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Escaped From the Shark 
sharks and whales. In return fishes, 
sea-stars, sea-urchins and some shell-fish 
eat the young crustaceans, and even at¬ 
tack the larger ones. 
In the sand of the seashore the 
mother crab, or lobster, lays her eggs, and 
there she leaves them to be hatched by 
the sun. Several thousand eggs are laid 
at a time, but as many of the water 
animals feed on the eggs and young, of 
course all the members of this large 
family do not come to mature crabhood. 
Lobsters like best to live along rocky 
shores, where the water is clear and 
deep ; and there they are caught in small 
wicker baskets, or nets. 
As for the crab, he loves to hide in the 
mud, and he can live longer than the 
lobster when taken out of the water, by 
reason of the different formation of his 
gills. 
