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As the altitude increases, the main form of precipitation becomes snow and the winds increase.
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Snow on trees, Germany.
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Snow on trees, Germany.
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Tasmania has extremely diverse vegetation, from the heavily grazed grassland of the dry Midlands to the tall evergreen eucalypt forest, alpine heathlands and large areas of cool temperate rainforests and moorlands in the rest of the state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_climate
White Mountain, an alpine environment at 4,300 metres (14,000 ft) in California
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European bumblebees have been introduced to New Zealand and Tasmania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania
Although Tasmanian devils are nocturnal, they like to rest in the sun. Scarring from fighting is visible next to this devil's left eye.
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Bumblebee mating plugs, in addition to providing a physical barrier to further copulations, contain linoleic acid, which reduces re-mating tendencies of females.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee
Beatrix Potter called Babbity Bumble a "bumble bee" in The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, 1910.
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If a female chooses more than one male, then sperm competition comes into play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_competition
Male dunnocks (Prunella modularis) peck at the female's cloaca, removing sperm of previous mates.
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They often host a multitude of wildlife, providing areas for courtship displays, nesting, gathering food or sometimes sheltering if the vegetation is high enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship_display
Male peacock spider, Maratus volans, courtship display
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Others form the main vegetation of many stable habitats, occurring for example in the ground layer of forests, or in naturally open habitats such as meadow, salt marsh or desert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow
Wildflower meadow
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Shrubland, scrubland, scrub or brush is a plant community characterised by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous_plant
Trientalis latifolia (Broadleaf Starflower) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the ground layer of forests in western North America.
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Grazing herds on savannas can ensure the biodiversity of the savannas and prevent them from evolving into scrubland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrubland
Moorland on Kilimanjaro
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It has a long history of association with humans, having been despised and hunted in most pastoral communities due to its attacks on livestock, while conversely being respected in some agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoralism
Khoikhoi dismantling their huts, preparing to move to new pastures. Aquatint by Samuel Daniell (1805). The Khoikhoi practiced pastoralism for thousands of years in southern Africa.
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Wolves, horses, reindeer and other animals are considered to be the ‘helping animals’ to the sorcerers in the woodcuts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_wolf
Gray wolf marking its territory with urine
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For example, Pablo Picasso was inspired by African tribal sculptures and masks, while Natalia Goncharova and others were inspired by traditional Russian popular prints called luboks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubok
A scuffle of Baba Yaga (riding a pig) with the Crocodile.
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Once nails became cheap and widely available, they were often used in folk art and outsider art as a method of decorating a surface with metallic studs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_art
Darrel Mortimer holding 8' tattooed bamboo chillum; photograph by Sally Larsen, 2009
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Other products such as nails had long been produced in factory workshops, increasingly diversified using the division of labour to increase the efficiency of the system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(fastener)
The Iron Roland of Mannheim (1915)
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These were the first truly modern coins; - the mass-production of coinage with steam driven machinery organised in factories, enabled the achievement of standardized dimensions and uniform weight and roundness, something no counterfeiter of the day could hope to achieve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_system
New Lanark mill
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Traditional Chinese silver sycees and other currencies of fine metals were not denominated or made by a central mint and their value was determined by their weight in taels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_(coin)
French-made coining press from 1831 (M.A.N., Madrid).
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Once the camel-puller got rich enough to own close to a full file of 18 camels, he could join the caravan not as an employee but as a kind of a partner - now instead of earning wages he would be paying money (around 20 taels per round-trip in 1926) to the owner of (the rest of) the caravan for the benefit of joining the caravan, sharing in the food, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael
Japanese Edo era tael sycees. In descending size, 30, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, and 2 tael sycees.
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An example are the camel trains traversing the southern edges of the Sahara Desert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_train
A modern sculptor's depiction of (the head of) a caravan approaching Beijing, complete with a camel-puller and a mounted caravan master, head cook, or xiansheng riding next to him. In the deserts of Mongolia, one would not see a dignitary in a sedan chair travelling along, nor would a baby camel accompany its mother.
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In addition, the vast grassland steppes of Asia provided fertile grazing, water, and easy passage for caravans, enabling merchants to travel immense distances, from the shores of the Pacific to Africa and deep into Europe, without trespassing on agricultural lands and arousing hostility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(travellers)
Edwin Lord Weeks, Arrival of a Caravan Outside the City of Morocco
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It is also extensively grown in South China and in Southeast Asia, whether originally spread along the route of the Silk Road or brought by sea traders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
A late Zhou or early Han Chinese bronze mirror inlaid with glass, perhaps incorporated Greco-Roman artistic patterns
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