Preserve, Conserve, Educate

You can expect articles, petitions, videos, photography and angry rants about animals or just nature in general. I'm Emilie and all questions and submissions are welcome.

[pawberri]

We need etsy to get bought by someone who will run it like the navy i need to only see small businesses in eastern europe weaving baskets by hand and anime yaoi keychains with original fanart

[pawberri]

Literally need someone with an serial killer level obsession with content moderation to sit at a wall of monitors sniping dropshippers. I need etsy HQ to look and sound like the nerv command center in Evangelion

[dyscomancer]

[snapsicle]

in an alternate universe there’s a direct pipeline to the gods where you can just talk to them and ask for shit but most of the time if your wish is stupid they’ll vaporize you but one day Adam and Jamie came to the gods and were like “hey we wanna take Mythbusters to the next level can we have infinite lives like a video game so whenever we die we just wake up the next day completely ok” and the gods were like “this should be really fuckin good” and gave them both immortality so they started testing Fucked Up Unethical Myths like “can you survive on nothing but toothpaste” and “how far high up do you have to jump from for a belly flop onto water to kill you” and “what happens if you swallow live explosives and then explode them” and “how long can you survive in sulfuric acid” and stuff like that and then the gods are just watching them and laughing their asses off and if a TV network refuses to broadcast the new “Mythbusters Dying Edition: this shit’s fucked up now!” they get vaporized also

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i’ll never not be amused by the fact that there’s a species of snake who tries to scare off potential predators by ‘farting defensively’

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it’s called the chihuahuan hook nosed snake and back in 2000 there was an experiment done by a morphologist at a college to study the snake’s defensive farts and according to his research there were some snakes who farted so energetically that they lifted themselves off the ground

next time you feel uncertain about snakes, just think about the chihuahuan hook nosed snake and it’s almighty tooty booty

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[paleoillustration]

Josephoartigasia monesi oil painting by James Gurney:

“Here’s a painting of the largest rodent known to science. It’s something like a cross between a guinea pig and a rhinoceros. It would have stood about four feet high at the shoulder, weighing about 2,000 pounds.”

Making of

[niqabisinparis]

me: *reading academic text*

me: wtf u sayin lmao but i dig ur vibe imma keep reading 

[epooleart]

Benjamin Franklin was a pretty strange guy. We all know about the kite experiment and the womanizing, but here are two lesser known facts to ponder about ol’ Ben: 1. He once attempted to electrocute a live turkey at a party (instead electrocuting himself in the process) and  2. the remains of more than 15 human skeletons were found buried in the foundations of his house.

[officialunitedstates]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.  Teach a man wildlife conservation and his children will be able to eat fish too.

[sixpenceee]

Uropyia meticulodina is found in China and Taiwan. This moth is remarkably camouflaged in its surroundings of dead, dried leaves. 

[snowysauropteryx]

So colleges have an “Only fish are allowed” rule for dorms, usually, correct?

How tightly would they define “Fish”. 

Could I have a sarcopterygian fish. 

A tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish?

A tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish?

An amniote tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish? 

A synapsid amniote tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish? 

A cynodont therapsid synapsid amniote tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish?

A mammalian cynodont therapsid synapsid amniote tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish? 

An eutherian mammalian cynodont therapsid synapsid amniote tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish? 

An ungulate eutherian mammalian cynodont therapsid synapsid amniote tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish?

An ungulate eutherian mammalian cynodont therapsid synapsid amniote tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish?

An artiodactyl ungulate eutherian mammalian cynodont therapsid synapsid amniote tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish?

An antilocaprid artiodactyl ungulate eutherian mammalian cynodont therapsid synapsid amniote tetrapod tetrapodomorphic sarcopterygian fish? 

Can I bring a pronghorn to college?  

[bigcatawareness]

These aren’t super awesome quality cause the light was kind of low but here is Nindiri and baby!  Born March 12th, still unnamed and un-sexed.  Mom was being super attentive with the cub, the cub nursed often, and mom had a fun play session with the cub too :] The cub is already showing signs of independence as they wanted to go and explore on their own. This is Nindiri’s third successful breeding I believe, so she is very comfortable with the whole routine :]  

Also, Nindiri and the cub are not being let out into the main enclosure yet and of course are separated from the male.  The display den she is in here has access to a back den away from the viewing area that she was free to enter with the cub at any time, and by 3pm they had locked her in the back entirely for some healthy, enforced privacy(and likely dinnertime for mom).

Enjoy the cuteness!

