How do sea cucumbers protect themselves?

Answer 1

Sea cucumbers defend themselves in a quite unique/unusual manner. Basically the animal shoots poisonous darts from their anus! The darts are actually part of the animals respiratory system that is not necessary to sustain it's life and will grow back, but allows the creatures to avoid attack from some of the nastier predators in the sea, and in a quite unique way!

Answer 2

Sea cucumbers are poisonous and that is one way they can protect themselves. Because they are poisonous they are less likely to be eaten by predators. If they get injured then they are able to kill the fish around them. Another way that they protect themselves is by expelling their internal organs to scare off their predators.

Answer 3

sea cucumbers eat debris around them on the ocean bottom

Answer 4

A sea cucumber squirms accross the ocean floor and when its enemeis try to attack it squirts out sticky strings to get in the enemeis way so it can't see.

Answer 5

sea cucumbers keep our ocean clean. they keep it clean by carefully eating all of the nasty bactiria like micthulph, and lachnie

Answer 6

A sea cucumber is a type a fish, or 'seafood'. It looks like a cucumber under the sea and if cut in half, it can recover.

Answer 7

It is a cousin of star fish and sea urchins, all three of which are known as echinoderms.