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Smythe posted:turns out they dont actually say green i would die but instead say this: thank you i have learned so much
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FuhrerHat posted:how come theyre all so blue anyway Uhhhh I think it's a chromoprotein. I'm not super sure. Blue pigment is quire rare in nature, and many of the animals we think of as "blue" use optical tricks but don't contain blue pigment (e.g. the blue morpho butterfly and the bluejay). These animals are blue... FOR REAL.
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Who What Now posted:Yeah, but you also have a giant crate of moldy kumquats or something so idk if I can trust your taste buds... No like they're just flavorless rubber. I even think tripe is okay and jellyfish was like eating rubber bands in your food.
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Dec 1, 2017 03:55
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i hoep the ocean gets filled wit trash and everything dies lol
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Here is a moving siphonophore, again not a man o war though, one of the ones hmmm I don't know offhand. https://i.imgur.com/IfahVQB.mp4
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I've never been quite clear on the whole "colonial organism" thing. Is there a larval stage where these things are separate before they join together, or is this just a fancy way of saying it's one creature with a lot of redundant organs?
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Dzhay posted:I've never been quite clear on the whole "colonial organism" thing. Is there a larval stage where these things are separate before they join together, or is this just a fancy way of saying it's one creature with a lot of redundant organs? i asked this earlier and nobody answered, so i think the answer is no
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Dec 1, 2017 04:01
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basically it's the voltron of living things
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Who What Now posted:Are there any dishes that use jellyfish? What's their nutritional value? I'm guessing not a lot. e: Pick posted:There are, I've had them in Chinese cooking, they are gross. a hole-y ghost fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Dec 1, 2017 |
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Hell Yeah posted:i hoep the ocean gets filled wit trash and everything dies lol wow..........
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Dzhay posted:I've never been quite clear on the whole "colonial organism" thing. Is there a larval stage where these things are separate before they join together, or is this just a fancy way of saying it's one creature with a lot of redundant organs? Oh jeez man. no. oh man. how can you... man. jeez. i didn't even, i can't believe this. okay, for the one person here who doesn't understand the siphonophore's life cycle (GEEZ). an egg of that species gets fertilized. the egg develops into a protozooid. the other zooids bud from the protozooid. so each organism has the same DNA, but they develop into completely different specialized zooids. Obviously I'm loving with you, sort of. We still don't know a lot about how they develop. I mean the above is true, we think, but iirc not a ton is known about their lifecycles. They are not a "research priority" because no one has seen where they will get loaded researching them.
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Dec 1, 2017 04:05
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Pick posted:Oh jeez man. no. oh man. how can you... man. jeez. i didn't even, i can't believe this. okay, for the one person here who doesn't understand the siphonophore's life cycle (GEEZ). wtf nobody studied this even once
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Dec 1, 2017 04:06
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FuhrerHat posted:wtf nobody studied this even once 1. will it make you rich? 2. will it get you laid? if it does not meet criteria 1 or 2 you have to wait for a "devoted special interest person" to be willing to give up their lives for nothing in painstakingly researching it. i mean it's been known to happen, but a miriam rothschild only comes around once in a blue moon (and not, as it happens, a blue bottle)
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im not saying it was hydrozoans but it was hydrozoans
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i will gently caress whoever can tell me how and when these guys shack up for life
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Dec 1, 2017 04:09
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Pick posted:1. will it make you rich?
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Pick posted:Oh jeez man. no. oh man. how can you... man. jeez. i didn't even, i can't believe this. okay, for the one person here who doesn't understand the siphonophore's life cycle (GEEZ). So why are we calling these zoöids different organisms? It sounds like an egg develops into one entire man o' war.
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i guess the natural followup question would be by what metric do we consider it an amalgamation of different organisms to begin with, with what evidence? also same question wrt corals? i seem to recall hearing they were colonies also
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Dec 1, 2017 04:11
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FuhrerHat posted:i will gently caress whoever can tell me how and when these guys shack up for life
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Dzhay posted:So why are we calling these zoöids different organisms? It sounds like an egg develops into one entire man o' war. This is going to blow your mind but biology is messy as hell and what constitutes an "organism", "species", or even "living thing" has not been established nearly as precisely as you'd expect. We tend to assume things will fall into strict categories like that, and to be honest, they just don't. Have a Volvox if it makes you feel better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNXTSxPZF0U But mainly, it's that each organism is defined by a degree of modularity.
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Dec 1, 2017 04:15
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The Protagonist posted:i guess the natural followup question would be by what metric do we consider it an amalgamation of different organisms to begin with, with what evidence? also same question wrt corals? i seem to recall hearing they were colonies also Yes, corals are colonial. Sponges are as well. There are colonies made of unicellular organisms, and colonies made of multicelluar organisms. aaaaa
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Dzhay posted:So why are we calling these zoöids different organisms? It sounds like an egg develops into one entire man o' war. A human egg can split and develop into two identical twins but we don't consider them the same organism.
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Dec 1, 2017 04:18
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so every multi-cellular lifeform is a colony of cells gotcha
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Hell Yeah posted:i hoep the ocean gets filled wit trash and everything dies lol Where we gonna get all that trash? 
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Dec 1, 2017 04:22
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Now THIS Is a PICK THREAD aaawwwww yeeahhhh YYAAAAHHHHH. WOOOOOOO
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Glad to see Pick doing an animal thread. This poo poo is always informative. The Protagonist posted:so every multi-cellular lifeform is a colony of cells gotcha Pick posted:1. will it make you rich? 
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A blue button  And here's one being attacked by a blue dragon: https://i.imgur.com/zPnuP1E.mp4 ha ha just kidding nerds. it's a nudibranch. also yes the name of it is actually a "blue dragon". nudibranchs are a type of sea slug, but as you can see this one swims freely, unlike for example the sea hare (anaspidians, who are cute as hell)
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Dec 1, 2017 04:25
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what about the regular ol' freshwater hydra. they're not too fancy but still cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFvJTmjUOyU
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Dec 1, 2017 04:26
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Holy poo poo those blue buttons are huge. A couple times in Mexico the shallows were filled with them but they were only an inch across. Stung like hell too.
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There are also hydrozoan limnomedusae, which is to say freshwater jellyfish bet you didn't even loving know there were freshwater jellyfish did you 
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Dec 1, 2017 04:30
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Calvin Coolposts posted:what about the regular ol' freshwater hydra. they're not too fancy but still cool. Yep it's kind of amazing how the life of Earth is all around us and wonderful. Too bad people constantly crap it all up so we can have garbage. "oh nooo penn and teller told me not to recycle" thanks guys
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For more Pick threads about animals, see the bottom of the OP in my Old Gastropod Thread. And if anyone wants to re-link all dat good stuff I will add some of the other that happened since, such as camels, donkeys, bats, and antelope.
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This video I put together from BBC footage like a million years ago has a few hydrozoans in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrSu65Bb9X4
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I really loving hate jellyfish and other cnidarians. Hopefully the reasons are obviousFuhrerHat posted:i thought that was you?? thats my favorite herbie hancock song
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Pick posted:There are also hydrozoan limnomedusae, which is to say freshwater jellyfish
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Pick posted:they got two holes I thought jellyfish just had one hole that was both a mouth and a butt
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Pick posted:ha ha just kidding nerds. it's a nudibranch. also yes the name of it is actually a "blue dragon". nudibranchs are a type of sea slug, but as you can see this one swims freely, unlike for example the sea hare (anaspidians, who are cute as hell) You forgot to mention that in addition to looking awesome, G. atlanticus also feeds on Portuguese man o' war and stores the stinging cells in their own body.  They are the most badass of all nudibranchs.
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