A Basket of Miracles

Hello everyone (^_^)

I just came back from my turtle research in Turtle Islands, Sabah. 

I got a surprise for you all.

Its a red basket...

...filled with newly hatched baby turtles! =^_^=

I was asked by one of the staffs on Turtle Island whether I was interested to help them release the hatchlings into the open ocean. 

It was indeed a great pleasure!

These baby turtles (Green + four Hawksbill turtles) were hatched in the Selingan turtle hatchery that morning.  

Have a safe 'lost years' my babies~!

What kind of research am I currently doing?

You'll find out soon :P Hopefully it would make a good honours project.

None of these would be possible without the help of everyone there in Turtle Islands! Everyone was being sweet and helpful! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to experience these miracles!

Back to the hatchlings,
~.. There's this one turtle I'm concern about....

While other hatchlings went toward the sea, this little one headed off to the opposite direction. I kept on turning it around but it still crawled back to the wrong destination.

 At first, I thought this baby turtle had something wrong with its magnetism (that helps adult turtle to orientate).

 I read some journals that - once the baby hatchlings reached up to the surface,
 they use environmental cues such as the visual lighting from the moon and the ocean; and the beach slope, to navigate them to the water. (source)

...so.. does that mean that this baby turtle is somewhat blind? 

Our panda BUNNY, the FISH, the SEAL and everything else in Pu3's world.

When exam is finally over~ I started to think about the things that should be done, and things that I should do...

I mean, maigawd! It's summer holiday already!! 

Should I write down a list or something? "Pu3's summer goals"~..nah. 

Lets just wait and see.

So anyway, my mum messaged me from Brunei telling me that they bought a NEW PET!

A RABBIT! Again??!! (I had a rabbit bestfriend named Qutie for 6 years, he died when I was 15 -_-, we brought home 2 more rabbits after that, but it was never the same, they died pretty soon after as well)

So I asked my mum to post the picture up on facebook.

When I saw the bunny, I was like

HOMAIGAWWDDDD~..........

Don't you think that our new bunny looks like a PANDA??

My little sister told me her name is 'Kimchi Rice Cake The Kiss'

What the hell, so long?!

I can't wait to go home this summer!! ^_^

Moving on

Let me update you with the not-so-fun part of my life. 

My life, as a Marine Biology student in Scotland. 

Salmon farm/counter trip.... 

And our fish market trip a week before revision week...

Look at me!

I had to keep pulling my hat back that day =_= .....and it was FREEZINGG~

Guess what else we get to meet there in the harbour!

So damn excited!

My friend was laughing as if i never seen 1 before. Of course I've seen one, but NOT OUTSIDE THE ZOO. Im sure you would be excited too right?! 

P.S.

I finally went out shopping yesterday!

Guess which one i ended up buying :P 

=_= I need to gain weight......

Smelly Fishes and Good Food

Feels like its been a while. ;)

Busy as usual except its my turn to make a presentation this week.

Was so confident and all after all the practicing that I didnt even intend to bring my notes along.
But once i was up on stage i turned speechless =_= and i think i mumbled most of the time.

Yet,
my lecturer gave me a compliment... because im an asian? (Im the one and only in my course btw....wait, Hao's from Beijing!).
I think it would be good thing ;) this way, I might get special lenient treatment from my lecturers.
Hohoho.
Lets just hope so.
Lame

Got a pretty interesting practical last Thursday.

For the very 1st time in my life, I get to see and touch a real DEEP SEA fish!

Dead, of course (preserved with alcohol).
Was hoping to see a real life one actually :( but im not sure if its possible because of the great pressure they're adapted to. Owh and there was no Lantern fish! You know, the fish that carries a lantern around in the dark to attract its prey.. Im a fan of it.

More deep sea fish... Our task was to note down the specific morphology and deep sea adaptation of each species.
Guy in the middle is Mark, one of my group member that day. :) Such a nice guy..

After finishing the practical report, i've been spending these 2 days reading manga and watching Japanses drama.
Ahh, im fully recharged now! ^_^ Need to start another report tomorrow!

One last thing

Nippon Connections had Setsubun (Bean-throwing) festival yesterday and Peter lent me his camera! Yay.

And this year's devil goes to.. the English Irishman, Daire!
(Last year was Jeri and 2 years ago was Joe&Matt)

This year Yatai didn't host our Sushiroll workshop, everything was organized by the society themselves!
Success! Well done everyone \(^_^)/

I Want White-faced Scops Owl!

I couldn't take my mind off these creatures~ the African White-faced Scops Owl are just so~ COOL!! Not only they are cute, they also have the anti-predator ability to transform! ^^ Ahh~ i wish i can have my very own owl, it would be so interesting yah Peter? :P Imagine..........
Fine, it may look lame. But we had a great laugh after watching the youtube video with everyone. ^^

Yes yes, VIDEO, watch this youtube video!! Get my point, its hilarious!!
Its in Japanese, but it doesnt matter really.


The owl is named Popo
When the Popo encountered a weaker owl species (in this case, a Barn owl), he spread his feathers looking larger to scare the other creature.
But when Popo faced a stronger owl species (Eurasian Eagle-Owl), he shrank and narrowed his eyes trying to hide itself from the Eurasian Eagle-Owl by making sure he looks like a tree branch hahaha.
If you notice, he kept on twisting its body trying to face its back toward the enemy, this is because the feather's on Popo's stomach are non-camouflaging white colour.

The reason for this ability is that White-faced Scops Owls are very good at controlling their feathers. The actual body is quite small but has very thick feathers. Therefore, their size can be changed easily simply by puffing or flattening their feathers.
(A thank you to Monimonika for translating. Source)

I have to make a presentation on animal behaviour next two weeks and I really wanna talk about this creature's defense mechanism. Unfortunately I couldn't find the specific scientific paper for it. :(
Yatah kan, for not being able to present my course mates this, I might as well just blog about it.