mike the wiz writes:
Find an organism that does NOT have a morphological trait (an ability rendered from physical make-up,
such as breathing under water {italics mine, Para.} or flying, a necessity of physical make-up).
Mike, there is a spider that cannot normally breathe under water. If you would push it under water, it would drown. So it does not have "the morphological trait" of being able to breathe under water.
Yet, this spider spends most of its time under water. It even catches its prey there. How does it do this? It has built a diving bell which it fills with air it takes down from the surface. It has
produced an artificial means of living under water.
For some examples, click
here (scroll down a bit),
here, and
here.
This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 26 February 2005 22:25 AM
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