Sarah Primate

Sarah Primate

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B.A. Biological Anthropology. M.A. in Biology (Conservation Biology). Animal lover. Primates Are Not Pets. Things I post about: Archaeology/Anthropology, Wildlife Conservation, Animals, Science. Opinions my own. Currently in SE Arizona.

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Yup. This childless cat lady is with her.

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The American Goldfinches are at maximum yellow. I love this time of year. #yellow 🪶🌿

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project 2025 hates bears. pass it on to friends who love wildlife.

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The bird with the sky on its back. Mountain bluebird.

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Some of us have been urging a transition off Twitter for 18 months and now its owner is pumping $45m a month into Trump’s campaign while rate limiting Kamala Harris’s account. Quit the site. Delete accounts. Staying only gives money to Trump. It isn’t neutral and it isn’t innocent. Leave.

Trump-Lover Elon Musk Is Already Causing Kamala Harris Problemsnewrepublic.com People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign X (formerly Twitter) account.

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Cocaine found in muscle and liver of sharpnose sharks off coast of Rio de Janeirophys.org A team of marine biologists and ecotoxicologists affiliated with several institutions in Brazil has found cocaine in muscle and liver samples collected from Brazilian Sharpnose sharks harvested off th...

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False stereotypes mean endangered animals are being protected in the wrong places, say researchersphys.org Giant pandas reclining in cloudy hills eating bamboo, European bison picking their way through gloomy and lichen-draped forests and Cape mountain zebra roaming arid mountains. Ideas of how and where t...

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Bugs thrive in urban Los Angeles—volunteers' traps reveal biodiversity hot spots for city insects and spidersphys.org The most significant predictors of bug biodiversity in Los Angeles are proximity to the mountains and temperature stability throughout the year, according to a study weco-authored with Brian V. Brown ...

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Ecologists discover rare fiddler crab species on Hong Kong coastphys.org Researchers from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) and the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), in collaboration with National Chung Hsing University, ...

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Octopus and squid pigments enhance sunscreen without harming the environment, researchers sayphys.org When Northeastern graduate Camille Martin and associate professor Leila Deravi co-founded Seaspire, a skincare ingredients company inspired by pigment in octopus and squid, their goal was to create a ...

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Off Ecuador's Galapagos, a former shark-poaching ship's new missionphys.org When Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the Galapagos Islands in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached fish, many of them threatened species like hammerhead and thresher s...

Chimpanzees communicate in similar quick-fire fashion to humans, study showswww.theguardian.com Analysis of thousands of wild chimp gestures in east Africa found striking similarities to human conversations

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Country Diary: Is my magpie friend using ant acid to get high? | Claire Stareswww.theguardian.com Langstone, Havant: This curious behaviour is one I witnessed this week in my garden

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Giraffe relocation in Kenya – in pictureswww.theguardian.com In western Kenya, wild giraffes are being relocated to the Ruko Conservancy to maintain peace between the Pokot and Ilchamus communities

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Kamala Harris could set ‘new high bar for climate ambition’, advocates saywww.theguardian.com Vice-president’s record on climate crisis strikes stark contrast with Trump in potential 2024 election match-up

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This is the final image to share from my Common Loon encounter last summer that gave me so many great photos. Douglas Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada July 2023 📷 #birds #loon #diver #COLO #nature #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #Nikon #Z9 #Sigma500f4

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It's Junior day at the mini-spa! Lifeguard is on duty (house sparrow and American robin) #birds

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Here is the new official Logo, please share and repost!!

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I just want to hear all the men of Congress saying this "madam President" ❤️🔥

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Tijuana River sewage flows last year broke all records since 2000: It's on track to do it againphys.org The amount of contaminated water laced with raw sewage that is flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border into San Diego County exceeded 44 billion gallons in 2023, the most on record in the last quarter-c...

Museum collections indicate Central Europe was a global biodiversity hotspot 15 million years agophys.org The collections of natural history museums are unique archives of evolution. They allow us to look far into the geological past. Shells of marine snails are particularly common fossils and are well su...

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New genetic test can help eliminate a form of inherited blindness in dogsphys.org Progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) is a group of inherited diseases that causes progressive degeneration of the light sensitive cells at the back of the eye. Dogs with PRA have normal sight at birth, b...

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Giraffes bring peace to Kenyan communities once at oddsphys.org On a vast farm in Kenya's Rift Valley, a veterinarian carefully takes aim before shooting a tranquiliser dart and sending another giraffe sinking slowly to the ground before it is roped and blindfolde...

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Smell of human stress can affect dogs' emotions, leading them to make more pessimistic choicesphys.org Dogs experience emotional contagion from the smell of human stress, leading them to make more 'pessimistic' choices, new research finds. The University of Bristol-led study, published in Scientific Re...

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Biologists discover male elephants use infrasonic rumbles to signal 'let's go'phys.org Bull elephants gather in the evening coolness to drink. After a spell, a senior male lifts his head and turns from the waterhole. With ears flapping gently, he lets out a deep, resonant rumble.

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Colorado grasshopper boom causing headaches for gardeners, farmersphys.org If there seems to be a boom of buzzing and chirping insects bouncing through backyards, gardens and parks this year, it's not in your head—the grasshoppers are taking over Colorado.

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‘Massacred for TikTok likes’: is social media feeding the slaughter of 2.6m birds in Lebanon?www.theguardian.com Hunting migratory birds is illegal in the country, but a series of crises means enforcement is derisory and many birds are being shot ‘just for fun’

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Trophy hunting of Amboseli’s super-tuskers in Tanzania sparks outrage, calls for a bannews.mongabay.com Conservationists have called for a halt to trophy hunting of elephants from Kenya’s Amboseli National Park that cross over into neighboring Tanzania, following the killing of at least five males with ...

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Rare orange lobster diverted from dinner plate to aquarium by Denver Broncos fansabcnews.go.com The Downtown Aquarium in Denver has a new resident — a rare orange lobster that was rescued from a shipment of crustaceans delivered to a Red Lobster restaurant in Pueblo, Colorado