I met a Marine Biologist named Susan Scott. She writes a column
in the Star Advertiser, a newspaper on Oahu. Her next article is going to be
about sea cucumbers, a very fascinating creature. I learned a little about sea
cucumbers and here is some information on them.
Sea cucumbers look like blobs on the sea floor when they are
actually the vacuum. They eat everything on the sea floor, picking up droppings
or dead fish. With this they process more than 300 pounds of sediment a year!
They are related to the Starfish and the Sea Urchin. There are many different
types of Sea Cucumbers. Some spit up their guts when threatened which is very
deadly and toxic to fish and other animals that live in the sea. If a fish got
caught in the deadly strings of guts that are very sticky, the fish would not
be able to move and then slowly dies while the Sea Cucumber slides to safety.
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