Observing Salps (VIDEO)

U.S. National Science Foundation

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Salps drift, sometimes in long chains, in the open ocean. There they are the sea's most efficient filter-feeders, grazing on food particles from large to small.

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Kelly Sutherland; Larry Madin; Roman Stocker, WHOI/MIT

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