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I have pondered as to this habit of the varo, and have tried to persuade me that the male, being a courteous shrimp, he is a kind of mantis-shrimp, combats the intruding hooks first in order to protect his loved one; but the grapnel is baited with fish, and though masculine pride would insist that chivalry urges varo homme to defend his domestic shrine, fishers for the tidbit say that he is after the bait, and holds to it so tightly that he sacrifices his life.
The creatures are poisonous when alive, however, and revenge a blow of careless hand or foot by wounds that are long in healing. We found lobsters among the rocks, too, and on some beaches a strange kind of lobsterish delicacy called in Tahiti varo, a kind of mantis-shrimp that looks like a superlatively villainous centipede.
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