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41. Multiple organisms strip nutrients: forests
"Water supply authorities operate at the other extreme of the biodiversity scale preferring water catchments that are fully vegetated, whether by native forest, woodland or plantations. In such cases, the expectation is not that the catchment ecos...
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Email42. Threads adhere underwater: sea cucumber
"Patrick Flammang of the University of Mons, Belgium, is studying the sea cucumber. The sea cucumber, a relative of the starfish, protects itself from predators by ejecting, in a matter of seconds, fine, sticky threads that entangle an attacker an...
43. Radiating filaments filter water: fanworms
"Increased surface area is extremely useful to many creatures…The radiating filaments of the fanworm filter the water for food particles: the more water is covered, the more food is found." (Foy and Oxford Scientific Films 1982:24)
44. Leaves optimize photosynthesis: giant water-lily
"In still or slowly-moving waters there is one easy way to collect [light]: a plant can float its leaves upon the surface. No plant does this on a more spectacular scale or more aggressively than the giant Amazon water-lily. A leaf first appears o...
45. Leaves channel water: sacred fig
"Leaves are shaped so that water is funneled to run off the tip (called drip tips). Occurs more in understory, shady, humid conditions. An undergrowth study in Ghana showed that 90% of species have drip tips and that drip tips dry within 20 minute...
46. Gas-storage chamber controls buoyancy: nautilus
"The body of the mollusc inhabits the very last of a spiralling series of chambers inside the shell. By filling the inner chambers with a mixture of air and water, the nautilus achieves perfect buoyancy, allowing it to rise effortlessly during its...
47. Underwater roots get oxygen: giant water-lily
"The Amazon water-lily is able to produce such large and strong structures because it can collect an abundance of food through its roots from the mud at the bottom of the lake. But roots need to breathe and the mud at the bottom of Amazonian swamp...
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49. Nasal surfaces remove water vapor: camel
"We have found that camels can reduce the water loss due to evaporation from the respiratory tract in two ways: (1) by decreasing the temperature of the exhaled air and (2) by removal of water vapour from this air, resulting in the exhalation of a...
50. Ear flaps keep water out: otters
"Among aquatic mammals such as the otter, the ear-flap can be pressed down to close the ear to water." (Foy and Oxford Scientific Films 1982:167)
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