This smaller mudskipper usually seen in groups eats small crabs, prawns and insects, and digs burrows on soft mudflats while spitting out balls of mud. They attract females by doing jumping vigorously and raising their orange-and-black dorsal fins. Once paired, they will defend their burrows and surrounding territory against all intruders, including mangrove crabs, sometimes spitting mud at them. They are more adapted to land than water due to their smaller gill size relative to other mudskippers, which makes them to be less efficient at aquatic respiration.
The grouper has many different types of adaptations. An important aspect of the grouper's body is its jaw; it snaps shut very quickly. Although they don't have front teeth, groupers can use their mouth and gills to grab prey to feed on and kill and are able to suck prey up like a vacuum from a distance. They swallow their prey whole and pulverise it with their inner teeth. Groupers are very capable of swimming long distances but prefer to keep themselves in a certain area that they well, camouflage and capture their prey. Mature groupers like to feed on marine animals like crab, octopus and lobster. Young groupers like to eat smaller marine animals like crustaceans, plankton, micro algae and other microorganisms. But when it's the other way around and they are the prey they can sense predators nearby, they hurry to make their way into the reef and quickly camouflage to pale or darken their body. When threatened, the grouper can make boom sounds by vibrating their swim bladder to scare off their predators. The groupers' predators are the moray eel, the sandbar shark, the king mackerel, the hammer head shark and the
This experiment was performed using the crustacean Armadillidium vulgare, also known as the pillbug. Pillbugs mate in the spring, and it takes several weeks for their fertilized eggs to hatch. After hatching the offspring spend an additional six weeks in a pouch under the female pillbug. Pillbugs eat dead and decaying organic matter, so they are often found in dark damp places. Another reason they like damp places is because they have gills that must be kept moist. The gills are located on the thorax, which is covered by large exoskeleton plates. The thorax is also where the pillbug’s seven pairs of legs are located. The pillbug also has the nickname “roly-poly,” this is because the pillbug has a defensive mechanism where it rolls into a tight ball, using the large exoskeleton plates of its thorax to protect its head and underside.
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They are also have a muscular build and are nocturnal. These qualities enable them to prey on their
They are known to be voracious predators with a varied diet, essentially eating any type of animal that they encounter.
Atractosteus spatula is the 3rd largest freshwater fish in North America and is capable of reaching lengths of 3 meters or more and can weigh up to 140 kilograms (Alfaro et al. 2008). Typically the adults mature when they are 3 years old and around 0.6 meters in length (DiBenedetto 2009). Typically females are larger, longer, and heavier than their male counterparts in the same age class and also can live to 50 years or more while the males typically live to around 26 to 30 years (Buckmeier 2008; Buckmeier et al. 2012; DiBenedetto 2009). The vast majority of A. spatula in the wild are between the ages of 3 and 6 years (DiBenedetto 2009).
The anglerfish has to adapt to an environment that is so deep down into the ocean that you can not see any sunlight. The only light you may see is the bright esca which is used as a lure to attract predators. The esca is attached to what is almost like a fishing pole, called an illicium.The anglerfish can expand both their jaws and their stomachs.They special part of them helps them store food when food is scarce.
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It is harnessed with senses and is required for the platypus to survive. The platypuses' bill eats solely underwater and only underwater. They find their food by rummaging for food under water using their bill to attack their prey. They are bottom-eaters, which means that their diet consists of insects and insect larvae, worms, and shellfish. They seize their prey by shoveling the mud and gravel with their bill. When their food arrives in their mouth, they cache it in cheek pouches until they reach the surface of the lake or river they are located at (Becker). The platypus lack teeth, so the gravel they shoveled up helps them chew their food (Smith). It can take twelve hours for the platypus to look for food. However, they can stay submerged underwater for only thirty to one hundred-forty seconds (Bradford). While they look for food, they close their eyes due to the mud they dive down into. They use their strong sense of smell and electro-receptors to find their prey
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Anatomy. New Zealand mud snails are very small and look like a typical snail. They only grow to be about five millimeters long. These snails, like all other snails, are gastropods. Snails are also hermaphrodites. A hermaphrodite is a
What does it eat? It feeds mainly on krill and also consumes tunicates, jellies, small fish and algae.
This organism is a herbivore, they only eats plants or any vegetation they can find in the arctic. This is why they don't have sharp teeth or claws.
Most people would be surprised to learn that scientists have an interest in rubber ducks. However, by tracking the journey of 28,000 rubber ducks and other toy animals, scientists gained extremely valuable information about the oceans.
Usually it resembles a black guppy fish. This is a live-bearer fish. So you need to provide a lot of baby fish around the adults. If you keep a pair of a male and a female with no young ones around, they may not be comfortable with the environment and may develop stress which may even result in their death.