What's your favorite sea animal?

For a personal graphic design project





Specifically, animals that are at Seaworld.





So:





dolphins


whales


sharks


seals/otters/walrus


general fish/aquarium


tidepools/starfish/sea cucumbers


polar bears


penguins|||Sea Horse!|||Comb Jellyfish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7WT81ukH鈥?/a> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icKB9EfUR鈥?/a>|||Vampyroteuthis infernalis





look it up|||Dolphins.|||Dolphins.|||i think penguins are genius! :)|||whales|||the octopus|||sea turtles! :D|||SEA TURTLE





but out of those, polar bears.|||the Mermaid|||seals and dolphins|||sea lions|||dolphins%26lt;3

Which is your favourite food of the sea?

Arbroath Smokie


Argopecten purpuratus


Belon oyster


Black drum


Boknafisk


Boneless Fish


Buckling


Cellana nigrolineata


Clam


Cod


Conpoy


Crab stick


Crab boil


Crab meat


Crayfish


Cured salmon


Fermented fish


Filet-O-Fish


Finnan Haddie


Fish finger


Fish fry


Fish head


Fishstick


Fried fish


Friend of the Sea


Fugu


Gianchetti


H谩karl


Halibut


Hardhead catfish


Herring


Hoe


Ikizukuri


Jellied eels


Kipper


Krupuk


Lobster


Lomi salmon


Mobile Bay jubilee


Mussel


Oyster


Pectinidae


Prawn


Red drum


Ruditapes largillierti


Sashimi


Scampi


Scrod


Sea cucumber


Sea cucumber


Sea pineapple


Seafood Choices Alliance


Seafood boil


Sheepshead


Shellfish


Shellfish poisoning


Shrimp


Shrimp toast


Smoked fish


Smoked salmon


Soused herring


Squid


Stinkheads


Surstr枚mming


Swordfish


Tomalley


Trepanging


Tsukudani


Ulmyeon


Whitebait|||Nothing as good as vagina of a mermaid|||Maine Lobsters


Scallops


Fried Clams (from New England)


Mussels in white wine and garlic


Oysters on the half shell


You forgot perriwinkles......|||Crawfish|||Cockles|||believe it or not, it's not "halibut"


I like cod and shrimp|||Scampi/shrimp and lobster!|||You just want me to get mercury poisoning you jerk!|||Dover Sole|||Sea Salt. It is the only thing I will eat out of the sea.|||i like tilapia, shrimp, and crab. yummm :)|||Cod


Scampi


Prawn


Fish Finger|||Tuna.........and crab meat!


You must be reaaaaaal bored!|||Haddock with chips and mushy peas|||I LOVE ALL SEAFOOD!|||baby seal|||Squid.|||Chips!!!|||chicken of the sea.|||kelp|||I haven't heard of 3/4 of them, so tuna ;)

What is the grossest thing you've ever ate?

I've eaten frog legs, raw sea cucumber, fish eggs, raw squid %26amp; octopus, a lot of raw fish, crocodile, but surprisingly not snails. Can anyone tell me what they've eaten that's really gross?|||Chocolate covered bees, grasshoppers and snake meat. I hate snakes, and it tasted like chicken. Afterwords I was told and , well you can guess what happened.|||My goldfish's food.





Eek....|||Eel, really gross.|||a cockroach





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkbmhwCCg鈥?/a>|||snake liver|||chicken roast with pineapples and chocolate on it.... yukk|||those are all really disgusting. the worst ive eaten is mussles. i hate seafood|||Plain wasabi, and a spoonful of cinnamon. My sister and I play this game called "Close your eyes and open your mouth" O_O|||Sushi. It was the worst tasting crap I have ever had in my life.|||I had a piece of kangaroo when I was in France it tastes good but as soon as I found out what it was I was so grossed out.








Mine?


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;鈥?/a>|||okra...from a jar... BLLEEECCCHHHHHHHHH das nasty stuff|||Nothing to compare with yours. I accidentally got some clam or mussel that was at least cooked. Not that that made it any better; those things are globs of congealed snot in a shell...(X-O)|||this raw, vegan, organic, and such, laura bar thing


granolia bar


i cant beleive i tried that

Sea Cucumbers is use in food only and what the Equipment use to Dried?

any Book for Sea Cucumbers|||As far as I know... the old Chinese way of drying-up a sea cucumber is to let it out in the sun till it dries up (...for how long i don't know). The new method now is using a dehydrator.....

If coral was/is edible, could vegans eat it without remorse?

Also, do vegans eat sea urchin or sea cucumber? They're all "animals"|||I can't give a blanket statement including all vegans regarding feeling remorse, but sea cucumbers, coral and sea urchins are not part of a Vegan diet.





And you CAN eat coral - coral calcium is a top selling supplement.|||Corals are actually related to Jellyfish (they are both cnidarians) so they would be animals. Corals are also symbiotic in that they contain microscopic algae that the jellyfish part feeds on. Sea urchins and sea cucumbers are both echinoderms and are related to sea stars.





Parrot fish are one of the few animals that eat coral. Their poop eventual ends up as white sand beaches.





Both Sea Urchins and Cucumbers are popular in Asian cuisine. Sea cucumbers have been overharvested in some areas to the point they were almost wiped out. This includes the Galapagos Islands:





http://jimpinson.jc-research.com/galapag鈥?/a>|||we are ruining the many coral reefs in the sea so...


1. it wouldn't be wise to eat coral if you are conscious about the environment.


2. I would still not eat coral if it wasn't in danger.





and no...(for the urchin)......and no (for the cucumbers).|||i thought vergetartians dont eat animals|||No they do not eat those things.

How do I turn my fish into a lesbian?

I already removed the sea cucumber.|||Take it to the Lillith Fair, buy it a tiny pair of Birkenstocks and never let it shave its legs again|||Put the fish bowl in front of the television and turn on the "All Ellen, All the Time" channel.


Oh, and also women's golf......|||Add a sea vagina|||buy her a female betta fish. Those are hawt fish. Your fish will be instantly attracted to her.|||Show her nothing but pictures of female fish. This is pretty much the best question ever.|||Just tell her she's a lesbian.|||male fish can't be lesbians.|||send a male fish and make him mean to her|||Show her a pic of my sexy body





jk|||Let it see you naked|||dude you are funny

Are sea cucumbers compatible with seahorses?

and what other marine animals are compatible with seahorses?|||no





they are in a unique hippocmpadae family, but they are the most compatible with small fish.

Which of the following echinoderms can regenerate an arm that has become detached?

Which of the following echinoderms can regenerate an arm that has become detached?





A. Sea cucumber


B. Crayfish


C. Sand dollar


D. Sea star


E. Spider|||sea star|||crayfish and spider aren't echinoderms. Do sea cucumbers or sand dollars have arms? So check what is left...

Slime eel or sea slug?

Does anyone know where I could buy a slime eel or sea cucumber or sea slug?





I would prefer live, but if not, just DON'T want dried! I live in the ohio area.|||Foster and Smith sells sea cucumbers i know that lol. With shipping it will cost around $60?


Hope I helped :D

What is special about how these reproduce?

Coral, Eels, Sea Cucumber, Barracude, and Spanish Dancer?|||I have NO clue.


But, don't some of those things reproduce asexually!?|||idk..but it sounds fun to know ;D

What kind of strange or cultural food do you want to try?

I LOVE Bizarre Foods: with Andrew Zimmern and sometimes i wish I had the honor of eating strange foods...


I kinda want to try the seasoned sea cucumber and fried crickets. lol.|||Hey! I watch Andrew Zimmern too! (I've had beef tongue before once or twice in a burrito; delicious).





I'm willing to try anything... maybe chicken myself into smelly, disgusting durian fruit like Mr. Zimmern couldn't stomach down.|||Hi: Rattlesnake is good. (don't eat Python, it tastes like rubber bands) The best steak I ever ate was Yak steak. Happy hunting!|||While I have not tried fried crickets, I've tried sea cucumber before in Chinese restaurants in Seoul and Honolulu. Its jelly-like flesh is rather bland and takes up other flavors from the dish they are served in. That reminded me that I've also tried Jellyfish too. I would would like to try Fugu. Fugu is a poisonous puffer fish which the flesh needs to be carefully prepared by a licensed/certified sushi chef or it would be your last meal.|||Ugh. Andrew Zimmern almost always talks about meat. (I'm not a vegetarian or anything, but still..)





I would like to try....





Dragonfruit- I've actually never had it before, although I have had persimmons (north american native and asian), passionfruit, oranges, bananas, ect.





KFC- it seems to represent "America", right? Apparently it tastes good..





Kombumaki-It looks so cute! lol..





and..maybe injera. it looks interesting








But I am of course open to anything. :D


Natto is surprisingly...tolerable.


We now keep a jar of homemade kimchi in our fridge.


Eating locusts is an (almost) annual tradition.


Whole wheat chapati is a typical item on our grocery list.


I made stuffed grape leaves (dolmas) just a few days ago.





etc etc etc





:D:D:D:D|||Have you tried all local restaurants yet? Many "strange" foods were a lot more readily available than you'd expect. You could find many interesting fruits in China Town. Durian, jackfruit, mangosteen, dragon fruit, cherimoya, lichee, and star fruit are not that hard to find at all.





Sea cucumber - You could find sea cucumber in a lot of Chinese and Korean places. Korean style tend to use small, chewy pieces more frequently; those tasted pretty bland. Chinese style tend to use softer, bigger pieces. At some places, you could find whole, braised sea cucumber. May I recommend braised sea cucumber with shrimp roe. :)





Vietnamese:


Balut - You won't find this in restaurants but you could find them in some asian markets. Look for duck eggs. The most expensive duck egg (around $1 to $2 a piece) is balut. They steam balut. Vietnamese said it is very tasty and it is very good for your skin. They also said it will increase a male's "potency". I got access to those more than twice but I chickened out every time. LOL


Raw beef - They wrap sliced raw beef and put raw garlic and/or raw chili on top. Those looked pretty cute (pink in color). I thought they were some kind of salty/spicy mochi when I first saw them. LOL


Braised catfish with pork - This one looks and sounds very innocent. It is relatively easy to find at Vietnamese fast food places and many Vietnamese love it. It tasted... scary. (I think they lied when they said catfish. LOL)


Pho with beef on the side - This is about the beef on the side of course. Many vietnamese put raw onion and basil leaf on raw slices of beef and eat them raw. You squeeze some lime juice and dip beef in hoisin sauce and chili sauce mix. Black peppers - optional. Not that bad at all.


