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By 1793, Louverture had successfully liberated all of Saint-Domingue’s enslaved people, and by 1801 he’d established the island as a semi-autonomous colony.
At that time, Mexico had been a Spanish colony for over a century, leading to a complex and stratified class system.
You can see how each colony produces pigment around its own territory.
Here they’re welcomed by the director of the colony, Octavia.
Having secured a lifetime supply of sperm from her departed mate, our new queen must now single-handedly start an entire colony.
Our colony retaliates, but new waves of raiders from even further away overwhelm the workers.
Now presiding over several hundred workers in the neighborhood’s largest nest, our victorious queen begins aiding her colony in its primary goal: reproduction.
For the next several years, the colony only produces sterile workers.
From now on, every spring, the colony will produce fertile alate males and females.
The colony spawns these larger ants throughout the early summer, and returns to worker production in the fall.
But to contribute to this annual mating frenzy, the colony must continue to thrive as one massive super-organism.
After rainfalls, the colony comes together, using the wet dirt to expand their nest.
But no matter how resilient, the life of a colony must come to an end.
The nest’s population dwindles, and eventually, they’re taken over by a neighboring colony.
When he returns, he finds a colony of mold growing on a petri dish he’d forgotten to place in his incubator.
And around this colony of mold is a zone completely and unexpectedly clear of bacteria.
Termites, I would take half of the colony of the termites away, they would still be able to build the mound.
Jean-Baptiste Belley was a native of Senegal, a former slave of Haiti, but during his lifetime, he also was elected to represent the colony at the third government of the French Revolution, and he advocated strongly for the abolition of slavery.
Makes it a lot easier to put a colony up there.
I worked in other parts of New Zealand as well, in beautiful, fragile, protected areas like in Fiordland, where this sea pen colony was found.
And that lower photo, that's a bird colony that has been boomed.
But there's a big difference, which is that it only happens within the colony.
This is clonal colony of Quaking Aspen trees, living in Utah, that is literally 80,000 years old.
It's about a meter tall Pavona clavus colony.
And so, when a coral colony is killed by an El Nino event, it leaves this indelible record.
We're not killing the colony; we're taking a small core sample out of the top.
The rabbit vanishes from Cujo's sight, angry Cujo starts to bark and in doing so inadvertently wakes up and annoy a colony of bats, one of which bites him on the nose.
What could have been an interesting and suspenseful plot about a marooned aristocrat on a leper colony, perhaps in the style of THE ISLAND OF DR.
There's certainly a rich vein of untapped material in Canada's history as the French and English warred over and bought and sold the colony, though none of it makes the cut here unless you count the odd blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene of characters saying "Wolfe is dead" or "Nouvelle-France is no more" before getting back to the soap operatics.
The story of an underdog bat voyaging across country to reunite with his colony captivated my imagination and resonated deeply with my burgeoning imagination.Upon hearing of this series, I began browsing Bardel Animation's site and liked what I saw.
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