Coral Facts: PLANT or ANIMAL? 🤿 Animal Fact Files

Is coral a plant or an animal? The name of our channel should give you a hint! Coral makes up the base of coral reefs around the world. How well do you know these animals? Learn more coral facts on this episode of Animal Fact Files!

Scientific Name: Class - Anthozoa
Range: Tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide
Habitat: Shallow reefs
Size: 0.5-12 inches (1.27-30.48cm) long
Diet: Plankton and fish
Threats: Fish, climate change, and habitat destruction
Life span: Thousands of years as a colony

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Image and Video:
duckandcover -    • Parrot Fish eating coral  
Scott From Rosco's Reef -    • Coral Question Acan vs. Favia  ; v=c5NdUp9oU1g
ReefDudes -    • WWC - World Wide Corals - The Ultimat...  
ScienceAtNASA -    • ScienceCasts: A New View of Coral Reefs  
ANU TV -    • Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier ...  
Australian Institute of Marine Science -    • Davies Reef (GBR) Underwater Camera 1...  
Hantu Blog -    • Singapore's Coral Reefs (a snippet)  
NOAA Sanctuaries -    • Your Earth is Blue: Coral Reef Bleaching  
Lucifer -    • Coral reef in Marsa Alam, 2014  
thelegendofNeshka -    • SPAIN Free combination - 2018 French ...  
Oregon State University - https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregons... 3550953667
Nazir Amin - https://www.flickr.com/photos/2627337...
Neville Wootton - https://www.flickr.com/photos/neville...
Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pauljil...
James St. John - https://www.flickr.com/photos/4744576...
Bernard DUPONT - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernied...
Narissa Spies - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File:Coral_polyp_3.jpg; File:Porites_coral_polyps.jpg; File:Coral_polyps_budding.JPG; File:Polyp_zoox_4.jpg; File:Leptastrea_purpurea_coral_polyp.jpg
Vardhan Patankar - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Nick Hobgood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colpoph...
Adona9 at the English Wikipedia - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Hectonichus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Su...
Parent Gery - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyona...
Mullen A, et al - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Research Credits:
https://www.livingoceansfoundation.or...
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/educati... - and subsequent pages
http://krupp.wcc.hawaii.edu/BIOL200/p...
http://www.coexploration.org/bbsr/cor...
https://www.livingoceansfoundation.or...
http://www.coexploration.org/bbsr/cor...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...
https://coral.org/coral-reefs-101/cor...
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/about/what...
http://marinebio.org/oceans/coral-reefs
https://www.biology-online.org/dictio...
https://www.britannica.com/animal/coral
https://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-a...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-03...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cores-...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/sur...
http://ocean.si.edu/corals-and-coral-...
https://coral.org/coral-reefs-101/cor...
http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-photos/what...
https://theconversation.com/revealed-...
https://www.liveaquaria.com/general/g...
http://animal-world.com/Aquarium-Cora...
http://animals.mom.me/corals-bright-c...
https://cnso.nova.edu/ncri/sofla_octo...
https://www.nature.com/news/2009/0903...
https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/coralspaw...
http://www2.padi.com/blog/2017/08/30/...

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