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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1995-09-13  |  978.7 KB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  45 seconds
Transcription: Shrimp are a popular food for people and for ocean animals. Fish, crabs, anemones, and octopuses eat shrimp. A shrimp can bend because its shell has joints. As it grows, a shrimp sheds its shell and grows a larger one. Red rock shrimp clean moray eels by eating bits of dead eel skin. The shrimp also eat tiny harmful animals called parasites that live on the eels. Because the shrimp help keep the eels healthy, the eels do not eat the shrimp. Mantis shrimp have powerful arm-like body parts. They can stab or smash other animals. Mantis shrimp have been known to break the glass of laboratory aquar ...