reef to bristle at it -whenever it sticks its head out of a hole. Why they 
do this I cannot imgine* The larger fish are in no danger, b ut I have seen 
squirrels perform in this my that were small enough to be a potential meal 
for the mo ray. I suppose there is a simple answer to their actions, but I 
don’t knew what it is. 
We lost our light immediately after lunch, and I exposed no film in 
the afternoon. Spent the time looking all over the bottom and in the holes 
in coral heads for mantises. No. Perhaps the fact that I am always accom- 
panied by a swarm of hungry fish may have something to do with their staying 
away out of sight. 
When it was obvious that the sun had gone for the day and I "was unable 
to come up with any shrimps I still had some minnows left in my bait jar. 
I held the jar up to the grouper. He could see the minnows but the opening 
was too small for him to get his mouth in. He did not know what to do, but 
the trigger solved the problem for him. She swam up and bit my finger, 
causing me to jump and spill the minnows. That triggerfish is a very tricky 
gal* 
August 11. 
Tom and I took some mojaras out to the location this morning to allow 
two anemones to have a tug-of-vrar over one of them. When we were putting 
the glass on the front of the shooting pen I looked dov/n to see a pile of 
sand and a quarter-sized hole near the shooting pen. A mantis again. He 
must have dug the hole during the night. I put part of a minnow at the 
