Every now and then a video recording of an animal doing what an animal always does takes the Internet by storm , strictly because it ’s not how the great unwashed anticipate that creature to behave .

We ’ve had the pufferfish video that hold out viral because everybody thought they filled themselves with airwave ( they do not ) , and we ’ve had the picture ofswimming seashellsthat went viral mostly because mass did n’t picture them drown at all .

Now to that listing append starfish , casually accept a stroll down a beach .

The video was captured in the Outer Banks of North Carolina   in early October 2012 , but has recently re - emerged ( like a sea star from the ocean)on Reddit . Other videos show the same behavior , above and below weewee .

So what ’s going on here ?

Basically , starfish are not the sedentary creature you ’re all picturing them as .   They may look pretty static , but some metal money can walk quite quickly ( well , relatively speaking ) .   Adult sunflower ocean star , for instance , can move at the breathtaking speed of1 meter ( 3 feet ) per minuteusing their 15,000 tube feet that cover their underbelly . Other species , like the leather star , can only go at a sluggish   15 centimeters ( 6 inch ) per minute .

Having descended from bilaterally symmetrical animals , starfish move like bilateral animal ( for instance crustaceans or spiders ) with certain legs playact as the " front " of the animal .

The thermionic tube ft look like sucking cups , but the starfish actually grip the floor using adhesive chemical substance . The metro groundwork move in a moving ridge , with one section of the weapon system attaching using chemicals as another domain of the arm releases its grip ( using other chemical substance to come away itself from the surface ) .

They should not be walking around on land at all , however . They   rest by absorbing O from brine , and will quickly gag when take away from the water system .

If you ’re disquieted about the starfish in the video , do n’t be .

" WE PUT THE STARFISH IN THE weewee , "   Zeb Hallockwrote on YouTube .

" We did not take them out of the water , we found them walk / stranded on the beach at grim tide and put them back into the ocean or tide pool . I took the TV before couch that one back in the water because it was such an strange pile . All the starfish ( sea stars ) we found alive on the beach were still alive when we put them back in the water . "

There ’s a chance that the starfish is still alive , in fact , as they can live around 35 years , take the air around on the sea base .