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  • Animal Behavior

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  • Jellyfish significantly impact marine ecosystems and coastal areas, yet their movement patterns remain poorly understood.
  • Jellyfish are often considered passive drifters, limiting the predictability of their outbreaks and dispersion.
  • Active swimming in jellyfish is suspected but not well-characterized, creating a knowledge gap in understanding their locomotion.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of active swimming in jellyfish movement and its impact on dispersion.
  • To characterize the swimming behavior of jellyfish, specifically their orientation relative to environmental factors.
  • To determine if individual jellyfish swimming behavior influences aggregation movement and survival strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized drone-based Lagrangian tracking to monitor multiple jellyfish simultaneously.
  • Focused on the scyphozoan jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica as a model organism.
  • Employed numerical simulations to analyze movement patterns and survival advantages.

Main Results:

  • Jellyfish exhibit directional swimming away from coasts and against surface gravity waves.
  • Individual jellyfish swimming behavior synchronizes within aggregations, creating collective directional movement.
  • Counter-wave swimming behavior leads to biased random-walk patterns, reducing stranding risk.

Conclusions:

  • Active swimming is a critical factor regulating jellyfish movement, not passive drifting.
  • Understanding jellyfish swimming behavior improves models for predicting outbreaks and dispersion.
  • This research offers insights for mitigating the impact of jellyfish on coastal populations and infrastructure.