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I think I will randomly edit all movies to insert canned laughter at seemingly not funny moments. btw why are the japanese so freakin brilliant??? The musical edits are perfect!
Hat tip to the Pink Tentacle.
January 7, 2009 at 2:06 AMChristopher Taylor
Do you have an ID? Is that some sort of pteropod or something?
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January 7, 2009 at 2:10 AMKevin Zelnio
Wait you want content and facts??? I don’t have time for that! lol
Its a pteropod, genus Clione. Coincidentally Clione is also a sponge genus, but the pteropod has priority. Not sure what happened to the sponge name…
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January 7, 2009 at 6:15 AMChristopher Taylor
Nothing, I believe. The sponge genus is Cliona, not Clione.
Both genera did have a family Clionidae named for them, though, with the gastropod Clionidae in the lead. I believe the sponge family is now Clionaidae.
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January 7, 2009 at 5:45 PMKevin Z
Sponges aren’t *real* animals anyways. just figments of our imagination.
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January 8, 2009 at 4:13 AMAndrew
Kevin – I don’t believe it..!! You dissing an invertebrate group……
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January 8, 2009 at 9:16 AMKevin Zelnio
They are more a consortia of protists and other microfauna that build a home to live in. Kind of like a commune.
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January 8, 2009 at 2:22 PMMichael Robinson
Enough about invertebrates, what about the tv show? I want to know the mental process by which a Japanese producer looks footage of a pteropod and thinks: lets cue up that music from Ringu and Damien III. Then we’ll put a laugh track over it. Perfect!
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January 8, 2009 at 6:11 PMAeolius
Posted by: Kevin Z – “Sponges aren’t *real* animals anyways. just figments of our imagination.”
Whooooo…… lives in a pineapple under the sea?
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January 9, 2009 at 7:53 AMEric
Awesome video…very fun!
I think this one goes up as part of a video intro to molluscs for the next invert bio course.
But, Kevin, dissin’ the porifera?
Is that the pulled pork speaking?
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[...] This is the International Polar Year. Listen to an interview with Dr. D’Or and read the full story about the bi-polar invertebrata-ta at BBC News. Watch Cliona in action, swimming on a Japanese game show here. [...]
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