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My first encounter with Hanauma Bay was an ambivalent experience because although Hanauma Bay is panoramic and filled with diverse marine life, I had to observe all of this with a debilitating fever and sore throat. However, I did manage to find an untended area where a predator-prey relationship existed. This relationship was between saltwater Blennies and algae. ======

The Blennies appear to be specialist hunters, as they are only capable of preying on defenseless organisms such as seaweed. The seaweed does not appear to have any means of avoiding predation, and is therefore subject to the appetite and population count of the Blennies. This could possibly lead to little or no food for the Blennies, but there is one other key factor. The caricature-sized tails of the Blennies enable them to leap from one tide-pool to another tide-pool a few inches away. With this inherited variation, the Blenn ies are allowed more resources than they initially had at their place of birth, or that one tide-pool can provide.

Although Hanauma Bay prohibits interfering with marine life, Blenn ies seem to have a natural fear of organisms larger than them, such as humans. When I approached their tide-pools, one Blenn y leaped out of his/her tide-pool and dived into an adjacent tide-pool. The other Blenn ies in the first tide-pool swam beneath a rocky submarine overhang; all except one Blenn y who remained motionless under my scrutiny. This Blenn y appeared to be asleep or recently deceased, for its body showed no signs of decomposition or fatal wounds. He/she was lying in the shallow, sandy rim of the tide-pool, while the other <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Blenn <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">ies remained shy and somewhat hidden beneath their inch-tall overhang. <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> I initially set out in search of the predator-prey relationship between silver "Jack" fish and "Ohole Ole", having obtained advice from the Hanauma Bay movie guide. However, I could not find any silver "Jack" fish, so I cast about for an alternative predator-prey relationship and found the <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Blenn <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">y populated tide-pools. <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> I was unable to obtain photographs of the tide-pools because the surrounding rock surface was extremely slippery and I did not want to risk exposing my MacBook laptop to water. Upon my next visit, I will bring galoshes and a di<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">gital camera, so that my gallery will contain evidence of my claims. <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Soon you will be able to gaze upon the cuddly rotund <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Blenn <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">ies in their eight-inch wide tide-pools, and assure me that these are really <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Blenn <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">ies that I see, or some other species of marine life that I as a non-fishing individual am ignorant of.

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