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They have the same venom as a cobra.
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2.
It cannot swim
It floats along with the currents.
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3.
It is not a jellyfish
It may resemble a jellyfish but, a jellyfish is just one animal, Portuguese Man-of-War is a group of animals.
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4.
Early Sailors thought they were sea monsters
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Deaths from Portuguese Man-of-War are rare.
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6.
Tentacles can reach up to 165 feet long
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7.
The violet Sea Snail Eats them
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They float in the warmer waters of all the oceans.
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9.
The float can be moved by the current
The top speed the current can move a Portuguese Man-of-War is 6 miles an hour.
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10.
Polyps have different functions.
One set of polyps catches food, one polyp breaks down the food and yet another is the reproductive polyp.
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11.
There are hundreds of polyps but only one float
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12.
Each part of the Portuguese Man-of-War is a polyp
One polyp is called the float
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13.
It uses tentacles to catch its food.
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14.
It was named after a type of ship
The sailors of the 1800's thought the floating portion of the Portuguese Man-of-War looked like a warship of the the Portuguese Navy.
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15.
The tentacles can still sting even though the creature is dead.
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16.
Blue ocean slugs eat them.
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Sea turtles eat the Portuguese Man-of-war
The loggerhead and hawksbill turtles eat the Portuguese Man-of-War
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Each of the tentacles have thousand of stingers.
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They are often washed up on beaches by the hundreds.
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20.
When wind hits the sail shaped ridges on the float the Portuguese Man-of-War moves.
If only the wind is pushing the creature it can move one mile an hour.
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There can be hundreds of Polyps attached to one float.
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