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The Energy Crisis: S?
BY BILL FAVER
Most animals spend much of their time searching
for food. For them a great deal of energy is required in
hunting and the key to staying
s * \ alive is locating food containing
x more energy than they consume in
animal scientists even
mlV have an equation: Net energy gain
jEpBgy divided by time spent hunting
fSsjjSte?Lj equals energy from food collected
divided by time spent searching,
pursuing, preparing, and eating.
faver This equation applies to the birds
and insects as well as the larger predatory animals.
Many birds become specialists in searching for
their food. Ospreys, hawks, and owls cover wide areas,
circling overhead or perching on a tall tree, as they use
keen eyesight to sort our their prey.
Many of the herons and egrets seem to stake out a
systematic path as they cover a marsh or shoreline
looking for snails, fish, fiddlers, frogs, and snakes.
The Green-backed Heron is an exception. It
prefers to position itself on a low shrub near the water
and wait for minnows to swim by. The Green-backed
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Celebrate Coast /
To get landlubbers more involved seafood and educ
in preserving the North Carolina about the coastal en
coast, WRAL-TV in Raleigh is Sea Grant and E
hosting a Carolina Coastal Celebra- sponsors will staff b
tion April 8 and 9 at the Kerr Scott day event
Building on the N.C. State
Fairgrounds in Raleigh. The fair is the late
The free event will showcase tradi- station's ongoing coi
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jarching Or Waiting
down below its feet to snatch a fish.
Unlike the "searchers," the "waiters" can get by
on less food. They don't expend as much energy getting
food, so their needs are less. The waiters are dependent
upon food that moves?that will come to them. There
are many examples of the waiters in the ocean?sea
anemones, barnacles, oysters, parchment worms and
others. Many are "filter-feeders," straining nutrients
from the water that passes through their bodies.
Some of the waiters employ ambush strategies,
snagging victims as they pass by. Some of the insects
are masters at setting traps. The ant lion, or "doodle
bug," digs its cone-shaped hole in the sand, waits for an
unsuspecting ant to fall in, and then sucks out the body
fluids.
Spiders, of course, spin webs and wait for insects to
become entangled. A few animals, including insects,
even use a lure or tool to help in their feeding.
Animals have an energy crisis each day as they
use energy to search for food or to wait until a meal
comes along. Pollution, storms, habitat destruction
and disease may wipe out their food supplies and cuse
them to use more energy than they can replace. When
this happens, they, too, become weak and vulnerable,
susceptible to disease and predation. Such is life
among the searchers and the waiters!
\t Raleigh Fair
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leach Sweep '89 "Troubled Waters," and the booklet
ooths at the two- "Sound Advice," a resource guidt
that tells inland residents how theii
actions affect the coastal environ
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nmitment to ad- Raleigh that featured former CBi
acing the state's anchor Walter Cronkite.
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visitors without a very necessary iT'T'/flT*
high-rise bridge that is desperately
needed for safety, convenience, and
practicality.
It is time that the Sunset Beach f
council served the majority of its
patrons?not its own provincialism Ivfjj^^OpTT
and personal interests. ulUT 1 I II
(Paul J. Skiver
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Officials cqq 71
Elected To
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I Take Stand
To the editor:
I received this anonymously in the 0s* _ _
mail this week and would like to
share it. I would like to thank all the Main S
marvelous supporters who elected
members of this (Sunset Beach)
council because they were willing to jraHKjgaagfflMB
take a stand to maintain the small
beach atmosphere and orderly
growth of our beloved area.
Our supporters moved and came to e^~~~
this area to avoid a Myrtle Beach en- ^ N^
vironment and were willing to elect \ J*
I officials who supported their views. \ ?
Katherine Hill Peed '
I Sunset Beach
; (Editor's note: The writer is a
member of the Sunset Beach Town V 1^*4 ! J
Council. Following is the text of what MaSaAJMJm
she received anonymously in the
mail:) ..
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the man tcho points out hoic the strong __
man stumbled or whtre the doer of Kf Mi
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