The Arctic Ocean Happy-Headed Jelly-Fish-Bear by Amy

The Arctic Ocean Happy-Headed Jelly-Fish-Bear also known as the Jelly-Fish-Bear is a very interesting animal because it is half mammal and half jelly-fish. It is related to the bear/polar bear family and elephant family.

The Jelly-Fish-Bear has an elephant head and has creamy white fluffy ears. It has a polar bear body but it has big black spots. The tentacles are bright red from all the blood rushing to them to keep them warm. This is important because they live in a hole in the ice and they put their tentacles in the icy water.

Ice floes in the Arctic Ocean are the main habitat of the Jelly-Fish-Bear.When it gets frostbite (quite often) it shakes until it warms up (it normally takes five mins). When it gets scared it turns white (like the ice) to camouflage itself. It is born 7mm long and the full/average size is 7cm ( the biggest humans have found is 8.7cm).

Fish eggs are the Jelly-Fish-Bears main diet. It is a very small eater, and only eats once a day. If it can it sometimes eats fish that have just hatched from the eggs (very occasionally).

The Jelly-Fish-Bear has live babies. They are born purple in litters of 10. They are first born with gills and after about one week it breaks through the ice and the gills turn into little pink lines.

73 years and 14 days is the exact length of their life (unless they have been eaten). Every month they give birth to a litter so they are not endangered. They stay with their Mum for about five years or until they can defend themselves from predators.

Hammerhead sharks and whales are their predators. When they sense the Jelly-Fish-Bears predators they turn white (like ice).They do not harm anything bigger than them except fish eggs and baby fish.

The Arctic Ocean Happy- Headed Jelly- Fish-Bear is a very small animal which does not harm except to catch food. It is an intelligent animal and humans have figured out they are not a pest to anything.

By Amy