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sand bubbler crabs

Description:

these little holes in the packed sand and the surrounding "sandballs" created beautiful shapes in the late afternoon sun

Habitat:

coastline, beach

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3 Comments

Thanks so much for sharing the video.

moralcoral
moralcoral 12 years ago

Check out this cool video of the Action! http://wn.com/Sand_Bubbler_Crabs

moralcoral
moralcoral 12 years ago

The small balls of sand are caused by sand crabs. When they dig their holes in the wet sand they roll it out one ball at a time!

Kuwait

Spotted on Oct 7, 2011
Submitted on Dec 4, 2011

Spotted for Mission

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