Vietnamese sandwich - The cheapest cold cut contained head cheese with a lot of pork ears. :)


Hot and sour eel hot pot soup - When the soup start to boil, those eel pieces will move around as if they were "swimming" inside the pot... LOL





Japanese:


Ika - raw squid. Chewy and a "little" slimy.


Quail egg (raw) gunkan sushi.


Tororo cold soba - the dipping sauce was made out of grated nagaimo yam; it tasted like mucus!


Natto - Fermented soy beans with a POTENT smell and they are sticky.


Yaki-onigiri - Ever tried BBQ'ed. BBQ'ed/grilled rice balls?


Not so "weird" Japanese food:


Beef tataki - This is very raw seared beef. Some call it beef sashimi. Tasty stuff.


Uni - Sea urchin. It got a very soft texture and it got a unique smell. I like uni.


Ikura - Raw salmon eggs/roe. Those things pop inside your mouth and squirt you with fishy slime.





Korean:


Raw octopus - Less chewy than raw squid but it is very slimy.


Raw dried squid - This one doesn't taste like squid at all. Very tasty actually.


Raw beef - Raw beef with Korean pears. Very tasty.


Raw stingray/skate - Flesh is very soft. Cartlidge is a little chewy and crunchy. This dish is very spicy.





Chinese:


Duck tongue, duck feet, pork intestines, pork small intestines (this one is a little crunchy), chicken/duck gizzards, chicken/duck hearts, pork heart, pork maw (stomach), jelly fish, duck heads and pig heads. (Guess what could be found in those heads? Brains.) Pork blood with mixed beef offals (some contained beef lung) is pretty tasty. I don't like that pork blood too much though. Most if not all above list items could be found at a regular Cantonese Chinese BBQ duck/char siu place. The psychological effects from those foods will bother you more. They really don't taste as offensive as it sounds. Some places serve deep fried braised pork intestines with plum sauce or sweet and sour sauce on the side. It is soft and chewy inside and crispy on the outside. Good ones will taste like crispy duck with a weird twist. I can't say all of them are good but the good ones are excellent. Chinese also eat eels. Shanghai stir-fried eels are very good; some places serve those on top of a heated iron plate.





North America (many of them are hard to find):


Grizzly steak - Try not to eat grizzly fat because it got a pretty potent smell.


Alligators - It didn't taste as special as I expected.


Rabbits - Yum!


Squirrels - Tasted somewhat similar to venison. Yum!


Menudo - Mexican beef offal soup.


Tacos: lengua - beef tongue, seso - cow brains, buche - pork stomach (some said buche is esophagus; I think they are wrong.), cabeza - meats from a cow's head. Most of them tasted pretty good.





Foods I've not tried (but wanted to try) in North America:





Pickled pig feet/ears/tails - I've seen those pretty frequently but they usually come in pretty sizable jars. I'd have tried them if they came in smaller jars. LOL


Deep fried testicles - I do not have the balls to try them yet.


Opossums, skunks, nutria and snapping turtles were said to be VERY tasty.





The strange/weird foods I wanted to try are actually American foods. LOL





PS: You could find all Asian dishes and most other foods listed in Canada. :)

Sea cucumbers?

Is it true that if a person with diabetes eats sea cucumbers, their sugar will drop? if so, are there any negative side effects that come along with eating sea cucumbers? (such as herat failrue or increased chance for cancer? )|||i have heard that sea cucumbers do have nutritional value, how specific it is to diabetics i dont know. my family has had sea cucumbers quite often and we have yet to see any side effects. some people are allergic to it.|||I think it's nonsense but I'm sure it won't hurt you. If it works...shazzzammm! but I wouldn't hold my breath. If it were really a cure or a serious treatment it would be all over the news...good luck

What is the sea cucumbers adaptive morphology?

It has coloring that helps it blend in with its surroundings and it looks like a plant

What is the weirdest animal you have ever eaten?

The weirdest animals I've eaten are dog, frog, goat, and sea cucumber.|||I'm a Malaysian currently residing in Australia but I've been to China so here's a list of what weird things I tried in each country:





China





Fish Lips (Yeah I know it's fish, but a dish just consisting of lips??) disgusting %26amp; jelly-like.





Monkey Brain - Surprisingly it's tasteless! Just try to forget they've whacked off the top part of the head of a screaming monkey and you're scooping the brains out and putting it in your mouth. anyway, I could only get a spoonful down my throat, and did it asap, so at least I think it was tasteless.





Malaysia





shark meat - you can buy at any fish market, pretty tasty when fried with ginger and black bean sauce.





sago worms - They're actually big fat beetle larvae that can only be found in 'sago' trees. They're eaten alive (still squirming) **warning - bite off the head first though! taste? cannot describe it, but it's quite disgusting really but it's a delicacy, and they can be roasted too. too bad I got to try the alive ones. ugh..





dog - didn't realised what it was. when my friends started giggling when I happily ate it, I was suspicious. when they told me much much later, I was shocked. *sorry poor doggy** tastes like beef, or veal.





sea cucumber - braised with abalone. ewww... tasteless, but jelly-like and disgusting, albeit tasteless.





crocodile - again, was tricked by my parents. apparently, it's good for circulation etc etc blah blah. otherwise, tastes pretty much like chicken.





Frogs' Legs - Fried, usually as an appetiser or entree. It's ok, tastes like lean chicken.





sea urchin - disgusting, really. tastes fishy (in a bad way), oyster-ly (i know it's not a word, just trying to describe it).








jellyfish - as an entree, served cold, with sesame oil, lime juice, chilli and red onion. yum yumm......





snake's blood - this is particularly nasty. it's actually downright horrible. apparently good for blood circulation and a host of other ailments. not too sure it's true though.





camel kebabs - it's nice, tastes like chicken nothing special, though





Australia





emu steaks - pretty much like beef, just a little difference in taste and texture





kangaroo steaks - can be mistaken as normal sirlion steaks!





there are some others, but not very special though like rabbit and mutton kebabs, ostrich steaks, and shark fin. all quite nice. but still, I prefer my chicken.=D|||I drank the worm out of a mezcal bottle. and beef tongue tacos.|||Camel, escargot (love 'em), goat.|||I ate "jellyfish" a few years ago in a dimsun restaurant in Anaheim, CA! It wasn't to bad, actually it didn't have any precise taste!|||Escargot (snails) and surprisingly, they were really good. All you could taste was the garlic and butter sauce.|||alligator, ostrich, buffalo, frog, pheasant, octopus, rabbit, shark, wild boar, ginnea fowl, etc... I work in a fine dinning restaurant so I get to try alot of cool food.|||Sea urchin, Rocky Mountain oysters, sheep head soup, braised squirrel, cow brains, escargot, mealworms, and turtle.





Some taste better than others...|||sea urchin - urgh!|||rattlesnake and alligator|||shark is it didnt have a taste though and i guess its not wierd your sick for eating dog thats not nice|||I dont want any hate mail because of this...


but I have tried dog, grasshoppers and spiders (yeah yeah, insects but still strange)...


Who knows, I've eaten some weird things in weird countries, you dont always know whats in front of you.|||frog! eww and i will never eat it again! it tastes gross!|||I ate kangaroo burgers, and in the miltary we had to eat insects for survival training... But none of that was as bad as eating sea slugs... I saw it on fear factor and got drunk one night and my friends dared me to try it, we went to the beach and he grilled it up,,, it wasn't worth the twenty dollars i got cause i wa sick for a week after.





ok, you girls win this round, I've eaten odd things but you all seem to have eaten some strange things. I can't even think where you'd get a cow's brain at in the supermarket. although i had mountain oysters, that wasn't bad, it was a snack in my mom's mart of mississippi.|||reindeer. Turkey nuts (yes, it's what is sounds like).|||iguana on a stick in cuba|||Deer and alligator|||snapping turtle and road-kill woodchuck!! (My uncle saw it killed and scooped 'er up!! Good stuff on kabobs!) By the way, goat is not a wierd food!

Do sea cucumbers taste like regular cucumbers or are they just more squishy when you slice them up?

for sandwiches|||they actually taste like chicken and hve the consistency of eggs|||One is an animal, the other one is a vegetable.|||You're joking right?

Is it ok to eat seafood if you are a vegetarian?

I like my vegetarian sushi wrapped in seaweed. I enjoy sea salt on my Sea orach salads. I also enjoy sea cucumber.|||I eat some seafood. I've been a vegetarian since I was 3. I just don't like the taste/texture of meat related products. There are alot of fish I don't eat either. I only like crab and shrimp and clams if they are fried. I only eat tilapia for fish. But mine is a texture/taste issue. I'm probably not "official" as a vegetarian. No idea. I'm just me!|||i think so but its up to you...|||It's fine as long as the seafood doesn't include meat from the ocean. Like tuna, octopus, roe eggs..etc.|||Sea vegetables are fine. Sea critters are generally not eaten by vegetarians. Since a sea cucumber is a type of fish, a vegetarian would not eat it.





~Morg~|||No if you mean the traditional definition of seafood - which is sea animals. Seaweed and sea salt are fine.|||lol, yeppers thats totally ok. I love those "seafoods" too! I also like sea asparagus, wakame, and kame. I think I will stick to a seafood diet! I wonder how many will misinterpret the question? Be prepared to get told NO-VEGETARIANS DONT EAT FISH, LOL|||Seaweed is a vegetable, not an animal. So it's OK.





Sea salt is a mineral, not an animal. It's OK.





Sea cucumber is an animal. It's not vegetarian.|||It depends on what your definition of "seafood" is. If you like eating seaweed salad (found at Japanese restaurants), seaweed soup (Chinese restaurants), or nori-wrapped sushi, then you're not eating non-vegetarian food.





However, if you eat fish, shrimp, oysters, etc., then that isn't part of a vegetarian diet.





By the way, were you aware that despite their name, sea cucumbers are animals, not vegetables?|||What's a sea orach?





