Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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I have not met a Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) in the wild, and now that I've seen the Maryland DNR's snapshots (scroll all the way down for some evil teeth), I hope I never do.
John
It is a voracious top-level predator, meaning that it has no natural enemies, and could decimate populations of native fish. About 90% of its diet consists of other fish, though it also eats crustaceans, insects, and plants. In its native range it can live in water with temperatures ranging from 0 to 30 degrees C; it is found in muddy or vegetated ponds, swamps, and slow-moving streams. Snakeheads can breathe air and survive for up to four days out of water, and can survive for longer periods of time when burrowed in the mud. They are capable of traveling over land to new bodies of water by wriggling their bodies over the ground. These features are adaptations to the seasonal drying of shallow bodies of water in the snakeheads native habitat in China and allow it to disperse widely should local conditions become unfavorable. It is capable of surviving in much of North America should it become established.
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All we've done so far is exchange phone messages, but I have agreed to be Eileen's stage manager for Silver Spring Stage's Independence, by Lee Blessing. It'll be the first time I've gone into the booth up there. I rather like the script; since it's a play for four women there's little chance that I would want to audition for it. posted: 9:24:06 PM |
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Nikki Finke profiles the essential and still-funky Internet Movie Database. I have contributed one sliver of information to the IMDB. I suppose that if wood ducks starred in a movie, I could submit an entry about that. (Thanks to Blogdex.) posted: 2:13:59 PM |
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