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Thursday, April 14, 2005

get a faceful of redbull flavoured sticky cream pie!

was googling for chemical response to predators by prey species when i came across this link:
http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/lobster_vs_sea_hare/#continue

It tells of how the sea hare escapes its would be predators by "slamming its would be predator (ie lobster) with a faceful of red-bull flavored cream pie" as it squirts out its mucousy excretements. Appareantly it squirts out 2 types of fluids; the usual purple dye, which clouds the water while the hare makes its escape. Even curiouser, it also squirts a sticky whitish fluid (erm.) that contains taurine, lysine etc; these redbull components actually send mixed signals to the predator, fooling it. The poor bugger gets confused and starts working its mandibles, eating water and thrusting its claws into the sand while lunch twitches off, laughing. And studies show that its actually the white secretions that save the hare most of the time; if it only secreted the purple dye, it would 80% of the time be lobstermunch.

Maybe i should keep some sea hares in school and lick them like those amazonians lick poison tree frogs. then i wont need to buy endless cans of redbull. And if i get hungry i have a live snack.

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