Anyway a sea cucumber is an animal, so that's not vegetarian. Seaweed and other sea plants are fine.|||What do you mean by, "Is it OK?" If what you are asking is, "Will it kill me?," I somehow don't think so. And if it would kill you, then what's the point of being a vegetarian? We omnivores eat plenty of seafood and go on living as usual.|||Well in my opinion a true vegetarian doesn't eat any animal what so ever, but that's just me. So if you want to eat seafood then go ahead.|||Vegetarians don't eat animals. Sea salt is ok....the other two things sound just GROSS!!! Even a meat eater wouldn't eat them.|||Sea animals are still meat, so I don't consider them to be vegetarian foods. However, some people call themselves vegetarian even though they eat fish and stuff.|||What you can eat depends on what type of Vegetarian you are. The main types are listed below. Some people call themselves Veggie's if they eat fish, but this is not the case, as you can see below. If Vegetarians do eat eggs, they usually use free-range eggs. Those that eat cheese will only eat Vegetarian Cheese, as some cheeses are made using rennet from a cow's stomach. More and more cheeses are using a Vegetarian alternative to this. I personally am a Octo-Lacto Vegetarian. Congrats on your decision to be a vegetarian. Not only are you saving animals you are greatly improving your health. Bravo!





Octo-Lacto Vegetarian (The most popular definition, also known as Ovo-Lacto)


Vegetarians eat no red meat, poultry, fish, or products that have ingredients which are animal-based such as Gelatine. They do eat Vegetarian cheese, yoghurt, milk, eggs, honey etc. They also don't wear leather or fur.


Lacto Vegetarian


Lactose-Vegetarians do not eat any foods that involve the slaughter of animals. They don't eat eggs, but do eat Vegetarian cheese, yoghurt, and milk.


Vegan


Vegans do not eat the same things as vegetarians but also will not eat any product that is derived from animals. No meat, cheese, butter, milk, eggs or honey.


Demi-Vegetarian (commonly misinterpreted as Vegetarian by meat-eaters)


Demi-Vegetarians don't eat red meat or poultry, but they do eat fish, eggs, Vegetarian cheese, and milk-based products. This is not true Vegetarianism, although it is probably easiest for those just starting to become Veggie.


Fruitarian


A Fruitarian is somebody who believes that you should not kill any living thing to survive. Instead, they can only eat the fruit of plants that don't actually mean death to the plant. This is actually true believe it or not!





For more info on vegetarianism, how your helping your health and the animals, check out peta.org.|||No. The seaweed is okay because it is a plant. However, a sea cucumber is actually an animal. Vegetarians do not eat animals!|||Seaweed is not seafood its a plant :)|||So your eating sea vegetables? Cool.





P.S. your picture scares me.|||If the sea-creature is an animal I would think that a vegetarian would never eat it, but some people think that fish don't count and eat them anyway. Plants such as seaweed, sea orach and sea cucumber would not count as anti-vegetarian. Meats and fish are a no-no....plants are a go-go.|||Go away, troll. You don't even know what a sea cucumber is ...

Does anyone know what is the history for sea cucumbers?

please reply today......|||I think your question needs to be answered in the "zoology" category, beings a sea cucumber is a dweller of the marine environment..





...Added Info: Well, we replied yesterday as directed, now what? ...May I request that the "asker" respond back today with a choice!!..lol





**Billy Ray**|||Do sea cucumbers have a history? I didn't know they could write.|||They are an ancient animal that lives in the ocean. Sex involves penis fencing.





You would never find them in terrestrial landscaping

Any reef sea creatures i'm missing (excluding mammals and algae)?

Fish


Octopus


Squid


Oyster


Clam


Scallop


Crab


Lobster


Shrimp


Urchin


Coral


Anemone


Sea Star


Sea Cucumber


Hermit Crab


Snail


Barnacles


Shark


Ray


Turtles


Jellyfish


Krill


Plankton


Seahorse


Sea Snake





Anything else?|||Sea Slugs

Marine Flatworms and other marine worms.

Cuttlefish

Prawns

Brittle stars

Crinoids

Sea squirts

Sea pens

Pipefish

Leafy Seadragons

Skates

When making a True Submarine sandwich, what would you use for the Parascope?

Do you SEE what I mean? =))





Carrot pieces put together at a 45 with a toothpick?





A Zucchini with an L shape?





or a Cucumber....





A sea cucumber would be most appropriate.....its just toooooooooo squishy!





Any ideas?|||Nothing|||Make your periscope from a baby carrot with an olive on top, held in place with a toothpick. Or, just use the olive on a toothpick without the baby carrot.|||any of the ideas you came up with will work really well. How about a carrot stick with radish on it?





I was thinking I would use celery when I first clicked this question. It is still a good choice.|||a tooth pick to hold it together.|||How about a candy cane? Left over from Christmas....|||A leek, it's tubular I think|||I think that I'd use a pickle; sometimes they are bent...

What animal is able to make itself a vegetable by eating it's own brain?

I know a certain animal exists like this, but I need to find the exact animal. I'm not talking about the scientific name or anything, but at first I thought it was a sea cucumber, but then researched and found sea cucumbers have no brains...*grins* But I THINK it's a sea animal. So, can anyone help me out?|||i think you might be thinking of a tunicate (sea squirt). they start off as a tadpole-like larva, then plant their heads in the ground once they've found a good spot. after that, their brains and other organs degenerate and for the rest of their lives, they mindlessly siphon water for nutrients. they're actually chordates (like humans), believe it or not. it's only obvious in their larval state though.|||It maybe a starfish,jellyfish or a kind of animal(anything) that has a soft body,mostly invertebrate|||How can someting eat it's own brain???|||I have searched and searched, can't find anything on that.|||#4 has the correct answer, but I just wanted to add I know a lot of people like that too!! :-) I think it comes from watching daytime TV

Most seafood except for fish has high cholesterol. Is it the good or bad cholesterol?

What about abolone? Does it contain any cholesterol at all


Sea cucumber has been said to be able to lower cholesterol if eaten, is it true?|||The good and bad cholesterol does not come from the food, but is made in our own bodies. It is recommended that total cholesterol levels be below 200 mg/dl (that's 200 milligrams per 100 ml of blood). The cholesterol doesn't just float freely in the bloodstream; it is attached to proteins called lipoproteins. There are three important classes of lipoproteins: HDL, LDL and VLDL.





The "bad" cholesterol is low-density lipopotein cholesterol, or LDL-C, and not all of the LDL-C is bad -- just the small particle LDL-C. It is considered desirable for the level of LDL-C to be below 130 mg/dl, but if a person has coronary artery disease or has had a heart attack, or has diabetes mellitus, the LDL-C level should be below 100 mg/dl and some experts are recommending levels of 70 or lower.





The so-called "good" cholesterol is high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, or HDL-C. A level of 40 mg/dl or higher is desirable. Some say the higher, the better. Although some consider this category of cholesterol to be protective, all of the studies in reduction of heart disease consider only a reduction in LDL-C, so we have no real evidence that HDL-C has any protective effect.





The third category is very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, or VLDL-C. This fraction consists of the relatively large light-weight cholesterol transporting particles, such as those carrying fat and cholesterol which has been absorbed from the intestine but not yet processed by the liver. The VLDL-C is neither protective nor harmful, and so levels of VLDL-C do not matter.





These three classes were identified by using an ultracentrifuge on samples of serum to separate the components in the serum, but measurement is at present done using easier and faster methods.|||Don't know about sea cucumber.





Fish oil in general, salmon oil particularly, is especially good for reducing cholesterol. It's what my doctor has instructed me to take.|||yes lt can be high in cholesterol.|||neverheard of that|||is it the good or bad cholesterol is not the most important thing, the most important thing is how you deal with it, I mean, even though it is a good cholesterol, it may be dangerous if you take too many cholesterol, and vice-versa, even though it is a bad cholesterol, if you just take a little bit of it, it will be OK|||good if you are non veggie bad if you r veggie depend upon situation

What types of sea creatures are any of these? (theyre from thailand)?

if you can identify any that would be great .... is that just a sea cucumber? i have no idea





http://tinypic.com/r/kbc6lj/7|||The bottom photo is a Scorpion fish. How do you know they're from Thailand ? The photo's give no indication of location. May be you already know the names of the fish ?|||Yeah, a sea cucumber. There's also a lion fish and maybe the other is a rock fish, but not 100% sure.

How do I make a dichotomous key out of these 9 animals?

I need to make a dichotomous key of these 9 animals: sea urchin, sea cucumber, brittle star, bony fish, dogfish shark, lizard, toad, chicken and pig. I can't start with a vertebrate-invertebrate grouping because according to my teacher, it's been overused now. I've been thinking of grouping them into endotherms and ectotherms, but I'm stuck there. Please help me.|||Of course you know there are an infinite number of ways to do this, right? The object is to divide them into two groups, then subdivide each group until you isolate each creature. You could use things like the presence of lungs in the adult, scales, bilateral and/or radial symmetry, circulatory system. You have a great idea for a start, so go do it. Good luck.|||Tell your teacher to stick his/her opinions where the sun don't shine. The vert./invert. dichotomy is "overused" because it is the natural one. If you don't want to do that (or do want to pass the class), why not divide them into whether they are aquatic or terrestrial as adults? Then you can separate out the echinoderms from the fishes on the basis of symmetry (radial vs bilateral). Or just start with symmetry.

What muscles do I need to build up to be awesome at piggyback rides?

I don't think I need to explain that question.





Assume, for no particular reason, that I am a young female with less muscle tone than a sea cucumber. What muscles should I target to gain the ability to ferry and/or kidnap humans upon my person?|||Legs


Arms


Low back|||squats, lunges and deadlifts i think would be the three main things you want to do.





do the squats and lunges with a bag full of anything heavy on your back. the deadlifts youll need a barbell with some weights to do those.





these three exercises should build up your legs and your back so you can support the extra weight on your back and be able to move around.|||You need to target your upper body strength,you can achieve this by lifting free weights,concentrate on your triceps and biceps.

What are some super awesome cool examples of parsitism and commensalism?

Its for science class, and so far ive got nothing.


It has to be an example that will make my class go "WOW!"


And don't say the pearl fish going into the sea cucumber, we know that already.|||Ants can be seen feeding on the suguary discharge of aphids and in turn the aphids are protected from predators by the ants.





The rhino has a symbiotic relationship with oxpeckers, also called tick birds. In Swahili the tick bird is named "askari wa kifaru," meaning "the rhino's guard." The bird eats ticks it finds on the rhino and noisily warns of danger. Although the birds also eat blood from sores on the rhino's skin and thus obstruct healing, they are still tolerated.

What defense mechanism of the animal kingdom do you think would be cool to have?

Like porcupine quills, skunk stink or a turtles shell........





I think it would be cool to have the defense of the sea cucumber. When threatened the sea cucumber pukes out it鈥檚 guts.





