“If you can’t beat them, eat them” – restaurants turn invasive species into haute cuisine
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“If You Can’t Beat Them, Eat Them”
A new kind of out-of-town visitor likes to check out the famous Brandenburg Tor in Berlin these days: Louisiana crawfish scuttles through the site when it rains. After business consultants Lukas and Juliane Bosch learned three years ago that they had become invasive in Berlin, the couple had an aha-moment. “We read that the invasive species has
Birding world all aflutter over accidental rare bird photo: first blue rock thrush sighting in US
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Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting
On a trip to the Oregon coast in late April, amateur photographer Michael Sanchez took his new camera out to Hug Point State Park to snap pictures of waterfalls. Sanchez, a 41-year-old middle-school band director from Vancouver, Wash., recently picked up photography and, by his account, is by no means a bird-watcher.
2 billion birds migrate through Texas each Spring – Lights Out program keep buildings dark at night to keep birds safe from collisions
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Texas is globally important for birds.
Approximately 1 of every 3 birds migrating through the U.S. in spring, and 1 of every 4 birds migrating through the U.S. in the fall, or nearly two billion birds, passes through Texas in one of the planet’s great wildlife spectacles.
Majority of North American birds migrating travel at night! Unfortunately, light emanating from our cities can disorient
World Nature Photography Awards 2024 winners: gannets fishing in Scotland, magical winter landscape in Iceland, owl-look-alike plant in Thailand
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A dramatic photo of two gannets fighting for a fish in the waters off Scotland’s Shetland Islands has won first prize at the World Nature Photography Awards.
The image by Tracey Lund, from the United Kingdom, was selected from thousands of submissions to receive the $1,000 prize. “Thousands of gannets were in the sky above us and then started to dive into the sea after locally
Chile: 100+ possibly new deep-sea species found in 1,800-mile-long underwater mountain range
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An international team of scientists may have found more than 100 new species, during a mission to explore seamounts off the coast of Chile. These creatures who look like they come from a sci-fi novel call the 1,800-mile-long Salas y Gómez Ridge home.
Seamounts are large underwater mountains that are often formed by volcanic activity and can be found in every ocean basin on Earth. They are a critical
Once hunted to near extinction, restored sea otters restore degraded coastline, cutting erosion by 90% by chowing down on crabs
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Sea Otters Returned to a Degraded Coastline Ate Enough Crabs to Restore Balance and Cut Erosion by 90%
Against all odds, a distressed California coastal ecosystem is on the mend, in large part, thanks to the insatiable appetite sea otters have for crabs.
In a groundbreaking study published this week in Nature, scientists revealed that the return of sea otters
Pregnant wild elephant “walked for days in pain before dying” in India after being fed explosive pineapple, sparks outrage
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Indian wildlife officials are mourning the death of a pregnant wild elephant in Kerala, India, who reportedly died after being fed a firecracker-filled pineapple by an unknown assailant.
“Her jaw was broken and she was unable to eat after she chewed the pineapple and it exploded in her mouth,” says chief wildlife warden Surendra Kumar. The outraged official tells
Divers and fish or octopus meet now and then: how to recognize one another in vast waters, billions swimming… Karma? Reincarnation?
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A scuba diver has forged an unlikely bond with a wild fish and the pair meet up every summer beneath the waves for a reunion.
Rex Colubra made friends with the small mouth bass while on a fresh water dive in September 2021. The odd encounter ended with the 40-year-old naming the fish Elvis. The pair now see each other every year when Rex travels back to the Wisconsin lake where
Real-life cowboy lassos brave and habitual runaway steer on highway I-75: challenging speeding vehicles of steel and iron… what a moment!
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‘It was pretty hairy,’ says cowboy who lassoed a rogue steer on a Michigan highway
Lester is home at his animal sanctuary and doing just fine thanks to cow catcher Ricky Littlejohn
When Ricky Littlejohn got the call that Lester the steer was loose again, he knew he was in for a challenging day. After all, it wasn’t the professional cattle-wrangler’s first
“Well Well” – Quest and Design ii. Exclusive. Debut. new book release: “Design talkings? Oh yes! Design Sense?”
“Well Well
– Quest and Design ii”
by Astron Hues
Debut. Original. Exclusive.
Dedicated to Friends.
Brief beginning: “Design talkings? Oh, yes!
Design Sense?”
Conversational top class art images,
more than 20, stand alone or as background –
“Howdy”
“Oh yeah?”
“Salud”
Blending
They’re smarter than we think: cockatoo makes and uses toolset, sheep unlocks gate
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Cockatoos can not only use tools, they can carry whole toolkits to trickier jobs, study shows
(CNN)The ability to solve problems with multiple tools is a rare talent in the animal kingdom, but according to new research, cockatoos are the first birds on the block to carry and use a tool kit to suit their needs.
Using 10 Goffin’s cockatoos, researchers from
What looks like Big Bird, sounds like a machine gun, eats crocodiles, and bows in greeting?
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You probably wouldn’t win a staring contest with it, though you’d be hard pressed to look away. Taller than a mailbox, with an eight-foot wingspan, the shoebill is quite a kick to observe! This hefty bird with its lesson-in-gray plumage is endemic to swamps and wetlands of Central and East Africa. Solitary in nature, even when paired with another, the birds like their space and will feed at opposite ends of their
Qatar welcome first two pandas to Arabic world: Suhail (“star in the sky”) and Soraya (“a group of shining stars”) examine new home…then enjoy bamboo, ready for World Cup!
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Qatar welcomes M-E’s first pandas ahead of World Cup
Qatar is the 20th country in the world that has the giant pandas. The public will have the opportunity to visit the giant panda park at the time of the launch of the World Cup 2022. (Ging Ging) Panda meaning in Chinese language Shining Crystal, is the male panda. It was born on Sep. 19, 2018, it given the