Paper coral
What do divers like to see besides watching all kinds of big fish on the bottom of the sea?
Of course it's a big reef!
So is there any surprise to see such a lush coral below? Are there any surprises?
But can you imagine that this large piece of coral is made of paper?
French artist Mlle Hipolyte spent 4 months meticulously crafting each coral.
I hope that with this work, we will awaken everyone's awareness of coral protection.
After watching the paper coral works made by the artist, are there still many friends who are confused, so what is coral? What kind of corals are in the picture?
What is Coral?
Corals are animals made up of many individual polyps, each of which is surrounded by round mouths covered with tentacles, inhabited by symbiotic zooxanthellae, which provide nutrients for the polyps during the day and the tentacles at night to catch the plankton that swims by with the tip of the spine cells. The waste discharged by the polyps accumulates below to form the bones of the corals, which grow into different shapes over time.
Species of coral
Corals are mainly divided into two categories: hard corals and soft corals, and identifying coral growth patterns helps determine the types of corals, mainly including the following:
● Branching: A branch that forms branches like a tree, typically representing staghorn coral.
● Clumpy: Looks like a large, inconspicuous rock, some of the lines are very similar to the brain, typically representing a flat-brained coral.
● Plate leaf-like: form a thin plate-like extension, typically represented by rose coral.
● Free-form: single-body corals, do not like to live in groups, a whole coral has only one mouth, typically representing Stenat coral.
● Flattened: mainly distributed in high latitudes, a layer covering the surface of the stone, generally not a reef.
Coral identification exercises
Under the guidance of Liao Linbao, director of the Coral Conservation Center of Shenzhen Research Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Xiaobian successfully identified rose corals, flat-brain corals, gorgonian corals, kidney -type (hammer) corals, staghorn corals, bubble corals, sunflowers, shiba corals, etc. in the following beautiful picture. Well-informed friends can definitely recognize more than Xiaobian, let's practice our hands together:
Get closer and judge the growth pattern
Zoom a little closer and look at the details of the tentacles