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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:09 am
 


Title: Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-11-17 19:03:38


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:09 am
 


Bring these things to Somolia for the pirates to deal with.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:27 pm
 


Happens all the time. They had a big surge in these things back in 2005, too.

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This year's jellyfish swarm is one of the worst he has seen, Hamano said.


Meaning he has seen them before. Reasons why he is seeing more of them in Japanese waters than forty years ago are more likely to include the fact that Japanese waters are waaaaaaaaay less polluted than they have been in the past 100 years. The jellyfish probably used to just die before they made it to Japan. Also, add to this the fact that sea turtles (the apex predator of jellies) are threatened and endangered in Asia (turtle soup, anyone?) and it is no wonder they have a population boom in jellies of all types.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:44 pm
 


This one kind of reminds me of that old one where the soldiers of mother earth were crying about how new bird species were turning up in the arctic.

As they wiped the tears from their eyes, they cried out to the green Gods, "There's no name in the Inuit language for Robin".

Except...after a while some skeptic smart-ass got tired of hearing it, so he actually did the research. It turns out there is an Inuit word for Robin. It's “Koyapigaktoruk”—apparently a derivative of the sound of the robin’s song.


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