When we see who is unhappy in our lives, there is often a joke mantra: "Throw you into the sea and feed the sharks!" ”
But to tell you a secret, in fact, the probability of you feeding sharks after falling into the sea is extremely low, and most of the time you feed a strange creature called Scotoplanes globosa!
The sea pig is essentially a sea cucumber, living in the depths of the seabed, in some deep trenches the sea pig accounts for 95% of the biological mass, foraging for all the organic matter to be decomposed, fresh and rotten comers do not refuse, the sea pig is a real master scavenger.
It is very interesting that sea pigs are not only decomposers, in fact, they are a parasite that is targeted by a large number of underwater animals, such as Stilapex and Crinolamia, which parasitize sea pigs! At the same time, some crabs were also found on them, and it is speculated that these crabs may have eaten the parasitic snails on their bodies, so it can be said that the little sea pig, Bunsen is a large ecological chain, nourishing many small creatures!
Sea pigs are about 2-15cm long, they are social animals, as few as 10-30, as many as more than 600, they gather together to feed, this kind of bunching is called "net clustering trawl" by scholars, and when foraging will go in the same direction, the specific reason is still unclear...
At the same time, they also have a unique body structure, sea pigs, as a kind of sea cucumber, but have their own unique "feet"! This "foot" has about 14 strips in the abdomen, around their abdomen, in fact, this is a wart-like protrusion, but after water injection, it can achieve a similar hydraulic pipe principle, and a walk is completed by "water injection - drainage"!
This hydraulic principle still exists in their mouths, there are about 10 "hydraulic hands" around their mouths, and there are some "hydraulic fingers" at the front of the "hands"! These extremely flexible "hand structures" can help them sweep everything and stuff it into their mouths~
They also have four "hydraulic tentacles" on their heads of the same principle, the specific role of which is unknown, probably to balance the body. Although they are both sea cucumbers, they do not throw their guts for self-defense, because in the deep sea, predators are also scarce, and conserving energy is more important than anything else.
Postscript: With so many introductions, you must be curious, such an important creature to the earth, why have I never seen them in the museum? Even many people have not heard of them at all, because sea pigs live in the deep sea, and as soon as they come out of the water, they quickly decompose, and most of them become slimy lumps... But in any case, thanks to the sea pig, which makes a significant contribution to the Earth's organic matter cycle.
#Monster Calendar# 2023.10.06Sea Pig
