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Reef Life

Flowers as Weapons, The Boxer Crab

A tiny reef crab that turned defense into choreography: it holds a stinging anemone in each claw, ready to fight like a boxer wearing flowered gloves.

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Field notes

Lybia tessellata carries one small stinging anemone in each claw and waves them at anything that gets too close, a genuine defense strategy documented in the wild, not an artistic embellishment. The illustration keeps that behaviour as the whole composition: two raised claws, two pom-pom anemones, nothing else competing for attention.

Painted in loose brushwork over a solid red panel and printed on the back of a grey melange tee, the palette does the opposite of camouflage: it puts a millimetre-scale reef crab where it can actually be seen. Part of the WildLifeThings Reef Life collection.

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