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Jologo Beach, One Arm Point, Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, WA
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Saw these small crabs in Saladan beach. They did roll sand out from the wholes making stunning artworks to the wet sand. There was also bigger wholes, but thanks god the owners of those didn't came out to bright sunshine.
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The features in the sand are balls created by sand bubbler crabs. Each group of balls has a hole in the center where this tiny crab is found. The beach was scattered full of these
コメツキガニ, Sand bubbler crab,
江奈湾の干潟，ENA Bay Tidal Flat,
三浦半島, MIURA Peninsula,
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Looking across the beach at Balding Bay on Magnetic Island (Townsville, Australia), with sand balls left by sand bubbler crabs in the foreground.
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Tiny balls of sand left by sand bubbler crabs on Arambol beach in Goa, India. They leave patterns at low tide with the sand they've been through looking for food.
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The features in the sand are balls created by sand bubbler crabs. Each group of balls has a hole in the center where this tiny crab is found. The beach was scattered full of these
Sand Bubbler Crab (Scopimera sp.)
Super bored sitting alone on the beach with no bird to shoot. Then the crabs caught my attention. The bigger crab (1-1.5cm) on the left ran in from the right. The smaller crab on the right came out to defend its burrow. But the bigger crab on the left nearly pinned the opponent down. The smaller right crab gave up and ran off while the bigger crab went in to check the burrow. The poor loser hung around quite a while, trying to move back in. But each time, the bigger crab popped up and it got frightened and ran some distance away.
Sand Bubbler Crabs are small crabs that live on sandy beaches in the tropical Indo-Pacific; during the low tide, they form inflated sand pellets which are destroyed by the incoming high tide.
Apparently this crab was dying, and in related news was bubbling at the mouth.
Photo taken at Costeño Beach on the Caribbean coast of Colombia (this was about 200 ft from the water). Photo taken by Jon Fisher.
One of my shots from the beach looked really funny to me on my comp.... ha ha ha.... :) .... Shot of crabs on a rock against the sea...
I hope you like this one
A turned-around palm tree? Art by the sand bubbler crab (scopimera inflata) at Cape Tribulation Breach in Queensland, Australia. For more information: goodacres.blogspot.com/2008/04/sand-bubbler-crab-art.html
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The artist is the Sand Bubbler Crab (Scopimera inflata) pictured here at Cape Tribulation, North Queensland, Australia.
"Sand bubbler crabs live in burrows in the sand, where they remain during high tide. When the tide is out, they emerge on to the surface of the sand, and scour the sand for food, forming it into inflated pellets, which cover the sand. The crabs work radially from the entrance to their burrow, which they re-enter as the tide rises and disintegrates the pellets. The material consumed by sand bubbler crabs has a very low concentration of organic matter, which is concentrated by egestion of indigestible material."[wikipedia]