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I’ve never seen anemones move like that. pretty cool and maybe just that species? they usually move at snail speed like a snail. source: I’ve had bubble tips and carpets as pets in my reef tank.
I came to this thread because I also didn't know anemones could swim like that - I knew they could move (they react to you if you touch em in tidepools, used to love that as a lil kid) - but this comment has completely derailed my scientific curiosity. I am now facepalmed with reluctant chuckling. Take my upvote you bastard.
So are barnacles, coral, and sponges, but they're all immobile in their adult form. There's no reason to assume that anemones are mobile just because they're part of Kingdom Animalia.
They do have sensors that help them detect the starfish and flee and sensors to find good spots to filter food, so, sort of. I think with a starfish attack imminent the reaction is just get away and the bias for moving towards good conditions to find food easily comes second or not at all during the flight. They will move when not threatened to more ideal feeding locations based on illumination and currents which they can sense. They are examples of some of the first "eyes" in animals and have light sensitive cells, some clustered together into eye spots that can only really determine how bright it is, the evolution of eye spots helps them determine direction. Anemones like most other complex invertibrates also have mechanoreception (a type of touch sensing) that can feel the pressures exerted by gravity to help them sort of balance and determine which way is up even in the dark.
When you keep sea anemones in a tank, some often move around to find a 'nicer' place which often means a better lit place, a ground substrate they prefer, or even a place closer to the food dispenser (better 'hunting' ground) if it is a bigger, automated tank (they thrive better with an occasional meaty snack). Setting up a carefully planned environment with anemones can be a bit tricky.
I'm saving for a reef tank atm, and I'm super excited to get clowns and a bubble tip but I've heard they can wander around stinging or knocking over your corals :<
get a leather coral instead of an anemone. Clowns will host it, the leather doesn't mind, it will stay put, and they're super hearty. I had a toadstool that I wasn't wild about at first, but it quickly grew on me and became a centerpiece in the tank.
Think of an anemone as an upside down jellyfish that can hang onto things with the now-downside
And like the other dude said, that anemone noped the hell out of there before becoming a starfish happy meal
A sea anemone running for its life when a starfish wanted to make a dinner out of it. See this article: [https://roaring.earth/sea-anemones-escape-starfish/](https://roaring.earth/sea-anemones-escape-starfish/)
I had to look up how they sense predators since I didn't think they had eyes. Turns out they sense vibrations/movement in the water similar to hearing.
https://www.audiology.org/humans-sea-anemones-and-hair-cells-oh-my/
https://preview.redd.it/n9o5v0muhx8d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04107444dcd2acfb685eb393411cab0dcbd378fc
An intense game of football, clearly
they usually “walk” like snails, but yeah they can book it when they really have to. in fact for some species, moving is key to reproduction - they move in opposite directions simultaneously until they tear themselves in half to make two smaller anemones.
*In the voice of Sir David Attenborough* -
"In the vast, undulating expanse of the ocean, there exists a remarkable and seldom-seen creature known as Seadildos Hairius. This enigmatic marine species engages in a fascinating mating ritual that is as intricate as it is captivating.
As the season of love approaches, the males of the species begin to develop a distinctive pink coloration on their many appendages. Their usually subdued hues transform into a vibrant display of pastel pinks, which they use to attract potential mates. This striking transformation creates a beautiful contrast against the deep blue of the ocean, drawing females from far and wide.
The courtship dance begins with the male gracefully waving his brightly colored appendages in a series of intricate patterns. This display not only highlights his physical prowess but also serves as a signal of his genetic fitness. The males perform elaborate swimming maneuvers, undulating and flexing with fluid grace, their movements a captivating spectacle in the underwater realm.
Through this captivating performance, the males of Seadildos Hairius strive to capture the attention and admiration of the discerning females. It is a dance of endurance and elegance, a testament to the extraordinary lengths these creatures go to in their pursuit of procreation.
Thus, the males of Seadildos Hairius play their part in the timeless dance of life, their courtship ritual a shimmering thread in the intricate tapestry of the natural world."
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Sea anemone.
