> The wild Atlantic Salmon is normally thought of as a large fish, > right?
Mark! (for sheer off-topicness) > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of AlunFoto > Sent: 11 May 2009 09:23 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: New Jersey Drivers > > 2009/5/11 Joseph McAllister <[email protected]>: > > > > Can't we all just get along? > > I just got to tell you something that's faaaar away from the current > topic, but has certain parallels which I find quite interesting. > > The wild Atlantic Salmon is normally thought of as a large fish, > right? Spends its childhood in some river, and goes to sea to grow big > before returning to spawn. Well, as a life history, that's just half > the story. There's something called "jacks". Male fish that don't > bother to go to sea, but rather mature early at a body lenght of only > 15 cm. They are so small they can hide between the rocks on the > spawning site, and the large sea-going males have no chance to chase > them away. When the spawning starts, they quickly enter the scene and > fertilise some of the eggs with a little squirt of their own. There is > high risk involved, however. The female will immediately start > burrowing her eggs, and the jacks can be hit by stones from the > process, or by the tail-fin of the female. Dead jacks in egg-pockets > have been documented. > > One parallel to the traffic thingy is that there are two different > strategies. Sea-goers and jacks, early-mergers and (not quite sure > what to call them, but) zippers. The success of the jack/zipper > strategy depends on how many other jacks/zippers there are about. A > jack's success is maximised if he/she is the only jack. The more > jacks, the lower success. Same for the zippers. The second parallel is > that of risk. > > A third parallel could be fishy goings-on. :-) > > > Jostein > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
