Tales on a sea theme. A fairy tale about sea animals is a very scary word
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SHARK
Here's a doodle shark
She opened her evil mouth.
You to the doodle shark
Would you like to come?
Right in the mouth.
(K. Chukovsky)
Sharks are powerful predators and are often called “sea wolves.” The body of sharks is ideally suited for fast swimming. When creating high-speed torpedoes and submarines, shipbuilders strive to give them the outline of a shark.
The shark got sick
Several teeth at once.
Help her quickly
Call the doctors!
(N. Migunova)
Sharks have a lot of sharp teeth. They grow in several rows, are triangular in shape, curved back and jagged at the edges. Their sharpness can be compared to a surgical scalpel. Sharks have no scales, and their skin is so tough that residents of tropical countries use shark skin as a grater or sandpaper.
Many people are sure that sharks are very brave animals, so they fearlessly rush at their prey. In fact, sharks are cowardly and attack only when they are convinced that the victim is defenseless. But, sensing the smell of blood, the shark forgets about the danger. Sharks have such a keen sense of smell that they can smell blood from several kilometers away. The shark feeds on fish, but also attacks dolphins, seals, turtles, other sharks and even whales. Don't look what the shark has
Cheekbones are invisible from the side,
There are three rows of teeth in the mouth -
Will eat anyone without difficulty.
(Yu. Parfenov)
A hungry shark can attack anything it sees nearby. Various garbage was often found in the stomachs of caught sharks: cans, rags, wreckage of boats, and once even a depth charge was found.
Many sharks are dangerous to humans. These are white and tiger sharks, mocha and hammerhead sharks. They are large in size and can easily bite a person in half.
But the largest of the sharks, the whale shark, reaching a length of 19 meters, is quite peaceful. Unlike its predatory relatives, it feeds on plankton and small fish.
CRAB
The crab played sea football,
He scored a goal with a claw.
Everyone was so happy,
That the team won.
(N. Migunova)
Crabs run along the bottom of warm seas and oceans. They have a wide and short body covered with a durable shell. Crabs have five pairs of legs. The front legs are transformed into powerful claws. With the help of claws, crabs cut their food into pieces and put it into their mouths.
Crabs, like other inhabitants of the seabed, are good scavengers. They eat the rotting remains of marine organisms, clearing the ocean of harmful substances. But sometimes crabs attack underwater plantations where oysters and mussels are bred.
Traveling along the bottom, crabs are forced to hide from predators and camouflage themselves. They attach pieces of algae to the spines on their legs. And the junk crab, which lives in the Mediterranean Sea, collects everything that comes into its claws - empty shells, broken glass, fish heads - and puts it on its back. Such “scenery” perfectly camouflages the crab. When a junk crab is threatened, it exposes its back with junk to the predator.
The wandering crab once deceived even Christopher Columbus himself. This type of crab does not live at the bottom, but travels along the surface of the ocean, sitting on a detached algae or tree branch. When Columbus approached the shores of America, sailors noticed a wandering crab in the Sargasso Sea. They decided that there was land somewhere nearby, but in fact the nearest shore was still very far away.
The king crab is similar in appearance to a real crab, but is actually a relative of the hermit crab. It has not five, but four pairs of legs. Kamchatka crab is a real giant! The width of its shell reaches 25 centimeters, the distance between the ends of its legs is up to 1.5 meters. Kamchatka crabs live in the Seas of Japan, Okhotsk and Bering Seas. Most of them are off the coast of Kamchatka.
PATTER
The crab made a rake for the crab,
The crab handed the rake to the crab.
Hay rake, crab, rake.
MYSTERY
Cleverly collects garbage
The bottom of the sea is cleaned.
(Crab)
CANCER HERMIT
Crayfish climbed the mountain
And I learned to whistle.
It only turned out to be a BREAK!
Cancer fell from the mountain.
(I. Zhukov)
In a hermit crab, only the front part of the body is covered with a hard shell, and the abdomen is soft and defenseless. To protect themselves from sea predators, these animals hide in empty sea snail shells, like hermits in caves. The soft abdomen can curl into the curls of the shell, and the abdominal legs quickly pull the body inward.
When moving, crayfish carry the shell with them all the time. When they are in danger, hermit crabs climb entirely into the shell, closing the entrance with a large claw. When a hermit crab grows up, the old shell becomes too small for it. He gets out of it and looks for a larger sink. At this time, he needs to be especially careful so as not to get eaten by predatory fish.
