SPONGES THAT WALK
SPECIMENS IN LONDON ' Sponges that can walk about in search of food, instead of being forever anchored to one place, have mysteriously appeared in tanks of sea water in the London Aquarium. Mr Maurice Burton, tHe sponge expert of the British Museum, says that he has been unable to find any sponge of this kind among those previously captured by scientists. The habit of the sponge animals is to fasten themselves permanently to some spot oil the ocean bottom, and never to leave it until they die, food being obtained by a continual current of sea water in and out of tube-like passages which penetrate the sponge’s body.’ Living specimens of the walking sponges, however, were collected and submitted to Mr Burton, who verified tile reports of the museum keepers that the sponges do creep slowly from a foodless spot to one where the supplies of provender are greater.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1933, Page 9
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152SPONGES THAT WALK Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1933, Page 9
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