And so what we did is we have two oysters that are stuck together, and this area used to be completely filled in with the cement, and what we're finding is that the cement has lots of different components in there, but broadly speaking, there are hard, non-sticky parts and there are soft, sticky parts, and what we did is we removed the non-sticky parts selectively to see what's left for what's actually attaching the animals, and what we got is this, and we can see there's this sticky adhesive that's holding them together.
Temos duas ostras que estão ligadas e esta área estava totalmente coberta de cola. Descobrimos que a cola tem muitos componentes diferentes, mas, falando em termos gerais, há partes duras, não são pegajosas e há partes macias, pegajosas. Removemos as partes não pegajosas, seletivamente, para vermos o que restava para o que ligava os animais e obtivemos isto, vemos que é uma cola pegajosa que as está a manter unidas.