Dr Raye eating choccy @LeafyHistory@computerfairi.es

It's from the birdsite but about real birds! Can you imagine, meeting one of your kind again?

#SiberianCranes #BirdMigration
#birds #EndangeredSpecies

RT @gibsontomgibo@twitter.com

"Omid, the last surviving Siberian Crane in the Western population met Roya, his companion introduced from a breeding program in Belgium. This is the first time Omid has seen a member of his species since 2009. When they saw each other they began to display and sing.
Photo sent to me by Elnaz.esmailzadeh on instagram."

The oldest #chameleon you’re ever likely to see. This is a #specimen from the 18th century Danish Kunstkammer, making it around 250 years old. It is in remarkably good condition!
#naturalhistory #herpetology #science

Have LED lights reduced #LightPollution, or have things gotten worse because of blue light emissions? We have the answer, and it's not good news...

#Tootorial 🧵 below, full methodology and results new in @sciencemagazine
: https://science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7781 #ScienceResearch
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How to sell a #broadside in early modern Germany?

Have a look at this single-sheet print of 1675 and discover a story of mice in battle formation including a religious comment. A thread for #bookhistory, #mediahistory and #animalhistory. #histodons #history

Access the print here: https://t1p.de/pjk1

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Typically by the time a #species gets listed by USFWS or NOAA, it is on the brink of #extinction. There is a backlog of applications, and USFWS has been successfully sued by nonprofits such as the Center for Biological Diversity to clear up the backlog. When a species is listed, critical #habitat is also designated. And announcements about listings must be published in the Federal Register so the public can comment.

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Yamaguchi Sekkei: Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo

• Pair of six-panel folding screens
• Ink and color on gilded paper
• 149 × 330 cm (each screen)
• Edo period, 1668
• The Cleveland Museum of Art

#japan #japanese #art #artofmastodon #arthistory #japaneseart #japanesearthistory #artfromjapan #edo #japanesepainting

More on the limits of ChatGPT. One of the key points, which I also discovered when noodling around, is that the bot makes stuff up when it doesn't know something, so that anyone with detailed knowledge of a field is likely to notice immediately if a student submission is chatbot generated.

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/12/why-ai-wont-steal-medievalists-jobs/

🧪 #Science
🦕 #Naturalhistory
🦭 #Nature

'Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery - determines that cave paintings included lunar calendar information about the fertility of different animal species'

This is a remarkable discovery for a professional but for an amateur. Simply wow. Well done, Mr Bacon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64162799

Ok, this is cool: a team of biologists worked out that turtles can talk. The hatchlings even talk to each other in the egg to coordinate their hatching. Turtle talk is at frequencies not very audible for humans and it can take hours for some species to reply to each other.

“Had we had a bit more expansive imaginations, we might have caught this earlier,” said Karen Bakker, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/

My 1st (unfiltered) pass in #mapping #English #PlaceNames taking the form ‘X-on/upon-river Y’ (e.g. Stratford-on-Avon). Data (158 names) incl. both surviving & ‘lost’ names, with dates of 1st reference ranging from 900-1983! The distribution is intriguing, espec. the absence of names in the S & E, as is the tendency for names to cluster. Only named rivers drawn. Now time to slice, dice, & play. Your thoughts welcomed. #Medieval #EarlyModern #Names #EnvHist #Histodon #HistGeog #Rivers #Maps

Hi, I do #naturewriting to highlight wonder & aliveness in the world. In a Nature-Spirit #podcast I use #history and #naturespirituality to make sense of current #ecocrises. My first book, Kissed by a Fox, won the WILLA Award in #creativenonfiction. It’s #memoir punctuated by cultural story—how Euro-world came to think of nature as lacking. My second book, Tamed by a Bear, is a journal of one year in a #spiritualpractice of #natureconnection. Centering more-than-human voices. #Introduction

New Year's is coming! Parties! Fun! Hangovers! And of course, you'll want to cure your hangover in the most medieval way!

The internet will tell you that eating raw eels was a traditional medieval cure. Sweet! To the store!

Hold on there, hos.

This was NOT a traditional medieval remedy. Eel blood is toxic to mammals. It causes very bad reactions in mucus membranes, & induces intestinal distress. Enough can prove fatal.

Curiously, otters don't seem bothered by this.
#Eels #Otters #History