We wanted to let you know the three Puntia anchispora (or tiger barb fish) have been given names. Mr. Collins and Hale-Bopp share their little biosphere with Watson, And, and Crick. Since it is very difficult to tell them apart one from the next, and since they are always swimming around causing a mild but pleasing hypnosis in the mind of their minders, the near pointlessness of their having names has become a running joke here at the outpost. The dynamic duo for whom the fish are named come, appropriately, from the world of human scientific research. James D. Watson and Francis Crick were the first to suggest the double-helix model of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. If you watch these fish swim for a little too long, you start to wonder if their constant voyages around the tank might be conjuring life into being on some plane of existence parallel to our own. Srsly.
No comments:
Post a Comment