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Salmo River

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Lestes disjunctus

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Green Bottle

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All Tied Up

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On Top of the World - Taken in Fort McMurray, Alberta

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"Vancity from Grouse Mountain" 

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Glacial Lake

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Tsawwassen

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Space Invaders - taken in Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia

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Totes jelly, bro.

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Happy Akiba

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The littlest wanderer

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True Love

I have a feeling that a Metroid would be a dark type if it was a pokemon...

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Jumpin' Bugs

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Sweet SS

I realized that the pokemon Simisage looks a lot like Sweet JP from Redline... 9000 hours in paint, etc.

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Whores of the Sea

Sponges. Yes, sponges are the tramps of the ocean.

Sponges or porifera are curious half-animals that are hard to categorize, but we do know how they feed. Sponges have pores all over their body that pump water into an area called a spongocoel, or into smaller chambers called radial canals. Inside these cavities are millions of mono-flaggelated cells (called choanocytes) that have a sticky collar. The flaggela whip around drawing food particles onto the collar which are then taken into the cell and by extension the sponge. The "filtered" water is then  pumped back out through larger pores (the yellow-coloured holes in the photo) called osculli.

That's how they eat at least.

When they spawn, the oscullum of the sponge has large plumes of sperm billowing out of it creating a white fog in the water. And this raised the question: Are sponges able to differentiate between sperm cells and food when it is filtered through their bodies?

That's right, sponges suck and swallow.

Well, I believe that is an interesting anecdote from my zoology class, as well as a suitable first post.