your thoughts are like river water running over stones

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Lee Walters youtuber who owns animals and p much exclusively posts videos of them. here's some of my favorite with his lamb:

The Cat The Lamb and The Rock Complete Saga -- his lamb loves to stand and lay on a rock and hates sharing it with his cat. he documented them learning to tolerate each other <3

The Adventures of Larry the Ramb

Larry The Lamb - The Silent Hills Of Snowdonia -- literally just normal footage of a lamb doing lamb things with a black and white filter & silent hill inspired music. it cracks me up

Cute Lamb Needs Attention -- this one is only 50 seconds long. i urge you to watch it

Sheep Herding more of a focus on dogs than sheep, but these videos are about sheep herding practices and do feature footage of sheep + the dogs in action!

THE ART OF HERDING SHEEP with sheepdog Bruce

Tom Scott's I tried herding sheep, and the sheep won

Drone footage of sheep herding

Sheep Shearing semi-educational, also kind of just fun to watch in my opinion. learn how they shear sheep!

Shearing A Valais Blacknose In Scotland

The Dodo's "Sheep Covered in 80 Pounds of Wool" -- CW: this poor sheep was neglected and is in poor health, but the video is a restoration of its health and safety!!!

Valais Blacknose Sheep these guys are really popular for how cute they are, so here are some videos specifically about them!

All about our Swiss Valais Blacknose: Cannon Hall Farm

The Cutest Little Animal I Ever Saved -- documents a guys experience raising an orphaned sheep

Meet the Valais blacknose sheep -- a hiker stopped to record when they suddenly encountered a herd of sheep on the mountain

Misc stuff i don't know how to categorize

Sheep Baaing -- very noisy sheep

someone on reddit explained 😭