Burly beefcake or piece of cake?
Contrary to popular thought, woodpeckers don’t just drum trees in search of food or shelter. In fact, woodpecking is an effective, albeit excessively loud form of social communication. It may, for example, be used to announce mating availability, announce presence and ownership of a territory, or even stake a claim to a new (possibly occupied) territory.
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I’m kinda expecting the petals to arrange themselves into a humanoid and walk up to the camera person to give them a message of grave importance from a sorceress
Horse at the gate: *Disgruntled face*
Rider: *Pushing horse’s ears forward* Nice ears, buddy. Put on your happy ears.
via: University of Michigan
A female Blanding’s turtle believed to be at least 83 years old was captured at a forest reserve this week. Researchers say it is the oldest well-documented Blanding’s turtle and one of the oldest-known freshwater turtles.
The turtle was captured Monday at U-M’s Edwin S. George Reserve, about 25 miles northwest of Ann Arbor in southwestern Livingston County, near Pinckney. This individual, known as 3R11L, was first captured and marked in 1954, one year after the start of the reserve’s long-running turtle study. It has been recaptured more than 50 times since then.
Blanding’s turtles reach sexual maturity at around age 20. Since 3R11L was sexually mature when first captured in 1954, she is believed to be at least 83 years old, according to turtle researcher Justin Congdon, who began studying the E.S. George turtles in the mid-1970s…
(read more: Science Daily)
photograph by Roy Nagle
this is the stuff heroes are made of
Fins up if you love sharks! There’s still a lot to learn about these fascinating, misunderstood creatures, but one thing we do know is that there’s a huge diversity of spectacular shark species gliding through our ocean.
Go ahead and press plan on this video if you want to be awe-struck by some amazing ocean animals.
Enterprise S1E21- “Detained”
Hey it’s Al from Quantum Leap playing an evil internment camp warden! Some good political conceptualizing as the United States was just entering the “war on terror” but the episode is sort of boring.
RATING: 40%
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