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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #325: Perucetus Colossus
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#perucetus #perocetuscolossus #whales #cetaceans #extinct #giants #chonk #chonkyboi #nofatshaming #wtf #science #biology #paleontology #comics #webcomics #comic #funfacts #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

This is my #linocut of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), surrounded by plants & a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet & model of the universe. Her writings preserve not only her own knowledge & theories but the nature of institutional #medicine & folk healing of her day (which she deftly combined). While she might be best remembered today as a composer of 70 Gregorian chants & musical dramas… 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSci #histMed #botany #MastoArt

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Laurie Raye 🍵

I had a request from @LeafyHistory to help translate this text for their upcoming discussion group on the wolf in Japan. The 'dog Shogun' Tsunayoshi was something of an animal lover, and his Buddhist tendencies led to some extensive animal rights laws - even for wild animals!

Link: yobanashicafe.wordpress.com/20

#YobanashiCafé #Buddhism #JapaneseHistory #JapaneseLiterature #JapaneseBuddhism

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@CFoix Fields, plains, heaths and wolds which I suppose makes sense. - It sounds like they liked the big open, hedgeless fields of the champion countryside. Maybe I am stereotyping early modern Lincolnshire and Norfolk and Cambridge too simplistically, I suppose they can't have been made of entirely wet fields. Perhaps the bustards might have migrated out to drier land in winter too. 🤽​

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According to my research, the Great Bustard was still pretty well recorded in Britain 250-500 years ago. It was hunted to extinction in the nineteenth century, but has since been reintroduced in Wiltshire.
I wonder if all the birds in the eastern Fen counties got soggy bums! - I don't think they are very waterproof birds! 😹​🦃
(Map from my Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife)​

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Thanks, you must let me know what you think! :abunhdhappyhop:

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Lukas VF Novak

Shaligrams, the #sacred #fossils, are becoming rarer because of climate change theconversation.com/shaligrams

"For more than 2,000 years, #Hinduism, #Buddhism and the shamanic #Himalayan #religion of Bon have venerated #Shaligrams – ancient fossils of #ammonites, a class of #extinct sea creatures related to modern #squids... #ClimateChange, faster glacial melting, and gravel mining in the #KaliGandaki are changing the course of the river, which means fewer Shaligrams are appearing each year."

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Three maps from my ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE showing where wild animals were recorded in Britain and Ireland 250-500 years ago... :bunhdpeek:​
I found loads of records of Pine Martens and Otters. So why no records of Beavers from early modern England..?
John Ray (1693) says 'These animals have been cut down by hunters all the way to the final extermination, and their stock in England and Wales is thoroughly extinct...'
Were they already gone?😿​

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Carolyn Foix

It is in fact questioned by some authorities, wether even Mesolithic Europeans, were sailing out intoo deep waters, to catch offshore fish. (Pickard & Bonsell, 2004)

At European sites, inshore fishes greatly outnumber pelagic ones, although Thunnus, Scomber, Xiphias, and Belone turn up. I know from personal experience, that Belone and Scomber sometimes come quite inshore. The occurrences of the larger oceanic predators, Thunnus and Xiphias, are harder to explain without some offshore fishing.

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@CFoix That is a fair question :blobcatmlem:​ - I think the wildcats were likely still doing okay genetically. - they only went extinct in England due to intense pest control in the 18th century. The wolves are harder to pin down - the wolf hunters clearly saw them as wolves not dogs, if that means anything!

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More new research from me published this month! :abunhdhappyhop:​

This is a chapter in the edited volume 'Wolf: Culture, Nature, Heritage' (Boydell Press). My research examines the (vv old!) chancery records of England and found over 200 licences for hunting hares 🐰​, foxes 🦊​, badgers 🦡​, wildcats (🐱​!) and wolves (🐺​!!!) in 13th and 14th century England. The licences are specific so can be mapped like this!

Free copy available here: zenodo.org/record/8173432

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@idoubtit Woah that is amazing, what a compliment! 🙀​​ Love a bit of the Fortean Times! 👻​

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@Lionesslady Thanks so much! - Here is the link 💚​ pelagicpublishing.com/products

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@fionnbharr Amazing! Hope you enjoy it - let me know what you think :blobgrin:​

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@NikaShilobod
Thank you! 🌟​
pelagicpublishing.com/products

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@maiamaia Oh I'm proud you enjoyed them! Thank you so much! 💚​ I think maybe no-one on your instance follows me at the moment so you have to read my older toots on computer! :computerfairies:​

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@NormanDunbar
Thanks Norman. I'm so pleased it is finally out!! :abunhdhappyhop:​

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@maiamaia @helenczerski Thank you! I don't think we have the edit button yet on my instance but I will remember this for next time! 💚​

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@maiamaia @helenczerski

That's a fair cop! Okay...​

My book is out today! 🙀​

Here is an article I wrote about it for the Conversation: 🧐​
theconversation.com/wildlife-w

Here is a shorter article about some of the mammal records I found 🐾​:
mammal.org.uk/2023/06/the-atla

Here is a long presentation about my book 📽️​:
youtube.com/watch?v=k1RfCQFdv2

Here is a short walkthrough 🎙️​:
youtube.com/watch?v=RJK_eohsL8

Here is a sample 📗​:
pelagicpublishing.com/blogs/ne

And this is a thread of my maps! 💚​:
computerfairi.es/@LeafyHistory

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@maiamaia
Thank you this is all great advice! 💚​

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