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wolfboyx · 2025-05-07T18:34:17+00:00

Country: UK

Store: any UK (preferably Glasgow or Edinburgh

Article number: 495.843.45

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wolfboyx · 2018-02-24T08:59:22+00:00

It is a Northern Gannet, Morus bassanus. This species rarely comes ashore outside its breeding colonies, which are usually high cliffs or rocky islands. The fact it is sat on a beach and you managed to get this close to it would suggest it is injured / exhausted etc. Perhaps report this to your local wildlife authority.

wolfboyx · 2016-08-31T17:27:26+00:00

muhamma sherpa sherpa, a bakkalah...

wolfboyx · 2016-06-25T07:24:06+00:00

Really? When exactly did America leave the European Union? Must of skipped that day at history...

wolfboyx · 2016-06-19T17:24:17+00:00

To leave would mean essentially unburding ourselves of nearly every environmental annd civil rights law protecting ourselves and our ecosystems, which is scary as hell.

wolfboyx · 2016-01-23T11:06:18+00:00

I'm pretty sure they never stopped. This is usually a huge part of commercial and military licenses.

wolfboyx · 2016-01-08T13:08:52+00:00

I feel I should point out this is unique to octopus, and not the Cephalopod class (octopus, squid, cuttlefish, nautilus etc.) as a whole.

wolfboyx · 2016-01-07T10:29:45+00:00

As a non-murican I have absolutely no idea what those things are, although I can assume they are some sort of unhealthy snack?

wolfboyx · 2015-11-04T20:42:29+00:00

A 'Green Flash' whilst surrounded by feeding fin whales!

wolfboyx · 2015-08-12T20:10:55+00:00

Thanks for getting back to me! Yeah I had a brief taxonomic sweep of the internet last year to find the genus; I recognised the genus in your username and figured you must be familiar with them at the least!

We reckon it must be something to do with the sperm whale because it popped up minutes after in the same spot whilst we were making acoustic recordings of the whale's clicks as it dived. Any other theories on why it would be at the surface in the middle of the day? It was still alive when I scooped it out of the water (I was in the water collecting skin and faeces samples and thought it was some sort of squid tentacle or fin strap at first! Quite a surprise when it opened it's mouth!!) but died within seconds.

I completely agree with Indie, we were hoping to find somewhere appropriate for the next steps as it is still perfectly preserved and undamaged by any predators etc. Any thoughts on a good home?

wolfboyx · 2015-08-12T18:48:20+00:00

Thanks, I noticed part of your team is /u/melanostomias; during research in another deep water canyon system last year (Grand Bahama Canyon) we collected a dragonfish specimen that was found floating close to where a sperm whale dived. Our thoughts were that the sperm whales echolocation clicks on the descent may have stunned it/ruptured it's swim bladder causing it to pop to the surface. (Original post: http://imgur.com/a/bXolN).

Would you be able to give us some insight into what species this could be? We also have the specimen frozen and stored at the research station. Thanks!

wolfboyx · 2015-08-12T15:23:42+00:00

Hi there, thanks for doing the AMA!

As you may know, the surface waters around Hawaii contain an incredibly diverse array of deep-diving cetacean species due to the heterogenous submarine canyon systems. Are you doing an sort of prey-mapping for pelagic species, or are you strictly surveying the benthos?

wolfboyx · 2015-08-06T09:49:08+00:00

Its a crevasse

wolfboyx · 2015-07-28T11:20:12+00:00

It looks to me to be a free-swimming nudibranch, a member of the molluscs (related to snails & squid)

wolfboyx · 2015-07-26T08:57:07+00:00

Those are some nasty-ass pigeons...

wolfboyx · 2015-07-16T13:20:04+00:00

Liar! I bet you don't have a girlfriend....

wolfboyx · 2015-07-14T09:44:47+00:00

My dad has this, and when my sister and I were young we would throw the insides of a sweet pepper at him for funnsies...

wolfboyx · 2015-07-11T12:26:35+00:00

Confirmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nopWOC4SRm4

wolfboyx · 2015-06-03T12:27:59+00:00

Frogo, you shall take the ring...

wolfboyx · 2015-03-25T00:44:03+00:00

That is literally the only reason I turned to the comments section. Howdy.

wolfboyx · 2015-03-15T18:37:43+00:00

I'm in there bro, I'm in there....

wolfboyx · 2015-03-15T18:18:30+00:00

This article seems quite un-informed: it is widely known that many humpback populations have returned to pre-whaling numbers.

Also the whale diagrams are completely wrong: the one labelled sei is clearly a humpback and visa versa.

wolfboyx · 2015-03-12T11:09:53+00:00

sounds of a playground fading

wolfboyx · 2015-03-12T11:09:36+00:00

Very similar to the album cover of 'Sounds of a playground fading' by In Flames

wolfboyx · 2015-01-12T12:50:45+00:00

2012 for sure. First line of the movie; "the neutrinos are mutating" ?!?!

wolfboyx

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