Sea Pens
Description
Sea pens are colonies of polyps( polyps: animals that have a fixed base,column like body, with mouth and tentacles.). Each polyps resembles a feathery quill. Sea pens are bilateral (bilateral: being able to divide into even halves). There is no typical weight for sea pens, but the height ranges from 2 inches to 6 feet. Sea pens have various colors. Their colors range from dark orange, yellow, and white.
Habitat
Sea pens are octocoral, which means they are a type of soft coral. Like any other coral sea pens like to live on sandy or muddy surfaces. Sea pens are generally located on the gulf of Alaska to Southern California. The sea pens biome varies. Some sea pens live in intertidal zones while others live in the deep
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President Obama established a national marine memorial off the coast of New England. The new memorial, which is about the size of Connecticut, houses geological and ecological treasures. Under the surface of this protected ocean rest canyons and extinct volcanoes. Rare fish, coral, whales, and turtles count themselves among the animals that live in the memorial. Critics cite the possible harm the memorial will cause to the fishing industry.
“Can you imagine being in a small concrete enclosure for your life when you’re used to swimming 100 miles a day?” This is how captive dolphins live everyday, their natural habitat is swimming miles and miles in the ocean. When they get captured their lives change for the worse. In the past decade Seaworld and captive animals has been a controversial subject. Many people believe the keeping orca whales captive is damaging to the animal and affects them in a negative way. Others believe Seaworld is used to rescue animals and save them. The treatment of animals in captivity is cruel and should be stopped. Keeping animals captive is an appalling punishment.
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The boat-billed herons average height for a full grown adult is about 20 inches. They weight usually about 600g or 1.3 pounds. They have a unique black patch at the base of the hind neck. The animals feathers are a pale grey to white color,they have a chestnut colored belly and black on their side near the hip and ribs. They also have a scoop like bill, so they can scoop up their prey. They have wings that they fly with, as their main source of transportation. The have eyes, ears, and a beak that help them to find their prey, but mostly rely on touch. To protect themselves they raise their dark feathers that are located on their heads.
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Adaptations: A long snout to catch prey, and a long curly tail to grab coral and sea grass due to high current pressure.
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