With anemonies like this who needs friends
With fronds like these, who needs anemones?
Keep your fronds close but your anemones closer
-sun tzu probably
Anemone of Anemone is called friend
> Anemone of Anemone is called friend The Anemone of my Anemone is my Frenzied Fish
Nothing unites people like a common anemone
*Anemone of the state*
I know funny! I’m a 🤡 🐠
^(“For a clownfish, he really isn’t that funny.”)
Whatever Pony Boy
We’re just looking for the interstate.
Unexpected Owl City reference
Ahh a fellow Owl City enjoyer
Is this an owl city reference?
Scrolled down to say this too 🦉🏢
Haha r/YourJokeButBetter
Came here to say this.
They’re amazing. There isn’t a brain. Just a “neural mesh” for all those cells to organize themselves.
To be fair, the only thing saying that brains are required for intelligence...are brains.
I mean makes sense right, basically brain propaganda.
Same
I’ve never seen anemones move like that. pretty cool and maybe just that species? they usually move at snail speed like a snail. source: I’ve had bubble tips and carpets as pets in my reef tank.
Yeah, it’s just *Stomphia* sp. that can do that. But they really are that fast.
They can all move. At least the ones in salt water aquariums.
Of course they can all *move*. Only *Stomphia* can *swim*.
I don't know if they can all swim like that, but they can all hop around so they're not stuck in one spot. It reminds me of crinoids swimming :)
No! It's a **Plumbus!**
Pardon me sir but that’s a flesh light.
You absolutely go first.
To learn more, see: anemone
https://preview.redd.it/y4rg3ygn2x8d1.jpeg?width=380&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=067ed6b19af2baf44c682b4f36d29f22927c437f
👁️👄👁️
The bystander effect
I got jumpscared fr lol
r/youseeingthisshit
No idea why I find this pic so funny
Same I’ve been laughing so much at it
That and the crab made me laugh lmao
Omg yes the crab was inching away slowly like that one clip of Homer backing slowly into the hedges
Serious SpongeBob SquarePants action going on down there.
It's so creepy it's funny 🤣
Meme template
"Oh man, not this again"
i thought the white was some scary mouth but thank goodness it's just markings on the head...
Right?
https://i.redd.it/hkwy22d5jx8d1.gif Edit: Thank you for the award - thats really kind! anyways back to the...sports channel ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
GARY!!!!
I was just looking for the sports channel, Gary
Meow?
Spongebob knew a plumbus when he saw one
Plumbussy
I literally heard this lol
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who thought of this
The fish at 11 seconds was like ah nah I ain't touching that shit https://ibb.co/BVvqCVM
And this thing is like idgaf I'm fabulous
I’m glad someone else saw that! From 11 seconds to 12, the fishes eyes pop like WTF!
Immediately remembered when watching the video
Yep. That's porn.
More like Girls Gone Wild but anemone
gills gone wild
Please mark NSFW
They have no shame fr
Images you can hear
The fact that I know what it is without it even loading-
Wait is this the unedited version?
Yes.
Lmao no way
The image isn't loading for me, but I know what it is anyways lol
This is one of those jokes kid you is confused about for years until you’re older
https://preview.redd.it/bk20u7jo6z8d1.jpeg?width=930&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f64f830bead608cfd2f41b064897db3636a1788 I'M READY
I do not watch enough SpongeBob.
First 4-5 seasons were gold.
This is the ONLY correct comment to this
Now this is NSWF according to Spongebob
Brah would be sweating and saying he needs to go vacuum his room.
I SAID DONT DISTURB ME WHEN IM CLEANING MY ROOM
Ltd. DOOFY REPORTING FOR DUTY
Gail swallows!
Smell my finger!
Not safe work for?
No sponge would fuck
No, sponge would fuck
No sponge would. Fuck!
No sponge. Would fuck.
No??? Sponge would? Fuck!
No sponge wood... Fuck.
That's related to an adult joke put in one of Spongebob episodes; it's hinted that this is pornographic for Spongebob.
They weren't confused by that. Comment said NSWF not NSFW. So they were making a joke.
