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Seed Words for Ode to the bearded toilet bowl!

GORZATA GENDER FEMININE HELL TOILETS EUROPEAN GREEN CRABS CARCINUS MAENAS INVADED EASTERN SEABOARD SINCE THEN SNAILS LIVING WITH THESE INVASIVE CRUSTACEANS HAVE DEVELOPED THICKER SHELLS--PRESUMABLY CRAB-DEFENSE RESEARCHERS STUDY PUBLISHED JOURNAL BIOLOGY LETTERS BIOLOGISTS REPORT WHAT TRIGGERS SNAILS THICKEN THEIR SHELLS EDGELL BIOLOGIST BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE BRITISH COLUMBIA AUTHOR PAPER COLLECTED INTERTIDAL WHELKS NUCELLA LAMELLOSA TYPE SNAIL--FROM AREA NORTHEAST PACIFIC WHERE INVASIVE GREEN CRABS STILL SCARCE THOSE WHELKS BEEN EXPOSED INVASIVE CRABS BEFORE EXPERIMENT ALTHOUGH THEY BEEN EXPOSED ROCK CRAB CANCER PRODUCTUS --WHICH NATIVE AREA WHELKS LIVED BESIDE AQUARIUMS CONTAINING GREEN CRABS--THE WATER FROM CRAB-CONTAINING AQUARIUM OVERFLOWED INTO WHELK BUCKETS SNAILS RECEIVING CHEMICAL EFFLUENTS THAT COMING CRABS PEES WATER SNAILS SMELL THAT THEY NEVER PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH CRAB EDGELL SAYS SUSPECTED THAT CHEMICAL SIGNALS THAT SNAILS DETECT CARRIED CRAB URINE EDGELL SAYS EDGELL DISCOVERED THAT DAYS WHELKS THAT WERE EXPOSED NATIVE CRABS--THE CRABS THEY KNOW--INCREASED THICKNESS THEIR SHELLS THREE-FOLD HOWEVER SNAILS EXPOSED INVASIVE GREEN CRABS--WHICH THEY NEVER ENCOUNTERED--SHOWED RESPONSE SNAILS APPEAR DETECT INVASIVE CRABS PREDATORS MEANS THAT SOMETHING ABOUT SMELL NATIVE CRABS DIFFERENT THAN SMELL THESE EXOTIC CRABS SNAILS KNOW THAT EDGELL EXPLAINS ALSO MEANS THAT SNAILS HAVE EVOLVED DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THESE CRABS EDGELL SAYS PROCESS WHICH SNAILS FROM RECOGNIZING GREEN CRABS RESPONDING THEM COULD HAPPEN EITHER THROUGH EVOLUTION ASSOCIATION EDGELL SAYS IT'S EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE SNAILS THAT RESPOND PREDATOR FAVORED THEIR GENES DISPERSE MORE QUICKLY THIS TYPE GENETIC SHIFT POPULATION WOULD LIKELY TAKE LONG TIME EDGELL SAYS OTHER POSSIBILITY THAT SNAILS LEARN INVASIVE CRABS DANGEROUS ASSOCIATION WHEN GREEN CRABS COME AREA THEY START KILLING SNAILS--WHICH ALSO PRODUCES SMELL KNOWN THAT SNAILS RECOGNIZE SCENT DYING SNAILS SAYS EDGELL WITHIN GENERATION SNAILS COULD START ASSOCIATE SNAIL DEATH WITH GREEN CRAB SMELL ASSOCIATION THEY LEARN RESPOND GREEN CRAB EDGELL SAYS WHATEVER DRIVES SNAIL'S SHELL DEFENSE FOOLPROOF GREEN CRABS HAVE ADAPTED EDGELL SAYS LOOK SNAILS EAST COAST WHERE GREEN CRABS SNAILS HAVE LIVED TOGETHER HUNDREDS YEARS WHEREVER FIND POPULATION SNAILS THAT HAVE VERY THICK SHELLS WOMBLED ANUS THREADS SINGING ANUS LAUGHING TOILETS'

Thanks to BRANDEN MAX IO RIEN Bunnsnapper for these words.

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