As anyone who’s ever done a diet study will tell you, you end up getting a lot of unverifiable gunk in your study animal’s stomach contents. Sometimes enough of the consistency remains that you can tell generally what this chunk of meat used to be. …
I can never get enough of this picture. Photo by Andy Murch. As always, I have spiny dogfish and what they’re eating on the brain, and the Menhaden of History post over at Southern Fried Science and Kevin Z’s challenge to the marine blogosphere got…
This week I finally got to start diving into my dogfish stomach contents, and the results so far have been nice and gory. The post up at Southern Fried Science about the Menhaden of History really brought home the importance of these humble oily fish…