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HOW WOLVES CHANGED RIVERS

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 bismillah, This all started when wolves were reintroduced in the yellow stone national park in the year 1995. Now we all know that wolves kill various species of animals, but perhaps we do not know that they give life to many others.  Before the wolves turned up, they had been absent for 70 years. The number of deer, because there was nothing to hunt them, had built up and built up in the Yellowstone park despite the efforts of the humans to control them (E.g. by hunting them). They'd managed to graze the vegetation there to almost nothing, B ut when the wolves arrived, even though they were few in numbers, started to have the most remarkable effects. First of course, they killed some of the deer, but the amazing thing is that they changed the behaviour of the deer (how?).  The deer started avoiding certain parts of the park- the places were they could be easily trapped, particularly the valley and the gorges.   And when that happened, those places started regenerating almost imme

A dove in the vine

 Bismillah, Eid Mubarak Guys! We havent seen each other from days!  A dove in the vine A beautiful Rangoon vine was balanced on a strong white pole, the beautiful pink flowers going pale under the harsh, rude sun. But underneath the sun, there was still one thing surviving, blossoming a new life under her. It was a beautiful dove, an Eurasian collared dove who came to this vine with dying blossoms and a beautiful white pole for refuge, she built her nest and sat on her eggs, no matter how hard the hot wind blew, or how hot the sun was, she sat and didn't move. her brown reddish eyes stared at us untrustingly, her grey feathers lined up togather beautifully, the nest was amazing as any nest I discovered the nest yesterday, when I was in the garden the best Eid surprise ever! ~ Sidra