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Watch this barber slug fulfill its anemoneeds!

🎥Joe Platko in Monterey!

UPDATE! Hey everyone! Sorry for the confusion! Here’s more info to explain what’s going on: The anemone retreats once it feels the pinch of the barber slug’s bite. Latching on, the slug is pulled in with the anemone, not wanting to let go of its meal. Once the slug snips off a tentacle or two, it pulls itself back out of the tube and moves on to the next anemone spaghetti dish, while the anemone waits for the coast to clear before coming back out from its tube.

Yikes!

squish dragon

Not squishy enough dammit

❤🐌 Dendronotus nudibranch fanart! 🐌❤

I remember being mesmerized by different footage of this when I was a tiny child and TV still played real nature documentaries.

This is however the first time I ever heard it called a “barber slug” which is really cute because that’s kind of what it does, even if the customer didn’t agree or enjoy a single second of it.

Also MBARI reblogging monster fan art.

This is just a perfect post all around.