Tag: animals

pippinainteasy:

LOST PARROT!!!

West San Antonio, TX (Alamo Ranch area)

Very bad luck struck me the afternoon of 12/11/17. I was sitting on
my patio with Ripley like we do all the time, but this time she got
spooked really bad by something and took off. A gust of wind carried her
down the road to a nearby farm.

The next morning (12/12/17), my
roommate and I got up before sunrise and called to her from outside the
farm’s property line. Ripley called back and then flew toward my
apartment building at Sevona Westover Hills at around 8:15 AM. I spotted
her on a third-floor balcony just a couple apartments over from my
patio at 11:30, but when she saw me she tried to fly down and caught the
wind again, which carried her across the gorge to another set of
apartment buildings (between buildings 10 and 11) within the complex.

The leasing office put out a notice on their Facebook page, and I’m getting the word out to as many people as I can.

I’m extremely worried, because temperatures are supposed to dip down to
the mid-30s tonight, and a small parrot like Ripley might not be able
to handle those temperatures, especially if she hasn’t had any food.

If you’re in the Alamo Ranch area around Rogers Rd, 1604, Culebra Rd,
and Wiseman Blvd, please be on the lookout for my baby and spread the
word. She was flying around my apartment complex earlier, but I haven’t
seen her since she flew off at 11:30 this morning. She has no leg-bands.
Both wings are mostly clipped except for a couple feathers on the tips.
Responds to R2D2 sounds and other whistles.

I won’t stop walking
around and searching for her until she’s returned safely home. The best
chance of finding her is at sunrise and during the day. It will be
fruitless to search at night, as parrots will quietly roost somewhere
until morning. Please spread the word and share this information if you
can so that Ripley can come home.

E-mail: mkfox91@gmail.com

Thank you so much.

Source: pippinainteasy

veterinaryrambles:

vaspider:

teamvoorhees:

animal-factbook:

Dog owners please be aware.

REBLOG THIS PLEASE

This is Snopes-confirmed. Also be aware this is very common in sugar free food of many kinds. The retriever puppy who I know of who died of xylitol poisoning got hold of a pack of sugar-free gum.

Always good to remind folks – if it has xylitol, KEEP IT AWAY FROM DOGS! It induces profound hypoglycemia and liver failure and is life-threatening 😦

Source: animal-factbook

The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized

bogleech:

Science wasn’t actually certain how fungi like cordyceps “hijacked” their host’s behavior, and we always kind of assumed it was causing some relatively simplistic damage to the brain, but now it seems the truth is much more like all the dramatized versions of it in sci-fi horror.

These fungi integrate themselves on the cellular level with the host’s tissues all throughout their body, actually seem to send signals to the host’s muscles and even alter the host’s genes with their own.

And all the while, it turns out THE BRAIN ISN’T TAKEN OVER AT ALL.

These fungi, all along, have been converting their hosts into animal-fungal hybrids they control while the host’s brain and consciousness remain helplessly alive and largely unaltered.

The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized