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To test the range of the animals' reactions, Relyea raised six species of tadpoles in tubs equipped with a mesh cage holding a predator, such as a dragonfly larva or giant water bug. The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn't, particularly, not even inside the goldfish bowl--but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, fringed tangle. Then he takes viewers underwater to witness a startling attack by the rice paddy's most vicious predator, the giant water bug. |
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