It's No Nuance November!! Say Whatever Stupid Shit You Want And Do Not Elaborate!!!!
it's No Nuance November!! say whatever stupid shit you want and do not elaborate!!!!
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Millipede under UV light. Many species of arthropods fluoresce, or glow, under ultraviolet light due to due to fluorescent compounds in their exoskeletons. At least one millipede genus, motyxia, is actually bioluminescent, meaning it can produce light on its own.
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Australian Water Rat aka RakaliĀ (Hydromys chrysogaster), family Muridae, Canberra, Australia
Aquatic, predatory, and nocturnal rat, native to Australia.
photograph by Raw Shorty
it's important to remember that most 'invasive species' did not change the region and habitat to which they have adapted by their own accord; stowaways on cargo vessels, changed migration patterns due to human settlements or a changing climate; animals formerly used for furs or other animal products being released after those goods were no longer in demand... these animals are displaced. it's very sad because often the best solution is population control.
we made the problem and the best solution feels pretty ugly, but the alternative is often ecologically much worse.
Not only do we have the rich elite releasing millions of non-native birds for sport shooting, and shooters and farmers campaigning against efforts to re-wild parts of the UK, we also have animal rights groups sabotaging conservation efforts.
Grey squirrels are highly invasive in the UK. They spread disease, outcompete the native red squirrel, and also predate native bird nests and damage trees. Culling them is vital to helping to restore ecosystems and threatened native wildlife. Yet there are groups of ARAs dedicated to saving these invasive squirrels. UK wildlife just can't win.
This is how bad the situation is btw:
Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
Someone who blindly follows a crowd is often compared to a lemming, which are famous for following each other blindly (often to their deaths). However, this perception isnāt entirely true. Most species of lemmings migrate to some degree; the largest migration is undertaken by Norway lemmings. These expeditions are so large that individuals can be trampled, or forced over the edges of cliffs by sheer pressing momentum of the crowd, but none willingly throw themselves to their deaths.
(Image: A defensive Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus) by Juniors Bildarchiv)
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Currently crying about Yoso-Tama-No-Kakehashi, a Japanese guidebook from the 1700s about raising rats. It's the first known rat guidebook in the world :)
They were raised as pets and for show animals, and it's mentioned in the guidebook that "one can call out and rats will come to hand". They were referred to as "nezumi" and it was considered important that they have large cages to live in. There was also a variety of rat that had a fox-like coat!
Rats were domesticated in Japan from the 1600s to the 1800s - it's unknown if any of those domesticated strains are ancestral to the current domestic rats today. They were domesticated again in Europe in the 1800s (initially for much crueler reasons than just for being pets) and I think it's just so sweet that we as humans fell in love with rats so much that we had to domesticate them at least TWICE...
You can download an article about the guidebook here. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/expanim/60/1/60_1_1/_pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwioidaLs5z6AhUojIkEHRI1BvEQFnoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw3aarTW0iy1HybCcrxtp4ww
"haha thats a pretty funny picture. i wonder what they actually look li-"
NEVERMIND AND FUCK EVERYTHINF I SAID. I WILL BE ACCEPTING NO LESS THAN HEIHACHI LEVEL STANDARDS FROM ANY AND ALL BALDING PEOPLE HENCEFORTH.
might be an unpopular opinion but i feel like if you're balding enough you should just shave that shit and be completely bald. stop hanging onto whatever you have left it never looks good. own your baldness
