April 01, 2004

ABRA CADABRA.

And other funny species names. (Via Chuck Welch at BlogJazz, who says "This really belongs over at languagehat.")

Posted by languagehat at April 1, 2004 03:37 PM
Comments

You know, you linked to this site fairly recently. I thought of pointing out the puns page then, as it was sitting in my bookmarks, but decided against it.

Posted by: Tim May at April 1, 2004 05:46 PM

I know, but on a day like this, I thought a link to the pun page was apropos. After all, it was handed to me on a silver platter.

Posted by: language hat at April 1, 2004 06:46 PM

Looking back at my RSS reader I received that post on Jan 20th at 2:12 pm.

Obviously I was off my feed that day.

Posted by: Chuck Welch at April 1, 2004 08:29 PM

I just posted about the priapalids or "penis worms", whose blood used hemerythrin (lacks porphyrin) rather than hemoglobin to transport oxygen. their blood is pinkish-violet.

Everything you want to know about exotic methods of oxygen transport is there.

Posted by: zizka at April 1, 2004 10:36 PM

No offense, zizka, but if I ever need oxygen transported I'll just call a professional mover. None of your fancy modern hemowhatsis for me.

Posted by: language hat at April 2, 2004 07:45 AM

That's right, I forgot we're all humanists here. I also have a realtime video of a fish-eating snail eating a fish. Those pretty little molluscs can kill you.

Posted by: zizka at April 2, 2004 11:12 AM

Zizka,
What about video of those parazites living off (and in) humans (in digestive tract, as far as I remember)? Russian newspapers in NY sometimes sell whole 2 page space for the adverts of some "healers" and/or cure products, with amazing pics. I've no idea, is this phenomenon specific to the said newspapers or not.

Posted by: Tatyana at April 2, 2004 11:30 AM

I'll work on it, Tatyana.

Posted by: zizka at April 2, 2004 01:52 PM