There have been a lot of inquiries about the first Mermaid Scientist book coming out in time for the holidays. I myself was extremely excited too. This was to be the easiest Christmas shopping year of my life. One item for everyone! Done! Happy Holidays! Love Me. But the tide is switching and temporarily floating Mermaid Scientist away into the world of real world publishers. I am bursting with happiness to report this, don’t get me wrong! But I am choking on the enthusiastic lump in my throat as I report that Mermaid Scientist is not aloud out into the world quite yet. Soon to be sure, just not in time for Christmas 2014. I will keep you updated as things progress and be tragically relegated to gifting of socks, calendars and fruitcakes this year. 
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Dolphin Tails and Mantees
Coral and Chromis watercolor
Coral Doodles
Original watercolors are for sale at Mama Ganache Chocolate Shop in downtown San Luis Obispo, California
Thank You
Thank you to everyone for coming out to enjoy some art and wine and chocolate!
I feel grateful to have such classy fantastic friends and family!
All the Mermaid Scientist art, prints and cards will be on display & for sale June and July at Mama Ganache Artisan Chocolate.
Schedule for June and July Art After Dark
Buy Prints
Prints, T-shirts, phone covers, mugs, rugs, pillows and more are all available through Society 6. There are hundreds of options! Click the images to enter the shop or email me for custom orders: claudia@mermaidislands.com
Blue Acropora and Brain
Mermaid Scientist Lecture in the Bahamas, March 11th at the Leon Levy Preserve
All are welcome!
T is for Turtle
T is for The Green Sea Turtle
Scientific name: Chelonia mydas
Pawikan
I am a Green Sea Turtle and turtles are reptiles.
I munch on tasty sea grass shoots.
I glide through the ocean hunting delicious jellyfish.
I can hold my breath for 7200 seconds, That is 2 whole hours.
Unlike land turtles, I am super fast!
With a flick of my fins away I go
Away to the places only sea turtles know.
H is for Hammer Headed Hammer Head Shark
H is for Hammerheaded Hammerhead Head Shark
Tagalog: Crosan
Scientific Name: Sphyrna lewini
This shark has a humungous hammer shaped head.
A Hammerhead can find his favorite foods hidden under the sand, like the stingray.
His head has pores filled with electric jelly that can sense other animals even when they are hidden.
You can also call these jelly pores “electroreceptors” or “galvanic cells”
The bigger the head, the more pores and therefore it’s easier for this shark to detect electric impulses from other sea creatures.
Finding invisible things is this sharks special power so playing hide and seek with him is not recommended.
E is for Eel
E is for Elongate Eel
Tagalog: Indong
Scientific Name: Gymnothorax isingteena
aka The Spotted Moray
This eel is an eeeelongate fish, his long body is ideally suited to squeeze through small holes in the reef and chase small fishes for dinner.
An interesting hunting partnership developed between Moray eels and Groupers. The Grouper sees where a school of fish have hidden themselves from him in the coral reef, because he is too big to go into these small holes he goes off to find his friend the eel. This eel is a bit nearsighted so the grouper floats right in front of his face and shakes his head back and forth, back and forth. this is their secret code for: “I know where there are some tasty small fish, follow me”. The eel follows the grouper to the place in the reef where the small fish are hiding. He wriggles in and chases them out for the grouper to catch and hopefully manages to catch a few for himself along the way.
D is for Dugong
a water color by Claudia Makeyev
D is for Dugong
Tagalog: Duyong
Scientific name: Dugong dugon
We delight in devouring delicious, delicate sea grass shoots.
We’re shaped like manatees and have dolphin tails to boot
Underwater we swim, sleep, and eat but we are not fish.
Dugongs are actually mammals, Isn’t that neat?
B is for Brown Banded Bamboo Shark
by Claudia Makeyev
The Baby Brown Banded Bamboo Shark likes stripes.
Stripes, like those of the poisonous sea snake, fool potential predators (the dumb ones) and protect this baby from being eaten.
When the Brown Banded Bamboo Shark grows out of his juvenile stripes, he becomes a mature brown.
Unfortunately, most humans are not fooled by the stripes and these little guys are commonly eaten in the islands of The Coral Triangle.
Boding = Tagbanua/Tagalog name for Shark
A is for Anemone
~by Claudia Makeyev
I am an Anemone,
A tentacled beast at the bottom of the sea.
It is a beautiful place with a lot of space,
And it used to get quite lonely.
One day a clownfish and some Zooxanthelae
floated by, nestled in and came to live with me.
We are now a happy, multi-species family.
The Anemone, the Clownfish and the Zooxanthellae are a symbiotic threesome found all over the reefs of Palawan.
The Mermaid Islands Corp is coming out with a fun fact filled Alphabet book of the sea creatures we have found in Palawan. Bright watercolors and ocean critter stories promise to be entertaining to mermaids and kids alike. Enjoy these teasers and stay tuned for more updates on how to reserve your book.
Banan = Tagalog/Tagbanua name for Anemone
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