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moved on and did his best to get in through another screened opening. 
When we opened that one also, giving him an opportinaity to enter at any 
point, he lost interest in the whole business, and slid out of sight 
under a big boulder, staring balefully out at us. I^rays appear to be 
peeved most of the time. But they rarely do ai^hing about it. 
July 6th , After our two-day holiday with everybody rarin* to go, how 
should it be but the wind in the direction that brings bad weather — 
west — and heavy clouds on the horizon. Although it was on the edge of 
raining, sent Ked and Chris out to find soi^ stomntopod locations in 
isolated spots wl^re we couM base otir shooting operations and put an 
enclosure arottnd the subjects if we wished to do so. Then Tom mid I 
dug in tl^ sand for clams, with our lobster friend in mind. It was low 
tide and we could fiai nothing on the beach so we moved into the water. 
Finally caa» up with some half -inch corbulas. They would do for a test. 
Later we checked the stomatopad locations the boys had marked, and 
found one of them to be excellent — a small piece of decaying coral a 
foot across with some holes in the upper side. A green stomatopod was 
waiting for us, and the moimsnt I put down a piece of fish he rushed out 
and grabbed it. But I held on to the other end so that he couldn't take 
it and fill his stomach. He pinoered off a few shrede from the tall of 
the little minnow I was holding. Then I tried him with on© of the eorbulas. 
He wrestled with it like a man with a beach ball, turning it over and over 
in his arms. Althou#i he apj^ared unable to break into it he would not 
allow me to take it back. Each tin® I tried to he would rush out and whack 
ixy finger. He seemed to feel that he Imd a prize. Perhaps he can use 
it as a door plug. 
