Ecology & Zoology

Jessica Hilo writes in Miller-McCune, during an extensive analogy between bacteria and Mafia: Off land, the Vibrio family is a spritely bunch. They are one of few bacteria that can communicate…

Leopards have but tigers have stripes.  Why the difference?   British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, author of "The Jungle Book" and other stories, suggested the difference was because the…

I guess there is a new anime called Squid Girl? I guess Squid Girl's goal is to "subdue the human race and prevent them from polluting the ocean"? I can't decide whether or not this sounds like…

A group of plants including from smallest to largest occupy a water body. If you introduce strange plant among the group of plants the plants will revolt silently and slowly die or wither. Like…

The Squid Symposium ended on Friday, and on Saturday those of us who were still here in La Paz took a day trip to Isla Espiritu Santo, a gorgeous island where we snorkled in bath-warm seawater with…

Here are the answers to yesterday's questions: 1. The two contenders for World's Smallest Baby Cephalopod are ommastrephid squid (the family that includes Humboldt squid) and argonaut octopuses. Both…

Fun facts from the second day* of the Fifth International Symposium on Pacific Squids: 1. Which cephalopod has the smallest babies?2. Mucus is often used for protection, like the stuff in our noses,…

"Male of Dosidicus are gentlesquid." That was today's last hypothesis. In fact, it was the very last sentence of the last slide of the last talk of the first day of the 5th International Symposium…

Well! The last day of the squid fertilization workshop was just as exciting, in its own way, as Sunday's fishing excusion.   The workshop's dozen participants hail from Mexico, Peru, Brazil…

Today is the last of the International Cephalopod Awareness Days: Squid Day! Naturally Squid-A-Day is feeling very festive. Sorry I missed Day Two--yesterday was the first day of the squid workshop…