Kellet's Whelk

[guppiecat]

I posted this on Facebook a while ago, but I’m re-posting here so everyone can see it.

This is one of the coolest exhibits I’ve seen in quite a while. What you’re seeing is a lucite box with whelks on the top and a piece of fish screwed to the bottom. The whelks are adapted to live on the rocky ocean floor, and send their long flexible mouth things down in between the rocks to feast on whatever things they can scavenge. In this exhibit, you get to see a behavior that is extremely interesting and that, gives you a very different understanding seeing it than reading about it.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Comments

[tiger_spot]

Oh, neat! That is not something I have ever seen!