From The Editorial Desk
Thursday, March 30, 2000
Under the pier on Cannery Row, starfish are on the hunt. The Pisasters are creeping up the slimy poles that held the canneries in place. A camera catches purple, orange and brown arms climbing and slithering their way, bit by bit, to where patches of blue-black mussels live adjoined to the poles, their shells slightly open to catch their food. A starfish reaches a mussel, which snaps shut but cannot withstand the strength of its predator. A tiny endoscopic camera inside the mussel films the starfish's legs prying open the mussel's shell. For the first time ever, this camera captures the starfish inverting its stomach inside its prey, where acids will break down the flesh. Sated, the starfish recoils from the mussel shell, leaving it clean and empty of life, swaying open in the surge.
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