Biologist Sarah McAnulty tweeted about this unusual symbiosis between a species of Euplectella glass sponge known as the "Venus flower basket" and a species of crustacean that live entrapped inside it all their lives:
The most famous glass sponge is a species of Euplectella, known as the “Venus flower basket,” which builds its skeleton in a way that entraps a certain species of crustacean inside for life. This sponge often houses two small, shrimp-like Stenopodidea, a male and a female, who live out their lives inside the sponge. The crustaceans breed, and when their offspring are tiny, they escape to find a new Venus flower basket of their own. The pair inside the basket clean it and, in return, the basket provides food for the crustaceans through its waste. The animals eventually grow too large to escape the sponge, so they are forced to "stay put" for the rest of their lives.
The "till death do us part" eternal-love nature of the trapped crustaceans make it the perfect symbolic gift for a marriage in Japanese culture!
YO! There’s a “glass” sponge that has a little shrimp living in it, and the sponge grows around the little shrimp then the shrimp is trapped in there for LIFE.
— Sarah McAnulty (@SarahMackAttack) June 27, 2019
The Japanese used to give them as wedding presents bc the sponge and shrimp are “til death do us part” #AOtrips pic.twitter.com/f9q01ArJmM
(Top image: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research/NOAA Photo Library/wikimedia)
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As in, it's okay to disapprove of the invention of birth control?!
I didn't know that they gave PhDs in 50s television. Did she do her dissertation on The Donna Reed Show?
Her PhD was finished by the time I was 7 years old, but if the pill hadn't held off my birth and then my brother's birth, she said that it never would have happened.
The pill is a good way to control when you get pregnant. Can't say it's been great for girls and women as a lifestyle choice, though.
Pretty much means, now, that girls start having sex at an incredibly young age and have sex with an outrageous number of men by the time they decide to settle down.
Can't see how having more lovers than you can count on one hand (or two) is a good thing.
In any day and age.
I think the pill will have had (a lot of) influence, but also a lot in other areas than strictly the pregnancy control- Lots of females I know use the pill as a way to control, manage and time their period and the moodswings and bellyhurts that accompany that. They still not go all-out in sexual activity, but they use it to just have easier lives as it comes to being able to participate in activities that otherwise would be hindered by their monthly inconveniences. So in that respect I do see that the pill can be great as a lifestyle choice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27well.html
Also, what's wrong with having lots of sexual partners? You're not instantly given a sexually transmitted infection or an unwanted pregnancy after you've had a certain number of partners. As long as people practice safe sex, it doesn't matter how many partners someone has had.
The more the better!