During 2022, argentinian researchers studying penguins in Antarctica found a melanistic gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) with an unusual plumage coloration in Esperanza/Hope Bay, north of the Antarctic Peninsula. The unusual coloration of the penguin was identified as melanism, a genetic condition that causes an excess of melanin pigment in feathers, this phenomenon is also found in other vertebrates. This partially black gentoo pengui appeared to be in good health and exhibited normal behavior. According to scientists, melanism is unusual, and may occurs in one in 250,000 penguins.
Reference: Nigro, et al. 2023. A case of melanism in a Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) at Esperanza/Hope Bay, Antarctica. Polar Biol.
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Leontine von Littrow (Austrian, 1860-1914): Franz-Josef-Promenade, Lungomare, Kvarner Bay, in the Background the Coast and Mountains of Rijeka (via Dorotheum)
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Sanctuary by Ryan Gitter
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Peter Ferguson (Canadian, 1968) - The Grotto at St. Michel (n.d.)
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OSCAR PIASTRI and LANDO NORRIS at Mclaren HQ.
📸: mclaren instagram account.
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Isn’t that what you’ve been taught— / nothing is ours? Haven’t you learned to keep / the loosest / possible hold?
Maggie Smith, from "The Starlings", Goldenrod
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as an oath against / dying I put a sugar cube / on my tongue and / swallow it like a pill
Kaveh Akbar, from “Against Dying”, Calling a Wolf a Wolf
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The year after death
is full of stretching, where things
pull so hard your bones
break, because they were never
bones, were always solitude.
Victoria Chang, "The First Year", The Trees Witness Everything
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DOG DAY AFTERNOON
1975 — dir. Sidney Lumet
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