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Today, Miss Vickies 

brought her students to 

the beach to learn about 

waffles. She told her 

students to stay away 

from the water.

Unfortunately, little 

Otatop did not 

listen.

Otatop sank deep, 

deep into the ocean...

Until he reached the 

ocean floor.

All of a sudden, 

Otatop saw 

something.

It was Doritos, the 

seaweed!

Doritos the seaweed chose to 

float around while his friends 

used their "holdfasts" to stay in 

one place. He has floatation 

devices that help him float called 

the kelp and the air bladder. 

Seaweed can withstand salinity, 

changing temperature, and 

depth.  

Otatop asked Doritos 

how he could get out of 

the ocean. Doritos was 

washed away after 

answering.

Obviously, Otatop 

couldn't do that, so he 

waited...

And waited...

All of a sudden, Otatop 

saw something from 

the corner of his eyes.

It was the dolphins: 

Ruffles and his gang.

As a pod, they 

surrounded Otatop and 

stared at him. 

"How did you see me?" Otatop asked. "I 

thought I was camouflaged into the 

sand."

"We know EVERYTHING! We have the 

knowledge of the universe!", one dolphin 

answered.

"But we knew that you were here because 

we have an adaptation in our heads called 

a melon. It lets us use echolocation and 

senses for prey, among other things," 

Ruffles answered. 

"When we find a school of fish, we herd 

them upwards and into a giant ball. Then 

we each take turns swimming through 

and eating while the others make sure it's 

as tightly packed as possible," Ruffles 

explained. 

Otatap was confused. Why were they 

telling him this?

"You don't get it," Ruffles clicked, reading 

the narration line from above. 

"You wouldn't understand with that puny 

potato brain of yours, but somewhere in 

another universe, two human's science 

marks depend on us telling you this. Now be 

quiet and listen." 

Ototap went silent. 

"Sometimes, we herd the school of fish near 

a shore instead, where they're trapped 

between it and us. Then, we go ahead and 

eat." 

"A lot of the times, we develop our own 

strategies depending on the geography. 

Like: my cousin over at Flordia hunts with 

his pod in shallow water using the mud 

there. They swim around a school of fish, 

beating their tails to make a mud ring. 

The fish will panic and jump out, landing 

into the dolphins' mouths," Ruffles 

whistled. 

"But if your strategies are so awesome, 

why doesn't every fish use it?" Otatop 

asked. 

"That's because they don't have the same 

anatomy and adaptations like we do. 

Other than the fact that they obviously 

don't have melons and don't have 

echolocation powers, we also have super 

streamlines bodies to reduce water 

resistance," another dolphin squeaked. 

"Yeah, and another way we reduce water 

resistance is our blubber, which makes 

our skin smoother and creates less 

friction," the fourth dolphin added. 

"Okay. Now that we're done talking, 

let's chow down!" Ruffles 

commanded as the dolphins started 

closing in.

Otatop tried to swim away, but the 

density of his potato body didn't 

allow it. 

Out of no where, 

Cheetos the piranha and 

his friends came to 

Otatop's rescue.

Cheetos wanted to eat 

Otatop for lunch.

Suddenly, Cheetos wanted to boast about 

his species' hunting strategies. "We hunt 

in really large groups," he began, "of 20 

or sometimes more. We're relatively small 

in size compared to Ruffle's gang but 

pretty big compared to the anglerfish. We 

have razor sharp teeth, able to bend a 

steel fishing hook, to take bites out of our 

prey." 

Otatop was very confused. Especially on 

how Cheetos was talking, carrying him,  

and swimming at the same time. 

"We are adapted to have lots of 

different fins to dart forwards and 

ambush our prey, which is one of our 

hunting strategies. We also have a 

special adaptation of a blood-sensing 

system to detect weak prey we can 

attack. Another hunting strategy we 

have is suddenly going after a school 

of fish to scatter them, then singling 

out individual ones. "

Just as the Piranhas finished 

explaining and was ready to eat 

Otatop, they noticed something. 

"Hey, you're not made of meat!", 

they cried, "We have no use for you 

now."

So they abandoned Otatop and 

swam away. 

Once again, Otatop was 

left falling.

It soon got darker as he 

fell deeper in the ocean.

Otatop was mesmerized 

by the light.

Little did Otatop know, 

the light belonged to 

Pringles, the angler fish.

"Wait... What are 

you?", Pringles 

growled when he 

saw Otatop. 

Suddenly, Pringles had a strong urge to tell 

Otatop all of his hunting secrets. 

"Us, anglerfish, hunt by attracting prey with our 

light. It's the bioluminescent bacteria living inside 

us that creates the glow. Since we don't need to 

chase after our prey, we can only swim at low 

speeds, especially compared to dolphins and 

piranhas." He started rambling. "We're really 

awesome, because unlike dolphins and piranhas, 

who hunt in a group, we only depend on ourselves 

or a mate to hunt." 

Otatop just stared. 

"Since we glow blue to attract prey, 

we have specially adapted skin that 

reflects blue light. Also, unlike 

dolphins and piranhas, we can't see 

what's being lured to us. A lot of 

times, what comes over is bigger than 

us, so we have have adapted jaws and 

stomachs that are expandable to eat 

things up to twice our size!" 

"Okay, enough yammering," 

Pringles snapped his razor sharp 

teeth (great for biting prey!). He 

started swimming towards Otatop. 

All of a sudden, Otatop was saved 

yet again! The figure carried him up 

to slightly safer waters then set him 

down.  

It was Tostitos, the seal!

They had arrived at a spot where 

no sunlight reached them.

Tostitos told Otatop that he 

wasn't cold because he was 

warm-blooded.

Apparently, Tostitos' 

body temperature stays 

constant all the time and 

he has blubber to keep 

him warm.

Tostitos told Otatop that 

his mistress wanted to 

see him.

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