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Questions that don't need their own topics vol.2; New and fresh
Topic Started: Jan 4 2018, 11:18 AM (26,849 Views)
LittleLazyLass
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To my understanding, the extra Administrator powers moderators don't get largely involve the ability to modify the forum itself, rather than simply manage it.
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I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
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Jun 7 2018, 03:24 PM
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Jun 6 2018, 10:03 PM
I would look into how arthropods adapted to live on land in the past and go from there.
Yeah but the problem is copepods have no gills or heart to speak of.
aaand here we go again.

yes. my points about barnacles and salamanders (et al) earlier still apply.

not everything on land has a heart.
But all heartless terrestrial animals stay small and are super reliant on moist environments. I want my copepods to be adaptable like insects.
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A not-directly-related-to-spec-biology question: what would be the legal status of a map of past Earth closely based on Scotese's Paleomap?

On one hand, Scotese is obviously responsible for the existence of those maps, and put vast amounts of time and effort into them.

On the other, it's not like he invented the position of continents - if his research is accurate, the're history, and you can't copyright history.

According to this page, he's fine with any non-commercial use of the original maps as long as credit is provided, but I have to wonder what would be the situation with a derived work.
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I would imagine it's fine, given that like you mentioned, he's trying to share facts, not explore a creative idea.
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But what does "everything" constitute?
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I would look into how arthropods adapted to live on land in the past and go from there.
Yeah but the problem is copepods have no gills or heart to speak of.
aaand here we go again.

yes. my points about barnacles and salamanders (et al) earlier still apply.

not everything on land has a heart.
But all heartless terrestrial animals stay small and are super reliant on moist environments. I want my copepods to be adaptable like insects.
get them out of the water first. one step at a time. insects and reptiles didn't leap from the surging surf in their modern forms...neither would your copepods.
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Is there a size limit that freshwater fish in New Zealand can reach? I've been examining many species lately and most don't seem to get that large. Many native species are below a metre and most of those that are introduced species. So I'm starting to think it's difficult for fish to reach giant proportions compared to those on continents (like those of giant catfish, carp and sturgeons for example)
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I'm trying to think, but are any mammals known for particularly beautiful noises they male? The only mammals that spring to mind are whales, particularly humpbacks.

Nothing else I can think of is particularly melodious, mammals calls seem to generally be neutral or rather grating, and as best I can gather, volume tends to be more important than complexity.

Is this the case? If so why? Is the fact that we are mammals affecting how we perceive things? Perhaps to an intelligent bird, most birdsong would be harsh?
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I'm trying to think, but are any mammals known for particularly beautiful noises they male? The only mammals that spring to mind are whales, particularly humpbacks.

Nothing else I can think of is particularly melodious, mammals calls seem to generally be neutral or rather grating, and as best I can gather, volume tends to be more important than complexity.

Is this the case? If so why? Is the fact that we are mammals affecting how we perceive things? Perhaps to an intelligent bird, most birdsong would be harsh?
I don't know about you but I find the sounds of elk to be one of the most beautiful sounds made by any non-human or non-cetacean mammal

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Jun 7 2018, 12:43 PM


Could catfish be able to colonise the oceans, and if they could can some adopt more epipelagic-based physiologies that enable them to remain near the surface for prolonged periods of time/most of their lives?
Some marine catfish are already reasonably pelagic. Members of the genus Bagre feed mainly on benthic prey such as shrimp but swim in all levels of the water column.

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Would high gravity be detrimental to burrowing animals (with higher pull causing tunnels to collapse and instantly crushing anything underneath to death)?
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Why can’t cephalopod go into freshwater? And why can’t amphibians go into salt water?
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Jun 9 2018, 12:50 PM
Why can’t cephalopod go into freshwater? And why can’t amphibians go into salt water?
Cephalopods lack sodium pumps and have open respiratory systems, so they'd lose salt and die. Amphibians have permeable skin, so they'd die from from too much salt. There is a species of frog that can tolerate brackish or salty water, but not indefinitely.
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