Center for Biological Diversity & Monitor file a legal petition today asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect painted woolly bats (Kerivoula picta), under the Endangered Species Act. These striking bats are collected & killed to be sold as décor globally. mcrsociety.org/2024/05/29/end…
Some pins from Pin Hole Cave. Visitors would leave a pin and take one left by someone else for good luck.
A 12,000 year old woolly rhino rib was found there with a carving of a man, with a notable phallus. Pleasing crossover of #FolkloreThursday and #PhallusThursday .
Second chapter of my PhD on Woolly-neck stork taxonomy and evolution is published in G3: Genes | Genomes|Genetics w Sangeet Lamichhaney PalaciosDCata Jeremiah. Here is a story of Woollynecks. A thread 🧵
