I'm a healer, but ...

OP: Me moving into the Backrooms because the rent is too high. (cr秋多余不是秋刀鱼，任老梦，需要帮助的Ross)

🪼🌙 Moon jellies are more than pretty faceless beauties—they play an irreplaceable role in the ocean food web. Healthy jelly populations sustain beloved endangered species like the Pacific leatherback sea turtle.

These turtles migrate 6,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean all the way from Indonesia each fall when jellies bloom here in Monterey. Their jelly-heavy diet makes them especially vulnerable to plastic pollution, as they may accidentally mistake drifting trash like single-use shopping bags for their see-through seafood of choice. 🪼

We can protect ocean life like leatherback sea turtles, moon jellies, and countless other species by cutting single-use plastic use out of our lives and standing up for science-backed United States laws like the Endangered Species Act.

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]