borrowed lives
Nov. 2nd, 2015 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaOne of the few good things about daylight savings time ending is that when I wake up in the morning, it's not so dark that I'm still producing melatonin upon waking up.
I'm probably going to have to tattoo this on my wrist because I forgot to do this yet again: look up the endocrine system in that Smithsonian book on humans.
The raccoons are all gone. They're too small to be released so they're going to be wintered with someone else where they get an indoor/outdoor enclosure while we clean up for next year's batch. The waxwing (the drunks of the bird world: they'll eat fermented berries) is gone too. We have a red squirrel and a flying squirrel and some injured birds.
I'm still hearing crickets in the woods and seeing grasshoppers on the driveway. I checked the pumpkin trail and I'm pretty sure somebody bought Batman, Bob melted, and Kira's pumpkin depicting the interns collapsed on itself and I'm sure she's very sad about that. A few of the trees are even mostly green.
Bethany says her favorite domesticated animals are rabbits and her favorite wild animals are wolves, and her favorite extinct animals are possibly the dire wolf or more likely, the smilodon or a relative. Pachycephalosaurus and parasaurolophus are Bethany's favorite dinosaurs. Parasaurophulus could most likely vocalize and even produce specialized vocalizations through its crest. I think charonosaurus has the better name, of course. Also, there's a Yamaceratops, which I find amazing, and a Sarahsaurus, which just kind of stuck out. There's a Gojirasaurus, according to Wikipedia.
Fulgurotherium is a dinosaur, not a mammal. Basilosaurus is a whale, not a reptile.
The ones that stick out to me that aren't dinosaurs are hallucigenia and gorgonopsids, the first one because they're so bizarre (Bethany is unsure if it was actually someone's spine, given zero context, obviously) and the second one because I'm replaying the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy.
She's amazed by how crocodilians and horseshoe crabs have remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, and told me about an alligator who had musket balls from the civil war era stuck in it. What she actually meant was people were finding musket balls lodged in the shells of alligator snapping turtles.
The oldest captive alligator is only about 75 years old.
A bunny got spayed, another bunny needed his leg looked at because he was abandoned somewhere and his leg is really fucked up, and a frog got x-rayed and we did this by putting him in a bag and taping the bag to the x-ray plate, a turtle had the zip ties on his shell redone.
Nicole described the way cockatoos talk as a raspy screechy devil cockatoo voice, which I unfortunately did not get the opportunity to hear. She says you can maybe tell their sex by their eye color but she finds it way too difficult. Supposedly males have darker eyes, but Cleo and whatever the other one's name is had dark eyes to me.
Burning Question: can Amazon just get rid of helpful and non-helpful votes for reviews? This is how it works in a nutshell: if the review is positive, it's considered helpful and if the review is negative, it's considered unhelpful, unless the writer pisses off the Amazon community in some way, in which case, it's reversed. And for that matter, will Blogger ever have a crackdown on stalking and doxing?
I'm probably going to have to tattoo this on my wrist because I forgot to do this yet again: look up the endocrine system in that Smithsonian book on humans.
The raccoons are all gone. They're too small to be released so they're going to be wintered with someone else where they get an indoor/outdoor enclosure while we clean up for next year's batch. The waxwing (the drunks of the bird world: they'll eat fermented berries) is gone too. We have a red squirrel and a flying squirrel and some injured birds.
I'm still hearing crickets in the woods and seeing grasshoppers on the driveway. I checked the pumpkin trail and I'm pretty sure somebody bought Batman, Bob melted, and Kira's pumpkin depicting the interns collapsed on itself and I'm sure she's very sad about that. A few of the trees are even mostly green.
Bethany says her favorite domesticated animals are rabbits and her favorite wild animals are wolves, and her favorite extinct animals are possibly the dire wolf or more likely, the smilodon or a relative. Pachycephalosaurus and parasaurolophus are Bethany's favorite dinosaurs. Parasaurophulus could most likely vocalize and even produce specialized vocalizations through its crest. I think charonosaurus has the better name, of course. Also, there's a Yamaceratops, which I find amazing, and a Sarahsaurus, which just kind of stuck out. There's a Gojirasaurus, according to Wikipedia.
Fulgurotherium is a dinosaur, not a mammal. Basilosaurus is a whale, not a reptile.
The ones that stick out to me that aren't dinosaurs are hallucigenia and gorgonopsids, the first one because they're so bizarre (Bethany is unsure if it was actually someone's spine, given zero context, obviously) and the second one because I'm replaying the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy.
She's amazed by how crocodilians and horseshoe crabs have remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, and told me about an alligator who had musket balls from the civil war era stuck in it. What she actually meant was people were finding musket balls lodged in the shells of alligator snapping turtles.
The oldest captive alligator is only about 75 years old.
A bunny got spayed, another bunny needed his leg looked at because he was abandoned somewhere and his leg is really fucked up, and a frog got x-rayed and we did this by putting him in a bag and taping the bag to the x-ray plate, a turtle had the zip ties on his shell redone.
Nicole described the way cockatoos talk as a raspy screechy devil cockatoo voice, which I unfortunately did not get the opportunity to hear. She says you can maybe tell their sex by their eye color but she finds it way too difficult. Supposedly males have darker eyes, but Cleo and whatever the other one's name is had dark eyes to me.
Burning Question: can Amazon just get rid of helpful and non-helpful votes for reviews? This is how it works in a nutshell: if the review is positive, it's considered helpful and if the review is negative, it's considered unhelpful, unless the writer pisses off the Amazon community in some way, in which case, it's reversed. And for that matter, will Blogger ever have a crackdown on stalking and doxing?
