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2. Semibalanus cariosus - Wikipedia

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   Like other acorn barnacles, S. cariosus is a filter feeder; when it is under water, the moveable terga at the apex part, and the cirri are extended to feed. When above water, the terga shut tightly for protection and to prevent desiccation. Small barnacles are sometimes "bulldozed" off the rock by the limpet Lottia digitalis while it is grazing ...

3. Amphibalanus improvisus - Wikipedia

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   Amphibalanus improvisus is a filter feeder. It extends its six pairs of modified legs called cirri to catch plankton and other organic material floating past. It is a hermaphrodite and sperm is passed into the cavity of a neighbouring barnacle through a long penis.

4. Feeder (livestock equipment) - Wikipedia

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   Welsh lambs utilizing a "creep feeder": a place where small lambs can eat but adult sheep cannot. A feeder, is a feed holder, such as fixed holder or trailer-mounted hopper, delivering feed or fodder to cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock. [1]

5. Barnacle - Wikipedia

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   Barnacle adults are sessile; most are suspension feeders with hard calcareous shells, but the Rhizocephala are specialized parasites of other crustaceans, with reduced bodies. Barnacles have existed since at least the mid-Carboniferous, some 325 million years ago. In folklore, barnacle geese were once held to emerge fully formed from goose ...

6. Semibalanus balanoides - Wikipedia

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   S. balanoides feeding, Upernavik, Greenland. Semibalanus balanoides is a filter feeder, using its thoracic appendages, or cirri, to capture zooplankton and detritus from the water. If there is a current, then the barnacle holds its cirri stiffly into the flow, but when there is no current, the barnacle beats its cirri rhythmically. Plankton ...

7. UK bans cattle, pigs and sheep imports from Germany after ...

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   For cattle, symptoms of the disease include blisters and sores on their feet, mouth and tongue, as well as lameness, fever and reluctance to feed. In sheep and pigs, symptoms typically present as ...