Its blind cave form, however, is notable for having no eyes and being albino, that is, completely devoid of pigmentation ; it has a pinkish-white color to its body.

A. mexicanus is famous for its blind cave form, which is known by such names as blind cave tetra, blind tetra, and blind cavefish.

Astyanax jordani, however, is another blind cave fish, independently and recently evolved from the sighted surface form, which is sometimes confused with the cave form of A. mexicanus.

The blind cave tetra is a fairly hardy species.

However, studies have shown that blind cave fish embryos begin to grow eyes during development but then something actively stops this process and flesh grows over the partially grown eyes.

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

Featuring 260 million-year-old limestone formations, blind cave fish, and an underground pool, Rickwood Caverns is a recognized member of the National Caves Association, and offers more than a mile of living geology.

Previously a mediocre student, Binford excelled in college and considered pursuing an academic career in biology until he was put off the idea when a professor suggested that there were " still a few species of blind cave salamanders " that he could be the first to study.

Twilight world is split into four zones: the Desert ( sand cats, mongooses, rattlesnakes, kangaroo rats and geckos ), the Rainforest ( slow loris, mouse deer, sloths, owl monkeys, aye-aye, possums and mouse lemurs ), the Cave ( scorpions, blind cave fish and naked mole rats ) and the House ( rats and mice ).

Residents of these caves include a type of blind cave fish and remipedia that don't pose any threat to cave divers.

All ten of the blind scorpions had been dead for several years, possibly because the food supply in the cave had dwindled.

As of 2002, five species were listed by the IUCN as species of special concern: Macrognathus aral ( the one-stripe spiny eel ), Monopterus boueti ( Liberian swamp eel ), Monopterus indicus ( Bombay swamp eel ), and Ophisternon candidum ( the blind cave eel ) have been classified as Data Deficient, meaning that they require more study to determine their conservation status.

O. infernale ( blind swamp cave eel ) is classified as Endangered.

" Soon after leaving the cave, two of the explorers encounter a dark-haired young woman who has lost her footing and rolled down a hill toward them ; she is blind and has thick, milky cataracts on both eyes.

He discovered strange blind fish, snakes, silent crickets, and the remains of cave bears along with centuries-old Indian gypsum workings.

This fish, especially the blind variant, is reasonably popular among.

One of the eyes migrates across the top of the head and onto the other side of the body, leaving the fish blind on one side.

The fish of this family are called amblyopsis because they are either blind or can only detect the difference between light and darkness.

She eats the fish, and because the fish is infused with the tapu ( sacredness ) from the bodies of the two men, Whaitiri gradually begins to go blind.

The eyes are small, and in some cave-dwelling species they are beneath the skin, so that the fish is blind.

The familiar Christian episodes are presented chronologically: the betrothal, and later marriage, of Mary and Joseph ; the Annunciation ; the Visitation ; the circumcision of John the Baptist ; the Nativity of Jesus ; the circumcision of Jesus ; the Census of Quirinius ; the Flight into Egypt and Slaughter of the Innocents ; the Finding in the Temple ; the Baptism of Jesus ; the woman caught in adultery ; Jesus helping Peter catch the fish ; the Parable of the Prodigal Son ( Luke 15: 11-32 ); a dialogue between Jesus and Barabbas ( non-biblical ); Matthew's dinner party ; the Sermon on the Mount ; debating with Joseph of Arimathea ; the curing of the blind man at the pool ; the Raising of Lazarus ( John 11: 43 ); the Feeding of the Five Thousand ; the Entry into Jerusalem ; Jesus and the money changers ; the Last Supper ; the

A. jordani, a different but closely related blind fish, was formerly considered to form its own genus, Anoptichthys.

I have not caught a big fish in a month so there ’ s no point in going fishing this afternoon .’” ( Lowe, 7 ) The local people are often helpless to protect themselves, as government and law enforcement officials have “ open pockets ” and are also involved in the trade by turning a blind eye to the illegal actions and receiving a take of the profits.

Formerly known as a resort town, it is home to the Thysville Caves, known for their blind, colourless fish.

Discoveries included unexpected sub-fossil remains of large extinct lemurs and surviving but previously undescribed species of blind fish, shrimps and other invertebrates.

In karst anchialine pools and the caves these may be connected to, the fauna are diverse and include: crustaceans including remipedia and copepods, and among the vertebrates are several species of blind cave fish and eels.

