Crypsis
Crypsis is essentially the ability for an organism to hide from another organism. The Eastern King Prawn utilizes its ability to burrow in sediment to reduce the chance of predation(Ochwada-Doyle et al. 2010). Prawns come out during the night to feed and retreat back to the sediment during the day(Griffiths 1999).
The 2 pictures below show a prawn digging(top), and the camouflage gained by burrowing(bottom). The far bottom video shows the whole sequence, with one prawn disturbing another.
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Figure 11: 2 shot sequence of prawn burrowing
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Figure 12: video of burrowing
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