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Collie Ennis 🕷🐸
@collieennis
Biodiversity officer Trinity College Dublin. Co host of @CritterShedPod. Science officer @HerpSocIreland. Zoology research associate @TCD_NatSci.
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    Collie Ennis 🕷🐸
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    Oct 25, 2019
    Not as classically attractive as the animals whos waste they dispose of, dung beetles are nonetheless essential to systems like the Maasai Mara National Reserve where we filmed this beauty displaying its flying skills. So big they sound like mini helicopters! #TCDKenya2019
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    Feb 22, 2021
    Apparently camera trap footage of a Thylacine has been sent to Hobart museum New Zealand for assessment and confirmation. If this turns out to be true it would be the most incredible natural history story of modern times. I really hope it is!
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    May 8, 2022
    Can we please synchronise Mothers day worldwide so I can stop having complete panic attacks every year when American Mothers day rears its ugly head.
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    Collie Ennis 🕷🐸
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    Dec 10, 2022
    Winter. 🥲
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    Apr 4, 2021
    Isn't it hilarious that sailors used to constantly mistake whale dicks as mysterious sea serpents.
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    Sep 10, 2020
    Just got this email forwarded on to us from our kids school. (Blocked out names for privacy of people involved) Couldn't be more proud of my kids. Even more so because they didn't say anything about it. Just helped out and went on their way. Chipper tonight for a treat 100% 😊
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    Nov 21, 2022
    My mother-in-law is a retired botanist who has dedicated the last 20 years of her life to increasing native plant biodiversity in her roadside garden. She woke up to find it destroyed the other morning. @NatBroadbandIrl please be more considerate when carrying out future works.
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    Feb 14, 2020
    Well to do lad at the grafton street flower stand, 'What have you got for a tenner?' Flower lady, 'A rose, but if you came home to me with one rose for valentines wearing that suit I'd break it over your head.' I love this town. 😂😂😂
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    Collie Ennis 🕷🐸
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    Oct 21, 2022
    Reject modernity, Embrace tradition
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    Collie Ennis 🕷🐸
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    Feb 6, 2020
    The citylink Galway-Dublin bus driver just announced that if anyone is watching films or listening to music on their phone without headphones on they will be asked to leave the vehicle. He is an IDOL.
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    Collie Ennis 🕷🐸
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    Jan 23, 2022
    When Irish people say Uni instead of College....
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    Collie Ennis 🕷🐸
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    Jul 14, 2019
    My botanist mother-in-law has spent the last 18 years restoring the roadside wildflowers in her local area of Westmeath. Most had disappeared thanks to the councils use of herbicides, but she sourced seeds and regrew all the flowers she remembered from childhood. Absolute legend.
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    Collie Ennis 🕷🐸
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    Sep 1, 2021
    9 years ago today Guns N' Roses walked on stage in the 3 Arena at 10.15pm (due on at 8.30), played 4 songs then left. I was so pissed off I took MCD to the small claims court and got money back for our tickets AND cost of that nights babysitter. Felt like Perry Mason for a day.
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    Sep 21, 2019
    Today was a punch in the gut. I'm completely heartbroken. Months of work documenting species, meeting with @sdublincoco officials, getting assurances that this oasis for wildlife would be protected. All for nothing. Completely wiped out. @sdublincoco are a fucking disgrace.
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    Sep 21, 2019
    Heartbroken to find tallaghts wetlands completely destroyed today. This was a vibrant multilayered ecosystem, home to protected Newts, Frogs, Bats & critically endangered European eels. @sdublincoco assured us this area & inhabitants would be protected. Environmental vandalism.
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