Amity ๐ฆ๐ณ
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Amity ๐ฆ๐ณ
@delphindae
My heart belongs to Particularly Large Lizards
Cetacean Enthusiast, Dinosaur Enjoyer and Amateur Animal Photographer
South East Queensland
Joined September 2020
- Some amazing footage of a Northern Bottlenose Whale off Greenland! I've never heard of this sort of opportunistic scavenging behaviour documented from any Beaked Whales before, and CERTAINLY never seen footage of it!
00:00 - Replying to @davenewworld_2'โThere was never a danger other than the obvious,โ Stuteville claimed.' "The obvious" being a child taking the gun and either intentionally or accidentally shooting people. So, y'know, apart from the chance this could of turned into a school shooting, there was never a danger!
- Fun Fact! The rediscovery of this species was done on iNaturalist, by a user who has no profile photo, no description, and has made less than 50 observations. Their first two observations ever were two of these guys, and in an entirely new locality for the species to boot. Crazy.Today's Critically Endangered Species of the Day is the Cofre de Perote Salamander (Isthmura naucampatepetl) Native to the Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico, they were rediscovered in 2015, 34 years after the last sighting. Their major threats are habitat loss and Chytrid Fungus.
Men want 1 thing and it starts with a K- This thing (which has a chameleon tongue, a regenerating tail, the ability to climb walls, is repeatedly referred to as a lizard and can be found wild in the Florida Everglades) is supposed to be a fucking Tuatara.
- Replying to @vinn_ayyWhat a disrespect to our ancestors to suggest they only cared for something if they could get worth from it, as if caring for those who couldn't care for themselves isn't something older than society itself. Compassion is quite literally Human Nature.
- Northern Bottlenose Whales are HUGE. I always pictured them similar in size to pilot whales, but nope, they're BIG.
- Wow. A captive bird thrown suddenly into one of the most dangerous environments it possibly could of been, who's diet consisted mainly of rats stuffed with poison, didn't live very long? Who could of ever seen this coming. We failed this bird. Spectacularly.We are saddened to report that Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl discovered missing from @centralparkzoo after his exhibit was vandalized just over a year ago, is dead after an apparent collision with a building on West 89th Street in Manhattan. bit.ly/3I9o3b8
- Replying to @YNPierceReminder that although we couldn't hear it, the cops could. These babies were screaming so loud it could be heard outside. The cops (all 100+ of them) sat and they listened. For how long they sat, and how close they were, they probably got headaches from how loud it was.
- A humpback whale had been found dead on a beach in East Victoria, Australia. Interestingly - and somewhat concerningly - it does appear to be a white whale. With very little decomposition, it wouldn't of become bleached yet. Meaning it was almost certainly white while alive.
- North Atlantic Right Whales are Critically Endangered, with only 70 or so breeding females. One of those precious 70, #1950, was mother to 6 calves, including her youngest, born just two months ago. She was hit by a boat so hard it nearly split her spinal vertebrae in two.
- Hot Take (maybe): If orcas were anything other than charismatic mammalian megafauna, the A/B/C/D's would of all been split into seperate species DECADES ago, well before the turn of the centaury.
