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unlike plants,corrals do not make their own food. Corals are in fact animals . The branch or mound that we often call "a coral " is actually made up of thousands of tiny animals called polyps. A coral polyp is an invertebrate that can be no bigger than a pinhead to up to a foot in diameter.

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