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hey gibbon - okay, Iām gonna ask you to do this, but please donāt get violently euphoric this time -Ā I canāt reach this box. could youā¦ [ sigh] extend your arms to get it for me?
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#CLEARLY REBLOGGING FOR RDJāS FACE
If I donāt reblog this, itās because Iām dead.
I just spit cracker everywhere
i reblog this every time it comes up it brings me so much joy
Dobby as a baby. [full video]
FRIENDLY REMINDER
THEšWOODSšAREšJUSTšTREESšTHE šTREESš ARE šJUST šWOODš
This is very literally not true and I will not stand for this gross unscientific misinformation
A woodland is an entire ecosystem of which trees are a keystone species, but a long, long way from the whole picture. Above ground youāve got the whole understory of ground flora, bryophytes, fungi, lichens, ferns, bacteria, invertebrates, mammals, birds and reptiles; below ground, it has a secondary ecosystem all of its own of soil organisms, invertebrates and micro invertebrates and bacteria and fungi and sometimes mammals.Ā
And, something that is legit called the Wood Wide Web.Ā
Basically, itās a network of mycorrhizal fungi (essentially, every tree has a symbiotic fungus that works like our digestive enzymes, and helps it take water and nutrients in from soil) that grow long tendrils and so link all the plants together. But this network lets the trees do two things!
Firstly, it lets them share resources. Trees are very charitable creatures. If a tree in a wood is struggling, through disease or infestation or being in a shitty patch of Ā soil or what have you, the other trees nearby will send it sugars and nutrients to help it along. If a tree is cut down, its surrounding neighbours will send sugars to the stump for years, helping it regenerate. Sociable things.
Secondly, it lets them communicate, I fucking shit you not. Trees have some resistances to fungal diseases or infestations, for example, especially if given time to get their defensive enzymes flowing before the problem hits. And if a tree at the edge of the Wood Wide Web is struck with such a disease, it will alert all the other trees in the network so that they can start producing the enzymes AND THEN THEY ALL SURVIVE. And when that first tree succumbs? See point one. The others do their best to revive it.Ā
And trees are not just wood, in the same way that humans are not just flesh. Trees have heart wood, but also sap, xylem, phloem, cambium, leaves, bark, rooting material, and a shit-ton of enzymes including things like lignin, which is incredibly cool for several reasons; firstly because it was one of the biggest weapons in the evolutionary arms race (beetles and that couldnāt digest it, which allowed dead stuff to become, among other things, coal), and secondly because its chemical structure is almost identical to vanillin, so when you open an old book and get Old Book Smell itās the lignin breaking down.
Coal and Old Book Smell. Thanks to lignin.
So in conclusion the woods are not just trees and the trees are not just wood. Please fact check before you reblog. This is blatant tree erasure.
good book about thisĀ
Infections and Infestations of SHEEP
I thought the general rule with sheep is the first symptom they show is death?
@allthingsveterinary Sheep can be tricky but theyāre pretty hardy and nowhere near as bad as camelids (which are fine, fine, fine, dead). Itās just that we farm them, so things that youād notice in a cat nobody notices in a sheep. In general, farmers can keep an eye on ill thrift, lameness, coughing, and reproductive issues because you can often see those on a flock or mob wide basis, and they affect production, so are things farmers will monitor anyway
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And the latter is actually harming the animals, by disturbing them and loud boat noise.
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Bismuth crystals arenāt exactly true minerals, but they show some of the symmetry properties and are really easy to grow. You can buy kits to be able to do this. Do not use a good pot or tongs - you arenāt likely to get them back.
Yeah, I see a lot of shark positivity posts on my dash these days and I really appreciate that. But I think something is being left out of the message so Iām just gonna say that:
YES, Sharks are not bloodthirsty monsters. They only do what they do because they are instinctively driven to do so.
NO, sharks are not your friends. They are not sea-puppies, gentle babies, or whatever BS anthropomorphic ācuteā term you want to use to describe them.
YES, you are more likely to be killed by falling coconuts and any number of improbable circumstances than you are to be killed by a shark attack,
NO, sharks are notĀ āharmlessā. They are apex predators of their habitats and deserve to be treated with the same respect that you would give to a wild lion, bear, or wolf. JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT LIKELY TO ATTACK YOU DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY WONāT. ACCIDENTS CAN ALWAYS HAPPEN, AND A SHARKāS PATIENCE IS NOT LIMITLESS.
