Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for June 12, 2023

Finger food

Take him…

Gee, what are friends for??!!

Star struck.

With friends like Parisi, you don’t need anemones.

They could lend a hand or two.

Give him the middle ray

At first I thought they were showing their defiance with a one-finger salute!

they’re giving the finger

The starfish are engaging in digital communications.

Not the finger I’d be using.

Sooo, that’s the point….

Initially, I thought the others were bravely flipping off the attacker. So wrong…

The ancestors of the little-known Pointer Starfish never knew their genes would also somehow be expressed in the future Canid genus.

I knew clams got legs, but when did starfish get opposable thumbs?

Five points if you can guess which starfish gets eaten?

The sacrificial lamb of the starfish.

If a part of “him” can survive, he could grow back (regenerate).

Does any oceangoing animal actually eat starfish?

That is very funny! Made my day, I got a big laugh, thanks…

One of them is sucking its appendage…

eat mor chikin