Decorator Crab

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Decorator Crab

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This crab is very shy and lives secretly between rocks. He pinches off small pieces of corals and algae and attaches it to his shell. When he sheds his old shell, the coral and algae will continue to grow where it was dropped--starting new colonies.

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