2022-0211 A Day On The Beach
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Black-bellied Plover standing beside a patch of Emerita analoga
The patch of Emerita is visible to the right of the Black-bellied Plover. Each one of those ripples is a large Emerita mostly but not completely buried in the sand. The ripples are actually the frond-like antennae of crabs filter feeding as the wave recedes.
You can see them well in the portrait of the Emerita analoga at Monterey Bay Aquarium (photograph #5)
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