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Description: In an aquarium setting, when offered a choice of equal numbers of each size mussel, the shore crab (Carcinus maenas) prefers intermediate-sized mussels that provide the highest rate of energy return. Profitability is the energy yield (joules) per second of time used in breaking open the shell.
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