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		<title>Stealth alpha males – we for are real!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who were not on the football team and for whom the cheerleaders made an art form out of pretending that we did not exist, there is justice and payback – at least in biological world anyhow.
In most mammals and birds it is the big, loud, tough or best-feathered male that get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drskiponline.com/2010/02/24/stealth-alpha-males-%e2%80%93-we-for-are-real/</link>
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		<title>Cold fish for cold weather</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a cold January Sunday as I sit writing this column and what’s a more perfect topic to write about on a day like this than eels? Our friends down here from the great lakes region are familiar with a nasty bloodsucking fellow up their way called the lamprey and we’re glad that you didn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drskiponline.com/2010/01/17/cold-fish-for-cold-weather/</link>
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		<title>What is that spot?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all probably heard of the dog Spot in the old “Dick and Jane” stories that we learned to read in the first grade. In the Gulf there’s a fish that doesn’t look like a dog with the common name spot (Leiostomus xanthurus). The spot is a member of the scianidae family like the croaker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drskiponline.com/2009/12/10/what-is-that-spot/</link>
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		<title>Fish come from bites and noise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’re bugging me! How often have we said that to our children, a gnat or mosquito? Well, sometimes fish appear to feel the same way.

If you’ve ever walked around barefooted then you know about the unpleasant aspects of fire ants. Most of us think fire ants have a nasty little bite and that it leaves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drskiponline.com/2009/11/09/fish-come-from-bites-and-noise/</link>
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		<title>They don’t travel in flocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sheepshead (Archosargus progatocephalus) is a member of the porgy family (Sparidae), which is made up of about 120 species. Sheepshead is its common name in the Gulf of Mexico but other areas of the United States it is convict fish, sheephead, seabream and southern sheepshead. Some other common names around the world include kubinskiy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drskiponline.com/2009/09/21/they-don%e2%80%99t-travel-in-flocks/</link>
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		<title>Letting the air out of releasing fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fish have swim bladders to help them maintain neutral buoyancy in the water, otherwise they’d have to up and down in the water column. Gas is added or removed from the bladder as the fish changes depth.

There are two types of swim bladders: physostomous and physoclistic. The physostomous swim bladder opens directly to the water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drskiponline.com/2009/08/30/letting-the-air-out-of-releasing-fish/</link>
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		<title>Foreign invaders of tree and ground!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As best it can be figured it began happening quietly and slowly around 15 years ago. An insect called the emerald ash borer arrived from its native China in wood used to make crates. This borer is a beetle loves our ash trees. It flies from ash tree to ash tree laying its eggs in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drskiponline.com/2009/08/09/foreign-invaders-of-tree-and-ground/</link>
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		<title>Fish Wars!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an era of terrorist attacks and global warming it sounds a bit ridiculous to fight over fish but it’s a war that has been going on for centuries all over the globe and it has only intensified over the last 100 years.

Whether its one country against another, native people vs. settlers, tribe against tribe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drskiponline.com/2009/07/06/fish-wars-2/</link>
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