Craig P

New from Abby Desmond and me in Aeon! Our original title was ‘Intelligence is not a thing’. Because where you see intelligence depends on who you are, what you know. It’s fine for humans - it’s our thing - but for animals/AI we need to be better at asking what success really means for them 🧪🪶🐝🦊🕷️🐬🏺

Why ‘intelligence’ exists only in the eye of the beholder | Aeon Essaysaeon.co Our human minds hold us back from truly understanding the many brilliant ways that other creatures solve their problems

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Get To Know Nature

I think this is a hoverfly, and it sat like this for a while. Napping maybe. We all know the drowsies after a big meal.

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Craig P

I know some of you need a cicada backpack 🧪🪲

Cicada Shell Backpackstore.dftba.com This Cicada Shell Backpack celebrates the coinciding emergence of the 17-year Brood XIII and 13-year Brood XIX in 2024, an event that only happens every 221 yrs! Made from durable canvas, it is the pe...

Also, all you gotta do is wear some Realtree camo and face paint and a hat with leaves and branches affixed to it. Then wear this backpack. Boom, awesome tree costume with a unique twist

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Vulpesmellifera

Exact same boat here

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Craig P

The wise old ogre tree watching over the fireflies at Elkmont Campground, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

What’s this little bunched up hiding dude? (Found in NW GA, underside of a goldenrod leaf) @apsciencebydan.bsky.social

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Matt Shipman (he/him)

Why can I kill a plant by overwatering, but can grow a cutting of that plant in 100% water. Does it have to do with concentrations of solutions and transfer across cell walls?

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Get To Know Nature

You can also upload a recording to iNaturalist. But it’s hard to isolate an individual frog species (at least in summer here in the south!)

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Patrick

They are awesome flyers and bug catchers. Watched a pair this weekend taking turns feeding their 4 hatchlings by bug hunting all day in the neighboring meadow.

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Michèle Sharik

I love bird school season

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Same here. One juvy mockingbird likes to drive off all comers, then the woodpeckers and thrashers move him off.

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Craig P

Barred Owl (Strix varia) Got a heads up on this birds location. After a short hike, I found it in gorgeous, afternoon, filtered sunlight. 🐕‍🦺😀 Nikon d850, Nikkor 500mm f/4 lens w/Nikon 1.4x teleconverter Stony Brook Reservation West Roxbury, MA 🇺🇸🪶#birds