{"id":1285,"date":"2009-02-03T20:24:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T04:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2009-02-03T20:24:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T04:24:26","slug":"water-and-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2009\/02\/03\/water-and-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking in their schoolroom and sleeping in their toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Erin Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n

Classes are back in full swing here at Moss Landing, which partially explains the sporadic nature of our blog posts (my apologies!).\u00a0 BUT!\u00a0 I am very excited about the coming few months because, despite being a member of the Ichthyology (or fish-geek) lab, I am just now taking a basic ichthyology class for the very first time.\u00a0 Which just goes to show that you can be a late-bloomer in your study interests and still make it to grad school!<\/p>\n

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The life of a fish: getting it all done in water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In any case, I will have lots of fascinating little tidbits to share with you about our fishy friends, and will hopefully be able to convince\u00a0 you why they (and the world thy live in)\u00a0 are just so cool.\u00a0 Take this, for instance.\u00a0\u00a0 If I asked you where fish live, you would (hopefully) say, “In water, obviously.”\u00a0 But take a minute to think about what that means<\/em> – and how very different life would be compared to our air-filled, land-based existence.\u00a0 On our first day of class last week, Dr. Greg Cailliet, our fearless lab leader and class instructor, shared with us this quote from an ichthyology text by Karl Lagler (1962):<\/p>\n

“Water is highway, byway, communications medium, nursery, playground, school, room, bed, board, drink, toilet, and grave for a fish.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Phew!\u00a0 All of that happening in the same interconnected space.\u00a0 Greg added that students at MLML may very well have the same attitude towards our lab – all except for the grave part, we can only hope.\u00a0 (I mean, a thesis is hard, but that’s just asking a little too much).\u00a0 In any case, I thought the comparison was very fitting.<\/p>\n

So how do fish do it?\u00a0 How do their lives work when every basic function, from breathing to eating to growing to mating to sleeping to escaping all have to happen in water<\/em>?\u00a0 I hope you’ll stay tuned to find out the answers and more.\u00a0 For now, this little fish is going to get out of the school room before it turns into a bedroom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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