Oysters can tolerate the hot and dry weather in summer, but also can successfully adapt to the winter freezing weather, even if they leave the sea and expose them in the air environment, they can survive for a certain period of time, depending on the ambient temperature, oysters away from the water can survive for 1-2 weeks or even 1 month. Although oysters have sufficient environmental adaptability and stress resistance, there are still many natural predators in nature. Did you know that these predators may have been eaten by you too?
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The common natural enemy of oysters is often snails, especially a snail called oyster enemy lychee snails, which can be known from the name. Many snails can penetrate the shell of oysters through their secretions, and when the hard oyster shell is destroyed, the oyster meat cannot escape the fate of prey.
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Some starfish creatures also choose oysters as their food, and in the face of the hard shell of oysters, starfish use their wrists to entangle oysters tightly, suffocating the oysters to death. After death, oysters tend to open their mouths and starfish can eat them.
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Crabs have strong, hard pliers, and many crabs use their own pliers to break the shell of an oyster and eat it. Other crabs will wait in the oyster's survival environment, waiting for the oyster's breath to open, and then kill the oyster with pliers and then eat it.
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It's hard to imagine that some fish would also become predators of oysters. These fish will open oysters by hitting, sucking or towing oysters into hard objects such as coral reefs.
In addition to these oyster-feeding organisms, some parasites, barnacles and other fouled organisms also compete with oysters for nutrition. But it has to be said that as a seafood treasure with high nutritional value, oysters are fat, tender and delicious, which also makes oysters loved and sought after by many people.
Nowadays, garlic grilled oysters have long become a classic in major night markets, and it has to be said that human beings with endless desire for food are the biggest "natural enemies" of oysters.
Are you a "natural enemy" of oysters?