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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The other day someone told me that Elk had been released or would it be reintroduced to Tennessee which is most likely why they have been seen in KY.
Not many camera housings would take the pressure.
Yes...elk are in the Smokies.
so let me understand this. A dead aligator was placed on the ocean floor.... and it was eaten?
so what.
Giant osiopods seem to be the cock roaches of the ocean
Elk were originally native to the east, as were bison, including Kentucky... which was a very important and very disputed hunting ground. Unfortunately elk are delicious so they were hunted to extinction in most of their former range but have since been reintroduced. In western KY they were reintroduced to the Reelfoot lake region, where the lakes had been created by the sinking of the ground caused by the masive New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12.
More recently they nave been reintroduced to southern Missouri from stock obtained from Kentucky and I think they have already had their first hunt or are about to.
Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma... ? Well that is a surprise.
Giant isopods - rolly-polly pill bugs the size of a football !
Video of them in action here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54YezX7HeSI&feature=emb_logo
Next time use communists and jihadis.
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