The land may be a big home for humans but the ocean is the largest home for all living things. If human and other animals can just live on ocean, we all can still fit there. Covering three quarters of the earth’s surface, ocean is indeed very large containing strange and charming creatures. From the largest creature on earth – blue whale to the smallest plankton; they all live in the ocean. Animals who live here have unique features and characteristics.  Some are long while others are short, some colorful while others are just plain, others remain all day in their position while some never stops swimming all day and night. I’m sure; watching them even for quite awhile will be such a great experience.

There are three groups of ocean animals: zooplankton, nekton and benthos. Zooplankton is ocean animals that cannot push themselves, depending on the wind or currency movements. They just drift in the ocean, can be small but can also grow in a large size. One of zooplankton ocean animal is the jellyfish. The second group is nekton, this group has the biggest portion of animals, and examples of this are whales, codfish, trout and many more sea mammals. The last group is benthos; these are the ocean animals that spend their whole life in the ocean bottom; lobsters, starfish, worms, snails, oysters and the likes.

Though there are many ocean animals they are actually declining due to pollution and improper fishing. There are still many areas and maybe species that are not yet discovered when it comes to ocean animals. Protecting them is vital not just for them to survive but for us humans too.

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