'Fish Dugong' appalling Selayar Islands

'Fish Dugong 'appalling Selayar Islands. Tuesday morning, January 11, 2011, citizen-Tongke Tongke Hamlet, Village Iowa, District Bontosikuyu, Selayar Islands District, South Sulawesi, a sudden uproar. The reason, found a sea creature believed to be a kind of fish that the locals is the incarnation of human and marine animal. The fishermen believe there even was a 'sea cow'. Not yet clear what this strange creature actually. Female pairs of animals were found residents Tongke Hamlet-Tongke named Juma Ali (40), stranded in the coastal village of Bala-Bala Iowa. Shortly before he was found, the sea creature that was mentioned is actually a human population from Kendari who condemned this magic, barely able to connect breath. Because the bodies of marine animals have been attached by a number of Gomi - a type of blood-sucking leeches - for adult palms.Luckily, Juma Ali can take off the leeches sea. After that, Juma Ali tried to restore the endangered animals into the sea. However, the 'sea cow' is like always refused thrashed. Juma Ali then decided to maintain it. A rope tied in the tail. The goal: as a starting reinforcements, to avoid Hamlet Tongke blow-tongke from storms and tidal waves that are raging lately. Since the seaweed-eating animals find it, Juma Ali so absurdly busy. He is almost no longer to carry out their routine activities. Every day, she must meet the demands of local residents as well as officials from local government agencies who came there to just watch and capture images of this rare fish. His ways, they are busy visiting, rarely willing to insert dollars into the pocket Juma Ali. Be Juma Ali, who sometimes have to fight the cold to wait on audience demand, bite the fingers while keeping the cranky. Entering the sixth day of a strange creature was discovered, various mystical stories and tales increasingly spread throughout the village. Some say 'mermaid' was like always coy when approached by men. And another story he always cries when it feels threatened. There is also a dream to grave: the creature was threatened that if not immediately released to the open sea, then Selayar Island and surrounding areas will soon disappear swallowed by the ocean

The legend of Narcissus

The legend of Narcissus

Vladnews - The expression of narcissistic or narcissism comes from Greek legend. It was told there used to be handsome young son of the god of water named Narcissus, when he was drinking water in a lake in the middle of the woods, he was so stunned to see her reflection. Although many women and forest fairies fall in love with handsome Narcissus, but he did not take care. Every day of his visit the lake to admire his own reflection.
 

You could say she has fallen in love with himself ...
One day because it was so much fun looking at his reflection, he fell and drowned in the lake. He fall in place, growing flowers and was named Narcissus.



But the story does not stop until here. Forest fairies found that lake water has become salty tears of the lake. The lake was saddened by the departure of narcissus.

"No surprise if you are sad, because so far only you can look at the beauty of Narcissus, even we were not able to entice him" says Peri-peri forest. "But indahkah Narcissus?" the lake asked. "why do you ask?" asked the fairy wonder. The Lake said "I do not know, when Narcisuss knelt at the edge of the lake, I could see the depth of her beauty is its own shadow. "

Megalodon

Vladnews - Megalodon was an ancient species of giant shark that lived about 20 to 1.2 million last year. This shark is larger than a cruiser. His name itself means "big tooth". These animals include sharks in the waters that seldom rise to the surface except to find prey.

Issues that spread, though this shark has never been found alive, many of the scientists argue that this shark is still alive, and including living fossils. Descendants of this shark is a shark near putih.Efisien and muscular, Megalodon has over 2m wide jaw. While the Megalodon could eat whatever vote, her favorite food is the whale. Other marine mammals like seals and Odobenocetops also on the menu.
Most of these sharks hunt in the open sea (fish living near the beach). He attacked its prey near the surface, when it comes to air.

Megalodon could swim at high speed in short bursts so tended to rush its prey from below. Especially when dealing with species that is big enough, so he aimed to disable its prey by injuring or tail fin. Once unable to swim properly, the victim would be easy to kill.

Twice the size of a great white shark, and with teeth 21cm long, this was the top predator of its time.
Type: Cartilaginous fish
Size: Up to 16m in length
Diet: Carnivore
Predators: No known predators
Lived: The Miocene and Pliocene epochs, 16-1.6 million years ago.

