Aplysia Biting Behavior

We have digitized a single spontaneous bite of Aplysia californica. The animal has positioned itself under the water surface (as they often do) displaying its tentacles (anterior) to the top of the screen. The video is 8s long and displays the open lips, the opening of the jaws, the protraction of the radula (big cream colored tongue like organ) in the open state, the closure of the radula, the retraction of the radula in the closed state and the closing of the jaws:

Video Format	FileSize
MPEG2:
720x480	3,977,220
160x120	828,947
Windows Media:
800x600	1,482,005
160x120	154,646
RealPlayer:
600x800	722,744
160x120	103,882
Quicktime:
800x600	2,602,794
176x144	123,925

Humor (you may have to turn up your speakers):
3.8MB - 800K

:-)