{"id":3782,"date":"2010-07-22T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2010-07-22T18:14:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T22:14:21","slug":"from-the-community-bearded-gobies-animal-warfare-and-sea-turtle-relocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2010\/07\/22\/from-the-community-bearded-gobies-animal-warfare-and-sea-turtle-relocation\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Community: bearded gobies, animal warfare and sea turtle relocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bearded gobies preying on jellyfish in anoxic water, conspiracies of animal warfare, sea turtle relocation in a time of environmental disaster and instances of cheating in the animal kingdom. Here are stories in ecology from the second week of July.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bearded goby:<\/strong> According to research recently published in Science<\/em>, gobies are not only tolerant of anoxia (lack of oxygen in water) they are the main predators of jellyfish (see above video). As Victoria Braithwaite of Pennsylvania State University and colleagues reported, \u201cIt shows for the first time that jellyfish tissue\u2014once assumed to be a dead end for resources in the food web\u2014can be recycled back into the ecosystem by the gobies.\u201d Read more<\/a> at \u201cScourge of the Jellies: Small Fish Shows How Ecosystems Adjust to Potentially Catastrophic Changes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Animal warfare:<\/strong> TIME Magazine<\/em> listed the Top 10 animals used in military service throughout history. The article is a follow-up to last week\u2019s report in the Chinese state-run People\u2019s Daily<\/em> newspaper alleging that the Afghan Taliban has begun training monkeys. Read more<\/a> at \u201cTop 10 Militant Animals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sea turtle relocation:<\/strong> Earlier this month, conservationists relocated approximately 70,000 sea turtle eggs from Gulf Coast beaches and stored them in warehouses until they hatched. <\/em>The hatchlings were released into the Atlantic Ocean last week in an attempt to protect them from encroaching oil. Read more<\/a> and see photos at \u201cPhotos From the Gulf\u2019s Great Sea Turtle Relocation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Vent life: <\/strong>Wired Science<\/em> wrote: \u201cA hydrothermal vent found more than 16,000 feet under the sea could harbor life unlike any other yet found, adapted for conditions so extreme that water gas and liquid no longer have separate states.\u201d It is the second known vent to resemble seafloor conditions on Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa. Read more<\/a> at \u201cDeep-Sea Vent Discovery Sets Hydrothermal Life\u2019s New Depth Record.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

China\u2019s waters:<\/strong> Last week, two polluted Chinese bodies of water were mentioned in the news: waste water from the Zijinshan mine has contaminated China\u2019s Fujian province and two oil pipelines exploded in the port city of Dalian affecting the Yellow Sea. Read more<\/a> at \u201cChina\u2019s Latest Environmental Ills: Oil Spills and Copper Mines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, cheating in nature<\/a>, tracking the evolution of malaria<\/a>, U.S. public opinion<\/a> polls on evolution and a deadly amphibian fungus<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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