Dear star-addicts,
Hope our last post didn’t disturb you that much, because we still have some more shocking content for you. If you are ready for some more cringey humor and some spicy news, we invite you to keep reading.
As you already know, sea-stars in our tanks suddenly started going wild. (Aka; trying to eat each other). As much as we would have liked to think there was some romanticism going on, we started being suspicious it might be something more aggressive than expected when one of our stars lost 2 legs and a half. But, aren’t sea stars supposed to be little cuties? Traumatizing as this can be, you shall not panic, these animals are capable of growing back their limbs (#superpowers).
Weird part is, cannibalism has not really been observed in this species, only if they have been starving for “long”, meaning “weeks”. Even though only two days had passed since we collected them (#spoilt?), we decided to prevent future injuries and feed them with some juicy fresh caught mollusks. Ain’t no one dying in our reality show!
-Two tangled and wild Stardashians digesting a mollusk-
So, during these past 4 days, we have had the chance to free the little stalker that we all hide inside of us. (Some seemed more experienced than others). At sunrise, midday, sunset and midnight, (yes, MIDNIGHT), we have been intensively monitoring them; recording their positions, their movements. their behaviour and if they used shelters or not. At the same time, part of our tanks were studied through time lapse sequences, every 10 seconds during 10 minutes.
-Sunset and midnight views of our tank surveys-
Aaand, of course, let's not forget about field surveys which we used as our procedure control. In other words, we haven’t slept at all.
-Pros of waking up at 4.30 am to do some field surveys; those views tho.-
-Checking out how our favorite stars behave and move on field, to compare it with our tanks. Surveys surveys and more surveys!-
Good news; we are getting some fantastic results, but let’s leave that for the last blogpost. Sad news; yesterday at sunrise our last experiment finished, so we had to say “hasta la vista” to our fabulous starfish. Somehow, these weird and somewhat creepier-than-expected animals have managed to steal our hearts. Now, they are back in their natural habitat, probably (we wish).
-Happy but tired marine biologists after the last experiment from 5.40am - 7am-
So, now that our stalking has finished, what are we doing with your lives? Well, we will confess that we feel quite empty inside, but now it’s our chance to analyze everything that we have been observing and writing down! (Yay!) Kinda like some proper CSI work, but cooler, cause it’s us.
Make sure you don’t miss our last post! We will give you ALL the details of the results obtained these past week.
Lots of love (LOL),
The Rockstars
Hope our last post didn’t disturb you that much, because we still have some more shocking content for you. If you are ready for some more cringey humor and some spicy news, we invite you to keep reading.
As you already know, sea-stars in our tanks suddenly started going wild. (Aka; trying to eat each other). As much as we would have liked to think there was some romanticism going on, we started being suspicious it might be something more aggressive than expected when one of our stars lost 2 legs and a half. But, aren’t sea stars supposed to be little cuties? Traumatizing as this can be, you shall not panic, these animals are capable of growing back their limbs (#superpowers).
Weird part is, cannibalism has not really been observed in this species, only if they have been starving for “long”, meaning “weeks”. Even though only two days had passed since we collected them (#spoilt?), we decided to prevent future injuries and feed them with some juicy fresh caught mollusks. Ain’t no one dying in our reality show!
-Two tangled and wild Stardashians digesting a mollusk-
So, during these past 4 days, we have had the chance to free the little stalker that we all hide inside of us. (Some seemed more experienced than others). At sunrise, midday, sunset and midnight, (yes, MIDNIGHT), we have been intensively monitoring them; recording their positions, their movements. their behaviour and if they used shelters or not. At the same time, part of our tanks were studied through time lapse sequences, every 10 seconds during 10 minutes.
-Sunset and midnight views of our tank surveys-
Aaand, of course, let's not forget about field surveys which we used as our procedure control. In other words, we haven’t slept at all.
-Pros of waking up at 4.30 am to do some field surveys; those views tho.-
-Checking out how our favorite stars behave and move on field, to compare it with our tanks. Surveys surveys and more surveys!-
Good news; we are getting some fantastic results, but let’s leave that for the last blogpost. Sad news; yesterday at sunrise our last experiment finished, so we had to say “hasta la vista” to our fabulous starfish. Somehow, these weird and somewhat creepier-than-expected animals have managed to steal our hearts. Now, they are back in their natural habitat, probably (we wish).
-Happy but tired marine biologists after the last experiment from 5.40am - 7am-
So, now that our stalking has finished, what are we doing with your lives? Well, we will confess that we feel quite empty inside, but now it’s our chance to analyze everything that we have been observing and writing down! (Yay!) Kinda like some proper CSI work, but cooler, cause it’s us.
Make sure you don’t miss our last post! We will give you ALL the details of the results obtained these past week.
Lots of love (LOL),
The Rockstars
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