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Identifier: oceanwonderscomp00damo (find matches)
Title: Ocean wonders: a companion for the seaside
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Damon, William Emerson, 1838-
Subjects: Marine animals Aquariums
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ng and benumbing sensation, deadly to smallprey, the victim being affected as by a shock of electricity.This I know by experience, for, some years ago, when inBermuda, while attempting to take a large actinia from arock, one of these soft-looking beauties gave me a shock ACTIXLE, SEA-AXEMOXES, OK SEA-FLOWERS. 13 which disabled my armfor hours. It will easily beunderstood that thisconcealed battery en-ables the sea - anem-ones to conquer muchlarger and strongercreatures than theycould hold simply bythe tentacles; theyoften seize largeshrimps, and crabs farbeyond their own size.Occasionally,however,if one of these findsan anemone weakenedfrom any cause, it willtake up a positionupon the edge of itsmouth, keeping it dis-tended, and with itsclaws pluck out thefood from the victimssac and appropriate itto its own use. Some-times, when such anattempt is made, acombat ensues, andthen woe to the ma-rauder if he has mis-taken the strength ofthe sea-anemone! Hewill surely fall intohis own trap.
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14 THE OCEAN. Some of the sea-anemones are free-swimming organiza-tions, and all have some capacity for movement; bnt thehabit of most is to attach themselves to some firm object, asa rock or a section of coral, or to the back of a crab or otherCrustacea. In fact, when free they swim backward, andwherever their base encounters a firm object, no matterwhat, there they will fix themselves by suction, and as a gen-eral rule contentedly remain. There are two species, how-ever, which show a marked preference for the back of a crus-tacean. One is called the parasite anemone, and its favoritehome is on the hard shell of the hermit-crab (the Pagurus

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Aquariums
  • bookpublisher:New_York__D__Appleton_and_company
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:34
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