Animals are Magical

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Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)
From TWZ Bunker today.

RandomStranger94
3 hours ago
We are truly living in the worst timeline and nature is adapting to us.

My reaction is a little off-topic on this thread. But I feel I have to say that in so many ways that's a terribly ironic commentary on our relationship with the ever-suffering natural world around us.

I'm happy that a bird managed to make a nest from what it could find, but unmentioned here is that that bird's life very likely ended when the bomb destroyed the tree in which it had so carefully built its nest.

In all the millions of words written and spoken about this war and others, I've rarely found anyone at all who mentions or even appears to think about the impact of war and relentless high explosive on all the other living things around.

We are indeed steadily destroying this very beautiful world. The author of the tweet who wrote "We are truly living in the worst timeline" was correct.

I have often thought about war's profound impact on animals, particularly dogs. They possess the extraordinary ability to live in the present and be fully aware of the moment; this is something I strive to do but often struggle with. Their capacity to be truly present is a remarkable gift, and in "normal" times, it must provide them with a consistent feeling of happiness and a true sense of peace. However, when a dog (or most animals) are placed in a war zone, this extraordinary gift can turn into a living nightmare. The never-ending, relentless danger and chaos destroy their natural state of mindfulness, leaving them in constant distress. This reality should be a reminder that our inability to live in peace has a strong deep effect on all living beings, not just humans and animals. Peace is the starting point of for human change. Peace is the most fundamental and urgent issue of our time. Peace is not just an ideal it is the most crucial prerequsite for mankinds survival.

My apologies for getting a bit off topic but I feel strongly about this issue.

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
My reaction is a little off-topic on this thread. But I feel I have to say that in so many ways that's a terribly ironic commentary on our relationship with the ever-suffering natural world around us.

I'm happy that a bird managed to make a nest from what it could find, but unmentioned here is that that bird's life very likely ended when the bomb destroyed the tree in which it had so carefully built its nest.

In all the millions of words written and spoken about this war and others, I've rarely found anyone at all who mentions or even appears to think about the impact of war and relentless high explosive on all the other living things around.

We are indeed steadily destroying this very beautiful world. The author of the tweet who wrote "We are truly living in the worst timeline" was correct.

Remember that movie, where Viggo’s character leaves a note for Demi’s character? Poem by D.H. Laurence, titled Self-Pity.

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

That’s how I take this news. And how I run my life.

[RunningDeer]

Splish Splash

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pe4WsVcArO0

[Eva2]

A beautiful welcome:

'Herd Exciting On Arrival Of New Rescue Elephant “Dok Koon” - ElephantNews

Many people still believe that elephants lack emotions and feelings. I urge you to watch this clip. Every time, upon arriving at Elephant Nature Park with new Park members, we will witness various family groups in the field become highly attentive. Sometimes it is just the truck, but more often it is the knowledge that someone is on that truck. Elephants cluster at the gate, anticipating the arrival of a truck with a new member. They‘d raise their trunks and fuss, communicating amongst themselves. Occasionally, elephants aboard the vehicle would respond with a similar Trunks Up and a cacophony of welcoming sounds.

Just 2 days ago, such a welcoming committee marked Dok Koon’s arrival. Chana‘s family, eliciting excited and curious noises reflected their raw emotions. This is the heartwarming welcome toward new elephant arrivals at Elephant Nature Park. Allowing them to freely express themselves reveals their wonderful and amazing reactions to each other.'

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W4LHJaEWPWs

[RunningDeer]

Who's Hiding Inside a Mexican Jumping Bean?

Often sold as novelty items and exported worldwide, Mexican jumping beans are actually the seed capsules of a shrub (Sebastiania pavoniana) that have been taken over by the tiny larvae of an attractive grey moth (Cydia saltitans).

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xtKB9YAF0ME

longer version - 4 minutes

Why Did the Mexican Jumping Bean Jump?

To find its place in the shade! Each hollowed-out seed is home to a head-banging moth larva, just trying to survive the harsh Sonoran Desert sun.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3lkdidU79TY

[Bluegreen]

New Species of Imperial Pigeon Identified





Ducula is a genus of generally large, heavy-bodied pigeons within the family Columbidae.

