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Meet Cypraea leviathan...
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Take a 'tour' of the Leviathan cowry's mantle; it's a forest of papillae, each one seemingly with a life of its own.
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How a cowry crawls. Watch the muscles of its foot work!
makuabob
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As a small Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791 crawls across the poly bag's surface, it reveals waves of muscle contractions that propel it along. The clip ends with a glimpse of 'R...
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Menagerie - the cowries after two 'good' night dives...
makuabob
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How many of these cowries can you name? They came from under 'Dead Man's Boulder.' A huge slab of lava off of the North Shore of O'ahu, I had to take my tanks off (at 45 fe...
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Lots of Cypraea tessellata tonight!...
makuabob
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This was after two productive night dives on O'ahu, but I'd had better dives. The 'bloom' of Checkerboard cowries was now waning from the time when more than a dozen live s...
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live Cypraea teres & C. sulcidentata...
makuabob
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Two rather different varieties of cowry in the same holding tank; the comparison is fairly straightforward.
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Before the 'tiff,' leading up to the scuffle,...
makuabob
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It took a few minutes for the 'face-off' between the two Cypraea teres to get going. The smaller cowry here is NOT the one seen in later action.
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2 Cypraea teres have at it... is it foreplay or a power play?
makuabob
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A pair of captured cowries have at one another! The question is,... "Why?!" Is it territorial instinct, setting the 'pecking order,' or courtship? Or,... is it something el...
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After the tiff,... 'Raging Bull' carries on. (longer ver.)
makuabob
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Once the smaller Cypraea teres had left, 'Raging Bull' continued to 'lash out.' No aggression is shown toward the C. fimbriata in the corner, so... was it angry, perplexed,...
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six Cypraea teres,... up close!
makuabob
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Re-edit of "5 Cypraea teres,... up close!" w/ one more C. teres at the end. (better overall image quality)
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Compare the mantles of 'kissing cousin' cowries...
makuabob
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Cypraea sulcidentata (upper left) and C. schilderorum are very closely related, and have been found as 'mated' pairs by collectors. A cowry's mantle covers its shell most o...
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