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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
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January 5, 2009
Dolphins Wear Sponge Nose Guards to Forage
Category: dolphin
In the 1980's female dolphins were first seen using sponges as a foraging tool to protect their noses while digging at the ocean floor for prey. New research, however, conducted by a team from Georgetown University (go Hoyas, biotches!) has taken a much more comprehensive look at this use of tools by dolphins.
So they can use tools. But this dolphin has clearly not yet mastered the use of female contraception.
Professor Janet Mann of Georgetown looked at a population of bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay in Western Australia to observe the sponging behavior. Only female dolphins were witnessed using sponges as a means to protect their noses while disturbing the ocean floor, and only 11% seemed to display this behavior. When they located prey, the dolphins would drop the sponges and attack it, only to pick back up their tools when they were finished. Professor Mann concluded that females learned this behavior while still weaning (while male dolphins preferred to socialize during this time). She also found that the female dolphins who used sponges (spongers), "were more solitary, spent more time in deep water channel habitats, dived for longer durations, and devoted more time to foraging than non-spongers."
Previously, chimpanzees were the only vertebrates observed habitually using tools to hunt for prey, so this study has significant ramifications. In fact, Professor Mann told the Daily Mail that the spongers spend "more time hunting with tools than any nonhuman animal." Probably more than some human animals as well!
Her research can be found in December's issue of PLoS ONE.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 5:32 PM • 8 Comments
January 3, 2009
Hot Peppermint Stick Bug Action!
Once again Zooillogix reader-in-the-field extraordinaire Tweet Gainsborough-Waring (yes, that is her real awesome name), delivers the steamy shots you all have been unwittingly waiting for:
Peppermint Stick Insects getting down in Queensland, Australia!
LonelyPeppermintStick23 - Looking for a male who knows his way around an ovipositor and isn't afraid to get kinky with your Malpighian tubules? Call tonight as I only live for another 3 days.
Tweet was kind enough to share the following info on these stunning critters:
The spikey -leaved pandanus palms bordering the beach provide the perfect habitat for the Peppermint Stick insect (Megacrania batesii) which is only found along the beaches of Cape Tribulation, Innisfail and Mission Beach, a stone's throw from the Daintree rainforest.
Masters of camouflage they are not easy to see as they lie in tender embrace along the rib of the palm leaf. The giveaway is to look for the leaves which have been eaten. The females are not big movers as they feed, shelter, mate and lay eggs in this virtually self-contained habitat.
The females emit a pheromone to attract males when ready to breed, and once laid the eggs roll down into the axil of the leaf where they incubate.
They are slender in shape ranging from different shades of green, to almost blue. At first glance it looked to me almost like a syringe or chemical phial its colour and delineation of shape was so perfect. Although they have six legs they use only their fore and mid legs to move
Both male and female insects have wings, with those of the male larger than the female. The bigger wings are to enable the males to fly longer distances in search of a mate.
The wings also act as a defence mechanism against predators like birds, normally folded neatly along the body they can be quickly opened to provide a flash of colour, enough to stop a predator momentarily in its tracks and allow the insect to escape.
Their common name is derived from the substance they emit if frightened which has a distinct peppermint smell.
More info here http://www.wettropics.gov.au/pa/pa_stick_insects.html
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December 30, 2008
Wow...Shape Shifting Owl
Category: owl • weird japanese
Via Cute Overload and NVDH.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 7:58 PM • 16 Comments
December 28, 2008
Four Clawed Mutant Lobster
Category: crustacean • lobster
We (I) here at Zooillogix have a thing for lobsters. It involves Belgium, pasta tongs, and a Dutch boy named Lourens. I'll leave it at that.
Anyway, this mutant lobster was pulled out of the briny depths near Newport, RI earlier this month. Lobsterman Patrick Marks sometimes releases lobster "when they look at him funny" and so this almost-Pokemon-character was returned to the sea after a day-long publicity tour.
Posted by ableiman at 3:13 PM • 11 Comments
December 22, 2008
Amazing Plankton Pics
Category: Plankton
Worm larva
Dr Richard Kirkby, a Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth in the UK, took these stunning up-close photos of plankton. He will be revealing the photos of at an exhibition at Blue Reef, Blue Planet and Deep Sea World aquariums in England throughout 2009.
Spider crab larva
Metroid villain
Many more below the fold...
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 3:10 PM • 6 Comments
Shark Jumps out of Tank into Pool at Atlantis Bahamas
From ABC4.com: A shark managed to jump out of its aquarium and onto a water slide at a hotel swimming pool used by guests. No one was in the pool at the time. The female reef shark leapt over the one foot high barrier and slid down the slide known as the Leap of Faith at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas.
Slide goes in the water?
You go in the water.
Shark's in the water.
Sadly the pool chlorine and the shark didn't mix and the reef shark died shortly thereafter... but I can only hope that when it is my time to go, it is via a waterslide.
Posted by ableiman at 2:18 PM • 9 Comments
December 17, 2008
December 16, 2008
Over 1000 New Species Discovered along the Mekong River
Category: new species
Researchers have released the findings of a ten year study into the wildlife of the Greater Mekong River area in Southeast Asia -- Over 1000 new species discovered!
Before you all break into a heated, name-calling brawl on whether these should actually be called "new species" or "species that are new to science" or "species that are new to 'Western' science", allow Andrew and me to put the issue to rest: These species should be considered not only new species to science, but new species to humanity and to the world, as this is the first time that Western scientists, i.e. imporant people, have made their acquaintence. Hopefully, that fact will quell any fiery debate before it begins.
Here are some pics from the nationalgeographic.com article on the subject.
This adorable shocking pink, dragon millipede shoots cyanide at you when disturbed...true. Fun fact #2: If one of these attacks you in a dream, you will still bear the scars when you awake!
With a legspan of over 12 inches, this newly discovered Laotian Heteropoda maxima spider maybe the largest spider in the world. I'd like to wear one as a hat!
More below the fold...
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 3:41 PM • 16 Comments
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