1 "I started life as a female, but when the male who ran our harem died, I had a sex change and took over. Divers seem to think I'm friendly, but I'm just defending my patch."
2 "I pull clams open and then slip my stomach out through my mouth and in between their shells to feast on their insides. When the meal's over, I pull my stomach back in again."
3 "Fully stretched out, I can reach up to 30 metres long. If you touch me, however, I'll shrink back to measure a small fraction of that."
4 "I grab crabs and inject them with a paralysing poison that turns their insides into soup, which I then devour with relish. I throw away what's left, and you can tell where I live from all the crab bits around my door."
5 "I brood my offspring from the egg stage in my belly pouch and then 'give birth' to them. What's unusual about that? Well, I'm their father!"
6 "I can be so irritating that I give people 'Dogger Bank Itch'."
7 "My favourite prey has some pretty sophisticated stinging-cell defences but I don't let these put me off my dinner. In fact, I end up using them to protect myself!"
8 "I'm both male and female at the same time. When I form long mating chains with my pals, we each act as a male to one neighbour and as a female to the one on the other side. If the chain makes a ring, everyone gets all the fun!" q
9 "I sit on a rock, and if a tasty creature blunders into me, I at once shoot out thousands of miniature harpoons. Once trapped, I can then pull them into my mouth and devour them."
10 "After spending my young days in open water, I go and lie on my side on the seabed. One of my eyes moves around to the other side of my face, so it doesn't stay hidden in the sand. In my book, a twisted-looking face is better than a one-eyed view on life!"
11 "I live tied onto a rock with lots of my mates. When faced with an enemy who tries to drill through our houses, we can sometimes tie him down so that he starves to death."
12 "I swim all the way into mid-Atlantic to meet up with potential lovers. We have a party to end all parties (literally) and then die of exhaustion. My young are left to drift back to coastal waters in the ocean currents."
13 "I often carry sea anemones on my back. I bung them some food, they give me some protection; it seems like a fair deal!"
14 "My teeth work so hard crunching up crabs and sea urchins that I grow a new set every year."
15 "I glue my head to a rock, build a house around myself and wave my legs out of the roof to catch food. My impressive endowment enables me to get frisky with the neighbours!"
16 "You don't have to be in warm water to find a 'cleaning station'. I happily clean parasites from larger fish, given a bit of peace and quiet."
17 "I dangle a little fishing rod above my head. Small fish can't resist looking at the lure, and I get a nice meal!"
18 "I usually crawl over the seabed but, when I do swim, its always upside-down."
19 "Chameleons are 'masters of colour change', are they? Give me a break! I use patterns on my skin for camouflage, for attracting mates and scaring rivals; even for mesmerising my lunch!"
20 "If I settle down somewhere on my own, I develop into a female. If I land on top of a female, she produces a chemical that makes me stay male so that I can keep her amused!"
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