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k ... SPIDER CRAB
Spider Crabs have gained their popular name from their long glender legs and fat oval bodies. These creatures hide up amongst the rocks and seaweeds, pouncing out upon their unsuspecting victims.
/ ... HERMIT CRABS AND SHIP BARNACLES
Here we see the comical old Hermit Crabs dragging thou houses about and having a friendly difference of opinion, while above a group of Ship Barnacles arc waving their long feathery 'egs as if wishing to join in the fray.
m ... THE OCTOPUS
The Octopus is the veritable dragon of the deep. All day long he hides up in the dark caves and crannies in the rocks, and at night conies out in search of victims. He has the power of blushing all the colours of the rainbow, Each of his long arms is clothed with a hundred powerful suckers, and his strong jaws are like the beak of a parrot. Should he get the worst of it in a tight lie suddenly ejects a quantity of black inky fluid in the face of his astonished foe, and under cover of the dark turbid water beats a hasty retreat.
Total length 500 feet.
2201 Special ... STALKED SHIP BARNACLE.
A number of these remarkable animals are shown attached to the bottom of a bottle. From the curious triangular shells which protects the bodies of the barnacles, countless graceful, feathery legs are thrust out and waved about in all directions, the creatures being busily engaged in collecting and devouring food Barnacles are particularly remarkable and interesting animals as they pass the early stages of their lives swimming gaily about in the warm surface water of the sea, and it is not until they have passed through several changes of form that they eventually having, so to speak, sown their wild oats, settle down to a comparatively sedentary life, becoming attached to any floating timbers of the under sides of ships, when they form the beautiful ovalescent shell which protects their bodies, and for the remainder of their life they remain attached to the timber, kicking, with their graceful legs, the food they require into their mouths. Length 75 feet.
2202 THE SHORE CRAB.
Here we see a mass of shore crabs, evidently enjoying themselves. The large company disperse, moving rapidly with most laughable and quaint gestures in all directions. They start to run races, wave their arms, and give evidence that some of them are spoiling for a fight. Shore crabs are great cannibals, and when one of their brethren cast off an old shell, and is still in a soft state, the new coating not having had time to harden, he is often set upon and devoured.
Length 50 feet.
The Shore Crab