Wildlife

[HVC]

That octopus looks like something I pooped out.

Anyways, today was squirrel day. Little fuckers were all over the place. I "misplaced" a bag of peanuts in the shell for them.

im not sure if that ominous or endearing

[Ed Anger]

That octopus looks like something I pooped out.

Anyways, today was squirrel day. Little fuckers were all over the place. I "misplaced" a bag of peanuts in the shell for them.

im not sure if that ominous or endearing

[Malthus]

That octopus looks like something I pooped out.

Anyways, today was squirrel day. Little fuckers were all over the place. I "misplaced" a bag of peanuts in the shell for them.

im not sure if that ominous or endearing

Was he humming this tune at the time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

[mongers]

Interesting item about leprosy in red squirrels. In addition to most carrying it, an isolated island population in a harbour near here still carry a strain close to that found in medieval times. :gasp:

Red squirrels! Adorable, right? Wrong – they're riddled with leprosy
Fluffy tree-dwellers carry ancient disease, say boffins
By Alexander J Martin, 11 Nov 2016

Blighty's dwindling population of red squirrels is riddled with leprosy, according to new research.

Not full-on leprosy, but leprosy-lite, according to a paper with the Ronseal title of Leprosy in Red Squirrels, published in Science, alongside a report titled Red squirrels in the British Isles are infected with leprosy bacilli.

While studying populations of the endangered critters, which are facing habitat destruction and competition from their grey North American cousins, boffins found that some in Scotland had begun to spout strange growths from their extremities.

This was discovered to be Mycobacterium lepromatosis, a newly discovered form of leprosy which can infect humans but is not the classical cause of the disease.

After reporting the wart-like growths, the researchers received alerts from the public about other strange squirrel sightings across the UK, and the University of Edinburgh's Professor Anna Meredith checked out reports from the isolated Brownsea Island in Dorset, where red squirrels were discovered to be infected with the classical form of the disease.

With so much leprosy going around, the researchers conducted a full-on study using genomics, histopathology, and serology, and found that the newer leprosy was infecting squirrels from England, Ireland, and Scotland, and the classic leprosy bacteria in squirrels from Brownsea Island.
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Full article here:
http://m.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/11/red_squirrel_leper_peril/

[garbon]

Leprosy Lite?

[Josquius]

Planet earth 2 and those snakes.
Nightmare fuel

[Liep]

Planet earth 2 and those snakes.
Nightmare fuel

Very true. Also I've seen plenty of action movies with less thrill than the Iguana chase.

[mongers]

Planet earth 2 and those snakes.
Nightmare fuel

Very true. Also I've seen plenty of action movies with less thrill than the Iguana chase.

Indeed and very 'red in tooth and claw'.