The first spine of the dorsal fin of the anglerfish acts as a fishing rod with a lure. – Wikipedia From A-Z Animals: The Sweet Mysteries of Life Oh, it gets weirder…. Anticipating your Next Question Mama’s Hungry! Cool NOAA video…. We learn that one species of anglerfish can swallow fish that are twice it’s […]
WLBOTT Division of Oceanic Research and Kinetics(WLBOTT-DORK) has just come across an extremely cool omnivorous crab. The Sally Lightfoot crab (Graspus graspus) is rumored to have been named after a Caribbean dancer, because they are agile and fast. – Neat-o-rama Basically this poor guy has to take a long day’s journey (when the tide is out) […]
Today’s BLOTT has an interesting stream of consciousness. It started with a conversation with UC#3: “How hard can it be to tune your own piano?” [ed. note: very hard] Which led to…. Which somehow led to solving the seemingly easy, but actually really difficult problem: [from UC#3] I have spent many hours and actually have […]
This is part of an ongoing WLBOTT series: Weird Foods We’ve Eaten. Sea Cucumber Fun Facts Dude…. Habitat Bottom of the sea…. Defense Mechanism Marauding herds of Sea Cumbers Do we need to put this on our list of anxieties? Yes. Yes we do. The Canadian Connection: Rosalyn/Atlantic Sea Cucumber Company As it happens, as […]
Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #2 for today’s topic. It would be impossible for me to provide any value-add to this, other than to say that during the course of this 4:11 video, you will learn of roving gangs of stoned adolescent male bottle-nose dolphins, spy-camera sea turtles, and neurotoxins.
Getting started…. Started writing this post about favorite / least favorite insects, but ended up writing about the LEAST favorite. Fascination took over. The thought process reminds me of a song by Kris Kristofferson: I started writing a song about Chris Gentry and ended up writing about Dennis Hopper, Johnny Cash… Norman, Norbert, Funky Donnie […]
As a child, I was fascinated with the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies. What an idyllic life! A loving family, living in a tree house, no boring school all day, ostrich eggs over easy for breakfast, and a pet chimpanzee. Every day was a field day with a picnic. And Tarzan had a magic word! Ungawa! […]