Don鈥檛 you think that would stop a mugger or hinder a rapist?


|||I like the lizard that squirts blood from its eye...awesome!!|||quills would work. or fangs with deadly venom.|||the spider...i would love to spin webs|||I want to be like a puffer fish. If attacked, I simply expand 40 times my normal size. Then I'll be big enough to pick the mugger up and hurl him across town.|||UGH! I went on a date years ago...and she ordered a sea cucumber at this Chinese restaurant not knowing what it was. It was the grossest thing I've ever seen.





I think you picked the perfect defense. Btw...it worked for the animal too even post-mortem...it did not get eaten. |||I'd like to swing from trees by my tail|||I'm not sure about some defense mechanisms. One that comes to mind is the armadillo, which jumps straight up in the air when feeling threatened. This defense mechanism doesn't always work so well when a car is approaching, because they tend to hit the underside of the car.|||Opossum, just fall over dead.

Athiets: If we evilved from Monkies, why are there still sea pigs?

http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/var/scien鈥?/a>|||science has proved that we are 96% Chimp. meaning our genes are only 4% different than a Chimp.





Now to put this in terms you might understand.


If i made you a sandwich with 96% ****, and 4% ham, are you having a **** sandwich or ham sandwich?





and i am Agnostic. and I'll explain to you why i dismiss your god when you can explain why you dismiss all other religion's gods/|||It goes further back than your monkey of a great-great-great-great x eleventybillion uncle. Before we even slithered out of the sea, we still adored bacon. Our distant ancestors raised vast herds of Sea Pigs for their tasty meat and would grill them over volcanic vents on the ocean floor. However, beings made of primordial ooze not understanding that grilling foods on dry land was much different than cooking it over an undersea volcanic vent, left their herds behind during the Great Dry Land Migration and brought only their favorite meat, Sea Bacon, which they promptly burned. Since they'd never actually burned anything before, they thought that surely the Great God of Very Hot and Dry Things had cursed their favorite food! They all promptly switched to alegaeism (a diet still followed to some extent in Japan) and vowed never to eat a Sea Pig again in an attempt to appease this strange, frightening, powerful, Sea Bacon hating deity.





Without the constant pressure put on their population from slaughter for their sweet, tasty Sea Bacon-y goodness, the Sea Pigs thrived, though in a feral state. Their numbers are vastly decreased today because they are continuously caught up in nets by mistake. However, you will notice that even to this day we do not eat Sea Bacon from the Sea Pigs. (Though of course we all still love bacon)





And that's the truth.





Edit@Questioner: I don't think most of them "got" your Q.|||First of all, why did you limit your question to A-T-H-I-E-S-T-S (note spelling)? Many Christians and other people of faith accept the Theory of Evolution.





Secondly, we are not E-V-O-L-V-E-D (note spelling) from M-O-N-K-E-Y-S (note spelling). Monkeys and humans share a common evolutionary ancestor.





Lastly, what do "sea pigs" have to do with the evolution of monkeys and humans?|||Look God is great and evolution is a lie conspired by me and a bunch of my friends a few years back. We did it as a joke and it just got way out of hand. I'm sorry ok please you don't have to post anymore questions I'll clear everything up with everyone. Just mind your business and go back to not thinking or spelling things correctly even though YA has a spell checker. I'm really sorry I know this whole thing has been hard for you. Do you feel better now?|||Evilved? Athiets? Monkies? How do any of these things relate to sea pigs? And why is monkies capitalized. We didn't EVOLVE from MONKEYS, we share a common ancestor with them. Why are there still sea pigs? No clue... but what do they have to do with the question?|||Are you talking about the girl in the picture, or what she's holding?





Hope she's not your girlfriend, or someone isn't getting laid for a long time once she sees this question.|||Christians: If we are perfect in god's image, then why are human beings evolving and being born without appendices?|||Sea pigs still exist because - and this is a little known fact - God created sea pigs in his own image.|||You are absolutely the dumbest person ever.|||Your family never totally evolved, but give it time|||Wow! It's a photo of a chick holding a sea cucumber.|||We didn't "evilve" from monkeys we have a similar gene structure|||Don't question the will of the sea kittens.|||Just because we have zippers does not mean we don't have buttons any more.|||Wheee I can fly|||Yeah, and what about the report monkeys? They're still monkeys aren't they?|||Well, some of us did. Evolve.





Oh, could you imagine the smell!

Can somebody help me research on sea cucumbers?

this research is due on wednesday please help me research|||Subclass Apodacea


Apodida


Molpadiida





Subclass Aspidochirotacea


Aspidochirotida


Elasipodida





Subclass Dendrochirotacea


Dactylochirotida


Dendrochirotida The sea cucumber is an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin. Mostly found on the sea floor. It is so named because of its cucumber-like shape.


Like all echinoderms, sea cucumbers have an endoskeleton just below the skin.





Sea cucumbers are generally scavengers, feeding on debris in the benthic layer. Their diet consist of plankton and other organic matter found in the sea. One way they might get a supply of food is to position themselves in a current where they can catch food that flow by with their tentacles when they open. Another way is to sift through the bottom sediments using their tentacles.





They have the peculiar adaptation of expelling first sticky threads, perhaps to incapacitate predators, and then their internal organs when startled by a potential predator. These organs can then be regrown.





Sea cucumbers reproduce by releasing sperm and ova into the ocean water. Depending on conditions, one organism can produce thousands of gametes.





Surprising as it may seem, sea cucumbers have inspired musical composition: in the first of his Erik Satie presents the "(desiccated embryo) of a Holothuroidean" and inserts a description of the animal in the score:








The Holothuroidean crawls across bolders and rocky surfaces.


This sea-animal purrs like a cat; also, it produces disgusting silky threads.


Light appears to have an incommodating effect on it.


Sea cucumbers have also inspired thousands of haiku in Japan, where they are called "namako." In haiku, they are usually called "sea slugs," for the sake of the sluggish metaphor, and there is a book with almost 1000 holothurian haiku translated from Japanese titled "Rise, Ye Sea Slugs!" by Robin D. Gill. According to the OED, the "sea slug" is a holothurian first, but biologists insist on using "sea slug" only for the nudibranch, a mollusc famous for its neat little brain. The sea-cucumber itself does not mind either way, for it is famous for having no brain whatsoever, not even the start of a ganglia. The Japanese scientist-author Motokawa Tatsuo of TIT describes the sea cucumber as the opposite of us humans: We have brains and are made of dumb material, while they, lacking brains boast smart material.





The sea cucumber's closest relatives (the echinoidea) get more attention from scientists, both as embryos and as fossils.





Sea cucumber is one of the most unique foodstuffs in Chinese cuisine. It is highly valued for its supposed medicinal properties. The flesh of the animal is "cleaned" in a process that takes several days. The product is often purchased dried, and rehydrated before use. The product is used in Chinese stews and braised dishes due to its gelatinous texture but is unappetising on its own.





Medicinal uses


Some varieties of sea cucumber (known as "gamat" in Malaysia) are said to have excellent healing properties. Extracts are prepared and made into oil or cream. Some products are intended to be taken internally. The effectiveness of sea cucumber extract in tissue repair has been the subject of serious study. It not only helps a wound heal more quickly but is also said to reduce scarring.|||look here





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Can cucumber be found under sea?

yes or no.if yes then how it can b used %26amp; if no den why not.|||The sea cucumber is an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin, which is found on the sea floor worldwide. It is so named because of its cucumber-like shape. Like all echinoderms, sea cucumbers have an endoskeleton just below the skin.





In Japanese cuisine, Konowata is made of sea cucumber entrails which are extracted, salted, and cured.


For more info, refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumbe鈥?/a>|||uuuhh, no...a sea cucumber is a underwater creature, not a cucumber that you eat....|||no man


because it's a stupid question|||Yes if you include sea cucumbers, no if you're just talking about the plant|||YES, go %26amp; eat sea cucumber it would be an experience of a LIFETIME!|||no it is not possible, the cucumber requires open air and water without salt or chemicals. it may be a big joke that the cucumber under sea. cucumber may be at mountains, in deserts, in vellies but not in sea.

What come to mind when u hear Dead Sea?

what did u thought it to be when u first heard the word "Dead Sea"???





i thought it's somewhere creepy and dark..... i still think that same way...until my mom show me a picture of it.





what come to ur mind when u hear Dead Sea???





pickled cucumber.... that's what comes to my mind when anyone say Dead Sea..... cuz i think whoever stay in that salty water for hours is gonna look just pickled cucumber....|||The time of Christ, Salt, Cosmetic Products





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http://watersecretsblog.com/archives/Dea鈥?/a>


http://bestholylandguide.com/yahoo_site_鈥?/a>


http://www.deadsea.co.il/index.php?page_鈥?/a>|||Israel!!!|||horse.





i have issues ahah :P

What is the scientific category for Sea Cucumbers, Sea Urchins, Starfish etc?

kingdom animalia


subphylum invertebrata


phylum echinodermata


class : - asteroidea: starfish


- holothuroidea: sea cucumbers


- echinoidea: sea cucumbers|||Echidnodermata|||Echinodermata|||Echinodermata|||Introduction





Echinoderm, common name for about 6000 living species constituting a phylum of marine animals, such as starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers. They usually show a superficial five-part radial symmetry, and generally are equipped with peculiar tube feet. The phylum name is derived from the spiny skin.





The larval stages of this distinct and highly modified group are rather like those of the acorn worm, suggesting a relationship to chordate animals. In later development, however, the left side of the body grows at the expense of the right, and the adults are quite unlike any other animals.





Structure





An echinoderm such as the starfish typically has a mouth surrounded by five arms that bear minute, fleshy tube feet with which the animal clings and crawls. The tube feet are supported by a complex internal hydraulic system that is inflated with seawater. Some echinoderms, especially brittle stars, crawl or swim by moving their arms. Often, as in sea urchins, rows of tube feet extend along the body surface, and arms are absent. The spines are particularly well developed in sea urchins. The skeleton, made up of calcium carbonate, may form a large proportion of the body, or, as in some sea cucumbers, it may be greatly reduced. The fossil record shows that the five-rayed pattern is a late evolutionary acquisition, and deviations from it are common. The animals have a well-developed gut, but the nervous and circulatory systems are simple. Echinoderms are slow-moving and without complex behavior patterns.





Ecology





Echinoderms are common on the ocean bottom at all depths; in the deep sea they often make up the bulk of living material. They may be grazers (most sea urchins), feeders on small particles (many brittle stars), or predators (most starfish). Starfish and a few others are pests, as when found in oyster beds. Sea cucumbers and sea urchins are eaten by humans.





