earth

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/235683163.pdf

no organism is autonomous and independent;

if we have never been individuals—if we are all composites like lichens—then what does this mean for sexuality?

In this article, I will primarily focus on the primacy of heterosexual biological reproduction in discourses about human and non-human sexuality and sociality. This includes the overemphasis of sexual reproduction and vertical inheritance at the expense of many other forms of production and reproduction, as well as multispecies interconnections and co-involvements.

we're gonna be cooked😭😭

Was reading about guarana, which led me down the wiki hole to "bullet ants", and then to gamergate ants.

A gamergate (/ˈɡæmərˌɡeɪt/ GAMM-ər-gayt) is a mated worker ant that can reproduce sexually, i.e., lay fertilized eggs that will develop as females.

I don't have anything useful to contribute, just thought it was kinda funny

Transporting desert bighorn sheep with a Hughes 369D.

Nitter

Carbon credits were a scam all along!

I think what makes it even funnier is that they didn't buy it. They made it themselves via 3D printing.

Wyze cam v2 bird feeder : wyzecam

Goddamn swamps are beautiful. The only place I've been to which felt more alive is deep jungle in Panama. Driving to Miami, I stopped in Big Cypress before the Shark Valley area of the Everglades. Whereas the latter is mostly sawgrass marshes with islands of trees that are a few inches higher in elevation, Big Cypress has extensive cypress swamps that took me an hour and a half to drive through. The life there grows in layers and everything has a rich network of epiphytes growing on it. I couldn't ID the specific air plants but they're so large that I think they're the endangered giant ones. Similar species grew over almost every other tree, some of them as massive as witches brooms.

Surprisingly not as many vines as I thought there would be, but the climbing asters that dominated the area were probably 10m long and coming off a bush as large as a car.

I'm definitely going back to Florida to explore its ecosystems more and kayak around the tip. Both carnivorous plants and live fungi were totally absent that far south.

archive.today • Freakishly Smart Falcons Run These Islands - The New York Times

The success of wild striated caracaras in a test suggests that the intellects of more bird species may be underestimated.

If you heard there were faraway islands full of hyperintelligent birds, you would be forgiven for assuming that they must be parrots or crows — the superstars of the brainy bird world. But travel to the Falkland Islands near the Argentine coast, and you’ll find not parrots or crows but freakishly smart falcons called striated caracaras.