Suzanne Weyn

Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.

American Author

Peter Singer

Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives of - quite possibly - tens of millions of people who over the next 50 years will die because of floods or storms or tropical diseases or whatever. I guess that sort of thing makes me angry.

Australian Philosopher

Henry Walter Bates

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

English Environmentalist

Carmen Electra

For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.

American Actress

E. O. Wilson

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

American Scientist

Michael Douglas

When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go.

American Actor

Ezra Stiles

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

American Clergyman

Richard Madden

I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.

Scottish Actor

Italo Calvino

I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.

Italian Journalist

Matthew Fox

I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Used to describe a specific region; do not confuse with general hot weather elsewhere.

Geographic Specificity

'Tropical' indicates consistent weather patterns, unlike 'summer' which is seasonal.

Not Seasonal

Emphasizes the absence of cold periods; it's warm throughout the year.

Always Warm

Describes a sensation rather than literal tropics; can refer to unexpected heat.

Feel Over Fact

Sometimes used hyperbolically for emphasis on extreme humidity and heat.

Exaggeration

Evokes colorful and exotic scenes; good for creative and descriptive contexts.

Vivid Imagery

Implies an abundance of plant life and vibrant environments.

Lushness

Specifically relates to health issues prevalent in or unique to the tropics.

Health Context

Refers to a medical field focusing on health conditions of tropical regions.

Specialized Medicine

 blue skies, warm tropical beaches, and a tan that lasts all year long. I mean, to me, this was it. Life could not get any better. Sweating it out, shooting surfers in these exotic tourist destinations. But there was just this one problem. You see, the more time I spent traveling to these exotic locations,

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 ocean the killer whale is the most broadly distributed mammal in the world apart from us near shore off shore polar or tropical they occupy a singular position in the food web without concern of predation themselves fish seals penguins sharks great whales heck They ve been known to eat moose killer whales

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 my name's alex vale and i'm a wildlife cinematographer although i'm from tropical north queensland i'm lucky enough to do a lot of my work in the polar regions of the world so up north in the arctic and down south in the antarctic and what i'm going to tell you about today is leopard seals

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 giving skin a darker tone. This built-in sun shield helped protect them from melanoma, likely making them evolutionarily fitter and capable of passing this useful trait on to new generations. But soon, some of our Sun-adapted ancestors migrated northward out of the tropical zone,

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 But prior to settling down in this diverse tropical environment, baby coral reef fish face the difficult process of growing up on their own, undergoing drastic changes, and the journey of a lifetime before they find that reef to call home. The life cycle for most of these fish

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 are located not on remote, tropical tax shelters, but within the same advanced nations which claim to be leading the fight for global financial transparency. But still, it's a fight worth fighting. Closing the legal loopholes that enable anonymous companies

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 than 40 centimeters deep and can hold two liters of flesh digesting liquid whilst most of these meat-eating plants feast on ants flies and insects in the tropical forests of borneo the giant nepenthes raja has been documented to have trapped and killed

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 of this research is combating malaria a disease spread through tropical regions of the world by mosquitoes nearly a million people die of the disease each year intellectual Ventures says their involvement began with a challenge from

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 vibrant so completely alien to our world there was actually very very little research out there on on antarctica comparatively to say going and filming in a in a tropical jungle but i found this

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 There's another good reason Tadpoles need help to survive the tropical sun and its shrinking effect on their shallow pools. The father takes action