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Sea Monkeys

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(Note: The Internet is a dynamic place and web sites can come and go quite quickly. This is one of my older and some of the links may not work anymore. If you find that this is the case I invite you to look at some of my more recent articles. My links section has my favorite links from past articles and is checked regularly for non working links. Wayne)

Time to get a little frivolous so this month the topic is sea monkeys. For those of you who don't know, sea monkeys are little, tiny, almost microscopic shrimps that were (and may still be for all I know) sold on the back of comic books when I was a kid. The ads were the ultimate in misleading advertising as they showed cute little smiling creatures in a family group which had no bearing on reality or what sea monkeys really looked like.

Sea monkeys are alive and well on the Web and the queen of all sea monkey pages is The Sea Monkey Worship Page. The related page Sea Monkey on the World Wide Web has links to may sea monkey pages. A word of warning: the links on this pages are generally safe but since they are not necessarily aimed at kids you should check them out first. Some of the links that I found to be kid-friendly and particularly amusing include SeaWorm Institute Homepage. This is a tongue-in-cheek research institute that has implemented a java-based simulation of sea worms in a tank. It may not sound like much but I found it to be both amusing and educational and fun. I bet you'll find yourself playing much longer than you expected, just like I did. If you feed the worms and keep them warm, they'll do tricks for you. Another much less sophisticated sea monkey simulation can be found at Sea Monkeys - Artificial life Online. One of the official homes of sea monkeys is Sea Monkeys at Moose Toys. This site has instructions on how to grow sea monkeys (if you have the official sea monkey kit) and how to teach them tricks.

On a more scientific note a short paper about fairy shrimp will explain what sea monkeys really are. Other Okanagan Lakes will tell (and show) you a lake where sea monkeys can be found.

Now that you're all fired up about sea monkeys why not head down to the corner pet shop, get some brine shrimp eggs so that you too can have a pet that requires almost no maintenance. Just don't be surprised if the pet shop clerk looks at you as if you're mad when you tell them you're

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