Cthulhu’s poodle refuses to eat in Japanese confinement
This cute Giant isopod—a sea-dwelling woodlouse the size of a poodle, 29 cm in length—has been on hunger strike at a Japanese aquarium for just a while…
According the recent RocketNews24 article, Giant Underwater Pill-Bug Refuses to Eat for 4 Years, Scientists Puzzled, 
The Toba Aquarium houses two giant isopods. One of them which they affectionately named “No.1” has been on a hunger strike since January 2nd, 2009.
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February 21st, 2013 at 3:07 pm
What is the fuck is wrong with these people?! After four years of refusing to eat, why don’t they just return the poor thing to where it belongs?
February 21st, 2013 at 3:18 pm
Why is the Giant Isopod giant?
deepseanews.com
…Bathymetric gigantism [growing huge in ocean depths below 1000 meters] may also in part reflect decreases in temperature leading to longer lifespans and thus larger sizes in indeterminate growers (Timofeev 2001)…
…B. giganteus is a scavenger (3, 5, 6), but some suggest it is also a facultative predator (3, 6). Specimens in aquaria have survived 8 weeks between feedings (5) and it speculated that this may be an adaptation for carrying its brood, which would be severely impacted by a full stomach (3). Further support for this hypothesis are the large quantities of lipid reserves in the hepatopancreas (14) and fat bodies (2) of this isopod…
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March 15th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Hey, that just might be…
May 2nd, 2013 at 10:00 am