411 Dive Log Australasia April 2025

STAYIN ALIVE THE DEFENCES OF SEA SLUGS - Part 1

A ll life is programmed to produce their next generation. To achieve that goal, survival to reach maturity is essential in order to reproduce and spawn. In addition to finding food, its consumption and the location of a mate to procreate and to then spawn, sea slugs have to avoid becoming a meal of the hundreds of possible predators with which they share the marine environment. Defence – by way of appearance, behaviour, structure, chemistry, adaptation and the integration of some or all of these, is just as important as the finding of food, to their own survival.

Above: Successfully Feeding and Defending itself allows the sea slug to survive and go on to …..

Below: Mate and Spawn to produce their next generation that will inherit the same “successful tools” for defensive survival.

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DIVE LOG Australasia #411 - April‘25

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