Rats On Rats

wait what

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turns out that pack rats (Neotoma sp.) creates these big middens which they urinate on. The urine then crystallizes over time, creating amber-like deposits. Some of the ones found in caves are 50.000 years old and contains intact plant material, allowing scientists to analyse the prehistoric flora. 

the dark deposits in the middle are 10.000+ year old crystallized rat piss

Tal’ngay Dha’run the leucistic grey-headed flying fox was rescued in the town of Canungra on the Gold Coast in Australia. He was suffering from extreme sunburn due to his lack of pigmentation. Leucism is similar to albinism but causes only a partial loss of pigment; animals with leucism retain pigment in their eyes and sometimes other parts of their body as well.

Because of Tal’ngay Dha’run’s coloring, he is unlikely to survive in the wild and is a permanent resident at the Australian Bat Clinic. His name (pronounced Talingi Darrun) was chosen in recognition of the indigenous Yugambeh Tribe and means “white wing.”