To enhance protection, the hermit crab often places a sea anemone on its shell. This beautiful ocean dweller, like a bright flower, has very burning tentacles. If you touch them, you can get seriously burned. A hermit crab, having encountered an anemone it likes at the bottom, uses its claw to “pluck” it from the stone and transplants it onto its shell. Anemone is not at all against such a neighborhood - after all, she always gets crumbs from the hermit crab’s dinner table. When a cancer exchanges an old shell for another, it also transplants its burning neighbor to a new home.
Very often, hermit crabs engage in real battles with their relatives for the possession of a shell or a beautiful sea anemone. The defeated cancer lies on its side or back, and the winner does not touch it anymore.
PUZZLES
People live under water
Walks backwards.
(Crayfish)
Not a blacksmith
And with ticks.
(Cancer hermit)
OCTOPUS
He lives at the very bottom
At a terrible depth -
Many-armed,
multi-legged,
Nogoruky,
Armed.
Goes to sea without boots
Octopus Kalmarych Octopus!
(G. Kruzhkov)
Octopuses do not have a hard skeleton. Its soft body has no bones and can bend freely in different directions. The octopus was named so because eight limbs extend from its short body. They have two rows of large suction cups, which the octopus can use to hold prey or attach to rocks at the bottom.
Octopuses live near the bottom, hiding in crevices between rocks or in underwater caves. They have the ability to change color very quickly and become the same color as the ground.
The only hard part of an octopus's body is its horny beak-like jaws. Octopuses are true predators. At night they get out of their hiding places and go hunting. Octopuses can not only swim, but also move along the bottom by rearranging their tentacles. The usual prey of octopuses are shrimp, lobsters, crabs and fish, which they paralyze with poison from the salivary glands. With their beak they can break even the strong shells of crabs and crayfish or shells of mollusks. Octopuses take their prey to a shelter, where they slowly eat it. Among octopuses there are very poisonous ones, the bite of which can be fatal even to humans.
Octopuses often build shelters from stones or shells, using their tentacles like hands. Octopuses guard their home and can easily find it even if they have gone far away. For a long time, people have been afraid of octopuses (octopuses, as they called them), writing terrible legends about them. The ancient Roman scientist Pliny the Elder talked about a giant octopus - polypus, which stole fishing catches. Every night the octopus climbed onto the shore and ate the fish lying in the baskets. The dogs, smelling the octopus, started barking. The fishermen who came running saw the octopus defending itself from the dogs with its huge tentacles. The fishermen had difficulty coping with the octopus. When the giant was measured, it turned out that its tentacles reached a length of 10 meters, and its weight was about 300 kilograms.
MYSTERY
Don't you know me?
I live at the bottom of the sea,
Head and eight legs -
That's all I am... (octopus).
STARFISH
A star fell from the sky,
She fell into the ocean.
And now it's there all year round
Slowly crawling along the bottom.
(V. Moroz)
The starfish is a predator that lives on the ocean floor. Typically these animals are shaped like a star with five rays. Brightly colored sea stars crawl slowly along the bottom or burrow into the mud. They feed on mollusks, sea cucumbers, brittle stars and sea urchins. The starfish's mouth is located on the underside of its body, so in order to eat its prey, the starfish crawls on top of it.
Starfish have the amazing ability to open the shells of oysters or mussels with their strong rays. Some stars don't even need to open their shells completely. They turn their stomach inside out through their mouth and push it into the hole in the shell. The shellfish is digested right in the shell. Having digested the prey, the star retracts its stomach.
In case of danger, starfish, like lizards, can throw away part of their body. But a new lizard will not grow from a discarded tail. In a starfish, on the contrary, a new animal grows from any part of its body. Scientists conducted experiments - they cut a starfish into several parts. After some time, each part turned into a starfish. Starfish are relatives of sea urchins. The starfish Asterias even has a calcareous skeleton, and small needles stick out from under the skin. Another species of starfish, accancasters, are similar to sea urchins - their arms and backs are covered with long and poisonous spines. Accancasters cause great damage to coral colonies by eating them.
Some starfish feed on their relatives. For example, crossasters. These huge starfish have 12 arms and grow to almost half a meter in diameter. They are able to move quickly along the bottom and catch up with slower starfish. Crossasters themselves may feel safe because they have poisonous bodies.
SEA URCHIN
Like a cactus on the window
The sea urchin grows on the bottom.
A flounder swam by
I poured some water on him.
(Yu. Parfenov)
It turns out that hedgehogs live not only on land. There are also sea urchins. They are not relatives of land urchins, but belong to the class of invertebrate animals such as echinoderms.
The outside of the sea urchin's body is covered with a shell from which numerous spines protrude. The needles are very thin and sharp, with serrations at their ends. If such a needle sticks into a person’s skin, it is very difficult to remove it. Sea urchins are poisonous, and if injected, a person will feel a burning pain.
