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Hi all, I'm not sure whether pics like these had been posted before, but I collected this specimen during a web bottom trawl in Poland. It was a first for me, anyway, so I thought I'd share.
This is quite a photo! - I didn't realize a nautilus would eat a crab like this.
Do you know what species the nautilus is?
Nancy
gjbarord
Oct 01, '07, 7:44pm
Dr. Bruce Carlson reported that captive nautilus ate very large deep sea crabs and remained negatively buoyant for hours after.
I have fed out crabs that large to nautilus before, and they readily accept and eat them.
Very cool photo!!! Did you pull the crab up with the nautilus??
Greg
Just to clear matters up here, a web trawl is not actual fishing, Greg :wink: What I wished to express in ever so many bad puns, was that I found this pic on a Polish site, but need to work on my English humour somewhat more...
gjbarord
Oct 02, '07, 10:45pm
Well, I will work on my non-english humor and perhaps we will meet in the middle.
Greg
You're on! Komt een man bij de dokter...
You're on! Komt een man bij de dokter...
does that mean "My hovercraft is full of eels"?
Animal Mother
Oct 03, '07, 2:39pm
Pretty sure I'd seen that picture somewhere before.
sorseress
Oct 03, '07, 4:23pm
Ok, Ob, what in the world does a man coming to, or by, or at (whichever fits) the doctor have to do with the nautilus eating the crab? Personally, I like Monty's hovercraft full of eels picture. :confused:
Ok, Ob, what in the world does a man coming to, or by, or at (whichever fits) the doctor have to do with the nautilus eating the crab? Personally, I like Monty's hovercraft full of eels picture. :confused:
Sadly, I can't take credit for that image, although you've inadvertently credited it correctly, since it's from a Monty Python skit about someone selling a "wrong" phrasebook to a foreign tourist...
DWhatley
Oct 04, '07, 1:06am
... or is it that the doctor is trawling the web for eels and came up with a crab eating naut as by-catch?
CuttlePhilly
Apr 21, '08, 11:27pm
In case anyone was wondering, I think that Nautilus is a Nautilus pompilus, also known as the emperor nautilus, however there has been recent controversy over the accuracy of classifying pompilus as a single species. Check out my post on a recent New Scientist article on the subject:
http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13151