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Giant Green Anemone Anthropleura xantrhogrammica |
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Sea anemones look like plants, but they are really meat-eating animals. The Sea Anemone attaches itself to a rock and spends most of its life there. It eats shrimps, crabs, small fishes, and even sea stars and sea urchins. First it stings its prey with its tentacles as the prey swims by, then stuffs it into its mouth and closes up to digest it. This Giant Green Anemone is ready to digest a small crab. Anemones are found in shallow and deeper water, in coastal areas all over the world. |