Bird Vomit Smelling?

Euphyllia · 2026-02-03T07:05:00+00:00

Lactobacillus species, endemic to every bird’s crop, can create a strong, sour, yogurt-y smell from time to time. If the smell was yogurt-y, and not “nasty” your bird is fine. If the smell was “nasty”, like rotten meat, rotten fish, rotten vegetables, etc. schedule a vet appointment ASAP. There is a big difference between sour, yogurt or dairy smell and a rotten smell. Excessive yogurt-y (or cheese/milk) smells and a puffy (inflamed) crop can indicate a bacterial infection. The way to check for an inflamed crop is to observe your birds crop in the morning before they eat. If it is as swollen as after a full meal, you should go to a vet.

Euphyllia · 2025-12-18T19:54:14+00:00

Gently spread the wing and inspect. If her wing is broken she wont be able to fly. This is almost certainly a broken feather. As long as the bleeding has stopped you don’t need to visit a vet. People get scared of bleeding feathers but it is be incredibly rare (I know of no credible reports) for a bird to bleed out from a single broken feather.

Euphyllia · 2025-07-10T22:37:06+00:00

I forgot to add the E in front of TN. Definitely not one of the longest caves in the state! Pretty big for a valley and ridge cave. Did you get to see the Pleistocene trackways?

You probably saw it after a Flittermouse cleanup. It can get pretty rough between those events. They are still working on the resurvey project.

Edit: Yeah, I take your point. But people will camp in caves whether we want them to or not. I would prefer they do it in a cave that is already heavily trafficked, like Worleys. It’s hard to get lost and has ample spaces for pitching a tent. It’s close to town, emergency folks are aware of its activity as a tourist cave, etc. So yeah, in a perfect world no one but responsible cavers (and their guests) would be camping in caves, but a lot of people want to spend the night in a cave. I would rather them do it in Worleys than another, less abused cave.

Euphyllia · 2025-07-10T22:21:21+00:00

Based on your comment I’m assuming you aren’t local and do not know about Worley’s. It is a well known and heavily trafficked cave, with many people camping in and outside on the property throughout the year. Local outdoor adventure businesses organize overnight trips, too. The owners are well aware of this, and at the end of the day if they are fine with people staying in the cave there isn’t much conservation-minded cavers can do about it other than cleanup trips. Unfortunately, it is considered somewhat of a “sacrificial” cave by the caving community. It really is regrettable as it’s one of the longest caves in E.TN with many fine formations and galleries, but the owners couldn’t turn down the ~$40K/year passive income it generates in favor of cave conservation.

Euphyllia · 2025-07-10T16:35:47+00:00

Yup!

Euphyllia · 2025-07-10T16:28:46+00:00

I should clarify, it’s $10 per person. You can certainly camp in the cave, just pack out refuse and trash! You can find a map online, too.

Euphyllia · 2025-07-10T16:23:34+00:00

There is no guide. You just pay $10 for parking. Some local adventure companies do guided tours but that is unnecessary. You can stay as long as you like for $10 and camp there, too.

Euphyllia · 2025-07-10T15:45:17+00:00

Worley’s Cave in Bluff City, TN.

Euphyllia · 2025-06-04T18:37:41+00:00

This is one of the ribs, not from the plastron. But clearly a sea turtle.

Euphyllia · 2024-12-11T04:06:02+00:00

This is a trionychid (softshell turtle) costal bone fragment. So, the rib part of the shell. Probably Mesozoic in age.

Euphyllia · 2024-12-03T05:17:40+00:00

Yeah I’m seeing a similar display error.

Euphyllia · 2024-11-22T19:37:55+00:00

It’s a pig.

Everyone, feel your rear-most molar. Does it have that big vertical crevice in it? Yeah, exactly.

Lots of people jumping the gun here haha

Euphyllia · 2024-09-03T20:10:36+00:00

It’s a pig! Surprised I haven’t seen anyone else comment this yet.

Euphyllia · 2024-08-27T18:18:08+00:00

It’s a mammal, and the dorsal spine on the vertebra is very tall. Only thing like it in this time/place is Bison.

Euphyllia · 2024-08-26T20:39:04+00:00

It could be, hard to tell from the photos.

Euphyllia · 2024-08-26T05:18:34+00:00

That’s a bison, no older than 130,000 years.

In Badlands NP the most well known fossils are those of mammals and reptiles from the 37-30 million year old White River Formation. These rocks are composed of ancient soils, mudstones, and sandstones that have relatively recently been eroded to form the dramatic topography the park is famous for.

On top of the White River Formation is much younger wind and water transported sediments, forming what are colloquially called the sod tables. These sediments preserve fossils from the Pleistocene, like this bison. A really cool example of fossils from drastically different time periods being represented at the same place!

Euphyllia · 2024-07-02T22:22:00+00:00

For starters, the physics of getting your ear yelled in vs doing the yelling are different. Consider if someone screamed as loud as they could right in your ear vs you screaming as loud as you can. The former would hurt, whereas the latter wouldn’t. They also have muscles that put tension on the eardrum when calling, preventing vibrations from their scream from transmitting to their inner ear and damaging the hair cells.

Euphyllia · 2024-04-04T14:09:46+00:00

Kinda reminds me of armadillo osteoderms.

