Monterey Bay Aquarium: Aquarium Exhibits - Jellies: Living Art

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There's no standard rhythm tempo for jellies

Our Rhythm and Movement gallery surrounds visitors with the mesmerizing beauty of drifting, pulsing and gliding jellies. Among the most compelling are the blue jelly, the cube-shaped box jelly and a walk-through swarm of hundreds of moon jellies.

Today�s jellies possess an impressive repertoire of swimming styles—some pulse peacefully like living lava lamps; others beat fast and furiously. Still others row with oarlike paddles or throb forever upside-down.

More rhythm and movement video

	A comb jelly's a drifter, but it can also paddle its own canoe. It moves by beating rows of "combs"—tiny hairs that act like oars to move it through water.
Box jellies move by pulsing their cube-shaped bells, flicking four clusters of tentacles.		In contrast, adult moon jellies look like pale, beautiful full moons pulsing through the water.

Dan Ramirez

Cork Marcheschi,
Jim Nowak

Inspiring conservation of the oceans