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Track Title #1: Electric Platypus
Adaptation Focus: Electroception
Explanation: Electroception is an efficient way to hunt in freshwaters. Platypuses close their eyes, ears, and nostrils hunting only with the elecrtoception in their bills. Tiny prey send electrical signals to platypus which then helps the platypus locate them.
Track Title #2: Tiny Splashers
Adaptation Focus: Webbed Feet
Explanation: Platypuses have Webbed feet like a duck. This adaptation helps them fly through water and be uncatchable, having webbed feet gives ultra grip on water allowing them to swim flawlessly.
Track Title #3: Long time swinger
Adaptation Focus: Tail
Explanation: The Platypus tail plays a big role in swimming and steering directions underwater. Their tails tell us a lot about their health because that is where they store all their Fats and Nutrients.
Track Title #4: Camouflage Fur
Adaptation Focus: Thick Brown fur
Explanation: Their thick brown fur helps the Platypus stay warm underwater, maintain their bodies temperature, and camouflage with their surroundings to avoid predators.
Track Title #5: Venom
Adaptation Focus: Venom spurs
Explanation: Male Platypuses have venomous spurs on their hind legs, their venom can be used for territorial fights or to defend themselves from any predators. The fact that these are on their ankle Predators don’t expect it when trying to jump them.
I am the platypus, shaped by the strong currents of rivers and the constant need to survive in the wild. I am not able to see clearly in muddy water, thats where electroception comes into play. I use electroreception in my bill to sense the tiny electrical signals of my prey, while my webbed feet help me swim powerfully and my strong tail stores fat for energy. My tail also helps me steer through water.
Produced on focus wave currents and uncontrollable streams.
Mixed in freshwaters and the abyss of long burrows.
Engineered by worms and years of control over electroception.
Thrives in a freshwater ecosystem with plenty of hiding spaces.
Thank you!
Track Title #1: Timeless
Adaptation Focus: Transdifferentiation
Explanation:
By using this title, I’m trying to show the immortal jellyfish’s ability to turn its mature cells back into younger ones,I'm also trying to show the jellyfish's ability to go back into its polyp/baby stage.
Track Title #2: Hidden
Adaptation Focus: Jellyfishes translucent body
Explanation:
With the title “Hidden” I'm showing how the Immortal jellyfish uses its translucent body to camouflage and blend into open waters, which helps it hide from predators and sneak up on prey.
Track Title #3: The System
Adaptation Focus: The jellyfish’s nerve net system
Explanation:
The name “the system” is correlating to the Jellyfish’s nerve net system which helps them sense the environment around them and respond quickly.
Track Title #4: Hitchhiker
Adaptation Focus:
The immortal jellyfish moves along
with the waves and hitchhikes to ship ballasts
Explanation:
The immortal jellyfish doesn’t actually have a brain so instead of travelling on their own decision, they travel in vertical columns and also travel along with the ocean’s waves. One of their unique interactions with humans is that they hitchhike on cargo ships which goes for the track title, Hitchhiker.
Track Title #5:
Venom In My Nerves
Adaptation Focus: It’s stinging cells
Explanation: The Immortal jellyfish has Nematocysts that are used to sting predators or prey. This adaptation helps the Immortal jellyfish capture food and also acts as self defence towards predators.
I owe my survival to oceans all over the world, whose mighty tides lead me to my prey. I acknowledge my translucent and miniature body, that allowed me to be the ghost of the ocean. My transdifferentiation ability deserves recognition as well, taking me back to my polyp stage allowing me to cheat death, solidifying my name as the Immortal jellyfish. Shoutout to my rapidly fast oral tentacles that capture my prey in a flash. Even the presence of Sea turtles and large fish has played a huge role, sharpening my survival instincts and my alertness. I was built for the ocean, though harsh and colder weathers are starting to act as an obstacle.
Produced across the temperate and tropical waters of the world’s oceans.
Composed through the process of transdifferentiation.
Arranged by stress and damage, triggering a reset.
Distributed by a life cycle that bypasses death for immortality.
