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Last four Orange Alert birds:

Dovekie

Western Gull

Kirtland's Warbler

Great Black-backed Gull

93/112 Tipping Point birds painted.

The Kansas Tipping Point birds will be on display and available for purchase at one of the Johnson County Library locations in January 2027! I'll share more info closer to the show.

Day 17 . Here’s Benson hanging out with mama McFluffin , and a couple of her kits at The Park . ☺️✨ Thanks again to the Anon who made this request !!!! I had to step a bit out of my comfort zone , but I learned some fun new things today .

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

This scientist is rethinking how to put GPS collars on wildlife

Richard Bischof’s devices aim to make telemetry research cheaper, higher quality, and more humane

Remotely tracking animals in their natural habitats has become a central pillar of wildlife research. But on land, the process often involves fitting a collar around an animal’s neck that contains a GPS tracker and various sensors. This requires capturing the animal, which isn’t just expensive—it’s also stressful and dangerous for everyone involved. Richard Bischof, a wildlife biologist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, sees a better way forward for this field of study, known as wildlife telemetry. He’s now building and experimenting with devices, described in a recent preprint, that would allow researchers to apply collars on animals without needing to capture them. Rethinking how we put collars on animals, Bischof argues, could bring many benefits to wildlife research, such as improving animal welfare and the quantity and quality of data collected at the same time. Science spoke with Bischof about his work and where it’s headed. This interview has been edited for clarity and length...

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their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears