Safety note: do not accidentally stab yourself with a steak knife reaching for something else in the dish rack, LOL. It's painful, even if you don't break the skin. If it looks like I was in a knife fight, it was just with myself 😂 #Random
Two more boxes of books donated to the library via bicycle. Must be 100 lbs in these two, decided against 3 boxes, which was a good choice. #BikeTooter
LOL pledging to bike to work, school, or fun at least once to enter to win a gift card, and the site's "robot detector" insists I must click on photos of cars in order to enter. 😂
Crow intelligence in action: the crows here will eat animals that have been visibly wounded/hit by cars/etc., but will NOT eat animals which do not have visible marks (ie potentially rat poisoned). #smart#birds#crows
Their jackdaw European cousins in our garden have been successfully trained to wait for the smaller birds to "feed" them.
We got a dangling food cage they're too big to enter, and they quickly gave up on breaking into it. Eventually they realized that if they leave it alone, they can just sit on the ground under it and wait for the other birds to enter and drop food down to them 😆
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rat poison is a huge problem for nearly every carnivore (and most omnivores) of rat-size or larger, and it's a relief at least some of them are learning how to avoid it.
Hmm, they mention using pheromones and a swarm of bees as a "radical idea" to attack enemies for the military in "The Men Who Stare At Goats", LOL. (It would work, but you can't cart around beehives, really) #beekeeping#movies
@ai6yr The best-funded militaries did take the bee swarm threat seriously: today they all have CBRN (chemical/bee/radiological/nuclear) suits and vehicles available.
After getting back into bicycling, suddenly realize HOW MUCH of towns here in Southern California are built around cars, and getting cars from place to place (and not so much people). You're so blind to those design choices when you're in a car! #BikeTooter
View on the way to probably my most favorite spots in the world... near the village of Xaxas on the island of Limuw (my photo) #nature#exploration#photography
Saw the aftermath of a friend's goat's encounter with a pair of mountain lions. It was NOT pretty. I guess I'm not going hiking around at night at their house, LOL. #mountainlions
Colorado still has wilderness. A lot of it isn't old growth, but it is still wilderness.
If you live in a picturesque place, there's a chance of death.
Moose are more likely to kill you, but mountain lions will do the trick. Black bears are too small to pose much of a threat, but leave 'em all alone, please.
Well, the lions might not leave YOU alone.
Go jogging on a nice trail in the woods? Go mountain biking like you saw in the TV commercial?
Stupid mother fucker.
You're a snack. You'll trigger the predatory instinct to pursue a fleeing prey. You won't be able to react in time to puff yourself up and scream, throw things, and wave big sticks in the air that you need to be able to do to intimidate a mountain lion.