Happy Salmon
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Happy Salmon Instructions
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Happy Salmon Game

SETUP

Happy Salmon is the simple, fast-paced card game packed to the gills with high-fivin’, fin-flappin’ fun. Actions including the classic 'High 5', the unifying 'Pound It', the frantic 'Switcheroo', and the delightful “Happy Salmon” will leave players doubled over in laughter.

Happy Salmon includes six sets of twelve unique cards for a total deck size of 72 cards. That stack lets three to six players have a go at these silly salutations. The cards easily stow away in a neoprene zippered pouch that's shaped like a fish. With Happy Salmon there are no turns. Game play is simple: players call out the action shown on their cards as fast as they can. When two players have a match, they celebrate by performing the action. Actions include the classic “high 5,” the unifying “pound it,” the frantic “switcheroo,” and the bizarre “Happy Salmon!”.

Happy Salmon

You will need to provide as many Happy Salmon game sets as you need, according to the number of people you want to play with. With one set, you can play with up to 6 players.

You can play with more than one set at a time, provided you mark the cards upfront

by drawing a shape (circle, square, cross, …) on the back of the card with a marker
by sticking a colored dot sticker on the back of the cards

Pro tipYou can double the number of players by buying green sets and blue sets, marking them both with the same color dots or shapes, since the back color of the cards are different.

HOW TO PLAY

Distribute one deck of cards to each player
Each player should have 12 cards
- 3 Happy Salmon
- 3 High-Five
- 3 Pound-it
- 3 Switcheroo
Explain each type of card and demonstrate the corresponding gesture with a volunteer
Make sure everyone understand the different gestures
Explain
- We will all start at the same time
- Start shouting the name of the card that you have and simulate the gesture
- Find someone who has the same card
- Pefrorm the gesture
- Once the gesture performed, throw the card on the floor
Ask everyone to shuffle their deck
Have everyone hold their deck in front of them, faces down
Count 1, 2, 3 and start the game

The first person who has no more cards is the winner.

Enjoy the mess!

In this video, we had around 50 people playing at the same time. Is that a world record ?

TAKE AWAY

2 minutes of playing, 20 minutes of sorting the cards.
You can actually gamify the card sorting, trying to figure out the fastest strategy, collaborating as a team.

Salmon may not be happy when we eat them, but we’re happy learning about them. So in a symbiotic relationship, we should take care of them so that future observers of these masters of migration can continue to inspire future generations of nature lovers. In Living Waters, Illustra Media tells the story of the salmon’s amazing life cycle. What’s new about these fish that swim thousands of miles at sea, yet find their native freshwater streams years later? List of sports betting sites. Several discoveries have come to light since the film was released.

Drugged Salmon

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One news article says that “Happy salmon swim better.” Like people, salmon can get anxious. “Current research from Umeå University shows that the young salmon’s desire to migrate can partly be limited by anxiety,” this article says. Fear of the unknown downstream slows down the young migrants. But is this experiment ethical?

The research team studied how salmon migration was affected both in a lab, where salmon migrated in a large artificial stream, and in a natural stream outside of Umeå in Northern Sweden. In both environments, researchers found that salmon treated with anxiety medication migrated nearly twice as fast as salmon who had not been subjected to treatment. Several billion animals migrate yearly and the results presented here, i.e. that anxiety limits migration intensity, is not only important for understanding salmon migration but also for understanding migration in general. [Emphasis added.]

Well, maybe these salmon got a little too happy! The scientists may have only discovered that whatever they gave them made them reckless, like snowboarders on stimulants. Natural anxiety might serve to protect salmon from unnecessary risks. In any case, we do not recommend letting your kid give Ritalin to your goldfish as a science project.

Daredevil Salmon

You can imagine the stress on a salmon in this next story. Look at the video of 9-to-10 pound chum salmon swimming across a Washington state highway, right in front of an oncoming car. Why did the salmon cross the road? Because the scent of its natal stream took a shortcut over the highway after heavy rain, National Geographic explains. In the article you can also watch a bobcat take advantage of the opportunity.

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Drowning Salmon

Best sports betting sites. The last story was about too little water; this one on Phys.org is about too much. “How will salmon survive in a flooded future?” Fishery scientists, realizing how important salmon fishing is to the northwest economy (it’s a $1 billion industry in Alaska), are worried that flood conditions in spawning grounds might scour the delicate salmon eggs out of their nests and wash them away downstream. The key to preserving their breeding grounds, they found, is keeping the area’s rivers and floodplains pristine.

“Flood plains essentially act as pressure release valves that can dissipate the energy of large floods,” says Sloat. “In fact, most salmon prefer to spawn in stretches of river with intact floodplains, which is probably no coincidence because these features of the landscape help protect salmon eggs from flood events.”

Thermoregulation and Osmoregulation

The salmon’s ability to change its gill physiology when going from freshwater to salt water and back is called osmoregulation (see how that’s a great design story, here). Now, researchers at Oregon State University have found that northern sockeye salmon can regulate their temperature as well, “despite evolutionary inexperience.” Imagine that! Maybe they took a class in fish school.

Sockeye salmon that evolved in the generally colder waters of the far north still know how to cool off if necessary, an important factor in the species’ potential for dealing with global climate change….

Research by Oregon State University revealed that sockeyes at the northern edge of that range, despite lacking their southern counterparts’ evolutionary history of dealing with heat stress, nevertheless have an innate ability to “thermoregulate.”

The salmon regulate their body heat by finding water just right for their needs. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

While it may seem obvious that any fish would move around to find the water temperature it needed, prior research has shown thermoregulation is far from automatic — even among populations living where heat stress is a regular occurrence.

By monitoring tagged fish, the researchers found that the salmon knew how to cool off at tributary plumes or in deeper water. It ends up saving them a lot of energy to stay at their optimum “Goldilocks” temperature — not too hot, not too cold. The scientists never do explain how the sockeye salmon learned to do this despite “evolutionary inexperience.”

Diving Deeper into the Salmon Nose

Fans of Living Waters probably remember the dramatic animated dive into a salmon’s nostrils (see it here). Recently, we added new information about turbines in the nose. Now, we can learn about another wonder at the molecular level. Salmon and other fish, as well as mammals, have a molecular amplifier involving chloride ions. Stephan Frings, a molecular biologist at Heidelberg University, talks about the discovery in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. First, let’s hear him wax ecstatic about olfaction in general.

The sense of smell and its astonishing performance pose biologists with ever new riddles. Ho