THE STARFISH

REGENERATION

• Many times in nature animals get attacked.
• Animals adapt in order to survive these attacks.
• Starfish have the ability to regenerate.
• If a starfish loses an arm, it is able to grow it back.

EATING ADAPTATIONS

• Some starfish have adapted to be carnivorous hunters.
• They have adapted light-sensing eyespots.
• These spots are located at the tips of there arms.
• When they find a mollusk they grab them with their suction cups.
• Once they have have their prey, they rip them open with their arms.

WHAT THEY EAT

• Starfish are very slow animals.
• Since they are slow, they had to adapt to eat slower creatures.
• They adapted to have suction cups on their tentacles.
• With these, they are able to wait until a creature comes along.
• This helps them because they are just too slow to hunt.

THEIR STOMACH

• Starfish eat creatures with shells.
• They are also small creatures.
• Starfish adapted to have two stomachs.
• They also have the ability to externalize their stomach.
• This allows them to eat creatures much larger than itself.

SUCTION CUPS

• A starfishes suction cups allow them to stick to surfaces.
• This allows a starfish to hang on to rocks through rough currents.
• They also prevent getting washed up to shore from the tide.