Start your Monday with a creepy-crawly feeling all up and down your back — especially if your back is to an aquarium . Giant pelf may count like unseeing blob , but they ’re not . They have pinhole eye all over their bodies .
Giant clamssit in the warm shallow of the Pacific and Native American oceans for a C . They negociate to grow by trickle plankton from the ocean , and countenance alga fill up their pallium . The alga apply photosynthesis to make sugars for the buck , and the clam keeps the algae safe .
It does not protect the algae by clamping down on human ankles and drown people , or swallowing them whole — although both of those actions have been featured in pulp adventure fabrication . It protects them by growing a thick racing shell and retreating into it whenever peril draw nigh .
How does a clam sense when danger is near ? It would be soothe , and fairish , for the giant clam to sense the current of sea waters , or be touch - tender . But no , the world is n’t that kind . Instead you now have to know that a clam has centre . It has hundreds of heart . Okay , yes , those eye are morepinhole cameras than digital camera , but clams do actually see gesture and the brightening and dimming of the ocean above them . And they see it hundreds of prison term over .
So if you are on your dream honeymoon with the beloved of your life , and you splash naked into the ocean , and you decide that you want to get a little kittenish , just remember that you ’re being look on by something that has been staring up , with its many eyes , for a hundred years .
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