🔖GLOSSARY

fairy tale

a simple children’s story about magical creatures

silky

smooth, soft, and shiny like silk

parrotfish

a large group of marine species inhabiting shallow coastal waters in tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world.

coral

very small sea animals

skeleton

the structure of bones that supports the body of an animal

poop

to pass solid waste from the body

📚 PINK POO?

Have you ever built a sandcastle🏰? Using a bucket and erecting a flag🏳️‍🌈…cool, huh? And what if I tell you the sand is pink? This would be the fairest castle a princess👸 could ever own.

TRY THE cluES: 🤞🏰🏳️‍🌈

In nature, for example, Hawaii beach🌎🏖️, pink sand does exist📍. However, did you ever wonder what sand is made of, especially the silky pink kind? Tiny stones? Not exactly.

TRY THE CLUES: 🏖️📍🌎

Actually, pink sand is some kind of poop💩 produced by parrotfish 🐠. Ehh…They grind up the coral 🌿 skeletons they eat🍽, then excrete them as sand⌛. The silky pink sand on tropical beaches comes from the backside🚽 of fish🐠. In addition, they produce hundreds of thousands of pounds of poop every year.💩💩💩

TRY THE cluES: 🐠🍽🌿🦴，🐠🚽💩，💩=⌛

Next time you walk on the beach, don’t forget to say thanks🤞 to those🐠 who poop 💩 on it.🤣

TRY THE cluES: 💗🏖️，🤞🐠💩