This Indiegogo science campaign is wonderful. Desert kit foxes are in trouble. They’re shy, they’re faced with competition even when things are good from other carnivores such as coyotes, and they’re increasingly being displaced by human industry. One recent distressing example of that last: builders of the Genesis Solar Project were trying to evict a …
Category Archive: Organisms
May 22 2013
Botanical Wednesday: Romania!
I’ll be boarding a plane very shortly and going totally incommunicado until I land in Bucharest sometime tomorrow morning…so I’ll leave you something pretty to look at. This is Rosa canina, the dog rose, and the national flower of Romania. And just because I like it, here’s Salvia transsylvanica, or the Transylvanian sage. My destination …
May 20 2013
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: How ladylike!
It’s the lovely Pink Dragon millipede — it’s bright enough to belong in the girls’ aisle at the toy store. It also squirts cyanide at you if you annoy it.
May 17 2013
Friday Cephalopod: The Great White Cuttle
(From TONMO, on a page about raising captive cuttlefish)
May 13 2013
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: I’m guessing uncircumcised
But that membrane hanging off of it is just plain weird. Maybe the video will help make sense of it all. (via ZooBorns)
May 12 2013
Happy Mother’s Day!
At first glance, I thought it was an epiploon or omentum, but no, it’s a lovely octopus mother tending her brood. Go hug your mom right now, or if she’s not nearby, hug a mollusc instead.
May 10 2013
Friday Cephalopod: Google is putting transmitters on everything now
How else is Google Maps going to get coverage of the 70% of the planet underwater? (via Cephalove)
May 08 2013
If you want to raise hordes of zebrafish…
…like I do, here’s a useful resource: Regular Care and Maintenance of a Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Laboratory: An Introduction. It’s text and a video guide to familiar procedures. Unfortunately, it also assumes you have a commercial zebrafish rack, which if you buy the smallest size available, will set you back about $10,000. I’ve just been …
May 07 2013
Did a bat land on you at the Kelso Depot in the Mojave Desert?
Boosting signal on this, because it’s potentially very urgent and the person at risk could be anywhere in the world at this point. A week ago, on April 30, a visitor to the Kelso Depot in the Mojave National Preserve had a bat land on his neck. The bat — a Myotis lucifugus a.k.a. little …
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