Dear All,



Yesterday I mailed around Marine Life for Conchology, Inc, with 6
photographs of a Tonna perdix attacking a holoturian.

I shot these photos 12 m deep, south Siquijor, the Philippines, during
a night dive. The attack lasted hardly longer than 5 minutes.

Yesterday evening when discussing with my friends around a good wine,
we came up with the idea that the holoturian did not eject his
Cuvierian tubules.

So, should there be a possibility that this perdix was just milking in
some way the holoturian and eating the Cuvierian tubules ?

Any other observations or statements on this ?


Take a look at the events between the Tonna and the holoturian on:

http://www.conchology.be/en/Cyberconchology/MarineLife/marinelife.php

(last issue: 37 (on top)



Guido
www.conchology.be

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