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Toledo Zoo first to record biofluorescence in Tasmanian Devils
- sybercecurity 6y agoQuick background for people thinking to themselves "Toledo? What?" Toledo OH used to be a fairly wealthy industrial city (second tier to cities like Detroit, Cleveland, etc.) with a fairly wealthy business class. As a result, the city zoo and art museum is better than expected for a city of its size and current economic status.
- brianzelip 6y agoThe zoo was a WPA project!
- jcims 6y agoOhio has to be one of the best zoo states in the country.
- m463 6y agoand roller coasters.
- pivo 6y agoThe art museum there is also pretty good. I lived in Toledo for most of high school.
- beoberha 6y agoMuch like Detroit and Cleveland, the Toledo suburbs are quite affluent even though the city itself is on hard times. Very cool to see my hometown on HN :D
- sandworm101 6y agoI still think of Toledo as the place Klinger came from. Im sure is a great place with a culture of its own, but that's where my minds goes to when it is mentioned. I wonder how many nightshift zoo keepers are searching for blacklights on amazon right now.
- selimthegrim 6y agoRobert Ghrist of TDA fame did his undergrad at UToledo I think.
- briankelly 6y agoAlso Willard from Apocalypse Now. But anyone from Toledo asked "how far [is Toledo] from the river?" Would probably not be thinking of the Ohio river.
- pmiller2 6y agoJust a little bit of MASH trivia for you, then: Tony Packo's is a real place. https://www.tonypacko.com/ https://www.tonypacko.com/
- tptacek 6y agoWe used to make the trek from Ann Arbor to Toledo with the kids just to go to the zoo. It's solid. Lots of great WPA architecture, too.
- nine_k 6y agoMy first thought was Toledo in Spain, the "original" one.
- pmiller2 6y agoI've been to both, and I can confirm this. I think the art museum is definitely leagues above what you'd expect, and the zoo was named Best Zoo in America in 2014 by USA Today, according to Wikipedia. IIRC, they were also the first zoo in the US to exhibit giant pandas, which no zoo in the world can get ahold of except on loan from China.
- Cactus2018 6y agoNote: This is biofluorescence (absorption and reemission of light from living organisms), and not bioluminescence (biochemical emission of light by living organisms such as fireflies).
- alkonaut 6y agoSo basically they were just really excited? (sorry)
- jonathanoliver 6y agoI think Loony Tunes captured this perfectly with the whirlwind/tornado effect around the Tasmanian Devil (Taz).
- nullc 6y agoI wonder if this discovery is related to the similar recent discovery in sugar gliders: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/flying-squirrels-fluorescent-secretly-glow-pink/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/flying-sq...
- vrc 6y agoI believe the article says it was prompted by the recent discoveries of these characteristics in platypuses and wombats
- astrea 6y agoI like the idea that zookeepers are now walking around shining ultraviolet light on their animals to see which ones light up
- medium_burrito 6y agoBetter not to do that with sheep in Scotland!
- fierarul 6y agoNo offence, but the Toledo is in Spain. I would like to see a photo but I see the site blocks my EU IP entirely.
- est31 6y agohttps://www.instagram.com/p/CIbgfuolTeH https://www.instagram.com/p/CIbgfuolTeH https://instaxyz.com/viewmedia/CIbgfuolTeH https://instaxyz.com/viewmedia/CIbgfuolTeH
- Raphmedia 6y agohttps://teddit.net/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/k7h99c/toledo_zoo_reports_first_case_of_bio_fluorescence/ https://teddit.net/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/k7h99c/toledo...
- schwartzworld 6y agoIt's a local news site from Ohio. It's completely reasonable that they would refer to Toledo by name without specifying Ohio, America.
- nkrisc 6y agoNo, that's Toh-lay-doh. We're talking about Toh-lee-doh here.
- sandworm101 6y agoProbably more than half of US placenames have oldworld equivalents. Paris is in texas. Bagdad is in florida. London is in Ohio. Canada is actually a town in Kansas. Not every city can be New Somethingorother.
- medium_burrito 6y agoAthens, GA is named due to having seven hills like of the famous cities in antiquity.
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- coldelectrons 6y agoFirst thing I thought of was Gears of War and lambent wretches.