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Traditional Cache Wood-boring Bivalves
A  cache by eph5vs20       Hidden: 5/31/2008  
Size: Size: Small (Small)      Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5      Terrain: 1.5 out of 5 (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  []
In Nevada, United States

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This cache is one in a series dedicated to amazing & unusual organisms. I am astounded by the amazing diversity of plant and animal life that exists in this world. But the real fascination lies with those organisms that are amazing, unusual and odd.

These organisms have capabilities that we do not share and can barely imagine: extraordinary navigational methods, abilities to regenerate lost limbs, live symbiotically with light-producing bacteria, reproduce asexually, survive in suspended animation, change shape and color at will and much more!

Wood-boring Bivalves (family Pholadidae)

The ocean floor is full of life! Did you know that there are specialist deep-sea organisms dependent on sunken driftwood for survival? The wood-boring bivalves convert sunken wood into fecal pellets, which settle and attract other bottom-dwelling animals. Unlikely as it seems, trees from coastal forests must fall into the sea and eventually sink to the bottom often enough to make this strange lifestyle worthwhile.

Very few marine animals are capable of boring into wood. These bivalves (molluscs) use a combination of mechanical rasping and secretion of enzymes to work away at the wood. Wood-boring bivalves get carbon by means of their enzymes, and they have symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria that help to gather nitrogen.


Additional Hints ( Decrypt ) 

Decryption Key
A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
(letter above equals below,
and vice versa)

ebpxf (Decrypted Hints)




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Bored into wood

Wood-boring Bivalve

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 October 10 by mmta (1425 found)
The boys collected this smiley...Thanks for the information on what wood-boring bivalves are....

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 October 10 by Joey & Deb (4700 found)
Found this one quickly and moved on. TFTC!!!

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 October 9 by kydar (596 found)
Out on a friday afternoon grabbing some caches. TFTC

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 September 12 by rnlbartoli (35 found)
If anyone was watching us on the freeway they were probably wondering why we were driving in circles. It took us three tries to get on the right side of the freeway. After that we ended up walking quickly to the cache. Took nothing - left cute panda eraser. Signed log. TFTC.

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 August 29 by SewWhatReno (417 found)
Stopped to grab this one on our way South. TFTF

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Current time: 11/22/2009 6:18:58 AM
Last Updated: 10/14/2009 7:15:46 PM
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