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Darwinian Stampede

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A scene of the Boreal plains of Darwin IV....

An arrowtongue ambushes a herd of planolopes, only to end up running for its own life. A pair of skewers have targeted this patch of ground, now nothing is safe. A startled gyrosprinter bounds away in the background while a mated pair of gillheads are caught in the middle of the stampede. A foraging group of jetdarter scouts zips around in anticipation of the inevidable kill following the skewers' hunt. A plains daggerwrist has also been accompaning the mighty arrowtongue on its hunt. If it manages to steer clear of the trampling herds and predators, it may have a slim chance at what very little juice remains in the oncomming kill. The gyrosprinter has its speed, the gillheads and the plains daggerwrist have insufficient size to be of interest to the predators above, therefore the larger, slower creatures are in harm's way. The planolopes posess fore/arse symetry, a trait convergently evolved in the symets of the south. The great arrowtongue, though among the most fearsome of terrestrial predators, seems to appear as nothing more than another scampering mealto the skewers. Its defense lies in its two, long potruding spikes on its back. As well as useful display structures within the species, these growths also pose an unconventional placement to the precision-targeting technique of the air-borne hunters....
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Canon
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CanoScan LiDE 110
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