Leaf Sheep
🔬 Animal Research Sheet

Leaf Sheep

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📖 Read about me

The leaf sheep is a rice-grain-sized sea slug that steals chloroplasts from the algae it eats and keeps them working inside its body, photosynthesizing sunlight into food for weeks. This 'kleptoplasty' makes it one of the only animals that is part plant.

🌍 Where do I live? (my habitat)

⚡ What is my superpower?

🤯 One weird TRUE fact I learned

🔎 How do scientists KNOW this?

(Hint: look for clues in the facts — did they film it, measure it, or test it?)

✏️ Draw me!

❓ One question I still have

Wild Zoo Facts · https://wildzoofacts.com/animals/leaf-sheep-slug/ — read the full facts, watch the video, and check your answers.