Quoting Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@yahoo.co.uk>:
So ... by deduction, blue whales are vegetarians and krill are plants not crustaceans ? Hmmm, major re-organisation of taxonomy there which some people would find rather controversial. As plants, are krill more closely related to the fungi than other plants, and do any other plants have comparable mobility and speed of environmental reaction?
In all seriousness, as *animals* krill are much more closely related to fungi than they are to plants.
Nick Pharris Ph.D. Candidate Department of Linguistics University of Michigan