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JURASSIC PARK vs JURASSIC WORLD trilogies 

why the original trilogy feels more mature and real than the new one, more cartoonish instead. 

Which style do you prefer?

Individual box turtles show a very diverse shell pattern. This image shows some of the variations shown by the eastern box turtle

Photo by LaGrangeArtistry / Save the Box Turtles

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It’s so difficult to find a good photo of a charcoal peacock, but here’s a charcoal blackshoulder someone posted to one of my groups. Usually their wings are grey and it’s hard to tell that the bird isn’t also grey instead of black (most photos are overexposed in order to see detail), but in person, they are a black based bird.

Buford bronze, sonja’s violeta, and midnight morphs are all good, dark ones.

Here’s a buford bronze BS, though this is a little washed out

And a sonja’s violeta BS (sometimes people call these ones “violet” or “violete” instead of violeta but the person who original produced the morph named them Sonja’s Violeta after either his wife or daughter I forget which, and I choose to respect that nomenclature, especially since it makes it easier to tell someone’s talking about THIS morph instead of european violet). They actually shine purple in good light.

And a midnight BS

His first full-black hen children will be breeding age this summer, at which point we will be able to tell if they are a charcoal-mix (like, a double-color or something), in which case she should be sterile, or an actual new-black color, one that is capable of breeding. Since the original mutated bird is only a few years old, it will be unknown whether their lifespan is affected but if the hens are fertile, it’s a good bet that the lifespan may be normal, too.

Here’s the first lady!

If it proves out as a new and unique morph, then it will take a little work to breed the leucistic out of them and BS into them, but it will pay off in an all black bird that is actually healthy, and maybe breeding of charcoal birds will be allowed to die out in favor of these guys.

A couple more foxes by Maurice Wilson.

Sleeping Cat

Kaigyokusai (Masatsugu) (Japan, 1813-1892)