Sea urchins wear hats! I’m not kidding.
At the aquarium, we saw these sea urchins with shells and a piece of coral tube stuck on top of its head. Laughing it off we said they’re fadhionistos wearing hats.
Looking it up at home, we actually learned it’s a safety mechanism sea urchins use. Their suction feet grabs shells or other available items to hide from predators or weigh themselves down from getting washed away with the tides.
Another theory is that it blocks UV rays from hurting them.
A related article told an interesting story of a Reddit user who printed out 3D hats for their pet sea urchins. They made it realistic and hilarious.
One response to “Sea urchins wear hats”
How funny – they have be sure to have sunbonnets for your horribly hot weather and rain hats as well for when you finally get rain.