With the help of needles, sea urchins not only protect themselves from enemies, but also move, as if on stilts, along the seabed. The spear-bearing sea urchin moves at high speed, one might even say that it does not walk, but runs. Small fish use sea urchin spines for protection. They make themselves a safe hiding place between the needles. In gratitude for the fact that the hedgehog protects them, the fish clean its shell. These fish acquire the same color as the color of their “host” - the sea urchin. At night, the fish leave their shelter for a short time, and in case of danger they hide again between the needles.
Despite their terrifying appearance, sea urchins are often defenseless. Their main enemy is starfish. They can stick their stomach between the needles and digest the hedgehog from the outside.
Large snails living in the Mediterranean Sea have invented an unusual way of hunting sea urchins. They spit on their prey! The saliva of these snails contains hydrochloric acid, which paralyzes the hedgehog and corrodes its shell.
Some predatory fish release a strong stream of water from their mouths at the hedgehog. The sea urchin turns over with its unprotected belly up and becomes easy prey.
MYSTERY
Looks like a prickly ball
Lives deep at the bottom.
(Sea urchin)
JELLYFISH
Transparent jellyfish
Floats quietly.
If you touch a jellyfish -
It'll burn you like an electric shock!
(N. Migunova)
Jellyfish are close relatives of sea anemones and corals. Unlike these animals, they do not spend their entire lives attached to rocks, but rather swim freely in the sea.
Jellyfish have a translucent, umbrella- or bell-shaped body, similar to jelly. These animals swim by rhythmically contracting their umbrella and pushing water out from under it. They capture prey using tentacles.
The tentacles of jellyfish contain stinging cells that can burn the enemy or even paralyze him. The venom contained in the stinging cells of the small cross jellyfish can cause fatal burns in humans. Another jellyfish, the sea wasp, is also dangerous to humans. It looks like an inverted deep bowl, from which twenty tentacles 10 meters long stretch down. They contain large amounts of poison.
Jellyfish feed on plankton, small crustaceans and fish.
Jellyfish come in different sizes, from a few millimeters to several meters. The largest jellyfish lives in the northern seas - the polar jellyfish. The length of its tentacles reaches 30 meters, and the diameter is two meters.
Jellyfish about the sea
Writes poetry
But only about this
Nobody will know
She has no hands
To hold a pen,
She has no mouth
To read out loud.
The jellyfish composes for herself,
Her silent muse is sad.
(I. Zhukov)
Jellyfish live not only on the surface of the ocean, but also in the depths of the sea. Deep-sea jellyfish can glow in the dark. Small crustaceans swim into the light of this living lantern, right into the tentacles of the insidious jellyfish.
Other jellyfish are also glowing. The umbrella and tentacles of the pelagia jellyfish glow with a yellow-orange light. If many Equiorian jellyfish living off the Pacific coast of America rise to the surface, it seems that the whole sea is burning with red fire.
FLYING FISH
In tropical seas live fish that have learned to “fly”. These are representatives of the flying fish family. The front fins of these fish have developed into real wings. Before flying, flying fish first accelerate in the sea to a speed of 40 kilometers per hour, pressing their fins tightly to their body. Then the fish spread their fins wide and suddenly jump out of the water. They hit the water with their tail to increase their speed. Flying fish take off above the water and escape from the predators pursuing them.
Coloring also helps flying fish hide from enemies. Their backs are dark blue, and birds of prey cannot see them from above. The lower part of the body of flying fish is silvery; other fish, swimming from below, also do not see them.
In flight, fish do not flap their fins like birds, but simply glide over the water. Thus, flying fish fly distances from 10 to 300 meters. There have been cases when flying fish even flew onto the decks of ocean ships. At night, they did not notice the high side of the ship, and the flow of air carried them straight onto the deck.
South America is home to small fish from the characin family, which also fly over the water surface. But at the same time they also wave their fins! Even the sabrefish, a fish living in Russian reservoirs, can jump out of the water, flapping its front fins like wings. These are amazing fish that can’t get enough of moving in the water; they want to explore the ocean of air. PUZZLES
She lives in the water
There is no beak, but it pecks.
(Fish)
For parents and children
All clothes are made from coins.
(Fish)
Glistening in a clean river
The back is silver.
(Fish)
SEA TURTLE
Plays with gold gloss
A shell sticking out of the water.
What kind of animal or bird is this?
Without a doubt, a turtle.
