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March 25, 2008
Can You Hear Me Now?
Global warming making fish hard of hearing
Sydney - Climate change is dulling the hearing of fish and making it more difficult for them to find a home, Australian researchers say. More carbon in the atmosphere means less calcium in the water and consequently poorer hearing in fish, who use hearing as much as sight to locate a habitat.
James Cook University researchers Monica Gagliano and Martial Depczynski says tropical fish on the Great Barrier Reef, off the east coast of Australia, are growing asymmetrical ears.
Increasing acidity has cut the calcium carbonate that fish need to grow healthy bones including ear bones, the researchers said. The higher acid levels makes it more difficult for fish to absorb calcium.
"If their hearing is compromised because they have asymmetry ... it's going to affect their ability to navigate back to the reef and they'll just get lost in the open ocean," Depczynski told Australia's ABC Radio.
Gagliano said that "ear bone asymmetry in the early life stages of reef fish interferes with their capacity to find and settle on coral reefs."
Wild Thing's comment........
Global warming making fish hard of hearing
And all this time I thought they were ignoring me.
“More carbon in the atmosphere means less calcium in the water”
Obviously. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
THE BLONDE AND THE LORD
A blonde wanted to go ice fishing. She’d
seen many books on the subject, and finally getting all the
necessary tools together, she made for the ice.
After positioning her comfy footstool, she started to
make a circular cut in the ice. Suddenly, from
the sky, a voice boomed,
“THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE.”
Startled, the blonde moved further down the ice,
Poured a thermos of cappuccino, and began to cut
yet another hole.
Again from the heavens the voice
bellowed,
“THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE.”
The blonde, now worried,
moved away, clear down
to the opposite end of the ice.
She set up her stool once more
and tried again to cut hole.
The voice came once more,
“THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE.”
She stopped, looked skyward, and
said, “ IS THAT YOU LORD? “
The voice replied,
“NO, THIS IS THE
MANAGER OF THE HOCKEY RINK.”
Posted by Wild Thing at March 25, 2008 02:44 AM
Comments
Fish going deaf? Are you freakin' kidding me?
Love the blond joke. That's cute.
Posted by: Lynn at March 25, 2008 09:05 AM
I know a nice bass pond in North Texas where the bass hear quit well. They can hear the screaming minnow on the end of my fishing line. Guess in this case it must be global cooling that is causing the bass to hear so well.
Snerk, Snerk!!!
Posted by: TomR at March 25, 2008 10:43 AM
Chicken Little syndrome.
Posted by: Jack at March 25, 2008 02:41 PM
Thats like the Blonde that got run over by a Zamboni, while trying to Ice-Fish.
Posted by: Mark at March 25, 2008 04:55 PM
Lynn, glad you like it.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 25, 2008 06:46 PM
Tom, heh heh good one.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 25, 2008 06:47 PM
Jack yes it sure is, what bunch of baloney. The poor fish being used like this from the left.
Hey Fish VOTE Republican. hahahaha
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 25, 2008 06:49 PM
Mark, Hahahahahahaha good one.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 25, 2008 06:50 PM
