Maintaining More Things Outside Their Habitat
I like how people have devised ways to capture and maintain creatures outside of their habitats. Plants, for instance: we take them out of the earth and away from the rain, but we’re able to keep them alive by surrounding them with just enough dirt to convince them they’re still in the ground, and we pour water on them to make them think it’s raining.
And fish, they couldn’t live if we just put them on the counter, but put them in a bowl with just a little bit of their native element, and they are fooled enough to go on as if everything were normal.
But do we do this with enough things? Why not keep a mosquito in a jar half-filled with blood?
2 years ago