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Crested caracara / caracara quebrantahuesos (Caracara cheriway), Pima County, Arizona.
The name caracara is probably imitative of the bird's call. The Spanish common name quebrantahuesos is literally bone breaker.
To support climate action we must protect the whales.
I’m always asked which area of marine I would like to go into for a career,
the answer is always and will always be cetacean behaviour and conservation.
Why?
Cetaceans, particularly the great whales, bring stability to our ever-changing climate.
When whales dive into the depths of the ocean, they then return to the surface water to breathe. Upon returning to the surface, whales release enormous faecal plumes, containing limiting but essential nutrients that stimulate the growth of phytoplankton.
Phytoplankton, an organism forming the basis of all, marine food, is essential for life on Earth. These microscopic organisms act as carbon fixers by sequestration carbon from the atmosphere to be utilised in their bodily structures. Reducing the number of phytoplankton is undeniably going to cause higher quantities of greenhouse gas emissions remaining in the atmosphere and as a result warming the climate.
Whales' defecation acts as a natural fertiliser in our oceans and is essential in the growth of phytoplankton thus combatting climate change.
Without whales, phytoplankton numbers will reduce meaning greenhouse gas emissions are no longer removed from the atmosphere through these carbon fixers. This creates an increasingly warmer climate, one uninhabitable and one that will impact ALL life on Earth.
Our future lies in our oceans, particularly baleen whales who store astonishing amounts of carbon throughout their 100-year lives. Even when these individuals die, the carbon remains locked in the dead body for centuries to come.
Whales face many threats.
Whaling and climate change are impacting their populations the most.
We must protect whale populations from the threats we have caused
Not only will it benefit whales, but it will benefit all marine life, terrestrial life and even us, humans.
Whales are not only incredible species but a natural solution to climate change one that deserves to be protected.
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Hey if u like the ocean look at this its rly cool I think
Some lovely deep sea jellys belonging to the genus Crossota. Found at depths of around 12'000 feet.
it is incredibly frustrating to see the non-response from westerners to what is arguably the worst natural disaster in recent memory. when the ukraine-russia war broke out, it was on everyone's blogs. everyone--at least on my dash--was trying to spread awareness of the humanitarian crisis. but now?
fucking crickets.
absolutely nothing.
this earthquake has already claimed 20k confirmed lives. it has only been 5 days. most wrecks have not been excavated yet.
we need all the help we can get, but not a single fucking person is doing anything to help spread the message. people who proudly put the ukrainian flag in their display names or in their bios are nowhere to be seen now. the influencers youtubers and tiktok micro-celebrities who shared donation posts and ukrainian refugee testimonials daily are dead silent now. why? why do you only care when the people dying are somewhat like you? do we need to be whiter to deserve your attention? or more christian? do we not deserve your energy as is? are we, turks and syrians, not humans?
im so fucking sorry if donation posts don't fit your blog's aesthetic or if the news are just so fucking draining for you. every single one of you motherfuckers living in the west should be ashamed of yourselves for how differently you are treating us versus how you treated ukrainians when the war broke out.
if this happened in any western country you'd all be making infographics on how to donate or help.
right now the only reason why people on my dash are devastated is because the rhythm guitarist from my chemical romance had a haircut.
all of you need to be doing better.
do better.
The Death Toll of the Earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria may have reached 20,000 people, and that’s outside of all those who are injured and lost.
If you could donate PLEASE do!!!
Here’s a post full of charities you could donate to, but I’ll add my own trustworthy ones here:
Islamic Relief: teams are on the ground right now providing emergency food assistance, shelter, medical supplies to hospitals and clinics, as well as blankets and tents for those made homeless by the quake in Turkey and Syria
Molham: The team at Molham are currently on the ground helping displaced families in Turkey and Syria who have been affected by the earthquake
The White Helmets: The team are on the ground in Northwest Syria searching for survivors and removing the dead from the rubble.
MSF: remaining in close contact with the local authorities in northwestern Syria and with the authorities in Turkey to extend their support where it’s needed. They’re providing essential life kits to displaced people in the region
please PLEASE reblog. Syria and Turkiye need our help!!!
when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking away your rights, remember:
In deep red areas you're a republican who is thinking of voting for someone else if they don't vote what you want on this specific bill because it impacts your republican ideals so very much
In swing states you're an undecided voter who's gonna go blue if they don't vote how you like
remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together (emails and letters don't work like that), so it can rattle them if they get high volumes. remember that you gotta make them feel like they're losing something.
A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.
Non-dinosaurians from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]
a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”
Why aren’t there more people constantly talking about flatfishes. This is an animal that lives its whole adult life on its side so it has to move one of its eyeballs around to the other side. Are there people who don’t even know this or is it one of those things everybody just takes for granted so they never stop and think about how completely nuts that is.
I bet people don’t even know that some of them are pretty
That some are so specialized they practically evolved into flatworms
Or that some can change their color patterns to try and match their surroundings
Or that all of them are predators
Or that some of them, like the many popularly eaten species of halibut, get big enough that if they really wanted to, they could probably eat you too!!
This is a good shot of a big one swimming, presumably before photographer Audun H Rikardsen disappeared mysteriously