Dr. Chris J. Law

So they'll use it and wrap themselves in it to stay in one place if they're sleeping.

But they really rely on it indirectly just because it's such an important ecosystem in California where all their basically invertebrate prey that they're eating live off it or live under it or live on it.

So it is really essential to them indirectly.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And they rarely leave it just because it's a nice protected area.

So it's harder for predators to find them.

Yep, they essentially eat your favorite types of seafood.

So you got your snails, your clams, your mussels, your abalone, your crabs and urchins.

They also eat these kind of gross looking things called fat innkeeper worms.

I don't know if you've ever seen pictures of them.

Yeah.

So they'll eat those as well.

But most of their prey are usually hard shell prey because they contain more calories.

So that is a myth.

They do not have a favorite rock.

No.

So often these rocks are pretty big and they do have like a little, I guess you could call it a pocket, but it's just a flap of skin that they can keep prey in.

But these rocks are usually too big to do that.

So normally what they do is they come up with a rock and they're prey.