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reproduction of
creepy manor in small scale
capital idea
By Jerome Berglund

Just as certain species of ants given ample opportunity will attempt to enslave other species, their victims must remain constantly vigilant to maintain or fight desperately to regain liberty. Social and economic patterns of exploitation and expropriation if not guarded against fiercely and checked through education and equitable distribution of resources can disrupt and endanger vulnerable populations under any conditions, from systems of the most diminutive sizes no less than those largest.

Further reading:

Slave-making ants (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-making_ant

Author bio:

Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the 2022 Touchstone awards, graduated from USC’s film program, worked in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has been employed as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, Scarlet Dragonfly, Under the Basho, and the Zen Space. You can follow him on Twitter @BerglundJerome and find more of his poetry here: https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications

Check out more sciku from Jerome here: ‘Environmental Charlie Browns’, ‘Illusion’, and ‘Civil Disobedience’, and ‘Vested Interests’.

Resources forecast
bat foraging. Alone? Group?
You are what you eat.

Whilst Darwin’s finches are a classic example of selection acting on bird morphology and resulting in species that are able to eat different seed sizes and shapes, food characteristics can result in evolutionary impacts that are less immediately obvious.

Egert-Berg et al (2018) investigated the impact of ephemeral food sources on bat social behaviour. By tracking the foraging behaviour of 5 species of bats the researchers found that in bat species where food sources were predictable individual bats foraged alone, reducing the impacts of conspecific competition. In contrast, where food resources were unpredictable and transient bat species foraged in groups. The research is a fantastic example of a collaboration between researchers in different countries and continents.

Original research: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.064