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CUTE OWLS!!!! What If Animals Were Round. Cute critters on Pinterest. Non-human persons. The South Island Robin survives much better now. This is a male South Island robin on Moturua ,with his tags; Credit: © Sol Heber The South Island and North Island robins of New Zealand are small birds that evolved from Australian ancestors when they reached the distant islands.

The South Island Robin survives much better now

They are classed in the same genus as the Australasian species of Petroica. There are black, scarlet rose and pink "robins", despite the lack of relationship to any American or European bird. A bottleneck is a historical time in the life of a species when population falls to a low, at least in some areas. Meet the world’s only immortal animal. Email If you’re thinking McLeod, you couldn’t be further from the truth.

Meet the world’s only immortal animal

What you have to do is think small; not microscopic, just big enough to see with your naked eye. Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan, and it’s considered by scientists to be the only animal that cheated death. Solitary organisms are (according to current belief) doomed to die, after they completed their life cycle. But Hydrozoa don’t live by normal rules. Animal cognition.

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