Infomation about Starfish

Do You Know That Starfish have 5 arms?Some Starfish have 40 arms. Most Starfish have 8 arms.On the underside of each arm there are many tube -like feet that help the starfish to move about and hunt.Starfish are meat eaters.Mussels form a major part of the starfish food source.The starfish wraps around the mussel and fasten their tube-like feet onto the shell to pull the closed halves of the shell apart.When the shell opens and leaves a gap, the starfish pushes its stomach through the mussel`s mouth into the shell and digests the mussel inside.The starfish has an eye on each arm.The starfish can`t see things clearly but its eyes are sensitive to light.Starfish Do Not have enemies.The starfish`s greatest enemies are sea otters and humans.If a starfish`s arm is cut off, a new arm will grow to replace the one that the starfish has lost.Starfish have two stomachs too. One of them is used to digest its food internally, while the other reaches outwards to swallow and envelop shell creatures acting just like a mouth.Due to this 'mouth', starfish can actually digest food outside its body and even eat small fishes and mollusks, living creatures that are actually bigger in size.