WHAT KINDS OF ANIMALS LIVE IN THE CORAL REEF?
Advanced Answer: Life on the coral reef is so varied and diverse that it is doubtful whether an entire series of books could describe the different types of marine life found there. The corals themselves, the main reef-builders, are comprised of thousands on tiny anemone-like polyps. There are also sea fans, gorgonians, and other soft corals to add variety and beauty to the reefs. Thousands of tiny shrimps and crabs live within the reef and countless worms, mollusks, algae and sponges add to the heterogeneous variety of creatures who make up the coral reef. Of course, the reef would appear relatively bare without its fish population. Among the most common reef dwellers are the small six-to-eight-inch blue or yellow-striped grunts that inhabit the reefs in schools of hundreds, sometimes thousands, all swimming about in close proximity in an attempt to attain maximum protection from the reef’s predators. In amongst the grunts, you will usually see members of the snapper family, including
