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The Natural World

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Re: The Natural World

#441 Post by Alan H » July 10th, 2012, 3:10 pm

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Clam eats salt:

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#442 Post by Dave B » July 10th, 2012, 5:03 pm

I reckon the clam is trying to move. I know some do this by flipping themselves using their "foot" (not their tongue, they are filter feeders). It can't get a grip on the smooth table top so tries further out.
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Re: The Natural World

#443 Post by Tetenterre » July 10th, 2012, 5:25 pm

Hmm. I sometimes use salt crystals to exterminate the molluscs (gastropod, not bivalve) that invade the house through the air-vents.
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Re: The Natural World

#444 Post by Gottard » July 11th, 2012, 8:00 pm

I wonder what happens to her organism after having absorbed raw-dry salt? Will it survive?
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#445 Post by Dave B » July 11th, 2012, 8:13 pm

From the drips I am guessing that it might be causing the clam to loose water - not a good idea for an aquatic animal on dry land.

Actually the makers of the film should probably be reported to the nearest animal protection agency for causing unnecessary suffering!
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Re: The Natural World

#446 Post by Alan H » July 11th, 2012, 9:23 pm

The one that got away. Thankfully.
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#447 Post by Dave B » July 11th, 2012, 10:01 pm

:laughter:
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#448 Post by Alan C. » July 11th, 2012, 10:20 pm

[Some] Americans can be very excitable.
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#449 Post by Alan H » July 11th, 2012, 10:46 pm

Alan C. wrote:[Some] Americans can be very excitable.
Yeah. It was only a shark... :D
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Re: The Natural World

#450 Post by Alan H » July 15th, 2012, 12:12 pm

Translucent Ants Photographed Eating Colored Liquids
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#451 Post by Dave B » July 15th, 2012, 1:23 pm

Great! Bit like the honey-pot ants where some members have distended abdomens and act as living storage vessels. They can be the size of small grapes.
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#452 Post by Kismet » July 16th, 2012, 4:30 am

Dave B wrote: People, and animals, pick these ants and "pop" them in their mouths.
Find that cruel. Is that an irrational feeling to have?
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#453 Post by Dave B » July 16th, 2012, 9:55 am

Kismet wrote:
Dave B wrote: People, and animals, pick these ants and "pop" them in their mouths.
Find that cruel. Is that an irrational feeling to have?
I do not think so, perhaps even individual ants have a right to existence. So why do I feel a bit uneasy about "popping" a honey-pot ant in my mouth yet will poison hundreds to prevent them invading my house?

One is immediate/personal the other deferred/remote, the difference between shooting a person face to face and launching a missile at them - is that the only difference?

(Actually I do feel a small twinge of remorse about applying the poison, but only a very small one!)
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Re: The Natural World

#454 Post by Alan H » July 23rd, 2012, 4:19 pm

Wow!

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#455 Post by Dave B » July 23rd, 2012, 5:13 pm

Likewise, wow!
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Re: The Natural World

#456 Post by Alan H » July 31st, 2012, 1:27 pm

Our place in the Universe puts things into perspective.
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Re: The Natural World

#457 Post by Dave B » July 31st, 2012, 2:30 pm

Wow! Didn't know that many had been found, and especially not the very small ones. Though, a little bell reminds me of something half heard on the radio about "possible Earth-like exo-planets". Might have been those infinite monkeys.
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Re: The Natural World

#458 Post by Tetenterre » July 31st, 2012, 6:23 pm

Visual field....
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Re: The Natural World

#459 Post by Dave B » July 31st, 2012, 6:52 pm

I preferred this one. Just built a variable mark-space circuit (to vary the brightness of an LED) using a 555 timer. Wonder what sort of results I would have got with a 666 timer? Variable demon-imp ratio?

Oops, nothing to do with the natural world . . .
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Re: The Natural World

#460 Post by Alan H » August 7th, 2012, 1:08 pm

Newborn baby gorilla at Melbourne Zoo gets a checkup at the hospital and reacts to the coldness of the stethoscope
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Re: The Natural World

#461 Post by Sel » August 7th, 2012, 3:36 pm

aaaaaah so cute!
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