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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

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Kokopelli Landscape. Pretty nifty.

Plankton of the world, beware! While most nudibranchs, or sea slugs, crawl and graze, the melibe sweeps its hood through the water like a net, capturing unsuspecting tiny drifters. A fringe of tentacles interlock and trap prey as the hood collapses to help the slug digest its meal. Melibes may be expert plankton snatchers, but how do these soft-bodied invertebrates escape being a meal? Researchers have followed their noses to the melibe’s uniquely fruity smell–noxious secretions which may ward off nibbling fish. They can also “swim” away from predators by wiggling from side to side.  Living on giant kelp fronds or sea grass, melibes live higher up in the water column than most seafloor-bound nudibranchs. They’ve adapted well to the vertical life–as you can see in the background, their white ribbon eggs hang and sway with currents. Learn more

kitten meeting the sun for the first time

Water beads.

And the low-growing part of the meadow was festooned with dew drops.