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"The goose-tree" from Gerard's Herbal (1597), displaying the belief that goose barnacles produced barnacle geese.. In the days before birds were known to migrate, barnacle geese, Branta leucopsis, were thought to have developed from this crustacean through spontaneous generation, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe, [4] hence the English names "goose barnacle" and "barnacle ...
Capitulum mitella is one of about a dozen species of goose barnacle that are gathered commercially and eaten by humans. These barnacles are a luxury food item in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China. These barnacles are a luxury food item in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China.
Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty ImagesDuring Prohibition, enforcing the nation’s liquor ban was a game of cat and mouse. Smugglers, speakeasies, and ...
One version of the barnacle goose myth is that the birds emerge fully formed from goose barnacles. [59] [60] The myth, with variants such as that the goose barnacles grow on trees, owes its longstanding popularity to ignorance of bird migration. [61] [62] [63] The myth survived to modern times through bestiaries. [64]
The barnacle goose myth is a widely-reported historical misconception about the breeding habits of the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) and brant goose (Branta bernicla). [1] One version of the myth is that these geese emerge fully formed from goose barnacles ( Cirripedia ). [ 2 ]
Group of buoy barnacles attached to a float they constructed themselves. The buoy barnacle (Dosima fascicularis) is a species of goose barnacle known for its unique characteristic of hanging downwards from a floating appendage which drifts at the water surface and is carried along by ocean currents.
The brant goose and the barnacle goose winter in Britain, Ireland, and Northwestern Europe, but breed in the far North so that the nests, eggs, and goslings were unknown. Goose barnacles including Lepas anserifera are so called because it was thought at that time that the birds hatched from the goose barnacles found in floating "nests" on the ...
In a carefully designed series of experiments he recorded the direct and indirect results on the numbers of goose barnacles, sea mussels, acorn barnacles, starfish and predatory whelks (Nucella spp.) present in the area. His results demonstrated the important part that predation by birds can play in the dynamics of gooseneck barnacle populations.