Due to the peculiar nature of the Stomphia’s behaviour when it comes face-to-face with a starfish, the author conducted the experiment to determine if the sea anemone’s swimming response was due to an evolutionary adaptation known as ‘long-term facilitation’. The response being stimulated many times could cause synaptic action potentials that become neural modifications in the anemone’s brain, therefore affecting its innate behaviour. As shown through Sund’s observations in 1958, when coming into contact with a starfish, the anemone detaches at the basal plate and retracts and elongates in order to swim away. The detachment was seen to be a tactile response, because while swimming, the specimen was unresponsive to external stimulation. Eighteen