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Xenophora (Greek for "bearing strangers") mollusks are called "carrier-shell" mollusks because they deliberately pick up empty shells, fragments of shells, or small rocks and cement them to its own shell as a form of camouflage. Yet the animal is essentially blind. How would this small animal know that other animals hunt for it using their vision and respond by camouflaging its' shell? Could this behavior reveal the presence and power of a Divine Designer who understands what Xenophora does not? Uplook Magazine May-June 2008, p.8. References: J.L. Douglass, John Douglass (illustrated by), Roger Tory Peterson (series editor), Peterson First Guide to Shells of North America (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1998).
By Dr. Michael Windheuser, Ph.D.5
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Xenophora (Greek for "bearing strangers") mollusks are called "carrier-shell" mollusks because they deliberately pick up empty shells, fragments of shells, or small rocks and cement them to its own shell as a form of camouflage. Yet the animal is essentially blind. How would this small animal know that other animals hunt for it using their vision and respond by camouflaging its' shell? Could this behavior reveal the presence and power of a Divine Designer who understands what Xenophora does not? Uplook Magazine May-June 2008, p.8. References: J.L. Douglass, John Douglass (illustrated by), Roger Tory Peterson (series editor), Peterson First Guide to Shells of North America (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1998).