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Beautiful Animals

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http://www.onhiatusphotos.com/PhotosD1/BDSC-004-26.jpg

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osso, I encountered those amazing shrimp in a rerun of Blue Planet, Seas of Life. Two of them were putting great effort into turning a starfish onto its back so that they could move it to where they could eat it at their leisure. A starfish, btw, that bore some resemblance to Rosborne's most recent photo.

Thanks, Rosborne.

Barn swallow:

http://www.birdwatch.ph/images/gallery/barnswallow1.jpg

Blackburnian warbler:

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Featured_photo/Images/Bigpic/blbw2.jpg

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These remind me of the Chevy Chase movie Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Anemone shrimp Periclimenes brevicarpalis

http://www.guamshellclub.org/images/marine_life/periclimenes_brevicarpalis_061206_003.jpg

http://www.guamshellclub.org/images/marine_life/periclimenes_brevicarpalis_061206_001.jpg

And it's more flamboyant cousin Periclimenes sp

http://www.guamshellclub.org/images/marine_life/periclimenes_sp_061205_005.jpg

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Absolutely staggering, mesquite. Thanks mucho for the photos. I did a bit of poking around. The anemone shrimp is also called the glass anemone. Can't imagine why.

Crested gecko (yes, they can lick their own eyes; comes in handy when you don't have eyelids):

http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/6241627-sm.jpg

Tiger beetle:

http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/5922595-sm.jpg

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Panther chameleon:

http://www.flchams.com/chamContainer/Urban.jpg

Manta ray:

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Panther chameleon - wow!

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ossobuco wrote:

Panther chameleon - wow!

They're not always the color shown. This guy was a bit peeved. Sometimes they're almost all red. Sometimes, less showy.

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I like the way it curls it's tail.

Rock Beauty

http://i.pbase.com/o6/10/4910/1/60410017.AzHNajWL.dive1038004r195k4tz.jpg

Spawning Hamlets

http://i.pbase.com/o6/10/4910/1/62584383.NqstGklk.dive106263007a152k.jpg

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Wow, great pics, mesquite. At first glance I wasn't sure that the rock beauty was a fish. Figured it out. Yup, a fish. The hamlets are delicate and beautiful. They seem unfazed that they're having their picture taken during a private moment.

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Roberta, yeah, the thumbnail picture of the Rock Beauty looked like a Cockatoo.

Crown of Thorns Starfish.

This starfish has very sharp spines packing a painful venom. It feeds on coral leaving behind nothing but the white calcium carbonate skeleton. When I was on Guam in the late sixties, there was a huge population bloom of these starfish which caused considerable reef damage.

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Nature/Underwater/Invertebrates/CrownOfThornsStarfish.jpg

One of it's few natural predators is the Triton's Trumpet.

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/4531/tritoncrown35a5a28ge4.jpg

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Wonderful shots, mesquite. I'm aware that the crown of thorns has been a concern with respect to the Great Barrier Reef. Marine biologists get noivous that the starfish will devour the reef. This apparently comes in waves (no pun intended).

I didn't know about the triton's trumpet being a natural enemy of the crown of thorns.

Something is always eating something.

I'm being self-indulgent tonight Smile