Just watch this.
Not safe for work but I bet you won't forget your phyla after this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2yB-ANpefg
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
Weekend Reading April 4, 2014
One of the most amazing birds I've heard of is the Red throated Caracara. They specialize in eating WASPS.
Want to learn more about the Octopus? Here is a great YouTube video that shows them doing some of the cool stuff they do (including tool use and squeezing through very small spaces). I don't recall any vulgarity in this video but the guy goes curse in some of these so you might want to listen with headphones if little kids are around.
I always love hearing about an animal I've never heard of before. This week it's the Trilobite Beetle
Gentlemen, prepare to feel inadequate. Did you know that snakes have TWO penises?
On the Bad News Front a Nile Crocodile was captured in the Everglades. These Crocodiles are responsible for hundreds of human deaths in Africa each year. Compare this to the 0 - 2 people killed by Alligators and you can guess how this might be a problem if these Nile Crocodiles become established.
On the Good News Front California has banned the sale of rodenticies to the general population. This is great news for wildlife and pets. These rodent poisons take several days to kill mice and rats and those dying animals are frequently caught and eaten by predators like bobcats, hawks, foxes and pet dogs and cats. When I was working in the LA area secondary rodenticide poisoning was causing a rash of fatalities in the local bobcat population. These rodenticides work by preventing blood clotting so the mice and rats (or whatever has eaten them) basically bleeds to death internally. Kind of like what Ebola virus does.
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