In 2009, Lasker and Page returned to the area before the annual spawning, which for A. elisabethae occurs in November and December. The researchers compared 24 colonies that had been cropped to 20 ...

The man-of-war is actually a colony of four organisms, or polyps, that make up four different body parts: a top gas-filled bladder, the feeding tentacles, the prey tentacles, and the reproductive ...

A fourth polyp contains the reproductive organisms. Movement Man-of-wars are found, sometimes in groups of 1,000 or more, floating in warm waters throughout the world's oceans.

Polyps are abnormal growths on any tissue with a blood supply. ... In the reproductive system, they “most commonly occur in the womb cavity and are identified with ultrasound,” says Coats.