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2️⃣ 🧬 Tracklist + Adaptation Explanations🧬
Track Title #1: Algae Crashout
Adaptation Focus: Nourishing Algae
Explanation:
The Marine Iguanas submerge into the ocean water plummeting 30 feet to find its food. During their time they use their claws to get hold onto slippery rock. Here is where the Marine Iguana finds algae and makes it way back to land.
Track Title #2: Cracked Glands
Adaptation Focus: Salt “sneezing” Glands
Explanation: The Marine Iguana posses a unique adaptation of excreting salt crystals after their dive. These special glands are located above the eyes connected to its nostrils. This adaptation is essential for its safety as high salt intake can be life-threatning to the Marine Iguana.
Track Title #3: Stealth Hustle
Adaptation Focus: How it get’s its food
Explanation: Stealth Hustle is a reference to how the Marine Iguana finds it’s food. The process is commenced with the unique Marine Iguana finding its algae at its intertidal zone. Subsequently they graze on algae quickly and stealthily.
Track Title #4: Low-tide Grind
Adaptation Focus: Low-tide
Explanation: Low-tide is a critical foraging window for the Marine Iguana. The group is predominantly females and smaller Marine Iguana’s that go submerging during low-tide. This grants access to red and green algae.
Track Title #5: Alpha Feeder
Adaptation Focus: Teeth and Claws
Explanation:
Alpha Feeder is a combination of the various feeding adaptations. The claws assist the Marine Iguana by providing assistance to climb and hold grip to slippery surfaces. While submerged the Marine Iguana’s razor like teeth offer support for foraging on seaweed and algae.
My survival is owed to the cold ocean waters of the Galapagos. I thank my dark skin that protects me from above. I appreciate my long curvy claws aiding me to feed and climb. Finally yet significantly lots of thanks to the Galapagos conservation groups for providing me and the rest of us with protection.
Produced on the tropical islands of Galapagos.
Mixed with the cold ocean breeze.
Engineered by the helpful conservation groups.
Mastered in a mix of all adaptations to my survival.
2️⃣ 🧬 Tracklist + Adaptation Explanations🧬
Track Title #1: Splish! Splash!
Adaptation Focus: Using water to cool off
Explanation: The Flying Fox Bats use water from ponds or rivers- Like the pond in the bottom of the cover- to cool their bodies when temperatures get too high.
Track Title #2: Cloak of Midnight
Adaptation Focus: Night Scavenging
Explanation: To avoid dangers like predators or the hot, hot sun Fling foxes forage at night with the help of their low light eyesight. We can see this demonstration in the background of our album cover.
Track Title #3: Australia Greentops
Adaptation Focus: They tend to roost (Rest/settle) up high
Explanation: These native Australian bats are known for roosting in high trees with their camps. They do this to hide and avoid their many predators in high trees like the ones seen in the cover.
Track Title #4: Crunchin’ and Munchin’
Adaptation Focus: Strong jaw / eating style
Explanation: “Crunchin’ and Munchin’” represents how Flying foxes eat. When they eat they crush the fruits and only digest the juice while they spit out the rest of the fruit resulting in seed dispersal. We can see that Cocoa (the bat) had recently eaten from the juice dribbling from his mouth.
Track Title #5: Seek Out Sight
Adaptation Focus: Excellent Eyesight
Explanation: The Flying Fox Bat have fairly large eyes as seen with Cocoa’s big eyes in the album cover. Their eyes help them navigate in low light AKA during the night to forage.
I could take all the credit but I really owe it to the tropical forests I am able to take shelter and roost in, the high trees and green leaves really help me as I can easily hide and avoid different predators from high above. My clever nose deserves recognition as well as with it’s insane scent tracking it is able to quickly and efficiently hunt down various fruits. But I really couldn’t have done it without my clawed thumbs. Not only does it help me for food picking but they also help me to hang upside down and as defense against predators!
Produced from the heights of the tropical tops
Recorded at Fruit Tree Road
Mastered while cooling down in the local pond
Engineered by generations of threatened bats