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Brine Shrimp(Artemia franciscana) are also known as “Sea Monkeys”. These small crustaceans can be found along the California coast, in Mono and Soda Lakes in California and in the Great Salt Lake, Utah. They can be found in salt flats, places where salt water is evaporated commercially to produce salt and are an important food source to many wildlife species, such as flamingos. Brine Shrimp are not found in the open ocean because their only defense mechanism against predators such as fish and other invertebrates is the fact that they can survive in hyper-saline bodies of water.
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