See what a sea cucumber can do
Published on September 11, 2004 By Dionicman In Wildlife
Are you familiar with a creature called a sea cucumber? They live on the sea floor in many regions, including the Puget Sound here in my home town area of Tacoma/Seattle Washington. They are an odd creature, being that they have no brain! (Imagine that)But what I find most interesting about the s.c., is that when another sea life confronts it, IT EXPELLS IT'S INTERNAL ORGANS FOR THE PREDATOR TO EAT, AND THEN REGROWS THEM IF THE PREDATOR DOESN'T EAT THE ENTIRE SEA CUCUMBER!!! Yikes! and did I mention that local farmers dive down there for the harvest, to send them to Asia where they are served up on a plate for the Hoightey Toightey, Chi- Chi, ultra high class folks' snack from the sea?! (All I have to say is, "yuk!")

Don't ya'll know that those things are underwater for a reason? (leave them there!)

O.K. now... I will leave you to ponder this question: Did the expression "spillin' my guts" (you know, tellin' you my whole story, giving you all of me, puttin' my self out all vulnerable and such), did that expression come from this very act performed by the sea cucumber? I mean, where else, when would be another instance that would inspire such a descriptive figure of speech? I think I have a pretty fuckin good theory here anyway, as to the origin of "spillin' my guts"! tell me your thoughts on this!

bye bye!

Comments
on Sep 10, 2006
They are an odd creature, being that they have no brain! (Imagine that)But what I find most interesting about the s.c., is that when another sea life confronts it, IT EXPELLS IT'S INTERNAL ORGANS FOR THE PREDATOR TO EAT, AND THEN REGROWS THEM IF THE PREDATOR DOESN'T EAT THE ENTIRE SEA CUCUMBER!!!


They are weird little things aren't they?   
on Sep 10, 2006
Wow! I've never heard of this! Why am I not surprise that there are folks who will eat them, considers them a delicacy! I guess to each their own!
on Oct 31, 2006
Yep, heard of it...seen it happen on video before. Quite a neat little technique...much like a lizard losing its tail. Ah, the mechanisms of nature.

I still wouldn't eat it.

~Zoo