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.
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Oct 1st, 2007 09:52am #1
Nautilus feeding
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov
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Oct 1st, 2007 01:50pm #2
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
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Oct 1st, 2007 07:44pm #3
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"Any scientist who cannot explain his work to an eight year old is a charlatan" --Kurt Vonnegut
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Oct 2nd, 2007 05:27am #4
Just to clear matters up here, a web trawl is not actual fishing, Greg
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...
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov
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Oct 2nd, 2007 10:45pm #5
Well, I will work on my non-english humor and perhaps we will meet in the middle.
Greg"Any scientist who cannot explain his work to an eight year old is a charlatan" --Kurt Vonnegut
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Oct 3rd, 2007 04:30am #6
You're on! Komt een man bij de dokter...
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov
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Oct 3rd, 2007 02:17pm #7does that mean "My hovercraft is full of eels"?
Originally Posted by ob
Miskatonic University Marine Biology and Esoteric Studies Laboratory
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Oct 3rd, 2007 02:39pm #8
Pretty sure I'd seen that picture somewhere before.
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Oct 3rd, 2007 04:23pm #9
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.
"Neptune, leave our hydrothermal vent habitat alone!! Ban deep-sea mining!"
Steve O'Shea
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Oct 3rd, 2007 05:07pm #10Sadly, 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... Originally Posted by sorseress
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.Miskatonic University Marine Biology and Esoteric Studies Laboratory
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Oct 4th, 2007 01:06am #11
... or is it that the doctor is trawling the web for eels and came up with a crab eating naut as by-catch?
"D"
"Of all the things that I have lost, I think I miss my mind the most".
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Apr 21st, 2008 11:27pm #12
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=13151Last edited by CuttlePhilly; Apr 22nd, 2008 at 10:00am.
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