The Doomherald
Sep. 14th, 2015 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaIt's really quiet now, now that it's just Courtney, Kira, Geena, and Tyler.
Jean was watching a seal necropsy but we got good news anyway.
This isn't so much good news from Madagascar, as Madagascar discovering environmentalism would probably herald the end of the world, in which, I don't know, aye-ayes will grow to the size of giraffes and sprout wings, as it is good news involving something indigenous to Madagascar.
An aye-aye went on a romantic getaway from Japan to Jersey so they can keep the gene pool diverse.
Supposedly, they have a spooky as fuck call, but I am alas unable to find a recording of one. What's more well known is their middle finger that is extra-long and can rotate 360 degrees so they can eat insect larvae that live inside the wood. Their incisors continually grow. I learned about them in physical anthropology, which was mostly about primate evolution.
There's one out there named Smeagol, which is an apt name for one. There are only 51 aye-ayes in zoos, which means we have an inbreeding problem.
Also, I think Mauritius or maybe the Planet of the Apes should annex Madagascar.
The locals have the habit of killing them on sight. The locals hate every ape they see, from chimpan-a to chimpanzee, but they hate aye-ayes in particular. Yeah, I know aye-ayes aren't even apes, they're prosimians. Shut up.
They're also the world's largest nocturnal primate, which I find odd. I'd think there'd be some kind of nocturnal monkey, or galagos would be larger. It probably didn't help that most of the pictures I've seen are babies.
Either Kira or Geena, I can't tell, and I x-rayed a painted turtle; we got the cranial-caudal and ventral views by taping him to a box.
He swam a bit lopsided, that might be because his lungs are filled with crapola and it might just be because he's being weighed down on one side by the zipties, or it might be a combination of both.
His shell is healing but he has months to go before release. Besides, there's no food in the winter and their immune system goes to shit so it's hard to brumate (that's the reptile equivalent of hibernate) upon release, so he'll probably winter with us instead. Besides, it takes four to six months for a reptile's bones to heal completely, and that's only once the infection is removed.
One of the squirrels is losing fur. The waxwing needs to learn to eat on his own because we won't be following him around the woods with tweezers. Other than that, the releases are doing great. It's almost time for Raccoon Roundup, in which the interns run around with nets trying to catch raccoons and vaccinate them before they get taken to a state park and released.
Courtney took a video of a raccoon grabbing a toy and taking it in with him in the swing but he's too fat and he drops it and then falls out.
I dreamt of Angkor Wat and jewelry made out of the photonegatives from old trips to Cambodia, and burnt out abandoned mansions, where the floor plan seemed like my high school.
I met a different Courtney, who has a Day of the Dead skull tattoo, so I, of course, had to tell her about the altar at the Peabody Museum. I also met a man with a tattoo of a sorceress amongst flowers, a parrot, and skulls.
Meredith asked this. She's never seen Back to the Future but should because Biff is totally based on Donald Trump.
Burning Question: What's with middle class white men and nukes?
Jean was watching a seal necropsy but we got good news anyway.
This isn't so much good news from Madagascar, as Madagascar discovering environmentalism would probably herald the end of the world, in which, I don't know, aye-ayes will grow to the size of giraffes and sprout wings, as it is good news involving something indigenous to Madagascar.
An aye-aye went on a romantic getaway from Japan to Jersey so they can keep the gene pool diverse.
Supposedly, they have a spooky as fuck call, but I am alas unable to find a recording of one. What's more well known is their middle finger that is extra-long and can rotate 360 degrees so they can eat insect larvae that live inside the wood. Their incisors continually grow. I learned about them in physical anthropology, which was mostly about primate evolution.
There's one out there named Smeagol, which is an apt name for one. There are only 51 aye-ayes in zoos, which means we have an inbreeding problem.
Also, I think Mauritius or maybe the Planet of the Apes should annex Madagascar.
The locals have the habit of killing them on sight. The locals hate every ape they see, from chimpan-a to chimpanzee, but they hate aye-ayes in particular. Yeah, I know aye-ayes aren't even apes, they're prosimians. Shut up.
They're also the world's largest nocturnal primate, which I find odd. I'd think there'd be some kind of nocturnal monkey, or galagos would be larger. It probably didn't help that most of the pictures I've seen are babies.
Either Kira or Geena, I can't tell, and I x-rayed a painted turtle; we got the cranial-caudal and ventral views by taping him to a box.
He swam a bit lopsided, that might be because his lungs are filled with crapola and it might just be because he's being weighed down on one side by the zipties, or it might be a combination of both.
His shell is healing but he has months to go before release. Besides, there's no food in the winter and their immune system goes to shit so it's hard to brumate (that's the reptile equivalent of hibernate) upon release, so he'll probably winter with us instead. Besides, it takes four to six months for a reptile's bones to heal completely, and that's only once the infection is removed.
One of the squirrels is losing fur. The waxwing needs to learn to eat on his own because we won't be following him around the woods with tweezers. Other than that, the releases are doing great. It's almost time for Raccoon Roundup, in which the interns run around with nets trying to catch raccoons and vaccinate them before they get taken to a state park and released.
Courtney took a video of a raccoon grabbing a toy and taking it in with him in the swing but he's too fat and he drops it and then falls out.
I dreamt of Angkor Wat and jewelry made out of the photonegatives from old trips to Cambodia, and burnt out abandoned mansions, where the floor plan seemed like my high school.
I met a different Courtney, who has a Day of the Dead skull tattoo, so I, of course, had to tell her about the altar at the Peabody Museum. I also met a man with a tattoo of a sorceress amongst flowers, a parrot, and skulls.
Meredith asked this. She's never seen Back to the Future but should because Biff is totally based on Donald Trump.
Burning Question: What's with middle class white men and nukes?