(N. Kindness)
Sea turtles live in the waters of tropical seas. They are fully adapted for life in an aquatic environment. Their paws turned into flippers, and their shell became streamlined and flattened. Unlike land turtles, sea turtles cannot hide their heads under their shells. The largest sea turtles are leatherbacks. Their length reaches two meters, and their weight is 600 kilograms.
Among sea turtles there are predators that feed on mollusks and crustaceans, and peaceful herbivores that eat aquatic plants, mainly seaweed. Sea turtles breed on land. They lay large eggs on the sandy shores of islands and continental coasts in the tropics. Helping itself with flippers and even its tail, the turtle crawls several meters from the water. With her hind paws she carefully digs a deep hole in which she lays her eggs. Then the turtle fills the hole and carefully levels it so that the clutch of eggs is not discovered by predatory animals and birds.
The turtles, having hatched from the eggs, obeying instinct, crawl to the water's edge. For their first journey, they choose night time, when it is safer to crawl. And still, out of every ten newborn turtles, only one will be able to reach the sea. Birds with sharp beaks and large crabs with strong claws lie in wait for them.
The turtle is in no hurry
Lies on the waves of the sea.
Quietly paddling with fins
And he floats and floats.
Sea turtles travel long distances in search of food. And in order to lay eggs, they always return to the same beaches. Sometimes these beaches are located many thousands of kilometers from their feeding grounds. Scientists believe that turtles can navigate by smell and the sun along the way. MYSTERY
Who's at sea?
In a stone shirt?
In a stone shirt
In the sea... (turtles)
WHALE
The whale spends its entire life in water,
Even though he's not a fish.
He eats in the sea and sleeps in the sea,
For which we thank him:
It would be cramped on land from the huge carcass!
(B. Zakhoder)
The largest animals on our planet are whales. The largest of them, blue whales, reach a length of 30 meters and a weight of 150 tons.
The ancestors of whales once lived on land, but then returned to the sea. The animals' bodies acquired a streamlined shape, and their fur disappeared.
Fountains flow in the ocean,
A whale is swimming towards us.
How huge is he?
Like a house or a ship.
(N. Migunova)
Whales look like huge fish, but they are not fish, but mammals, and their internal structure is almost the same as that of a person. And whales, like other mammals, feed their young with milk. Whales are warm-blooded animals, and they are protected from hypothermia by a thick layer of subcutaneous fat.
The nostrils of whales are located on the top of the head. They open only for a short moment of inhalation and exhalation, when the whale floats to the surface of the water. Whale lungs have a large volume, and whales can stay under water for a long time without breathing, and even dive to a depth of more than 500 meters, and sperm whales - to a depth of more than one kilometer. Adults and children know -
I'm bigger than anyone in the world!
Two miles from the ship
You can see me!
To navigate in the water, whales make sounds that the human ear cannot detect. The whale's brain is a real sonar that picks up sound signals reflected from various objects in the water and determines the distance to them.
Whales feed mainly on fish or small crustaceans. They swim with their mouths open, filtering water through special plates called whalebone.
Some whales, called odontocetes, do not have baleen, but do have teeth. Toothed whales, sperm whales, feed on huge squids, in search of which they dive to great depths.
People have been hunting whales for a long time. Nowadays, there are few of these giants left, and they are taken under protection.
MYSTERY
Across the sea-ocean
A miracle giant is swimming,
And he hides his mustache in his mouth.
(Whale)
DOLPHIN
Dolphins from sea water
They show us their backs.
How beautifully they float -
Very fast and playful!
(N. Migunova)
One beautiful legend says that dolphins are people who once went to sea, and therefore people and dolphins have a lot in common. Indeed, dolphins are the most intelligent inhabitants of the ocean. They treat people in a special way. Dolphins often saved drowning sailors by holding them on the surface of the water with their bodies.
One day, when the ship was wrecked, there were many people in the water. Dolphins quickly swam to their rescue. They swam around and drove hungry sharks away from people until a rescue ship arrived.
Dolphins often swim close to the shore to play with people. And one Scottish girl even made friends with a dolphin, and he swam to her house on the ocean every day.
Forgetting about their own safety, dolphins are ready to help other animals. It happened that dolphins even helped wounded sharks, and sharks are the worst enemies of dolphins. Dolphins are easily tamed by humans. Numerous dolphinariums have been created, where trainers teach them various circus tricks. There are such dolphinariums in our country.
Bottlenose dolphins are considered the most capable. Sometimes they show even greater intelligence than trained monkeys. Dolphins are good at imitating human sounds, such as laughing or crying. They can even repeat individual words and entire sentences.
Wanders over the sea
Tender fog.
Comes out in the morning
To the sea little boy.
The boy whistles loudly -
From the depths of the sea
Swims out quickly
Blue dolphin.
