Las autoridades uruguayas advierten a los veraneantes sobre la aparición de Carabelas Portuguesas, organismos marinos tóxicos, en las playas de Rocha y La Paloma. Aunque parecen medusas, no lo son y su picadura puede ser nociva para los humanos. Se sospecha que su presencia inusual puede estar relacionada con el cambio climático y la disminución de sus depredadores naturales.
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00:00What are they encountering, Miriam?
00:02Look, with some very rare organisms.
00:05There are people who went to summer camp there, to Uruguay,
00:08and they found these little bugs on the beach.
00:10They are very cute, very aesthetic,
00:13but you have to be careful.
00:14You don't have to get close.
00:16They are called Portuguese skulls.
00:19They look like jellyfish, but in reality they are not.
00:22So, if they bite you, you have to run to the doctor
00:26because they have some toxins,
00:28so they are harmful to the human body.
00:31They began to be observed on some beaches in Uruguay,
00:34in the Rocha area, in the area of La Paloma,
00:37but hey, we have to see what is really going on there
00:40to find out who we are with, Lu.
00:42With Gustavo Descalzi,
00:44who is just going to tell us how this situation is being experienced.
00:49Let's see, let's see, Gustavo.
00:51How is the thing there?
00:53Caramela Nochilla.
00:54Exactly, Caramela Nochilla.
00:58There it is, but that would be, that would be a skull, Nochilla.
01:01Yes, yes, yes, yes.
01:03It is a word game of our companion Pipi Novello,
01:06who loves it, you see?
01:08He loves the discursive thing.
01:11Well, he's a poet, in short.
01:13Basically.
01:13We not only had the stellar presence of Johnny Depp,
01:18but now it is another presence.
01:20There are presences.
01:21This is not so pleasant, this is not so good.
01:24It is a presence, it has been seen on the beaches of Rocha,
01:26and I do want to get out of the humor part a little
01:29to tell you that the authorities in Uruguay say,
01:31do not approach, do not touch them,
01:34because it has a toxin that affects the nervous system.
01:37And then, suddenly, the body can affect it in a different way.
01:41So, no matter how beautiful you see it, blue,
01:44it's kind of striking.
01:45Different, of course, it's very striking.
01:47It's not a jellyfish, it's not a jellyfish.
01:48No, just like that.
01:48I don't know if you've seen any,
01:50but if it looks like in the photos,
01:51the truth is that it is very, very particular.
01:54Yes, yes, yes, just like that, just like that.
01:56And they have a size, more or less,
01:57it tends to be like the size of a hand.
01:59The violet part is like the size of the hand.
02:02Yes, yes.
02:03And the tentacles must be about 15, 20, 30 centimeters.
02:07Well, the tentacles are the ones that have the toxin,
02:10that's why the authorities in Uruguay warn not to touch it.
02:14And if they see one in some square,
02:16that has been seen in some square of Rocha,
02:17they tell the authorities and they remove it.
02:19Now, this type of, let's say, presence,
02:24I'm going to call it that.
02:25Yes.
02:25It has been seen two or three years ago,
02:27it is unusual, it is not from this area,
02:29it has to do with what Adrián Sack was talking about,
02:31with the issue of climate change,
02:32and it also has to do with the fact that the natural predator
02:36has been disappearing, which is a type of turtle,
02:38and that makes it also...
02:41Of course.
02:42It has like that sail, like that crest, it goes sailing.
02:45Now, that it can reach the beaches of the Argentine coast,
02:49don't have the slightest doubt,
02:50because experts say that they are moving,
02:54I am here in front of the Atlantic Ocean,
02:56according to the temperature and salinity,
03:00if the cold current of the south does not enter,
03:03these strange presences, let's call them,
03:06that seem nice, but they are not.
03:08No, of course.
03:09They could move to the beaches of Argentina,
03:12so you have to be careful.
03:13If you see it, don't touch it, call the authorities,
03:16they come and remove it with a cauldron, and that's it.
03:18And there the problem is solved.
03:19Well, but, well, it's true what you say, right?
03:22How climate change, the climate crisis,
03:25or as we like to call it, has these issues, right?
03:28Because when the natural predator disappears,
03:31a species that disappears, or that decreases,
03:34it is not that it disappears, but that it decreases,
03:36the rest are proliferating, and well,
03:39they generate these impacts.
03:40Thank you very much, Gustavo.
03:42We stay there, look what that day is.
03:44And they are occupying other spaces.
03:45Of course, of course.
03:46No, today can't be more beautiful.
03:49It happens with a lot of species.
03:51The day is incredible.
03:54Please.
03:55The day is going to reach 30 and long degrees,
03:58and these days, they say it's going to be,
04:00the best days of January are the ones that come,
04:03experts say.
04:04Sorry, sorry.
04:06Look, no, no, look, I'm going to throw you one
04:09that you didn't tell me,
04:12but you, who are a very follower of her,
04:15you must have it well on the radar.
04:17Today is Susana Jiménez's birthday.
04:21Yes, ma'am, forgive me for forgetting,
04:23for the presence of these boys.
04:25A presence is overshadowing another.
04:28Your, your, dear, your, how am I going to let you pass?
04:32Today is Susana Jiménez's birthday.
04:348.1.
04:36It's more, it's more.
04:38No, don't say, no, no, no.
04:39No, no, the engine, engine 8.1.
04:41No, why?
04:42Why do you have to say the ages,
04:45what's wrong with you?
04:46No, no, no, no.
04:47That delays, Gustavo.
04:49The ages are said and period.
04:51In no way.
04:52It already made me angry, it already made me angry.
04:54Well, we send a big kiss to Susana Jiménez
04:57and to my dad, whose birthday is also today.
05:00In the United States.
05:02A kiss, there it goes.
05:04A kiss for Jorge.
05:05And a kiss to Lorna, who early on started telling me
05:08how you greeted Susana.
05:09You see, you see, now we are fine with Lorna too.
05:13See you, Gustavo, thank you.
05:14And now we return to the city of Buenos Aires
05:16because we are going to tell you