one tends to think of shrimp as characterless pink blobs......but I've never felt quite the same about them since seeing one of those real-close-up underwater programs. It was about this teeny tiny shrimp that has a symbiotic relationship with an equally tiny fish. The shrimp works on the sand at the sea-bottom, finding food for itself and also stirring up food that floats up for the fish, which is positioned vertically above it. The fish swivels round and round watching for danger, while the shrimp works away. The shrimp keeps one of its antenna touching the fish's tail, and at a danger signal from the fish the pair of them scoot down into a hidey-hole. It was the smartest and cutest thing you ever saw. They looked like such little individuals :^(

Message edited on: 01/12/2005 02:29