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Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Believed to be the closest living relative of the now extinct Dodo bird.

Did you ever wish you had a built-in blanket? Well, this cephalopod doesn’t need to wish… Meet the Indo-Pacific violet blanket octopus (Tremoctopus gracilis)! While males are tiny, rarely growing more than a few centimeters long, females are more than 10,000 times that size—reaching lengths of up to 6 ft (2 m)! Females also sport massive “blankets,” which are actually webs of skin connecting their dorsal arms. When threatened, they can drop these appendages, distracting predators as they make their escape. 

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by Langston Hughes

I have done so little

For you,

And you have done so little

For me,

That we have good reason

Never to agree.

I, however,

Have such meagre

Power,

Clutching at a

Moment,

While you control

An hour.

But your hour is

A stone.

My moment is