rotifer with a baby

Frank Fox · Post by **Frank Fox** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:13 am

Hello,

here i show you a rotifer with a baby in body.

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:49 am

Great shots Frank!

arturo

dennisua · Post by **dennisua** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:56 am

Are they viviparous animals?

Planapo · Post by **Planapo** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:48 am

Excellent images, Frank!

Phew, mama rotifer's carrying quite a whopper of a baby there!

Nun, wie sagt man doch gleich so schön: Lieber hochschwanger als niederträchtig!

--Betty

Planapo · Post by **Planapo** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:57 am

dennisua wrote:Are they viviparous animals?

Text book says: "Vivipary occurs."
But egg-laying is common.

--Betty

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:04 am

Planapo wrote:Phew, mama rotifer's carrying quite a whopper of a baby there!
Nun, wie sagt man doch gleich so schön: Lieber hochschwanger als niederträchtig!

Betty, for amusement try a Google Translate from the German to English.

--Rik

Planapo · Post by **Planapo** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:48 am

With Google Translate
for German:
Nun, wie sagt man doch gleich so schön: Lieber hochschwanger als niederträchtig!

I get English:
Well, as they say but the same goes: Dear pregnant as vile!

Rik, does that make any sense to you?

"Dear pregnant as vile!"
To me that sounds like an old-fashioned and disappointed, or rather tricked-into-marriage lover addressing his former sweetheart fiancé.

I assure you what I wrote in German is a pun, and people usually will smile when they hear it for the first time.

--Betty

microcollector · Post by **microcollector** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:41 pm

Over on Eruptions Blog last year, during the eruptions in Iceland and Indonesia, we took to calling it giggle translate as it came up with some very strange translations for those languages.

Doug

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:02 pm

Planapo wrote:Rik, does that make any sense to you?

Nope, not any two words of it!

--Rik

Frank Fox · Post by **Frank Fox** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:21 am

Hello,

rotifers are viviparous or even lay eggs.
Thank you for your positive comments.