You can consider this installment four of my previous question which is the third installment.
Throughout history, we have developed many methods of telling time. The most famous two examples being the clock and the sundial. The ancient Egyptians invented the clepsydra, an extremely simple device that uses dripping water as a way to tell how much time has passed. There are also, for example, hourglasses, which flow sand as a measurement of time.
Suppose, though, you were an intelligent dolphin and, for some reason, had to always have a time reference on you. Being under the water seems to present a challenge, for technology like clocks and hourglasses don’t seem to be possible to make under the water, a clepsydra certainly wouldn’t work since you can’t pour water underwater, and a sundial wouldn’t have the proper lighting. So you must improvise in order to find a way to keep track of time. How would you improvise in order to keep track of time.
Not all care, but it still impacts them.
Rhythms at the bottom of the deep sea: Cyclic current flow changes and melatonin patterns in two species of demersal fish
Beyond this, the diurnal cycle does filter down into the disphotic zone and does influence species. It does weaken with depth.
Oh hell yeah!
Neat thank you!!
And I learned a new word
Zeitgebers are external cues, such as light, that synchronize the circadian clock in organisms with the Earth’s day-night cycles.