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Sea Creatures That You Should Probably Be Aware Of
chocolate_octopus:
I feel that you should all be made aware of the brittle star.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittle_star
while it is often called a starfish it is not, being simply a closely related echinoderm. This in no way prevents it from being awesome as some species can, unlike other echinoderms,tolerate brackish water.
CookedHaggis:
--- Quote from: ampersandwitch on 05 Jul 2007, 15:36 ---
I think the most amazing thing about the blue whale, is that, despite its size and power, the blue whale eats tiny little organisms and is extremely peaceful.
AWESOME.
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Buddha of the sea!
ampersandwitch:
You can't get his belly because he moves way too fast though.
Orbert:
I remember learning in grade school that most whales eat plankton, and that bummed me out because it meant that Pinocchio couldn't possibly be real, because there's no way a real whale could have swallowed them. The fact that it was a cartoon, wherein a wooden marionette turns into a donkey, and eventually a real boy, never crossed my mind.
ImRonBurgundy?:
--- Quote from: pi on 03 Jul 2007, 08:46 ---edit: so it appears ImRonBurgundy stole my thunder. In my defense, he sited 400 different species and his link was in Japanese, and the only Japanese I remember is "ohgodyes,yes,yes, etc..," or something to that extent.
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The video itself is in English, though.
And, Orbert, you should be aware that Monstro the whale appears to be a highly stylized rendition of a sperm whale (albeit with a much shorter snout and an inaccurately striped belly), which are in fact carnivorous.
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