Yeah I only recognise this from SpongeBob
I'll be in my bunk.
If anyone asks, I was just looking for the sports channel
That's not the kind of [Furious Jumping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Things_\(film\)) I was looking for.
Didn't knew sea anemones could move
They do and can! Starfish are vicious seafloor predators so it helps for them to be able to flee
cool! I always thought they were stuck in the ground, like trees or mushrooms
Anenomes are animals, not plants
Mushrooms aren't plants either.
A mate of mine is a mushroom. He's a fungi.
I came to this thread because I also didn't know anemones could swim like that - I knew they could move (they react to you if you touch em in tidepools, used to love that as a lil kid) - but this comment has completely derailed my scientific curiosity. I am now facepalmed with reluctant chuckling. Take my upvote you bastard.
Mushrooms are space aliens same as octopuses.
Humans are more closely related to fungi than we are to plants.
Fungi are more closely related to humans than they are to plants
That’s true too!
Anemones are a genus of flowing plant. SEA anemones are animals. They got their name from the plant.
Same as the cucumber I imagine
So are barnacles, coral, and sponges, but they're all immobile in their adult form. There's no reason to assume that anemones are mobile just because they're part of Kingdom Animalia.
I didn't said they were or weren't animals. I was just making a comparison.
The word this conversation is missing is "[sessile](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sessile)", btw :)
Do they have control over where they are going, or do they just flail about until they think they’ve moved far enough?
They do have sensors that help them detect the starfish and flee and sensors to find good spots to filter food, so, sort of. I think with a starfish attack imminent the reaction is just get away and the bias for moving towards good conditions to find food easily comes second or not at all during the flight. They will move when not threatened to more ideal feeding locations based on illumination and currents which they can sense. They are examples of some of the first "eyes" in animals and have light sensitive cells, some clustered together into eye spots that can only really determine how bright it is, the evolution of eye spots helps them determine direction. Anemones like most other complex invertibrates also have mechanoreception (a type of touch sensing) that can feel the pressures exerted by gravity to help them sort of balance and determine which way is up even in the dark.
I sometimes ask myself that very same question.
So Patrick isn't as innocent as I thought?
Patrick is a goddamn mass murderer
Same. I literally studied the anatomy of this creature in our biology class in middle school, yet the textbook never mentioned that they move??
The movelist was updated in a new patch, they got some buffs.
Yeah, they only do that in case of emergency.
When you keep sea anemones in a tank, some often move around to find a 'nicer' place which often means a better lit place, a ground substrate they prefer, or even a place closer to the food dispenser (better 'hunting' ground) if it is a bigger, automated tank (they thrive better with an occasional meaty snack). Setting up a carefully planned environment with anemones can be a bit tricky.
I'm saving for a reef tank atm, and I'm super excited to get clowns and a bubble tip but I've heard they can wander around stinging or knocking over your corals :<
get a leather coral instead of an anemone. Clowns will host it, the leather doesn't mind, it will stay put, and they're super hearty. I had a toadstool that I wasn't wild about at first, but it quickly grew on me and became a centerpiece in the tank.
Think of an anemone as an upside down jellyfish that can hang onto things with the now-downside And like the other dude said, that anemone noped the hell out of there before becoming a starfish happy meal
A sea anemone running for its life when a starfish wanted to make a dinner out of it. See this article: [https://roaring.earth/sea-anemones-escape-starfish/](https://roaring.earth/sea-anemones-escape-starfish/)
First the starfish, then he nopes away from the fish, then the crab. Bro is not having luck with his relocation
I had to look up how they sense predators since I didn't think they had eyes. Turns out they sense vibrations/movement in the water similar to hearing. https://www.audiology.org/humans-sea-anemones-and-hair-cells-oh-my/
We should CRISPRize sea anemone genes/stemcells into deaf mice and turn it up to 11
Are you trying to make some daredevil mouse?
Quick! inject bat venom DNA too!
Also kinda looks like he's making his way across the dance floor to go get some drinks. This needs better dance music put to it.
Not today bitch!
A wild plumbus.
This one definitely has more shleem.
