{"id":598595,"date":"2026-08-19T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598595\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:56:09","slug":"scuba-diver-filmed-dazzling-jellyfish-in-thailand-what-she-spotted-attached-to-it-amazed-her-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598595\/","title":{"rendered":"Scuba diver filmed dazzling jellyfish in Thailand. What she spotted attached to it amazed her more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, an underwater videographer shared the incredible moment a tiny\u00a0crab\u00a0hitched a ride on a\u00a0jellyfish<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho needs a plane or a train when you have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/insects-invertebrates\/jellyfish-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jellyfish<\/a> to give you a ride?\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zoegetswet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Slack<\/a>\u00a0when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CtvS4XfgYI9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sharing<\/a>\u00a0her footage from a dive trip with Rainbow Fish Divers in Koh Tao, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>See crab hitching a ride on a jellyfish. Credit: Zoe Slack<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nature\u2019s version of Uber,\u201d added Oceans Nation who re-shared the video clip on\u00a0Instagram, and explained that this type of relationship is called commensalism, meaning that one of the species benefits from the partnership but there\u2019s no positive or negative impact on the other animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this instance, they said, \u201cthe jellyfish offers transport and protection to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/difference-between-a-lobster-and-a-crab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crab<\/a>, which gets a free ride through the open ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video and image credit: Zoe Slack \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zoegetswet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">instagram.com\/zoegetswet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More amazing wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023, an underwater videographer shared the incredible moment a tiny\u00a0crab\u00a0hitched a ride on a\u00a0jellyfish \u201cWho needs a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-598595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}