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The footage of the sea gypsies found in the archive

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ANDAMAN ARCHIPELAGO : Supar Leh

Supar Leh (Super Leh) is the hybrid species with the combinated traits of the past and present marine and human species. This species tend to live in small groups or pairs, since only the few resilient ones adapted and survived the mutation. They are able to conduct the basic communication skills in Thai, limited to listening and speaking. Other than that, they mainly use hand and body gestures in land.

The MRI scan from one of them shows the astounding evolution in their body since their lifestyles are heavily based in the sea, and temporarily based in land, according to the monsoon season. Their spleen has naturally enlarged and the visual part in the brain becomes soundwave receivers for echolocation, in which the implanted receivers are the horns taken from Octobranchus.

Another essential organs found are the salt glands, present in seagulls and certain reptile species. Being able to filter excess salt, these organs are vital to obtain drinkable water from the seawater, preventing dehydration. With the help of the gills, the seawater is able to pass through the skin directly to the glands, keeping the intake up to body requirements.

The scan also shows the presence of two reproductive organs from both genders, meaning it becomes intersexual. The theories to support this is that to keep the species from being extinct, they need to be able to mate and reproduce themselves in limited potential partner numbers, which is one of the adapted features found in many marine and animal species.

The more visible, physical attributes include the change in the skin and body extensions. From the conversation with the species, who called itself, XXX, the descendant of Mr.X. Parts of the skin are surfaced with scales and shells from different species, which act as protective barriers from the high water exposure and potential attackers. The Flowery Flounder’s or the sponge skin, on the other hand, purifies water that, in turn, attracts preys. It then uses the poisonous spikes to sting the preys, eating them raw afterwards. Additionally, for efficient swimming, it starts developing conjoined feet fingers which resemble the feature in reptiles. Another element present is the fin, incorporated from Thin-finned Shrimp.

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ANDAMAN ARCHIPELAGO : Kabang

Used by one tribe of the sea gypsies as the living vehicle, the intelligent original boat is called Kabang. We digged into some very past documents and noticed some very intriguing aspects of it. Apart from the  boat having the wooden rib structure, the iconic C-shaped head and tail serve the relevant function and distinction from other boats. It acts as a stairs, allowing people to climb in and out of the boat when needed. Besides that, the spatial organisation consisted of the open plan layout, where they could born, live and die with it -- an indeed advanced society.

ANDAMAN ARCHIPELAGO : Kabang Mai

When they left the land, the remaining of the original boat, Kabang, was the rib structure. However, at that time, it was so polluted that the species started dying. One of which was the whale, who died on the beach with the stomach full of plastics. XXX described that his father, XX, utilised the bones as a secondary structure to form the roof. He also brought some basic everyday tools from land to Kabang Mai. By then, he looked just like us, humans. The three principles required for survivals are then the water, food and shelter, in which his fathers and some companions slowly learned to make use of the tools and adapt themselves. The main process shows from some drawings obtained was the desalination, using the ancient solar distillation method, where the seawater was collected from below, pumped up to the reflecting solar panels that heated it up to steam, then the steam travelled through the condensing pipes with seaweed as cooling devices, and subsequently formed the drinkable water droplets that dripped down to the storage for later use. The salt left behind was then collected. To sustain their nutrients, they hunt the fishes and collect sea items, cook and consume them. The organic wastes produced then went back to the sea.

ANDAMAN ARCHIPELAGO : Leh Breather

Leh Breather is the living vehicle used by Supar Lehs. It comes in the form of a living submarine, functioned as both the shelter and long-distance travelling medium for them. The breather contains the selected elements present from the marine species. Similarly to the body, it contains the Flowery Flounder’s skin which interestingly creates the new ecosystem. The implementation of the skin attracts more fishes, particularly their own species, to feed on and reproduce — and this process causes the boat to rise and sink according to the buoyancy theory in submarines.

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ANDAMAN ARCHIPELAGO : Resilient Archipelago “ The Resilient Archipelago is the newly discovered island in the Andaman Sea, in the southern part of Thailand. The Island has been seen, mapped, and photographed by several discovers to explore the fantasies it provides with mysterious species, living along the archipelagos. As the members of the research team, we have interacted with the species underwater and studied them closely.

We have traced back to the origin of the species from 100 years ago and recorded their timeline. We are here to reveal to you the archive of the documentation.

Everything began centuries ago when the Islands along the Southern part of Thailand became the drastic tourist attraction. During these expeditions, human intervention with marine creatures increased, making existing fishes to act unnaturally. With pollution, excessive interaction of human and deceptive stimuli within the fish have caused some to interbreed and others to disappear during this nuclear winter-like period. ”

ANDAMAN ARCHIPELAGO : The Evolution

The Species: Marine

Species were affected in 4 different ways:

Firstly, through visionary. Fish’s eyesight contain opsins which come in red and blue. A red preferentially only see one color and are attracted to the same color. However, in murky waters, fish lose their opsins pigmentation and interbreed, destroying genetical differences.

Next is through auditory and olfactory that are caused by heavy sounds coming from ships and boats. These are aspects that affect fish activities as they are dependent on sound frequency for mating, smell that help them avoid predators and even locate food.

Lastly, elimination of the fish’s by harsh objects thrown into the sea by humans.

In order to survive, fish most likely seek a dominant.

The Species : Sea Gypsies

Similarly, the increase in tourism also disrupted one traditional group of people, who were the first, descendant inhabitants for over centuries, known as sea gypsies or “chao leh”, causing them to flee from the land. Upon the discovery, they have learned to adapt and mutate to survive, calling themselves “Supar Leh”.

Dated back from unknown to now, their lifestyles are always rooted to the sea. In the very past, they are nomadic, using boats as moving shelters. They sail and find temporal land shelters according to the monsoon seasons, which is in the six-month intervals. When they are on land, they collect available items such as vegetation and herbs that help maintain health for their body. Later, they also do tradings, with some other locals, exchanging sea items for land ones.

For some time after, they started settling down along the Thai coast of Andaman Sea. Till then, many still remained stateless, ungranted of citizenships or were treated so. They carried out their sea-based lifestyles till the Tsunami, which increased drastically their exposures through the international media. One of the tribes was praised as being all survivals from the event by reading the natural signs.

The mass influx of tourists has elevated more problems, including the foreign influences that further cause the lost of identities in which they did activities to service tourists, and the land issues where the investors claimed all the legal rights to the property by any means possible including force.

“ However, being the advanced society, they seem to find themselves back to their origin, but this time, mutated and adapted to the new context. It is proven pretty successful and we still have so much to learn from them, the hybrid species. But for today, we will end our story here. ”