been wanting to write this up, but kept forgetting about it...
anyway, having so many giants in our possession, we just realized that some giants are so huge that we can easily see the beauty of their pectoral fins. typically, pectoral fins are not clear whether they even have any branchings....well, now it's confirmed...they have branchings just as any other fins.
some of our large giants have clear branchings on their pectoral fins, we can even count the number of branchings....take a guess....some branches at 4 rays, 2 of our giants are branching at 8 rays and another one is branching at 16 rays.
it seems, pectoral fins branching follows caudal branchings. if you have 8 rays caudal, then chances you'll get 4 rays or 8 rays pectoral fins branching too. it's amazing to find this out, just to say how clearly visible they are, due to the sheer size of the giants
we wondered how many pectoral branching you can get on a 16 or 32 rays caudal branching? that would be interesting to find out...
Wednesday 2 July 2008
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