Hares are usually hairy. But slugs?
The Hairy, Shaggy or Ragged Sea Hare is a unique Sea Hare that reaches more or less 10 cm (4 in) long and can be found in Indo-Pacific, Caribbean and Mediterranean waters.
Actually it isn't hair at all, it's all fleshy, sticky-out bits. Or branching papillae. Papillated Sea Hare!
It all provides great camouflage when they're among the kind of sea weed and algae they eat. Even out in the open they probably look like that thing when Bugs Bunny hides in a bush and walks around the place.
Hairy Sea Hares can't swim through the water like some others can. They have those wing-like parapodia on their sides, but they seem to be mostly fused together.
They have the rhinophores and oral tentacles for sniffing out their surroundings, they're just really difficult to discern from all the other bits and bobs sticking out all over the place.
They also have rows of blue spots along their body.
Hairy Sea Hares often get together in mountainous orgies of hairy, hermaphrodite love. The sheer quantity of love here is incredibly moving and brings a tear to the eye.
2 comments:
the pile 'o love made me laugh.
It made me silently weep bitter-sweet tears!
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