Someday, I will take a vacation in Whyalla
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Posted on: August 13, 2006 3:25 PM, by PZ Myers
There's an offshore show I'd like to catch.
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Head-to-head insemination...seems so much more romantic then what we have. We don't even have to look at each other while we're porking away. Makes me wonder if imsemination was head-to-head in humans, would sex be so demonized? Or would we all go around with veils over our mouths, even when eating?
Posted by: Rey Fox | August 13, 2006 4:51 PM
What a show! I'd love to see that one too.
Posted by: Paguroidea | August 13, 2006 5:09 PM
"The giant cuttlefish - about as big as a medium dog - mate in shallow water near the shore, making the show easily accessible for snorkellers as well as scuba divers."
OK, can someone tell me how big a medium dog is? Give up? Wiki says these guys grow up to 1.5 meters and live for 3 years. Another site says they can weigh 5 Kg. That's some cuttlefish.
Posted by: Ryogam | August 13, 2006 5:18 PM
They're hefty, them Giant Cuttlefish. They've got some in the Melbourne Aquarium, which are a couple of feet long in the mantle. They seem to swap the cuttlefish tank about fairly frequently.
Oh, and the Giant Squid Encased In Ice is still on display for a few more weeks at least...
Posted by: Charlie B. | August 13, 2006 7:59 PM
Trust me, they'd be the only reason to visit Whyalla ...
Posted by: Snail | August 14, 2006 12:44 AM
Been to Whyalla twice. First time was on a holiday! Dad took us to see the Whyalla Steelworks in the late sixties. Second time was when we had a Rangelands ecology field trip nearby in the early eighties. I was taken to Whyalla hospital with an infection from all the scratches on my legs. One of the projects was doing shifts (using an IR rifle scope at night) recording sheep movements then collecting the egesta at the end of it all. Our data didn't correlate very well unfortunately.
I have never seen a giant cuttlefish but have seen a smaller species on the Yorke Peninsula to the SE of Whyalla across Spencer's Gulf. Cuttlefish have to be one of my favourite animals of the sea.
Posted by: Anthony David | August 16, 2006 1:35 AM