NatGeo Fail
Whoa!
Astoundingly and disconcertingly inaccurate!
This video is from Nationwide Geographic. The added textual content is mine. The primary time they used the video was 5 years in the past for “Alaska’s Deadliest on Nationwide Geographic TV”. NatGeo Wild posted the sensationalized and inaccurate video once more on November 3, 2023 to their audiences of tens of millions of individuals.
They’re evidently not “encumbered” by the dearth of logic and reality, regardless of the suggestions of many. They knew how incorrect it was 5 years in the past, selected to make use of it once more, and aren’t heeding any of the issues. I’ve supplied suggestions on their social media posts and am offering it right here too within the hopes of countering the misinformation and holding NatGeo accountable for accuracy. They’ve the duty to not create, and perpetuate, sensationalized nonsense.
Is that this definitely worth the effort particularly with a lot else occurring on this planet? For me, it’s clearly sure. Placing this sort of illogical, inaccurate data into the world particularly when perceived as an academic large is NOT okay. It feeds the atrophying of reality, science and information.
Deep, deep sigh.
The suggestions I supplied NatGeo Wild concerning the video:
“This content material is astoundingly inaccurate. Replicate on the fact that salmon eggs are laid in freshwater, on the underside. These jelly species don’t feed on the underside and are nearly all the time within the ocean, not freshwater.
The eggs you say are salmon eggs being eaten by the Moon Jelly are her personal fertilized eggs! In Moon Jellies, when the male releases sperm, the pulsing motion of the feminine Moon Jelly brings the sperm in touch with the eggs underneath her oral arms and are brooded there.
My picture under exhibits a feminine Moon Jelly with fertilized eggs underneath their oral arms. The eggs she are brooding are brighter white. See them?
Moon jellies are Aurelia labiata, most dimension is 40 cm throughout.
NatGeo social media posts with this video are:
Instagram – www.instagram.com/p/CzMDQk4i3oB/
Fb – www.fb.com/reel/3685193188394528
E-mail – suggestions@nationalgeographic.ca