Jellyfish Threatens Marine Life

 

Factor causes jellyfish population growth is pollution, temperature and fishing.


Vladnews - Jellyfish are sea creatures are ugly, dangerous enough, and unlike the other killers in the ocean the sharks. Jellyfish are not too tasty to eat. Unfortunately, the animal is now ready to master the two-thirds of planet Earth.


In 2006 to 2010, a group of large swarm of jellyfish invade Spanish beaches. Sting tens of thousands of swimmers. In some places, jellyfish are present in concentrations up to 10 per square meter.

These jellyfish group also appeared in other regions around the world. In 2007, Hawaii and Ireland experienced pest jellyfish. Israeli and French waters in 2008. Tunisia and Italy was invaded in 2009. In Japan, a jellyfish measuring up to 1.8 meters more and more popping up.


In the waters of northern Australia, populations of jellyfish with tentacles up to 2.5 meters also explode. In fact, this jellyfish has toxins that can kill humans within three minutes.


According to María Luz Fernández de Puelles, researchers from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography's Balearic Oceanography Center, there are three causes. As quoted from Mother Nature Network, December 28, 2010, jellyfish fertile life as a side effect of pollution, rising water temperatures and excessive fishing.
Man is too much waste, including agricultural waste into rivers that eventually flow into the sea. As is known, fertilizer designed to enhance plant growth. Apparently, fertilizer also works the same in the sea by increasing algae growth.


The problem, algae are food for micro-organisms in the sea, which is the main food of jellyfish. The more abundant algae and micro-organisms, the more secure also live jellyfish.


Second, global warming causes the temperature of the warm sea water. From research, it triggers a jellyfish in the more fertile reproduce and make them swim closer to shore. Similarly, the tropical jellyfish that have poisonous tentacles.


Third, excessive fishing, especially tuna, sharks, and sea turtles also make a jellyfish increasingly free to roam. In fact, predatory animals that normally eat the jellyfish and its eggs.
"Jellyfish are a very voracious predators and compete with other planktonic organisms and to fight for food," said de Puelles. "With the skyrocketing growth of the jellyfish, then they will change in the marine ecosystem structure drastically."
Photo of a jellyfish with a diver

Science & Technology

Catfish mutated So Human Predators


Goonch a size of 1.8 meters and weighing 75.5 kilograms were arrested.

Since 1998 until 2007, three men disappeared suddenly drowned in the Great Kali River, a river across the border between Nepal and northern India. This is very strange because the area was not a habitat for crocodiles and other aquatic predators.


Finally, from an eyewitness who saw the incident, a child is seen being dragged into the water by something that looks like a long-sized pig. After that, the victim was never seen again, alive or dead. Similarly, the remains of the body or clothing.


The cases sparked Jeremy Wade, a British biologist to observe what is in these rivers. Because the attack occurred only in certain areas, as long as about 6 to 8 miles. The area was, according to residents, is the area where they used to melarungkan bodies of their brothers who had died after being burned.

After researching using a depth gauge, he is sure there is no hole was found, meaning that the attack was not caused by the turbulence that occurs in water.


Sure enough, shortly after that, from a distance of about 1 kilometer from the last attack, a buffalo who was drinking at the river that only has a depth of 1 meter was attacked and dragged by something from the water.


"Anything that can drag the buffalo for it certainly has the size and weight as heavy as 90 to 140 kilograms," said Wade, as quoted by Discovery, December 29, 2010.


In underwater research, Wade found goonch catfish, catfish have a similar length of one meter. However, the fish that failed to capture. Further research, it is known that there are several groups goonch and six of them the size of a human.
After failing to catch fish with fishing equipment, Wade tried to provoke the appearance of the fish using a pile of firewood and prepared as if the former cremation of dead bodies. It turns out a success.


A goonch measuring 1.8 meters long and weighs 75.5 kilograms, or 3 times more weight than any other goonch been arrested. This fish is estimated to big and strong enough to eat a small child, but not big enough to drag and eating a buffalo.


From the description of the population, Wade concluded that 'catfish' that has mutated into a taste of human flesh. Fish also continue to grow into a giant after eating undercooked meat remains humans who dilarungkan and sunk in the riverbed.

Jeremy Wade and Goonch Catfish, a kind of fish 'catfish' which mutated into flesh-eating (discovery.com)