86. A Soft Collision

The slow-motion pace of this website over recent months is in good accord with this post, which chronicles an encounter between two gastropods under the sea.

On the left, above, we have Hypselodoris bennetti, a nudibranch; on the right, much larger, a Rose Bubble Shell, Hydatina physis. I came across them at Nelson Bay. The initial scene was like this:

Two gastropods, minding their own business. But the nudibranch turned, and soon they were on a collision course, as in the first photo above.

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