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Pardon, but your tie is not symmetrical.

@fred-erick-frankenstein / fred-erick-frankenstein.tumblr.com

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stop listening to music and start listening to the sounds of nature. the “eagles?”The “rolling stones?” The “beetles?” Come into the beautiful forest with me and you will find all of those things friend…. I promise….If you just believe<3

In the beautiful forest you will also encounter the “mountain goats” and “corn” and “monkeys” and the “killers” and the-what do you mean what was that last one? Nothing haha don’t worry about it…………… <3

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doodle-devil

[ID: A multi-panel comic illustration of the text in the original post.

Panel 1: A short-haired person pulls their headphones away from their face. Text: “Stop listening to music and start listening to the sounds of nature.”

Panel 2: The person is shown in hiking gear with a walking stick, climbing up a mountain. An eagle is superimposed over the image. Text: “The ‘eagles’? The ‘rolling stones’?”

Panel 3: The hiker looks up through foliage, smiling at a stag beetle on a leaf. Text: “The ‘beetles’?”

Panel 4: The hiker stands on a path with tall trees on either side. The sky visible through the trees ahead of them is red. Text: “Come into the beautiful forest with me and you will find all of those things friend… I promise… If you just believe.”

Panel 5: A mountain goat stands on an overhead outcropping, surrounded by trees. Text: “In the beautiful forest you will also encounter the ‘mountain goats’,”

Panel 6: The hiker stands amid stalks of corn, gazing up at a tree branch on which a group of capuchin monkeys are perched. Text: “and ‘corn’, and ‘monkeys’,”

Panel 7: Night has fallen, and there is a red moon. An indistinct figure stands in the darkness, surrounded by glowing red eyes. Text: “and the ‘killers’”

Panel 8: A drawing of some flowers is blocked out by a black square of red text that reads, “What do you mean, ‘what was that last one?’ Nothing, haha…”

Panel 9: Nighttime again with the red eyes glowing in the dark. An unsettling toothy grin is visible under the eyes. Text: “Don’t worry about it.”

End ID]

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memeuplift
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mycroftrh

Ooh ooh ooh! This looks like an excellent excuse valid reason to talk about one of my favorite topics, matriarch trees!

So, when you see trees in a forest, they stick up outta the ground, some distance from each other, and you're like 'these are unconnected critters,' right? But! The thing is! Just like the trees in the picture are connected above-ground, trees in a forest are normally connected below-ground. There's this whole complicated thing involving a symbiotic relationship with fungi, but we're gonna simplify it to this: trees connect to each other through their root systems.

And they use it to share resources, across the whole forest.

If there's a tree over here growing in soil with a lot of, like, potassium, they'll pull up more potassium than they need, and send it out through the root system to other trees that are living where there isn't much potassium.

And one of the coolest things? Trees communicate their needs. If a tree is sick or damaged or starving, they send chemical messages out through the root system that tell the other trees to send them more food and tree-equivalent-of-immune-system.

Trees will share so much of their resources, they'll even keep trees alive that are almost entirely dependent. Like this tree! The tree above is getting some energy from its leaves, but no other nutrition of its own. And it wasn't able to link up to the shared root system. So the other tree reached out and hooked up to it directly, feeding it all of the nutrients it needed!

You see it more commonly the other way around: in an old-growth forest, where the roots are well-established, you can find stumps where a tree was cut down a century ago... but if you scrape the stump it's still green wood. The tree's still alive, without a single leaf. Because all the other trees in the forest are feeding it.

I promised to talk about matriarch trees, so here's where we get to them.

In a very old forest, you have very old trees. You have some trees that are so very, very old, their own roots cover entire regions of the forest. Their leaves reach up to the sky over everyone else. And after so long, they've developed to where they can take in way more resources than they need.

So what do they do?

They feed baby trees.

Baby saplings in an old forest can't reach up to the sun. There's no light down there. And their roots are too small and shallow to dig down to the nutrients they need. So the matriarch tree will draw energy from its towering canopy, and nutrients from its massive, ancient roots, and feed them to the little trees that are too small to feed themselves. For anything she can't get on her own, she'll act as a central hub, taking in spare resources from the rest of the forest and giving them to the little ones.

And one of the best parts - she won't just do it for her own species. She'll connect to all kinds of trees, because they're all necessary for the ecosystem to work. She'll adopt the whole forest's children.

Sometimes in forests you'll find a spot where there are a lot of small trees in an open space around an old, fallen tree. People generally assume they could find more light there, or maybe the soil's more fertile from the decomposition.

But no.

They're her children, and she's spent centuries keeping the whole forest alive.

[id: a photograph of a tree that had its lower half chopped off. Two branches connect it to a nearby tree, keeping it upright and growing strong.]

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jacaranda season

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ikea-doona

[image description: a photo of three large jacaranda trees in bloom, meaning they have few-to-no leaves and instead are covered in thick bundles of small purple flowers. The trees are on a grassy hill, and a purple carpet of fallen jacarandas lies below them. In the background there are large green trees, and the sky is blue with fluffy white clouds. End ID]

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A whole bunch of adorable veggie friends for you! Don’t worry about not being able to eat healthy anymore, my Grunlings aren’t actual food!

