Can that even happen now? I remember reading years ago about how even the water table is polluted.
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Can that even happen now? I remember reading years ago about how even the water table is polluted.
www.indiawaterportal.org/water-qualit...
What a remarkable story and find !!
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
Technically, any animal in the ocean? At least Moana said fish pee all day!
#2026MMM youtu.be/_3YakE-kP2M
Torn Ear Lion squats down to urinate onto the ground, saturating mold, and then immediately scratches his claws through the moldy urine mud on the ground (Matoba et al. 2013) #2026MMM journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The upside is, becoming a Cabinet member reveals how little Fox news “experts” actually know about their pretend specialties. #Iran bsky.app/profile/rata...
I’m still upset about the bat’s ignominious defeat in #2026MMM at the paws of a mere lazy cat. #BatScandal 🦇
Which reminds me- I got this message on FB today...
Up next: #6-seed cat (Felis catus) vs #11-seed common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) #2026MMM
Grey striped cat yawning, pink tongue lolling out
Up next: 6-seed cat (Felis catus) vs 11-seed common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) #2026MMM
Will the #CatScandal this year be the House Cat somehow winning twice in #2026MMM? I bet the #RNGMMM is just a cat with a laptop.
WOW WHAT A NIGHT!
Crocodile, Mouse, Grey Fox, Eurasian Eagle Owl, Cat, Dog, White Stork, & LIONS ADVANCE! #2026MMM
#2026 LIBRARY LEGENDS ROUND 1 WINNERS:
Nile Crocodile, Mouse, Gray Fox, Eurasian Eagle Owl, Domestic Cat, Domestic Dog, White Stork, Lions
Please join us Monday 3/16 at 8PM EST for Round 1 of Extinction is Forever!
Are you planning to #AltAdvance on some poor lion’s paw?
A photo of an old book simply decimated by a reddish mold: the open book shows the middle of both pages just completely eaten away from the middle out. Photo by Pemba.mpimaji and shared via Wikimedia.
A process diagram showing the mechanisms of fungal biodeterioration of paper. This is figure 1 from El Jaddaoui, I., Ghazal, H., & Bennett, J. W. (2023).
Our other combatant is the second most dangerous threat to libraries worldwide...MOLD! (Jaddaoui, Ghazal, and Bennett 2023) Molds are a type of structure certain fungi make and are *primo* at breaking down organic matter from plants and animals. #NotMyLeatherBoundBooks #BOOKCARNAGE #2026MMM
An image of a petri dish with four three-day-old Aspergillus (mold) colonies. Taken by Adrian C Hunter and shared on Wikimedia.
Image of an adult male lion with a fluffy dark mane laying regally on a rock. Photo taken by Giles Laurent and shared via Wikimedia.
Last Up: #2 Lions (Panthera leo) vs. #15 Mold (Aspergillus sp.)! A #2026MMM collab between @mammalssuck.bsky.social and myself!
So it is possible to lose twice in one round of #2026MMM.
GRAY FOX RE-EATS BOOK SCORPION!!! #2026MMM
Photo of a Fox
Photo of a Book Scorpion
Moving On: #5-seed Grey Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) vs. #12-seed Book Scorpion (Chelifer cancroides) #2026MMM
MEANWHILE... Cairo, Egypt, deep in the Manuscripts Library of the Coptic Museum are stored 6000 papyrus and other artifacts... so many organic materials including leather, fur, wood, linen, wool, & paper (El-Hassan et al. 2021). #2026MMM
Sadie looks up at Oliver
with big golden, amber eyes
as he tilts a page of
"The Eyes and the Impossible" to her,
showing Sadie the beautiful illustrations
of a dog who races to protect
his animal friends throughout a park by the sea. #NewburyMedalWinner #2026MMM
A happy Kelpie dog at the Sydney Opera House that is seagull patrol!
A happy Kelpie dog at the Sydney Opera House that is seagull patrol!
A happy Kelpie dog at the Sydney Opera House that is seagull patrol!
Before any other animals were domesticated, dogs became human's best friend. Dogs have myriad roles across & within human cultures- protection, hunting, herding, search, rescue, guide/service, emotional comfort... sled-pulling, cancer-detecting, the list goes on! (Chira et al. 2023) #2026MMM
A beautiful mountain dog- NOT THE COMBATANT
A beautiful Book Louse- THE COMBATANT.
Next Up: #3 Dog (Canis lupus familiaris) vs. #14 Book Louse (Liposcelis bostrychophila) #2026MMM
Note: image is not combatant dog, combatant dog is the Official MMM Art that you will see shortly by @opellisms.bsky.social
Sections of Hunefer's Book of the Dead written on papyrus. From Wikipedia
But it might have become part of a piece of art — a type of immortality! #2026MMM
At that point, Papyrus should have just claimed the Win and walked away a #2026MMM champion.
Papyrus is a giant grasslike plant with triangular blades known as a sedge. Papyrus wetlands are important for biodiversity, for water quality, floodwater management, and contribute directly and indirectly to the livelihoods of millions of people. (Van Dam 2014) #2026MMM
Photo of Crocodile
Photo of Papyrus thicket
First Up: #1-seed Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) vs. #16-seed Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) #2026MMM
Fig 2 (from Alves et al 2015): Reduction of genetic diversity along the rabbit domestication route. Each of the 45 circles represents a single microsatellite coloured according to the proportion of the expected heterozygosity per microsatellite present on its respective population. Note that the two wild samples (Iberian Peninsula and France) are proxies for the ancient wild samples that were involved in colonization of France and domestication. Shaded areas indicate the different bottleneck events that occurred at the colonization of France, initial domestication event, and breed formation. Values aside arrows show the amount of genetic diversity lost in each event estimated using a resampling methodology (See Methods).
300+ rabbit breeds trace back to 1 domestication from the European rabbit that still hops wild in Spain today. DNA shows steps of diversity loss: Iberia → France → breeds. One species, one funnel 🐰 #2026MMM journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Recent progression of house mice from Western Europe to Eastern North America. Hypothesized colonization history of house mice in Eastern North America showing divergence times as inferred from demographic modeling. Black dashed arrow illustrates migration of house mice from Western Europe to eastern North America.
A mouse in the house? Almost definitely. The house mouse (Mus musculus) moved in with humans 15,000 years ago, but they’re new to the Americas—hitching a ride on European ships in the 1500s. #2026MMM pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Rabbits attacking a human.
This is the kind of carnage I was promised.
#2026MMM
MOUSE OUTLASTS EUROPEAN RABBIT!!! #2026MMM
