How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

by Sabrina Imbler

I’m interested in this insight that your own development and challenges can create a connection with creatures that are pretty different. It reminds me that an octopus and a human being compared to many other possible pairs of things in the universe, have a common. Consciousness,, vision, etc. I thought it was an interesting notion that the octopus staying alive so long Might be connected to the octopus understanding that after the the young octopuses the octopus will die. So is it persistence at taking care of your young, or is it just wanting to hang out. It comes to the discussion of her brother thinness and her own struggles, it’s gonna be interesting to talk about this in a group. Just like it’s gonna be challenging to talk about the trans stuff that means. Body dysmorphia seems to be a common thing across the variety of ways and strikes me is not all that healthy. But what do I know?

All but four of the world’s twenty-seven species in the family Acipenseridae hover close to extinction. So the sturgeon are dying, in lakes and rivers and oceans all over the world. These giant fish survived the asteroid and the Ice Age and so much more only to be wiped out by cosmically puny obstacles: our dams, our boats, our chemicals, our taste for caviar.

How to Draw a Sperm Whale

So in this chapter, they are talking about the whale and drawing and their relationship with them and I’m not sure how or why this is all connected. In the previous chapter on the sturgeon and the story of her grandmother, I thought was really cool in terms of appreciating the resilience of her female ancestors and connecting that to the imperiled resilience of the sturgeon.

Pure Life

I enjoyed this essay which connects queer dance, and bar space with subterranean no sub, ocean floor, lava heat life communities

huge swaths of ocean in a glossy haze. In 1975, one swarm of thumb-sized salps covered 38,600 square miles of waters off New England.

Finished, it spends its days living inside its new conveniently aerodynamic cocoon,

For a long time, many cuttlefish scientists focused their research on the male cuttlefish—a historically common practice in many fields of science. Among the giant Australian cuttlefish, smaller males change the patterns of their body to appear female, allowing them to evade detection from the kingpin male cuttlefish while sneaking in to fertilize the kingpin’s female mate. A PBS nature documentary deemed this “a devious drag act,” while a story in Nature went so far as to call the cuttlefish a sneaker and a transvestite.

cuttlefish, like scientists, can be mistaken, and the only way to know for sure is necropsy.

Of the cuttlefish patterns we humans can perceive, the most spectacular is called “passing cloud.” The pattern is not still but in constant motion, a dark ribbon that moves along the creature’s body like a rippling conveyor belt. It is as if the cuttlefish has become a green screen, a portal for other sea creatures to see the sky. The display can resemble the blurred Vs of geese in flight, shadows reflected in a puddle, a psychedelic zebra, as interpretable as a Rorschach test. Scientists have observed passing cloud in swimming cuttlefish, mating cuttlefish, hunting cuttlefish, and resting cuttlefish, which is to say scientists have no idea what it means. Don’t eat me/hello there/will you have sex with me/I’m poisonous/that shrimp looks tasty/don’t mind me, I’m doing fine. It all depends on the audience.

Cuttlefish can mime texture on sight alone, never needing to physically touch the substance they imitate.

The scientific name for cuttlefish is Sepia, and the cuttlefish gave the color its name, not the other way around.