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The Boy in the Submarine

By: Owen Rideout
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  • Marine biology for kids by a kid.
    © 2024 Owen Rideout
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  • The Boy in the Submarine - Episode 10: Orca

    The Boy in the Submarine - Episode 10: Orca
    May 21 2024
    Orca are really smart! They can be taught to do tricks like sing songs and count, if they are trained well! Owen Orca, sometimes called "Killer Whales" are a really large Dolphin: they are one of the Oceans' apex predators. They work in packs to take down large prey. Humans have trained them to do all kinds of amazing things, because Orca love to learn. Family is very important to Orcas. Every family has its own patterns and markings, and they often come up with new tricks, games, and even fashions that they will keep repeating for years just for fun. These can be as weird as funny backwards swimming and wearing dead fish as hats, to the frightening, such as tipping sailboats. But they don't mean to hurt people: they are curious about us, and sometimes cause trouble by accident.
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    2 mins
  • The Boy in the Submarine – Episode 9: Sea Anemones

    The Boy in the Submarine – Episode 9: Sea Anemones
    May 14 2024
    Sea Anemones come in thousands of different shapes and colours, just like flowers! Owen Sea Anemones are another invertebrate related to coral. They look kind of like flowers, they are even named after a flower: but their stem is a hard tube, and their petals are tendrils full of stingers. Only a few creatures with special slime can touch a Sea Anemone. Some, like the clown fish even live in the anemone for safety. Others, like some nudibranches eat the stingers in anemones, then put them in their own skin for self-defence. WHen an Anemone is old ienough it splits down the middle into two new Anemones that quickly heal up. Whole families of anemones live close together that are all clones. And if they get crowded by other anemones they form clone armies that sting the other anemones until they can't find any more. Anemones eat microscopic organisms, and are very important for keeping wherever they live clean and healthy, while providing safe hiding places and food for the creatures who can handle the sting.
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    2 mins
  • The Boy in the Submarine - Episode 8: Coral

    The Boy in the Submarine - Episode 8: Coral
    May 7 2024
    Coral reefs are really important to the environment... they provide homes for hundreds of other sea creatures. Owen When people talk about coral we imagine big rolling hills and terrains full of strangely-shaped hard matter, it can look like cacti, giant mushrooms, fans, plants, or shelves attached to rocks, and it comes in all kinds of colours... but did you know all those amazing structures are made by a tiny animal? Coral is a tiny invertebrate, kind of like a jellyfish. Once it find a place it likes, it makes a house for itself out of minerals it sucks out of the water. At night it sticks its long feelers out of tiny pores in its rocky shell. When a micro-organism gets pushed past by the water, it shoots out a little harpoon called a radula, and pulls it inside the coral to eat. Over time, the coral attracts bacteria that live on its shell that gives it brilliant colours. As the coral gets older it eventually splits into new polyps, who often make their new shells on top of their parent's old shells. In times these shells can form amazing structures, which are those amazing objects we think of as "Coral." Whole forests and islands can form out of coral called a reef, which provides a home and safety to thousands of other sea creatures and plants.
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    2 mins
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