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De: Jose Eduardo de Alencar Moreira [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Enviada em: Segunda-feira, 17 de Maio de 1999 11:40
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Assunto: [CONCH-L] RES: Cone Wars Round 8
Hi to all,
I'd like to declare that life after dead in the Conus "heaven" is quite
nice. Welcome home Andy. I wish Emilio treat us here nicer than in Don's
aquarium. ;-))
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Eduardo
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De: Don Barclay [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Enviada em: Segunda-feira, 17 de Maio de 1999 17:49
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Assunto: [CONCH-L] Cone Wars Round 8
...
In faster-than-cowry-stalking speed, Eduardo marched up
nose-to-nose with Emilio, extending his proboscis in a
gesture that I was sure was not a "Welcome" in cone
language. Emilio beat him to the punch, however, and
snaked out his long white proboscis and harpooned my
favorite conus magnificus. Eduardo flinched, then turned
to crawl away, but only moved an inch or so. The conus
bandanus withdrew back into his shell, and made no
attempt at eating Eduardo. I watched as the magnificus
stretched out his foot and retracted it, and moved his
siphon, but he seemed to be unable to coordinate his
crawling muscles. His foot would move, but he couldn't
crawl. This was the exact reaction that I had seen in
Mark Episcopatus after Art Textile had stung him, and
I knew that it didn't bode well. Eduardo remained in the
same location for the next three days, except for the
occasions when I removed him to verify that he was
still alive, and like Mark, after three days he was dead.
It was depressing, but life in the aquarium goes on.
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