tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191028737265893759.post7971376589202113746..comments2023-12-30T05:41:12.280+13:00Comments on The Ruins of the Moment: Flamingo, Isla Isabela, Galápagospohanginapetehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191028737265893759.post-43414655756011028542011-09-22T23:54:30.585+12:002011-09-22T23:54:30.585+12:00RR, thank you. Apparently the colouring derives fr...RR, thank you. Apparently the colouring derives from the diet — the tiny crustacea they strain from the water. I don't know whether it confers any adaptive advantage, but I'm mindful of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_%28biology%29" rel="nofollow">warning by Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontion</a> that not everything has an evolutionary 'function'.<br /><br />Lesley, thank you. Those kinks in the neck (vertebrae?) struck me, too — I'd never noticed them before (although I've only seen flamingos once before, in Gujarat.pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191028737265893759.post-40054646390330017772011-09-22T22:05:54.177+12:002011-09-22T22:05:54.177+12:00What a beautiful colour it is.
I always spend tim...What a beautiful colour it is.<br /><br />I always spend time looking at the feather detail in your bird photographs and marvelling at it.<br /><br />That flamingo seems to have distinct joints in its neck. I've never noticed that in long-necked birds before.Lesleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191028737265893759.post-9942473142510168202011-09-22T18:43:51.525+12:002011-09-22T18:43:51.525+12:00Beautiful, with the soft background and the reflec...Beautiful, with the soft background and the reflection - but what is the evolutionary 'sense' behind that colouring?Relatively Retiringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07648407316162715318noreply@blogger.com