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“Jakob's colleague Nate Morehouse has shown that jumping spiders are born with their lifetime's supply of light-detecting cells, which get bigger and more sensitive with age. 'Things would get brighter and brighter,' Morehouse tells me. For a jumping spider, getting older 'is like watching the sun rising.”
― An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
― An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
“They had passed a wide cove with a pair of loons, one was probably nested nearby, and when they stroked past, the one closest tilted back her head and loosed a pitched wail that must have moved the trees like wind. It pierced the haze and echoed off the waiting forest and rolled over the water like any scream, and seemed to carry a pathos so deep it was a wonder a mere world could support it. Maybe she knew what was coming. Maybe she had hatchlings in a nest and nowhere to go and she knew.”
― The River
― The River
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