Marine inhabitants of the Red Sea

How amazing is the world of water! Until now, one can not say that the depths of the oceans and seas have been fully studied by man. More and more often, people who are exploring the water element meet strange, simply fantastic marine dwellers.

Everyone knows fairy tales, which speak aboutsirens and mermaids - creatures that look like beautiful naked women with a fish tail. Sirens in the legend have a magical voice, heard that people are stony. Today it is already known that almost all this is a fantasy. Except one - mermaids and sirens actually exist!

True, they are not very similar to beautiful women. These are the so-called dugongs - mammals of the order of sirens. In translation from the Malay language, this name means "sea maiden" or "mermaid".

Maybe the way of their movement, whichdiffers from the voyage of other inhabitants of the seas and oceans, confused those who met them at sea. After all, the marine inhabitants of the dugong "walk" along the bottom of shallows, leaning on the front fins, as if on arms. And when swimming these animals actively use the tail. Only young individuals use pectoral fins for swimming.

And about the mermaid songs and say nothing! Continuous mockery! After all, "sea maidens" are usually extremely silent. Only frightened or excited individuals are able to make a sharp whistle. Cubs the same dugong and at all know how to bleat, like the earth's sheep. What songs are there?

Speaking about the inhabitants of the sea, one can not help but recallsuch amazing creatures as octopuses. These marine inhabitants refer to cephalopods, that is, all eight legs-tentacles grow straight from the head. Their octopus uses to capture food. And if the otomin-baby is able to evoke tenderness, then the adults of some species are quite aggressive and dangerous to humans.

It is especially interesting for ichthyologists of the Red Sea water. Here you can find a bottlenose dolphin and a green turtle, sharks and moray eels.

Fish Napoleon - one of the amazing fish living in the Red Sea. The name of these very rare marine inhabitants received for a peculiar growth on the frontal part of the head.

In general, the waters of the Red Sea are replete with different kinds of fish, capable of shaking any imagination with their appearance. For example, a clown fish or a sultan.

Also bright and attractive is the butterfly fish. What are not cartoon characters?

Amazing people with their appearance and such marinethe inhabitants of the Red Sea, like sea cucumbers. In another way, they are also called sea kubyshkami or holothuria. These are invertebrate echinoderms, which mostly prefer to lie on the sea or ocean floor. There are about 1150 species of these creatures.

Meat of sea cucumbers people eat, theirpoison is used in pharmacology. But the sea inhabitants are not averse to eating holothurians. Therefore, in case of danger, the sea cucumber can shoot into the water through the anal opening with the part of the intestine along with the water lungs, thereby distracting or frightening the attacker. Interesting is the fact that the lost organs in the echinoderm invertebrate are restored extremely quickly.