That looks like a sea star feeding on something.
Can't quite tell...I guess it is on that coral. It's wrapped around that primnoid.
That's beautiful. That is really just a gorgeous sight.
It's not so beautiful for the poor coral.
I mean, all I'm trying to say is, it's a trophic interaction. Oh it is, it is.
You have something natural happening between two organisms, because the starfish has to eat, too. Yes.
Well, what's interesting about this is perhaps how long these interactions can take.
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.
And they came back to that same coral a year later and it still had sea stars on it.
Really? Yeah.
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.