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

The blind form of the Mexican tetra is different from the surface-dwelling form in a number of ways, including having unpigmented skin, having a better olfactory sense by having taste buds all over its head, and by being able to store four times more energy as fat allowing it to deal with irregular food supplies more effectively.

In the essay a blind English mathematician named Saunderson argues that since knowledge derives from the senses, then mathematics is the only form of knowledge that both he and a sighted person can agree about.

As a counter to any form of " blind faith ", the Buddha's teachings included those included in the Kalama Sutra, exhorting his disciples to investigate any teaching and to live by what is learnt and accepted, rather than believing in something simply because it is taught.

Traditions which assert that he was blind may have arisen from the meaning of the word in both Ionic, where the verbal form ( homēreúō ) has the specialized meaning of " guide the blind ", and the Aeolian dialect of Cyme, where ( hómēros ) is synonymous with the standard Greek ( tuphlós ), meaning ' blind '.

Evolutionary biologists argue that evolution often works in this kind of blind, haphazard manner in which the function of an early form is not necessarily the same as the function of the later form.

The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.

Adams, once a political visionary and now a man blind to the needs of his country, not only held fast to his notion of defending the monarchy but also made additional attempts to form similarly flawed Federation-like entities after that union's demise.

Rows of pointed arches upon delicate shafts form a typical wall decoration known as blind arcading.

Pliny states that Chalcedon was first named Procerastis, a name which may be derived from a point of land near it: then it was named Colpusa, from the form of the harbour probably ; and finally Caecorum Oppidum, or the town of the blind.

For example, a blind person could develop a means to listen in audio form to an electronic book which had been purchased in text form.

The statue is popularly supposed to show blind Justice ; however, the figure is not blindfolded: the courthouse brochures explain that this is because Lady Justice was originally not blindfolded, and because her “ maidenly form ” is supposed to guarantee her impartiality which renders the blindfold redundant.

Lake and Hurley then begin to form a respectful professional relationship, with Lake turning a blind eye to Hurley's incompetence.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

In the bedroom before the husband and wife find their way to the bed, the lights go on: `` In dull domestic radiance I watch her staring face, still blind, Start wincing in obedience To dirty waters, counters, pots and pans, Waiting below stairs, in her mind ''.

He went into a whirling dance, a sort of blind chasing of the tail.

When she would do these things, he would turn blind for an instant and become sick at his stomach.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

Yet he presents a realm of source material which may well serve other writers if not himself: the problems with which a New South must grapple in groping through a blind adolescence into the maturity of urbanization.

On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

I am suggesting that a case-history approach to the Oedipus complex is a blind alley for a storyteller.

If he sees the heroic in a Sartoris or a Sutpen, he sees also -- and he shows -- the blind and the mean, and he sees the Compson family disintegrating from within.

After Shakespeare the master spirits of western consciousness are no longer the blind seers, the poets, or Orpheus performing his art in the face of hell.

Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

In blind panic of grief she accepted Jonathan's dictum, and believed in her desperation that she had been cursed by God.

We are here because all our paths travel a blind course through a thick forest, seeking human dignity.

`` But we are neither blind nor insane.

Mrs. Trenchard worked for the blind.

He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.

These amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were designed to help provide for more specialized rehabilitation facilities, for more sheltered and `` half-way '' workshops, for greater numbers of adequately trained personnel, for more comprehensive services to individuals ( particularly to the homebound and the blind ), and for other administrative improvements to increase the program's overall effectiveness.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

For the remainder of the movie, Chancellor Neitzbohr proceeds to lash the piano stool with a slat from a Venetian blind that used to hang in the pre-war Reichstag.

As we find out at the end, it is not the stool ( symbolizing Doris, therefore the English ) that he is punishing but the piece of Venetian blind.

In any event, the extraordinary result of this injury was that he became `` psychically blind '', while at the same time, apparently, the sense of touch remained essentially intact.

J. Wheaton Smith, editor of the Warren Telegraph stated that `` the ends of justice must be satisfied, a solitary example must be set, in order that all those misnamed philantropists, who, actuated by a blind zeal, dare to instigate riot, treason, and murder, may heed it and shape their future course accordingly ''.

Even a hasty reader will easily find in it numerous blind spots, errors of fact and argument, important exclusions, areas of ignorance and prejudice, undue emphases on trivia, examples of broad positions supported by flimsy evidence, and the like.