Just a quick update... I felt like I was sleeping in the middle of the rainforest last night, I might as well have! These are all the crazy noises I heard at one point in time or another.... frogs, crickets, geckos, roosters, fighting dogs, gusts of wind, rain, the futon falling apart in the living room, oh yes and the power going on and off as the wind knocked the power lines down! Apparently a tropical depression/storm was sitting over top of St. Thomas last night but it thankfully moved past us by this morning.
We did 2 hour and a half long dives today at a site about 200 yards off the beach, which we swam too.... needless to say, we got quite a workout today. We counted corkscrew anemones and measured their size and number of symbionts (what's a symbiont again?). These anemones have all kinds of commensal shrimp and crabs that live within the protection of the anemones tentacles. No one knows if the shrimp provide any benefit for the anemone yet. Maybe we will find out!
Check out this link to see a pic of the anemone and shrimp: http://www.deepseaimages.com/dsilibrary/data/832/2006-05-23-01-57-56.jpg
2 comments:
Gary- 3rd block says that symbiont is when an organism has a permanent attraction with other organisms of different species.
All of the class says What Up? Especially Dakota, Ashton, D'Andre, and Achaia.
Gary wants to know if his answer is correct. The rest of the class did not want to answer.
haha, he is close... a symbiosis is a permanent relationship between 2 organisms, this relationship always benefits at least one of the participants.
Hi everyone, I miss you!
What's up with you Dakota, Ashton, D'Andre and Achaia??
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