As scientists search for the cause of the corals demise, here’s a theory that might explain why
The coral’s core morals are not to breed more corals as more and more corals’ll die- gk
The coral reef is smart, indeed ….. Deciding to stay chaste ….
It never will distribute seed … Until its hip’s replaced. -Ortist
Not only beautiful, but sexy
Scientists are discovering new stars in distant solar systems almost every week, and breakthroughs in anthropology seem to shed new light on ancient man regularly. We’re mapping the mind more and more accurately, always finding new connections down those dark and tangled pathways.
It seems our progress in marine science is going a bit slower, and that’s dangerous because if we screw up the sea, we could screw up the whole planet – which is, after all, mostly sea.
This article today points to some serious damage we are doing to the coral. Now, as I imagine most people do, I have generally always thought of coral in its post-animate incarnation, as a mountain of shells that maybe forms an island after it has become large enough to breach the surface, or as a colorful undersea wall, providing an atmosphere for all the brightly colored little fishies to play.
But they are living organisms, and they are dying. People chip away at them for souvenirs and whatnot, they get damaged by people fishing with explosives – oh, yeah, that happens- and plain old fashioned pollution.
Here’s the scary part. Scientists have discovered that, the more damaged they are, the slower they breed. Not too surprising. If you are recuperating from, for instance, a huge bloody gaping great wound in your side, you might be somewhat less interested in dancing the wild hula yourself.
Some interesting facts about how corals breed. They can do it asexually, which is sort of like cloning, or sexually. When it’s sexual, it’s still hermaphroditic, each colony of coral containing both male and female parts, and shooting all it’s eggs and all it’s sperm out into the water simultaneously and, despite the fact that it’s just fish jizz and caviar floating in the salty deep, it sounds like a beautiful image to me, sort of romantic, especially as this generally happens around a full moon. Really. I’m not kidding.
Anyway, however they do it, we are interfering with it and it should stop. We should stop polluting the ocean. The coral reefs should be off limits to man. And there must be alternatives to killing fish with dynamite.
Give the poor coral reefs a bit of privacy.
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