Whale Shark Poop
By Matt J. Weiss, November 17, 2008 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
I was once a research assistant in Brazil trying to gain more information about the carnivores in the grasslands. One day we were driving, and the lead researcher screamed at the driver to stop the car. He had not shown to much emotion before, so I thought he had spotted a puma or maybe a jaguar. To my disappointment, the researcher held up a huge piece of brown, fiy infested feces. He saw the disappointment on my face, looked straight into my eyes, and pointed out with a Brazilian accent, "Matthew, in science, poop is gold."
Where I am going with all this is that if poop is gold than Mark Meekan is a rich man. The shark scientist recently collected whale shark poop, which was disgribed to be smelly and and as thick as a mans arm. Also, the whale shark pooping was caught on film for the first time. Finally, we can all sleep, we know what it looks like when the biggest fish goes number 2. Actually, pretty cool science can come out of this, such as insights on the diet of the mysterious giant.
I look forward to seeing the BBC program called Whale Sharks, which seems to be a shark show about interesting science rather shark eating people.
Where I am going with all this is that if poop is gold than Mark Meekan is a rich man. The shark scientist recently collected whale shark poop, which was disgribed to be smelly and and as thick as a mans arm. Also, the whale shark pooping was caught on film for the first time. Finally, we can all sleep, we know what it looks like when the biggest fish goes number 2. Actually, pretty cool science can come out of this, such as insights on the diet of the mysterious giant.
I look forward to seeing the BBC program called Whale Sharks, which seems to be a shark show about interesting science rather shark eating people.
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