werkin on that ster trak

Harvest mouse on a dandelion by Dean Mason

Sourdough Gap, August 2018

Eat You

To Whom It May Concern:

Those were 2.20 minutes well spent!

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OMG:

Gustave by Peter Wojkiewicz on Flickr.

let me bless your dash with this straight out of ghibli studios capybara chilling video

if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is

“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”

sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like “AND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICE” and “THAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGER” and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.

plus six or seven people who just….can’t figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys it’s…a scientific paper. about frogs.)

and this one

which made me laugh despairingly because i mean

bro you don’t even know.

what is the code entomologists use for “i stepped on it, i’m so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very small”

“Impromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.”

‘impromptu dissection’ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it

So if you’re looking for the chemical engineer equivalent of these posts the phrases are, “strongly exothermic” and “reacts vigorously.”

Both of which translate to “Boom”

Rats are so easy to please. I shoved some sweet potato into cardboard toilet paper tubes, packed in with shredded paper towels. At first they were just excited about the paper towel shreds and started making a nest, then they found the sweet potato and lost their minds. Like they couldn’t believe what a good and gracious world they lived in that there could be sweet potato and paper towel at the same time.

Our favorite photo from when I was trying to get a Christmas-card worthy photo.

honestly, this is exactly how siblings act in christmas pictures.

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