Sea cucumbers have mouths on the tip of their bodies they eat just like a worm except the fact that they have spiked rigid skin.
the ones that like eating sea cucumbers
Yes, humans do eat sea cucumbers. In many Asian countries they are considered a delicacy, and sea cucumbers are one of the best protein sources in the world. Not only that, but sea cucumbers are used in Chinese medicine, to treat muscle and cartilage problems.
No, they don't.
no
Sea cucumbers eat plankton and other organic material
No, a green sea turtle does not eat sea cucumbers. Green sea turtles are vegetarians when they grow up and other species of sea turtle do not eat sea cucumbers. If a turtle has been really sick for a long time, there will be undigested cucumbers in its stomach. It is hard for a turtle to eat them. Also a sea cucumber is a sea slug, not a vegetable or plant. Sea cucumbers are NOT slugs, but echinoderms, cousins to sea stars and sea urchins. Green turtles eat seaweeds, but have been known to eat octopus and occasionally squid. They also LOVE to eat jellyfish. As far as researchers know, sea cucumbers are not in a green turtles consumption. (reefannie)
the Chinese people eat them so they are predators
How and what do they eat?Sea cucumbers are almost all detritivores. This means that they eat the tiny scrap particles that are usually abundant in the environments that they inhabit. There are two basic modes of feeding among sea cucumbers. "Direct deposit feeding" is one method which is seen in many surface dwelling and burrowing species. In this feeding method, sea cucumbers literally wipe their tentacles over the sediments to pick up tiny particles that settle there from the water above. Sea cucumbers are efficient direct deposit feeders. The fact that fecal pellets (poo) are richer in terms of energy and nutrients than the surrounding sediments that sea cucumbers eat is testimony to this fact. The other mode of feeding is the suspension feeding. Suspension feeding sea cucumbers have finely diverticulating buccal tentacles that are used to pick particles out of the water column during feeding.
Sea cucumbers are animals. They look like cucumbers XD
How and what do they eat?Sea cucumbers are almost all detritivores. This means that they eat the tiny scrap particles that are usually abundant in the environments that they inhabit. There are two basic modes of feeding among sea cucumbers. "Direct deposit feeding" is one method which is seen in many surface dwelling and burrowing species. In this feeding method, sea cucumbers literally wipe their tentacles over the sediments to pick up tiny particles that settle there from the water above. Sea cucumbers are efficient direct deposit feeders. The fact that fecal pellets (poo) are richer in terms of energy and nutrients than the surrounding sediments that sea cucumbers eat is testimony to this fact. The other mode of feeding is the suspension feeding. Suspension feeding sea cucumbers have finely diverticulating buccal tentacles that are used to pick particles out of the water column during feeding.
They have a sticky body, so animals stick to them, then they eat them.
They shovel sediment into their mouth and digest the organic matter.