Sparkling with splashes,
Will emerge to him,
Substituting your back
To my friend.
(S. Baranov) Dolphins have their own language of communication. They “talk” to each other, making whistling and clicking noises. When chasing prey, dolphins make sounds similar to a dog barking; when they are fed, they “meow,” and when unfamiliar objects appear nearby, the dolphin’s voice is similar to the creaking of rusty door hinges.
CORAL
In the tropical waters of the ocean, where the temperature never drops below +20 degrees, corals live. Even in ancient times, people appreciated the beauty of corals and made necklaces, earrings and other jewelry from them. Entire islands - coral atolls - are made up of coral skeletons. They come in different and incredible colors and appear to be amazing underwater flowers. In fact, these are animals that spend their entire lives attached to the seabed.
The body of a coral polyp resembles an empty sac, on one side of which there is a mouth surrounded by tentacles, and on the other, a flat disk with which the animal attaches to underwater objects. The skeleton of the coral eventually dies off from below, and the coral continues to grow upward. Other corals branch off from it, forming a branching “tree”. Corals grow very slowly. One and a half thousand corals form only one gram of skeleton during the year. But corals grow continuously over millions of years. Scientists have calculated that during this time all the corals on Earth created land with an area equal to Europe.
Corals need clean water; Therefore, they grow best in the straits between the reefs in the foamy surf. Corals die where fresh water or wastewater from industrial plants enters the seawater. Corals have a lot of enemies: stone cutters, mollusks, worms that destroy coral trunks, starfish, fish, sea cucumbers and crustaceans.
The largest structure on Earth built by corals is the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. It stretches from north to south for several thousand kilometers and consists of a huge number of reefs and islets.
PATTER
Karl stole corals from Clara,
and Clara stole Karl's clarinet.
"The Tale of How the Goldfish Saved the Sea"
Ecological fairy tale for children 5-7 years old.
Target: the formation of an idea of the patterns in nature, that a violation of natural patterns can lead to an environmental disaster.
Tasks:
- carrying out preventive work to prevent pollution of water bodies;
- broadening the horizons of pupils; development of oral speech;
- fostering love for nature; compassion for all living things.
"The Tale of How the Goldfish Saved the Sea"
(The publication uses illustrations by I. Esaulov)
In the underwater Kingdom of the Blue-Green State, there lived a Goldfish. She was very cheerful, such an entertainer that it’s hard to imagine! Either she decides to play with a ray of sunshine, or she decides to make multi-colored pyramids out of sea pebbles... I’m never bored.
And the Golden Fish had friends - Medusa, Crab and Turtle.
They all loved their home – the sea. After all, at the bottom of the sea they had so many interesting things: pink and bright red corals grew everywhere, as if outlandish trees, mother-of-pearl shells lay here and there, preserving their beautiful pearls. Once a year, all the shells opened their doors and showed the underwater world their wealth - pearls, and after that, having heard enough of the enthusiastic exclamations of the audience, the shells again hid the pearls in their mother-of-pearl chests for the whole year.
But one morning a big disaster happened to the inhabitants of the Underwater Kingdom. The sea inhabitants were enjoying a beautiful summer morning, when a huge shadow lay on the bottom of the sea.
Jellyfish:
-What's happened? What's happened?
Crab:
-This is an oil tanker floating above us.
Turtle:
-Oh, Crab, how smart you are! What is a tanker? And why is it called “oil”?
Crab:
-And this is a ship that transports oil from one place to another.
Jellyfish:
-Oh, here it is... Well, what is it that flows out of it and spreads out like a black spot, blocking the sky and the sun from us?
Crab:
-Oh, what a horror, but this is a leak on the ship, that is, a hole has formed somewhere - a hole from which oil is leaking. Soon we will all die!
Turtle:
-Don’t joke like that, Crab!..
Crab:
- Yes, I’m not kidding, oil is very oily, it will cover the surface of the water with a greasy film and air will stop flowing into our water. And we will all suffocate!
Jellyfish:
-What? What do we do?
Crab:
-I don't know…
Turtle:
-But I know! On the other side of the sea there is a Pink Shell. It contains magical bacteria - tiny creatures that can eat an oil slick. This is a real treat for them! And here's another thing - today is the day when all the sea shells open their doors!
Gold fish:
-I’ll immediately swim for the Pink Shell, because I swim faster than all of you! And we will save our home - the sea!
And the brave Golden Fish set off on a journey, with great difficulty she found that very treasured Pink Shell and brought it home!