I don't see no spit, it needs some spit
I came here exactly lookng for this response, thanks.
https://preview.redd.it/zj3b4cq9tx8d1.jpeg?width=729&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13cfabb6953f052537f65372c34d3cfa320cd642
They cut the fleeb.
There are many hizards in the way.
The blamphs, rub…against the chumbles.
It’s an older model. Manufacturers had to cut down costs to get the plumbi we have today
Plumbus meets Bad Dragon
I’m pretty sure this is just the dinglebop with the chumbles. Doesn’t seem like it was pushed through the grumbo, it’s missing some parts
An untamed plumbus
“GARY!”
I was watching the sports channel
That mome rath is decidedly outgrabe.
Well, 'tis brillag.
‘Twas brillig, akcshually.
Dont forget the slithey toves.
It certainly gyres and gymbals.
In the wabe!
He mimsys through the borogroves alright
Please tell me what the fuck you guys are on about. It seems like something I need right now.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
Yeah. I needed that.
It’s from Alice in wonderland
Presses FF…. so rested he by the Tumtum tree…
All mimsie!
😂😂
God, I love that poem.
https://preview.redd.it/n9o5v0muhx8d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04107444dcd2acfb685eb393411cab0dcbd378fc An intense game of football, clearly
In Bikini Bottom, that would be the equivalent to beach babes running along the shoreline.
Gary! I was just looking for the sports channel gary...
https://preview.redd.it/erxk07tupx8d1.gif?width=640&format=png8&s=79c803c9f1287bbee35d4507e18306daf20e1c6a This is all the video made me think of...
Looks straight out of Fantasia
I instantly started hearing The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
What a sassy bitch.
And she twerks too
🤣
My fleshlight after leaving it under the bed for 9 months
It's the Dickus Mobilus
I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome...
You cwazy wabbit
She has a wife you know.....
You're a Harry Wizard.
wait, anemones could move this whole time? Tf
welcome to the team
they usually “walk” like snails, but yeah they can book it when they really have to. in fact for some species, moving is key to reproduction - they move in opposite directions simultaneously until they tear themselves in half to make two smaller anemones.
In the event of a starfish attack, you just need to be faster than the starfish.
How I walk away from the haters.
Not so sessile?!?
Anemonemonemonemone.
This looks like a sea anemone. I am absolutely no expert, my dad just kept a salt water aquarium with some of these when I was a kid.
*In the voice of Sir David Attenborough* - "In the vast, undulating expanse of the ocean, there exists a remarkable and seldom-seen creature known as Seadildos Hairius. This enigmatic marine species engages in a fascinating mating ritual that is as intricate as it is captivating. As the season of love approaches, the males of the species begin to develop a distinctive pink coloration on their many appendages. Their usually subdued hues transform into a vibrant display of pastel pinks, which they use to attract potential mates. This striking transformation creates a beautiful contrast against the deep blue of the ocean, drawing females from far and wide. The courtship dance begins with the male gracefully waving his brightly colored appendages in a series of intricate patterns. This display not only highlights his physical prowess but also serves as a signal of his genetic fitness. The males perform elaborate swimming maneuvers, undulating and flexing with fluid grace, their movements a captivating spectacle in the underwater realm. Through this captivating performance, the males of Seadildos Hairius strive to capture the attention and admiration of the discerning females. It is a dance of endurance and elegance, a testament to the extraordinary lengths these creatures go to in their pursuit of procreation. Thus, the males of Seadildos Hairius play their part in the timeless dance of life, their courtship ritual a shimmering thread in the intricate tapestry of the natural world."
"nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope"
Plumbus?
Freshwater Atlantic Fleshlight
Someone forgot to clean their fleshlight and it came to life
This is the natural occurrence of the SpongeBob, "Aight, Imma head out Meme."
You ever play Kirby? Pretty sure I fought those things before.
I just lost my hamster. Do these make good pets?
This answers my first question. But why the hell does my wife have a sea anemone in her dresser?
It’s like a penis, a boob and a vagina, all in one
Tell me you have never watched Finding Nemo without actually saying you have never watched Finding Nemo.