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Subject: The Sea Pig Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:52 pm
Good morning class
This surreal piece of living art is called a scotoplane or "sea pig". Scotoplanes live on deep ocean bottoms, specifically on the abyssal plain in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean, typically at depths of over 1000 meters. Scotoplanes are deposit feeders and obtain food by extracting organic particles from deep-sea mud.
Rob Nip it in the bud!
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Subject: Re: The Sea Pig Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:56 pm
Interesting! Many and wonderful are the ways of nature.
Vanesa Ingalls Friend for Life
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Subject: Re: The Sea Pig Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:49 pm
Didn't know this "thing" ever existed...I wish the scotoplanes would be pigs for real...because if we could make a ham of every one of its legs...it should be fantastic!
Vanesa.
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Subject: Re: The Sea Pig Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:44 am
Vanesa wrote:
I wish the scotoplanes would be pigs for real...because if we could make a ham of every one of its legs...it should be fantastic!
Vanesa.
JW Isaiah Edwards
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Subject: Re: The Sea Pig Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:51 am
Vanesa you crack me up
Lori Ingalls Friend for Life
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Subject: Re: The Sea Pig Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:24 am
It looked like it was in s-s-s-l-l-l-o-o-o-w-w-w m-mo-o-o-t-i-i-o-o-n.
Gin Ingalls Friend for Life
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Subject: Re: The Sea Pig Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:34 am
Its funny the creatures we find that look so odd. God must have been bored after making all the other animals. Although, I'm sure they all have a use in nature.
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