In addition to being able to steal the light harvesting compounds from its food source algae, this slug is born with the ability to photosynthesize. "Even unhatched sea slugs, which have never encountered algae, carry “algal” photosynthetic genes." Read more at http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/green-sea-slug/#ixzz0cdWpj6gh
This slug can eat algae once and sunbathe for the rest of its life. Amazing.
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