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He may not be so good at catching Frisbees9 or fetching slippers, but Gary is the best pet an invertebrate10 sea sponge with square pants could possibly ask for, and thats all that matters.

也许他并不擅长接住飞盘或是帮主人取拖鞋，但加里绝对是穿着方形裤子的无脊椎海绵能找到的最好宠物，而这才是最重要的。

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Any of various invertebrate animals, such as a sea anemone or sponge, that attach to surfaces and superficially resemble plants.

植形动物一种无脊椎动物，附着在表面而且看上去象植物一样，例如海葵和海绵。

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The Venus flower basket, for example, a kind of deep-sea sponge, has spiny skeletal outgrowths that are remarkably similar, both in appearance and optical properties, to commercial optical fibres, notes Joanna Aizenberg, a researcher at Lucent Technology's Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.

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It involves learning where sponges grow, picking the right one, prying an intact sponge from the sea bottom, and using it on their noses to root around the right areas to find fish concealed in the sand.

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The plastic also acts as a chemical sponge absorbing some of the worst pollutants in the sea and increasing its toxicity when swallowed.

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