Hello everyone, so here is our last post about our Swedish scientific project on scavenging activity. Here are the answers to all your questions, the clues to solve the mystery, the revelations that you were all expecting. I mean, no, not exactly, that’s not how science is done. First we can’t give an absolute answer to any question mostly, and we do not answer such broad topics in 10 days. So here we are for the last breakfast in this amazing place, today is presentations’ day. We’re holding on to the amazing sunset pictures we took all week to give us some strength. We managed to finalyse our analysis and hand in our report (right on the last second actually). Our results and observations from the experiments show that the scavenging activity is higher during the night than during the day, in terms of rate of the process, it goes much faster. Almost every morning, when we retrieved the night’s experiment, there would be nothing left of the bait on the quadrat. This result was ...
Dear star-addicts, Consider this the end of the Star Wars! This is indeed end of the show. No more keeping up with the Stardashians; no more cannibalism; no more weird jokes (after this post, lol). We are as devastated as you are, but at least we will be getting some more hours of sleep and we are more than grateful for this experience and all the friends we have made on the way, (specially those five-armed-sticky-aliens, aka sea stars). For you to feel a little bit better, we leave you with our most shocking results: Indeed our sea-rebels showed clear activity peaks around dawn and dusk ! During sunrise and sunset is apparently also the occasion to get high, as a lot of our starfish were found wandering on the edge of the water surface at those time, while preferring the bottom during day and nights. Aaand, voilá, these party animals seem to prefer the good nightlife. (Actually, we have no clear evidence that they go partying, it just happens to be the time they hunt. B...