No there are very few animals that eat coral because of their very hard shell. Some fish have hard parrot-like beaks and eat the coral, and some starfish digest the inside part of the coral.
Yes, I think so.
no
Parrot fish, they don't intentionally eat it, they want the algae growing off it but they eat the coral along with the algae.
Octopus inhabit coral reef.
The coral snake, as a vertebrate, has bones.
Yes
Yes, species of Octopus do indeed live in the coral reefs. However, there are also species of Octopus that live in other marine environments, including the ocean deeps.
Yes, species of Octopus do indeed live in the coral reefs. However, there are also species of Octopus that live in other marine environments, including the ocean deeps.
Of the three: octopus, coral snake, and snail, there is only one vertebrate which is the coral snake. The reason is that it has a backbone, one of the characteristics of a vertebrate. Neither the snail nor the octopus have an internal skeleton or backbone to qualify as a vertebrate, so they are classified as invertebrates.
Whales eat octopus [sperm whales have giant octopus as a favorite food]. Octopus eat each other octopus. Humans eat octopus. Anything that can catch an octopus (that isn't easy) will eat it. Killer whales [or Orcas, a kind of toothed whale] eat octopuses.
A shark or other big fish eat a octopus.
Because their muscular structure is so sdvanced that they can occupy even the really small cracks in the coral. There was even one octopus that could squeeze through a hole the size of a fifty pence piece. Considering its tentacle span was about three metres, that was no mean feat! Oh, and by the way, the plural of octopus is not octopuses. It is octopi.
Octopus are preyed upon by sharks, stingrays and other large, predatory fish.
Yes