Herring communication

[arcticpenguin]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7800097%5E29677,00.html

Herrings communicate with one another by emitting high-pitched sounds from their anuses, according to Canadian researchers.
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Fish have long been known to communicate with potential mates by making grunting and buzzing sounds by wobbling their swim bladders - bags full of air that control buoyancy - but fishy flatulence adds a whole new dimension to their vocabulary.

The biologists initially thought the higher-pitched sounds they were detecting were also caused by the swim bladder. Then they noticed bubbles coming from the fish's anuses in time with the sounds. At this point, reports NewScientist.com, the biologists named the sounds Fast Repetitive Ticks - FRTs.

Isn't science grand?

 

[cbish]

I've been communicating this way for years. Just pull my finger!

I've found this to be one of the best ways to have my wife leave the room and to make my son giggle.

 

[WildCat]

You penquins are soooo single minded - herring this, herring that, who's got my herring, where are the herring. Now this!

 

[jj]

I can't say I'm shad to be herring about that, it makes my sense of humor flounder about and get crabby.

 

[Yahweh]

At this point, reports NewScientist.com, the biologists named the sounds Fast Repetitive Ticks - FRTs.

Biologists definitely have a better sense of humor than Physicists. "WIMPs" and "MACHOs" are hardly worth a chuckle, but these new FRTs are hilarious!

 

[arcticpenguin]

Biologists definitely have a better sense of humor than Physicists. "WIMPs" and "MACHOs" are hardly worth a chuckle, but these new FRTs are hilarious!

I'm guessing you've never read Richard Feynman's account of his first published use of the term "tadpole diagrams".

 

[Charlie in Dayton]

Could you please translate for me, and elucidate on the point this whale is making?

 

[El Greco]

On a side note, I have watched recently a documentary on strange reproduction habits. Listen to this: In a certain fish species (don't remember which exactly), the female eats some of the eggs she lays. Those eggs eaten become males (!) and these small males get to live all their life in the female! At some point they fertilize the eggs and so on. Those eggs not eaten become females!

Spending every single moment of your life inside a female! The absolute pleasure!

 

[Iconoclast]

Herrings communicate with one another by emitting high-pitched sounds from their anuses, according to Canadian researchers.

If no one else is going to say it, I will: They're talking out of their a##es.

 

[Agammamon]

Like most of the current Administration has been doing for the last couple of years.

 

[iSani]

I've been communicating this way for years. Just pull my finger!

This is what is known in the linguistic circles as the rectal tremulant.

 

[cbish]

Yes, it's a very similar concept to my favorite logical fallacy; Argumentum ad Rectum.