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Last week, we had a story about scientists who put bats on a treadmill. This week, a neuroscientist teaches rats to drive. And they love it!

From @ConversationUS: "We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas pedal."

https://flip.it/kYvhJ6

And here's the treadmill bats story ICYMI: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vampire-bats-treadmills-metabolism

#Animals #Rats #Bats #Science #Psychology

Putting vampire bats on treadmills reveals an unusual metabolism

A bat gym shows that vampires are more like some insects, burning amino acids from blood proteins rather than the carbs or fats other mammals rely on.
Susan Milius (Science News)
#science #animals #psychology #bats #rats @ConversationUS

Sulala Animal Rescue was forced to evacuate all cats from their shelter last night. Israeli tanks are closing in and sealing the area gradually, and there's all types of shells being fired. They are in Nuseirat, central Gaza.

The cats are now going to be crammed in one area with dogs and donkeys. Far from ideal. 💔🐾

#Gaza #Cats #Dogs #Animals #AnimalRescue #Genocide

#animals #Cats #Dogs #genocide #gaza #animalrescue

Everything seems awful right now, here are a couple of fluffy little donkeys in the sunshine.

#Animals #Nature #Photography
Two fluffy little donkeys in the sunshine. One is a light grey colour and the other is a light brown colour. Photo taken by me near Hartington, Derbyshire in 2012.
#Nature #photography #animals

Does anyone have any recommendations for PeerTube channels focused on #Dinosaurs / #Paleontology, #Insects / #Animals / #TheNaturalWorld, #Space / #Astronomy, other interesting topics #History / #Disaster / #Inventions?

If you are thinking of or have made such a channel I'm happy to share it here.

I watch a few on #YouTube but would like to use #PeerTube more. Channels like: #YDAW, #FascinatingHorror, #KurgesagtInANutshell.
#youtube #peertube #animals #inventions #history #Space #astronomy #insects #disaster #paleontology #dinosaurs #thenaturalworld #ydaw #fascinatinghorror #kurgesagtinanutshell

Raven
By Alla Kizimenko
(Copyright)

#art #mastoart #painting #animals #birds
Painting of a large black reven on a thick brown tree trunk, to a yellow, green and turquoise coloured background.
#MastoArt #art #painting #animals #birds

"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!"

#animals #animal #raccoon #humor #humour #thegodfather2
two raccoons: one has its paws under the other's chin and its snout next to the others face, in an appearance of an embrace and kiss
#animals #humour #humor #animal #raccoon #thegodfather2

No complaints about this sign. Excellent advice.

#animals #animal #skunk #skunks #weird #signs #humor #humour
sign in a forest that says: Do not pet the fart squirrels with a picture of a skunk
#animals #humour #humor #animal #weird #signs #skunks #skunk

Squirrel karma

#animal #animals #squirrel #squirrels #humor #humour
grey squirrel trapped inside a birdfeeder
#animals #squirrels #humour #humor #animal #squirrel

Wrote a blog post about my most recent research adventure, trying to track down animal species mentioned in a folktale. It was a wild ride, and I learned a lot about why it is woth doing your homework on animal tales.

Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2024/09/girl-in-chair-storyteller-and-bateleur.html

#folklore #folktales #nature #animals #storytelling #birds
#Nature #animals #folklore #storytelling #folktales #birds

Some days you just need to say "fuck it" and go for a ride on your ostrich.

#ostrich #animals #animal #humor #humour
black and white photo of a woman riding an ostrich, with about a dozen other ostriches in the background
#animals #humour #humor #animal #Ostrich

That is one smug marsupial.

#IKNOWItsAPlatypus #platypusLife #platypus #humor #humour #animals
A platypus being held up by human hands with a look of self-satisfaction on its face
#animals #humour #humor #platypus #platypuslife #iknowitsaplatypus

I am working on this "folktales about misunderstood animals" collection for children. However, I am accidentally accumulating a bunch of tales about misunderstood animals that are only fit for adults* 😄

I don't think my publisher would go for it, but now I want to work on it anyway...

(* no, not THAT way, just in terms of violence or complexity.)

#folklore #folktales #AmWriting #books #nature #animals
#Nature #animals #books #folklore #folktales #amwriting

Hungarian #FolktaleMoment

The hero of the folktale finds out that the king he works for used to be the King of the Land of Eternal Youth. He was exiled from his kingdom by spiders because he was cruel to them and wanted to kill them off.

So now the Land of Eternal Youth is ruled by friendly spiders.

