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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are individual whelks selecting particular prey species?
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In reply, the bookies wonder whether managing a whelk stall might be a better-sized challenge for the Jockey Club's skills.
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In the real East End you will find plates of whelks with more emotional depth.
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Not for them chirpy whelk stall amateurism or cheerful under-achieving.
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Predation concentrated on individual whelks feeding on the open rock surface.
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Rather surprisingly, the time spent boring and ingesting a meal does not vary very much for whelks of different sizes.
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The whelks may show frequency independent selection, choosing their favourite food regardless of that species' relative abundance. 2.
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The most important colour-technology in the ancient world was the manufacture of purple dye from the murex, or whelk .