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This is because every time I see them, I talk nonstop about giant clams all day, every day.
South Pacific legends once described giant clams as man-eaters that would lie in wait on the seabed to trap unsuspecting divers.
A story goes that a diver had lost his legs while trying to retrieve a pearl from a giant clam.
Unfortunately, the reality is, we are the giant clams' biggest threat.
Considered a delicacy throughout the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, giant clams have been traditionally fished as seafood.
Just for their muscles, giant clams were almost hunted to extinction between the 1960s and 1980s.
My fascination with giant clams got me started on conservation research to fill in the knowledge gaps on their ecology and behavior.
One of the discoveries that we made was that giant clams could walk across the seafloor.
While it can hard to imagine any movement in these enormous animals, giant clams up to 400 pounds can still walk, they just move slower.
During my PhD, I discovered more secrets about the giant clams.
It turns out that giant clams have a giant impact on coral reefs.
In a nutshell, giant clams play a major contributing role as residents of their own reef home, and just having them around keeps the reef healthy.
And because they can live up to 100 years old, giant clams make vital indicators of coral reef health.
So when giant clams start to disappear from coral reefs, their absence can serve as an alarm bell for scientists to start paying attention, similar to the canary in a coal mine.
But giant clams are endangered.
And the ecological benefits of having giant clams on coral reefs are likely to continue only if populations are healthy, making their conservation paramount.
So I stand here today to give a voice to the giant clams, because I care a whole lot for these amazing animals, and they deserve to be cared for.
It is time for the giant clams to step out of their shells, and show the world that they, too, can be the heroes of the oceans.
There was no giant out there without perhaps a simple Achilles heel.
So what you're left with is a giant underserved audience and untapped profit potential.
I saw giant bubbles floating on the riverbank, like this one.
And we dug up giant tortoises, and elephants and things like that.
When I was 15, I came home from school one day, and she was standing on a long veranda outside of our kitchen, holding a giant stack of plates.
This one, this is going to be the new World Trade Center: a giant hole in the ground with big buildings falling into it.
And what they were watching was: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
The Taipei 101, for instance, has suspended a giant metal orb above the 87th floor.
I had this giant poster of an alligator hanging on my bedroom wall.
Ken Saro-Wiwa, in Nigeria, who took on the giant oil companies, and although people around the world tried their best, was executed.
You hear about giant squid and things like that, but some of these animals get up to be approximately 140, 160 feet long.
It's giant matrices, thousands of rows and columns, maybe millions of rows and columns, and not the programmers and not anybody who looks at it, even if you have all the data, understands anymore how exactly it's operating any more than you'd know what I was thinking right now if you were shown a cross section of my brain.
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