MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM : SEA PIGS
Excerpt: Tiptoeing over the deep seafloor, a sea pig searches for a meal. The tentacles around its mouth probe the mud for treats - bits of dead animals poop and mucus. ... The sea pig spends its days snuffling through the muddy sediments on the seafloor, eating bits of dead algae and animals that have fallen from the surface When something big, like a whale fall, sinks to the seafloor, huge herds of sea pigs gather nearby to feast on the rich organic sediments from the decaying carcass.
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