[nubbsgalore]

leopard seals weigh over a thousand pounds and have a reputation for being one of the most vicious predators in the sea. a leopard seal even killed a marine biologist in 2003. but photographer paul nicklen was befriended by one patrolling a penguin rookery near anvers island, antarctica.

over the course of a five day photographic study, this female leopard seal would bring him about thirty penguins as gifts to eat. at first nicklen was confused. and very scared. “it takes a leap of faith when you get in the water with an animal like that, you’re completely vulnerable,” nicklen said.

but this seal began to bring him live penguins, which would swim away when he failed to grab them, and which she would swim after and return to him. realizing nicklen didn’t know what to do with the penguins, she started to bring him dead ones she had drowned. when he still didn’t know what to do, she showed him how to eat them (this involved ripping the head off the penguin and using the body like a cup to slurp down the entrails)

“it was a very deliberate effort at interspecies communication, whether it was because she was nurturing me, trying to communicate, or bored and lonely and wanted to hang out,” nicklen said. she even protected him from other approaching leopard seals, stealing their penguins and bringing them to him.

he considers the encounter the most rewarding experience of his twenty year career in photography. “when you spend a month trying to get a picture of a polar bear, then all of a sudden you have a top predator in antarctica force feeding you penguins all day, it doesn’t get much better than that.”

[wildlifesos]

BREAKING NEWS: We’ve finally got the papers ready to rescue Mohan! Approximately 56 years old, shackled with heavy chains around his leg, malnourished and injured, Mohan really needs our help. But there’s more to the story… and it’s something we haven’t told you before now. Last year, when we rescued Raju, we intended to rescue Mohan, too. Turns out, he and Raju have a history together (one we’ll tell you more about in the days to come). As you know, we freed Raju from his chains in July, but Mohan disappeared without a trace before we could free him. And while we were overjoyed to bring Raju to freedom, we were absolutely heartbroken to have lost Mohan. But now rescuing Mohan — and reuniting him with Raju — is within our grasp. Our goal is to raise $109,500 by March 23rd to fund his rescue and free him from his chains forever (and thanks to donations already received, we are already 1/4 of the way there!). Your little donation can help make a big difference! Please give today — https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/mohan

[skunkbear]

NEW SPECIES ALERT!

Oxford scientists have discovered the fossil remains of a six foot long lobster-like sea monster. It’s called Aegirocassis benmoulae (named after the Moroccan fossil hunter Mohamed Ben Moula who discovered the remains). It’s part of a group of species called “anomalcaridids” - giant plated arthropod ancestors who ruled the Cambrian and Ordovician seas (520 - 443 million years ago). FULL STORY HERE

Most of anomalcaridids were like sharks, hunting other sea creatures, but this new species is more like a baleen whale. It used spines on its head to filter sea water and trap tiny particles of food.

Images:

A reconstruction of the Aegirocassis benmoulae by Marianne Collins/ArtofFact.

The Aegirocassis's spiny net filter that it used for feeding.

Allison Daley, one of the scientists who described this new species, at a dig.

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So the only all-bird rehab center in North Texas is about to shut down

I can’t even put into words how upset I am about this. Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation has been open for almost twenty years, and is the only place in North Texas that takes in literally any type of bird if it’s been injured, orphaned, or otherwise incapacitated. They’re finally out of funds, and if they can’t come up with anything by April 2nd, they’re going to be forced to close their doors.

They’ve never turned away birds. Not when it’s a surprise 200 baby cattle egrets that’ve been orphaned because city planners thought they could cut down their homes and no one would notice. Not when it’s raptors with one good eye and in need of seven different antibiotics. Not even when it’s ducks that irresponsible parents won’t let their kids keep after easter. This is where anyone let me first get up close to birds. I mean, I’ve known I wanted to work with birds and wildlife since I was seven- I’m twenty four now, and halfway through an environmental science master’s and it’s a big reason I kept going.

I’ve been going to this place on and off for ten years, I was THIRTEEN when I started volunteering and seeing all the terrible things that happen to the birds that come in. Not just…hit by trucks, or caught in a hailstorm but parrots that have been left in foreclosed houses for weeks, and roosters that have come out of cock fighting rings and would otherwise be put down because the SPCA and humane societies don’t think they’re salvageable. There’s an emu that was raised there as a baby because no one wanted her. Her name’s Riley and I can’t even begin to comprehend what shutting the doors to the center would mean?

They don’t get government aid. They’ve been funded by the public donating and Kathy, the lady who owns the place, going through her retirement funds and savings and her social security to keep it running. She’s finally run out of money. Please,  just reblog? Even if you can’t donate anything- and I know it’s a lot to ask for poor teenage/college kids to donate money that they don’t have, or struggling artists I know but maybe someone who can spare something will see it eventually? They need $200,000 to keep open for a year to continue to help 4000 birds a year.  

Just, thanks for reading, guys. Here’s the gofundme link: http://www.gofundme.com/l8aj7k

Their facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rogers-Wildlife-Rehabilitation-Center/398035120217303

Here’s their website: http://www.rogerswildlife.org/about.html

[ccaracal-blog1]

Female Asiatic Cheetah, 3 Cubs Sighted In Turan National Park

01/20/15 - “Yesterday a female cheetah together with her three cubs were sighted and photographed 5 kilometers of Beyarjomand by the people and guards of this biosphere,” [Ali Akbar Ghorbanlou] said. While expressing tremendous joy over the sighting of 11 Asiatic cheetahs over the last 30 days he added, “Turan National Park is the main habitat for this kind of rare animals and luckily enjoys an increase in the number of these species.

Asiatic cheetahs are critically endangered, with an estimated 70~ individuals remaining in the wild (little to none in captivity), so this is amazing news.