Canada lynx wear fitbits

NorthCascades

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-secret-canada-lynx.amp

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AnnPT77

You get the prize for the month's best thread title, hands down. 😉

NorthCascades

I aim to please. 🙂

AnnPT77

Oh, also fun/interesting link, too - fershure. YaKnowILoveYa, eh? In the purest, most granny-esque possible way, of course. 😉

Here in MI, we're all fight-y-esque about cougars/mountain lions, officially extirpated: The good ol' boys, with trail cams or otherwise, are seeing them all over, allegedly . . . but the officials (MI DNR) claim they're outlier males, not breeding pop. If there were breeding pop, DNR would maybe need to do annoying, complicated, expensive studies pursuant to fostering marginal species, and that sort of thing. The human drama on top of the wildlife drama is . . . interesting.

NorthCascades

@AnnPT77 the cougar controversy made its way out here to the PNW as well.😬

Returning to the pure, wholesome, grannyesque news, I just learned that Fermilab used to clean their particle accelerator by paying a ferret banned Felicia to run through the tubes with cleaning supplies attached to her harness. The things some people do for hamburger meat! 🙂

AnnPT77

@Northcascades -

Fermilab: Such a cool place, totally fascinating history. Back in the day, I went there for a work-related meeting (they and we were using the same HR software). We got a nice tour, including seeing a bit of the ring.

In the center of their cooling pond (a ring shape, like a moat), they had a restored tallgrass prairie, complete with bison. Some of their visiting scientist housing was a cluster of the characteristic little white farmhouses that you see all over the Midwest. When they bought out a bunch of farms to build the place, they moved numerous original farmhouses into a community cluster. It was unsettlingly odd to see these so-familiar structures, in a so-atypical configuration, but it seemed like a good thing.

That they would use a ferret-janitor seems right in keeping!