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[perchie.girl]

deb --
Thanks for posting the taxidermy stuff. We loved the half-*** picture!

LOL NOW I get it.....

deb

 

[bruceha2000]

Just read about the blob fish in Smithsonian magazine awhile back. Hard to tell what it looks like in it's environment, 4,000 feet below. No swim bladder, no skeleton, no muscle, just a blob of jelly up here. Poor blob fish gets no respect.
Under extreme pressure, using water pressure for support, this is what they think it might look like,

Um, how does it swim if it has no muscles? Something must be moving those fins and tail.

 

[chickadoodles]

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Yup! If I don't get my coffee I can't manage to get anything done.

 

[Beer can]

Um, how does it swim if it has no muscles? Something must be moving those fins and tail.

IDK

now I'm going to have to look it up Lol!

"They live at depths between 2,000 and 3,900 ft where the pressure is 60 to 120 times as great as at sea level, which would likely make gas bladders inefficient for maintaining buoyancy Instead, the flesh of the blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water; this allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. Its relative lack of muscle is not a disadvantage as it primarily swallows edible matter that floats in front of it such as deep-ocean crustaceans. "

 

[Kusanar]

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Sounds like it HAS muscles, but once it's out of it's high pressure environment at the bottom of the sea, it's muscles aren't strong enough to move it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

cool something new to learn

 

[Alaskan]

Poor blob fish...it needs to bulk up. Lift weights or something.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ya think

 

[Lynn Manes]

It's looking good.

 Took the bandage off yesterday.  She is walking around like nothing ever happened.  No limping.    

Cynthia, what did you do for her numbering? I think I've a cortinix that has one. She was wobbling around in the pen yesterday. I was going to process her at first, but when I inspected her, I think it's just bunblefoot. We are Loire on our quail count right now from losing several with our constant heatwaves all summer, so if I can save her at least long enough to get more eggs to incubate, that would be great. I've never had to deal with bumblefoot before.Any help is welcome. Thanks.

 

[Leave a LightOn]

Poor blob fish...it needs to bulk up. Lift weights or something.

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