by Matthew Cobb
In Poland, Hili is pensive, and finds a cat’s solution:
Hili: The leaves are falling, birds are flying away…A: What’s your conclusion?Hili: It’s time to go to sleep.
Hili: Liście opadają, ptaki odlatują do ciepłych krajów…
Ja: I jaki wniosek?
Hili: Trzeba iść spać.
It has been an awful couple of days in the Midlands and the North, with appalling rain (Sheffield is flooded). But of course, the waterfowl of Marsh Farm are happy. Look at them all come running out – balm for the soul.
Greetings and good morning it’s Friday rush hour #rushhour #farmrushhour #rushhourcc @caro_painter pic.twitter.com/agx27UgylV
— caenhillcc (@caenhillcc) November 8, 2019
Random animal tweets:
The black cat with the catch 😂😂
Amazing. pic.twitter.com/9OwwDEbQnb
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) November 7, 2019
Looks more like a jigsaw than Tetris I reckon, but very cool:
I'll tell you what's better than a game of regular tetris. A game of snake skull tetris – courtesy of Aipysurus laevis, the olive sea snake. pic.twitter.com/X7gkO9mip0
— Jaimi Gray (@jaimiAgray) November 6, 2019
How's this for a wasp mimic?! Jim Vargo's "Moths of Peru" plates shows something similar from same location marked as "poss. Eumenogaster haemacera Hampson". San Pedro, Manu, Peru. Elevation 1,400m/4,570ft. Oct 2019 #PutDownTheEpiPen #Lepidoptera pic.twitter.com/jrI1j48hkU
— John S Christensen (@JasperSailfin) November 6, 2019
A reminder that baby tarantulas are basically spiders with fuzzy socks. pic.twitter.com/oYW8bi6gsm
— Phil Torres (@phil_torres) November 7, 2019
This little boy's brother is an adorable duck ❤️ pic.twitter.com/aRnMZJQee4
— The Dodo (@dodo) November 6, 2019
Jaws of death. An arrow worm eats a copepod. Arrow worms are important plankton predators and they'll even eat each other, as you can see by its previous meal. @zeiss_micro pic.twitter.com/1UURJRPMgk
— Dr Richard Kirby (@PlanktonPundit) October 16, 2019
@matthewcobb Look who’s outside my window right now: pic.twitter.com/vZgs9eP3FQ
— Gretchen Vasen Corbin (@gretchen0212) November 6, 2019
This is astonishing:
Goals: Playing fetch with a beluga whale pic.twitter.com/OfZOhHSAMj
— Sofía Martínez-Villalpando (@sofiabiologista) November 7, 2019
We had 28 ducks this evening. We had 30 based on Jerry’s count on October 17th. So these number around what they did when they were swarming on land last month.
I don’t recognize any of them and they don’t come as close as before. If I had to guess, I’d say that these ducks are migrating and just stopping over for the free smorgasbord. I’ve read that their normal migration can take place throughout the month of November.
JAC: I asked the SDF how migrating ducks could zero in on Botany Pond, the reply was “Maybe they’re reading it on TripAdvisor: “Congenial location, free buffet. Five stars.”
I no longer play rugby due to age and injury, but when I did, I would have wanted the whale on my side. I wonder how he is at water polo? I should imagine dominant.
The boy and the duck, Beaker, is certainly a charming pair. My daughter raised ducks when she was young. They make great friends.
Tomorrow should be a day to remember for those all over Europe with the fall of the Berlin wall. Seems like a very long time ago for some reason.
That wasp-y moth totally fooled me. Only the antenna look like a moth’s. Nice!
Re the cat catching the ball ,is that real ?
No.
Rush hour at the farm has become strangely addictive.
I agree…why would that be? It doesn’t really change, but it always makes me happy, and I can’t ‘not’ press the play button.
I love the way a huge herd of them come rushing out, but then later there are some who simply take their own sweet time.
As PCC(E) is busy exploring the world, I put a comment here for an old post – with comments off – on a puzzle :
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/06/27/a-tricky-sat-geometry-question/
… I just found a wonderful intuitive explanation of the solution on this YouTube video : https://youtu.be/Xh5coE5wJ2I
… the explanation in my own words : essentially, focus on the point where the circles meet. Start with the moving circle on top. Draw a radius down, with an arrow. Count how many times the line points down, it should turn out to be… well…
Sorry if someone posted that already but I don’t recall- I think this is good enough to put up. Maybe I’ll send it to PCC(E) next year…
The whale isn’t playing catch. It’s telling them to take their litter with them.
Of course. 😎
Haha! good one. Seriously though, that beluga playing catch is one of the coolest things I’ve seen. I could play catch all day with a white whale!
Those arrow worms, in my first year biology I learned that these Chaetognates are the greatest predators of the sea. It was said that the mass of prey they consumed was greater than of any other group.
Wonder if it is actually true and how it is calculated.