17th Aug 2011 Does Fish Sleep?

I have been wondering about that, had thought they must do but not sure how they can do so without risking their life gobbled up by other larger fish and sea creatures. Now I know. 'How much a cloud weighs?', a book written by Iris Hammelmann reveals that and a few other interesting puzzles of nature and the natural world. Yes, apparently, fish sleep exactly the same as all mortals.

 

I don't find it easy to recognise whether a fish is sleeping, dead, or simply awake but staying still. She explains that the metabolic functions of the fish takes a pause when they are sleeping. And she also answers my 2nd question of how they stay safe from likely predictors. They use tricks! For instance, they would change their colour to a dullish grey (I won't eat anything looking dullish grey either) or, would you believe it, deactivate half the brain alternatively with the other half! Just imagine that!! These tactics are also used by tuna fish, dolphins and cachalots (sperm whale).

 

I can't stop fantasizing: if only I could do that!!!

Tags: tuna, sleep, whale, fish

Prev: 17th Aug 2011 Fun & Logic Of Old Age

17th Aug 2011 Fun & Logic Of Old Age

* I'm not 80 - I'm merely 28 with 52 years' experience.

* Growing old is like being penalised for a crime you haven't committed.

* I don't drink any more, I can get the same feeling from standing up quickly.'

* Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough. ~ Groucho Marx

* The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. ~ George Foreman

* There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~ Peter F. Drucker

* I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. ~ Danny McGoorty, Irish Pool Player

* During a tour in South Wales, UK, playing to the former mining communities with enormous success. Dame Sybil Thorndike found herself at a reception at a place called Tenby in Dyfed, Wales.

She was introduced to the assembly as the guest of honour by a rather senile vicar who said, ' I am delighted to have the pleasure of welcoming to our town Dame Sybil, a famous member of the oldest profession in the world.'

* When WC Fields, the actor, was in his dotage he was seen to be reading the Bible by a close friend who demanded to know what he was looking for.

'Loopholes, dear boy, loopholes,' murmured Fields. (This is absolutely true!)

Prev: 17th Aug 2011 Blood Or The Soya Milk

17th Aug 2011 Blood Or The Soya Milk

Blood, the lifeline that keeps us alive, does not just simply circulate through the veins of our body, but serves to describe a great number of situations, emotions, even our character and being.

Blue blood is reserved for those who can flaunt for life the title of nobility without being precise it's specific significance. For a cruel gunman or assassin we say of him as being cold blooded; the passionate is described to have burning hot blood; when the blood runs, somebody is having a serious fateful moment, and when your blood is sucked, some parasite of XXL size has decided to live it up at your cost. Even in the magic world of Harry Potter, there's a place reserved for corrupt souls with dirty blood.

Of all the blood types one can live or feel, the saddest or most deplorable is that of Soya milk (in Spain anyway). And not for being morose or sluggish or painful, simply meaning insipid, weak and namby pamby. Having blood of Soya milk is like being a sack of potato; gives bulk, fills you up and never excites. A person with no spirit or soul. But who and under what precise moment decided to relate such neurosis with the very tasty (they think; I don't) and healthy milky drink? It's sweet but not oily or sticky, refreshing, nutritious, suitable for and liked by most adults and children, without producing unpleasant collateral damages.

How different things will be if in the veins of the world runs less blood and more Soya milk!

Tags: blood, soyamilk

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