Hope you enjoy these brief clips first.
An Anteater Visits The Panama Fruit Feeder
Fruit feeder cam:
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/panama-fruit-feeder
Red-tailed Hawk Cam Highlights
This is a rare, endangered seabird called the Bermuda Cahow
Incubating Cahow Takes A Break, Reveals Egg
Live Cahow cam.
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outl ... reserved=0
This is the Northern Royal albatross cam in New Zealand that I tune in to now, since the chick is due to hatch soon. The Laysan albatrosses in Kauai are my favorite, but again this year the property owner decided not to allow the cams to run 24/7 for 6 months until they fledge. Bummer for me, but this is the next best thing.
Female Albatross Relieves Mate From Incubation Duties
Link to trossie live cam:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/roya ... -306637205
Flying Squirrel Foraging On A Snowy Night In Ontario
This is from The Rainforest rescue site:
Why Do Wombats Poop Cubes? Now We Know!
By Katie Taylor
"Finally. An answer to one of life’s great mysteries: why wombat poop is cube-shaped.
We know—you were really on the edge of your seat about this. But it is curious that wombats are the only creature on Earth that poop in cubes. Scientists didn’t know the reason for this unusual ability, though some theorized that the unique shaped made it possible for wombats to stack their droppings to mark their territory.
Wombats do use their droppings to mark territory, but they don’t handle and stack their scat like Lego bricks (at least, not when humans are watching). Still, cube-shaped nuggets may be convenient in that they don’t roll as easily, but that still doesn’t answer the question of how wombats make the cubes.
Photo: flickr/amplexus
Patricia Yang, researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, had a hard time believing that wombat droppings were cubes. When she learned it was true, she had to know why.
There are a couple reasons for the cubes. First, wombats live in dry environments, and they need to absorb as much moisture as possible from their food. Mike Swinbourne, wombat expert at the University of Adelaide in Australia, told National Geographic that wombats in captivity sometimes have less cubic droppings because water is more readily available. Dry droppings can more readily form and hold more rigid shapes.
Photo: flickr/Georgia Karabelas
But that’s not the only factor at play—other animals have dry droppings that are round. Patricia Yang took a look at wombat intestines (collected from roadkill), and found that the way their intestines stretch helps form cubed feces. Yang and her fellow researchers stretched wombat intestines using balloons, and they found that while the pig intestines they tested had uniform elasticity, wombat intestines have more varied elasticity. As the waste gets pushed through the final part of the intestine, the stiffer parts of the intestine help shape the droppings into cubes.
Wombats usually drop 80 to 100 individual droppings per night, and they prefer to leave them on top of rocks, logs, or on other high places. They’re used to mark territory and help wombats navigate at night. Because of their shape and dry texture, they stack well and don’t lose their shape.
Photo: pixabay/LuvCoffee
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I love wombats, especially after seeing Bindi Irwin with them at their preserve on their show, 'Crikey, it's the Irwns', and the other night, on one of the news channels a comment was made after the report on the awful fires in Oz that have caused so much devastation, including that some 170+ people were arrested for arson, a comment was made about wombats being seen pushing other critters, not just wombats, into their fire-proof dens to save them! Their burrows go so deep and so far, they're said to be fire-proof.
