conservation, cryptozoology, science communicator; ecology, entomology, zoology, paleontology, Prod for the TransP⚧️sition, TAG 4 ID 🐸 🌱 🍄 🪳🦖🏳️🌈 she/her
News Flash, Cats are an invasive species. Not only do cats decimated the ecosystem, the average lifespan of an "outdoor cat" 🤢is only 2-3 years, while an indoor cat lives 12-18 years.
If someone eats your cat, its your own fault for being a terrible pet owner.
@ScientistMel
@sophieklahr
It only gets weirder from here, because ants are the ones doing this, and we really don’t have a completely satisfactory reason why. Ants and bees are closely related and release similar pheromones when they die. 1/2
Tomorrow will be the first time I walk into the office to work, not dressed up like a man I don’t know if my coworkers are ready to meet the real me. I guess we will find out. I am so nervous.
@sophieklahr
@ScientistMel
If you ever see the ants carrying the leaves in media, they don’t even eat them, they are fertilizer for their underground fungus farms. Ants have been practicing agriculture for a few million years longer than us.
@ScientistMel
@sophieklahr
Ants do bury their dead, away from the colony, but it’s usually in earth. Why flower petals is a bit of a mystery. It’s fun to speculate that they are covering the scent or sterilizing a the corpses, but we still don’t really know.
@digi_hammurabi
@sophieklahr
@ScientistMel
Not only did they beat us to agriculture, they also beat us to animal husbandry, they domesticated aphids in a similar manner to the way we harvest dairy.
@xJustBeanx
@digi_hammurabi
@sophieklahr
@ScientistMel
One more. Ants aren’t just related to wasps, they ARE wasps. They are a clade of highly eusocial, mostly fossorial wasps. Much like termites are just highly eusocial, mostly fossorial cockroaches. That might be a story for another day, but mantises are involved 😉
@mandalynns23
A 12 year old cannot safely carry a fetus to term. Her risks are much higher than adults, up to and including death. This is a horrid take.
This is me, finally, this is me! This picture is making me cry. I know this is just a start. 6 months on HRT, but there she is, OMG there BRE is. I am 39yo it is never too late lil eggs. 🥹
#trans
#transgender
#selfie
@thiccey_secrets
@eugenegu
If Trump got it, I am confident that the public would never find out. His whole schtick is to never be wrong and never appear weak.
@HonestHans4
@_celia_bedelia_
Celia: "Hey 40k followers who are here for my life updates and women's health takes; I have an important gyno appointment today,"
Hans: "Why are you always tweeting trying to prove you are really a woman?"
I've finally figured out why I love barn owls so much. They are sentient loaves of bread at varying stages of toastiness. 🍞
#wildlife
#owls
#NaturePhotography
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