News Release 10-137 - Video
Video showing drifting and foraging salps.
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Salps drift, sometimes in long chains, in the open ocean. There they are the sea's most efficient filter-feeders, grazing on food particles from large to small.
Credit: Kelly Sutherland; Larry Madin; Roman Stocker, WHOI/MIT