My name is Alvaro Garcia, I’m a Chilean fish farmer (officially an Aquaculture Enginner) and now I’m in New Zealand studying a master’s degree on Science Communication.
I consider myself an explorer, trying always new experiences and developing new abilities, from diving and boat driving, to drawing and acting
I have been always interested on nature as a scientist and also as an artist. So I would like to share all this beautiful designs and incredible mysteries of nature, to you.
See you in the blog 🙂
Incredible Beings 
Dear Sir,
My name is Prem Ananthan and I am a tutor in Singapore. I teach Science and am currently preparing notes for my students. For now, I am preparing notes on the topic “adaptations” for students of the age of 10. As such, it would be beneficial to my students if I included a picture from yourwebsite. The page I am referring to is https://incrediblebeings.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-water-spider/. I wish to use it to demonstrate how water spiders breathe under water. The pictures would be used in printed notes as well as in PowerPoint presentations I show during classes.
I would gladly acknowledge your kindness in allowing me to reproduce the picture in my notes. The acknowledgement will be included in the second page of my notes, just after the cover page. I appreciate your understanding and look forward to a favorable reply. Also please let me know whom you wish me to acknowledge. Thank you very much.
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Regards,
Prem Ananthan
Of course, I´m glad if my work helps for education. Go ahead, you can use the image as you like.
Good luck
Álvaro García
Thank you very much. Really appreciate it. It’ll definitely help the kids understand how water spiders make use of air bubbles to breathe.
Regards,
Prem Ananthan
Dear Dr. Garcia,
My name is Jay Jenkins and I am a Sophomore at Davidson College. I am working on creating a website for an Animal Physiology class that focuses on the Cephalopod Vision. This website will discuss the eyes vision of Nautilus, Squids, and Octopuses. I am planning to provide readers with information on different eye types, how Cephalopods evolved, how eyes evolved within Cephalopods, the structure and function of Cephalopod eyes, and comparisons between Cephalopod eyes and Vertebrate eyes.
As a part of this website, I was hoping to use an image from your home page to help give readers a visual as I discuss the eyes Nautilus. I would, like Prem Ananthom, provide appropriate credit for this image.
Thank you so much for considering this request!
Jay Jenkins
Please go ahead.
The nautilus eyes are a really interesting topic, since, wheter they are not as complex as human’s, they are still functional and useful underwater.
Alvaro
Ps: I’m not a doctor. I just recently finished mu masters degree.
Thank you so much! I agree, it really is a fascinating topic, especially since squids and octopuses have camera eyes like us. It’s crazy to think that animals so closely related in the phylogenetic tree can have such different eyes.
And sorry about incorrectly calling you a doctor.