CreatureCast - Building Tentilla
Channel: Casey Dunn
Date: 2021-02-17

Siphonophores (http://www.siphonophores.org/) are abundant predators in the open ocean. They use specialized tentacle side branches called tentilla to capture their prey. Like the teeth of sharks, these tentilla must be constantly replenished. This video describes how tentilla develop and grow.

This episode of CreatureCast provides background for work described in our paper https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005063118. The episode was written by Alejandro Damian Serrano (https://www.alejandrodamianserrano.science/) and animated by Riley Thompson (https://rileymotion.com/). Original music by Tony Higgins (https://www.tonyhiggins.org/). More of our animations can be found at http://creaturecast.org/, a project supported in part by the National Science Foundation grant NSF-OCE 1829835 (http://siphweb.org/).

More siphonophore videos:
CreatureCast - Siphonophores. https://youtu.be/8Pho_sgMpCA
CreatureCast - Hunting With Tentilla. https://youtu.be/wv_RL8acLWA