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The Xenos
peckii lives in paper wasps. The males
mature inside the wasp and fly away, where they use their sense of smell
to find a female to reproduce with, inside another wasp! And he has only
about six hours to do this, or he's dead. Each of these little critters
has 100 complete eyes! His eyes help him find the female once inside the
wasp and before the six hours is up. Now who could design such a fantastic
system with such a limited time schedule? If evolution be true would it
have stopped at the first eye? If not, why not? Or why not stop at the
2nd? Or the fiftieth? And why would evolution not at least have given a
couple more hours for this little fella to find a female? And why is the
female so darn hard to find?
The Handicap Principle,
1997, by Amotz Zahavi, Professor of Zoology at the Institute for Nature
Conservation Research at Tel Aviv University, Israel and Avishag Zahavi,
former professor of Plant Physiology at the Volcanic Centre for Agricultural
Research, Israel, Oxford University Press. An excellent book revealing
their painstaking animal observations over 30 years.."Why
do prey.(such
as birds).give
their positions away by continuous call out when a predator is spotted,
long after the group has been warned and fled?"
Thornbug:.(Umbonia
crassioornis).common
in Costa Rica's San Luis Valley, inserts her ovipositor into a stem of
a tree to create a series of slits for her yet unhatched offspring to line
up along these ready made feeding holes. How did the first thornbug know
to do this before her young were hatched? And how did she first know that
the wasp was her enemy? How did she first know how to defend herself against
the wasp by kicking off the wasp? If it wasn't.inherent
at inception,
evolution must show us the steps to such complexity, as is evidenced in
these two actions.
The female thornbug makes
her own distinct signals; a long series of rapid vibrational clucks, yet
so strangely, only after the wasp has left. Why does the
mother wait for the predator to leave before signaling to other thornbugs
of the wasps presence? If this be a survival.(survival
of the fittest).mechanism
according to evolution's theory, it works inversely.proportionate
to his theoretical
postulates.
And the female thornbug has such an impressive vocabulary of hundreds of
sounds?
The theoretical difficulty
regarding the evolution of warning calls to spread through a population
by natural selection is, that the trait
to call out when a predator is spotted has to improve the chances of survival
to the individual callers who possess it. But we see the investment in
so called warning calls is made by the callers while the benefit goes to
the predator. Some of the birds even have no one to warn, being solitary,
yet alert predators as to their location.
An example against the adaption
evolution suggests is the stotting of animals.(stotting
involves a barking, thumping, jumping high on all four legs).like
the Gazelle.(a
small swift, graceful antelope {deer like animal} of Africa).when
it is noticed by a wolf. The strength of the gazelle is shown and the wolf
will chose a gazelle who appears weakened by non stotting or weak stotting.
In this way it has been observed a gazelle reveals itself to a predator
that might not otherwise spot it. The gazelle communicates to its predator
telling the wolf that he has lost his chance at surprise to a well fit
gazelle able to outrun him. But why notify the wolf, when its been observed
that the gazelle was unspotted by the wolf until the stotting? Why not
immediately flee without all the stotting?
Birds:.Some
birds copy songs and others improvise
or make songs up!
Don Kroodsma, University
of Massachusetts discovered that he could play 50 songs to the baby marsh
wren and he'd learn all 50 quite well!."He
soaks up whatever you present to him, until he reaches his limit. But the
marsh wren's closest cousin, the sedge wren, sticks to his own unique song
patter, stubbornly refusing to copy any others."....
'Tweets For My Sweet',.New
Scientist Magazine.(newscientist.com),
April 8, 2000.
And this
bird, wow! How can you believe what it does?
Why should two very closely
related birds, with similar sounding songs and mating behavior differ so
radically when it comes to their musical inventiveness? Was it
divergence
in development.(from
a common ancestor), or is it distinctiveness
of design?
Except for some populations
that migrate
south in the autumn, returning each year to the same haunt, marsh wrens
remain mostly local, unlike their cousins the sedge wrens, who are nomadic,
going where the food is abundant, wherever that may be from year to year.
They migrate also, but seldom return to the same site.
"Studies of songbirds at
the Hatziva in the Anava Valley of southern Israel show all members participate
in defense of their territory and show other altruistic
acts including feeding other adult members of their group and standing
guard while the rest of the group is feeding."....The
Handicap Principle.
The
Ruppel's Griffon vulture can fly over 5.5 miles high.(11.2
km), found out by it colliding with
an airplane at that height.
One of the largest
extant
flying birds is the Andean condor, with a wingspread of up to 10.5 ft.(3.2
m). The familiar turkey vulture is
found from South America north to southern Canada.
Vultures are characterized
by their bald heads, curved beaks and diet of carrion.(dead
and decaying flesh). Microsoft®
Encarta® Encyclopedia 99. © 1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation. All
rights reserved.
The.African
Honey Guide.bird
searches for bees' nests using the help of, of all things, this
badger, the Ratel. Which in evolution's history, if
evolution was true, came first? The honey? The Ratel? or the Honey
Guide bird?
The badger breaks open the
bee hive, eating the honey and then the Honey Guide eats the larva and
wax left behind. Such cooperation!
The.Peregrine
Falcon.is
speedier than the fastest land animal, the
Cheetah, which can reach 60-70 miles per hour.(113
Km hr.) This falcon dives at 100 miles
an hour.(160
km hr).and
accelerates from standing still to 45 miles an hour.(90
km an hour).in
3 seconds! How fast does your car accelerate?
And the
crazy woodpecker. What was God thinking with its design?
