Biodiversity

dumples , in Meet the Most Toxic Plant in North America
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You don't fuck with the carrot family. There's lots of poison in there.

Mint family, violet family (True violets, not African violets) and onion family go crazy. They are pretty much all safe for human consumption. Carrots be cautious

fossilesque OP Mod ,
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I was specifically told this by a master forager and take it to heart. No sardonic grins today, fam.

happybadger , in Meet the Most Toxic Plant in North America
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https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/22062/bae_bulletin_128_1941_14_79-137.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

The article links this 1900s ethnographic account of suicide in the Seneca/Iroquois/Huron nations. Super interesting read about the ethnobotany of this plant and the conflicts that drove tribal suicides in the 17th-19th centuries.

asdfasdfasdf , in Scientists Film Plant 'Talking' to Its Neighbor, And The Footage Is Incredible

I don't get it. One plant sends a warning to others - but what's the action item here? Run away?

nilaus ,

Transfer nutrients to the roots maybe?

mortrek ,

Usually to ramp up production of alkaloids and other poisons/grazing deterrants.

oldone , in Meet the Most Toxic Plant in North America

Also - giant hogweed, which will burn you...https://www.nps.gov/articles/species-spotlight-giant-hogweed.htm

Track_Shovel , in Meet the Most Toxic Plant in North America

I've seen lots of this in fens

pineapplelover , in Rare white gentoo penguin discovered in Antarctica

I wonder what distro it uses

stoy ,

That data will emerge sooner or later...

pastermil , in Rare white gentoo penguin discovered in Antarctica

As a Gentoo user, I am delighted!

Grass , in Rare white gentoo penguin discovered in Antarctica

I came in just to see if there were many Linux comments, and at the time of this post, and of what is visible to me, there are only Linux related comments.

Arghblarg , in Rare white gentoo penguin discovered in Antarctica
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How tall is it?

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

Also: Linux.

ApathyTree , in Rare white gentoo penguin discovered in Antarctica
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I love articles that answer my questions right away.

Female, not albino. Has leucism, which causes washed out pigmentation. It’s white and brown.

SnailMagnitude , in Rare white gentoo penguin discovered in Antarctica
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I think that's just one of the official binary penguins that were released last month.

Steamymoomilk , in Rare white gentoo penguin discovered in Antarctica
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The white penguin has emerged

autotldr Bot , in Global heating pushes mountain goats into more nocturnal lifestyle

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Global heating is pushing mountain goats into a more nocturnal lifestyle that could expose them to more predators, scientists have found.

A team of researchers at the University of Sassari, in Sardinia, used GPS collars equipped with motion sensors to track the activity of the Alpine ibex, a species of mountain goat, between the months of May and October from 2006 to 2019.

The research, which compared the nocturnal activity of the ibex in two European national parks, found its nocturnal activity was higher in areas with more night-time predators, suggesting that the species’ need to escape excess heat outweighs their drive to avoid predators.

“We expected higher levels of nocturnal activity in Switzerland where wolves [one of the animal’s main predators] were not present, but we found the opposite.

Although we did not collect data on this, we can conjecture that their capacity to acquire food will be lower [during the night] and this will have consequences on fitness and population dynamics.

“A shift towards nocturnal activity will also increase their overlap with night-time predators; that again has consequences on population dynamics”.


The original article contains 420 words, the summary contains 183 words. Saved 56%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Mr_Blott , in Global heating pushes mountain goats into more nocturnal lifestyle

Invest in head torches for goats, gotcha

Xaq , in Scientists Film Plant 'Talking' to Its Neighbor, And The Footage Is Incredible
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@fossilesque Wow, that looks epic

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