Amazing Nature
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Re: Amazing Nature
Yes, I could imagine you stood there with a bag of chips and a slice of lemon - next to the LHG with her chopsticks and a spot of Soy Sauce!
Would it be classed as "Road Kill" I wonder...
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Re: Amazing Nature
‘The thinner tree was cut years ago and the big one has been holding and feeding it since then. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn’
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which parts of two different trees, commonly but not exclusively the same species, grow together, self grafting and sharing nutrients
The term emanates from latin- ōsculārī, to kiss
Rebecca Herbert - Environmental Journalist, Tired Earth
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Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which parts of two different trees, commonly but not exclusively the same species, grow together, self grafting and sharing nutrients
The term emanates from latin- ōsculārī, to kiss
Rebecca Herbert - Environmental Journalist, Tired Earthhttps://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Lb5FLZ1AB/
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Re: Amazing Nature
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
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Re: Amazing Nature
Great photography!!
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Re: Amazing Nature
It begs the question what else is yet to be discovered in the vast areas of "Permafrost"...
Scientists Unveil 50,000-Year-old Baby Mammoth Remains
"Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the remote Yakutia region of Siberia during the summer.
They say "Yana" - who has been named after the river basin where she was discovered - is the world's best-preserved mammoth carcass.
Weighing in at over 100kg (15st 10lb), and measuring 120cm (4ft) tall and 200cm long, Yana is estimated to have been only about one-year-old when she died.
Before this, there were only six similar discoveries in the world - five in Russia and one in Canada.
Yana was found in the Batagaika crater, the world's largest permafrost (ground that is permanently frozen) crater, by people living nearby.
The residents "were in the right place at the right time", the head of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory said.
"They saw that the mammoth had almost completely thawed out" and decided to build a make-shift stretcher to lift the mammoth to the surface, said Maxim Cherpasov.
"As a rule, the part that thaws out first, especially the trunk, is often eaten by modern predators or birds," he told the Reuters news agency.
But "even though the forelimbs have already been eaten, the head is remarkably well preserved", he added.
A researcher at the museum, Gavril Novgorodov, told Reuters the mammoth "probably got trapped" in a swamp, and was "thus preserved for several tens of thousands of years"."
Full Report @ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy47xj4lpyzo
Scientists Unveil 50,000-Year-old Baby Mammoth Remains
"Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the remote Yakutia region of Siberia during the summer.
They say "Yana" - who has been named after the river basin where she was discovered - is the world's best-preserved mammoth carcass.
Weighing in at over 100kg (15st 10lb), and measuring 120cm (4ft) tall and 200cm long, Yana is estimated to have been only about one-year-old when she died.
Before this, there were only six similar discoveries in the world - five in Russia and one in Canada.
Yana was found in the Batagaika crater, the world's largest permafrost (ground that is permanently frozen) crater, by people living nearby.
The residents "were in the right place at the right time", the head of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory said.
"They saw that the mammoth had almost completely thawed out" and decided to build a make-shift stretcher to lift the mammoth to the surface, said Maxim Cherpasov.
"As a rule, the part that thaws out first, especially the trunk, is often eaten by modern predators or birds," he told the Reuters news agency.
But "even though the forelimbs have already been eaten, the head is remarkably well preserved", he added.
A researcher at the museum, Gavril Novgorodov, told Reuters the mammoth "probably got trapped" in a swamp, and was "thus preserved for several tens of thousands of years"."
Full Report @ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy47xj4lpyzo
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pharvey
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Re: Amazing Nature
Quite incredible.
Wild Chimpanzees Filmed Using Forest 'First Aid'
"Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants - in multiple ways - to treat open wounds and other injuries.
University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals using plants for first aid, both on themselves and occasionally on each other.
Their research builds on the discovery last year that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate.
The scientists also compiled decades of scientific observations to create a catalogue of the different ways in which chimpanzees use "forest first aid".
Researchers say the study, which is published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, external, adds to a growing body of evidence that primates, including chimps, orangutans and gorillas, use natural medicines in a number of ways to stay healthy in the wild.
Chimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plants
Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine
Lead researcher Elodie Freymann explained there was "a whole behavioural repertoire that chimpanzees use when they're sick or injured in the wild - to treat themselves and to maintain hygiene".
"Some of these include the use of plants that can be found here," she explained. "The chimpanzees dab them on their wounds or chew the plants up, and then apply the chewed material to the open injury.""
Full report and video at link: - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj7ln85vxwo
Wild Chimpanzees Filmed Using Forest 'First Aid'
"Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants - in multiple ways - to treat open wounds and other injuries.
University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals using plants for first aid, both on themselves and occasionally on each other.
Their research builds on the discovery last year that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate.
The scientists also compiled decades of scientific observations to create a catalogue of the different ways in which chimpanzees use "forest first aid".
Researchers say the study, which is published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, external, adds to a growing body of evidence that primates, including chimps, orangutans and gorillas, use natural medicines in a number of ways to stay healthy in the wild.
Chimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plants
Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine
Lead researcher Elodie Freymann explained there was "a whole behavioural repertoire that chimpanzees use when they're sick or injured in the wild - to treat themselves and to maintain hygiene".
"Some of these include the use of plants that can be found here," she explained. "The chimpanzees dab them on their wounds or chew the plants up, and then apply the chewed material to the open injury.""
Full report and video at link: - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj7ln85vxwo
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Re: Amazing Nature
^^^ If they had more numbers were it not for us wiping out their habitats, I've a feeling their current progression of evolution (I've seen them tying knots, increasingly advanced tool manipulation, family commitment) would have them ruling Bradford in a week. 
Jokes aside I despair how we've restricted the progression of these primates. Such incredibly smart compassionate animals often locked up in cages for hoomans to gawk at.
Jokes aside I despair how we've restricted the progression of these primates. Such incredibly smart compassionate animals often locked up in cages for hoomans to gawk at.
I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.
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pharvey
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Re: Amazing Nature
I strongly suggest you never venture into a zoo in China.
Keeping to topic though, we may have a great deal to learn with regards to these primates' knowledge. Tests are ongoing to see whether the same plants can be used for human use.... Perhaps learning from their values wouldn't go amiss either.
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Re: Amazing Nature
David Attenborough 76 years together
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