[rod_grant]

Eastern Brown Snake



NEXT - light

[noelcmn]

Is that that venomous fella?



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[WPRESTO]

Is that that venomous fella?



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YES! Extremely. Venom is one of the deadliest known. BTW, FYI: Snake venom is usually a cocktail of multiple toxic substances whose evolutionary origin is really interesting. It runs something like this hypothetical example: The pancreas has a gene that makes insulin. A mutation causes that gene to duplicate. One of those two identical genes continues to make insulin, but the second is free to mutate into any weird molecule. Eventually it does mutate into something that's toxic, That new gene product produced in the saliva enables the snake to kill prey more effectively. The venom that a snake produces commonly includes multiple molecules that were originally produced in the spleen, pancreas, liver, adrenal gland, etc. etc. each of which underwent this process of 1) duplication; 2) one of the two copies mutates into something toxic.

[noelcmn]

I'm speaking to my doctor about removing my spleen, pancreas, live and adrenal gland (anything else I should know of ). I've been wondering why I'm so toxic According to some at any rate! Interesting. I'd guess that would explain too why you can get polyvalent anti-venom and monovalent?

[aslyfox]

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how about a sunlit scene

a glade ( an open space in a forest ) in the woods perhaps

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I'm speaking to my doctor about removing my spleen, pancreas, live and adrenal gland (anything else I should know of ). I've been wondering why I'm so toxic According to some at any rate! Interesting. I'd guess that would explain too why you can get polyvalent anti-venom and monovalent?

some one suggested once that once you get beyond the age where you can contribute to the group, biologically speaking, it makes little sense for you to survive because you drain resources. The person suggested that our bodies were originally " designed " to recognize this and " wears down " after a certain age because of that " fact "

remember the book/film " Solvent Green "

[WPRESTO]

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how about a sunlit scene

a glade ( an open space in a forest ) in the woods perhaps

And good morning to you, Aslyfox. Hope your day brings something of joy.
Not sure this is precisely what you had in mind, but some cheerful sun penetrating openings in the canopy over this stream, which isn't as lazy at it looks.

Let's see an image that has a gloomy atmosphere

[aslyfox]

And good morning to you, Aslyfox. Hope your day brings something of joy.
Not sure this is precisely what you had in mind, but some cheerful sun penetrating openings in the canopy over this stream, which isn't as lazy at it looks.

Let's see an image that has a gloomy atmosphere

thank you for the kind thoughts and I return them to you and Noel as well

perfect photo

[noelcmn]

Thanks Allen, same to you too.


Something blue next

[atupdate]

MMM-MMM Good



Next: Something Medical

Tim

[noelcmn]

Something that most of us do not like to see. Except this one is without the needle.


A hat next

[chuck_c]

A hat adorning the mannequin in an antique store window.


Reflecting on reflections by Chuck Campbell, on Flickr

Next up car mechanics tools.

[noelcmn]

These will work


A dove or pigeon next

[RollsUp]

Oriental Turtle Dove



A souvenir you bought from your last vacation.

[WPRESTO]

99% of souvenirs are images, but I'll hold off posting yet another scenic from Idle-Hoe.

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some one suggested once that once you get beyond the age where you can contribute to the group, biologically speaking, it makes little sense for you to survive because you drain resources. The person suggested that our bodies were originally " designed " to recognize this and " wears down " after a certain age because of that " fact "

remember the book/film " Solvent Green "

Your friend has a slightly distorted idea of the answer. The key to evolution is leaving offspring. Those that leave the most offspring determine what the next generation is like, determine the direction of evolutionary change, and have "won" the evolutionary "competition." The life of any organism can be divided into three major periods: 1) pre-reproductive; 2) reproductive; 3) post-reproductive. It is extremely rare for organisms in the wild to survive into the post-reproductive period, and if they do, they do not last long. BECAUSE, since evolution depends on leaving offspring, once you are no longer reproducing, you are not contributing to the qualities of the next generation. So whatever qualities allowed an individual to live that long cannot be passed on to the next generation. An individual that reproduces once then dies, leaving two offspring, is a much greater evolutionary success that an individual that lives ten times as long, but only leaves one offspring.

[timb64]

Not a souvenir in the traditional sense but a wall board of tickets,maps and guides from my big trip last year



Next an umbrella as the skies are well and truly open here at present.