A starfish is a unique animal that lives on the seafloor. As everyone knows, seafloor is never always flay but usually consist of plenty of corals and rocks. Due to this nature, animal that lives under it tends to have Benthic locomotion in order to adapt to the Geography.
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| Not always like that |
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| But like that |
So, what is a Benthic locomotion?
Benthic loomotion describes the movement of animals that utilizes tube like legs which could create vacuum through contracting their muscles. This allow the animal to cling to the wall of rocks or coral easily. With this, waves of tube feets could moves along the surface by contracting and relaxing their muscles which allows the animal to moves along. Based on the criteria, starfish is categorized as animal that utilizes Benthic locomotion. Check out the GIF image below!
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| Illustration of a single tube feet moving Source: http://www.madreporite.com/science/tubefootanimation.gif |
Below shows our chocolate chip starfish moving using its unique Benthic locomotion system!
*Fast Forwarded* because they walk quite slowly!
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