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	<description>Experiments with prakriti; our own &#38; life around. For educational, environmental &#38; entertainment purposes.</description>
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		<title>on a eurotrip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, we three are on a eurotrip as of now  
bologna &#8211; bratislava &#8211; budapest &#8211; vienna &#8211; paris &#8211; porto &#8211; gran canaria &#8211; barcelona &#8211; bologna.
After that we´re settling back in India by end of March  
So see you all in April !!
Posting from vienna. Will be at paris by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/eurotrip</link>
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		<title>fan-throated lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These fan throated lizards belong to the family agamidae, the same family of the south indian rock agamas, which we came across in an earlier article.

They are known as fan throated lizards as they have an expandable flap of skin under their throat, known as a dewlap or a gular fan. These lizards expand this dewlap like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/fan-throated-lizard</link>
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		<title>the time keeper in metachrosis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hourglass mark on its dorsum is attractive, and that is why I call it the time keeper. We found this frog while we were cleaning and pruning the area around our fish pond. Sarah was throwing away some rotten twigs and leaves when she felt something cold and creepy leap on to her  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/polypedates-occidentalis-frog-metachrosis</link>
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		<title>the two tailed spider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The two tailed spiders are called so because their rear spinnerets are longer than usual, and appear like tails. Spinnerets are the organs with which the spiders spin their silk. In the picture below, you can see the tail pair of spinnerets kept together in its rear. Legs, except the third pair, are very long and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/two-tailed-spider</link>
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		<title>babur and the skittering frog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its unique habit of skittering on the water surface was first recorded by the Mughal Emperor Babur (1483-1530) in his autobiography. This is the skittering frog, also known as the Indian skipper frog, a common frog widely distributed throughout South Asia.

I was surprised and happy to find that such details were recorded by the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/indian-skittering-frog</link>
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		<title>snow smile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You all liked the winter-snow photographs which I had posted in the previous article - but if they seem dull, grim and harsh, here are some to smile on!! From 2006 Winter.


Captured these while a bunch of kids came with their sensei (teacher) to do some snowsliding on the snow heaped just outside my window, in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/snow-sliding-hokkaido</link>
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		<title>winter at hokkaido</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when I used to walk these snow laden roads every day, for more than 3 years. Now when I come to think of it, or see these photographs, I shudder, and wonder how I survived those days   These photographs are from the small street just out of the apartment where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/winter-at-hokkaido</link>
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		<title>living statues of padova</title>
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Apart from the living statues, the above 2 photographs have something in common. The first one has a toy-dog in it, and the second one has a toy dog in it [toy dogs are very small dogs which people keep as pets]. The toy-dog in the first one is guarding the collected money. The 2nd one is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/living-statues-padova-italy</link>
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		<title>the dung beetles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dung beetles belong to the family scarabaeoidea, and are also known as scarab beetles. Those in the images below, are in the process of rolling the dung, after which they take it to a safe place and bury for consuming later.



They don&#8217;t need to eat or drink anything else as the dung provides all nutrients they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/dung-beetles</link>
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		<title>the assassin bugs are here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would such a small, beautiful, innocent looking insect be called an assassin bug?


Other than the slender legs and the antennae, do you see a single tubelike projection from its mouth, pointed downwards? This projection is called a &#8220;rostrum&#8221;, which they use for feeding. Not just feeding, they use this rostrum for catching their prey too! How? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rocksea.org/assassin-bugs</link>
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