how a sea anenemy eats?

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how a sea anenemy eats?

2006-12-20 13:15:15 · 2 answers · asked by ed s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology

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A sea anemone eats by first capturing its prey with its tentacles. These tentacles have things called cnidocytes on them that give the anemone a poisonous sting. The poisons employed are often neurotoxins that paralyze the prey. It then shoves this prey into a cavity that acts as a stomach. The waste and undigested matter is then excreted out of the same hole, making it serve as an anus as well as a mouth.

2006-12-20 13:45:53 · answer #1 · answered by bibliomaniac15 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋

An anemone can capture prey with its sticky tentacles, but the majority of the popular ( and pretty ) anemones get most of their food from the symbiotic algae that gives them their colors.

2006-12-20 21:54:29 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