Steve has offered to reveal to us the contents of his freezer, with all manner of interesting teuthids to be unveiled. But which frozen package should he reveal first?

Time to vote for your choice........

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/freezer_190.jpg

(Does this win the prize for being the most pointless poll ever posted on TONMO?)

Well, kinda... :wink:

Phil, I was interested in package number 1 because it is small, but there's more to this than what we want Steve to open. What are the odds on his opening each package and when? I'll wager one tentacle :tentacle: that package 3 will be first, but not before June. Tentacles may be exchanged for pints :beer: at the pub nearest TONMOcon.

Melissa

:tentacle: :tentacle: I'll Raise you two clubs on #1, before Nov. 15th.

Kevin, are you getting inside information? We're on, and I hope I lose! I'm excited to learn whatever's in the freezer, and I don't have Steve's patience.

Melissa

It's what lies beneath ......
:cthulhu:

I think #1 is Steve's lunch... Does that say "Mama Celeste?" :lol:

I think #1 is Steve's lunch... Does that say "Mama Celeste?" :lol:

:D

Just FYI, bag 2 is the one I MOST want to defrost, but it involves the greatest amount of work (there's the start of a thesis in that bag). We'll set up a separate thread on R & D to discuss its contents (of which there are many).

Another 2 bags therein, beneath everything, another mystery squid and a thing we'll call 'Mastigoteuthis cordiformis', will also be defrosted next week. We'll discuss the contents of these on the 'Is this the real Magnapinna' thread.

Believe it or not, there's actually an Architeuthis in that freezer too, and I'm tossing up whether we pull that out also. It'll be a busy week.

:tentacle: :tentacle: I'll Raise you two clubs on #1, before Nov. 15th.

Kevin, sounds like I might owe you a beer!

Melissa

Melissa, Looks like we were both wrong, I'll trade ya 1 for 1. Unless package #1 really was Steve's lunch and is not in the freezer anymore. :)

Another 2 bags therein, beneath everything, another mystery squid and a thing we'll call 'Mastigoteuthis cordiformis'...

Dude,

Doesn't that mean "Rope-like Whip Squid" or something like that?

John

HI,
I vote for pack #3.
Alejandro

Steve has offered to reveal to us the contents of his freezer, with all manner of interesting teuthids to be unveiled. But which frozen package should he reveal first?

Time to vote for your choice........

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/freezer_190.jpg

(Does this win the prize for being the most pointless poll ever posted on TONMO?)

..... and the Architeuthis came from the stomach contents of a blue shark, from bag # 2.

I'm off home to celebrate (in ~ 5 hrs :? ) with a glass of fine red. I've been looking for this puppy for many years, and now we know a different time and place where we can find it!

Any shark experts online that want to help get to the bottom of this, as in blue shark behaviour?

while im deifinitely interested, ill have to steal clem's lime in calling myself a rank amatuer.....

besides clem is noticibly easier to spell......

but if i remember, blues arent exactly solitary....

I vote for the thing that looks like a Jennio turkey. (#3)

I vote for the thing that looks like a Jennio turkey.

:shock: A what turkey?

The next parcels to be opened (this week) are numbers 1 (polystyrene box) and a polystyrene box, just visible between parcels 3 and 4 (without a number). See thread 'cephalopod beaks from whale stomachs' on the Physiology and Biology forum.

It will take a few months to process these, but what we'll try and do during the process is another online article on identification of squid and octopus beaks, and also provide an insight into the biology of the predatory whale species.

hmm I say package number 1 for being smaller than the other packages, open up with the info steve' o. :P

:tentacle: I've got a feeling about package #5....

What? Huh? I don't get this....

When we get the images back online you'll understand. Unfortunately my freezer has been taken over by Matt & TPOTH ... and I can't find a single thing in there - it's all buried beneath tons of fish (I tried to find something last week, but gave up). "Steve's Freezer" should now be referred to as "Fisho's repository of filthy fish". :sad:

Unfortunately the original image is missing... I gotta dig through and find it, and embed it in the seed note here... Meanwhile... is anything left in the freezer Dr. Steve?

3 was winning anyways, so might as well see it through. I doubt, though, that with the recent rearrangements and impending CIAC conference that there's much hope of seeing anything out of the freezer for a while (that is assuming any cephs can be found amongst all the frozen rat tails that SOMEBODY has left!) Hehehe.

Cheers!


(An explanation: This poll just showed up randomly when I first logged onto TONMO.com this afternoon. Thought it was a new poll and got all excited. Turned out to be an old one, but oh well! Still fun!)

The rattails are gone...

The contents of Steve's freezer are now covered by lots of other fish.

Working on deep-sea sharks at present, and apart from the squalene oil (which just gets on everything regardless) it's very satisfiying.

There is a ceph. angle, squid are eaten by some species.

That's awful! Those yicky Vertebrate filth...:mad:

There is a ceph. angle, squid are eaten by some species.

And some cephs eat sharks :twisted:

J

sounds cool matt! Where'd you get the sharks from, and is it gut content or what that you're looking at this time?

Cheers!

I believe there is a video of a GPO eating a shark here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/media_players_blue/shark_hi.html

It's pretty cool.

sounds cool matt! Where'd you get the sharks from, and is it gut content or what that you're looking at this time?

Cheers!


Same place as the rats - doing more gut content work. So far I've done ~60 sharks and it will be closer to 100 by the time I've finished them off. I should have some really cool data at the end of it, if what I've got so far is anything to go by.