by Matthew Cobb
It may be chucking it down in Manchester, but out in Dobrzyn it’s nice, as long as you aren’t a rabbit:
Hili: A sunny day.A: Do you have any plans?Hili: I will go and see who was drawn out of its burrow.
In Polish:
Hili: Słoneczny dzień.
Ja: Masz jakieś plany?
Hili: Pójdę zobaczyć kogo słoneczna pogoda wyciągnęła z norki.
The weather in the Uk right now would suit the hippos:
Four views of a Cambridgeshire hippopotamus from the Last Interglacial ~120,000 years ago. Hippos wallowed in rivers from the Yorkshire Dales to the Thames during this period #FossilFriday 🦛 pic.twitter.com/GXWjHvJcVC
— The Ice Age ❄️🌞 (@Jamie_Woodward_) October 25, 2019
Jerry asks me – what’s up with Brexit? Tom Holland (not Spider-Man, the other one) gives an answer:
I realise with mingled embarrassment and pride that I've reached the stage of Brexit where all I do is tweet pictures of my cats.
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) October 24, 2019
From Heather Hastie – “evidence that the creationists are right!”
https://twitter.com/AwwwwCats/status/1186626954419752961
Another goose:
Greetings from cuthbert who is getting ready for goose morning #cuthbertthegoose #goosemorning pic.twitter.com/ruSWdiMBeD
— caenhillcc (@caenhillcc) October 25, 2019
The wonders of science:
I study the earwax of baleen whales because it has layers the grow over its whole life (like tree rings!) and we can tell when it produces hormones related to stress and pregnancy! For instance, a 48 year old fin whale had 16 pregnancies before she died. SIXTEEN OKAY?! pic.twitter.com/7mMLcKqBzS
— Dani Crain studies whales (@DCrainium) October 25, 2019
Some good advice:
You should sit in nature for 20 minutes a day. Unless you're busy. In which case you should sit for an hour.
— Cairngorms Nature (@CNPnature) October 25, 2019
Indri Saturday:
Jumping into the weekend like…an indri #WorldLemurDay pic.twitter.com/vEFknplL29
— Lucy Cooke (@mslucycooke) October 25, 2019
I read one very funny comment on the BBC website on Brexit (they have numerous articles on Brexit where the public can give their opinion on the politics of (not) leaving the EU):
22. Posted by Wallsteron, 29 minutes ago
“Would it help if we turned the government off and on again?”
Never works for me.
Just a view from the colony’s here. Brexit is either not known by most or what little they do know is wrong. But then you could say the same for the current impeachment event here. Good luck with trick or treat day coming up.
There are similarities between Trump’s presidency and Brexit. But there is one very big difference, which is that Brexit is unfathomably, grindingly tedious.
I find Trumpism deeply alarming, genuinely worrying. But part of me also finds it fascinating and entertaining; soap opera-esque.
The same can’t really be said of Brexit. It’s just pointless, nasty and bureaucratic.
Yes, I guess the one similarity is we both end up 3 class countries without direction.
There is something vaguely Shakespearean to the Trump presidency’s unspooling, with the mad king and the fool having become as one.
Plus Fool, Jr., in Giuliani.
Rudy is the mad king’s counselor — the perfidy of Iago combined with the senteniousness hot air of Polonius. 🙂
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Just wondering which side of Manchester Matthew comes down on – red or blue?
NB: there is only one correct answer here…
What’s with the human hand in the foreground of the lemur vid?
I thought the hand was holding something (food?), luring the lemur as it were.
You beat me to it ⬇︎ (there’s supposed to be downward arrow but don’t know if it’ll survive transmission)
Most likely. The lemur certainly seemed excited!
Leapin’ Lemurs! If you look closely, the hand seems to be holding a small branch full of leaves.
David Attenborough speaks about these leaves in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av4m0FoVOus, where he’s using them in the same way as a lure to get close to an indri in a tree.
John Cleese once remarked that a leaping lemur looks like an Edwardian butler on Benzedrine.
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I *knew* there had to be a use of earwax!
It does raise the question: Is this a mammal trait, then, since we and the cetaceans both have it?