charisstoma

If your trash bags are ripped apart and scattered, don't blame the raccoons. .

Vulture 1: Hmmm. This carcass has easy to get through hide. Time saver.
Vulture 2: Yeah, but there's a lot of the insides that's just frankly inedible.


https://nextdoor.com/p/MX2qPnXypCKX?utm_source=share&extras=NDA0NjAyNjE%3D

Credit ♥ 📷 j.diegoph
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=141026554487487&set=a.114424640481012

Clouds over Harrodsburg, Kentucky. True colors, no filters used.



The name of the clouds are cumulonimbus mammatus.
Generally speaking, a mammatus cloud, commonly referred to as a breast cloud or mammary cloud is a small cloud that hangs in clusters from the bottom of another cloud. When it is attached to the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud, it is an amplifier of what the cloud itself signifies and are most often associated with severe thunderstorms.

'Botanical Sexism' Could Be Behind Your Seasonal Allergies

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seasonal-allergies-blame-male-trees?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR3RatgkvcpwctpTAVZUeEGb1E8mh0IZ40_TgIrXmHy_MCW8RV2pihTLEPs&fbclid=IwAR0Zv-sbbkkGv1sJ31fJ8Q5ISkSyH6Iz2im_SwhE2R9AxO2BmrdPYqxkOLk

Scariest pollen reference:

Ogren sees gingko* gametes as the far greater threat. Unlike almost every other plant, gingko trees produce motile sperm, capable of swimming in pursuit of germination. Where human sperm each have a single tail, or flagellum, gingko sperm have around a thousand. “Once the pollen gets in your nose, it will germinate and start swimming up there to get to where it’s going,” Ogren says. “It’s pretty invasive.”


Unsurprisingly, climate change isn’t helping. According to a recent study in Lancet Planetary Health, the increase in extreme temperatures contributes to more potent allergy seasons. Summers come earlier and last longer, and certain species, such as cypress and juniper, have begun blooming again in the fall, Ogren says. In Durham, Lilley says he’s never seen anything as monumental as April’s pollen clouds in the city before. While it’s hard to say if the yellow sky was directly linked to climate change, pollenpocalypses will only become more and more common. It’s easy to see these clouds as freak occurrences—like a megadrought or superstorm—but they may be a sign of things to come.


*ginkgo - corrected spelling

The Ginkgo tree is a living fossil, with the earliest leaf fossils dating from 270 million years ago. It was rediscovered in 1691 in China and was brought to this country in the late 1700s. The seeds and leaves have been (and are still today) used in medicine throughout the world. https://www.arborday.org/trees/treeguide/TreeDetail.cfm?ItemID=1092

The Permian–Triassic (P–Tr or P–T) extinction event, colloquially known as the Great Dying, the End-Permian Extinction or the Great Permian Extinction, occurred about 252 Ma (million years) ago, forming the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, as well as between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.( Read more... )

The Ginkgo has survived 3 mass extinctions
End Permian, 251 million years ago, 96% of species lost. ...
End Triassic, 200 million years ago, 80% of species lost. ...
End Cretaceous, 66 million years ago, 76% of all species lost.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/big-five-extinctions

Bee Having A Pee.
Photographer Mark Parrott managed to capture the unusual image while photographing a swarm in his back garden in Grimsby, England.

Wallaby Captured in Dallas
By Frank Heinz
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/Wallaby-Yes-a-Wallaby-Captured-in-Dallas-507420941.html



https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/Wallaby-Captured-in-Dallas-507421191.html?fbclid=IwAR2VRuKqMo8sJbFKV-wTuzEM-hpC8wo6Wdj6OEMJZerzjMElJMnUC-dPfpg

Officers with Dallas Animal Control captured a wallaby on a leisurely jaunt in the east Dallas neighborhood of Lakewood Wednesday morning.

According to a report from The Dallas Morning News a couple were out for a walk when they spotted what they first thought was a loose dog near the 5900 block of Vickery Boulevard.

After seeing the animal hop, they realized it was a wallaby.

Dallas Animal Control officers were called and they were able to corner and catch the animal with a net.

The wallaby, a native of Australia and New Guinea, belongs in the same family as a kangaroo but is much smaller by comparison.

It is not clear who owns the animal. According to the DMN, it is not legal to own the animals in Dallas without a permit and no decision has been made about where the animal will end up.

A Day With The Fruit Bats

https://batworld.org/a-day-with-the-fruit-bats/

As I mentioned in the craft shop rescue story, I think some people have an unrealistically tame vision of what animal rescue really is. I know I did. We often get inquiries about volunteering for a day or two at Bat World, and while we know these good people mean well, it doesn’t really work. We wish it did, we’d all love a little break once in a while, make no mistake about that. Still, when someone comes in for such a brief time, that someone ends up being an extra task rather than an extra hand. You have to be trained, and by the time you know anything, you’re gone. And that’s assuming that you knew what you were in for and didn’t panic at first contact with bat guano.

This is true even of those with prior experience volunteering at wildlife sanctuaries; with such unusual and unique animals as bats, very little carries over. Many veterinarians are loathe to even attempt work on bats for that very reason: it’s specialized knowledge, takes a long time to learn and is completely useless in any other context. Given that few people are going to be bringing bats in for treatment, they mostly don’t bother, and it’s hard to blame them for not wanting to learn a skill that they’ll likely never use more than once or twice, if at all.

Having said that, here’s what you’d really be in for if you spent a day doing what Amanda, Angela and I do at Bat World Sanctuary:( Read more... )

Donate to save Bats
http://batworld.org/ways-to-donate/

Unravelling The Mystery Of Ice Ages Using Ancient Molecules
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2018/03/unravelling-mystery-of-ice-ages-using.html#Bxem2ofvUxHs7ciZ.97

Researchers from Cardiff University have revealed how sea ice has been contributing to the waxing and waning of ice sheets over the last million years.

Credit: Cardiff University ( Read more... )


Lasting impressions: Ice Age echoes affect present-day sea level

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2018/03/lasting-impressions-ice-age-echoes.html#w7Oo8owRQqBLIAXy.97

A new NASA study has, for the first time, cut a clear path through a nettlesome problem: accurately measuring a powerful effect on global sea level that lingers from the last ice age.( Read more... )

Title: Good vibrations: a novel method for sexing turtles or The Sexing of Turtles
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 822

“What do you think would happen if we..” Tom held up the toy. “Gets a rise outa me.”

“I think this was not a good time to have come into a store like this after the bar,” Sam replied.

“Good time to come,” Tom giggled, “in a store like this? What do you think they do in the booths over there?”

“Nothing I want to do while drunk.”

“Wasn’t offering. Still let’s get one of these and see if it works, you know.”

“Okay but if it does how do we write it up?”

“We’ll think of that if it comes.” Tom took off giggling again.( Read more... )