No.620023
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If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
No.620025
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The circle of life never ends.
When a whale dies, it sinks to the bottom of the ocean and creates a phenomenon called a “whale fall”. Through several stages of decomposition, the whale’s body provides food for all the living beings hidden at the bottom of the ocean, from scavengers like sharks to opportunists like crabs. There are plenty of valuable nutrients for everyone in this newly formed “oasis”. The ecosystem this event creates can last for years before the nutrients run out. Finally, the whale’s skeleton reaches its “reef” stage, where suspension feeders use its hard surface to attach themselves. It stays there as a monument and a reminder that even though a life coming to an end is sad, in nature it never goes in vain. Because the end of one cycle is also the beginning of many new ones.