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“Her shell is her way of feeling and saying it: mother-of-pearl, daughter of water.” The secret life of the awabi abalone.
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The Secret Life of the Awabi Abalone
She is born knowing how to swim. Her first few days of life she spends suspended in the plankton with all the other drifters, larval fishes, jellyfishes, just-hatched cephalopods, copepods, diatoms…