malformalady:Strarfish eating at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. Starfish are powerful hun
malformalady:Strarfish eating at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. Starfish are powerful hunters and primarily feed on mollusks. Their main sources of food are clams, oysters sand dollars and mussels, they also eat snails and injured fish, when they can find them. When a starfish has captured a mollusk, it first wraps itself around the creature tightly. Then it uses its powerful arms to break the muscles that hold a mollusk’s shell together, exposing the meaty interior. After that, the starfish actually pushes its stomach out of its mouth and eats the contents of the mollusk whole. When it’s done, the starfish re-swallows its stomach and begins to digest its meal more fully. -- source link