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Why would the starfish need to produce large amounts of digestive juices?
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Why would the starfish need to produce large amounts of digestive juices?

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Because they don't have teeth to chew their food, and they don't swallow their food, either..

They extrude their stomachs over their prey, and the digestive juices are acids..

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