{"id":474,"date":"2010-01-21T17:14:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T08:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/?p=474"},"modified":"2010-01-21T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T08:15:36","slug":"nomuras-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/nomuras-jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomura’s jellyfish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nomura's Jellyfish. Picture by Kenpei at the Osaka aquarium. GFDL license.<\/p><\/div>\n

Nomura’s jellyfish, a species frequently encountered in Japan and China, is one of the largest in the world. The body can reach a diameter of 2 m. Since they create big problems for the fishing industry,\u00c2\u00a0Japan has now sought China’s help<\/a> on the issue. It is thought that a recent proliferation of the species, huge swarms appearing every year since 2000, originates at the mouth of the Yangtze river.<\/p>\n

Evolution can do fascinating things sometimes. Upon reading about this, a doubtlessly romantic and delusional notion entered my mind. What if the sea ecosystem, or a subset of it, say 10-100 species, perceive the human fishing industry as a threat that needs to be defended against, and in response create an evolutionary niche where a new kind of species can thrive, a species whose only purpose is to obstruct fishing? A romantic notion since it plays off the mythical idea that human beings are at war with nature, or that nature is good and man is evil, something I don’t really believe in. But an interesting one nonetheless. Is such a development possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nomura’s jellyfish, a species frequently encountered in Japan and China, is one of the largest in the world. The body can reach a diameter of 2 m. Since they create big problems for the fishing industry,\u00c2\u00a0Japan has now sought China’s help on the issue. It is thought that a recent proliferation of the species, huge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,56,39],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-darwinism","tag-japan","tag-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/py2qT-7E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}