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That looks like a sea star feeding on something.

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Can't quite tell...I guess it is on that coral. It's wrapped around that primnoid.

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That's beautiful. That is really just a gorgeous sight.

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It's not so beautiful for the poor coral.

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I mean, all I'm trying to say is, it's a trophic interaction. Oh it is, it is.

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You have something natural happening between two organisms, because the starfish has to eat, too. Yes.

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Well, what's interesting about this is perhaps how long these interactions can take.

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One imagines several hours. But Scott put me on to an observation that they made of ... americana that had come upon a fallen Paragorgia or something.

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And they came back to that same coral a year later and it still had sea stars on it.

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Really? Yeah.

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So even though I might imagine this as taking hours, this could easily, for all I know, this thing could be feeding on this coral for days or even months.