Animals

Team 2 Actiniaria or Sea Anemone's look like a flower under the ocean surface, when in reality they are meat eating animals that do not have back bones. They have been known to be anywhere from one inch to six feet tall. They have round tops with what looks like little arms on them. They mostly eat small fish, mussels, zoo plankton, and worms. How they protect them selves is a poison in their tentacles, which humans are immune to except on their tongue. Some species live to be 50 years old, or older! The reason for their long life span is because of team work. Sea Anemone's live near the surface, not much deeper than scuba divers can go, usually right along the coast line, this is because of the sunlight. Inside of the Anemone's tentacles and in their mouth, live tiny, microscopic agley. The Agley's name is Zooxanthellae, or gold, brown agley as it is commonly called. Like all plants the agley need sunlight, in order to preform the process where the plant makes food, called photosynthesis, the plant makes a "sugar" which is its food. While the agley make this substance some of it leaks onto the anemone giving it energy. This is one example of teamwork, the other is with an animal called the clown fish. These fish depend on sea anemone's for both shelter and food. Clown fish almost always in or near Anemone's because they are both immune and protected by the poison in the tentacles. The tentacles kill predators. Also from being in the water Anemones collect tiny detritus particles which clown fish eat, which clown fish clean off of anemones and some times clown fish scare away predators. Not many animals mess with the sea anemone, and clown fishes partnership but the [|Tompot Blenny] [|nudibranchs], snails and sea stars threaten Anemones so, thanks for clownfish. Sea Anemones reproduce in two ways. The first way is sexual reproduction, and the Suecond way is through something called lateral fission, in which the Anemone sprouts an almost identical animal from its side.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/sea-anemone/ http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/seaanemone/Seaanemoneprintout.shtml



http://www.highclass-adventure.com/biology_e/biology_anemones.php http://www.mesa.edu.au/cnidaria/cnidaria01c.asp

Team 8. The giant octopus The giant octopus is the second the largest octopus in the world. The giant octopus weighed 71kg(156.5lb) alive. It had a total length of7m(23ft). There are five different types of giant octopus. The fie species are restricted to the temperate areas of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. This octopus can live up to 3-5 years they can lay 20,00 to 100,000 eggs in several days after the eggs hatcmother eatable will die right away or a couple days after. The octopus has a redish-brown body called the mantle, but they have some cells that allows them to change colors to blend it with rocks and other objects. Most octopus do not have a back bone. They have three hearts and mostly eat shrimp, clams, lobster and fish, but they can and will eat sharks and birds to. Their predetors are sea otters, the sperm whale, and harbor seal. The giant octopus is really smart they can open jars, mimic other octopuses, and solve mazes in a testing lab.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_octopus http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/giant-pacific-octopus/



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Team 5

Green Sea Turtles (scientific name-Chelonia Mydas) There are many different names for the Green Sea Turtles. Some of them are such as Green turtle, Black (Sea) Turtle, Pacific Green Turtle, Chelonia, and the common name, Green Sea Turtle. The Green Sea Turtle is it maintains a big population because the mother turtle when she lays her eggs ,lays over a hundred at a time. This animal has a flattened body, a backed liked head at the end of its short neck, and flipper like arms so they can adapt to swimming. Adult green sea turtles grow to be about 5 feet long. The average weight of a mature turtle is about 150-420 lb and the average length Is about 31-44 inches. These animals are much more susceptible to predators when there small rather than when they are adults. When Green Sea Turtles are first hatched their predators are sea birds, crabs, raccoons, and fish. They are threats to hatchlings before they make it to sea. Only sharks are big enough to prey on adult green sea turtles. The only other predator to the green sea turtles is human. This is the only species in the genus Chelonia. Its habitat goes around the tropicals and the subtropical seas around the world. There are two different populations in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean including the East and West coast of Florida, the Caribbean, Coast of Africa, off the Pacific Coast of Mexico and Hawaii. What the green sea turtle depends on is water, and air, and it depends on the kind of things that it eats like seagrass, algae, jellyfish, shrimp, crabs, plankton, and small muscles.So if the humans keep trying to catch what the green sea turtle eats there will not be enough food for the turtle and they would die. It does not affect the environment, or other animals that live in there environment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_sea_turtle http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/education/kids_times_turtle_green.pdf http://www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org/kids-spot/ask-scute/ http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/life/turtle1.htm http://www.conserveturtles.org/seaturtleinformation.php?page=threats



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