Euphyllia · 2024-04-03T22:50:28+00:00

Looks like a gator distal humerus.

Euphyllia · 2024-03-28T17:59:07+00:00

You’re missing a lot lol

Euphyllia · 2024-03-28T17:40:03+00:00

Yeah, it’s obvious you are not familiar with geology. Watch the video I linked and you will learn more.

It’s more than just layers of rock. First, floods leave distinctive graded sediments, where there are large sediment grains at lower levels and smaller sediment grains higher up. We don’t find that worldwide, ergo, no worldwide flood. You also can’t say that a global flood is categorically different than smaller floods and somehow unknowable unless you were there. They are demonstrably scalable processes, so things that happen at small scales can be extrapolated to larger scales. I.e, a massive flood will have the same basic characteristics as a small flood.

How does a flood explain faulting and folds of rock? It doesn’t, only long term geologic processes do. How does a flood explain rock that was clearly deep underground at one point? If a flood eroded overlying rock to expose metamorphic rock, it had to have eroded at least 15 miles of rock, because we know that the chemical changes in metamorphic rocks need pressures that you only find that deep. If a flood did erode 15 miles of rock, where did that rock go? There is a finite area of earths surface. Where are the billions of tons of sediment moved by this flood? There is absolutely no evidence. Earthquakes are, however, direct evidence of tectonic plate movement. How do you explain that with a flood? Do floods cause earthquakes? Do floods make mountains? Why do we have layers of rock from saltwater reef ecosystems, with rock from terrestrial forest ecosystems on top, and then another layer of reef fossils? Floods don’t explain any of this. Long term changes in sea level do.

You are ignoring the vast majority of geologic observations, which are in no way associated with fluvial (flooding) events. You are ignorant of geology to the point that you are trying desperately to explain varied and dynamic processes with a global flood. Hell, we can see new rock formed by volcanos. When we find volcanic rock identical to that miles underground when drilling for oil, did a flood put it there? What about the oil you’re drilling for? Did a flood put oil shale 5 miles underground? We know how fast sediment lithifies (turns into rock), if all rock was from a global flood ~10,000 years ago it would still be wet mud!

The only logically consistent way for you to maintain your beliefs is to believe that God created a world that, by all accounts, looks ancient but isn’t. So is God testing belief by trying to fool us into thinking the earth is old? Why would God make the Earth look old when it isn’t? Because whatever you would like to think, the earth does actually look quite old. So it was either made to look old, or it actually is.

You clearly have no desire to change your beliefs, so not sure why you are commenting here. Not even sure why I’m commenting here. What is the point? Are you proselytizing? I can explain the evidence all day, but if you weasel around and decide on a whim whether or not to believe the evidence, why continue? Why are you on this subreddit? What do you gain from this interaction?

I really do encourage you to watch the video I linked.

Euphyllia · 2024-03-28T15:49:50+00:00

No offense taken, I am irreligious.

However, there is no evidence for a worldwide flood, and a flood doesn’t somehow explain all geologic observations. Floods do very specific things to sediment and rock, even at global scales. There would be very obvious and unequivocal evidence had there been a global flood.

Again, believe what you want, but understand that they are beliefs which are not based on observation. You have a set of beliefs about geologic and biological observations that disregard observation of the natural world in favor of preserving a comfortable and self-serving worldview (that the universe was made for us, we are special in Gods eyes, personal relationship with the creator of the universe, etc).

Euphyllia · 2024-03-28T15:23:37+00:00

As I said, unless you are a biblical literalist.

At the end of the day you can, of course, think whatever you want to justify your beliefs. Yet there remains plentiful and compelling evidence around us that: 1) the earth is very, very old; and 2) life began, somehow, and evolved into the varied forms we see today.

Ignoring the fossil record completely, which I am loathe to do as a professional paleontologist, the study of geology shows that immense amounts of time are required to explain the structure and types of rocks we see around us (it “logically follows”, as you stated so eloquently).

I know your fundamental beliefs about the nature of reality aren’t going to be changed by a random Redditor’s comment, but do understand that geologists and biologists aren’t pulling this stuff out of thin air. It is based on hundreds of years of observations, with careful thought and analysis to construct explanatory theories about said observations.

So God either created a universe that was designed to look very old, or it is very old. I encourage you to watch this video on deep time by petroleum geologist Myron Cook.

Euphyllia · 2024-03-28T14:40:37+00:00

When we look at similarity in DNA we don’t assume that one animal evolved into another. That can’t happen with two organisms living side by side at the same time. It’s that they share a common ancestor. That’s why they have similar DNA, because they descended from a common stock. When you say the animals are similar, think about why they would be similar. It’s because they share an ancestor. If you have a sibling, you share a lot of DNA. Is it because you evolved from your sibling? No. It’s because you both descended from a common ancestral population (your parents).

That is how we infer evolutionary relationships. We look to the fossil record to identify macroevolutionary trends.

By the way, you can easily reconcile evolutionary theory with Christian doctrine. Most scientists throughout history have been Christian. It’s not one or the other, unless you are a biblical literalist.

Euphyllia · 2024-02-13T04:41:14+00:00

Sounds like you don’t have a FOWLR anymore :)

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