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There are two main ways they protect themselves. First, anemone tentacles are venomous, and can numb small animals. This is usually more useful for stinging prey (ie tiny zooplankton) rather than predators, though. There is a useful byproduct to this venom in some species, which is symbiosis with fish that are immune to the venom and live in the tentacles. These fish can help the anemone by fending off possible predators, protecting both their interests and the anemone itself.
There's also a more rarely used behavior, which is "swimming." If an anemone is touched by a predator and the anemone recognizes a specific chemical, it will detach from its substrate and repeatedly bend in half to try and catch a current to sweep it away from danger. Unfortunately this requires a huge amount of energy, of which anemones don't have much. If they fail to catch a current or are dropped near another predator, they're pretty much out of luck.
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How do Sea Anemone adapt?
The Sea Anemone uses clown fish to clean it and the clown fish uses the sea anemone for protection.
What symbiotic relationships are between a anemone crab and a anemone?
COMMENSALISM as the crab benefits as the sea anemone provides it with protection but the sea anemone doesn't benefits nor is harmed by the crab
Is a sea anemone a sea urchin?
No, a sea urchin and a sea anemone are two different sea creatures nothingalike.They do have some alike characteristics.like they both use their long tentacles , or spikes for protection.
What kind of symbiotic relationship do the giant anemone and an anemone crab have?
When a sea snail dies, its shell eventually washes up on shore, where the hermit crab uses it as its new home. Therefore this would be commensalism, however since the snail already died there is no living symbiosis.
Why is a sea anemone called a sea anemone?
It is called a "sea anemone" because it is a flower-like animal (anemone being a variety of flower) that lives in the sea.
What does it mean when a poisonious sea anemone gives protection to a fish but feeds on the predators that come after it?
Symbiotic relationship
Does a sea anemone eat fish?
No, sea anemone do not eat fish. Sea anemone eat small bacteria that grows on them.
What is a species of a sea anemone?
One species of sea anemone is Anthopleura xanthogrammica, or the giant green anemone.
How does a sea anemone trap their prey?
How does a sea anemone trap their prey
Is a sea anemone a vertebrate?
No, it is not a vertebrate.It is an invertebrate.No. A sea anemone is an invertebrate.
Can a sea anemone kill a jellyfish?
No. A sea anemone and a jellyfish would not meet. If they did meet, the jellyfish would sting the sea anemone and kill it.
Clownfish and sea anemone are mutualism or commensalism?
It is mutualism because the anemone wards off the clown fish's predators due to their poisonous tentacles, but at the same time the clown fish wards off anemone-eating fish, also ensuring the anemone's survival.
