What eats jellyfish

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Jellies have been around for millions of years and over that time many predators have relied on them as a staple food source.  Most filter feeders will eat the early stages of a jellyfish, the egg and planula larva which are free floating. Depending on water conditions, the egg and larva swarms create large nutritional seasonal abundance.

A variety of lifeforms in the wild eat jellyfishes. Fishes like sunfish, whale shark, chum salmon and tuna fish eat jellyfishes.

Reptiles like the leatherback, loggerhead, Green and hawkbill turtles eat jellyfishes.

Mammals like red tailed foxes and penguins consume jellyfishes that become washed up ashore and even members of the jellyfish group such as other jellyfishes, anemones and small molluscs eat jellyfishes.