Scientific classification: Echinoderms make up the phylum Echinodermata. The living echinoderms are commonly divided into two subphyla. The stalked or attached Pelmatozoa consist of the single class Crinoidea, or sea lilies and feather stars, with 650 species. The free-living Eleutherozoa consist of the classes Holothuroidae, or sea cucumbers, with 900 species; Echinoidea, or sea urchins and sand dollars, with 850 species; Asteroidea, or starfish, with about 1500 species; and Ophiuroidea, or brittle stars, with about 2000 species. Many authorities, however, unite Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea into a single class, Asterozoa (or Stelleroidea). About 20 extinct classes are found in the fossil record.





漏 1993-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.|||Sea Cucumbers are in the vegetable group


Starfish are in the astronomical group

Sea cucumbers and sea lilies are relatively sessile. Their larvae, however, are capable of swimming.?

How can swimming larvae provide an advantage for these echinoderms?|||the larvae find new places to sit, and don't directly compete for food and resources with their parental units.





It's a beautiful thing.

Is it better to use sea salt or sugar for body scrub?

To keep my light, glowing skin color, I make a mixture of cucumber %26amp; lemon (blended), sandalwood essential oil, avocado oil, apricot oil, ground coffee beans, and fine sea salt. I finish off with a really good moisturizer and scrub myself about twice a week. I was wondering, should I continue to use sea salt, or should i use sugar (raw) instead? I know both can be used as exfoliants, but which one is better and why? Could I still use same other ingredients if I switched? Thank you!|||It depends on your skin type. If you have a more oily skin type use salt because salt helps decrease oilyness in skin. It is also considered more of an energizer. However I don't like sea salt because it burns any small but and it can be irritating. Raw sugar is better for dryer skin. Its not a moisterizer but it doesn't dry it out either. I find it as more soothing. So its really just what you prefer. Try the sugar and see what you think|||Sea salt|||Sea salt is much better than sugar for your skin.|||the sodium in salt can just dry out your skin I guess? Sugar may be a better option|||salt|||Salt is good for your body :)|||Continue to use Sea Salt. Regular salt is too fine to scrub and sugar has glucose, that will clog with pours with a sticky solution.





I have a scrubbing cream from the DEAD SEA of ISRAEL that is great..You can find it on ULTA Stores or google it.


It is sea salt from the dead sea.|||sea salt is better :]|||Hello Sweet Tart Yes both Sea salt and sugar scrubs are great to use I even use them myself when I can make them. Have try cranberry sugar scrub and Vanilla and cocanut sugar scrubs. Write to me back here is my E-mail www.jpenton17@yahoo.com bye for now.James P.|||I prefer sugar simply because the salt scrubs tend to sting and irritate my skin. Especially areas that I usually shave in. I only use sugar scrubs now.|||Sugar scrubs are better for exfoliation. (2-3 times per week)





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Sea Salts are better for soaking in a tub.





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What are some things that act like sea cucumbers?

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I need information about sea cucumbers mating and where they live?

Sea cucumbers can reproduce either asexually by budding or sexually by releasing gametes into the water. Check out Wikipedia...they have some basic info.|||I agree that's what I learned in my biology class.

Do you think sea cucumbers are cool?

my fiend is obsessed with sea cucumbers... she even put on up her fanny... dunno what to do... any help?|||yeah ask her to eat it afterwards.





HAHAHA|||you both need to seek help.





http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/an鈥?/a>|||whats a sea cucumber? does it taste nice?

After 3 weeks of raw fish and sea cucumbers?

what do you hope is in that big crate that the tide is washing in?|||A very sturdy lifeboat, some flares and maybe a two-way radio with fresh batteries.|||Jeff Probst!|||Toilet paper. You should really wash that meal down with a few bananas, and pray for salvation.|||Canned salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines...Eww! Fish again??? But where is the can opener?|||More raw fish! I looooooooooooove sushi!!|||a fishing pole.im missing to many toes|||A big box of chicken's with a chinese Wok thing, and oil, and a plate, a spatula, and ketchup!|||Fresh food.

Where do sea cucumbers live and where are they found in the marine environment?

they are the vacuum cleaners of the ocean. they live primarily on the bottom and can range to several miles down! very slow moving, and even have the ability to purge their entrails when threatened! In some asian countries they are eaten as raw and as pickled, as well as being used dried like a fish base. having no bones they are rather like hollow tubes of thick flesh that just sucks up what ever it can find.|||In the sea salad!|||sea


on reefs??

Compare how sea urchins and sea cucumbers obtain food?

They suck (ba-dum, tish!)|||they suck on each other. LOL

Are sea cucumbers carnivores, omnivores, scavengers, or what?

i would really appreciate it if you answered. no one ever does... please check out my other questions.|||They are scavenging omnivores. They ingest the sand or mud they live in and digest any organic material they find.|||Sea cucumbers are animals, members of the phylum Echinodermata, like starfish. "The diet of most cucumbers consists of plankton and decaying organic matter found in the sea."|||Sea cucumbers are detritivores, or detritus feeders - which means they feed on the detritus or decaying organic materials floating about and in the sand.|||All plants are producers. They use photosynthesis to make energy and sugar to provide for other animals on the food chain. So the answer to the question is that sea cucumbers are producers.

How do sea urchins and sea cucumbers protect themselves from predators?

sea urchins have spines to protect themselves, obviously,





sea cucumbers eviscerate themselves to scare away predators, it's actually REALLY cool, look it up.

Why are scientist amazed with Gods Sea Cucumbers...?

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Could God bring people back to being of perfect health ....from sea life in the future ?








Sea cucumbers are quiet and unassuming dwellers in our seas. But they are diverse, specialized and critical to the world's oceans.








Not only critical to the health of our oceans, they have recently been able to shed light on tissue regeneration in humans. Because of their astonishing powers of repair, scientists are using sea cucumbers to study tissue regeneration in humans.














.|||Sea Cucumbers can actually regenerate new inside organs.





God gave each creature some fantastic ability-we are the ultimate in brain power but that is all, at this point. Almost any ability that man could imagine God has already done and given it to one of His creatures for survival





The sea cucumber spits out it's innards to make a sticky mess for predators and then just regenerates new ones.





But God is the only one that can move mountains and some of us are still waiting.......some people need it for survival.





Blessings.|||Actually the insides come out the other end.

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|||I think Scientists are always interested in watching and explaining nature. What is really odd is that you missed the point of your own question. You have gloried the sea cucumber as a creation of a god, for it regenerative properties. Wouldn't this conflict with your idea that humans are the ultimate creation of the same god? Why would a god give such a great trait of regeneration, but not allow humans to regenerate broken limbs and organs?



It would seem that observed nature, is better explained by evolution theory than creationism.|||Yes, this entire earth is at risk, proving the harm men do. And they think they are smart! These who hate God claim that they are the 'thinkers'. what a laugh!



Look at Garlic. One of the most potent healing powers on earth. I asked in here once, (of course no answers)...how the big bang decided to fix Garlic with so much healing power, and took the time and pains, to individually wrap each single clove, thus preserving its healing power and protecting it until the next one is needed; then wrap the entire thing together.

Wow

now that is some more power! big bang??? and they 'think'. what a laugh.



sea cucumbers are great for healing arthritis.



Notice, how they think that because Science tries to figure out how some things work, or were made, that this makes them something great...They did not and cannot make anything. They cannot give anything life. All they can do is take life, mess up life and mess up this world. They cannot give oxygen to this world. They cannot make water, and on and on. Yet they are so great one disowns the creator of all of this LIFE. and they 'think'? wow|||Certainly, they have to stand back and watch the Glory of God, it they are non beleivers, they will have a good excuse to say it is only nature and give speculations as to the reasons why.





Highly interesting and informative, I had better look a little deeper into this. thank you.|||I'm curious, did God also design the health benefits of masturbation?



EDIT: Thank you for sharing this tidbit on worldwide sea cucumber populations. I was not aware that they are in danger.|||Actually, the evolution of sea cucumber disproved god.|||There is nothing supernatural about them.|||Wouldn't those be Neptune's sea cucumbers?|||They are flaggerbasted by Hebrew National hot dogs.|||Good. It looks like you guys are finally over the whole geocentric thing, now on to biology.|||Okay.|||gotta admit, you stumped me. and here i am an atheist who presumes to know everything. dammit!|||Watch out science is from the debbel|||They're good in a salad.

Am looking for possible suppliers of dried sea cucumbers from the philippines?

can any one give me a name, address and number where i can contact them. Would prefer if their located near manila or pangasinan, philippines|||How many kilos do you need? what type of specie do you need?, what's your buying price per kilo?|||Good luck to you,|||Wow what are dead sea cucumbers? Those sound really yummy ;)

Why aren鈥檛 sea cucumbers placed into Subphylum Urochordata?

There pretty much nothing like tunicates. Sea cucumbers are in the phylum echinodermata and urochardates are part of the phylum chordata.|||Urochordata is a subphylum of Chordata; being placed in chordata a species must show at some point in their life stage the 5 hallmark traits, postanal tail, notochord, nerve chord, endosytle, and pharyngeal slits/pouches. Sea cucumbers lack these hallmarks, they can't be placed within chordata

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|||Adult sea cucumbers have five fold symmetry and an ambulacral vascular system, modified from the coelem. The ambulacral system runs in 5 longitudinal strips that power tube feet in some species. Even in species that lack tube feet there are oral tentacles as part of the vascular system powered by hydraullic fluid displacements the same way tube feet operate.


These are some critical characteristic that define echinoderms and distinguish their species from other phyla.


http://books.google.com/books?id=BUOOUD5鈥?/a>|||Sea ccucumber is not an animal. Thats why.

Do these animals live in deep sea trenches?

Deep Sea Angler fish, the Spanish Dancer (a type of sea cucumber), Giant Isopods, lanternfish, giant squids, and firefly squids|||for sure i know that Deep Sea Angler fish,Giant Isopods, lanternfish and giant squids do.

What are some invasive species of sea urchins, sea stars, and sea cucumbers in hawaii?

also, what is their role in the ecosystem and some back ground/historical info|||As far as I can tell, there aren't any invasive echinoderms in Hawaii. I found this page:





http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/HBS/invertg鈥?/a>





which lists invasive marine species, but there are no echinoderms on there. I lived in Hawaii a while ago, and volunteered at the Waikiki Aquarium. They have a pretty vigorous volunteer training program, butI don't remember any mention of invasive echinoderms in that connection. I'm sure they would have taught us about them if they existed. So my two cents are: although there are lots of invasive species in Hawaii, echinoderms aren't a problem at present.

