Deep-sea ecologists have only begun to catch a glimpse of the dazzling assemblages of creatures that inhabit the seamounts' slopes, nooks and crannies.
Not content with the often dry tone of academic writing, the author engages a "wayfaring" process that brings together theories of sound, animal, and posthumanist studies in order to change the ways we think about and act with the assemblages of living creatures, things, places, and histories around us.
It feels like a bundle of trimmings from his Tree of Life – a rapturous assemblage of volcanoes, ice floes, creatures of the deep, the odd CGI dinosaur and an extended sequence showing the life of primitive man, like a slightly less hirsute sequel to the opening of Kubrick's 2001.
WASHINGTON, D.C.--When a whale dies, its carcass sinks to the sea floor, where it provides food for a unique assemblage of worms, clams, mussels and other creatures.
Because we understand the assemblage of qualities that make up a creature, we're better at identifying them in an image that we've never seen before.
While waiting for a bite fishing for mackerel from a floating dock, I'd stick my head down close to the water and peer at the fascinating assemblage of small shrimp, sea squirts and other creatures growing on the immersed wood and floats.
This task was continued until participants were able to name all creatures in the block of creatures correctly.
"These kinds of creatures..
Chakaia Booker's "Chakaia, Reclining Torso Breast Feeding Herself 2000" is a wicked-looking assemblage of tires sliced up into a spiky creature sporting menacing tongues of steel over a genital abyss.
Gould considers the fossil creatures of the Burgess Shale, a mountainside assemblage of fossilized animals that, some 500 million years ago, inhabited what was once an ocean floor in a region now in the Canadian Rockies.
