Potential Re-wilding Tech?

Potential Re-wilding Tech? The technology means the forest’s cattle can spend their time in carefully selected spots without the need for barbed wire or electric fences to keep them from wandering across the roads surrounding the former royal forest at the northern tip of London. This is interesting. I can see it allowing rewilding of species without …

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I wonder what the holes mean?

An image of GPS tracking of multiple wolves in six different packs around Voyageurs National Park shows how much the wolf packs avoid each other’s range. Image courtesy of Thomas Gable Source

Mongolia Pix

I stumbled over some pix by Hamid Sardar-Afkhami.  Some seem staged like above but they are interesting.

Nice charts.

Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA paper A shorter blog version. Open in a new tab to embiggen.

​180 Degrees by Bob Kuhn

​180 Degrees by Bob Kuhn (1920-2007), acrylic on board, 26 x 44​ I was blasting through the auction sites and saw this Kuhn. I have seen it several times and was about to pass over it when I realized it would be a good blog item. Steve, as most know here, has been obsessed by …

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A deep dive into doo-doo.

When I saw this it was with mixed emotions. Amusement and gross out in equal measure. I didn’t look at the article because the picture was enough. You do have to admire the reverence they gave it with its own little display stand.

 Comments on  nature-deficit disorder, etc

THIS IS NO WAY TO BE HUMAN In a remarkable study several years ago, Selin Kesebir of the London Business School and the psychologist Pelin Kesebir of the University of Wisconsin at Madison found that references to nature in novels, song lyrics, and film story lines began decreasing in the 1950s, while references to the …

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