Deception Point
““Mike,” she said, “you’re cute, but you’re insane. There’s no bioluminescence here.”
Tolland now wished he’d thought to take some video; while Corky had gone to find Norah and Ming, the bioluminescence had begun fading rapidly. Within a couple of minutes, all the twinkling had simply stopped.
Tolland threw another piece of ice into the water, but nothing happened. No green splash.
“Where did they go?” Corky asked.
Tolland had a fairly good idea. Bioluminescence—one of nature’s most ingenious de...fense mechanisms—was a natural response for plankton in distress. A plankton sensing it was about to be consumed by larger organisms would begin flashing in hopes of attracting much larger predators that would scare off the original attackers. In this case, the plankton, having entered the shaft through a crack, suddenly found themselves in a primarily freshwater environment and bioluminesced in panic as the freshwater slowly killed them. “I think they died.”
“They were murdered,”MoreLess
Tolland now wished he’d thought to take some video; while Corky had gone to find Norah and Ming, the bioluminescence had begun fading rapidly. Within a couple of minutes, all the twinkling had simply stopped.
Tolland threw another piece of ice into the water, but nothing happened. No green splash.
“Where did they go?” Corky asked.
Tolland had a fairly good idea. Bioluminescence—one of nature’s most ingenious de...fense mechanisms—was a natural response for plankton in distress. A plankton sensing it was about to be consumed by larger organisms would begin flashing in hopes of attracting much larger predators that would scare off the original attackers. In this case, the plankton, having entered the shaft through a crack, suddenly found themselves in a primarily freshwater environment and bioluminesced in panic as the freshwater slowly killed them. “I think they died.”
“They were murdered,”MoreLess
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