Do you lie awake at night considering the feeding habits of sea cucumbers?

I'm ashamed to admit that, heretofore, I had entirely overlooked the whole matter. My mind has, nocturnally, been wholly occupied by a consideration of the feeding habits of the anemone.|||At the risk of sounding like a loser, i have to say that sea cucumbers are really adorable looking, and fascinating! I have one|||Strangely, yes I do. Honestly, what the heck do they live on?|||not often|||NO, but I DO lie awake wonder why the sink faucet is NOT dripping.|||ummmmm....... I haven't done that yet, but I might tonight when I cant sleep. Thanks for the idea.

Of the following - sea cucumbers, clams, jellyfishes, sea sausages- are they all living sea-creatures?

I know jellyfish doesn't really have a brain, just a piece of tentacles and things floating around the sea, drifted by the current. What about the rest?|||Ryu, this sea sausage, I am not convinced it is a real organism, your link is hardly convincing - if that photo is of a living organism, it still does not confirm it is a 'sea sausage'. A cursory investigation throws up even more uncertainty. It is described as algae and some kind of tubular seaweed among 'other' descriptions ! No matter, if it is a photosynthetic organism then it is living and yes, it lives in the sea according to some sources. The others are of course living marine organisms. The definition of a living organism does not include having a brain. Plants don't have brains but they are certainly living !|||Sea sausages is the only one on your list I think you just made up. The others I've seen on documentaries and/or magazines if not in real life. (I seen a couple in real life too).|||thay all are living creatures...but sea sausage is not a living creature

What is the history of trepanging for sea cucumbers?

Trepanging is comparable to clamming, crabbing, lobstering, musseling, shrimping and other forms of "fishing" whose goal is acquisition of edible invertebrates rather than finfish. Slow-moving creatures related to sea stars and sea urchins, sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor. As such, trepanging is accomplished by spearing, diving, dredging or simply picking the animals up by hand when they are exposed at low tide.





To supply the markets of Southern China, Muslim Makassar Indonesia trepangers traded with Indigenous Australians of Arnhem Land from at least the 18th century or likely prior. This Macassan contact with Australia is the first recorded example of interaction between the inhabitants of the Australian continent and their Asian neighbours. This contact had a major impact on the Indigenous Australians. The Makassar exchanged goods such as cloth, tobacco, knives, rice and alcohol for the right to trepang coastal waters and employ local labour. Makassar pidgin became a lingua franca along the north coast among different Indigenous Australian groups who were brought into greater contact with each other by the seafaring Macassan culture.





Archeological remains of Makasar contact include trepang processing plants from the 18th and 19th centuries are still be found at Australian locations such as Port Essington and Groote Eylandt, and the Makasar-planted tamarind trees (native to Madagascar and East Africa) introduced by the seafaring Muslims. .


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanging





The Macassans were Indonesians from the trading center of Macassar in the southern Island Sulawesi in Java, which for centuries had been the outlet for the trepang trade with China. They came in fleets of boats called praus, which they used to collect this small sea animal. There is not sufficient evidence to make an accurate account of the time period these people had been coming to the northern shores of Australia. Some historians say fishermen were coming for hundreds of years - others say they arrived in the seventeenth century.





The demand for trepang to be brought into China did not emerge until the 1600s. Maritime expansion and commercial development by Islam and China spread throughout South East Asia into the Javanese archipelago. The city of Macassar was captured by the Dutch in 1669 and was established as a center for European trade and colonialism. Macassar began representing Dutch colonization outside Java.





The Macassans came to Australia to collect trepang and import it back to Macassar. From there they exported the trepang to China. Besides trepang, Macassans imported timber (iron-wood, cypress pine, sandalwood), pearl, pearlshell and tortoiseshell. Apart from Northen Australia, the main fishing grounds for trepang were all in the Indian and Western pacific Oceans.





Australian trepang made up the largest part of Macassan exports and of the total import into China. The trepang industry in Australia was large and well organized. Approximately 2 000 Macassans spent 4-5 months a year gathering trepang, which fetched considerable amounts of money for their financers in Macassar, and they enjoyed high social standing in the community. European businessman controlled commercial trading, while actual shipping to South China was handled by the Chinese businessman living in Macassar. Exporting of trepang from Macassar to China was handled from Singapore. Most voyages were financed and outfitted by merchants who supplied basic items like piculs, rice, kajang(awning mats made from palm leaves), ataps(similar mats made of nipa palm leaves), catties of rattan, palm-leaf sail cloth, iron pots for cooking, parring bamboo for building etc.


http://www.aiaa.org.au/news/news15/seacu鈥?/a>

California Sea Hare- What kind of Skeleton does it have? Sea cucumbers, squid, and jellyfish too?

What kind of skeleton do they have? thanks soooo much.|||These don't really have skeletons. The squid has a "pen" which is made of calcium, but it's too small to support the body.





If I had to answer the question, I'd say that these creatures (all of them) have hydroskeletons -- fluid chambers which, when slightly pressurized, can provide some rigidity when/where needed.|||They don't have skeletons which is why they are called invertebrates. Squids do have a "cuttle bone" to provide some structure, but it isn't really a skeleton. The others have no calcium/cartilage structure of any kind.

Explain how the following sea creatures have assisted in the health of mankind?

Mollusks:





Sponges:





Sea Cucumbers, Coral and Seaweed:|||Molluscs - we eat them





Sponges - we wash with them





Sea cucumbers - who knows


Coral - creates reefs which protect island populations from the sea


Seaweed - we eat it and it produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide

Are sea cucumbers edible? can you give some sea cucumbers that is not edible?

i'm just wondering if they are edible...


i also want to know what kind of sea cucumbers are not edible...


thanks... (.^_^.)|||sea cucumbers are available in abundance in my country but NOONE eats them. hmm i wonder y!!!|||Sea cucumbers are edible - they are a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. There may be some varieties whicha are inedible, but I have never heard of such. Did you know that the sea cucumber is actually a type of worm? Now you do.|||Yes. They are edible. But don't go out of your way to experience the taste. Gummy, chewy, and ugly.

What do sea stars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins have in common?

A. Long, sharp spines


B. Thick, fleshy tentacles


C. Long, spindly arms


D. A water vascular system with tube feet|||D


Tube feet are the many small tubular projections found most famously on the oral face of a sea star's arms, but are characteristic of the water vascular system of the echinoderm phylum which also includes sea urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers and many other sea creatures.





Tube feet function in locomotion and feeding. The tube feet in a sea star are arranged in grooves along the arms. They operate through hydraulic pressure. They are used to pass food to the oral mouth at the center, and can attach to surfaces. A sea star that is overturned simply turns one arm over and attaches it to a solid surface, and levers itself the right way up.|||D.


Echinoderms are characterized by radial symmetry, several arms (5 or more, mostly grouped 2 left - 1 middle - 2 right) radiating from a central body (= pentamerous). The body actually consists of five equal segments, each containing a duplicate set of various internal organs. They have no heart, brain, nor eyes, but some brittle stars seem to have light sensitive parts on their arms. Their mouth is situated on the underside and their anus on top (except feather stars, sea cucumbers and some urchins).





Echinoderms have tentacle-like structures called tube feet with suction pads situated at their extremities. These tube feet are hydraulically controlled by a remarkable vascular system. This system supplies water through canals of small muscular tubes to the tube feet (= ambulacral feet). As the tube feet press against a moving object, water is withdrawn from them, resulting in a suction effect. When water returns to the canals, suction is released. The resulting locomotion is generally very slow.|||A.





They are all part of Phyllum Echinodermata, meaning spined skin.|||In order to sort out between the different answers you get I would highly recommend to look at images of the various echinoderms you mention. If you know how they look like the answer will be obvious.|||D.|||B|||D is the answer......|||The word 'Sea'!


i choose A - long sharp spines|||they all live in the deep sea


thats my answer and i am sticking tooo it .

What do you know about sea cucumbers?

I have a science project about them.|||Sea cucumbers are echinoderms. Sea cucumbers are sausage shaped, and their skin is covered with warty bumps or soft spines. When threatened, cucumbers can contract their muscles and shoot out water from their body making them shorter, thicker, and harder. Some can even shoot out their insides and then go and grow new insides.


Sea cucumbers have hundreds of tiny suction-cup tube feet that they use to crawl across the sea floor. Three common sea cucumbers are the warty sea cucumber, the California cucumber, and the white star cucumber. Warty sea cucumbers are chestnut brown with black-tipped "warts" all over their bodies. Warty sea cucumbers grow up to ten inches long. California sea cucumbers are brown to reddish-brown and are covered with pointed, cone-shaped projections. The California sea cucumber grows up to sixteen inches long. The white sea cucumber is light orange to white with long, nonretractable spines covering their bodies. White sea cucumbers grow up to four inches long.

Can Sea Cucumbers Breathe Out of Water?

Well i picked one up and my sister started yelling that they coouldn't breathe out of water. Is this true?|||No they can't breath out of water.

How long do sea cucumbers live?

I need to know for a school report|||Until they pickle. hahahaha.


Actually, it's estimated they live for ten years.

What oceans do sea cucumbers live in?

I need to know what oceans, not where in the ocean|||all of them.





There are 1250 different species of sea cucumber and they can be found in every part of the world - arctic, tropical, deep sea, reefs..every habitat.|||Pacific. Warm coastal waters. Coral reefs.|||namely warm oceans.....

How do sea cucumbers defend themselves?

I have been wondering this ever since i was a wee lad|||No idea. I just think sea cucumbers are the most rediculous creatures to live in the sea. And i hate cucumbers.|||They are defenceless.|||I believe some of them have poisonus spines but i cant be certain... they probly don't taste good either tho so maybe nothing likes them.|||Haven't you seen Jackass 1.....ha ha ha|||They shoot stuff outta their butt... seriously!|||They don't, they lay there because they look like rocks , its camouflage|||They wear a red aids ribbon.|||pickle juice...they use pickle juice.

My husband wants to know the name of the fish that lives in the Sea Cucumbers Rectum?

I don't know why he wants to know I have just learned not to ask ?'s lol|||Sea cucumbers extract oxygen from water in a pair of 'respiratory trees' that branch off the cloaca just inside the anus, so that they 'breathe' by drawing water in through the anus and then expelling it. A variety of fish, most commonly pearl fish, have evolved a commensalistic symbiotic relationship with sea cucumbers in which the pearl fish will live in sea cucumber's cloaca using it for protection from predation, a source of food (the nutrients passing in and out of the anus from the water), and to develop into their adult stage of life. Many polychaete worms and crabs have also specialized to use the cloacal respiratory trees for protection by living inside the sea cucumber.

