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sand bubbler crabs

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Field Notes

Description:

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

Habitat:

coastline, beach

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
moralcoral
Check out this cool video of the Action! http://wn.com/Sand_Bubbler_Crabs
moralcoral
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!

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PublishedDecember 4, 2011

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