Nature-inspired Comics?

Well ACTUALLY, a vegetable is an edible part of a plant (according to some dictionary), so they’re both!

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I’d drink like a frogfish: Insanely quickly, often drinking things twice my size, and via suction. Plus I live like a frogfish too, walking on the sea land floor on my fins legs.

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Well ACTUALLY a vegetable is a part of a plant that is does not come from the flower and does contain the seeds…I wonder what hot chocolate would taste like if you put actual beans in it…

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How is that possible?

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Indeed it is! I am the same, how could we live without it!

Hmmm a poll, what would it on it? Is hot chocolate life blood or not haha! :laughing:

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The nine choices of how one would drink it, of course.

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Hmm. Doesn’t sound all that different than the “chocolate cheese” that I used to get, which was cream cheese well mixed with dark chocolate syrup and / or dark cocoa. It was really good with fruit, particularly strawberries. So I’d probably try it. Like I keep saying, my username is really more of a description! :grin:

I like vegetables, but most of them don’t pair that well with whipped cream…

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That’s what your typical fruits are for! :laughing:

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Ah, right, of course

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Did you give me a choice? No, you did not. Here’s the poll:

Like what animal described in the comic posted a bit earlier than this poll do you drink hot chocolate?

  • Black swallower
  • Northern gannet
  • Eastern chipmunk
  • Black skimmer
  • Green anaconda
  • Yellow-bellied sapsucker
  • Leafcutter ants
  • Surinam toad
  • Morgan’s sphinx moth
  • Forbes sea star
0 voters
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There is very interesting story on Morgan’s moth.

Darwin predicted that somewhere in Madagascar’s forests, a moth would have to exist with an enormous proboscis, or coiled tongue, eleven inches long – much, much longer than its body – which could get at the nectar at the bottom of the nectar spur of Angraecum sesquipedale, on the basis that the flower’s spur and the moth’s tongue would have to have evolved together.

No such moth was known to exist in Madagascar, and in some quarters, Darwin was ridiculed. But he was right. More than four decades later, in 1903, a population of the hawk moth Xanthopan morganii, commonly called Morgan’s sphinx moth, was discovered in Madagascar, and it did indeed have a proboscis of the requisite staggering size.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/nature-studies-the-madagascar-orchid-and-the-extraordinary-moth-that-goes-with-it-9297560.html

Moth in action: figure 8 (cool paper too) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262934621_Arditti_J_Elliott_J_Kitching_IJ_and_Wasserthal_LT_2012_‘Good_Heavens_what_insect_can_suck_it’_-_Charles_Darwin_Angraecum_sesquipedale_and_Xanthopan_morganii_praedicta_Botanical_Journal_of_the_Linnean_/figures?lo=1

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Yes! I read about that a little in an article earlier this year. I’ve been writing a (short) research paper on lemurs in Madagascar for my biology this year. So fascinating! It’s a shame Darwin never got to see his prediction be discovered! Darwin was a very intelligent man.

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Thank you, I hadn’t gotten around to doing it!

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I thought this was pretty funny.

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I’m heartened to see that at least nobody has chosen the Surinam toad yet :joy:

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I can revote!!

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@oksanaetal I thought you were the sapsucker :laughing:

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I thought I’d be honest on the poll.

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The Photographers Nightmare

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