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1 a) Whose eyes are peering out from the crevice?
b) Is their owner herbivore, carnivore or omnivore?
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2 a) What is this sea urchin doing?
b) Which related animals do you more often see doing this?
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3 a) How might you know that a particular rock crevice houses an octopus?
b) How does an octopus deal with its prey?
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4 a) Whose baby is this, resting on the mooring buoy?
b) What might you have seen its father doing?
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5 a) What is this fish, with the ultra-sharp teeth?
b) How many common species of this family are found in British waters?
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6 a) What is this, trying to hide by simply turning away?
b) What's special about its mouth?
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7 a) What sort of animal has laid these eggs?
b) Why would "Lonely Hearts" pages for them be so simple?
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8 a) Whose eyes are looking out from the sand?
b) What is its highly effective special method of defence?
c) Which flatfish is sometimes said to mimic part of its appearance?
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9 a) What lives in the burrow for which this fish is acting as a look-out?
b) Name the fish.
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10 a) What has this hermit crab just done?
b) What was the original owner of the shell in which it is living?
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11 a) What is this beautiful but fragile colonial creature?
b) What would its orientation tell you?
c) How old could it be?
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12 a) What drilled the hole in this shell, and ate its owner?
b) What is the common "driller-killer" in shallow rocky areas?
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13 a) What made the round marks on this rock?
b) How do they navigate back to them?
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14 a) What is the male crab waiting for?
b) What will the female be said to be some time afterwards?
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15 a) Whose eggs are these, hanging in bunches?
b) What is the sea anemone near them?
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ANSWERS:
1 a) Velvet swimming crab, b) Omnivore;
2 a) Spawning, b) Starfish;
3 a) Crab shells and empty body parts around the entrance, b) Wraps its tentacles around it, pierces it with sharp jaws and injects poison;
4 a) Lumpsucker, b) Guarding the egg mass in very shallow water;
5 a) Goldsinny wrasse, b) Five wrasse species (including the goldsinny);
6 a) John Dory, b) It's telescopic;
7 a) A sea slug, b) You wouldn't need separate men's and women's sections! They're hermaphrodites and, while they can't self-fertilise, every encounter is a mating opportunity;
8 a) Lesser weever, b) Venomous dorsal spines, c) The sole's pectoral fin has a black tip said to mimic the weever's dorsal fin;
9 a) Scampi, Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine (all the same!), b) Fries' goby;
10 a) Moulted its armour, which covers only the front part of its body, b) A whelk;
11 a) Pink sea-fan, b) The fans grow at 90° to the prevailing current, c) More than 100 years;
12 a) Necklace shell (or moon snail), b) Dog-whelk;
13 a) Limpets, b) Follow their slime trail;
14 a) For the female to shed her shell, when she will be ready to mate, b) "In berry" (carrying eggs);
15 a) Cuttlefish, b) Snakelocks anemone
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