Nautilus feeding

[OB]

Hi all, I'm not sure whether pics like these had been posted before, but I collected this specimen during a web bottom trawl in Poland. It was a first for me, anyway, so I thought I'd share.

 

[Nancy]

This is quite a photo! - I didn't realize a nautilus would eat a crab like this.
Do you know what species the nautilus is?

Nancy

 

[gjbarord]

Dr. Bruce Carlson reported that captive nautilus ate very large deep sea crabs and remained negatively buoyant for hours after.

I have fed out crabs that large to nautilus before, and they readily accept and eat them.

Very cool photo!!! Did you pull the crab up with the nautilus??

Greg

 

[OB]

Just to clear matters up here, a web trawl is not actual fishing, Greg What I wished to express in ever so many bad puns, was that I found this pic on a Polish site, but need to work on my English humour somewhat more...

 

[gjbarord]

Well, I will work on my non-english humor and perhaps we will meet in the middle.

Greg

 

[OB]

You're on! Komt een man bij de dokter...

 

[monty]

You're on! Komt een man bij de dokter...

does that mean "My hovercraft is full of eels"?

 

[Animal Mother]

Pretty sure I'd seen that picture somewhere before.

 

[sorseress]

Ok, Ob, what in the world does a man coming to, or by, or at (whichever fits) the doctor have to do with the nautilus eating the crab? Personally, I like Monty's hovercraft full of eels picture.

 

[monty]

Ok, Ob, what in the world does a man coming to, or by, or at (whichever fits) the doctor have to do with the nautilus eating the crab? Personally, I like Monty's hovercraft full of eels picture.

Sadly, I can't take credit for that image, although you've inadvertently credited it correctly, since it's from a Monty Python skit about someone selling a "wrong" phrasebook to a foreign tourist...

 

[DWhatley]

... or is it that the doctor is trawling the web for eels and came up with a crab eating naut as by-catch?

 

[CuttlePhilly]

In case anyone was wondering, I think that Nautilus is a Nautilus pompilus, also known as the emperor nautilus, however there has been recent controversy over the accuracy of classifying pompilus as a single species. Check out my post on a recent New Scientist article on the subject:

http://www.tonmo.com/community/index.php?threads/9257/