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one-time-i-dreamt

The Eiffel tower is going to be deconstructed.

crazy56u

Au revoir et bon débarras, espèce de connard triangulaire.

one-time-i-dreamt

eus-theo-pteron

instead of a big metal thing they should maybe plant a little garden.

#eiffel tower #france #funny #repost #originally posted by:one-time-i-dreamt #silly #garden #gardenposting #french

clarafordahwin

Fridgerator wrapped. You ate 326 eggs.

habbadax

And I’ll do it again

ophanic

props to stem people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any english essay because literally u just have to say stuff. but for stem paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be true. wack.

luckysovreign

props to hums people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any stem essay because literally u just have to repeat stuff. but for a hums paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be new stuff from your brain. wack.

jeaniefranklins

#FINALLY the solidarity we need to defeat business majors

#animal blog #pet blog #snails #baby snail #garden snails #happy #love #cute

jetix

2018-08-25

noaasanctuaries

SanctSound: Listening to the (Not So) Silent World

Scientific voyages into the world of sound in the National Marine Sanctuary System

Read the full story at https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/feb21/sanctsound-overview.html

Ever traveled to a new city and noticed how different it sounded from your hometown? Sound is one of many ways that marine animals experience their environments, and one of many ways that we can study the underwater world.

SanctSound is a four-year project, managed by NOAA and the U.S. Navy, to better understand underwater sound within national marine sanctuaries. Since the fall of 2018, and through the spring of 2022, the agencies are working with numerous scientific partners to study sound within seven national marine sanctuaries and one marine national monument, in waters off Hawaii and the East and West coasts.

Read the full story at https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/feb21/sanctsound-overview.html

My pet Dubia cockroach, my friend helped me name her Dirt... might add a second name or give her a full name though. 🥺👉👈

#animal blog #pet blog #roaches #small roach #cockroach #small cockroach #my pets #dirt

ed-longshanks

important psa

soundlessdragon

Awh, I always thought they were so pretty and had no idea they could be harmful

christianmarvel

Can someone transcribe this? The water is really loud.

petit-bon-homme

“Hey everybody! Here we are in the southern Appalachian mountains. We have a pristine Montane stream ecosystem, as you can see all around us here. I thought I’d make an educational video this morning. It involves this practice right here [gestures to rock pile]. As our national parks and national forests fall victim to human pressure, more than ever, this is something we’re seeing more and more of. Hopefully we can make this video go viral. This stream, as you can see around us right here, is a breeding ground for North America’s largest salamander, the Eastern hellbender. They can get up to 2.5-3 feet long. It’s part of our natural heritage in the eastern United States. When people do this right here - what they consider to be art - they’re actually destroying the breeding ground for the Eastern hellbender salamander. The Eastern hellbender will use flat rocks such as these to make nesting sites in these streams. So here’s what I would like everybody to do. If you care about our Montane stream freshwater ecosystems like this one around us here, when you see something like this, this is what I recommend doing: [kicks down rock pile]. Take the rocks, throw them back into the stream. The Eastern hellbender utilizes rocks like this. It actually feels pretty good to do this! [walks to other pile] This is not actually art, okay? This is destruction of our freshwater ecosystems. So I would like to encourage everyone: when you see this [gestures to second rock pile], do this! [kicks pile] I’d like to return our streams to their natural state for the organisms that live here. Thanks, and have a good day.”

gendernewtral

also! don’t do this on beaches! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/people-are-stacking-too-many-stones/amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wideopenspaces.com/rock-stacking-natural-graffitti-ecological-impact/amp/

https://www.ausableriver.org/blog/leaving-no-trace-rock-stacking

thesearchforbluejello

Fantastic! Yes! They’re very harmful to many ecosystems and should never be considered art!

BUT

If you see one of these rock piles on an established trail, do NOT for the love of god kick it over. In places where a trail forks or moves over features like talus fields, trail crews sometimes build cairns to mark the trail where spray painted blazes can’t be used or would be easily missed (e.g. on rocks that commonly become wet, painted blazes are harder to see).

There are multiple takeaways here:

1) Making cairns yourself is BAD. Don’t do it.

2) Cairns are not ever properly used in rivers.

