Show sponge as an animal 1 nothing Is less like a living crea ture than tile common bath sponge yet the fact remains that sponges do form a very important species of the animal kingdom eating their food and living their lives much as any other animal would do the actual existence of a sponge sponga commences with the separation from the parent of a tiny particle this particle whirling through space eventually attaches itself to a piece of rock and froni from that time J it t seeks its own livelihood at the very commencement with some species of the sponge family the baby sponges feed upon yolk cells in ire are stored food supplies uy by and by as the youngster develops tile the currents in the water sweep into a kind hind of bag the minute particles tides of food required and the same currents carry oll of undigested matter there ii re ire many varieties of sponges found ax at different levels of the ocean some clinging to rocks others to mud |