Ocean Ecosystem Animal Facts
Even the species that we know, continue to surprise us with their behavior. Check out these shocking facts about marine critters that you won’t believe...
1. Angelfish mate for life: When angelfish choose a partner, it’s for life! If one of them dies, the other one won’t breed with any other mate in their entire lifetime.
2. Lobsters pee out of their face and they pee on each other to communicate:The urine nozzles located under their eyes allow lobster to communicate. Peeing on another lobster sends messages necessary for survival.
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3. Spider crabs are the masters of disguise:To survive, spider crabs use sponges, seaweed, and anything that will let them blend in, as camouflage that they stick to their carapace.
Sea cucumbers’ diet consists of anything that sticks to sand at the bottom of the ocean. After they have gotten food out, they poop the sand out clean and tidy.
When a male octopus mates with a female he experiences chronic memory loss known as dementia, so he forever after swims around with no ability to remember.
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You know that soft, white sand in tropical islands that you dream about whenever you’re planning your winter vacation? It’s what parrotfish poop after eating coral.
Seahorses are the only animals on earth that aren’t birthed by the mothers. In this unique species it is males who get pregnant.
As the largest animal on earth, the full-grown blue whale is so heavy, just its tongue can weigh more than an entire elephant- that means that it can be heavier than 7, 000 kilograms!
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Shark teeth are not really teeth, but scales. Because of this, if they ever lose a tooth, it will just grow back
Most animals endure painfully long pregnancies but female scorpionfish don’t waste time. They simply release the eggs into the water to be fertilized by the males, and hatched within two days.
Their pectoral fins are unique and can work as legs that these fishes sometimes use to walk along the sand. When you’re scuba diving, don’t be surprised to see these critters strolling along casually!
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This unique fish is incredibly difficult to spot. Once you see it, however, its huge head will surprise you, as it makes up 44% of its entire body!
Poison only resides in part of the puffer fish’ body, which means that it is not only edible, but also delicious. Be careful, though! If the chef doesn’t cut the fish in exactly the right way, this delicacy will be lethal.
Though not on the list of fearsome predators, the poison stonefish carry is the most lethal one in the entire ocean. Combine this with their incredible ability to camouflage and you understand why they are to be feared.
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Like many animals, dolphins find natural ways to get high. They use pufferfish to get this effect, and sometimes even do it in groups.
Some species of shrimp have symbiotic relationships with fish and corals. They clean parasites off fish’s mouth, and protect corals in exchange for food. (can you see the shrimp on this spanish dancer?)
20. Lobster can re-grow an eye or an arm:Just like the lizards or sea-stars, a lobster can regrow an eye or a claw it lost in the mouth of a predator! But the new one will be smaller than the first.
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21. Octopuses are the most caring mums in the world! Once mummy octopus has laid its eggs, it cares for it until they hatch never living their sight, not even to feed! It is believed that mummy octopuses reach their limit as die as soon as their babies are swimming off. When they hatch, baby octopuses are smaller than your fingertip and fully functional.
In the past lobsters were considered at the bottom of the food chain as cockroaches of the sea and were used as bait or fed to prisoners.
Seahorse have no teeth and no stomach, still they are one of the most vicious predators existing, their sneaky hunting technics give them a 90% killing rate. They are the only fish with a neck and a prehensile tail they can use to grab on the anything, grass, coral, or mating partners… they are performing courtship dance for a week before mating. They are master of disguise and can change the shape and color of their skin to blend in their environment
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During night dive it is common to see a parrot fish sleeping in a crack but have you ever seen the bubble they create around their head made out of their own snort?
While less poisonous than king cobra, stone fish can still be deadly and is apparently the most painful sting human can ever feel. People stung by stonefish usually as doctors to amputate the limb that have been stung in order to stop the pain.
If your arms could be as fast as those of a mantis shrimp, you could send a ball to the moon in a throw. Easy! It is believed that the blow from a smashing mantis shrimp is as fast as a 22-caliber bullet. So fast the water is boiling at contact creating a shockwave able to kill its prey even if it manages to avoid the impact.
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30. Harlequin shrimps feed on sea stars, once they found one (which can be 100 times their size), they turn it over so it cannot run away and eat it slowly. They have even seen feeding their hostage to keep them alive longer!!!
Beside the dolphins, baby octopus and whale. All pictures above were taken by Franck Fogarolo while cruising the Andaman Sea in Burma or Thailand with The Smiling Seahorse.
Camille has been traveling the world since her mid twenties and dived many seas before finally settling down in Thailand in 2012. With her husband Franck, they opened The Smiling Seahorse liveaboard to offer cruises in the most unexplored area of South East Asia and became quite the experts when it comes to diving in Myanmar! Proud mother of two she still travels as much as she can and usually joins a dive trip to Mergui Archipelago every month.
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A blog about our diving adventures in Burma and Thailand. Diving trip reports, guest reviews, fishy stories, wildlife fun facts and much more...Oceans are areas of salty water that fill enormous basins on the Earth’s surface. Even though Earth has one continuous body of saltwater, scientists and geographers divide it into five different sections. From biggest to smallest, they are the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern, and the Arctic Oceans.
Oceans are deep as well as wide. On average an ocean is a little over two miles deep. But about 200 miles southwest of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, the water in the Mariana Trench is almost seven miles deep. That’s the deepest part of the ocean.
Oceans help keep Earth’s climate habitable. By moving water around the globe, the oceans help to keep places from getting too hot or too cold.
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Oceans also help keep the planet warm. In the same way that hot water in a bathtub stays warm longer than hot chocolate in a small cup, the vast amount of warm water stores heat in the ocean. Then ocean currents carry that heat around the planet. Without oceans, the Earth would be an icy rock.
The words “ocean” and “sea” are often used to mean the same thing. A sea, however, is a small area of an ocean, usually with land on several sides. The Mediterranean, nestled between Africa and Europe, the Baltic in northern and central Europe, and the Caribbean between North, Central, and South America are all seas.
Scientists think that up to 91 percent of marine species have not yet been identified; but there could be as many as 700, 000 of them! Most—95 percent—are invertebrates, animals that don’t have a backbone, such as jellyfish and shrimp. The most common vertebrate (an animal with a backbone) on Earth is the bristlemouth, a tiny ocean fish that glows in the dark and has needlelike fangs.
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Some of the smallest animals on Earth can be found in the ocean. Sea animals like zooplankton are so small you can see them only with a microscope. Big fish swim through these waters too, such as great white sharks, manta rays, and ocean sunfish.
The largest animal ever to live on Earth is an ocean mammal called the blue whale. It’s as long as two school buses! Dolphins, porpoises, and sea lions are also ocean-dwelling mammals.
The ocean teems with plant life. Most are tiny algae called phytoplankton—and these microscopic plants have a big job. Through photosynthesis, they produce about half of the oxygen that humans and other land-dwelling creatures breathe. Bigger algae like seaweed and kelp also grow in the ocean and provide food and shelter for marine animals.
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Temperature, ocean depth, and distance from the shore determine the types of plants and animals living in an area of the ocean. These regions are called habitats.
Coral reefs are one type of habitat. When tiny animals called polyps die, their skeletons harden so other polyps can live on top of them. Then those polyps die, and more move in. After thousands of years, this
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