LOL BETTA.
...Betta fish.
They give me a hilarious obsession.
Okay, so we're studying the aggression behaviors and the female mate preference in betta fish in Animal Behavior lab.
After we set up the little dominance hierarchy, we're talking about things and the professor says: "Hey, um...class, what do you think we should call ourselves while we're doing this little experiment?"
I chime in "The betta data service." The class erupts into roflcopters and lollerskates. That includes me.
And then...after the aggression hierarchies and female mate choice things, we got to test whether or not we could provoke a male betta with inanimate objects of different shapes, sizes and colors.
My group's objects: a small, yellow flashlight [brought in by partner A], a pair of sunglasses [brought by partner B], and my MP3 player.
We get the betta that I've nicknamed Duo Lon [He's got purple streaks on his fins and he's dark blue except for a couple of gold spots near his gill flaps.], and so for a minute, partner A holds her flashlight near the tank [the flashlight is turned off] and the betta totally flips out and does its aggression display. We let him rest a minute, then partner B holds his sunglasses near the tank. NO REACTION from Duo the betta. I just pull my MP3 player out of my hoodie pocket after we let Duo rest, and DUO GOES FREAKING NUTS WITH HIS AGGRESSION DISPLAY.
...So I went, "You agitatin' my betta?" repeatedly.
It was crazy.
LOLLERSKATES IT'S A BETTA PICTURE THAT I FOUND ON THE IN-TAR-WEBZ:
You must submit to the bettas. They are cool fish.
They give me a hilarious obsession.
Okay, so we're studying the aggression behaviors and the female mate preference in betta fish in Animal Behavior lab.
After we set up the little dominance hierarchy, we're talking about things and the professor says: "Hey, um...class, what do you think we should call ourselves while we're doing this little experiment?"
I chime in "The betta data service." The class erupts into roflcopters and lollerskates. That includes me.
And then...after the aggression hierarchies and female mate choice things, we got to test whether or not we could provoke a male betta with inanimate objects of different shapes, sizes and colors.
My group's objects: a small, yellow flashlight [brought in by partner A], a pair of sunglasses [brought by partner B], and my MP3 player.
We get the betta that I've nicknamed Duo Lon [He's got purple streaks on his fins and he's dark blue except for a couple of gold spots near his gill flaps.], and so for a minute, partner A holds her flashlight near the tank [the flashlight is turned off] and the betta totally flips out and does its aggression display. We let him rest a minute, then partner B holds his sunglasses near the tank. NO REACTION from Duo the betta. I just pull my MP3 player out of my hoodie pocket after we let Duo rest, and DUO GOES FREAKING NUTS WITH HIS AGGRESSION DISPLAY.
...So I went, "You agitatin' my betta?" repeatedly.
It was crazy.
LOLLERSKATES IT'S A BETTA PICTURE THAT I FOUND ON THE IN-TAR-WEBZ:
You must submit to the bettas. They are cool fish.