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Japanese sparkly puffer Mirrorballs

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Japanese sparkly puffer Mirrorballs

Postby Taro Toporific » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:48 am

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[SIZE="2"]Technological Marvels From the Animal Kingdom[/SIZE]
WWN - April 1, 2006,
By Michaela Trebor
LONDON, England--
Birds inspired the airplane and rabbits' ears helped designers improve TV reception. Now, a new study from biologist Carl Navrin reveals a host of little-known animal species responsible for the best ideas of other human inventors...
Navrin has also studied the mating habits of a scaly, silver pufferfish able to rotate, capture sunlight, and spread it around the dark sea-bottom in search of females.
"The sparkly puffers were often stuffed and hung in German nightclubs during the 1920s, until a cheaper glass version of the fish, called the Mirrorball, or Discoball, became available."....more...
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