Saturday, September 09, 2006

Pangolins Plus

We talked about Pangolins, Anteaters, Aardvarks.
The idea "they all have thin snouts and long sticky tongues to get at the ants for dinner" resonated well, but the idea "they are not closely related" seemed to be a little less exciting.
(The underlying concept is convergent evolution).
Anyway, we added them to the taxonomic tree and shared a number of pictures.



(Click on the thumbnails to expand).

We also had a live-action docudrama on how it was advantageous to be tall if you are leafy; then added peach trees to the taxonomic tree.

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