The unfortunate friends were already barely alive... They gasped for air with their tiny mouths and felt completely bad. The pink pearl released bacteria into the water and they quickly dealt with the nasty oil slick! The sun shone again, and even the clouds in the blue sky became visible to the inhabitants of the underwater Kingdom! Everyone breathed freely!
And the Golden Fish was the most happy, because she helped save her such a beautiful and beloved underwater world from destruction!
After reading the story, you can ask questions:
- Why did the sea inhabitants almost die?
- How did the sad events of the fairy tale make you feel?
- Name the rules of behavior on reservoirs.
The little sea bass went for a walk. He played a little with his friends and decided to swim away from home, because everything here was familiar and had become boring.
The perch swam and explored the underwater world, at the same time saying hello to the sea inhabitants swimming past him. Cheerful sea turtles swim past and nod to the perch. The perch knew that he would be friends with turtles for a very long time, because turtles live for many years, just like sea bass. They can live even longer than humans.
But his friend is Aunt Mackerel. She went on a journey again. Mackerel lives only in warm water, so it always swims to other shores for the winter. Their sea is too cool for her in winter. Aunt Mackerel waved her fin at the perch and released a couple of welcome bubbles in his direction - Glug-Glug!
Glug-glug! - the small perch answered her and swam further.
The perch noticed a sea ruffe at the bottom. Its upper fin consisted of spines. Ruff did not swim anywhere, but hid at the bottom and waited for his breakfast. The little perch knew that the poison that was in the spines of the ruffe was used only when defending itself... and the perch itself had fins covered with needles that contained poison, so the baby was not afraid of it.
And then the perch saw his best friend! True, his friend was not a fish... he was a mollusk - an octopus!
Hello! - the octopus gurgled.
Hello, dear friend! - the perch gurgled in response.
He always called his friend that. And it was not without reason! After all, the octopus had three hearts! Also, his blood was blue!
Suddenly, the friends noticed some suspicious revival around them. All sea inhabitants rushed in all directions.
Shark! - guessed the perch's smart friend - the octopus. And then they saw a mass with gigantic jaws approaching them.
The octopus and the perch rushed away from the shark, but it was stronger and faster than them. The jaws were very close to their friends, another second - and they would end up in the belly of the monster!
And then the octopus released an ink stain into the water - right into the shark’s eye! The predator thought at the spot that this was prey, and closed its jaws on it! This time was enough for the friends to hide.
The shark swam past the stone several times, behind which his friends were hiding, but did not notice them and swam away with nothing!
Hurray!! – the perch gurgled joyfully, “The danger is behind us!”
But then he noticed that his friend was missing one tentacle! When he released an ink blot to distract the shark, it still managed to grab him!
The perch swam up to his friend - What to do now? How are you without a tentacle?
This is bullshit! - the octopus gurgled. - It will grow back on me!
That's great! – the perch was delighted. - But with us, with perches, this doesn’t happen... if you’ve lost something, then it’s forever! Maybe we can go home? Otherwise, my mother is probably already tired of waiting for me! It’s almost night, the shark is already sleeping too, for sure!
Sharks never sleep, answered the octopus. - They have such a peculiarity. But it seems she has floated away, everything is quiet around.
The friends chatted a little more and each sailed to their own homes.
The octopus calmly went to bed.
But the perch could not fall asleep for a long time and kept remembering the formidable shark and thinking what would have happened to him if not for the help of a friend! - Still, friendship is a great thing! - he thought, and finally fell asleep.
SHARK
Here's a doodle shark
She opened her evil mouth.
You to the doodle shark
Would you like to come?
Right in the mouth.
(K. Chukovsky)
Sharks are powerful predators and are often called “sea wolves.” The body of sharks is ideally suited for fast swimming. When creating high-speed torpedoes and submarines, shipbuilders strive to give them the outline of a shark.
The shark got sick
Several teeth at once.
Help her quickly
Call the doctors!
(N. Migunova)
Sharks have a lot of sharp teeth. They grow in several rows, are triangular in shape, curved back and jagged at the edges. Their sharpness can be compared to a surgical scalpel. Sharks have no scales, and their skin is so tough that residents of tropical countries use shark skin as a grater or sandpaper.
Many people are sure that sharks are very brave animals, so they fearlessly rush at their prey. In fact, sharks are cowardly and attack only when they are convinced that the victim is defenseless. But, sensing the smell of blood, the shark forgets about the danger. Sharks have such a keen sense of smell that they can smell blood from several kilometers away. The shark feeds on fish, but also attacks dolphins, seals, turtles, other sharks and even whales. Don’t look at what the shark has
Cheekbones are invisible from the side,
There are three rows of teeth in the mouth -
Will eat anyone without difficulty.
