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Fuck it. Crochet cartilaginous stingray skeleton

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ohhh I love baby mosquitos so much...I wish I could just look at them wiggle and give them little treats forever. I wish we did not need to fight them for public health. little wiggly fuzzlets guilty of nothing

#bugs

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mice are smooth and round like beach glass

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Northern Flicker

#classic bird

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The results of Mango's work on my homemade toy lol

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Hyena doodles from work!

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Homo Sapiens boy together again with his Neanderthal girl on the first warm day of Spring

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Baird's tapir Tapirus bairdii

With yellow-headed caracara Daptrius chimachima

Observed by infinitaselva, CC BY-NC

#HELL YEAH #goes so hard

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This delicate tiny carving of a water bird was created c. 33,000 years ago.

Thought to be a diver, cormorant, or duck, the figure is from beak to tail 4.7 cm long.

The sculpted piece of mammoth ivory, found in Hohle Fels cave in Germany, may be the earliest representation of a bird.

#I love it

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Brief Book Review - Crossings by Ben Goldfarb

April 22 2024

Excellent read but hard to get through. Worth it.

This book is a lot of things. Beautifully written, endless stories and research and interviews with interesting people, there's some hope and many people working hard for good things, but damn is it also extremely upsetting for those of us with soft hearts. Radicalizing.

You're going to read/hear a lot about animal death in this book, about all the different ways that beautiful animals all across the planet are dying due to roads. From vehicles killing them outright, to animals refusing to cross the roads due to the perceived danger and then starving to death or dying out b/c of lack of access to mates, to pollution from cars/road salt, to poorly designed culverts preventing fish migrations, to how human health and lifespans are negatively impacted and how redlining in US cities hurt black communities.

This is a hard read and I wept, but I'm glad I managed to get through it. There's a lot of solid history/info in here about roads and how people first reacted to cars in the US, how cars brought travel to the middle classes and not just the rich, how much the US forest service was in bed with the logging industry and why the national forests are waayyyyy more fucked and damaged than one might think, how animal rehabbers in Tazmania work so hard to save animals, the dramatic road expansions going on in Brasil, from Alaska to Oakland CA to Minnesota to Florida to the UK a lot of terrain and a lot of animals are covered here.

And basically the issue is that different kinds of animals have different needs, so the best ways to help them survive being near roads vary and tend to be expensive, in an area of gov't that doesn't have much public attention or a big budget and generally has been deferring basic maintenance due to that (and therefore isn't really open to things like wildlife crossings - but well designed they save TONS of animal lives).

The mere existence of a road decreases the chances of individual and species survival. Roads decrease biodiversity and can lead species to extinction. The best thing we can do is actually to stop building them, but since that isn't realistic, the second best thing we can do is to pay attention to road ecologists and indigenous peoples to help design infrastructure that will better help the animals survive the onslaught of death that roads bring.

(this is as brief as I can make it! this book covers a LOT of territory)

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arapaimaaaaaaaaaaa

#LOVE a ‘paima

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tardigrade wizard study

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she knows she’s not allowed to bark at the cat, so her loophole is just to make a bunch of noises that are not barking instead.

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TRUST