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	The Jellyfish Menace

chestnut501

11-25-2009 5:47 AM

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earth, science, oceanography, jellyfish, population, pollution

chestnut501 says:

Are humans making the oceans fit only for jellyfish?

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11-25-2009 8:03 AM

tabsey

Yep.

11-25-2009 7:02 PM

mcsmithblack

Sea turtles are one of the few animals that eat jellyfish. Box turtles are one of the few animals that eat slugs. I guess alot of turtles like their food mushy.

11-25-2009 7:08 PM

chestnut501

Yuk....I don't like mushy seafood. I wonder if turtles have teeth. Maybe they don't.

12-3-2009 12:12 PM

The Infowarrior

As far as I know most sea turtles if not all have beaks.

And as for the eating the jellies, the Japanese are as always ahead of the game and have taken to turning them into various candies and sweets. yuk.

12-6-2009 2:41 PM

Kelika

Maybe this will help our vanishing turtle population.

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