358: Nudibranchs

After being haunted by an egregious error for over seven years, we are wading back into the nudibranch waters. We discuss what plankton actually is, purging your vowels, bunnies and sheep, stolen venom, detachable organs, learning in slugs, and so much more.
Works Cited:
• "Getting to know nudibranchs (seattleaquarium.org/stories/getting-to-know-nu…)" - Seattle Aquarium
• "Social Predation by a Nudibranch Mollusc (academic.oup.com/iob/article/7/1/obaf017/81213…)" - K. Otter et al., Integrative Organismal Biology, April 2025
• "Disposable penis and its replenishment in a simultaneous hermaphrodite (researchgate.net/publication/235620586_Disposa…)" - Ayami Sekizawa et al., Biology Letters, April 2013
• "Nudi Sex-Ed! (calacademy.org/blogs/project-lab/nudi-sex-ed)" - California Academy of Sciences
• "Cannibalism, self-cannibalism and autotomy in the non-indigenous nudibranch Godiva quadricolor (researchgate.net/publication/370063359_Canniba…)" - Armando Macali et al., Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, April 2023
• "Retention of an Associative Behavioral Change in Hermissenda (science.org/doi/10.1126/science.694512)" - Terry J. Crow and Daniel L. Alkon, Science, September 1978
• "Classical conditioning of Hermissenda: origin of a new response (jneurosci.org/content/6/5/1325.long)" - Il Lederhendler et al., Journal of Neuroscience, May 1986
• "Expanding the repertoire for molluscan structural colors (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2608467123)" - Suzanne T. Williams and Abigail L. Ingram, PNAS, April 2026
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