Invasive Species - Blog Posts
A FROG BROKE INTO MY HOUSE
we had him in a Tupperware for the night and this morning I pimped him out in a giant storage container
(The enclosure is supposed to be pretty bare, apparently that's how they like it) I threw a starfish in there for ✨decor🙌✨ and I guess I'm going to have to hunt for bugs now. I'm open to names.
Dahlonega, North Georgia.
Invasive Species and the Burmese Python
Have you ever heard the term, “invasive species”? Listen along to this month’s podcast from the Sawgrass Nature Center as our staff teams up with the Nature Conservancy of Southwest Florida to discuss invasive species and the Burmese Python problem in the Everglades!
https://anchor.fm/snc-wild/episodes/Invasive-Species-and-the-Burmese-Python-Part--I-e11n04k
Dangerous Christmas Yeast Spreading Across the Globe (footage from The spread of red christmas yeast among penguin populations in the Antarctic) (collaboration with @sloppydemon
The spread of red christmas yeast among penguin populations in the Antarctic (with original European narration)
collaboration with @hannesundin
As the toxic Chrismasalia keeps spreading, it is threatening the habitats of many vulnerable species. collaboration with @sloppydemon
The highly invasive tinselvine is spreading…
(sound by @sloppydemon)
Gene-edited 'Peter Pan' cane toad that never grows up created to eat its siblings, control invasive species
The removed gene controls the production of the hormone thyroxine, which fuels the metamorphosis that occurs when a tadpole transforms into a toad. Rick Shine, an evolutionary biologist and ecologist at Macquarie University, is one of the scientists behind the "Peter Pan toads". He said cane toad tadpoles were known to be voracious cannibals with a preference for snacking on their kin, both in egg and hatchling form. This is especially true in Australia where rates of cannibalism of hatchlings by tadpoles have been recorded as 2.4 times that of South America — where the cane toad originated...
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-04-08/cane-toad-created-that-never-grows-up-and-eats-its-siblings/105100286
your outdoor catboy boyfriend is fucking killing the local mouse girl population KEEP YOUR CATBOYS INSIDE