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Titty Mug (mug with tits) owned by Chief of Boat Watson in The Hunt for Red October (my fave movie) = chiefofboatwatsonstittymug

#my edits #the hunt for red october

mammalianmammals

When ranchers in Utah's Rich County found eighteen sheep killed in March 2022, they assumed coyotes. USDA Wildlife Services flew a plane over the kill site and found something feeding on the carcasses that had only been confirmed in the state eight times in forty years. It was a wolverine. Utah sits at the extreme southern margin of the wolverine's North American range. The animal is built for the deep snow and high alpine of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, country above ten thousand feet where the winters last eight months and the terrain rejects everything that is not specifically engineered to survive it. A wolverine showing up in Utah's ranch country was not a routine predator complaint. It was a biological event. State wildlife managers had no protocol for it because they had never needed one. Biologists set specialized barrel traps near the sheep carcasses. Catching a wolverine in a live trap is considered one of the most difficult captures in North American wildlife management. The animal is trap-smart, solitary, covers enormous distances daily, and operates almost exclusively in terrain that humans struggle to access on foot. The odds of a wolverine walking into a barrel trap were close to zero. The next morning, a sheepherder found one of the trap doors dropped. Inside was a healthy, twenty-eight-pound male, estimated at three to four years old. It was the first wolverine ever live-captured by biologists in Utah's history. The team sedated him, packed his body in ice to keep his core temperature stable during the examination, fitted him with a GPS tracking collar, and released him into the deep snow of the Uinta Mountains. For researchers who had spent careers studying an animal they almost never got to see, that collar was the first real-time data source on wolverine movement the state had ever produced. The data that came back over the next twenty-five days confirmed what wolverine biologists in other states had documented but Utah had never been able to verify on its own ground. The animal logged over 195 miles of travel in less than a month. He did not drift south toward lower elevations or leave the state. He locked into the high peaks of the Uintas above ten thousand feet and ran massive looping circuits through avalanche chutes, rocky ridgelines, and snowfields deep enough to bury a man standing upright. The daily distances he covered would qualify as an endurance event for a human athlete on flat ground. He was doing it through the most physically punishing terrain in the state, in winter, alone, at elevation, without stopping. The eighteen dead sheep that started the whole sequence were never repeated. The wolverine moved into the high country and stayed there, operating in a landscape so remote and so hostile that the only evidence of his existence was the GPS signal pinging coordinates from ridgelines that no person had visited in months. The collar proved what the forty years of scattered sightings could only suggest. The wolverine was not passing through Utah. It was living there, quietly covering nearly two hundred miles of frozen alpine rock in less than a month, completely invisible to every human being in the state.

Source: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources / USDA Wildlife Services

elf-kid2

@elodieunderglass

elodieunderglass

Wolverine - the relentless! Greatest of all mustelids, kindly child…

undean

dont judge me for using reddit but this comment is killing me. dean does not deserve a home or loved ones

mulderhater

I AM LAUGJING SO HARD. dean does not deserve a home or loved ones.

#dean Winchester wrote this

mistysblueboxstuff

a little study piece

tranthony

grout white shark

natalieironside

If ur a US based academic I bet if u could write a good enough grant application u could convince the current government to give you a bunch of money to look for Atlantis or the kingdom of Prester John or something

natalieironside

Now is a great time to take an exciting overseas vacation on Uncle Sam's dime. U can even write about it after, be like "We gave it the ol college try but we still didn't find Atlantis, leading further further support to the consensus that it don't even real" and it'll piss them off soooo bad but that's still doing science abt it so 🤷‍♀️

alliluyevas

As [Mikoyan] declared in a January 1936 speech: “I am a great supporter of the production of ice cream. Certain comrades believe to this day that ice cream is merely a children’s treat, and is of no use to grown-ups.” At this point Mikhail Kalinin, who was in attendance, exclaimed, “But everyone loves ice cream!” Mikoyan replied, “They love it, but some shun it out of hypocrisy, because they believe it’s just for kids. The production of ice cream needs to be expanded as much as possible. I am lobbying for ice cream, because it is a very delicious and nourishing food.”

important soviet discourse

andmaybegayer

the image of this guy going “but everyone loves ice cream” is driving me insane

whereareyourightnow

#soulmatism

#fallout #if i learned anything from playing New Vegas it's that this is the time you get out the plasma grenades :3

ellewantsrevenge

aadam jacobs's archive

woodrider

ma'am, I'm going to place you on a brief hold while I look for a reaction image

mouseshouses

Mouseland in Portland! Come see a collection of mousy vignettes on display through the month at Green Bean Books! 1600 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR

theshitpostcalligrapher

at a trinket trade thingy at Christie Pitts park

Come hang out with meeeeee

I'm doing pay-what-you-like calligraphy! Ink for some pocket change

Also my picnic blanket neighbor is a U of T psych student trying to get survey results on pple who like to collect things, I said I'd help out to see if anyone's willing to help out with some survey data

theshitpostcalligrapher

I have bartered a cross stitched egg for a pickle

(these eggs are also available on my Etsy wink wink nudge nudge)

theshitpostcalligrapher

Rock bartering has led me closer to have a rocky and Adrian

theshitpostcalligrapher

at a trinket trade thingy at Christie Pitts park

Come hang out with meeeeee

I'm doing pay-what-you-like calligraphy! Ink for some pocket change

Also my picnic blanket neighbor is a U of T psych student trying to get survey results on pple who like to collect things, I said I'd help out to see if anyone's willing to help out with some survey data

theshitpostcalligrapher

I have bartered a cross stitched egg for a pickle

(these eggs are also available on my Etsy wink wink nudge nudge)

theshitpostcalligrapher

Rock bartering has led me closer to have a rocky and Adrian