Birth of a life that hangs by a thread
On the shores of a remote island in the Pacific, life comes and goes, and disappears. The natural cycle repeats itself and evolves in the best or worst of worlds, far from humanity - which usually manages to leave evidence of its ugly side on this humble planet.
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Published on 27/01/2021
By
Jonathan Jagot
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176
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Each inhabitant is in his or her place. Feathered, furry or scaled, the animals that populate the island find each other, help each other, kill each other, and feed each other.
Life needs to be earned, like this adorable brown noddy, freshly hatched from its egg. The odds of him being here today in front of my lens were slim - and the chances of being immortalized in Multihulls World magazine even slimmer, even though he did let me have the royalties for this piece with a mischievous wink of his eye!
Other animals could have eaten him - and they still could during…
