It spits a corrosive fluid to defend others and itself, though it can also spit a fluid that boosts healing and invokes calmness. Using its extendable, ribbonlike feelers, it keeps its young safe from threats and from being swept away by currents.
Their poison is strong enough to eat through the hull of a tanker, and they spit it indiscriminately at anything that enters their territory. It sends a soothing aura from its ribbonlike feelers to calm fights.