Have you ever heard of Salps?

There's squishy, see-through jelly, sea creatures.

They link together into long chains.

They look kind of like a pearl necklace.

Imagine that that necklace is moving in a spiral or in a corkscrew shape through the ocean.

It's Monday, May 27th, and you're listening to Science Friday.

I'm Scifry producer Charles Brookquist.

Coming up, Ira Talks with a marine biologist about how Salps swim from the depths of the ocean to the surface each night,

and how much we still don't understand about the open ocean.

But first, a novel solution to lessen bird collisions with wind turbines.

Wyoming is home to lots of large iconic birds like golden eagles, raptors, and owls.

Wyoming is also becoming a big state for wind energy.

And while wind turbines aren't nearly the biggest threat to birds, there is an effort to

reduce the amount of collisions between the two and there's an experiment going on that would be low effort and low cost painting wind turbine blades black.

The results could be dramatic. Here to tell us more about it is

Will Wocky who reported this story for Wyoming Public Radio. Welcome back to Science Friday.

Yes, thank you for having me. So you spent some time at a bird

rehab center in Wyoming and what did they tell you about the interactions between

birds and wind turbines? Right, so first off I just want to say this is one of those stories that gets a lot of people talking.

You know, birds and turbines have become essentially a political talking point and that's because turbines

do indeed kill avian wildlife as you said.

Current estimates put the number of deaths in the hundreds of thousands per year.

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