Costa Rica, December 2004


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The blue morpho butterfly. About 10cm across both wings when open, as on left. The wings are not quite fully closed in right-hand picture. When they're closed, only the unobtrusive brown shows.


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You will be pleased to know that we extracted the lad's arm undamaged.




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These are the jaws of a leaf-cutter soldier ant. They make effective sutures! Seriously: If someone has a gash, the edges can be brought together, and then one of these "clipped" into place. Twist away the body, and the head and jaws remain, jaws locked, holding the edges of the gash together. (If more modern medical attention is not an option!)




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Two trees, one problem, two solutions.

In the tropical rainforest, tree trunks often get covered with vines and epiphytes, as in the photo on the left.

Some trees, e.g. the one on the right, "shed" their "skin" often enough to keep the mechanical burden of the epiphytes low.... but at, of course, an energy cost.




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Just a fun milk jug.



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