Marine Life is always interesting and mysterious to travel to, i wanted to learn about the marine sea creatures that always makes me wonder how weird they could get, that's why i share them, to learn too.
You probably think you know or at least you could predicted how unusual the wild marine sea creatures could be. And then you should wait till you see how far beyond your expectations these weirdest marine sea creatures behaviors could go. You wouldn't believe it... Believe me for saying this. And now as you can see in my title, i am going to discuss with you all the weirdness of this one particular marine sea creature, called the sea starfish, as in Spongebob Squarepant's Patrick Star in real life, i mean in real marine life. I will not hide it from you that, right before i posted this article, i don't even know one bit about starfish, all i know is that they move slowly on the ocean floor, didn't even know what or how they eat, wondering probably they eat from the center of the floor facing part of it, where it is potentially having its mouth-like part of its body there. Then i thought it's time to learn, actually the truth is not like this.
Let's be honest, i am talking to myself now, ok.. It was one day in the afternoon, i just stumbled upon the TV, changing from channels to channels, and then i stopped where i saw this television program from national geographic wild, where it discuss marine sea creature's wild life, which i always interested in, and then comes this starfish, they are actually presenting about everything about this unique sea creature, so i sat, i observe, and then here i am sharing it with you all.
Starfish turn out to be well known for their powers of regeneration. An arm can break off as a defensive tactic and grow into a complete new animal. In some species, an arm will pull off purposefully to grow a new animal, serving as a form of asexual reproduction.
Starfish in action
This behavior is certainly fascinating, yet even more fascinating is the many different ways different species of starfish feed. Most starfish are carnivores and feed on sponges, mollusks, bryozoans and ascidians. In species that eat mollusks,the starfish will slowly creep over its hapless victim, say an innocent clam. Its hundreds of tiny tube feet then create a suction cup vice like grip which opens the clam and exposes the soft muscular foot inside. Having no mouth parts to help it eat, it uses its stomach. The starfish expels its stomach into the prey, thus covering the exposed mollusk with its digestive organs. Digestive juices are then excreted and the tissues of the prey are dissolved and literally eaten alive. The digested food together with the stomach is then sucked back in to the starfish.
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
The crown of thorns starfish is one of the largest and most unique starfish species. It can have between 10 - 25 huge arms that all contain venomous spines. Feeding on coral polyps, this menace has destroyed many coral reefs worldwide as its natural predator, the giant triton, has been hunted nearly to extinction for it beautiful shell.
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
The crown of thorns has interesting feeding behavior that scientists can't clearly explain. At the same time every evening they congregate together, hundreds of them arrive right on time at the designated meeting spot and then on cue of some mysterious signal, they spread out in a massive feeding frenzy, desecrating hundreds of coral colonies in a night.
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
Star is always interesting, there is star in the sky... and then Patrick Star, the big hollywood star, local star, achievement star, and of course the one we have been talking about the whole time, which is also one who has the weirdest marine sea creature behavior, the sea starfish. For us, it is currently the most interesting stuff, at least for the moment.
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