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Mussels grow a thick skin against a crab bully
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Aug. 13, 2006
"Grow thicker skin" is what people tell us when a bully bothers us. Atlantic mussels are even taking the advice and doing so quickly.
About 15 years ago an Asian shore crab named Hemigrapsus sanguineus moved in to the Atlantic mussels'' Atlantic Ocean neighborhood around New Jersey and found the mussels very tasty.
These Asian crabs are called an "invaders" because they don''t belong in the Atlantic Ocean. They have made themselves at home and moved as far south as North Carolina and as far north as Maine. And, they still enjoy eating the mussels.
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