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disappearing acts
Aug. 16th, 2016 05:13 pmThe oystercatcher was missing an elbow joint. Sorry to disappoint you but it's obvious this is Jack's fault and if he just took a picture of the oystercatcher while it was still alive instead of wasting his time asking for towels, we'd all be looking at oystercatcher pictures. The solution is obvious: we start rumors about Jack so he'll never get into another relationship ever again and then he'll be taken to a creepy hotel where they'll tell him to find a girlfriend in 45 days or else he'd be transformed into an animal. Then we infiltrate the hotel and on his documents, erase sea otter and replace it with oystercatcher, so unless he fucks up horribly and becomes the animal no one wants to become, bam, oystercatcher.
Tiffany has some pictures of the dead oystercatcher, but much like Sad Puppies, dead oystercatchers aren't much fun.
Snapping turtle blood is ruining the rabies submissions that Jacob spent 30 minutes working on. Just once he wishes they'd refrigerate them instead of leaving them in the back of a truck during a heat wave. Or almost heat wave, as the case may be.
The gull and mallard are friends. The mallard found its way past the barrier to the greater black-blacked gull's partition.
It was all part of the mallard's plan: to fly out while we were getting the gull out. Too bad the window was there.
Amanda says that the towels someone donated to us are better than the ones she uses in college. And the animals get better food too.
"The towel lost weight" says Rebecca. Rebecca was here last year but I never actually met her. I'm not sure if Emily's new or just filling in the void left by Taylor's unexpected departure. Courtney returned. I was surprised to see Lianne still around, as she's been there since the presidential primaries.
One of the bunnies in boarding loved papaya. In one of the pictures Jacob took, it's like he's saying WHERE'S MY PAPAYA?
Our blood sugar level reader can also detect ketones (which are created by the breakdown of muscle cells and are used by the body as an alternate source of fuel and they show up in diabetics' blood), especially when we don't want it to.
One of the hawks was so fed up with being being pushed around he just screamed at her.
We're going to release a cooper's hawk where we released a bunch of cottontails earlier, but this one's too small to eat them.
We have a cuckoo. Not sure if it's black-billed or yellow-billed. Sometimes yellow-billed cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests but they don't do it as much as old world cuckoos.
Instead of a cuckoo picture, please enjoy this screech owl. He's like every screech owl ever at the wildlife center in that he got hit by a car while he was out hunting insects and his eye is swollen but it will probably get better and oh yeah, he is most definitely not a cuckoo.
Or she. I don't know. Vikki says that animals have pheremones so they can tell which sex other animals are.
There are baby squirrels too, some who don't have fur yet and some with fuzzy white tails.
Here's a story about Paul: one day he comes to Greg with a sterile cup and asks about the clarity of urine and shakes the jar up, then he asks about the smell and sniffs it, then he asks about sweet tastes and drinks from the jar, but it turns out it was just apple juice in a sterile cup. He's a bit of a jokester, says Greg.
A greenland shark was determined to be 392 years old ± 120 years, which is a pretty big range. Even the minimum lifespan is longer than any other vertebrate.
They reach sexual maturity when a human would be long-dead.
Quahogs live at least 507 years but to determine Ming's age, they accidentally killed it.
Deep-sea glass sponges can live at least 11000 years. This might mean there are glass sponges that have lived through every year of the Holocene.
Certain jellyfish are effectively immortal but usually get eaten as medusas.
burning question: who would want to be a sponge? As cool as it would be to live through the entire Holocene, you'd spend almost every year of that anchored to the ocean floor. Maybe the glass sponge is the Animal No One Wants To Become.
Tiffany has some pictures of the dead oystercatcher, but much like Sad Puppies, dead oystercatchers aren't much fun.
Snapping turtle blood is ruining the rabies submissions that Jacob spent 30 minutes working on. Just once he wishes they'd refrigerate them instead of leaving them in the back of a truck during a heat wave. Or almost heat wave, as the case may be.
The gull and mallard are friends. The mallard found its way past the barrier to the greater black-blacked gull's partition.
It was all part of the mallard's plan: to fly out while we were getting the gull out. Too bad the window was there.
Amanda says that the towels someone donated to us are better than the ones she uses in college. And the animals get better food too.
"The towel lost weight" says Rebecca. Rebecca was here last year but I never actually met her. I'm not sure if Emily's new or just filling in the void left by Taylor's unexpected departure. Courtney returned. I was surprised to see Lianne still around, as she's been there since the presidential primaries.
One of the bunnies in boarding loved papaya. In one of the pictures Jacob took, it's like he's saying WHERE'S MY PAPAYA?
Our blood sugar level reader can also detect ketones (which are created by the breakdown of muscle cells and are used by the body as an alternate source of fuel and they show up in diabetics' blood), especially when we don't want it to.
One of the hawks was so fed up with being being pushed around he just screamed at her.
We're going to release a cooper's hawk where we released a bunch of cottontails earlier, but this one's too small to eat them.
We have a cuckoo. Not sure if it's black-billed or yellow-billed. Sometimes yellow-billed cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests but they don't do it as much as old world cuckoos.
Instead of a cuckoo picture, please enjoy this screech owl. He's like every screech owl ever at the wildlife center in that he got hit by a car while he was out hunting insects and his eye is swollen but it will probably get better and oh yeah, he is most definitely not a cuckoo.
Or she. I don't know. Vikki says that animals have pheremones so they can tell which sex other animals are.
There are baby squirrels too, some who don't have fur yet and some with fuzzy white tails.
Here's a story about Paul: one day he comes to Greg with a sterile cup and asks about the clarity of urine and shakes the jar up, then he asks about the smell and sniffs it, then he asks about sweet tastes and drinks from the jar, but it turns out it was just apple juice in a sterile cup. He's a bit of a jokester, says Greg.
A greenland shark was determined to be 392 years old ± 120 years, which is a pretty big range. Even the minimum lifespan is longer than any other vertebrate.
They reach sexual maturity when a human would be long-dead.
Quahogs live at least 507 years but to determine Ming's age, they accidentally killed it.
Deep-sea glass sponges can live at least 11000 years. This might mean there are glass sponges that have lived through every year of the Holocene.
Certain jellyfish are effectively immortal but usually get eaten as medusas.
burning question: who would want to be a sponge? As cool as it would be to live through the entire Holocene, you'd spend almost every year of that anchored to the ocean floor. Maybe the glass sponge is the Animal No One Wants To Become.
