Full title: "Re-hashing a 25 year old theory on how Salmon might find their way back to their Scottish birthplace".
1 posted on
01/19/2013 7:57:06 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Wonder what it is that Leeds them back.
7 posted on
01/19/2013 8:14:27 PM PST by
Ken H
To: SunkenCiv
Every year, 20 million of them leave Scottish rivers and travel thousands of miles to Norway and Greenland to feed. I think the bigger puzzle is how do they find there way to Norway and Greenland?
They can be imprinted on their journey with the route they took but they have never been to the feeding grounds before.
9 posted on
01/19/2013 9:39:58 PM PST by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: SunkenCiv
On a trip to Scotland last year my party walked across a bridge and observed salmon going/jumping back up a river. Don’t ask me what river.
To: SunkenCiv
FYI, PBS is currently running a superb series on volcanoes. A recent episode dealt with how certain Alaskan salmon adapted some 2000 y ears ago, when a volcano erupted and completely blocked their access to the rivers and streams where they spawned. They were somehow, immediately able to modify their behavior. The episode should be on the PBS website.
11 posted on
01/20/2013 5:16:40 AM PST by
ken5050
("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
To: SunkenCiv
15 posted on
01/20/2013 6:02:16 AM PST by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: SunkenCiv
A sixth sense that humans have lost or never needed
16 posted on
01/20/2013 7:00:17 AM PST by
winodog
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