{"id":922,"date":"2012-06-01T04:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T04:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/?p=922"},"modified":"2012-06-01T04:33:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T04:33:52","slug":"vonevolutio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/vonevolutio\/","title":{"rendered":"Von Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Swan Lake, the <em>evil <\/em>Von Rothbart tricks Prince Siegfried into proclaiming his love for a black swan disguised as his true love, Odette. Such deception and powerful disguise seem otherworldly or from a folktale, but in truth these themes are real in the animal world. <em>Ophrys apifera<\/em> successfully reproduces through pseudocopulation, as the orchid resembles a female bee with such precision that the male is fooled into copulating with the orchid, which then enables the flower to pollinate. It is a scientific name for that dark magic, tricking little prince bees into professing their love to the wrong girl (or species!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-Christie-Lau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-923\" title=\"black swan Christie Lau\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-Christie-Lau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-Christie-Lau.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-Christie-Lau-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-Christie-Lau-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-925\" title=\"black swan Christie Lau detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-Christie-Lau-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-Christie-Lau-detail.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-Christie-Lau-detail-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bluebird is another victim of the dark side of evolution. The cowbird lays its egg in a bluebird&#8217;s nest and because the cowbird&#8217;s egg resembles the bluebird&#8217;s, the bluebird mother nurtures this parasite has her own. When the chicks are hatched, the cowbird enthusiastically begs for food and grows rapidly (what&#8217;s also very interesting is that cowbirds don&#8217;t imprint). The bluebird mother is deceived and burdened while the cowbird goes off and lays 50 or more eggs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-face-detail-Christie-Lau1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-930\" title=\"black swan face detail Christie Lau\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-face-detail-Christie-Lau1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-face-detail-Christie-Lau1.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/black-swan-face-detail-Christie-Lau1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-Christie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Swan Lake, the evil Von Rothbart tricks Prince Siegfried into proclaiming his love for a black swan disguised as his true love, Odette. Such deception and powerful disguise seem otherworldly or from a folktale, but in truth these themes are real in the animal world. Ophrys apifera successfully reproduces through pseudocopulation, as the orchid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colour-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}