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I think a lot about how our culture almost exclusively anthropomorphizes jellyfish as if the outside center of the bell is the “top of their head,” like this:
But…..if we think of an animal’s “front” as the direction it moves in, and we factor in that MANY jellyfish (not just box jellies, either) have eyes or at least simple light-sensitive eyespots all the way around the rim of the bell, then the “face” of a jellyfish would actually be this:
Conversely, if you think of an animal’s face as wherever its “mouth” points, or at least wherever food goes in, then the visual characterization of a jellyfish should be more like this:
