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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!

Hábitat: Freshwater

Aspecto

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

Categoría

Invertebrate

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

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!

Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

Super Regrower

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

Habilidad

Eternal Youth

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

Habilidad

Stun Gun Tentacles

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

Medidas y detalles

Body Length Mm
10 mm
Tentacle Length Mm
20 mm

Dieta y alimentación

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

Alimentos principales

  • Daphnia
  • Cyclops
  • rotifers
  • small insect larvae

Método de búsqueda

  • Ambush

Conexiones ecológicas

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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.

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Colecciones

Seguridad

Peligro

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

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el body Length Mm de Hydra?

10 mm

¿Qué come Hydra?

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

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente Hydra?

Freshwater

¿Cómo caza Hydra?

Ambush

¿Cuál es el tentacle Length Mm de Hydra?

20 mm

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