{"id":3901,"date":"2011-03-30T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2011-03-30T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:00:06","slug":"the-colors-of-nature-in-cancer-crabs-and-stunning-sunsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/03\/30\/the-colors-of-nature-in-cancer-crabs-and-stunning-sunsets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colors of Nature in Cancer Crabs and Stunning Sunsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3902\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/baby-cancer-crab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3902\" title=\"Baby Cancer Crab\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/baby-cancer-crab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/baby-cancer-crab.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/baby-cancer-crab-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Straight from the fish&#039;s mouth: a juvenille red rock crab (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" style=\"width: 94px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2008\/08\/erin-with-fish12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-206\" title=\"Erin Loury\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2008\/08\/erin-with-fish12.jpg?w=112\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erin Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by <a title=\"Erin\u00a0Loury\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/students\/erin-loury\/\">Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n<p>This baby red rock crab (<em>Cancer productus<\/em>), only about an inch wide, still shows some of its bright patterning even after being digested in a gopher rockfish stomach.\u00a0 Spending more hours than I&#8217;d care to admit sifting through fish guts may give one a slightly skewed perspective on the definition of &#8220;pretty,&#8221; but after identifying so many drab brownish crabs of other species, I found this little guy downright bedazzling.\u00a0\u00a0 The color variation in this species is captivating: check out its <a title=\"Baby Crab Eater \u2013 or, a Whiter Shade of\u00a0Pale\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2010\/02\/10\/baby-crab-eater\/\">shocking-white color morph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How charitable of nature to lend its best colors to both baby crabs and the evening sky.\u00a0 After hours of staring through the microscope, nothing is more rewarding than stepping out on the back deck of the lab to soak up the amazing view.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3904\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/mlml-sunset-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3904\" title=\"MLML Sunset 2\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/mlml-sunset-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/mlml-sunset-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/mlml-sunset-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab This baby red rock crab (Cancer productus), only about an inch wide, still shows some of its bright patterning even after being digested in a gopher rockfish stomach.\u00a0 Spending more hours than I&#8217;d care to admit sifting through fish guts may give one a slightly skewed perspective on the definition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-invertebrates"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}