Set off to Semakau again last Sunday (: always love the skies on our way there.
Nice clouds!~
Guided with Kim today (: Our group- horseshoe crab passing the seagrass lagoon. 
The moon snail may look gentle but it is actually a ferocious predator! They can suffocate the bivalves and if they still refuse to open up their shells, the moon snail can secrete acid to soften their shell and suck them out! So now when you see empty seashells with a hole on them, you know who's the culprit huh.
Strawberry topping on the chocolate sponges!
Aha that was described by one of my participants (; Sponges do come in varied colours and shapes. Sponges are cosy home for animals to stay. With the constant flow of water, it acts like air-conditioning for the tiny animals living within. They can eat the bits of food flowing in with the water too! Some animals like the velcro crab use the sponges as their protection as well as sponges are poisonous and distasteful to some animals.
This pic depicts a budding sponge. Sponge reproduce both sexually and asexually (for this case). So when a sponge buds, a part of the parent sponge falls off and this grows into a new sponge.
We saw many other organisms but did not manage to take a picture of them as was busy guilding.
Some of them include:
- Seahorse
- Spidercounch
- Dead Cowrie
- Octopus
- Cushion/common/knobbly Seastar
- Stonefish Sea Cucumber
- Sunflower Mushroom Coral
- Fanworm
Another great trip! It's interesting to see how the kids got fascinated by the intertidal animals (; Thanks rmbr for organising and horseshoe crabs for being such attentive audience despite the hot weather!
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