{"id":1599,"date":"2025-01-24T21:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T21:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/these-corals-are-made-for-walking\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T21:31:27","slug":"these-corals-are-made-for-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/these-corals-are-made-for-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"These Corals Are Made for Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Corals come in a wide array of shapes, sizes and colors, and they build sprawling reefs that serve as refuges for vast amounts of biodiversity in the ocean. But they are not known for being fleet of foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is because out of the more than 6,000 species of coral known to science, most are colonial organisms \u2014 individual animals that make their homes next to and on top of one another. And as adults, these corals are immobile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But there\u2019s another, lesser-known and understudied kind of coral that\u2019s completely solitary. And some of these animals, known as mushroom corals, can walk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey\u2019re very little,\u201d said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/research.qut.edu.au\/reefresearch\/people\/brett-lewis\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Lewis<\/a>, a marine ecologist and microscopist at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. \u201cAnd they are adorable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Using time-lapse cameras and an aquarium that blocked out all other light, Dr. Lewis recently put inch-long mushroom corals through an experiment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One side of the aquarium had a sliver of white light, like you would find in shallow coastal habitats. The other had a small beam of blue light, like you would find in slightly deeper areas of the ocean. In each of three trials, the mushroom corals showed a strong preference for the blue light, inching their way toward it, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0315623\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Lewis reported Wednesday in the journal PLoS One<\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As for how a mushroom coral actually moves, Dr. Lewis\u2019s research revealed that the mechanics are surprisingly similar to the way one of coral\u2019s closest cousins, the jellyfish, gets around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cJellyfish can move through water by twisting and contracting muscles in and around the edges of that bell shape as it pulses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With bodies shaped similarly to the bell of a jellyfish, Dr. Lewis said, the mushroom corals spend a long time inflating the tissues on the outermost edge of their bodies before releasing them quickly. \u201cAnd that allows the coral to kind of pop themselves forward, hopping across the substrate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To be clear, while a mushroom coral <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">can<\/em> move, it takes its sweet time about it. The corals appear rather spry in the time-lapse footage. But in real time, it can take several hours for a mushroom coral to move just over an inch. In the study, a series of \u201cperiodic pulses\u201d moved a mushroom coral 220 millimeters over the course of 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI watched this thing for a very long time, thinking it was going to pop,\u201d Dr. Lewis laughed. \u201cI was like, \u2018Christ almighty, this is taking a long time to happen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While the idea of roving corals was first proposed in 1992 and then documented for the first time in 1995, the scientists who initially described the behavior didn\u2019t have the best resolution videography at their disposal. This meant that scientists couldn\u2019t fully investigate the biomechanics necessary for a coral to skedaddle. But now, Dr. Lewis and his team have shined a light on this little-known corner of marine biology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The study \u201cprovides much more detail in the mechanism and behavior of motion,\u201d said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/research.rug.nl\/en\/persons\/bert-hoeksema\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bert Hoeksema<\/a>, a coral taxonomist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands who was not involved in the new research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There are many reasons a mushroom coral might want to relocate. The animals frequently begin their lives living among colonial corals. But these habitats tend to be crowded and bombarded by waves. Later in life, it behooves the mushroom corals to migrate to deeper but calmer waters, where they can establish themselves on a sandy bottom with others of their kind. This also assists the animals in reproduction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Migration \u201cmay help them to escape unfavorable situations, such as being buried underneath a layer of sand, being toppled over or being too close to aggressive competitors for space, such as toxic sponges,\u201d Dr. Hoeksema said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A mushroom coral\u2019s incremental movement may seem inconsequential when considered against the distances traveled by other migrating creatures, such as wildebeest, monarch butterflies or Arctic terns. But such creeping has served the species well for hundreds of millions of years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt their scale, they\u2019re so little that this is such a large movement for them,\u201d Dr. Lewis said. \u201cThey\u2019re moving their body length in such a short time, with such a simple system. 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