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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
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Category: mollusk
Posted on: February 9, 2009 12:10 PM, by ableiman
A small floating sea slug, clionidae or "sea angels" are ferocious little predators that hunt the "sea butterfly," Limacina helicina.
When tasty sea butterflies get close, sea angels shoot out tentacles, grasp the prey with hooks and extract the body completely out of the shell to swallow it whole. Incidentally, this is also how my brother Benny feeds.
A clione shows a limacina what's what.
Two clionidae try to pretend that they are not mucus hungry snail murderers.
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Comments
Let's see if anyone else is nerdy enough to name the music that plays.
Posted by: Zelly | February 10, 2009 4:43 PM
I don't know about the music, but I do know that there is porn of it.
Did you know that the angelfish vagina is on the back of the head and lined with teeth ?
Me neither, but I had to learn through, surprisngly well drawn, pictures and you only through words.
Count yourself lucky.
Posted by: SadPerson | February 11, 2009 4:08 PM
the delicate sea angel
Posted by: bursa evden eve nakliyat | February 14, 2009 2:32 PM
the delicate sea
Posted by: bursa evden eve nakliyat | February 14, 2009 2:34 PM
I know this music! It's from Miyazaki masterpiece Nausicäa of the valley of the wind, (Music by Joe Hisaichi). Score!
Posted by: taupo | February 16, 2009 3:49 AM
lol, in the 2nd movie, there's just a random sea angel coiled up and floating around at the start!
Posted by: sea angel lover | February 27, 2009 11:36 PM