Slugs, slugs, slugs
I was in slug heaven this week. At Sentosa we spotted the most amazing sea slugs ever. They were the most enormous seaslugs I'd ever seen. Check out this fella, which was about the size of my hand!!!
Aplysia sp.
What's better than 1 gigantic sea slug? 2 gigantic sea slugs making more sea slugs! Here's another picture of it with a (possible) mate. This is what they usually look like on the ground.
How adorable. Pity Ria wasn't around to get shots of the other pair we found that was actually mating! We didn't pick them up to show her because it would be rude to interrupt. I think Jeff did, though. And Tom's supposed to get the stills off the footage we got. :D
And here's another cute little slug that we saw this week. Onchs are my absolute favourite. This one looks a bit different from the ones we usually see, which look different from anything on Bill Rudman's site. Can't remember which one this was though, so I have no idea how big it really was. It looks kind of like the first onch I ever saw, on my year one biodiversity fieldtrip, the one that started this whole sordid (and like Ria mentioned earlier, doomed to fail) love affair.
[Added later:]
Finally, the video stills are in (thanks Tom)! And how grainily authentic they are too...
Sea slugs mating (left) and close up (right)
Aplysia sp.
What's better than 1 gigantic sea slug? 2 gigantic sea slugs making more sea slugs! Here's another picture of it with a (possible) mate. This is what they usually look like on the ground.
How adorable. Pity Ria wasn't around to get shots of the other pair we found that was actually mating! We didn't pick them up to show her because it would be rude to interrupt. I think Jeff did, though. And Tom's supposed to get the stills off the footage we got. :D
And here's another cute little slug that we saw this week. Onchs are my absolute favourite. This one looks a bit different from the ones we usually see, which look different from anything on Bill Rudman's site. Can't remember which one this was though, so I have no idea how big it really was. It looks kind of like the first onch I ever saw, on my year one biodiversity fieldtrip, the one that started this whole sordid (and like Ria mentioned earlier, doomed to fail) love affair.
[Added later:]
Finally, the video stills are in (thanks Tom)! And how grainily authentic they are too...
Sea slugs mating (left) and close up (right)
5 Comments:
WOW!
We actually got a pic of the things with the "wings" open??
Wai, it was the cute little onchs we saw at Changi on the seawall that was rather stinky. Remember? The ones that look like gum drops, only about 1-2cm long.
Many apologies for the quality of the video stills... But they are video stills....
They look much, much, MUCH better on a tv screen, and the wave action just made a mess of the above water screen cap, which looks pretty good as long as it is not just one frame... As for the underwater...
We had the establishing wide above water, so no single shot below water showed both slugs in the act of doing the "sluggy".
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Hey! We also saw them mating at Labrador last Saturday (July 9). About half a dozen of them (if I remember correctly..) See Bernie's account on that training trip. Cheers, MS
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