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Vivid dancer, Argia vivida, Coenagrionidae, Zygoptera

Found in western North America

Photos 1-2 by Thomas Shahan, 3 by leslie_s, and 4 by camerondeckert

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チョウトンボ（butterfly dragonfly）

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Paper stars, 2006-06-10 [Fold pattern here]

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Brian Griffiths, photographer

Reflection of a Lapwing

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English has different words for mouse and rat but in Chinese they're both the same creature (laoshu) so I asked my mom well how do you differentiate between mice and rats. She, clearly having never felt the need to do so, was like uhh big laoshu and little laoshu I guess. Then I went online to see how the difference between (the English words) "mouse" and "rat" was being explained to CN->EN learners and there are numerous articles delving deep into the analysis. Bigger vs smaller, indoors vs outdoors, cute and favorable connotations vs evil and ugly, tail length, fear factor, emphasis on the fact that you cannot call it a "computer rat." Much thought is being expended on this little mystery of the English language

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Yamaguchi Kayo - "Cormorants,"

woodblock print, 1963

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Yoshinori Mitzutani, Birds

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The Animal Kingdom of the Baron Cuvier, 1849

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In The Garden, for giant robot’s Fruit and Veggie show.

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obligatory post today

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Just can't get enough of the details of the glaze on my ceramic mushroom.