Collectively known as imperial pigeons, these birds live in the rainforest canopy throughout the Indo-Pacific region, and can reach considerable sizes (35 to 45 cm, or 14 to 18 inches).

Because their diet primarily consists of fruit, they likely play an important role as seed dispersers in tropical forests.

“Modern checklists recognize 42 species in the genus Ducula, a clade of large ‘imperial pigeons’ that inhabits the Indo-Pacific region,” Dr. Halley wrote in his paper in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club.

“This paper concerns a poorly known group (putative clade) of four species that occurs in the Philippines and Sulawesi, Indonesia, on opposite sides of Wallace’s Line.”

The newly described Ducula species is endemic to Tawi-Tawi Island in the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines. Named Ducula tawitawi, or the Tawi-Tawi imperial pigeon, the bird has a white throat, unlike the brown throat of the widespread pink-bellied imperial pigeon (Ducula poliocephala), a related species found throughout the Philippines.

Its calls are also distinct, providing a second major clue that the isolated population represents a separate species.

New Owl Species Discovered in Peru





The newly described owl species belongs to the genus Bubo, a group that includes over 10 species of American horned owls and Old World eagle-owls.

Named Bubo jalca (common name is the Jalca horned owl), the bird inhabits the jalca, a cold, high-elevation grassland and cloud-forest habitat restricted to the Huancabamba Depression, a geographic dip in the Peruvian Andes that separates the páramo ecosystem to the north from the puna to the south.

“Bubo jalca is a particularly rare taxon, or at least a very scarce one, within its area of occurrence: the jalca and the adjacent cloud forest,” said Universidad Nacional de Piura ornithologist Armando Ugaz Cherre and his colleagues Argentina and Peru.

“To date, no photographs of the species are known, an indirect reflection of its singularity.”

What sets the new species apart, according to the researchers, is its call.

“Its call is distinguishable both aurally and by phrase structure on spectrograms and oscillograms and is therefore diagnostic. It utters a rapid ‘jé-cu!’ with emphasis on the first syllable, rather than the prolonged trisyllabic ‘cus-cún-go’ of the male Bubo nigrescens (with stress on the middle syllable), or the rapid bisyllabic ‘tu-cú’ of both sexes of Bubo magellanicus.”

https://www.sci.news/biology/ducula-tawitawi-15074.html
https://www.sci.news/biology/bubo-jalca-15051.html

[Johnnycomelately]

Blue Whales in the eastern Indian Ocean have a problem. They are being bitten by tiny (50 cm) Cookiecutter sharks, so-named because their bite removes a round chunk of flesh several inches wide.

The location of this study, Timor-Leste (otherwise or previously known as East Timor), is several hundred miles northwest of Darwin Australia.

The scientist in the vid suggests that this little shark species is experiencing a population bloom due to its natural predators, other shark species, being depleted by fishing/overfishing. He says that the afflicted whales look unhealthy, and that this may be due to this “parasite” shark, rather than a situation where previously unhealthy whales are more easily preyed upon by the magical little buggers.

First I’ve heard of these nasty fish, which according to some comments bite many types of critters, from Orcas to humans.

L = 13:06


Blue Whales Are Covered in Hundreds of Shark-Bite Craters (Timor-Leste)

OceanX
611K subscribers

Sep 20, 2026

Off Timor-Leste, blue whales pass through one of the ocean's great migration corridors, and many are carrying hundreds of strange, crater-shaped wounds.

Marine biologist Mark Meekan and the OceanX team set out to understand what tiny cookiecutter sharks may be doing to the largest animals on Earth. Aboard OceanXplorer, they track the whales using helicopters, drones including the SnotBot, and thermal imaging, reading the story written across their bodies without ever touching them.

What are these wounds actually costing the whales, and could they be a sign of a larger shift underway in the ocean around Timor-Leste?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GMJrFE27chc

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Baby elephant rescued from floodwaters and returned to its mother. Video 1 minute

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=a-_TZ8HSu0M