I’m certainly guilty of this. I’ve been planting natives around my property as much as I have the budget and time for. Also removing invasives as much as I can. It has to be better than just buying whatever imported ornamentals the big garden centers/home improvement stores have, right? I don’t think it’s really possible to get so specific as genetically from your area. At least not without some pretty extensive knowledge that’s going to be beyond most people.
The movie Flow has many, many bird sounds.
I cannot be the only one recognizing familiar bird calls and pulling out Merlin to see if it could identify any others!!
Also why is there a secretary bird in a forest scene?? (Secretary birds are grassland and savannah birds)
The first animal to come on board the boat is a capybara, followed by the secretary bird (in a forest??, there was a flood?) and a ring-tailed lemur.
So this is the path the boat must have taken
what am i doing
I recently had to explain to someone what a cloaca is.
This is possibly one of the best/worst topics ever. The Nemo one is fantastic. Did you talk over the movie to share this fact? My favorite is hearing a bird call in a movie or game and then letting everyone know about how that the bird that the call belongs to would NOT live in the place portrayed. For example, there are many tech/media collectors in Northern California, Seattle, and Vancouver, BC. Their Steller’s Jay and Chestnut-backed chickadee recordings have become common sound effects that pop up in the background of far way places.
Its like how loons are in soooooo many movies regardless of where they are set. Enough so that its a common frustration across the internet.
I didn’t think it would be galls but apparently galls. Anyone who goes hiking with me will have their day/week/year/life ruined as I point out just how many growths are on every plant the entire time and they will have to contend with the fact that parasites are everywhere, even in plants
I also know so many cursed bug facts and I feel like this comment would be too cursed if I mentioned them all ^^; But hmm I can add spider and roach milk
On the more wholesome side I do like to point out how most species of cockroaches are non-pests and just live in the woods eating wood and stuff. Not everyone is receptive to this…
You say you could, but you only tease this fact while providing no explanation. Now I simply have to imagine it’s spiders and roaches blended together, or search the interwebs for the truth.
Edit: Joking aside, this was really interesting. I didn’t know non-mammals could even do this.
Not to be confused with bird’s milk…
I’ll see your spider & roach milk, and your birds’ milks, and raise you male bat milk!
I am pleased to learn of all these milks XDDDDDDDDDD
For any who want to know. There’s a spider species that looks after its babies for a while with “milk”. And not only is there a milk-producing species of cockroach which has been studied in the lab, some people out there keep talking about it as if it’ll be the next health fad. I don’t think there’s any actual production out there for human consumption though
Tell your friends that you grab bugs. Assassin bugs, earwigs, GIANT water bugs, and even harmless jumping spiders can scare a non-naturalist. They will run. If you are in the park and someone is trying to bug you, the “medicine” for them is a bug. You really regret leaving one on the crosswalk when you need it…
Also - Pigeons make (crop) milk and similar milk is made by flamingos EXCEPT that flamingo crop milk is blood red, although it fades in colour with time. Emperor penguins make it too.
PS - I did not notice that the last “xyz days later” in this conversation was by chance 11 days. lol.
PPS - I also did not notice that crop milk had been discussed in this thread before. This thread is humongous so of course there will be repeats.
Also I do think that this will spoil entomology (and most sections of biology) for most of you guys.
If you do not know then the genitalia (no, not a joke) of most animals including insects, snails, snakes, and probably more are used for identification although most species can also be identified without it. Additionally I should mention that you need a killed specimen to describe a species in general so even snakes and birds must be killed just so that they can be described.