Mary's Monday Metazoan: Bouquet for the Trophy Wife™

Awww. That's beautiful. And you don't even have to water it.

Pretty.

That might get her attention.

with anemones like that, who needs fronds?

D'awww!

@Sven DiMilo #4
There's nothing like a good joke. Good thing that really was nothing like a good joke.

Yeah, deraimis, never mind your friends when you have such anemonies.

Beautiful creatures! IIRC, a documentary on PBS stated that anemones are capable of not dying of old age. Can some verify that, or did INRC?

Dear SvenDiMilo....

Hahahahahahaaahaah!!!!

That was both hilarious and adorable. And now I'm in the mood for Finding Nemo.

Of course it's not original.

As a matter of weird fact, I remember exactly from where I stole that joke. It was the liner notes of a Dave Brubeck album, quoting Paul Desmond. I read it before 1977 for sure.
What an awesome organ is the brain!

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade.

We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus' garden near a cave

Beautiful, but the shot reminds me of this link:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/27/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-poster…

A killing beauty, the poison paradise. Pain and pleasure combining to intensify and confuse.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p

Vicious carnivorous denizens of the deep, gorgeous!

Mmmmmm, posies with a pang.

And Sven, oy, you make it redundant. With fiends like you, who needs anemones? However, anemone of yours is anemone of mine.

Ron Sullivan, worshipper of Clo the Cow
http://toad.faultline.org

What an awesome organ is the brain!

Another awesome organ.

Here's a bit of sea anemone reproduction trivia - "The sexes in sea anemones are separate for some species while some are hermaphroditic. Both sexual and asexual reproduction may occur. In sexual reproduction males release sperm to stimulate females to release eggs, and fertilization occurs. Anemones eject eggs and sperm through the mouth. The fertilized egg develops into a planula, which settles and grows into a single polyp. Anemones can also reproduce asexually, by budding, binary fission (the polyp separates into two halves), and pedal laceration, in which small pieces of the pedal disc break off and regenerate into small anemones."
~Wikipedia

Anemones eject eggs and sperm through the mouth.

Anemones ingest and excrete everything through the mouth. It's the only orifice they have. Gets an eeeew from the kiddies every time.

BS

#7

Beautiful creatures! IIRC, a documentary on PBS stated that anemones are capable of not dying of old age. Can some verify that, or did INRC?

Since creatures that reproduce by fission don't have ancestors or descendants as such, the statement is meaningless.

BS

ok surely you remember the old Bennet Sirf(?) punch line?.......With fronds like those who needs anemones?

anemones are capable of not dying of old age

Imaginable. Apparently that's the case for turtles (though, unsurprisingly, that research is still ongoing).

Fooled me. I thought the post about the masturbating elephants was the MMM. This is more aesthetically pleasant.

IIRC, a documentary on PBS stated that anemones are capable of not dying of old age. - Gyeong Hwa Pak, Lao Daung Duen

Oh, I'm capable of that. All I need is to jump off a sufficiently high building, and I can be pretty sure of not dying of old age!