(Yu. Parfenov)
A hungry shark can attack anything it sees nearby. Various garbage was often found in the stomachs of caught sharks: cans, rags, wreckage of boats, and once even a depth charge was found.
Many sharks are dangerous to humans. These are white and tiger sharks, mocha and hammerhead sharks. They are large in size and can easily bite a person in half.
But the largest of the sharks, the whale shark, reaching a length of 19 meters, is quite peaceful. Unlike its predatory relatives, it feeds on plankton and small fish.
CRAB
The crab played sea football,
He scored a goal with a claw.
Everyone was so happy,
That the team won.
(N. Migunova)
Crabs run along the bottom of warm seas and oceans. They have a wide and short body covered with a durable shell. Crabs have five pairs of legs. The front legs are transformed into powerful claws. With the help of claws, crabs cut their food into pieces and put it into their mouths.
Crabs, like other inhabitants of the seabed, are good scavengers. They eat the rotting remains of marine organisms, clearing the ocean of harmful substances. But sometimes crabs attack underwater plantations where oysters and mussels are bred.
Traveling along the bottom, crabs are forced to hide from predators and camouflage themselves. They attach pieces of algae to the spines on their legs. And the junk crab, which lives in the Mediterranean Sea, collects everything that comes into its claws - empty shells, broken glass, fish heads - and puts it on its back. Such “scenery” perfectly camouflages the crab. When a junk crab is threatened, it exposes its back with junk to the predator.
The wandering crab once deceived even Christopher Columbus himself. This type of crab does not live at the bottom, but travels along the surface of the ocean, sitting on a detached algae or tree branch. When Columbus approached the shores of America, sailors noticed a wandering crab in the Sargasso Sea. They decided that there was land somewhere nearby, but in fact the nearest shore was still very far away.
The king crab is similar in appearance to a real crab, but is actually a relative of the hermit crab. It has not five, but four pairs of legs. Kamchatka crab is a real giant! The width of its shell reaches 25 centimeters, the distance between the ends of its legs is up to 1.5 meters. Kamchatka crabs live in the Seas of Japan, Okhotsk and Bering Seas. Most of them are off the coast of Kamchatka.
PATTER
The crab made a rake for the crab,
The crab handed the rake to the crab.
Hay rake, crab, rake.
MYSTERY
Cleverly collects garbage
The bottom of the sea is cleaned.
(Crab)
CANCER HERMIT
Crayfish climbed the mountain
And I learned to whistle.
It only turned out to be a BREAK!
Cancer fell from the mountain.
(I. Zhukov)
In a hermit crab, only the front part of the body is covered with a hard shell, and the abdomen is soft and defenseless. To protect themselves from sea predators, these animals hide in empty sea snail shells, like hermits in caves. The soft abdomen can curl into the curls of the shell, and the abdominal legs quickly pull the body inward.
When moving, crayfish carry the shell with them all the time. When they are in danger, hermit crabs climb entirely into the shell, closing the entrance with a large claw. When a hermit crab grows up, the old shell becomes too small for it. He gets out of it and looks for a larger sink. At this time, he needs to be especially careful so as not to get eaten by predatory fish.
To enhance protection, the hermit crab often places a sea anemone on its shell. This beautiful ocean dweller, like a bright flower, has very burning tentacles. If you touch them, you can get seriously burned. A hermit crab, having encountered an anemone it likes at the bottom, uses its claw to “pluck” it from the stone and transplants it onto its shell. Anemone is not at all against such a neighborhood - after all, she always gets crumbs from the hermit crab’s dinner table. When a cancer exchanges an old shell for another, it also transplants its burning neighbor to a new home.
Very often, hermit crabs engage in real battles with their relatives for the possession of a shell or a beautiful sea anemone. The defeated cancer lies on its side or back, and the winner does not touch it anymore.
PUZZLES
People live under water
Walks backwards.
(Crayfish)
Not a blacksmith
And with ticks.
(Cancer hermit)
About a month ago I finished working on a fairy tale for the summer issue of our magazine “My Mother – Vasilisa”. But the summer-sea theme just wouldn’t let me go, I wanted to write something else like that for the blog. I wanted a fairy tale, but it turned out again with a philosophical bent. It’s just that when a fairy tale is written, I can no longer argue with it. I follow her, and often everything turns out differently than I intended. I hope you enjoy the fairy tale. The illustration was drawn by my Sonechka.
I wish you all a good and happy holidays! By the way, we created the summer issue of the magazine, subscription to which ends on the last day of June, thinking about mothers who will play with their children on vacation, on the seashore.
