Cave Wall Media – Articles » Sea Shore Antics – Stories with Videos
Shore Crab mugged by Common Blennies – food stolen
January 25th, 2013 | 5 Comments | Read 1,286

+267 Yikes! More fighting in the rock pools. . A Shore Crab was mugged by local Common Blennies. A fight broke out, but in the end the crab lost out and had all it’s food stolen. . The crab had already spent hours working hard for it’s living, by slowly but surely slicing out the hinges of a Common Mussel’s protective shells. Once the hinges were cut, the shell was able to be pulled open and the meat (the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sea Shore Antics - Stories with Videos
Mussels at work – filter feeding – made visible with science
January 17th, 2013 | 4 Comments | Read 1,630

+338 With the naked eye, no filter-feeding can be seen. Using a scientific filming method, the fluid flow becomes visible….. and so the mussel’s work, becomes observable Mussels at Work, is a short 2 minute video, revealing something that you cannot see with just the naked eye – a bivalve mollusc (Common Mussel) doing it’s work of filter feeding. A bit of science reveals the invisible…. The physics of light, density differentials and fluid flow, along with an adapted … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sea Shore Antics - Stories with Videos
CATEGORIES
Featured (4)
Funnies, Snippets, Rummage Box (5)
Left Ear Driver (9)
The Good (3)
- The Sad (2)
The Ugly (2)
The Working Costs and Car Gumph (1)
Prof Puckit (4)
Sea Shore Antics (4)
Thoughts & Quotes (6)
Recent Comments
Charlie Dean on Plate Tectonics… A Spreading Zone… and a Slab of Chocolate
Superb analogy. Well simplified for general public grasp / interest in the bit t...Charlie Dean on Rumbling the parasitic freak
Good call. How freaky. She must have been sooo stressed at potential of his inte...Charlie Dean on Go wait in the loading bay, you old people.
Some great phrases chosen: "... the difference in temperature, that there was al...Charlie Dean on Funnies – “For soon we be weaners” – a light hearted thankyou to fossil fuel
Superb angle of considering the true reality of "fossil" in fossil fuel. It is ...Charlie Dean on Funnies – “A matter of perception” – good day, bad day.
Such a good phrase when you mention "both parties are desiring a different outco...Charlie Dean on Funnies – “Now” … so what will be “now”, some years later? (love science)
Cartoon is simply awesome stimulus for pondering future and considering reality ...Sam on Funnies – “Turn your fricking EM’s down – we’re trying to sleep”
Sooo funny. Would be hilarious of this was how "first contact" was realised. Rea...Sam on Funnies – What could go wrong with an attitude of: “ah… It’ll be alright”
What a great cartoon illustration - to initiate an argument, bebate, discussion....Sam on Funnies – “For soon we be weaners” – a light hearted thankyou to fossil fuel
I like the angle this takes. It is not political, or "greeny". It comes from jus...Sam on Isostatic changes… Sea level changes… and a Rice Pudding.
A rice pudding and planet earth? How do you come up with these notions. It fits ...Sam on Plate Tectonics… A Spreading Zone… and a Slab of Chocolate
Great article idea to put across in easy terms how some of the plate tectonics o...Charlie Brown on Funnies – What could go wrong with an attitude of: “ah… It’ll be alright”
Earth may well bounce back and refresh, should things go sour (for us). We huma...Jack on Mussels at work – filter feeding – made visible with science
Neat project. Revealling what cannot be seen with the naked eye, makes this very...Bethany Harper on Snippets – Starfish turns it’s stomach inside out
Seeing is believing. I've watched them pull open and feed on this mussels before...Bethany Harper on Plate Tectonics… A Spreading Zone… and a Slab of Chocolate
Love chocolate. Now I can eat during my lectures, as I describe the plates at th...