Deaths-head Jester

About:
[The Project]
[The ApocaDocs]
[Equal Share]
The Six Scenarios:
[Species Collapse]
[Infectious Disease]
[Climate Chaos]
[Resource Depletion]
[Biology Breach]
[Recovery]
Explore:

Play:

It's weekly, funny, and free!

SEARCH

More than 5,600 stories!

A great gift
for crisis deniers!


The ApocaDocs have a Book!
Humoring the Horror of the
Converging Emergencies
94 color pages
$24.99 now $15!
Or read FREE online!




Twitter




Ping this story
in social media:
del.icio.us
Digg
Newsvine
NowPublic
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon

Posted Tue Feb 26 2008: from Guardian (UK):
Sea birds choking on migrant fish http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1204055768
"The snake pipefish, virtually unknown around the UK in 2002, has undergone a massive, baffling and dangerous expansion since then, scientists have discovered.... Since 2000 sea birds have not been able to find sufficient food either to sustain their chicks or give them the energy to breed, a problem that is blamed on the dwindling populations of small fish and sand eels that sea birds eat, a phenomenon scientists have been unable to explain.... Now parent guillemots, terns and puffins are scooping pipefish from the sea for their chicks as substitutes for their normal fish food. But the pipefish body is rigid and bony and extremely hard for chicks to eat. Biologists have found dozens left uneaten in single nests while chicks have choked to death on their bodies."
[Read more stories about: bird collapse]

New!:
No reader quips yet -- be the first!

Got a PaniQuip?

Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit):

First name:

The text shown in the Web image to the right:


We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

The ApocaDocs say:
It's their own damned fault. They should chew their bony food before swallowing.

NEXT>
More stories:
  • CRAGs: carbon rationing action groups.
  • Food riots and the UN World Food Program
  • (Sea birds choking on migrant fish)
  • Cheap, Clean Drinking Water Purified Through Nanotechnology
  • Male Fertility May Be Harmed By Mix of Endocrine Disrupters

  • Want to explore more?
    Try the PaniCloud!
    Copyright 2010 The Apocadocs.com
    We also blogged on this story