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by pvaldes 2y ago
Iberian lynx live in open habitats are diurnal and can be spot in their favorite places to rest at day by the national park rangers. There are tours for lynx watching in Doñana park. Not a guaranteed sight, but lots of tourists still have l
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> How about you give sheep to the cats? That would be a fair trade. A win-win situation, having in mind the fantastic work done from those cats on protecting orchards, timber plantations and fruit trees. Benefits that every rural-apocaly
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> Can you breed them with other very similar cats in captivity to introduce genetic diversity Not. Or at least not a thing to do without a lot of previous planning and backups. Lynx hybrids can carry a sterile gen. Messing with biology i
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by pvaldes 2y ago
My bet is that the recent stupid culling of wolves and lynxes in Nordic countries is also directly linked with appeasing people in rural communities for the next European elections. It will be an expensive mistake, as people will discover s
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by pvaldes 2y ago
European lynxes eat basically solitary roe deer and snow hares (In that sense they benefit, not harm, sheep farmers). They rely strongly on stealth and probably would have a hard time ambushing sheep from a flock with thousands of eyes watc
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Breeding then really carefully for decades. Those 94 in the wild were most probably underestimated. A few cryptic wild populations were rediscovered later.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
After a sustained, serious, painfully slow effort fighting against all harsh critics since 80's and 90's. A long-life work that can be undone at any time by arsonists, furtive hunters and populist politicians. Iberian lynx conserv
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by pvaldes 2y ago
I had found it in several species of pelagic dolphins and beaked whales. Is not uncommon in some cetaceans but the beaks are very plain, square. Lacking distinctive features aren't really easy to identify, except after discarding all t
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by pvaldes 2y ago
They are talking about the cool spaceship disguised as cephalopod: Tanigia danae (2 meter long). https://schmidtocean.org/wp-content/uploads/Taningia-danae.j... All that their preys see is two big oblique glowing
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by pvaldes 2y ago
As a rule of thumb, If something seemed too good to be true, but then never was adopted at scale; assume that it didn't worked as planned in the real life, and was silently discarded to save face. Lost of trust in a mega-project is a s
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by pvaldes 2y ago
A Cosmopolitan species in fact that can be found from Naples to Florida, Alaska to Santiago de Chile, Sidney to Madagascar and from Norway to South-Africa. Conquered every single ocean except the poles and the Eastern part of the Mediterra
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Maybe, but the motivation is unclear. Lone wolves killing somebody with such wide difference in status just because, without a expected big reward to make worth the risk... is not so common. Can't fall to remind the scene in Batman whe
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Even without terrorism, if they really tried to manipulate the engine to save gas, a charge of constructive manslaughter [1] could be easily raised at least. With several workers killed, I doubt that the crew will be allowed to resume their
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> What's a "dwarf proof"? A proof with a stunted development obviously, so it never grow as tall as the other proofs and can be spotted as dubious from a mile even if it wears high soles to hide it.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
This is another of this latest historical or scientific news that look a lot like created by AI. > Over half of the bones came from blue whales. This claim just does not made a lot of sense. > Spectroscopy, which reveals the chemical
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Managing every ecosystem in the planet as if it everything would be an Australian ecosystem is not a wise idea.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Nice animal in US, but a cute pest in Europe. Biologists must keep killing them to avoid their expansion to new areas. Was removed from UK but is not so easy in the continental areas. The local populations can be decimated by diseases like
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> it were something man-made having the same impact as cats on bird populations there would be protests demanding that it be banned. First we would need to study the real impact of cats on bird populations, specially out of islands. Is a
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by pvaldes 2y ago
This claim is probably overblown. Cats can't fly.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> if there was another intelligent species in Deep Time, if they never engaged in wide-spread reshaping of the planet (huge population, large-scale mining and construction, etc), how would we be able to tell they existed? Because they wi
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by pvaldes 2y ago
As the Flinstones teach everybody, don't do the work if a beaver can chop it for you
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by pvaldes 2y ago
There is a lot of wood in all houses even in North Concretia. Every house is filled with wood furniture.
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by pvaldes 3y ago
> Thus leaving no trace of her entering the EU as a Russian national Computer systems of face recognition deployed everywhere would want to say something about that bright plan
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by pvaldes 3y ago
Insects are important for human survival. The article is probably related with the studies that show an allegedly decline of insects in the current sixth extinction context.
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by pvaldes 3y ago
You either had clay in the soil, or need to add a thick layer of clay for that. Then you use machines to compact the clay layer, remove air and made it watertight. Put water, will turn into a brown mess, wait for the clay sinking eventually
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by pvaldes 3y ago
The two species of mosquitofish used normally aren't native from California but its main problem is that they are boring as a can. There are much more interesting options: Like the Coastal Threespine Stickleback. Sticklebacks are the c
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by pvaldes 3y ago
Less than 100 Liters is very difficult to manage but aim for 500-800 Liters at very minimum because you will want to make your pond bigger later. This can fit in any a little boring coin of a garden and will became the best part of the gard
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by pvaldes 3y ago
Take in mind that the common species of mosquitofish is a nasty invader in Europe and this is "advice from 70's". We know better currently. --Don't do it--. Some mosquitofishes and many killifishes in America are endange
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by pvaldes 3y ago
They are basically incompatible. Fishes eat frog eggs. Frogs eat small fishes. Ponds without fishes sustain a much higher diversity of invertebrates and amphibians (and this means more clear water). If the pond is of a decent size and amphi
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by pvaldes 3y ago
If you grow vegetables in an urban environment the rain will bring a lot of undesired things in any case. Is unavoidable. Regulations (and the complicated plant metabolism) can fix that Apart of that, is not required to wash the tomatoes di

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