"Let's find out!"

"Yeah." He presses the button to start again.

"Mm," he nods, "Or maybe it was too much money or something? Maybe we'll figure out a way to do it, when we're older." Maybe they'll get magic for it, he means. 

"Yeah," Seni writes that down on his Pocket Everything. "Wanna try again to see how big we can make it?"

(He glances at the Everything and grins.)

"Yeah!" He scampers back over to his station and turns the heat dial up so they can try again. 

A while later, there is a practical exhibition on natural selection for people (meaning, mainly kids) to attend to.

Lots of kids show up! Keo tugs Sefoni along to take a look at it, pausing beside Karo on the edge of the circle around the museum green who's going to explain.

Lesi points the group out to Aden from the sound display they've been playing with, "Want to go take a look?"

"Oh, yeah. I lost track of time." He goes towards the presentation.

Karo decides to retrieve Seni. Teo nods and smiles at Keo and Sefoni.

The Green explains how natural selection and random mutations play a part in evolution. Allowing creatures to adapt to their environment and what niche role they occupy.

Of course, evolution happens in stages. And the presentation is meant to be a practical demonstration of that.

Holographic birds spring into life, while the walls have pictures of a forest.

The birds have a goal, come down the forest floor to feed on delicious mushrooms, while trying to avoid predators: the kids.

"Me too," she admits, following him. 

As soon as the birds appear, she reaches out to try to catch the nearest one. It darts out of her reach, and she lunges after it, weaving between the other kids. 

Keo goes after one, too! He catches the first one easily, and then moves onto another, which is a bit harder. 

Teo manages to corner one, but loses it at the last moment when it manages to escape.

Karo manages to slide down the floor and take one bird down.

Tani, Tepam and Lakini all coordinate to take down quite a few.

After a round of this, the birds go to their nests and have new birdies and the Green explains how the evolutionary pressure caused the fastest birds to have more babies than the slower ones (this is displayed by the birds having larger wings). And the next round is harder on the kids.

Keo goes straight back to work, catching as many birds as he can. He's a little more interested in the hunting and catching than he is in the science behind all of this.

Mika, though, has a thought. He stops Lesi from catching any and looks around for the blue triplets. 

They are way over there, trying to send a bird towards Seni to catch.

He drags Lesi over, "We need everyone to catch the fast ones, right? And leave the slow ones alone."

"What?" Lesi protests, "But we'll get way less birds each turn if we do that."

"It would make the next generation slower."

She blinks, actually pausing to think about it, "Ohhh... I see now." She looks around at all the kids, busily snatching up all the birds they can catch (though some of them appear to have had the same thought as their group). "How are we gonna convince them to go along with the plan, though? It won't mean much if everyone else keeps catching all the slowest ones."

"Maybe we could give some kind of reward?"

"Hmm... Mika and I could make something for the kids from the islands... And the other kids might just go along with it if they see all of us working on the same thing, if they notice..." There's a few kids besides the Deosikuri group here.

"We could also just try that first? Some of them are already doing it," Mika points towards Kasi, who is carefully creeping up on a large-winged bird feeding on the mushrooms, and then towards Lakini, Tani and Tepam. "We could just talk to them about all doing it together. And... I think most of the rest will probably listen to you guys if we have a plan."