[SIZE="2"]Take a guess, go on, tell us what you think it is . . .[/SIZE]
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[SIZE="1"]The answer lies
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A huge colony of cyamids, going for a ride.
A very interesting reef island with a massive sinkhole in its lagoon?
A glory hole in the Whaling Wall?
I thought it was a giant octopus
Yeah, I'm guessing a reef somewhere.
A closeup of the bread that's been in my refrigerator for 4 months.
So it was pretty obvious to me that it was a detail of a whale, but I thought it was a humpback whale, which was wrong.
I wondered about those white spots. I always assumed they were just barnacles. It's true there are some barnacles in there, but mostly the white stuff is "whale lice," or cyamids.
If you look just below the eye, you can see some of the individual lice clearly and see their legs. Creepy.
The cyamids live on tough patches of whale skin, like callouses, called callosities. The cyamids just live in the crevasses of the callosities and give them a white color. They are basically little miniature crabs that hook onto the skin and eat it. Poor whales.
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Thanks for the rousing bout of piloerection!
I like my reef island better.
...but mostly the white stuff is "whale lice,"...
[SIZE="4"]WHALES GOT CRABS!![/SIZE]
Do not flush air tanks
Crabs can scuba dive
The cyamids live on tough patches of whale skin, like callouses, called callosities. The cyamids just live in the crevasses of the callosities and give them a white color. They are basically little miniature crabs that hook onto the skin and eat it. Poor whales.
But isn't it dead skin? Like those little fish that eat on people's feet in the spas in Japan.
looks like just a normal dinner plate in Japan
Whoa! Hello there avail9988 - two posts in almost three years. We're really flushing the lurkers outta the woodwork here. Welcome aboard!
Whoa! Hello there avail9988 - two posts in almost three years. We're really flushing the lurkers outta the woodwork here. Welcome aboard!
raise your hand if you (also) sought and found the other post.