It is now a growing trend of tourists who are on the social media images to share that they are sea stars hold on to. Nice find, they, to them, to read about how many bad pictures can be the cause.

the Uproar on social media last week, on a picture of a tourist in Vietnam, and she had a starfish in the sand and photographed them. Immediately, a stream of responses, and these were anything but positive. “Did you see the starfish, now the sand is pushed up for a photo shoot? Sick!”, a voice said, and, “are you crazy? This can be a death sentence! You clearly have no respect for the sea and its animals.

now, anyone Who searches for the hashtag #starfish < / I> (sea star, in the English language, ed. on Instagram to find dozens, if not hundreds of similar images. Photos of people posing with starfish on their bodies, or people who are star fish on the beach to take a photograph.

However, according to marine biologist Christopher Mah, on the site News for a while.com.ouch, what a lot of people don’t realize is that these sea-creatures from death can be.

“Some of the species may be quite a long time to survive without being in water, others will almost immediately die. Most of the starfish you see on the coastline, you can find probably just a few seconds to five minutes out of the water to survive. However, if you are the animals of fifteen and sixties of minutes out of the water… then they will get stress and they will die. It’s dreadful.”

you can have The starfish on your body, it is not a good idea. “In the first instance, because they are highly adhesive tube feet can attach to your body. When you get to the starfish than to pull, they can be a lot of tube feet to lose. In addition, it can also bacteria, and chemicals, for example, sun-block and pass it to the animals. And that’s wrong.”

in His decision? “It’s important to remember, though, that the brittle stars, animals, and that it would be better to put them in the water. In the best-case scenario, you can be sure, so from a distance look at, and plenty of physical contact.”

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