into pieces, making them amazing creatures to study!

Lebensraum: Freshwater

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The Hydra is a tiny, tube-shaped freshwater polyp, typically translucent white, green, or brown. It has a ring of slender tentacles around its mouth, which it uses to capture food. Its body is often attached to submerged surfaces.

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Hydra

Kategorie

Invertebrate

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

2/5 · Gering

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Interessante Fakten

Hydras lack a brain, heart, or lungs, yet survive complexly!

Some Hydras can host tiny algae, making them look green!

These tiny animals can even survive being frozen solid and thawing!

They can stretch their bodies over ten times their usual length!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Super Regrower

Hydra can regrow its entire body from just a small piece because of potent stem cells that help them repair injuries.

Fähigkeit

Eternal Youth

Hydra can continuously replace its cells, avoiding aging and potentially living indefinitely under ideal conditions.

Fähigkeit

Stun Gun Tentacles

Hydra has specialized stinging cells (nematocysts) on its tentacles that help them paralyze tiny prey.

Maße und Details

Body Length Mm
10 mm
Tentacle Length Mm
20 mm

Ernährung und Fütterung

Tiny carnivores that ambush and sting small aquatic creatures using their tentacles.

Hauptnahrung

  • Daphnia
  • Cyclops
  • rotifers
  • small insect larvae

Nahrungssuche

  • Ambush

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

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Water Flea

Daphnia pulex

A common crustacean prey item.

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Copepod

Cyclops bicuspidatus

Actively captured by Hydra's tentacles.

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Midge Larva

Chironomus plumosus

Young midge larvae are food.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

2/5 · Gering

Do not touch hydras in the wild as they can sting. Always observe them from a safe distance.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das body Length Mm von Hydra?

10 mm

Was frisst Hydra?

Tiny carnivores that ambush and sting small aquatic creatures using their tentacles.

Wo findet man Hydra normalerweise?

Freshwater

Wie jagt Hydra?

Ambush

Was ist der/die/das tentacle Length Mm von Hydra?

20 mm

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