A year ago, I couldn’t have told you what a salp was. This morning I was surrounded by chains of them, little jelly beans of the sea floating by, linked into streamers. According to Wikipedia: ‘A salp or salpa is a barrel-shaped, planktic tunicate. It moves by contracting, thereby pumping water through its gelatinous body, one of the most efficient examples of jet propulsion in the animal kingdom.’
Swimming with salps
Swimming with salps
Swimming with salps
A year ago, I couldn’t have told you what a salp was. This morning I was surrounded by chains of them, little jelly beans of the sea floating by, linked into streamers. According to Wikipedia: ‘A salp or salpa is a barrel-shaped, planktic tunicate. It moves by contracting, thereby pumping water through its gelatinous body, one of the most efficient examples of jet propulsion in the animal kingdom.’