By Tara Rippin • Published: 21 Apr 2020 • 18:22
Incredible footage of a jellyfish leisurely making its way along the cleaner waters of Venice’s canals in Italy has gone viral.
The low tide and the reduced volume of gondolas and boats in Venice, due to the Covid-19 pandemic movement restrictions, have increased the water’s transparency, meaning marine life is more visible.
According to a professor at the University of Bologna in Italy, Attilio Rinaldi, the species of jellyfish seen in the waters of Venice is very common in the upper Adriatic, but cannot normally be seen.
They apparently enter Venetian channels through tidal flows that connect the upper Adriatic with the lagoon.
This jellyfish was spotted swimming the canals of Venice, Italy, as boat traffic has severely decreased pic.twitter.com/hV7oI1LLxD — NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 21, 2020
This jellyfish was spotted swimming the canals of Venice, Italy, as boat traffic has severely decreased pic.twitter.com/hV7oI1LLxD
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 21, 2020
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Tara Rippin is a reporter for Spain’s largest English-speaking newspaper, Euro Weekly News, and is responsible for the Costa Blanca region. She has been in journalism for more than 20 years, having worked for local newspapers in the Midlands, UK, before relocating to Spain in 1990. Since arriving, the mother-of-one has made her home on the Costa Blanca, while spending 18 months at the EWN head office in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. She loves being part of a community that has a wonderful expat and Spanish mix, and strives to bring the latest and most relevant news to EWN’s loyal and valued readers.
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