The Animal That Feeds on Starlight!

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00:00Did you know there's an animal that literally eats starlight?

00:03No, this isn't science fiction.

00:06It's a real-life sea slug called the leaf sheep.

00:10This tiny, adorable creature looks like a cartoon sheep,

00:14and it has an incredible superpower, photosynthesis, just like a plant.

00:21When the leaf sheep munches on algae, it doesn't just digest it.

00:25Instead, it steals the algae's chloroplasts,

00:29the little green engines that turn sunlight into energy.

00:33It then incorporates these chloroplasts into its own body.

00:38This amazing process is called kleptoplasty.

00:42So, for the rest of its life, this little guy can just chill and sunbathe,

00:48getting all its energy directly from the sun's rays.

00:51It's the world's tiniest, cutest solar-powered animal.

00:56Isn't nature just mind-blowing?

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