The Tale of a Starfish and Two Wishes
- Oh, what a pity that I live in the sea and not in the sky! - she thought. – How I would like to become one of the stars who makes a wish come true!
The girl sighed again, stood up and walked towards the water. She kicked off her sandals and walked on the water. And suddenly…. There, in the sand, something flashed in the moonlight! Yes, this is a small orange-gold star! The girl picked it up.
— Did you fall from the sky or swim from the depths of the sea? – the girl asked, looking at the star.
The star didn't answer.
“I’ll pretend like you fell from the sky and make a wish,” the girl said and closed her eyes.
After half a minute, the girl opened her eyes and said to the star:
“I wished that I would learn to breathe underwater like a fish, and I would be able to go down to the seabed and see how its inhabitants live there.
The girl carefully lowered the starfish to the bottom and continued to walk along the shore.
“Oh-oh-oh,” the star became worried. - What to do? Now I must fulfill the girl's wish. She's relying on me.
The star thought for a minute, and then suddenly realized what she had to do. She waited for the right wave and grabbed onto it. The wave carried the star into the depths of the sea. Well, there the star waited for the sea current she needed, which brought her just to the palace of the Sea King.
The Sea King was always full of things to do. The seabed is huge, it’s not so easy to keep track of everything and put things in order. In addition, he was a very strict ruler, and many fish and sea creatures were afraid of him and avoided the palace. And there was no question of coming to an appointment with the Sea King ourselves.
-Who am I? Just a little starfish, he won’t pay attention to me,” the star became worried, but then pulled herself together: “No, no, I can’t doubt it.” After all, the girl believes in me.
A few minutes later, the starfish found itself in a huge hall, in the center of which the Sea King himself sat on a throne. Councilors, ministers and other courtiers crowded around him. The Sea King decided matters of maritime national importance. Of course, he didn’t even notice the little starfish. Yes, she didn’t expect it, so she gathered all her strength and said as loudly as possible:
- Sea king! I have very important business for you!
The king broke off his conversation with the stingray minister and looked around, not understanding who was talking to him.
“I’m here below, near your throne,” said the little starfish.
Finally the Tsar noticed her!
- What do you need, fearless little girl? - he asked. “Apparently, something very important happened if you came to the palace and took me away from my work.”
“Very, very important,” the starfish nodded and told the Sea King about the stars,
“And now the girl hopes that I will fulfill her wish, but I will never do this without your help,” she finished.
“Well, you’re right,” the king nodded, fingering his beard. “This matter is really important, and I will help you.” Moreover, it won’t take me much time. And it will be useful for me to take a walk; I haven’t left the palace for a long time.
And at this time the girl was still walking along the shore, admiring the stars. Suddenly the sea foamed, the waves parted, and the Sea King himself appeared in front of her, wearing a crown and holding a trident in his hand. The girl froze in place in amazement.
“I heard rumors that someone here made a wish to learn to breathe underwater!” - said the Sea King in his thunderous voice. - Is it so?
The girl nodded.
- I will fulfill your wish, but not forever, but only for an hour. Is this enough for you?
- Oh yes, of course that's enough! – the girl exclaimed joyfully.
- In addition to the ability to breathe underwater, for this hour I will also give you a mermaid tail, like my daughters. With its help you can swim easily and freely.
The Sea King waved his trident, and the girl immediately turned into a little mermaid. She was immediately surrounded by the Tsar’s daughters and led to the bottom of the sea. They wanted to show their guest as many wonders of the seabed as possible, and they remembered that they only had an hour.
First, the little mermaids took the girl through the underwater royal palace, then showed her their gardens, where beautiful sea flowers and trees grew, and the paths were lined with colorful shells. True, no one ever walked along these paths, because almost all the inhabitants of the sea kingdom swam. Well, maybe some hermit crab will look there, and even then very rarely.
After that, they all sailed together to the sunken pirate ship, the holds of which were still bursting with gold and jewelry looted by the pirates. The little mermaids chatted and laughed all the time. They were no less pleased with their guest than she was.
The hour flew by unnoticed. The little mermaids gave the girls a pearl necklace as a farewell gift and escorted them upstairs. They asked her to come ashore in the evenings as often as possible. The sea princesses hoped that their father would give them permission to rise to the surface and talk with their new friend.
The little mermaids swam away, and the girl walked along the edge of the water in the opposite direction from where she had come, where her grandparents’ house stood almost by the sea. Passing by the place where she found the starfish, she saw that it was lying in its original place. The girl picked up the star, put it on her palm, admired it in the light of the heavenly stars and said:
- Thank you.
“Thank you,” answered the little starfish, because her wish came true thanks to the girl - now she, too, has become a wish-granting star.