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The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee ... which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s tentacles, getting ...
sometimes called clownfish, have been popular attractions in aquariums ever since Disney's animated film "Finding Nemo" ...
Sea anemones are fearsome predators that stun their prey—mostly small fish and crustaceans—with a powerful neurotoxin. For clownfish, however, the anemones are home. Clownfish have a thick layer of ...
Combing through coffee table books on sea life, his eye landed on a ... Of the roughly thousand species of anemones, only ten host clownfish. It's still a mystery exactly how a clownfish avoids ...
As North Carolina State fish biologist Patrick Cooney wrote on his blog The Fisheries: Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten ...