Hi Capt. C! I heard you liked having Sula on the boat..and maybe Myriah a little less. Good for you, though, taking care of the pooches.
I just got back from Alaska, where I had a meeting for a research cruise that I'll get on in August. Right before that I was in North Carolina (Beaufort) for 6 weeks, working on my project there. I was looking at fish bones called "otoliths". Look 'em up on the internet, they're really neat. They are in the heads of fish, and some are really big compared to the size of the fish. When dolphins eat fish, those otoliths are some of the last parts to get digested, so if a dolphin dies and washes up on shore, we can look in the stomach, get the otoliths out, and identify what species of fish they ate. Pretty darn cool.
Now I'm home in California (Monterey area), missing my Caribbean friends.
I hope you're having lots of fun, and please say hello to your folks for me too.
Hi Capt. C! I heard you liked having Sula on the boat..and maybe Myriah a little less. Good for you, though, taking care of the pooches.
ReplyDeleteI just got back from Alaska, where I had a meeting for a research cruise that I'll get on in August. Right before that I was in North Carolina (Beaufort) for 6 weeks, working on my project there. I was looking at fish bones called "otoliths". Look 'em up on the internet, they're really neat. They are in the heads of fish, and some are really big compared to the size of the fish. When dolphins eat fish, those otoliths are some of the last parts to get digested, so if a dolphin dies and washes up on shore, we can look in the stomach, get the otoliths out, and identify what species of fish they ate. Pretty darn cool.
Now I'm home in California (Monterey area),
missing my Caribbean friends.
I hope you're having lots of fun, and please say hello to your folks for me too.
hugs,
Bridget