Where can I buy dried sea cucumber in the Philippines?

try it out in bantayan island, cebu.

What is the term for sea cucumbers releasing their respiratory nets when disturbed?

.|||Hollis is right, the sea cucumber's action of ejecting their internal organs when under severe stress or in dire circumstances is called evisceration.|||eviscerate, I think

\what is the price of Sea Cucumbers in China, and where can I find a buyer?

We are harvesting sea cucumbers. I would like to know where I can find a buyer of sea cucumbers who is in China? Also, I would like to know the price of sea cucumbers|||Hi there, I am an American who has been living in China for five years. My wife is Chinese, and she has several years experience in China import/export (working for a company). I'll talk to her when she gets home and we'll see what we can come up with. Actually, we have been looking for this kind of opportunity (private venture), but haven't found the right import. If you could please e-mail me via my profile, we can talk about it. Please let me know what country you are in as well, as various laws and regulations may apply.|||They are harvesting them in Baja California and they couldn't find a buyer|||Hummm ok...what is a sea cucumber?

Walrus, Narwhal or Sea Cucumber. Who's your pal on the beach.?

Fiddler crab|||The walrus, if he remembered to bring the sun screen.|||i like sea cucumbers and sea horses... and sea anomie's...

Which of the following types of reproductive barriers separates two species of sea cucumbers, whose sperm and?

which of the following types of reproductive barriers separates two species of sea cucumbers, whose sperm and eggs of ten bump into each other but do not cross-fertilized because of incompatible proteins on their surfaces?|||Prezygotic isolation

Do you know what this is? sea cucumber? idk?

i saw this thing at the ocean, and i took a video of it. the thing at 0:21


not the black thing by the way





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbsgWZL55鈥?/a>|||Not a sea cucumber. The black thing is a sea cucumber. I have seen them many times and have eaten them too.|||it is a sea creature that looks like a cucumber that is all.|||It looks to long to be a sea cucumber. At least the ones that I've seen. Some kind of sea snake perhaps?

What are three common features of sea cucumbers which distinguish them from other echinoderms?

Thanks in advance!|||1. They lack spines


2. Their endoskeleton is much reduced


3. They are elongated in their oral-aboral axis, giving them the shape for which they are named and further disguising their relationship to other echinoderms

What is a sea cucumber?

It's a marine animal with an elongated body and a leathery skin that looks sort of like a giant slug. It has a skeleton of sorts, a support structure just beneath its skin.





Some varieties are edible, and are harvested for use in Chinese cuisine. Others are said to have regenerative properties, and the use of sea cucumber extract in tissue regeneration has been a subject of serious study recently.





Some interesting trivia: The collagen plates that make up its "skeleton" can be unhooked and reconnected at will. So a sea cucumber can literally liquefy it body to squeeze into a small space, and then reform to protect itself.





Also, several species can startle or entangle predators by literally squeezing their own guts out. (New ones grow back in 3-4 weeks.) This is known as "evisceration", and is sometimes accompanied by a toxic chemical that kills animals in the vicinity.|||It is a creature/animal that lives deep in the water.





Check this web site





Sea cucumbers are echinoderms鈥攍ike starfish and sea urchins. There are some 1,250 known species, and many of these animals are indeed shaped like soft-bodied cucumbers. All sea cucumbers are ocean dwellers, though some inhabit the shallows and others live in the deep ocean. They live on or near the ocean floor鈥攕ometimes partially buried beneath it.





...........





http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/an鈥?/a>|||Sea cucumber, known as B锚che-de-mer(French:lit. "sea-spade") are marine animals in the class Holothuroidea used in fresh or dried form in various cuisines. In Malaysia, it is called "trepang" (Malay tr墨pang), the Japanese call it "namako" and in the Philippines it is called "balatan". Most cultures in East and Southeast Asia regard sea cucumbers as a delicacy.





There are a number of dishes made with sea cucumber as this ingredient is expected to have a strong cultural emphasis on health. In most dishes, the sea cucumber comes out with a slippery texture. Common ingredients that go with sea cucumber dishes include winter melon, dried scallop, kai-lan, Shiitake mushroom, and Chinese cabbage.

Meatloaf? Sea cucumber? Every night it's either meatloaf or sea cucumber. What else can I eat?

Pizza. Tell me what I've won.|||it depends on your diet

Have you ever eaten sea-cucumber ?

My uncle collected some while scuba diving and fried them up. My first impression was .....rubber bands.|||no i have not but like to try it out to see what it really taste like








鈽甦ej|||Haha eww, that sounds yummy, not! It seems like it would be very rubbery.

Is kevin the sea cucumber a lazy bum?

u ppl might know who he is.... =D





teehee|||I was JUST about to ask a question about this.





Then you beat me to it.





I feel like SUCH a failure.





Anyways...im about 74% sure he is a hobo.|||no, i love him|||yeah... an uptight lazy bum with no sense of humor|||well if he hates me as a regular P%26amp;Ser.. then i dont feel to hot about him either. *humpfff*|||no he is a prick|||i want his cucumber ******* ***** ***|||Totally

Dendrochirotida a.k.a sea cucumber?

Can a Dendrochirotida live by volcanos?|||Cucumaria echinata, found in the Bay of Bengal, is known to produce a lectin that has the ability to block the development of Plasmodium, the causal agent of malaria, when it is expressed in genetically modified Anopheles mosquitoes.


They don't live by volcanoes and probably couldn't.

Is there any proof that cod kicked man out of the pond of eden for eating the sea cucumber of knowledge?

Not that it would deter or affirm my faith in cod almighty, but I was just curious....|||Of course there is my child... the evidence is all around you.





First there was man, but cod saw that he was lonely so he created woman out of man's fins (this is why people don't have fins anymore....duh). They lived together in the pond of eden until the lungfish convinced them to eat the sea cucumber of knowledge. They were then cast out of eden onto dry land, but were allowed to retain their innocence until the moment of their birth ( this, of course, is why we live the first 9 months of our life in a fluid environment...).





Man's punishment was to be greater still, but "the angelfish wept and begged cod to be lenient and man was allowed to retain his sole..."(Genefish 26:13)





Praise be to the glorious wet one!! You're really on a role with these cod questions....nicely done!|||Yes..........the garden of Eden has disappeared.





It was their disobedience that got them kicked out|||yeah, actually it's written in some dead old book...and you know - old books aren't allowed to lie... :D|||Cod kicked man out of his pond not becuase of the cucumber but becase man was eating all the fish!|||All hail the all powerful Jellyfish! Go forth and ask his quivering, all knowing being.|||Yes, but in the new testament Cod eels the blind Manta, so all is forgiven|||I think you may be onto something.





There was a starfish swimming in the east and the wise men rode their seahorses across many miles to offer Frankincense, myhrr, and goldfish.|||You have serious issues.|||metaphor..... not literal history.|||Cod lobster and never floundered.|||who the hell is cod?|||yes all the hippos complained about the sea-cucumber-smelling-dookie Adam was leaving behind.|||im not religous, but will someone tell me if this is in the bible or whatever? it sounds too stupid.|||I'm not sure, but I remember seeing something at the Bikini Bottom Museum for Dead Seaweed Scrolls.|||The intellect of the above average atheistic mind, scary huh?|||definitely the almighty cod has always disliked man|||Yeah, I saw it. Every year, on that day, I stick a cucumber in my salad in reverence.|||Ya ,that would be......Us today.|||Didn't you see the first season of "Survivor"? The sea cucumber basically turns into a pile of slime when you take it out of the water for too long. I don't think anyone could eat it.|||God has a G in the front... see Genesis...it wasnt vegetables...it was fruit..

Do you know Britabob the sea cucumber?

Nope. Perhaps you could introduce me?

Hyperthyroidism. Can sea cucumber cures it?

No. There are no cures for hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism. There are foods, however, that can help you. These foods include spinach, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, and a few others. BUT, if you are HYPO, avoid these foods as much as possible! Speak to your doctor about taking the right medicine.|||No. You need to take the proper medications. As a matter of fact for hyper you do not want to add the iodine content in sea cucumbers. Please speak with your doctor.

Does sea cucumber reproduce asexually or sexually?

A few species of sea cucumber can reproduce asexually, most have separate sexes that release eggs and sperm into the water for fertilization. The larvae are often free-swimming and metamorphose into bottom dwelling adults. In some sea cucumbers species, the larvae stage is omitted and the newly hatch young resemble small adults.|||asexually. i dont know how i know this!|||Sexually. One part releases a cloud of eggs - another releases sperm. The two combine in the ocean. The fertilized eggs then settle in the coral reef or ocean floor. After a while, a new sea cucumber is born.





According to Wikipedia, "Sea cucumbers reproduce by releasing sperm and ova into the ocean water. Depending on conditions, one organism can produce thousands of gametes."





The following link will give you more information about sea cucumbers:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumbe鈥?/a>

What is the "hair" of a sea cucumber called? Eight letters.?

Homework / Crossword puzzle question





Think it goes like this:





T_ _ e _ e__





Help!!!!!!|||2 words (tube feet) Maybe some of your letters are wrong? tentacle





Sea cucumbers (Class Holothuroidea) are cylinder-shaped invertebrate animals that live in seas worldwide. They are found in a variety of sea floor habitats, from warm tropical waters to cold deep sea trenches. These nocturnal animals have a life span of about 5 to 10 years.


Anatomy: The body of the sea cucumber is elongated, leathery and muscular; spines are contained with the skin. These echinoderms have no arms, but do have five-part symmetry. Surrounding the mouth are 8 to 30 tentacles (modified tube feet). Five double rows of tube feet (with tiny suction cups) run along the body; they are used for crawling along the sea bed or anchoring to a rock. A sea cucumber breathes by pumping sea water in and out of an internal organ called a respiratory tree. Some sea cucumbers burrow into the sea floor. Sea cucumbers have no brain. The biggest sea cucumber, the tiger's tail sea cucumber (Holothuria thomasi), is about 2 m long - most sea cucumbers are much smaller than this.


Diet: Sea cucumbers eat decaying matter that floats in the water or is in the sand.


