Sea rabbit Aplysia

Sea rabbits are not actually rabbits, but because this sea animal has two pairs of tentacles on their heads, the previous pair is a tactile tube, the latter is an olfactory tube. When the cow, these two pairs of tentacles stretched forward and to the sides, when lying still standing up, it looked like a pair of rabbit ears, so it was called a sea ​​rabbit .

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Sea rabbits are molluscs, of shellfish living in shallow sea. But the shell has degenerated into a non-spiral, cuticle film that is buried under the outer membrane on the back, which is not visible.

Sea rabbits eat all kinds of seaweed, when eating any kind of seaweed, it will have the color of that seaweed : Eat red algae, it's red like rose; eat algae squid it turns dark brown, some grow velvet, I sprout algae. Therefore its shape and color are mixed into the habitat. It is also a special way to avoid enemies.

Sea rabbits can avoid enemies in a negative way, but also know chest room in a positive way.In the sea rabbit body there are 2 translation routes : purple line at the edge of the outer membrane, when it encounters the enemy, it radiates a purple epidemic that makes the sea water purple, escaping from the enemy's vision to escape. And another poisonous gland is in front of the outer membrane, which can produce a milky white, acidic smell, which is its chemical weapon.

Spring is the breeding season for sea rabbits. The hermaphrodite sea rabbit mates heterosexual.Their mating method is very special: often mating, every 5 to several dozen connected into a chain . At that time, the first child was the child, then the male, the latter was the female, so it stretched out. Eggs fall during mating or after several hours of separation. They lay a lot of eggs, but fertilized eggs are not very much, they are wrapped in glue. The Guangdong people call this sea rabbit egg "seaweed fiber" which is a premium food ingredient, and is also an antipyretic.

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