After this I have only one contribution left, so now’s your chance.
Today’s reader is Scott Moody, animal lover. Here’s his intro and a few photos:
Emeritus Professor, 40 years at Ohio University, teaching human anatomy at the medical school, and herpetology, mammalogy, forensic biology, intro bio (ecology, behavior and evolution), and history of biology. Working on my 20 acre farm and woodlands, restoring native vegetation, improving the soil, removing invasive species, and working with my Belgian Draft Horses (photo with Mollie). During the May-October season I am a wildlife zoologist monitoring for the endangered species Timber Rattlesnake along construction of highways, natural gas lines and electric transmission lines in southern Ohio. I rescue other wildlife as well: photos are of me with a 7 foot long Midland Black Ratsnake and the first Sandhill Crane documented for Athens County; She was missing a foot (all healed) but apparently ran out of gas flying from Florida to Michigan.
I’d have to guess we’re looking at the result of an encounter between a sandhill crane and an alligator in a Florida swamp. Maybe near Tara Tanaka.
Impressive. What a wonderful academic/educational career and honorable yet depressing seasonal activity. Were I in possession of a hat such as yours I would doff it in your general direction.
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Wonderful photos!! And wonderful work that you’re doing, as well. Thank you for sharing!
I have never seen a crane picked up. A beauty! (You can have the snake😬)
I’ve held a large boa before–they’re actually very soft and if you stroke them the proper direction, they feel rather nice. 🙂
I’ve also held a boa, when I was 13 at Whipsnade Zoo in London, but greatly prefer the bird.
I wish I could audit some of your courses.
Good God, what does Dr. Moody do in his spare time?????
Indeed – amazing!
Beat me to it!
Terrific! Keep up your good and important work.
Nice critters.
Beautiful horse. It’s similar to the one I sat on while my grandfather tilled the garden.
That crane is beautiful, and what a survivor. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing. Really enjoyed your comments and photos.
Reader and wildlife pictures at the same time. If you have more like this, you should submit. They are interesting.
Wonderful. A racing pigeon is the largest creature I’ve rescued.
Typical WEIT reader: cool and magnanimous person…myself excluded, of course. 😉
I’d love to know what Dr. Moody eats. Gotta be god stuff to give him all that get-up-and-go! What an amazing life you have, sir!
omg! I mean GOOD stuff of course!
How do you post a photo?
Sweet – looking constrictor, Dr Moody.
And a very interesting sentence ( of which
I have already shared to my Georgian son
who mountain bikes and camps out there
a lotta.lotta. ) within your wikipedia link
of ” In the state of Georgia, all indigenous,
nonvenomous snakes are illegal to kill or
capture, and are considered to be in the
custody of the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources.[9] ”
Its page there was last edited just this
month. So it makes me wonder and perhaps
you may know thus: surely.surely.
almost all other of the United States also,
do they not, have in place such legal
conservation statues ? And if they do not
by now, t h e n why th”ell not ? !
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