{"id":41691,"date":"2022-02-14T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/feb\/14\/mumbai-marine-india-life-revealed-aoe"},"modified":"2022-02-14T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T07:15:10","slug":"every-time-the-tide-recedes-its-a-new-world-mumbais-marine-life-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41691","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every time the tide recedes, it\u2019s a new world\u2019: Mumbai\u2019s marine life revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of sea life enthusiasts is documenting a wealth of species thriving in the shadow of India\u2019s most populous city, from glowing coral to octopuses<\/p>\n<p>A hidden forest of algae sponges and hydroids photographed at low tide; a stunning night image of green button polyps under ultraviolet light; and a beautiful shot of a honeycomb moray eel stuck on a ledge on a rocky shore. Mumbai may be a bustling metropolis, but photographer Sarang Naik\u2019s aesthetic and vibrant images of marine life show a different side of the city.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarangnaikphoto.com\/\">Naik<\/a> first started exploring the coast of urban Mumbai, India\u2019s financial capital and home to Bollywood stars, he was astounded by the diversity of creatures that he came across \u2013 from hermit crabs, barnacles and a baby octopus to zoanthids (colourful disc-shaped relatives of coral) and prickly sea urchins. The intertidal zone or foreshore \u2013 where the land is exposed at low tide and is under water at high tide \u2013 is home to diverse marine life over different terrains, from mudflats to beaches and mangroves.<\/p>\n<p>Clockwise from top: a honeycomb moray eel stranded at low tide at Breach Candy; a nudibranch sea slug on coralline algae; zoanthids glowing in UV Light at Malabar Hill rocky shore; squid babies inside an egg mass; an Elysia sea slug feeding on algae in a tide pool<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/feb\/14\/mumbai-marine-india-life-revealed-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of sea life enthusiasts is documenting a wealth of species thriving in the shadow of India\u2019s most populous city, from glowing coral to octopusesA hidden forest of algae sponges and hydroids photographed at low tide; a stunning night image of gr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[973,918,2437,456,2540,65,62,468,454,467,92,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiversity","category-biology","category-coastlines","category-conservation","category-coral","category-environment","category-india","category-marine-life","category-mumbai","category-oceans","category-photography","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41691\/revisions\/41692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}