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The corals wanna be on the hard parts.

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You note the sediments that are dusted around the exposed rock,

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that's not where the corals are growing.

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They grow on the hard substrate,

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which is why these seamounts and these ridges increase the

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diversity of the deep sea in this area,

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because otherwise, you know, we have an abyssal plain.

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Right, if you're out on the abyssal, it would be completely covered with sediment.

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Actually, the higher the outcrop or the pile of rubble, the more animals we've seen on it.

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The corals themselves are, effectively, acting like trees in a forest and

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you can see here lots of bird equivalents sitting in the branches.