2022-0211 A Day On The Beach
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Food fight
Multiple Sanderling battle for possession of an vital source of food energy on the beach, a sand crab Emerita analoga. Emerita filter plankton out waves receding from the beach, and their conversion of those food items to energy for foraging birds becomes a major theme of the energy economy of these beaches.
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