{"id":403,"date":"2008-04-18T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2008-04-18T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T14:40:08","slug":"update-on-the-triops-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Update on the triops invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Their horrific cannibalism continued; now only four big triops remain out of the three dozen or so that hatched almost two weeks ago. How’s that for a survival tactic? I’ve been reading The Road<\/a><\/i> by Cormac McCarthy; the novel describes apocalypse survivors who resort to cannibalism due to a severe lack of food. Hopefully we will never have to experience such gruesome necessity employed by the resourceful little triops.<\/p>\n

Video of them on days 5 and 12: (cannibalism at 0:38!)<\/p>\n

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(youtube link)<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos:<\/p>\n

day 6<\/p>\n

\"Triops,<\/a>\"Triops,<\/a><\/p>\n

day 10<\/p>\n

\"Triops,<\/a>\"Triops,<\/a><\/p>\n

day 12<\/p>\n

\"Triops,<\/a>\"Triops,<\/a>\"Triops,<\/a><\/p>\n

day 13<\/p>\n

\"Triops,<\/a>\"Triops,<\/a>\"Triops,<\/a>\"Triops,<\/a>\"Triops,<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Their horrific cannibalism continued; now only four big triops remain out of the three dozen or so that hatched almost two weeks ago. How’s that for a survival tactic? I’ve been reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy; the novel describes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-food","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}