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Why are whales and turtles often covered with barnacles, and do the barnacles hurt their hosts?
While they look irritating, barnacles generally don't cause much harm to their hosts.
If it is a female, this is the stage when it hooks itself onto its victim – in most cases the common shore crab. When firmly ...
These barnacle legs look like a brush that might be used by a chimney sweep. Often attached to ships, barnacles use their hairy legs to comb through the water to collect organisms, mostly microscopic ...
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