Binet was there; that is to say, a little lower down against the terrace wall, fishing for crayfish. Bovary invited him to have a drink, and he thoroughly understood the uncorking of the stone bottles.
The prototype SHRIMP was built and machined in the Earth Science department's own workshops, and looked like something that had been built from spare parts on a budget, but it worked great.
Those are the things that hold soil together, protect coasts, create habitats for all sorts of young fish, young shrimp, all sorts of things that are important to this environment.
They have stinging cells in their tentacles that allows them to paralyze their prey—usually small fish, or shrimp—and then move them towards their mouth.