When I posted about the lives of lovable native lampreys a couple weeks ago, commenter Allegra pointed me to some great videos of vegetarian lamprey in Vancouver's Morrison Creek. For the first couple seconds of watching, I honestly mistook the lamprey for water plants. And then they started building nests and spawning. Which plants don't tend to do.
This video shows a group of male and female lamprey building a nest by moving small stones with their sucker mouths. There's more videos of lamprey working together to build nests if you follow the link. Cool stuff! The group that put this together, the Morrison Creek Streamkeepers, also have a photo page that explains how to tell the difference between a girl lamprey and a boy lamprey--if I haven't burned you out on animal sex this week already.
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eely eely cool!
I NEVER get burned out on animal sex.
Wait, are we talking about the same thing?
LOCAL, not "native". "Lives of lovable local lampreys." Gotta learn to lift your 'lliteration levels.
Except that Maggie really means "native", not just local, so the cute alliteration would get in the way of accurate explanation.
See the link to her earlier post where she explains about native and invasive non-native species of lamprey.
Nasty non-native nibblers limit likelihood of locals loving lampreys of vegetarian Vancouver variety.
Feel better? ;-)
I didn't trust lamprey before "The Great Space Fuck" and I still don't trust them now.
Ahh.. I meant "The Big Space Fuck," that's what I get for trusting my own memory rather than double checking everything with wiki..
"Nasty non-native nibblers limit likelihood of locals loving lampreys of vegetarian Vancouver variety.
Feel better? ;-)"
I certainly do.