#animal migration

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Amazingly Long Animal Migrations

A leatherback sea turtle

Mark Meredith

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African Elephants 🐘 Earth Odyssey S06E09 "Movers and Shakers"

It's not easy being the planet's largest terrestrial animal. Every day elephants must eat and drink enough to support their gigantic size. This daily quest is the reason why elephants are constantly on the move.

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Sweden's Great Moose Migration: Millions watch 24-hour rolling livestream

Millions of people have tuned in to watch moose on the move in northern Sweden over the past six years.

"For thousands of years, moose have been following the same trails to reach the rich pastures of the summer. Follow this year's migration, which is the seventh season that we will see the moose migrate in the box and on SVT Play."

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A gathering of rays is called a “fever.”

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As Animals Migrate Because of Climate Change, Thousands of New Viruses Will Hop From Wildlife to Humans—and Mitigation Won’t Stop Them - Inside Climate News

Inevitable, and frightening. COVID has taught us many things, one of which is we, as humans and our governments, are not prepared.

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

Long before the world had ever heard of Covid-19, Colin J. Carlson and a team of researchers began work on a study that explored how climate change and the destruction of wildlife habitats might affect how diseases are spread from animals to people. Their first draft included a reference to a hypothetical pneumonia outbreak of unknown origin.

“We know that species are on the move—we know that probably has relevance to other viruses,” said Carlson, an assistant professor of biology at Georgetown University. “And for a while, we really wanted to get into what does that mean for human health? What does it mean for pandemics?”

What it meant, Carlson and his co-authors found, was that it may already be too late to limit the spread of zoonotic spillover—when diseases move from animals to humans—because of climate change.

Over the next 50 years, the spread of pathogens between humans and animals in the wild will lead to the transmission of about 4,000 new viruses between species, their research found, and increase the risk of global pandemics.

Interactions between people and animals were at the heart of the findings of Carlson’s team, which were published in a peer-reviewed study in the journal Nature in April. It noted the existence of roughly 10,000 viruses with the potential to infect humans—the vast majority of which, researchers said, are already “circulating silently in wild mammals.” Global climate change and evolving land-use patterns will increase the potential for cross-species viral transmission as animals that were once geographically isolated begin to have increased contact with people, the study said.

One of the most surprising findings of the study, Carlson said, is not just that mitigation doesn’t keep this from happening, but that “a lot of this has probably already happened because we live in a world that’s one degree warmer.”

“We are going to just have to deal with the fact that climate change, as a choice that we’ve already made to some degree, means higher pandemic risk,” he said.

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Welcome to tumblr. You guys sound really neat, and I look forward to being able to learn more about conversation biology/ecology stuff! My focus is civil engineering, and while my specific focus is on concrete design, I see a lot of stuff with highways, etc that just conflict with good ecological practice. Also your stuff is just cool. So. Ye. I hope you like the crab button

Wow! Thanks for the crabs! (Never thought I'd type that sentence at work!) If you like crabs, civil engineering, concrete, and corridor infrastructure, check out the second tile our Corridor Examples page- and maybe plan a trip to see the Christmas Island Red Crab Migration for yourself!

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MrFijodor’s new mural depicting migration

In Nichelino, on the outskirts of Turin, on the occasion of the second edition of Nichelino Lights Up Fest was presented “Gray Heron: The Good Immigrant,” a new mural created by street artist MrFijodor.

The Ligurian artist, who has been living right in Piedmont for years, has created precisely a mural that interprets the concept of home, choosing as a symbol of this metaphor a migratory animal typical of the area such as the grey heron. The bird represented by MrFijodor is the one that among migrators reaches the northernmost areas of the Earth, up to the Arctic Circle.