Viva Evolution!
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hair DOUX – Nansi new @ Tres Chic
head Genus Project – Genus Head – Baby Face W001
skin Session - Sara for Genus new @ eBENTO
bikini Blueberry - Sunny cloud
scales Izzie's - Mermaid makeup new @ Summerfest 2019
shoes CandyDoll - Ayashe cherry
pose Kokoro Poses - Nara bonus pose 6 new @ eBENTO
- The Skinnery: Aimee BOM skin /shape (Brownie Tone) on Lelutka Lilly 2.5 bento head
@Kustom9 Feb round
after @The Skinnery Mainstore
- Lelutka: Lilly Bento head 2.5 -Evolution Line- (More Info)
- Sintiklia: Susan Hair
@Access Feb round
after @Sintiklia Mainstore
- Ascendant: Jeri Nails
after @Ascendant Mainstore
- Avi-Glam: Dreamy Eyes Gacha (Common-11)
This massive residential development sits on land in Etobicoke fronting on Lakeshore drive. The land was originally developed in the 20's and 30's with a string of motels which serviced tourists visiting Toronto and the area became known as the Lakeshore motel strip.
They prospered initially reaching their zenith in the 1950's but by the 1970's tourist trade had all but disappeared and the motels had become seedy and ill maintained, home to prostitutes, strippers, and the desperate. They struggled on into 2012 when the last of them fell to the wreckers ball. Redevelopment was initially slowed by turmoil in the financial markets but in recent years has progressed rapidly and continues even into today.
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Marble statue of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). In Hintze Hall in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London. The life-sized statue weighs 2.2 tonnes. Unveiled in 1885, created by Sir Joseph Boehm.
It’s not hard for the snail kite to plan its daily menu. The endangered raptor eats only one food: apple snails, and a lot of them—10,000 a year per bird. Catching the freshwater snails is a laborsome venture that involves waiting until the snail comes to the surface to breathe and—at the exact right moment—swooping down to grab it. Employing its perfectly adapted curved beak, the kite then extracts its escargot and repeats the process 27 more times, every day.
This specialist bird has been hit hard by habitat declines and other changes in the Florida wetlands it calls home. From 2000 to 2007, scientists noticed a steep decline in the number of snail kites, owing in part to two major droughts that left their wetlands parched. The decline was also affected by the rarity of the apple snail, which lives in a very particular habitat and has a relatively short lifespan. Without its snails, the snail kite's chances of survival were looking poor—until an unlikely invader found its way to Florida.
It turns out there is more than one variety of apple snail. The non-native South American apple snail likely made its way to the Sunshine State via the pet trade, possibly when a rash aquarium owner released the species into the wild. The South American snail, which can grow to nearly the size of a tennis ball, quickly outpaced its native cousin, which is only the size of a ping-pong ball. It lays more eggs, lives longer, and can adapt to more diverse habitats than the native variety, and so spread widely all over the Florida wetlands.
You may sense where this story is going. A recent study in Nature Ecology & Evolution found that the snail kite has rapidly evolved so as to be able to forage on this new, larger prey. The bills of the raptor, says Robert Fletcher, coauthor of the study and associate professor in the department of wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of Florida, have increased in size since the invasion of the South American snail.
“Bill size and shape are heritable, meaning that birds with larger bills pass the trait onto their offspring, and larger-billed birds have a higher survival rate,” says Fletcher. Parent kites that are able to handle the larger apple snail bring it back to their young, who are more likely to grow stronger, survive, and breed in turn. The first couple months of life are the most dangerous for young snail kites, who are just learning how to forage on their own and aren’t yet skilled at it. “Bigger-bill snail kites seem to survive much better during this time,” says Fletcher. The result: Numbers of large-bill snail kites have tripled in the past decade.
I found this Female at Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Prairie Division, in Osceola County, Florida.
The evolution of pastakind in one picture.
Exploring the theme "Macro - Begins with the Letter P"
This photo has been taken using a 50mm Pentax M lens mounted reversed with an inversion ring.
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Light and life are two strangely intertwined mysteries. In the beginning, the One, absolutely dark and cold, congeals into an original soup from which emerges the light that illuminates the world. Then, billions of years later, tiny floppy thingamabobs, by the grace of ingenious engineering, wriggle to the bottom of warm oceans, absorb shards of light to climb patiently the path of evolution and become living beings, sharp thoughts, brilliant ideas, beauty and art, love and observers of the world that created them. Why is there something rather than nothing? Why are we its spectators?
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Picture from the exhibition "Life light" shown at The carbone Studio
Teleport to The Carbone Studio
Milena Carbone's art studio
Novels - art photography - dance performance
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