Quick facts about these strange sea cucumbers that inhabit the deep sea. The sea pig (Scotoplanes, the ocean’s vacuum cleaner, Elpidiidae). Sea pig facts! You can also catch them in Animal Crossing. Tip Jar 😊 https://ko-fi.com/deepmarinescenes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deepmarinescenesofficial/ Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/191412225@N08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References and Helpful Links https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2017/10/sea-pigs-are-the-aliens-of-the-sea/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/why-are-juvenile-crabs-hitching-rides-on-sea-pigs/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/maec.12396?casa_token=0ots746EHAkAAAAA:jqXLjuBSBVu1K8h5FOKQXX14U9LrbnN1S4clihulh_bGya8kFPTBUwq8YxLMm8dVh7HzcAe0CDmF1w https://search.proquest.com/openview/39157975fb0e561544abd2d999265525/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=3933403 https://www.mbari.org/products/creature-feature/sea-pig-landing-page/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0011747172900563?via%3Dihub Colosi, Rosie. National Geographic Readers: Alien Ocean Animals (L3). United States, National Geographic Society, 2020. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music: One Step Closer - Aakash Gandhi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Images Licensed Under Creative Commons By NOAA/MBARI - http://www.sanctuarysimon.org/photos/photo_info.php?photoID=3951&search=kw&s=0&page=1, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33170541 Videos Licensed Under Creative Commons/Public Domain https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1703/logs/photolog/welcome.html#cbpi=/okeanos/explorations/ex1703/dailyupdates/media/video/dive16_seapig/seapig.html NOAA Sanctuaries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x13J0JQ0quM