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February 2008 - Posts

• "Sharks are masters of seven senses"

  "Sharks are masters of seven senses" (Shark Foundation webpage ). Sharks "see in the dark better than cats, they smell 10,000 times better than humans and have a highly developed sense of taste. They have excellent hearing, receive and sense even the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:18 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: nekton

• "Fish guys" (2003)

  The funny video I promised to post, Trey Stokes' Fish Guys (2003) . Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:50 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments

• TED Talks: Tierney Thys: Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean

  An excellent lecture that the class watched today. See also oceansunfish.org . Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:47 PM by N. Sivasothi | 1 Comments Filed under: video, nekton, mola

• Fish swimming modes

  An overview of the swimming mechanisms employed by fish is provide by Sfakiotakis, M., D. M. Lane, J. Bruce & C. Davies, 1999. Review of Fish Swimming Modes for Aquatic Locomotion. IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 24(2): 237 - 252 . 'Fish swim either by body Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:35 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: nekton

• First video of a live giant squid (Architeuthis dux) (2006)

  Nippon TV News clip on You Tube National Geographic News, 22 Dec 2006 — Like pulling a shadow from the darkness, researchers in Japan have captured and filmed a live giant squid—likely for the first time—shedding new light on the famously elusive creatures. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:22 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: video, nekton

• The skeletal material of choice for the ocean's giant fishes

  In "No Bones About ’Em," Adam Summers asks "why did the ancestors of today’s sharks and other cartilaginous fishes abandon bone in favor of a skeletal material that other large animals use only sparingly? I have recently come to think that cartilage gives Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:14 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: nekton, buoyancy

• Long distance migration in the tropical Asian catfish, Pangasius krempfi

  Elevated strontium concentrations in the otoliths and stable isotope values in muscle tissue of river caught P. krempfi reflect values characteristic of marine environments. This finally provides support for the long-held suspicion that P. krempfi is Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:16 PM by N. Sivasothi | 3 Comments Filed under: migration, anadromous, nekton