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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

— Daniel Dennett

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

— Kathleen Quinlan

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.

— Frans de Waal

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

— Eric Cantona

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

— Eric Cantona

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.

— Brian Skerry

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

— Captain Beefheart

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

— Peter Benchley

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

— James Cameron

✗Opposing Perspectives

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

— Sylvia Earle