With favorable space at a premium, and intense competition and predation, gathering is a way of life in the intertidal.
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intertidal scene
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Note: Little brown barnacles, Chthamalus dalli, featured in the image at the top of this post, don’t pack as tightly as some other barnacles, but they still gather in favorable spaces.
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