KEY ASPECTS OF THE STORY
28- UMBRELLAS UNDER THE SEA The forest of soft corals. Alcyonacea are gigantic living umbrellas, sending out shoots in search of plankton, bouquets in constant bloom that cover every last bit of free space with their beauty. 29- MULTICOLORED CREEPERS
30- THE ANEMONE AND THE WISE GUY Everywhere there are funny little clowns, darting through the terrifying venomous tentacles of one of the reef’s most fearsome inhabitants. The story of the clownfish and the anemone is a timeless classic. A dive into the heart of its poisonous chamber reveals its secrets. Clownfish are smart and savvy, able to distract the attention of the curious or the bellicose.
A cortege of flatworms of all shapes and colors. A cortege of nudibranches of all shapes and colors.
Two magnificent nudibranches advance slowly, their fragile “sails” waving above the sleeping polyps. They come together, touch, and begin a slow-motion dance where their two bodies entwine, a ballet of yellow, purple, or red gills against the backdrop of the stirring coral. We see the ballet of the Spanish dancer (a nocturnal nudibranch), one of the largest nudibranches. It contorts and moves gently in what resembles a solo ballet. Tonight, this volute lost in the middle of nowhere appears as if suspended in flight. The yellow nudibranch (sea lemon) only eats the yellow sponge, that so closely resembles it. Everything about this nudibranch is yellow - its eggs, its food, its body.
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