Mermaid Minute #8: Sea Anemones (Watch Video)
In this new series on Scubaverse.com we are sharing Linden Wolbert’s video series ‘Mermaid Minute’.
The “Mermaid Minute” is an ocean educational web series for children. Each action-packed episode explores one subject, creature or habitat about our oceans for 60 seconds.
Professional Mermaid Linden Wolbert is a real mermaid whose passion is educating children about the wonders of our oceans, swimming safety and ocean conservation as well as exploration and inspiring our world’s youngest ocean ambassadors.
This is Episode #8 of the Mermaid Minute, the only ocean education web series hosted by a mermaid!
Sea anemones are CARNIVORES, so they eat meat like fish, crabs, mussels and worms. They sting and paralyze a passing creature floating by, and pull it into their mouth in the center of their bodies to digest it. Remember our friend Nemo? Clownfish, or Anemone fish, resist the sting of anemones by forming special, slimy mucus over them. They are symbiotic, meaning they both benefit from living together. Clownfish are protected from predators inside the stinging tendrils of the anemone, and morsels of food fall into the anemone that are dropped by the clownfish! Anemones are very beautiful. But don’t touch, they STING! Anemones attach themselves to rock or coral. Be careful walking around tidepools and don’t step on rocks like this one….it’s actually an anemone who closed up at the low tide so it won’t dry up in the sun!
And that’s a sea anemone in a MERMAID MINUTE! I’m Mermaid Linden, and I’ll sea you next time, my little sea fans!
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