#glider

[ectos-cave]

No #1 conways game of life furry fan over here

[nexeliam]

Can surfer boy and glider boy meet?? Please??

(make Treasure Planet one of KH4 worlds, I beg of you Square 🙏)

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

SKULL TOWER

by Pascal Blanché

[reasonsforhope]

Recovery of Endangered Marsupials is Utterly 'Extraordinary'– Population Up 45% Since Australian Bushfires

Recorded at 45% higher than before Australia's drought-wildfire combo of 2019, it was described as "nothing short of remarkable."

"On the heights of a mountain range just 30 miles west of Sydney’s Central Business District, the population of a charismatic marsupial was found to be ballooning despite recent fires.

Recorded at 45% higher than before Australia’s drought-wildfire combo of 2019, it was described as “nothing short of remarkable.”

The greater glider is an arboreal marsupial that can glide the distance of a football field using a long skin membrane that stretches between its arms and legs. With a diet composed exclusively of eucalyptus leaves, a lack of trees means a lack of gliders, and in the Blue Mountains, parts that were only lightly burned are positively full of these animals.

“It’s been fantastic to see greater gliders bounce back to well above pre-fire, pre-drought levels in the best and most lightly burnt habitat,” said Dr. Peter Smith, an experienced glider biologist, and author of the study that included the new population estimates. “Because of their low reproductive rate, we didn’t think that they’d be capable of making such a strong recovery. The rapid increase in numbers is extraordinary.”

On one night, he and his co-author/wife Judy used powerful flashlights to spot 59 gliders overhead in a single corridor located by the southern edge of the Blue Mountains National Park and near the adjoining Mares Forest National Park and Wombeyan Karst Conservation Reserve.

Gliders are not just vulnerable to logging and wildfires, they carry a mere one joey per year, and so have been assumed to be far more at risk than similar marsupials with greater fecundity.

Other surveys proved less-joyful, though. In some areas where the eucalyptus had not recovered from the 2019 fires, there were no gliders at all. Another way to look at that might be: provided eucalyptus trees can be restored to degraded habitats, gliders can take care of themselves.

“That’s why the remaining greater glider strongholds are so important,” Dr. Smith told WWF Down Under. “The forests in Mares Forest National Park and the southern end of Blue Mountains National Park now support exceptional numbers of greater gliders and are vital for the species’ recovery in this region.”

As to why this species might have been so much more well-stocked, Smith reckoned it was because of the increased rainfall in recent years, driving more heavy vegetation among the trees this flying possum calls home."

-Article via Good News Network, March 11, 2025. Video via World Wildlife Fund, June 15, 2022

[all-mammal-creechur]

Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis

An arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in native eucalypt forests in eastern Australia, from northern Queensland south to Victoria. It can glide up to 150 m. The yellow-bellied glider's diet consists of nectar, honeydew, insects, pollen and a wide spread of tree sap.

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[theworldatwar]

A British Airspeed Horsa glider brings in reinforcements during Operation Varsity - Wesel, Germany, March 1945. Paratroopers from the US Airborne Division are in the foreground. Photo by Robert Capa

Operation VARSITY, conducted on 24 March 1945, was the largest airborne operation ever executed in a single day. More than 16,000 British and American airborne troops of the 6th and 17th Airborne Divisions were dropped east of the Rhine in support of Operation PLUNDER, the Allied forces’ massive river crossing into Germany. Together, these operations marked the final breach of Germany’s western defenses and signaled the approaching end of the war in Europe

[herpsandbirds]

Crimson Marsh Glider (Trithemis aurora), male, family Libellulidae, Langkawi, Malaysia

photograph by Nick Volpe