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zippotato t1_jeh3b5g wrote

According to the photographer Yevgeny Khaldei, those were British Hurricanes of No.151 Wing RAF which operated from Vaenga-1 airfield near Murmansk for a short time in mid-late 1941.

The image itself is a collage of British Hurricanes, explosions, and a deer nicknamed Yasha which befriended Soviet soldiers during Operation Platinfuchs - German-Finnish assault on Murmansk.

The actual frame of Yasha used to produce the collage

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zippotato t1_j9f3u51 wrote

I don't quite understand your reasoning here. It's not like there are only a handful of Gros Michel trees still standing in closed government laboratory. Farmers of multiple countries including the United States still grow and sell Gros Michel. It is now produced in smaller scale because preventing Panama disease is not economical enough for large scale farming, not because it is impossible to prevent it from getting hand on every single Gros Michel tree on the planet.

Yes, the tree is reproduced via cloning, but it goes same to Cavendish and you wouldn't say that Cavendish is already extinct.

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zippotato t1_j9f0jyb wrote

Gros Michel didn't go extinct. It was just replaced by Cavendish as the dominant cultivar on the market, and is still being produced in smaller scale.

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