#folktales #folklore #animals
#animals #folklore #folktales #folktalemoment

Honestly, the more I read the Folktale Motif Index, the more it feels like the original clickbait 😆

"Old man cheats crocodile by playing on its ignorance of agriculture."

#folklore #folktales #animals #FolktaleMoment
#animals #folklore #folktales #folktalemoment

Folktale niche that I keep running into:

Quaint and adorable explanations for horrifying natural phenomena.
So far I have had cicadas growing "little umbrellas" (parasitic fungus) and a wasp rewarded by God with grubs turning into his children (wasp that puts eggs in live grubs). 😬 😬

#nature #animals #folklore #folktales
#Nature #animals #folklore #folktales

#FolktaleMoment of the day:

According to a Lepcha folktale, bats are the only creatures that don't have to pay taxes 😄 That's because the King of the Birds and the King of the Rats couldn't decide who should tax them.

"So that is why the bat is free from all taxation. Everybody in the world pays some sort of revenue, even we human beings, but the bat is free and doesn’t."

I guess the bat took the "tax" out of "taxonomy"...

😄 🤷‍♀️ 🦇

#folklore #folktales #nature #animals
#Nature #animals #folklore #folktales #folktalemoment

Today's folklore research WTF:

The Russian tale "Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Grey Wolf" has been translated to English in the 19th century by Edith Hodgetts as

"The Grey Wolf and the Golden Cassowary"

And now I can't not imagine the prince trying to wrangle

A damn FLYING CASSOWARY

(This is why you double check translations, people)

😬 😆

#folklore #folktales #storytelling #animals #birds #nature #FolktaleMoment
#Nature #animals #folklore #storytelling #folktales #birds #folktalemoment

... just found out that a Southern term for a dung beetle is "tumbleturd"

You're welcome

#nature #animals #folklore #language
#Nature #animals #folklore #language

The third animal presented itself today 😄 I went to the lake, and suddenly a large carp poked its head out, looked at me, moved its mouth, and let me pet its back. 😄
I am ready for my quest!

#folklore #folktales #animals #nature
#Nature #animals #folklore #folktales

Walking home late last night I saved a drunk bumblebee from the bike path and then shepherded a small frog off the road. I am waiting for the third animal before I embark on a quest where they will come to my aid. 😄

#animals #folklore #folktales #nature
#Nature #animals #folklore #folktales

Looks like my next folktale collection is going to be about misunderstood animals 🥰😊 What are your favorite misunderstood, misrepresented, or underappreciated animals?

#nature #animals #folklore #folktales #AmWriting #storytelling
#Nature #animals #folklore #storytelling #folktales #amwriting

Sure, you're chill. But are you cabybara-at-the-beach chill?

#animal #animals #capybara #mood #tuesday #humor #humour
capybara hanging out at the beach, looking chill and cool, with a little bird riding on its back
#animals #humour #humor #animal #tuesday #mood #capybara

Nothing to see here. Just a big weird dog picking out a little treat.

#IKnowItsABear #bear #bears #animals #animal #humour #humor
#animals #humour #humor #animal #bears #bear #iknowitsabear

Some days you just need to say "f*ck it" and take your falcon grocery shopping.

#animals #animal #birds #bird #birb #humor #humour #absurd #existentialism
out of focus shot of a falcon sitting on top of a grocery cart while a man looks at the meat counter
#animals #humour #humor #animal #birds #existentialism #absurd #bird #birb

Encounter on the morning walk 😊 Waited to make sure they made it across the path into the hedge.

#nature #hedgehog #cute #animals #spring #image
Photo of a hedgehog in grass, surrounded by daisies
#Nature #animals #spring #cute #image #hedgehog

Anarchy in the UK

#humor #humour #animals #animal #weird #signs
Pelican sitting on a rail, with the ocean behind, on top of a sign that says: No sitting or standing on rails
#animals #humour #humor #animal #weird #signs

And we have a winner!
There were some close votes, but in the end, Platypus emerged as the most popular unusual animal 😊😊
Thank you all for voting and chiming in! It was silly and fun. You are all great 😄

#animals #nature #UnusualAnimalMessages
Photo of a platypus swimming in water
#Nature #animals #unusualanimalmessages

Current mood

#squirrel #squirrels #animal #animals #humor #humour
red squirrel with punk like ears looking exhausted
#animals #squirrels #humour #humor #animal #squirrel

#Hungarian expression of the day:

"A béka segge alatt" = "Under the frog's ass"

(Very, very low, in mood or in quality. I.e. "The economy is under the frog's ass.")

For more severe cases, there is "Under the burrowing frog's ass."

🐸 🐸 🐸

#animals #language
#animals #language #hungarian

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