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A coral reef rivals even a rainforest for its diversity of life.
珊瑚礁的生物多樣性 甚至高過雨林
Yet corals like this are found in waters where food is very scarce.
但這些珊瑚 是住在食物稀少的水域
All the creatures here
這里所有生物
have had to adopt a different and highly specialised way
已經適應 高度特化的不同生活方式
to gather every nourishing scrap.
收集每一個有營養的碎屑
Christmas tree worms bore into the coral's skeleton for protection,
圣誕樹蟲鉆入珊瑚骨骼尋求保護
swirling out and grabbing food particles with their feathery gills.
把身體卷成一圈探出 用羽毛狀的鰓抓取食物碎粒
Coral barnacles are, in fact, related to lobsters.
塔藤壺其實是龍蝦的親戚
They lie on their backs,
它們躺著揮舞長腳
waving their feet to gather any food floating past.
收集漂過的任何食物
Crabs have evolved many different ways of gathering food.
螃蟹演化出許多覓食方法
This porcelain crab
這只瓷蟹的
has a fan of filaments on his front legs.
前肢有呈扇形的細絲
A boxer crab attaches a tiny sea anemone to each fist.
拳師蟹的雙螯 各抓著一只細小海葵
As well as for defence,
除了作為防衛
he uses their sticky tentacles to gather passing plankton.
它也用海葵的黏性觸手 收集路過的浮游生物
This orangutan crab's whole body is coated with sticky hairs,
這只紅毛猩猩蟹 全身長滿黏性細毛
in this case, perhaps just a bit too sticky!
但現在它或許覺得太黏手了
