The Flightless Cormorant, which obtains all of its food by deep diving, and whose island habitat presents no enemies from which it needs to flee, has, in a kind of perverse Darwinian evolution, devolved its wings and thereby also the ability to fly. It’s a perfect example of “use it or lose it.”
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Flightless Cormorant
Isabella Island, Galápagos
July, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Flightless Cormorant
Isabella Island, Galápagos
July, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Flightless Cormorants with gross meal
Isabella Island, Galápagos
July, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Flightless Cormorants – mother feeding chick
Isabella Island, Galápagos
July, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Flightless Cormorants
Isabella Island, Galápagos
July, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Flightless Cormorants
Isabella Island, Galápagos
July, 2007 ©John Schwarz