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muriel_volestrangler

(101,158 posts)
Thu May 28, 2020, 05:18 PM May 2020

Giant undersea bug in Toba Aquarium poops for first time in two years

A momentous event took place in Toba Aquarium on 26 May, when the keeper of the facility’s five giant isopods discovered fecal matter in their tank. This would be the first time since April of 2018 that even a trace of poop had been found.

Giant isopods are relatives of those bugs kids around the world play with by poking with a stick so that they curl up into a ball. Pill-bug, potato-bug, roly-poly, or doodle bug are among these things’ many common names, and a fun fact about them is that they are among the very few crustaceans that live on land.
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This time it resulted in a much happier ending for the five isopods which were introduced to the facility in Toba City, Mie Prefecture, in 2013. Moreover, the feces was found to contain scales of a fish not served by the aquarium.

This means that the food which went into making this poop must have been consumed over seven years ago, before they came to the aquarium. While it isn’t clear exactly which isopod dropped the deuce, the finding is a breakthrough in the field of giant isopod regularity, and will hopefully trigger more detailed research into the subject.

https://soranews24.com/2020/05/29/giant-undersea-bug-in-toba-aquarium-poops-for-first-time-in-two-years/

For scale - the size of their isopods:

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Giant undersea bug in Toba Aquarium poops for first time in two years (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2020 OP
I'll take this as a sign from al the mysteries of nature & the universe that.. Budi May 2020 #1
Whoa Faux pas May 2020 #2
Giant isopods are so cool, they have built-in shades muriel_volestrangler May 2020 #4
That thing looks like a giant dust mite...ugh! Karadeniz May 2020 #11
One of the lesser known signs of the apocalypse Red Mountain May 2020 #3
A Seismic Recorder at the State University recorded the sigh of relief at 2.8 on the Richter scale. marble falls May 2020 #5
The Costive Crustacean DemoTex May 2020 #6
I bet he's been in a foul mood for a year and a half. LastDemocratInSC May 2020 #7
What a moving story. lagomorph777 May 2020 #9
laughed my ass off at the last paragraph... dhill926 May 2020 #8
Didn't I see some of those things in the Cloverfield movie? LudwigPastorius May 2020 #10
I thought MFM008 Jun 2020 #12
A great post about poop...K and R..thank you... Stuart G Jun 2020 #13
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
1. I'll take this as a sign from al the mysteries of nature & the universe that..
Thu May 28, 2020, 05:24 PM
May 2020

..that the Trump regime will fall.

Yiipppee!

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
9. What a moving story.
Fri May 29, 2020, 10:37 AM
May 2020

I am relieved to hear he went well.

On the darker side, I recently saw some undersea footage that seems to show one of these guys snapping up a huge shark in the blink of an eye. Not quite as cute and cuddly as his land-dwelling cousins!

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