An underwater videographer has shared the incredible moment a tiny crab hitches a ride on a jellyfish.
“Who needs a plane or a train when you have a jellyfish to give you a ride?” says Zoe Slack when sharing her footage from a dive trip with Rainbow Fish Divers in Koh Tao, Thailand.
“Nature’s version of Uber,” adds Oceans Nation who re-shared the video clip on Instagram, explaining that this type of relationship is called commensalism, meaning that one of the species benefits from the partnership but there’s no positive or negative impact on the other animal.
In this instance, they say, “the jellyfish offers transport and protection to the crab, which gets a free ride through the open ocean.”
Video and image credit: Zoe Slack / instagram.com/zoegetswet
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