03/04/2024

Today’s Donegal ramble explores a tiny but vibrant community of fascinating creatures that you’ll find in most atlantic rock pools. While wandering along the edges of this impressive lagoon, we noticed these huge, colorful beadlet sea anemones, not only large tomato/colored ones but bright orange and dark green fellows too. Although they look like inert little blobs, they - like accountants- have a much more racy life than you may imagine. They feed by way of stinging their prey with poison and hoovering them in ~ they also can sting their anemone enemies to secure spaces in good feeding areas- and in a ridiculously cool move, anemones that are under attack can clone new blobs to protect them - so when you study the rock pools you can see who’s winning the battle for territory. These are brainless little jelly things with a military strategy (not the only ones, you say) but I’m not listening. My enemy’s anemone is my friend.
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