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Your Freaky Fish of the Day
Via Ocean Defender:
Behold the beautiful and otherworldly Blanket Octopus. Like the Argonauts (to which they are closely related), they live near the ocean’s surface, and can be found in both tropical and subtropical waters. There are four known species (the one depicted here is apparently T. gracilis, aka the Palmate Octopus), all of which share the same astounding anatomical and behavioral traits unique to this genus. Let’s begin with the name. As should be obvious from the image above, the female Blanket Octopus has two arms (the dorsal and dorsolateral, if you want to get technical about it) which are significantly longer than the rest and are connected to two other arms by a massive sheet-like membrane (the webbing is absent from the other four arms). It seems this “blanket” is unfurled when the animal feels threatened, presumably to make it appear bigger to any potential predator. Young individuals practice an altogether different defensive strategy. Apparently immune to the venom, they have been observed to carry pieces of the stinging tentacles of the Portuguese Man o’ War. The Blanket Octopus also exhibits one of the most extreme examples of sexual dimorphism of any animal: males, at 2.4 cm (or smaller), are minute, while the females can exceed 2 m in length.
FJP.
So many of our ocean friends have extreme differences between sexes - including those that switch from one sex to another during their lifetimes.
All the single ladies (All the single ladies) All the single ladies (All the single ladies) …could apparently cost Mitt Romney the presidency.
While Romney leads Obama among married women by about 9 points, Obama blows him away among single women by 36 points. This matters: There are 55 million single women in the United States. If they got motivated, they are a big enough block to swing the election.
Read the full piece here.
It’s that last sentence in bold - and the ‘if.’ I think all of the 55 million single ladies across the states need to hear that number and realize the power we could have fighting many things, including the current War on Women (and women’s rights).
Using thousands of meticulously painted dots (“ten-ten” in Japanese) designer and photographer Miharu Matsunaga explores the interconnectedness of people and places. Stunning, intricate detail, not unlike the amazing salt maze installations by Matoi Yamomoto.
Migrating Nenets sled reindeer graze on sedges & take a rest. Yamal Peninsula. Siberia. Russia
Bryan and Cherry Alexander, photographers
Amazing! The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind circa 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston.
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