Sold
This
is a Portuguese Man O' War, and it is quite beautiful in a weird way.
It has tentacles with a painful sting, and even when it's lying on the
beach those tentacles need to be avoided. Now here's the weird part:
this is actually four organisms living in cooperation (wish Congress
could do that). The sail is a gas-filled bladder (now
that sounds
like Congress); the tentacles are the killers that deliver prey; then
there are two other organisms that do digestion and reproduction. I feel
that such a remarkable example of God's handiwork deserves to be
painted on gold. I wish you could see the metallic gold background on
the computer monitor.
Carmen
