Storms are associated with periods of strong often damaging winds, heavy flood-producing rainfall, thunder and lightning, heavy snowfall or blizzard conditions
There is a lot of competition. From food, water, shelter, mates... only the best, the organisms with the desirable traits survive. They survive and are able to reproduce, passing on their genes to the next generation. As this natural selection occurs, the traits that are necessary for survival are passed on, and over a long period of time this results in evolution.
Well, many times animals may look alike and eat the same food because they are adapting to there invirment. For example there may be many diffrent species of birds that look similar and eat the same food but that does not mean they are of the same kind of bird, over time the birds that have the right body shape to collect food in that invirment will survive while the others perish. This will make the birds look alike while in all they are not of the same species in any way.
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