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The bistec de mogote, or “pancake slug” is an example of evolutionary adaptation in Cuba. The snail traded its shell for a different defense: it’s perfectly camouflaged to disappear into the crevices of the limestone rock face. Still, they are losing habitat to expanding tobacco farms, and many are hunted for much-needed protein.

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  1. potato says:

    is it edible?

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Though part of the region's standard climate cycle, droughts are severe in the Kalahari. The desert's name, in Tswana (one of the tribal languages of Botswana, home to 80 percent of the Kalahari) is Kgalagadi, or "The Great Thirst." The Kalahari has almost no surface water, a situation that made it the last region of Africa surveyed by European explorers. The landscape shown here could go months or even a year without water. During the dry season, low relative humidity and temperatures up to 109 degrees Fahrenheit mean any moisture does not last for long. It's either soaked up by the Kalahari's sands or quickly evaporated.

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