In my recent trip to Croatia , as we sat at an outdoor Café by the
Watermill Town of Rastoke, I thought I saw a small hummingbird, just like the
ones I have seen in Central America but
smaller. But hang on, there are no hummingbirds in Europe .
I took some photos anyway and looked it up later.
It was of course the Hummingbird Hawk-moth:
Macroglossum Stellatarum
Imitation or what?
Some Websites, notably Bird ones claim that the Moth imitates the Bird! Oh!
Really, how do they know! You mean the dolphins imitate the sharks or the possums imitate primates. They should know as in Biology it is known as Convergent
Evolution. After all, the Moth flaps its wings at 85/second and the Bird only up
to 50/second.
They can withstand
temperature as high as 45°C and they have an amazing visual system that iPhone
has not quite caught up with.
You can read all about
it here at PBS/Nature.
Nature Posts:
ECOLOGY: First Bees, Now Bats.
Paraguay: Technology Meets Ecology
Hong Kong: Humpback Whale
Tasmania: Whales & Dolphins-Mother & Baby
ECOLOGY: First Bees, Now Bats.
Paraguay: Technology Meets Ecology
Hong Kong: Humpback Whale
Tasmania: Whales & Dolphins-Mother & Baby
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