01-28-2007, 08:52 AM
Regarding the eels, we saw a small moray in Champagne Pond swimming near the bottom. It eventually ducked (eeled?) into the rocky bottom. I've seen large morays swimming in the daytime at Hanauma Bay before it became so ridiculously popular with the touri. In my childhood, I used to fear the large morays after hearing stories about divers being grabbed by a securely fastened moray. Their only option to drowning was to force their latched-on body part further into the eel's mouth to get the greedy critter, with its rear-slanted teeth, to loosen its jaws to take another bite. Later in life, after seeing large free-swimming ones flee from me, I figured out that, like rattlesnakes, they are more afraid of me. I wonder if the bitten woman in the news article actually got a good ID of the biter at 2:00a?
Also regarding the story, I wonder if anyone actually went back to Alahanui pond to test for the Vibrio bactierium? I dislike stories that put out two separate factoids and assume that one led to the other.
Cindy, does "Lepo" = leptospirosis?
Edited by - Les C on 01/28/2007 13:08:05
Also regarding the story, I wonder if anyone actually went back to Alahanui pond to test for the Vibrio bactierium? I dislike stories that put out two separate factoids and assume that one led to the other.
Cindy, does "Lepo" = leptospirosis?
Edited by - Les C on 01/28/2007 13:08:05