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on the crab leg at opportune laDments for several rainutee the little 
atiiml gave up. The leg was fasteneS on wore tightly than it had iiaagined, 
probably. I saw one once dash up a siaall purple aea fan, grasp a swollen 
egg shell with its forearms, ait^ whisk off out of eight with it, like a 
raonk*^ with a cocoanut. 
Tom and I would tie a small minnow (dead) on a bit of string and 
dangle it near likely-looking stomtopod hangouts. If there were one in 
residence we would know about it almost at once. Usmlly the mantis 
would dash out, grab the minnow and try to carry it back out of sight. 
The string put a stop to that sort of business, however. But tte shrimp 
would usually manage to Jerk off a piece of it before dashing for cover. 
For taking pictures we usually held the minnow donun with a bit of stone, 
trying all the while to keep the mantis away from it until the caE»ra 
was ready. This often took sot^ doing, because the mantis is veiy fast 
avd any finger tliat got in its way received a good whack from its forelegs. 
There are large species of stomatopods that live in deeper water in 
burrows on the bottom, but they are much more shy timn the shore fellows. 
In 1961 we foui^ 01^ near our shooting area beside a reef let. Never 
Eiicceeded in seeing more than the front half of it when it flashed out 
to pick up a minnow. Most of the fellows that Tom and I were working 
with along the shore are green — som leaf green, and some darker. They 
appear to come in colors, however, and many x^atterns, 
July 16 . Saturday. Events — e8;^cially undersea — rarely turn out 
the way one plane. The day was well mapped. We would run out to the 
old shooting area, photograph the lobster beginning to eat a starfish — 