They are gentle spirits of nature and if someone is lucky enough to see or even befriend a Grunling, they can become incredibly supportive with gardening. ;) 🌱

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Ahhh! This is so cool!

Omg I'm so excited to see this on my dash! This is not my field of study but I do keep up with the latest paper published about this fascinating plant.

Here's one that I read recently (2022). It's open access, so go on click that link and read about the wonders of this marvellous plant

And a sidenote, Taylor and Francis have loads of (or all of them) open access research articles. Bookmark this webpage and go nuts reading about empirically tested brilliant research!!

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everyone wonders why trees are so big, but I know.

OK, I can tell you, but the world will never be the same

their bigness comes chiefly from their height and their girth, which are both enormous. if you look at small things you will tend to find that they are very low in height, width, etc. (you get the picture). trees, however, have a very tall height and wide girth, which makes them extremely large

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jaubaius

That’s completely fucking awesome!

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claudiagray

I have complicated feelings about marine mammals in captivity but (a) this seal’s tango ability deserves recognition and (b) I’m inclined to think that this level of coordination suggests the seal legitimately enjoys it. 

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feamir

ok, so I’m not at all an expert, but what I’ve learned from visiting various marine research centers and talking with people who work with these animals:

1) At this point in the US, all of the large marine animals like this you see cannot be released into to wild, and they come to the centers from things like injury and rescue. We do NOT just go out to the ocean and capture random animals. That is super illegal.

2) All performances like this are purely voluntary on the animal’s part. If a seal or sea lion twice the size of a person doesn’t want to do an activity with you, there is nothing you can do about it. You can encourage behaviors through positive reinforcement, but in the end the sea lion does what the sea lion wants.

3) This kind of training is actually very necessary for proper care of large, intelligent animals! The more intelligent an animal is, the more important it is to have sufficient social and mental stimulation, and training with keepers provides both. The displayed behaviors that these tricks utilize are often seen as play and/or social behaviors in the wild.

4) And perhaps most importantly, training large animals to move and position themselves in certain ways is necessary for minimizing stress during routine medical care! You can’t safely manhandle a large sea lion into showing its belly, so if you need to do a medical check without tranquillizing the animal (which carries its own risks and stresses), you need to be able to ask the animal to roll over on its own. If you watch the dance in the above post carefully, you’ll note that a lot of the different “dance moves” are effectively presenting different parts of the body. So what this performance does is take all of the stances/actions you might need it to do for a health checkup and sets it to music!

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tikkety-tok

this plant is kudzu. aka 'the vine that ate the south'. a damaging invasive plant that’s a nuisance to the local area in this video. Now look at those moos go

Oh, right. The cows. The cows for kudzu, the cows chosen especially to kill kudzu, kudzu's cows. Those cows?

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geekysteven

[Video description an area with the ground and trees covered in vines and cows all around eating. Text reads "Before" scene cuts to the sand area with no leaves on the ground and text "after"]

Thanks for the description!!

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lichenaday

[Stolen from Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends x]

[ID: The distracted boyfriend meme with trees edited over the women. A man labeled "Me, on a walk" is looking behind him and whistling appreciatively at a photo of a moss covered tree, labeled "Moss growing on a tree." Next to the man is a photo of a tree covered in lichen labeled "Lichen growing on a different tree that I'm going to look at next." End ID]

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The first time I saw her, I would say she was a fragment of the moon, an arched and silent smile… “full of enchantment, alchemy and tenderness”. Art Jeremy Sams.

[ begin id: ten photographs of paintings by jeremy sams. each painting is on an easel standing in nature. each painting is of a portion of the background, whether a park, river, or meadow - the painting lines up with the back landscape so that it completes the view in the photograph  / end id ]

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Milky way over the lavender fields in Misato town.

Akita, Japan.

[ID: two photos of a lavender field at night, the sun setting above several trees in the background; in the second picture it almost completely disappears behind the trees. The sky above the field, its color varying from purple to deep blue, nearly black, to orange, is filled with tons of stars and several clouds. /end ID].

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prokopetz

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

They live where only one other thing lives- brine shrimp. They are as endurant as brine shrimp. Nothing else can survive the salt flats where they live

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trulyvincent

Murmuration of Starlings that looks like one huge bird

[ID: Three pictures of the same murmuration of starlings. All were taken at sunset from far away, with a shadowed landscape below and bright orange at the horizon. In each picture, the flock twists into shapes that look distinctly bird-like, with visible wings and beaks. End ID]

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reputayswift

Is there a word for that like, “bright darkness” you get in winter?? When it’s been snowing or it’s supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isn’t Dark Enough. One of my favorite things

Thanks to @raindropwindow and a handful of articles, it’s called snow albedo, skyglow, snowglow, or just light scattering! It’s the result of moon- or artificial light reflecting off ground snow, low clouds, or ice crystals.

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