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Day: May 14, 2019

Elusive and camera shy

Posted on 2019-05-142023-01-05 by Allison J. Gong

In my experience, the most difficult organisms to photograph in the wild are staurozoans. Even birds in flight are easier. The problem with staurozoans is where they live. I never see them in calm, still pools, where taking pictures would be easy. Instead, they seem to like surge channels where the water constantly sloshes back…

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