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Good Reading : June 2007
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46 goodreading ı JUNE 2007 coffee table Until comparatively recently, we couldn’t really appreciate the creatures that lurk under the surface of the seas around us. But with the development of ever better underwater cameras, we can now enjoy looking at some of the amazing fauna that inhabit the oceans from the comfort of our armchairs. Roger Steene has been an underwater photographer for 40 years, specialising in microscopic close-ups. Oceanic Wilderness is a collection of his most stunning photographs.This magnificent 340-page volume has hundreds of images from around the world, each showing the beauty, delicacy and exquisite colours of marine life.Weird and wonderful, some resemble nothing so much as Christmas decorations; others look as though a talented artist has painted them; yet others display the intricate patterns of the finest designer fabrics. The beautiful harlequin shrimp can exhibit somewhat grizzly feeding behaviour. They have been seen to flip seastars over and feed on the end of the arms, working their way towards the central disc. In this way, they can make their living buffet last longer, and also prevent its escape. Here several harlequin shrimp Hymenocera picta (4 cm) dine on an unfortunate seastar in 18 metres in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. These tunicates of the Rhopalaea species (2 cm), photographed in 18 metres off the Philippines, are filter feeders. They obtain nourishment by pumping seawater through a U-shaped internal system that has both inlet and outlet. They have the ability to close these openings in response to external disturbances. what swims below
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