3) If you see a cairn on a trail, LEAVE IT. If it does need to be removed, the trail crews working for the National Forest Service/NPS/AMC/whatever or Rangers will remove it when they do trail work.

If you only ever read one post of mine, please make it this one. YESTERDAY my mom and I were hiking in the Pemigewasset Wilderness of New Hampshire, and on the trail we hiked there was a fork with half marked by a cairn so hikers knew to go the right way to pick up the blazed trail. If someone had removed that we probably would have been fine because there was an old logging road on the other side eventually leading to the road going through the notch, but elsewhere that could have killed us. It’s very easy to get lost in wilderness, and no matter how prepared or experienced you are it can prove fatal.

TL;DR, please note this statement by the National Park Service.

(I am aware this statement specifically is from NPS, but this goes for your National Forests, State Forests, etc as well.)

Photo tax:

A good cairn, built by a trail crew to mark the trail ascent over open face granite on the Baldface Loop over North and South Baldface in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I took this when we summited in 2018.

dicktouching

This is especially true in places where ecology near hiking trails is especially delicate. In Utah, some major parks (like Arches) use trail cairns to keep hikers far way from the delicate cryptobiotic soil crust - something so delicate that if you step on it, you could destroy that spot for potentially decades. Crucially though, these cairns are often noted by the park in some way (“please follow the cairns to stay on the trail!”) and sometimes are not made out of local rocks – for the same reason that those rocks can be environmentally critical and should not be moved for cairns. But these cairns will never be in rivers, which I think is the point of this video. Never build cairns yourself, anywhere, ever, not even little ones. Even small cairns can be environmentally damaging, as well as mislead hikers. My dad and I got led off trail by mini cairns in Colorado and got semi-lost on the trail for 3 hours. My mom almost called search and rescue on us and we have to navigate down some sheer river cuts without any of the proper equipment. Just because some hikers built themselves their own cairns for funsies.

kedreeva

I’d like to add:

Please do not KICK over the rock towers in a river bed!!

Please disassemble them gently!

Kicking them over as shown in this video causes the kicked rocks to impact very heavily with the rocks below and you can crush the young of the very salamanders you are trying to protect through disassembling these towers. Even setting them gently down carries the risk of shifting the river rocks around and killing young or disturbing homes (as does you walking out into the river, so please tread lightly and shift as little as possible as you go), but setting them down gently greatly reduces that risk.

Eastern Hellbenders are extremely sensitive to environmental changes, particularly to their chosen home/nest site; when they choose a place to live, they live there or they die. They very, very rarely are capable of relocating if their chosen rocks are removed or even just disturbed (as in changed positions). The towers you see in this video have already done the damage they can do; if they were removed from a hellbender’s home, thus wrecking the home, that hellbender likely died. The point of putting the stones BACK is to discourage others from getting the idea to copy the tower and make their own without knowing why. If people see a tower, they’re more likely to build another one themselves because they think “that’s neat and someone else did it so it must be ok”. If there is no seed tower, people are less likely to be the first one to do it.

They’ve been donated... I won’t be posting for awhile, I need to focus on school and some other things- might post on weekends.

Explanation on my user name!

If you don’t know the origin of my user name, you might find it odd and wonder what it means. Well! I’m going to explain what it means AND why I chose it!

‘Eusthenopteron is a genus of prehistoric sarcopterygian which has attained an iconic status from its close relationships to tetrapods’ (taken from Wikipedia) SO BASICALLY it’s a prehistoric fish type creature that had four very strong fins and was the beginning of four legged creatures! You can tell from the bones.

Why eus-THEO-pteron? Well it isn’t a spelling error or anything, I thought it would be clever since my name is Theo!

Okay but why did you choose this creature? Well, besides my name pun and the cool lesson in evolution and stuff, this creature is the one connecting rabbits and frogs! I love both rabbits and frogs and have a pet rabbit as well as my two frogs. I thought it’d only be fitting if I used the name of this prehistoric creature due to the conjoining history of not only the animals I own, but of many animals! ...and so I chose my username with reason and care :)

Hopefully I answered any questions you had about my username, if not feel free to ask about anything and if you’d like to learn more about any of this just slip me a message!

#animal blog #pet blog #i love animals