blessed are the Fundamentalists, for they shall inhibit the earth.
Tuesday, 29 April 2025

The Birds Who Farm the Forest Floor

quote [ New research shows that superb lyrebirds dig in the dirt to create habitat for other species?and to sate their own appetites. ]

Oh pretty lyrebird, sing me to sleep
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Good]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 27 April 2025

Cracking Open Evolution?s Black Box on 'Lizard Island'

quote [ On an island in South Florida, scientists use trials to see how natural selection drives evolution in real time. ]

So here we go out here on the edge of evolution
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:02amGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 21 April 2025

The Battle Over Black Bears

quote [ Almost everyone in Lake Tahoe agrees that allowing large predators to eat human food is a bad idea. But there?s little consensus on what to do when these scimitar-clawed creatures start insisting on it. A fatality and an increased number of home invasions and attacks have raised the stakes?just in time for spring, when hibernation ends. ]

Where a big black bear is drinkin' lappin' water like a dog
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@12:26pmGMT] [1 comment]

Sunday, 20 April 2025

What the Caribou Remember

quote [ A herd of ungulates in Alaska draws on experience to adapt to a changing winter landscape. ]

Caribou are crossing out
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@1:34pmGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 19 April 2025

The Many Ways Scientists Are Turning Birds Into Feathered Field Assistants

quote [ From frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants, researchers are tapping the ?Internet of Animals? to map, understand, and protect our changing world. ]

With the other background noises like birds
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Insightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@12:18pmGMT] [0 comments]



Thursday, 10 April 2025

Botanical Gardens are the Last Bastions for Some Imperiled Plants

quote [ Conservationists are racing to preserve dwindling species in ?metacollections.? ]

I take a walk in botanical gardens
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Original]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 8 April 2025

How evolution favoured costly and frivolous animal play

quote [ the struggle for existence, driving natural selection, is nothing other than the way organisms interact with their environment and others. A genetic variant has no value unless it benefits an organism?s interactions with its surroundings. ]

Great insights into many aspects of shared community.
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@12:16pmGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 4 April 2025

Whale pee is a critical part of ocean ecosystems

quote [ "Whales are bringing in, we estimate, about 4,000 tons of nitrogen per year. We also had about 4,000 tons of biomass coming from Alaska to Hawaii every year."
[?]
"Right whale feces is one of the strongest smelling and most challenging feces to collect and analyze of any species that I've found. Whale pee? We more watch it than collect it." ]

Interesting interview on collecting whale statistics.
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@7:58amGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

To Discover the World?s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm

quote [ What you think you know about the world depends on how you?re looking. ]

Right whales hum, melodies of freedom
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:02amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 22 March 2025

Plastic Meals Leave Seabirds with Brain Damage

quote [ Sable shearwater chicks are developing Alzheimer?s-like symptoms and other hidden health impacts. ]

Listen, lonely seabird, you've been away from land too long
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@1:59pmGMT] [0 comments]



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