Carnivorous cone snails use a long tentacle-like proboscis armed with a venomous barb to paralyze little fish, and then just open up their maws and swallow them whole. It's terrifying.
Ecoclimax is defined by Odum (1969) as the culmination state after a succession in a stabilized ecosystem in which maximum biomass (or high information content) and symbiotic function among organisms is kept per unit of available energy flow.
