Sea of Suspicion (2010)
“Susie took a sip of water. Restless noises told her the students were finished and she flipped to a new slide that everyone began reverently copying.
“Now I want to show you an example of synchronous, mass and epidemic reproduction among broadcast-spawning marine invertebrates, otherwise known as coral reefs.” She flicked to photographs she’d taken during her last post-doc position in Australia. Bright purple sea fans, translucent tunicates, orange sea stars dazzling against bone-white staghorn coral.
“In Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, five different reefs—stretching more than five hundred kilometers—spawn over the same few nights between the full and last moon in late spring.” She lifted her voice, trying to drive imaginations, to instill the magic of this immense biological event. “More than one hundred different animal species release eggs and sperm into the ocean over the same few days.” It never failed to amaze Susie how organisms that couldn’t talk, text or date managed to get ...it together for one big humongous ejaculation to continue the species.MoreLess
“Now I want to show you an example of synchronous, mass and epidemic reproduction among broadcast-spawning marine invertebrates, otherwise known as coral reefs.” She flicked to photographs she’d taken during her last post-doc position in Australia. Bright purple sea fans, translucent tunicates, orange sea stars dazzling against bone-white staghorn coral.
“In Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, five different reefs—stretching more than five hundred kilometers—spawn over the same few nights between the full and last moon in late spring.” She lifted her voice, trying to drive imaginations, to instill the magic of this immense biological event. “More than one hundred different animal species release eggs and sperm into the ocean over the same few days.” It never failed to amaze Susie how organisms that couldn’t talk, text or date managed to get ...it together for one big humongous ejaculation to continue the species.MoreLess
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