Eliminating the Competition

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From Carlos A Carmona

Mamma have yummy food for kiddos. This red morph Eastern Screech adult female caught a decent size dragonfly for her 3 kiddos.

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The dragonfly is supposed to be one of nature’s most successful hunters, but it looks like the owl didn’t like that opinion, so she took out the competition.

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I dunno, maybe right in this moment. Natural selection has thought dragonflies have been worth keeping around for 200 million years! Will owls have that kind of sticking power? 😜

!remindme 150,000,000 years

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