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The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)

University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 120

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w rests closedand inert against the body, while the legs arefolded up until the entire animal is snugly closedupon itself, and it remains in this dormant con-dition until the spring. Early in April the fid-dlers awaken, and immediately attend to clearingout their burrows. The large claw is useless… … TWO BLUE CRABS FIGHTING. Just in front of the crab coming toward us there is an anemone which has closed to protect itself. Expanded anemones are seenin the foreground at the left and on the rocks at the right. A hermit-crab and a shrimp are shown at the left. 106 STRANGE FISH AND REPTILES mouth,…

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