+1 for planet-appropriate reference.

Jones had a hard life. Addicted to smack by the Navy to ensure his compliance, turned into a cyborg, and forced to do awful Navy things, then left on the beach when he outlived his usefulness.

The picture is of Jones, the junkie cyborg dolphin from Jonny Mnenomic.

They’re not over its eyes. That’s even weirder.

If they caught a human diver, they would balance him on their noses until he surrendered.

This sort of thing:

The degree of competence shown in even the earliest cave paintings by modern humans (Chauvet cave, for instance) suggests you’re right - a long preceding tradition of figurative art on perishable materials.

I believe that the initial outbreak was in a Navajo community, although remembering that far back is a bit of a stretch.

Could these be depictions of Kluver figures?

One of my teaching assistants told me that bumblebees are the charismatic megafauna of the insect world. She studied them, though, so she was maybe biased.

Those videos were, for the most part, difficult to interpret. The birds are largely following the time-honoured bird protocol of posing before a brighter background, so that the observer can’t make out much detail, and they’re so far away.

Well, what’s its mass in elephants? Or blue whales?

I had a box turtle that wouldn’t eat - was going steadily downhill, no matter what I did. Then someone gave me another box turtle and my original turtle perked up, began following the other one around the house and recovered its appetite. That was all it took.

Given the results of the recent Alberta election, I’d say that some of the people of Canada deserve to have fingers pointed at them. The UCP candidates in ridings where the fires were the worst (and still burning) still got elected. Today our premier went on record as seeing the problem as a matter of arson, rather…

Old-World sparrowhawks eat a lot of birds, but these are mostly songbirds. And kestrels feed mainly on small rodents, not birds. Neither of these sounds like a species whose calls would particularly disturb much bigger game birds. The authors of this paper seemed to think that the flutes more likely served some other…

We have a conservative government in Alberta, so of course essential services were cut.

I know. Nobody saw this coming. Right out of the blue.