YES, you should take every precaution to prevent a shark fromĀ ātest-bitingā you.
NO, a test-bite is not just a harmless consequence of shark curiosity. A TEST-BITE CAN KILL YOU. Just because sharks generally release people after the first nip and donāt make any effort to eat them does not mean that the bite is somehow any less deadly. You will bleed out in the water if the wound is bad enough.
YES, sharks are endangered and unfairly demonised and worthy of our support.
NO, that does not mean that anthropomorphising them and spreading false information is okay.Ā
Please support sharks, but please, for the love of god, give them theĀ respectĀ they deserve when you do so. YOU ARE NOT HELPING THEM BY ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO SWIM RIGHT INTO THEIR JAWS.
Your annual Shark Week PSA. Sharks are incredible, thrilling creatures but spreading the idea that they are all harmless or interested in eusocial behavior with humans does them no favors. Ā
You know a lot of people donāt know this butā¦
A new chapter in the wild began today for 26 eastern indigo snakes reared at the Zoo in the latest milestone in a conservation partnership to restore a native species to its original range. In a collaboration between Zoo Atlanta, the Central Florida Zooās Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation and Auburn University, the snakes were released into the Conecuh National Forest near Andalusia, Alabama, on July 14, 2017.
Previously to the beginning of a reintroduction effort, the eastern indigo snake had not been sighted in the wild in Alabama in around 50 years. The snakes are a keystone species of the longleaf pine-wiregrass and sandhills ecosystem, and their reintroduction carries significant positive ecological benefits for the national forest.
Zoos are known for their conservation work on other continents around the world, but conservation begins in our own backyards. This is a notable example of a project that continues to have a direct impact on re-establishing an iconic species in its native range.
Our Zoo has reared more than 80 eastern indigo snakes for the reintroduction program, which is a cooperation among stakeholders throughout the Southeast. Additional project partners include the Alabama Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and The Nature Conservancy.
The newest group of reintroduced snakes had been reared here since 2015. As they had been designated for release into the wild, the young snakes received care and feeding in behind-the-scenes facilities where they had limited interactions with humans. In this environment, the snakes were able to grow to a size capable of avoiding many of the predators that feed on juvenile snakes.
Prior to their release, the snakes received passive integrated responder tags (PIT) for identification. Preliminary results from tracking efforts have shown that previous groups of reintroduced snakes are surviving, thriving, and reproducing.
To date, more than 100 eastern indigo snakes have been released into Conecuh National Forest, a majority of which have been reared at the Zoo. The goal of the project is to release 300 snakes over a 10-year period at an average of 30 snakes a year.
The largest nonvenomous snake species in North America and a native of southern Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and Mississippi, the eastern indigo snake has declined across its historic range with the destruction of its ecosystem. This decline is also observed in Georgiaās state reptile, the gopher tortoise, which creates burrows that are often used by eastern indigo snakes and other species.
Eastern indigo snakes play an additional valuable role in their environment by keeping other snake populations in check, as they are known to eat venomous species, including copperheads. These snakes are not constrictors; instead, they overpower their prey using the crushing force of their jaws.
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Hi! Not sure if you'd have to be a reptile specialist to answer this or not, but here goes. When a reptile is decapitated, why is the head/neck active for a long while after? Google has conflicting answers of 1) it unconsciously responds to stimuli and 2) it is fully conscious. Asking because a bunch of Japanese cooking videos start with turtles being beheaded, and i was wondering if that was really the most humane thing to do (besides other methods used in the meat industry). Thanks!
Reptiles (and amphibians) are actually really good at keeping their tissues alive, in the right environment. You can pith (destroy the brainstem) of a cane toad and the body lives on for days.
The fact is, and this is not a comforting fact, is that we probably canāt tell whether a decapitated reptile head is conscious or not. It might be, and thatās not acceptable. The nerves are certainly alive if itās capable of any response to stimuli, and if those nerves are alive, then the brain might be too.
This is why pithing is often employed to be certain of unconsciousness and death. The brainās not working if itās been turned to mush.
As a side note, the saying āTheyāre not dead unless theyāre warm and deadā applies double for reptiles, which is why theyāre often not frozen immediately after euthanasia. A cold reptile can have a very slow metabolism and might not actually die for an extended period.
okay but waking up in the middle of the night to soft rain and knowing youāve still got hours to sleep, when youāre toasty warm and comfortable & sleep has made you forget all your worries and responsibilities and u go back to sleep feeling as content as ever
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