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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on March 24, 2008, 10:04:22 AM
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Global warming making fish hard of hearing
Sydney - Climate change is dulling the hearing of fish and making it more difficult for them to find a home, Australian researchers say. More carbon in the atmosphere means less calcium in the water and consequently poorer hearing in fish, who use hearing as much as sight to locate a habitat.
James Cook University researchers Monica Gagliano and Martial Depczynski says tropical fish on the Great Barrier Reef, off the east coast of Australia, are growing asymmetrical ears.
Increasing acidity has cut the calcium carbonate that fish need to grow healthy bones including ear bones, the researchers said. The higher acid levels makes it more difficult for fish to absorb calcium.
"If their hearing is compromised because they have asymmetry ... it's going to affect their ability to navigate back to the reef and they'll just get lost in the open ocean," Depczynski told Australia's ABC Radio.
Gagliano said that "ear bone asymmetry in the early life stages of reef fish interferes with their capacity to find and settle on coral reefs."
Link (http://-http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/194134,global-warming-making-fish-hard-of-hearing.html)
I hope all of you SUV owners are quite satisfied with yourselves. Now we have FISH that are LOST in the OCEAN because their EARS of shaped funny.
DAMN GEORGE BUSH!! DAMN HIM TO HELL!!!!
honestly, I didn't know that fish even had ears.
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Yes they are called Otiliths. They are used to age fish by fisheries biologist
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Yes they are called Otiliths. They are used to age fish by fisheries biologist
well, then, george bush just made marine biologists' job much harder.
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Huh?
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Huh?
Stay outta the water.
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Huh?
don't ask me. I am lost in my own house right now. :whatever:
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This will just make them easier to catch.
Stupid fish. :beer: