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Makes sense. My blood is 35% pure alcohol and methylated spirits so I guess it's possible to have a different blood base to your over all body base.
Thanks for that, Dr. Bill.
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It's just their blood that is copper based
So it's copper based as opposed to iron based. That I can buy. They're both VIII.
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kiwi eggsAw, just stretchin' it a bit for the sake of a joke.  I've seen sjm and Cap lay a mighty big egg or two around here along the way... Careful, Juan. Sounds to me like she's bucking for your title as Nit-picker in Chief.Well, Faldo since you're the NitPick CEO, and I seem to have been elected (ahem) the COO, I guess we'll have to make WW the CFO.  --Grasshopper dumbest mammalI seem to recall reading something somewhere about the lack of intelligence of a platypus along the way...does a dumb platypus ring a bell?...anyone?
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haven't we seen ample evidence that the dumbest mammal is the coyote?! <beep beep!>
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As a bit of medical trivia, blood formation requires a very tiny amount of copper. So tiny that
when research was being done on copper requirments over sixty years ago, the researchers
were baffled as to difficulty in producing copper deficiency in rabbits. After many months, someone
noticed rabbit liking brass wire holding tag on cage, and realized they were getting tiny but
adequate amounts of copper from the brass.
Tinier still is the amoount of cobalt necessary in Vitamin B 12
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One wonders what the linguistc background is of the translator ... and one wonders even more, if Herr Müller did indeed speak English in that interview, where he learned it!? 
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No nits here. Those ostrich eggs are big mother suckers!
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I seem to recall reading something somewhere about the lack of intelligence of a platypus along the way...does a dumb platypus ring a bell?...
Not intentionally.
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does a dumb platypus ring a bell?...
well, when it does, a dumb human starts to drool...
formerly known as etaoin...
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horseshoe crabs (and i don't think these are close relationship to octopods) also have lovely blue blood, with copper, not Iron as the oxygen carrying compound.
horseshoe crabs are very old (ie, they haven't changed much or evolved) and are found up and down the US east coast, as far south as the carolinas and as far north as southern maine.
they live in the sea, but lay their eggs above the high water mark (in June, with the equinox)
I was a NYC vollunteer helping Woods Hole researchers doing a study on the poputlation, and helped catch them one day some years ago. there blood is used to create a stain/dye that is used to test for gram negitive bacteria (nasty things gram negitive bacteria, TB is one)
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