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Nacho, Baby Carrot, and Pluot were inside the tubs, among other stars named after snack foods. "I do feel like a parent," Knopf said. "You raise them, you take care of them, you want the best for them, but then you know the best for them is letting them go out in the wild, just like letting your kid go out into the world." These invertebrates have no faces, blood, or brains, yet they have personalities, according to their caretakers. "They're very charismatic," said research assistant Tess Chapman. "They have little eyespots at the end of their arms. That's her out there," Wooten said. "That's her hair, letting us know that she's still there." "She's the protector of our people," Wooten said. "She ensures that waters are clean and the fish are there, and the clams are there, the crab, all the things that we rely on." The Samish belief mirrors biologists' knowledge that kelp forests prote Billions of sea stars have died.
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