Thursday, February 5, 2009

Triops "恐龍蝦"

Because of the MAGIC program, I visit GMS every week. Last week I saw this creature called "triops" the very first time in my life!


Since I did all my earlier education in Taiwan, what often happens is that people would say a name of a creature and I don't know the word. But I usually know what it is and know the name in Chinese. But this creature, after seeing it, I was so surprised that I actually have never seen it before, and didn't know its Chinese name!
After I came back, I tried to look up its Chinese name. It seems like one name that people use is "恐龍蝦", which translates to "dinosaur shrimp". It's an appropriate name. :)

The triops were hatched from a box that looked like this:

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