Enemies: Sea turtles, crustaceans, many fish, and people eat sea cucumbers. Sea cucumbers can expel most of their internal organs to confuse predators - they later regrows the organs. Some sea cucumbers' bodies contain toxins that can deter attackers.|||Is it TENTACLE?





That doesn't fit with the letters/spaces you gave, but... It's all I can think of...

How do i roast a sea cucumber?

You can roast it by putting it near the butt of a certain someone who might enjoy that ;) Then you with the hotness and goodness of his warm self it shall roast your cucumber.|||Unfortunately, you can't just roast one and eat it. They are similar to a sponge in texture and must be marinated for several days before cooking. I have a book called Bottoms Up Cookery that has a recipe for sea cucumber, but it was so involved that I vever even bothered to collect a sea cucumber to try the recipe.



EDIT: Upon further investigation, I easily found a recipe for:

Braised Sea Cucumber

http://www.healthy-chinese-recipe.com/br鈥?/a>|||Cucumbers come from the sea?

Sea cucumber?

I am thinking of importing in dried sea cucumber , got source for cheap and good one but do not know where to sell it in local market. Any idea?|||Approach medical halls and wet markets. I know of people who are willing to pay for good sea cucumbers and they are likely to look for it in medical halls. Check out chinatowns and neighbourhood towns.





For wet markets trying finding buyers in in Jurong Fishery Port





http://www.ava.gov.sg/AgricultureFisheri鈥?/a>|||Mermaids|||contact a local distributor of dried food products. they have ready network to sell the products and you only have to deal with one party.|||You could try some of the stores at Chinatown. There are many shops which actively sell sea cucumbers.





Or, you might wanna try offering your cucumbers to some of the Chinese eateries in the vicinity too!|||give me your contacts|||me

Sea cucumber????????????

my friend thinks shes a sea cucumber, should she see a couciler?????????????????





Im very worried!|||When people dive really deep in sea water, they could suffer from brain damage.


Make sure your friend hasn't.


If so, make her go see a councelor or wait for a day to see that she's not drunk.


Good Luck!|||and i think i'm a unicorn.|||well fu k im an ice cream cone|||Just treat her with respect and be sure not to squeeze her too hard; she might spit at you.|||dont tell anyone but um... well... i kinda think im a toothpick|||my mum saw a sea cucumber when she went scuba diving and she said it looked like a poo

Recipe for Sea cucumber Please.?

Answer please.|||Braised Sea Cucumbers and Mushrooms








Ingredients


# 450g soaked sea cucumber, rinsed and sliced thickly


# 1 thumb-size old ginger, smashed


# 1/2 tbsp Chinese rice wine


# 500g chicken drumsticks, cut into bite-size pieces


# 8 锟?10 dried mushrooms, soaked to soften








Seasoning for chicken:


# 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce


# 1/4 tsp pepper


# 2 tbsp oil


# 4 slices ginger, shredded


# 1 tsp chopped garlic


# 1 tsp chopped shallots





Thickening:


# 1锟?tsp cornflour mixed with 1 tbsp water





For sauce (combine):


# 2 cups chicken stock


# 1 tbsp light soy sauce


# 1 tbsp thick soy sauce


# 1 tbsp oyster sauce


# 1/2 tsp salt


# 3/4 tsp sugar


# 1/4 tsp pepper


# 1 tsp chicken stock granules





Method


Marinate chicken pieces with light soy sauce and pepper and leave aside for 20 锟?25 minutes.





Place sea cucumber and ginger in a non-stick saucepan and stir-fry without oil until almost dry. Add in the rice wine and stir-fry briskly for one to two minutes. Remove the sea cucumber from the saucepan and set aside.





Heat oil until hot and fry shallots and garlic until lightly golden. Add ginger and fry until fragrant.





Add in chicken and mushrooms and stir-fry for two to three minutes. Pour in sauce ingredients and add the sea cucumber. Bring to a boil. Cover and cook over a low heat for 40锟?5 minutes or until sea cucumber is cooked and tender. Thicken with corn flour mixture.|||sea cucumber...is that a veggie or an animal?|||ok ewwwwwww :(

Where does a sea cucumber live?

it's a mollusk. it lives on the bottom of the ocean in tropical waters.|||sea cucumber include in the class holothuria of the phylum ECHINODERMATA.IT is a cucumber like echinodermate found at the bottom of shallow coastal waters.it shows a unique property of ejecting the entire intestine and respiratory structures through or anus. HOLOTHURIA is the most common sea cucumber found in the Kerala coas.|||Sea Cucumbers are non-motile marine organisms........





henceforth they live in the bottom of shallow seas............coz in deep waters they don't get light to perform biochemical activities|||They live every where on the ocean floor in shallow water.|||Sea cucumber live in ocean.|||in a octopus's garden, Duh|||The sea cucumber is an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin, which is found on the sea floor worldwide. It is so named because of its cucumber-like shape. Like all echinoderms, sea cucumbers have an endoskeleton just below the skin, but this can actually be absent in some species.[citation needed]





Overview





Sea cucumbers exist in a wide variety of appearances


Sea cucumber in Fiji


Sea cucumber in Mah茅, Seychelles ejects sticky filaments from the anus in self-defence.


A sea cucumber feeding while on gravelSea cucumbers are generally scavengers, feeding on debris in the benthic zone of the ocean. Exceptions include pelagic cucumbers and the species Rynkatropa pawsoni, which has a commensal relationship with deep-sea anglerfish.[1] The diet of most cucumbers consists of plankton and decaying organic matter found in the sea. Some sea cucumbers position themselves in currents and catch food that flows by with their open tentacles. They also sift through the bottom sediments using their tentacles.





Some species of coral-reef sea cucumbers within the order Aspidochirotida can defend themselves by expelling their sticky cuvierian tubules (enlargements of the respiratory tree that float freely in the coelom) to entangle potential predators. When startled, these cucumbers may expel some of them through a tear in the wall of the cloaca in an autotomic process known as evisceration. Replacement tubules grow back in one-and-a-half to five weeks, depending on the species.





They can be found in great numbers on the deep sea floor, where they often make up the majority of the animal biomass. The body of deep water holothurians is made of a tough gelatinous tissue with unique properties that makes the animals able to control their own buoyancy, making it possible for them to either live on the ocean floor or to float over it to move to new locations with a minimum of energy.[4]





In more shallow waters, sea cucumbers can form dense populations. The strawberry sea cucumber (Squamocnus brevidentis) of New Zealand lives on rocky walls around the southern coast of the South Island where populations sometimes reach densities of 1,000 animals per square metre. For this reason, one such area in Fiordland is simply called the strawberry fields.





Sea cucumbers extract oxygen from water in a pair of 'respiratory trees' that branch off the cloaca just inside the anus, so that they 'breathe' by drawing water in through the anus and then expelling it.A variety of fish, most commonly pearl fish, have evolved a commensalistic symbiotic relationship with sea cucumbers in which the pearl fish will live in sea cucumber's cloaca using it for protection from predation, a source of food (the nutrients passing in and out of the anus from the water), and to develop into their adult stage of life. Many polychaete worms and crabs have also specialized to use the cloacal respiratory trees for protection by living inside the sea cucumber.





Ten percent of the blood cell pigment of the sea cucumber is vanadium. Just as the horseshoe crab has blue blood rather than red blood (colored by iron in hemoglobin) because of copper in the hemocyanin pigment, the blood of the sea cucumber is yellow because of the vanadium in the vanabin pigment[9]. Nonetheless, there is no evidence that vanabins carry oxygen, in contrast to hemoglobin and hemocyanin.





Sea cucumbers reproduce by releasing sperm and ova into the ocean water. Depending on conditions, one organism can produce thousands of gametes.





The largest American species is Holothuria floridana, which abounds just below low-water mark on the Florida reefs.





The most common way to separate the subclasses is by looking at their oral tentacles. Subclass Dendrochirotacea has 8-30 oral tentacles, subclass Aspidochirotacea has 10-30 leaflike or shieldlike oral tentacles, while subclass Apodacea may have up to 25 simple or pinnate oral tentacles and is also characterized by reduced or absent tube feet, as in the order Apodida.[citation needed]








[edit] Sea cucumbers as food and medicine





Dried sea cucumbers in a Chinese pharmacy"To supply the markets of Southern China, Macassan trepangers traded with the Indigenous Australians of Arnhem Land. This Macassan contact with Australia is the first recorded example of trade between the inhabitants of the Australian continent and their Asian neighbours."





Some varieties of sea cucumber (known as gamat in Malaysia or trepang in Indonesia) are said to have excellent healing properties. There are pharmaceutical companies being built based on this gamat product. Extracts are prepared and made into oil, cream or cosmetics. Some products are intended to be taken internally. The effectiveness of sea cucumber extract in tissue repair has been the subject of serious study[10]. It is believed that the sea cucumber contains all the fatty acids necessary to play an active role in tissue repair.[11].





Sea cucumbers are believed to be endowed with aphrodisiac powers in the Far East. The reason for this belief is the peculiar reaction of the creature on being kneaded or disturbed slightly with fingers. It swells and stiffens and a jet of water is released from one end. This behaviour is similar to the erection and subsequent ejaculation of the male human penis. After releasing the jet which is a defensive mechanism and contains irritants the creature loses its stiffness and reverts to its original state.[citation needed]





On December 21, 2007, a study published in PLoS Pathogens found that a lectin from Cucumaria echinata impaired the development of the malaria parasite when produced by transgenic mosquitoes.[12].








[edit] Sea cucumbers in art





Sea cucumber (a - Tentacles, b - Cloaca, c - Ambulacral feet on the ventral side, d - Papillae on the back)Sea cucumbers have inspired musical composition: in the first of his Embryons dess茅ch茅s for piano solo, Erik Satie presents the "(Desiccated embryo) of a Holothurian" and inserts a description of the animal in the score:





The Holothurian crawls across boulders and rocky surfaces.


This sea-animal purrs like a cat; also, it produces disgusting silky threads.


Light appears to have an incommodating effect on it.


Nonetheless it is the sea cucumber's closest relative (the echinoidea or sea urchin) that gets the most attention from scientists, both as an embryo and as a fossil.





Sea cucumbers have also inspired thousands of haiku in Japan, where they are called namako (銉娿優銈?, written with characters that can be translated "sea mice". In English translations of these haiku, they are usually called "sea slugs"; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term "sea slug" originally referred to holothurians (in the 18th century), though biologists now use the name only for the nudibranch molluscs, marine relatives of land slugs. Almost 1,000 Japanese holothurian haiku translated into English appear in the book Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! by Robin D. Gill