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The Dangers of the Kelp Forest

Simon Gomry talks about sunflower sea stars who are a starfish with as many as 24 different arms or rays. One of these guys lived in a tank with the octopuses that I knew, Athena and Octavia and Kali and Sai and Rudy. He died of this horrible wasting disease that's afflicting sea stars on the west coast. And because of this, their favorite food, these purple sea urchins are proliferating to the point that they are killing all the kelp forests.

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