Toadfish in The News

[Teripie]

The New York Times has an interesting toadfish article today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/08angi.html?th&emc=th

Snip:

...when it comes to a sensible display of excessive muscular activity, the male toadfish has the right idea. A male toadfish may not look the part of an animal Olympian. He spends his time sitting nearly motionless on the bottom of a marsh, his body like a smeared scoop of pudding and old coffee beans, his full, fleshy lips pulled downward in a perpetual Churchillian scowl. Yet it turns out that inside the belly of this gelatinous, seemingly languorous beast are some of the fastest muscles in the vertebrate world, and the most instructive.

[Aggie]

TERIPIE!!!!!!! 

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Teripie! How are you doing? Good to see you around!

[Sibling Chatty]

 

YAY!! You're home!!

LOOKIE!!

Aren't they cute?

Oh, cool article, too! (Guys, the males get to sit around just bein' all muscular and stuff. Pretty good job, if you can get it!)

[Griffin NoName]

Hi Teripie..... glad you are keeping an eye on the males

[Alpaca]

Teripie! Hi!

[anthrobabe]

Hello stranger

since Chatty has already broken out the 'goodies' I will just say hello and how are you?