by Vyraal » Wed Jan 01, 2025 1:39 pm
Username: Vyraal
Name: Ebbesmeyer
Nature Fact:
When you think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, you imagine a massive chuck or something akin to trash island. In truth, the Pacific Gyre's trash is spaced extremely few and far between, comparative to the asteroid belt that people similarly mistake as being incredibly close, however, they can be hundreds of millions of miles apart.
Due to the lowering amount of driftwood in the oceans and higher amounts of trash humans cast away without care, animals are adapting to the floating detritus and Flourishing. Scientists aren't sure whether it would be better or not to remove the artificial trash biome, as to remove the pollutants would kill the thousands of animals residing there.
As far as notable animals go, this animal in particular finds its home in this massive Pacific Gyre. It is the Blue Dragon Nudibranch, aka the Blue glaucus.
They have virtually no ability to locomote of their own volition, yet they feed almost exclusively on Portuguese man o' war, which also hosts similarly aimless locomotion.
Glacucus, with their long finger like appendages, rip bits off of stinging/toxic matter from the Portuguese man o' war for sustenance... and another, incredible purpose. These stinging/toxic bits are then absorbed into the Glaucus' body and held in the tendrils, ready to defend itself from would be attackers.
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