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做梦吗？猫猫怎么可能给你道歉

帕卢斯的农田，华盛顿州，美国 (© EJ-J/Getty Images)

Over on tiktok user @nomadicpancakes has observed a group of #bees that have learned to turn on the sensor on a water bottle filling station by walking over the target.

This is just the kind of thing bees are made to learn, they love targets and need to follow them when dealing with flowers all the time.

The interesting thing is that the bee who hits the target produces water for her sisters, herself less so. But these #eusocial girls seem to have that worked out!

https://www.tiktok.com/@nomadicpancakes/video/7255331484444314926

A bit of outbreak in our snail lab 🐌 made me think about other snail researchers including @DenisMeuthen

Physella (Physa) acuta is one of the most abundant freshwater snail species. They often invade aquariums of any kind!! This species is considered beneficial to keep aquariums clean by eating off organic matters.

They have a lot interesting features in behaviour, genetics and more! And they are lefty (usually snails are right-handed 🌀)

When you look at some fern spores under a microscope and the spores are just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#sporespondence #fernfriday

“低谈阔论”新一期播客上线了～本期邀请了跨性别小伙伴Sydney来讲述有关性别议题的故事与思考，包括职场霸凌与维权、话语权结构分析和对未来的一些预期等等。欢迎大家收听，讨论！
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7snkjAJXVVeTgPqzeOJ2zl?si=W9XErBF7TWyZhr-t-uQsnA

The #Mothening continues! For this the 6th day of #NationalMothWeek, I present a double feature of two of my favorite moths for utter fabulosity, The Rosy Maple#Moth, #dryocampa rubicunda, and the #IO moth, #Automeris io. Both just stunningly gorgeous.

#mothstodon

路过俺们村中心看到巨幅橘猫庆生海报：Aly35 岁了！🎉
主人这得多骄傲啊！我拍完照后感叹这小猫太棒了，朋友悠悠地说：它比你年龄还大呢。
我当时在大街上惊叹：what the f！我得喊它奶奶！🤣

An extraordinary fossil captures the struggle for existence during the Mesozoic
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37545-8

Dinosaurs and mammals coexisted for ~ 230 million years. This shows a gobiconodontid mammal and psittacosaurid dinosaur locked in mortal combat.

又check了一下，好像有点口耳相传简中谣言

虽然水豚会吃自己的屎（因为消化不好 所以屎里还残留了很多营养物质 再吃可以再吸收一遍 而且我查了一下发现水豚的屎长得像咖啡豆一样……），但“别的动物喜欢吃水豚的屎”在英文世界没有出现类似描述

水豚在自然环境下发现捕食者天敌也还是会躲到水里的，某些合照有可能是ps的

不过我又发现了更多水豚可爱照片！以及总结这种生活态度“live and let live”

https://m.cmx.im/@Lory/106308601087535646

「象真是理想动物，既不吃其他动物，也不被吃。」
这句话印象深刻
最近水豚很火，突然发现水豚也有类似特质捏，虽然作为最大的啮齿动物依然没有大到能保证完全不被吃，但和包括鳄鱼在内的很多动物关系良好合影众多，据说是因为它的屎非常美味大家都爱吃 （小红书某评论：类似你的朋友能自我生产麦乐鸡）

刚刚看着虾在叶子上像跳平台一样一片片叶子跳过去

Rare footage of ants worshipping their rock god

RIP 🕯️

More cardoon! It's early evening and the bees are buzzin'. I love sitting here in my chair watching them work. It's pretty cute actually, I don't know what I pictured them doing but it wasn't this: they fly into the purple fronds at speed and then roll around like they're showing off their moves. I'm only assuming they're doing bee work, it's entirely possibly this cardoon has become the world's first Bee Disco. Which I fully support btw.

#bees #cardoon #bloomscrollingwithbee #bloomscrolling

Dolophones just want to be left alone! Poor things.

Dolophones conifera, the "wrap around" spider did *nothing wrong* -- these spiders are literal wall flowers (branch buds?) and just want to curl up and not be noticed.

You can pick them up and they will run around in a panic until they find a place to "wrap" so they can feel safe.

They are unlikely to but, and if they do their venom isn't anything much.

Let them be poor things live in Australia with all kinds of dangerous creatures like bull ants and Australians.

#spiders

I was enjoying a well-earned cuppa yesterday morning when I heard chirping. Then this little fella strolled out from behind a curtain and stood on the carpet, looking up at me - expectantly.
Apparently, it's a fledgling blackbird (but you can see they're related to thrushes at this stage). I gather they usually spend several days living on the ground after leaving the nest, before they learn to fly.
We put it out in the garden, where it got reunited with its parents later.

#Photography #Birds

Bunker was one of four juvenile male #kakapo released into Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain last week, in the first translocation to mainland NZ in living memory. We’ll monitor them closely in the coming weeks and months to ensure they settle in well. #conservation #returnofthekakapo