Posted on 01/11/2020 4:07:38 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Alligators don't typically swim, or die, in the ocean. But researchers dropped three of them, dead ones, underwater to see how deep-sea creatures would react to finding a new and unusual food source.
The dead-alligator experiment was aimed at better understanding underwater food systems. Edibles like phytoplankton and other plant life don't exist on the deep-sea floor, so dwellers down there must sustain themselves by eating "marine snow" -- animal waste, scraps of decaying creatures and other organic debris that drifts from above.
Because alligators sometimes find themselves in ocean waters, searching for new food sources or flushed there by a hurricane, the scientists wanted to see if deep-sea creatures would nibble on the dead gators, or ignore them.
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I like how you know the fish is dead by the “X” on the eye.
And here in N. Georgia.
So that they have a follow-up reason to repeat this experiment and get another grant in 2020...gotta always be thinking about the next grant.
The ocean made the alligator disappear post-haste. Just like anything else dead in the ocean.
That made me laugh and reminded me of something they say in DC. I'll alter it a little to go along with your thought.
The only way to lose a political career in DC is to get caught with a live (underage) girl or a dead democrat. (or a live one)
Doh! Kellyanne Conway is in trouble!
Did not know there are 10k Elk in Kentucky.
Wild boar in Congress?
Some of the Tennessee elk probably came from the herd that runs around here...coastal Oregon. They got pretty thick, and they trapped some, and sent them East.
They found Dexter’s victims and murder weapons.
Probably cost next to nothing. These people are out in the gulf anyway doing regular checks of the ecosystem as part of their charter with the state. The people involved are already being paid through other sources. The carcasses were probably provided for free from the DNR.
We have Elk in Oklahoma....
Strange, I never felt it odd that I could catch crabs using chicken parts.
::The fuzz was a newly discovered species of bone eating worms::
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How cool.
They did. If you click on the article you'll see several photos and a video taken under water of the alligators.
Seems to me that approaching an elk in the dark on the road in your speeding automobile could be a bigger problem than approaching a deer under similar circumstances.
Well, there’s an Elkton in Todd County, KY. Named for elk?
IMHO, dropping live communists (ie. all registered demoncrats) or migrant invaders into the middle of the Sahara desert would be a more relevant & cost-effective study...
It would be a variation of what President Duterte of the Philippines does from a helicopter with raghead jihadists and drug dealers...
Don’t know who’s idea it was, but I would love to see dead democrat congress critter’s submerged, bet the critter eating fish would clear out.
They were reintroduced into KY in 1997. KY now has the largest elk herd east of the Mississippi at around 11,000 elk.
Return of the giant Gator!
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