 Wood-boring Bivalves
A cache by eph5vs20 Hidden: 5/31/2008
Size:  (Small) Difficulty:  Terrain: (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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This cache is one in a series dedicated to amazing & unusual
organisms. I am astounded by the amazing diversity of plant and
animal life that exists in this world. But the real fascination
lies with those organisms that are amazing, unusual and odd.
These organisms have capabilities that we do not share and can
barely imagine: extraordinary navigational methods, abilities to
regenerate lost limbs, live symbiotically with light-producing
bacteria, reproduce asexually, survive in suspended animation,
change shape and color at will and much more!
Wood-boring Bivalves (family Pholadidae)
The ocean floor is full of life! Did you know that there are
specialist deep-sea organisms dependent on sunken driftwood for
survival? The wood-boring bivalves convert sunken wood into fecal
pellets, which settle and attract other bottom-dwelling animals.
Unlikely as it seems, trees from coastal forests must fall into the
sea and eventually sink to the bottom often enough to make this
strange lifestyle worthwhile.
Very few marine animals are capable of boring into wood. These
bivalves (molluscs) use a combination of mechanical rasping and
secretion of enzymes to work away at the wood. Wood-boring bivalves
get carbon by means of their enzymes, and they have symbiotic
nitrogen-fixing bacteria that help to gather nitrogen.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)
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Bored into wood
Wood-boring Bivalve
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 January 10 by brittney1 (165 found)
Nice hide. Saw a dozen deer across the field, nice racks too. T-necklace,panda L- frog,yoyo TFTC Team Brittney
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October 10, 2009 by mmta (2006 found)
The boys collected this smiley...Thanks for the information on what wood-boring bivalves are....
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October 10, 2009 by Joey & Deb (5844 found)
Found this one quickly and moved on. TFTC!!!
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October 9, 2009 by kydar (645 found)
Out on a friday afternoon grabbing some caches. TFTC
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September 12, 2009 by rnlbartoli (35 found)
If anyone was watching us on the freeway they were probably wondering why we were driving in circles. It took us three tries to get on the right side of the freeway. After that we ended up walking quickly to the cache. Took nothing - left cute panda eraser. Signed log. TFTC.
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Current Time: 2/9/2010 7:30:16 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (3:30 AM GMT)
Last Updated: 1/11/2010 9:34:33 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (5:34 PM GMT)
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
