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Four white starfish of the same species. What are the two on the glass spongedoing? Are they eating? is the top one cannibalizing the bottom one? are theymating? Actually they are a wolfpack of Henricia sp. starfish approaching and feeding on a fallen glass sponge. (Image credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana)