tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66153961385583164162024-03-05T07:21:00.005-05:00FishSchticksAlex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-8428475368624831222013-07-15T22:22:00.003-04:002013-07-15T22:50:53.862-04:00Crocodile tears<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Credit to Rad for the inspiration, one of the few environmental pollution papers I remember from chem. oce.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Google chow: The real reason behind crocodile tears, tiny penises</span></div>
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Thanks to Rad Murphy for the inspiration.Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-58265981998258480602012-10-14T17:39:00.003-04:002012-10-14T17:52:12.558-04:00Nudi got branch<div style="text-align: center;">
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Somewhat related: did you all hear about the <a href="http://io9.com/5942612/meet-the-glassfrog-an-otherworldly-amphibian-with-a-completely-transparent-underbelly">frog with the transparent belly</a>?Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-52399275084866486142012-09-01T16:22:00.000-04:002012-09-05T14:06:13.159-04:00Some lesser known plankter species.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_particle_water_pollution">Nurdles for turtles</a><br />
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During my semester in Bermuda, my class went on a blue-water dive armed with BCD pockets full of Ziplocks to collect plankton as they drifted by. One of the divers in my class collected this very strange worm. Upon closer inspection, the worm turned out to be a planktonic piece of spaghetti. The rolling swells of the deep water had apparently caused one of the students on the boat to lose his lunch.Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-85926090657309855592012-08-30T00:58:00.001-04:002014-08-13T15:33:06.475-04:00Those Cuckolding Cetaceans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-42650777161717052432012-08-24T22:38:00.002-04:002012-08-25T13:16:05.563-04:00Fishy Physiology - Boozing with BubblesEver wonder why goldfish can live for such a long time in a a tiny bowl with no aeration?<br />
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Goldfish, like all animals, prefer to extract energy from whatever delicious things they're able to find and eat through aerobic respiration. First, with some metabolic magic known as glycolosis, glucose is converted to pyruvate, releasing a small amount of energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This pyruvate then makes it's way to the mitochondria where through some craziness known at the Krebs cycle it is oxidized to form even more ATPs (Like 8 of them!).</div>
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Last month we learned that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/science/whales-show-signs-of-coping-with-man-made-noise-underwater.html?_r=3" target="_blank">whales are able to "block their ears" to cope with loud noises</a>. While whales probably aren't stuffing kelp in their ears whenever a cruise ship plows by (<i>science fact: toothed whales actually do a lot of their hearing through the pan bone, a fat filled window in their jaw</i>), researchers are still in the dark as to the exact mechanisms of this acoustic alleviation.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">On a side note, I had the privilege of meeting Kina the false killer whale (the subject of this research) while spending a semester at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. You might have heard of his famous wholphin roommate <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7508288/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/whale-dolphin-hybrid-has-baby-wholphin/#.UC53SNCe49A" target="_blank">Kekaimalu</a>.</span></div>
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<br />Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-81654098813466925962012-08-12T22:39:00.003-04:002012-08-12T22:39:59.515-04:00Yes, I know the pinnae make it a sea lion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-25913930403555688812012-08-09T16:55:00.000-04:002012-08-09T17:01:51.048-04:00Eh... not good eats.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-37121045801315400312012-07-27T17:15:00.001-04:002012-07-27T17:15:26.628-04:00Going for the Gold(fish)Image quality's not great today; the scanner is down so I took these with my camera.<div>
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</div>Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-15455195456768422592012-07-09T07:51:00.000-04:002012-07-09T07:51:09.754-04:00Less trolling, more shoaling, happier fish.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-62561690383818151042012-07-06T19:40:00.000-04:002012-07-06T19:40:15.703-04:00Elephant seals are the Cyranos of the Southern Seas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-85081673751225826972012-06-30T16:52:00.001-04:002012-07-01T06:36:10.066-04:00Fish Facts # 2: Fish Balls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In a recently published study, scientists found that removing the gonads from at least one species of fish caused decreased growth rates, suggesting that fish balls play a role similar to the pituitary gland.</div>
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Even when surgically transplanted to nonsense locations, fish nuts allowed for normal growth rates.</div>
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Further research is required to evaluate the growth promoting properties of multiple sets of fish testicles.<br />
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As well as other possible side affects of increased naddage.<br />
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read more about the actual research <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/06/scienceshot-all-hail-the-gonads.html?ref=hp" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<br /></div>Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-28219633377075079762012-06-27T12:31:00.000-04:002012-06-27T12:31:14.697-04:00Gadid in the Guggenheim<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-8635124856494053512012-06-25T11:03:00.000-04:002012-06-25T11:24:34.281-04:00Just lookin' for some tail.Here's a comic partly inspired by the story of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/science/21whal.html" target="_blank">52 Hertz</a>.<br />
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<br />Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-63723817765741154872012-06-22T07:36:00.000-04:002012-06-22T07:36:06.944-04:00Introducing Squid Diapers!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Alex Paradisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235621722487479917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615396138558316416.post-59707805386034831732012-06-17T21:27:00.000-04:002012-06-17T21:27:52.086-04:00Fashionable Fishes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Did you know the Jewfish (<i>Epinephelus itajara,</i> renamed the goliath grouper in an effort to be more politically correct) was likely so named because these grouper have both scales and fins and are therefore kosher.<br />
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Ichthys on the other hand lacks both, and is therefore avoided by those who observe kashruth.</div>
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