Bivalves
This reading profile brings together 2 source-linked articles that reference bivalves.
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- Field guideWhy sea otters use toolsA hard object can act as a hammer, a portable chest anvil, or a fixed anvil, letting an otter pry loose or fracture prey that teeth and paws alone handle less efficiently. The behavior is flexible rather than compulsory, and it is especially associated with hard-shelled snails and bivalves.
- Field guideHow corals build reefsA coral reef is built colony by colony and generation by generation. Living polyps add skeletal cups at the surface, while older skeletons, binding organisms, sediments, growth, breakage, and erosion shape the framework below.