Photo by SERPENT Media Archive Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nA Love Affair<\/h2>\n
The Basket Start definitely has a love for coral and sponges. In fact, they will spend a good chunk of their time hanging around with these other animals. During the night, they will often climb up a nice tall piece of coral in an attempt to get higher into the current so they can pluck food off as it passes by. Once the sun rises these little Basket Stars, tired from a hard nights work, will usually curl up on the coral or sponge and take a well deserved nap. The really smart ones will actually find a poisonous sponge to hang out with in an attempt to scare away any predators. Personally, I wouldn’t mess with a Medusa-like creature sitting on a poisonous sponge, so I am guessing their defence mechanism is highly effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday, we took a break from the that to learn about a cold loving reptile found in the mountains of Tasmania. Well, we are going to follow up that trip with an even colder adventure that takes us to the deep blue sea….in some cases. The Basket Star love colder climates and can be found hanging out in the shallow ocean waters surrounding the Arctic and Antarctic areas or if they can be found doing their thing in deeper sections of the oceans surrounding the equator. That’s right, these creatures are actually going deeper just so they can get their <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221,4024],"tags":[348,3209,4025],"yoast_head":"\n
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