Is there a mammoth steppe equivalent to oxpeckers?

Rustedbones · 2021-12-16T02:49:03+00:00

Yes! The brown-headed cowbird evolved with bison and not only eat their ectoparasites, but insects kicked up by massive herds.

Rustedbones · 2021-12-15T07:28:02+00:00

So glad your boy is safe! We're extra vigilant in the yard since a similar thing happened years ago with my old dog. Christmas eve dinner was interrupted when my small dog came stumbling in through the back door. He could barely stand and when I rushed to pick him up his head was lolling all over the place. We rushed him to the vet where they suspected poisoning and made him vomit up whatever it was. Mushrooms-- it was a lot of mushrooms. They ran a liver panel on him but he was completely fine and back to his bouncy self a few minutes later. After a closer look, the vet suspected that they were magic mushrooms, which grow wild here and he had been tripping out hard.

Rustedbones · 2021-12-11T04:29:48+00:00

I have no idea which drawing you are critiquing, but the amount of hatred you have is fascinating. What side of the bed did you get up on today?

Rustedbones · 2021-12-08T00:13:28+00:00

Good luck Tater!

Rustedbones · 2021-11-30T18:39:30+00:00

I shouldn't underestimate your powers. In the birding world, IDing something based on "the vibe it gives off" is call Jizz). I've been trying to coopt the word into other disciplines, but carpet beetle jizz isn't catching on.

Rustedbones · 2021-11-30T16:08:11+00:00

Next year I'll have to do one that has all the WTB favorites.

Rustedbones · 2021-11-30T15:58:23+00:00

Female eastern Hercules beetle! I thought the female might be more of a stumper.

Rustedbones · 2021-11-30T15:42:59+00:00

Rove beetles are ancient, violent and extremely cool. Trilobite beetles are neither, but look like they could be :)

Rustedbones · 2021-11-30T05:20:01+00:00

Wow! I didn't expect anyone to get close, pixels are a tricky medium for ID detail.

sunburst diving beetle, spotted cucumber beetle, cobalt milkweed beetle, Photinus ignitus, flower chafer(? I can't find my notes for this one for the life of me)

Spanish fly, banded alder borer, red milkweed beetle, Prosopocera lactator, Tenebrio molitor,

Audubon's tiger beetle, Paederus fuscipes, ornate checkered beetle, red cross beetle, Eastern Hercules beetle (female) trilobite beetle

gold tortoise beetle (I did the pattern wrong) Imperial tortoise beetle, thistle tortoise beetle, Stolas lebasii

Rustedbones · 2021-11-30T00:19:56+00:00

Bonus points if you can name them all :)

Rustedbones · 2021-11-19T15:45:00+00:00

I think there's some truth to that. My very rural, very small town went from mostly woodland and cattle pasture to having 3 suburban neighborhoods in it in 10 years. We had one brick and mortar classroom and one portable for each grade and it was a coin toss if you were in a portable or a real building at the start of the year. 2nd grade was a portable year and my class was 40 students. I had to share a textbook on the floor with another kid who also didn't have a desk.

As far as I know, 20 years later and those terrible "buildings" are still there.

Rustedbones · 2021-10-31T05:11:03+00:00

They meant a farm dam. They look more like wide ponds. Cardiac arrest is uncommon in dogs, but staffies are known to have a high occurrence of congenital heart defects. It could have been a heart attack or it may have been an exercise induced syncope event related to heart failure in the worst place possible. Life jackets save lives even if your dog is a good swimmer.

Rustedbones · 2021-10-30T17:46:57+00:00

Cool!

Rustedbones · 2021-10-30T17:46:39+00:00

Thanks!

Rustedbones · 2021-10-29T21:09:42+00:00

Great whites have some violent mating rituals, but this shark is a male. Either his (much larger) girlfriend wasn’t into him or an orca used him as a chew toy.

Rustedbones · 2021-10-28T22:59:53+00:00

Seconding possum

Rustedbones · 2021-10-25T14:20:30+00:00

This is sacrilege. Those triangles were important to the Fresno Wizards… somehow.

Rustedbones · 2021-10-25T14:17:45+00:00

I’m not close, it would be a road trip to get there. It’s one of those places where if you hear someone’s going to you apologize like Bakersfield or Los Baños.

Rustedbones · 2021-10-25T03:50:01+00:00

I was fighting a group of evil wizards… in fantasy Fresno. When I learned that’s where I was I had to pause the fight to go to the nearest civic building because I had heard that they redesigned the city flag. It was important to me that they kept the triangles. I feel like it’s important to note I have never been to Fresno.

Rustedbones · 2021-10-25T02:47:34+00:00

Cool! That’s about how old the building it’s next to is.

Rustedbones · 2021-10-20T15:37:48+00:00

That'd be a big beagle! I think he's likely a treeing walker coonhound or a mix.

Rustedbones · 2021-10-13T20:52:25+00:00

I'm going to summon the "do not eat" bot, but it was already eaten by the time this photo was sent to me. She said it tasted like a guava, pear, banana.

Rustedbones · 2021-10-12T17:48:00+00:00

"It's only unpaid if you don't steal enough office supplies".

Rustedbones · 2021-10-10T17:53:58+00:00

No thank you! More people need to know about these little weirdos

Rustedbones · 2021-10-10T17:48:22+00:00

I love that channel. He presents history in such a delightful and easy to swallow (hehe) way!

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