Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The crazyness content of batshit is vastly exaggerated

"During study of the cave-adapted plethodontid Eurycea spelaea (until recently given its own genus, Typhlotriton), Fenolio et al. (2006) repeatedly observed salamander larvae ingesting bat guano. Yes, bat shit. Adult cave salamanders were observed foraging on guano piles, though weren't seen to eat the stuff.
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"Furthermore, bat poo is - comparatively - quite nutritious and similar in protein content and calorific value to the McDonald's Corporation Big Mac sandwich Fenolio et al. (2006) compared it with."

8 comments:

ckc (not kc) said...

Depending upon the subspecies in question, there can be normal gilled adults, cannibalistic gilled adults, normal transformed adults, cannibalistic transformed adults, large transformed adults and small transformed adults.

...I think I know one of those cannibalistic transformed adults - fortunately he can be distracted by a bag of batshit

Snag said...

A Guano with Cheese, please, and Supersize me.

ckc (not kc) said...

...small slivers of glass are (comparatively) "quite" nutritious - of this I am (comparatively) "quite" convincec

ckc (not kc) said...

c=d

Smut Clyde said...

there can be normal gilled adults, cannibalistic gilled adults,...

We are left to infer that cannibalism is not normal.
Now they tell me.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

C.H.U.D.

P.S. W.V.: clonism
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Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Sloths, salamanders... coprophagy seems to be all the rage these days.

POOP!

Smut Clyde said...

On certain other blogs, coprophagy was all the rage way back last November.

Batfly!