I had the privilege yesterday of handling various snakes, including a ground boa (shown below) and slug-eating snake. This was after #filming several spitting #cobra species from around Indonesia, which were being sunbathed (and were very unhappy about it).
I should have the footage up soon, but am still deciding if I should go back and get more before publishing.
@jaybaeta I grew up in an area with only one species venomous snake, and even where I live now there are only a few, easy to recognize species you'd have to go searching for to meet them. It's so much easier not to grow up afraid of snakes under those circumstances. In your situation the danger is much more real - respect!
Now that our lake has completely dried up, the beaver family living here had to move on... They leave a large den with multiple entrances behind and a network of channels worn into the lakebed. #Wetlands#Beavers#ClimateCrisis
@mcg There are other bodies of water within a few miles (although the nearest is already occupied by another beaver family). I'm also worried about all the turtles that lost the mud they normally hibernate in (without enough water nearby the ground will freeze quite deeply). It really is very depressing. The lake took two years to dry out... I suspect this will be part of the new normal 😔
"What Can We Learn When a Green Snake with a Red Tail Bites a Cat?"
A video on a recent incident in #Yogyakarta and what we can learn from it. Incorporating my interview with herpetologist, Donan Satria, it covers (1) the different ways we get bitten and dealing with them; (2) how we're probably underestimating #snake bites of animals and don't know much about it, outside USA/Australia; and (3) the #biogeography of Java's tree vipers and the impact of the Wallace Line.
@jaybaeta I learned about the Wallace Line from your video, and literally two days later I found them mentioned in the book I was reading (Otherlands by Thomas Halliday) 😄 What beautiful snakes though.
@jaybaeta The book is a history of Life on Earth from an ecosystem point of view - he used the Wallace Line as a contemporary example of how geographic history shapes the migration of species and thus whole ecosystems. (I can highly recommend the book btw!)
Guten Morgen,
der Phlox (Phlox paniculata) blüht.
Die abgebildeten Phloxpflanzen sind übrigens alles Sämlinge, die sich selbst verbreitet haben. Da hat man keine Sorge, ob die Sorte robust genug ist oder der Standort passt.
@jerzone Wonderful to see that other felines out there are taking their bedding change duties as seriously as our kitties! I don't know how cat-less people can do without 😄
@jaybaeta Poor cat... Hopefully he can move to a place where he feels safer soon! It is so hard to see a creature suffer - especially when they can't understand.
She suggests Famous Five but I would like something with a bit more modern "mindset" than the girls always helping in the kitchen and the boys in the barn.
Ideas?
Also, thanks for boosts as my bubble is German speaking.
Also, wow! boost some of those good answers from the #Fediverse community... wow! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Tiffany Aching Bücher von Terry Pratchett (wie schon von anderen empfohlen)
Howl's Moving Castle von Diana Wynne Jones ("Sophie im Schloss des Zauberers" auf Deutsch), verfilmt von Studio Ghibli mit etwas abweichender Handlung - das lieben meine Nichten, haben es sogar in der Schule vorgestellt
Chrestomanci Bücher von Diana Wynne Jones (meine Kinder empfehlen besonders "Witch Week" und "Conrad's Fate")