Day 3857: Baby Boom and Women.

"Destruction": junk mail collage

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2GN2S ...

The best kind of baby boom

 The Chester Zoo in the UK is 

breeding hope for endangered species.  In the last eight months, the zoo has welcomed several new endangered animal births, including a baby tree kangaroo, Sumatran tiger twins, a western chimpanzee, a Malayan tapir (above), a greater one-horned rhino and a triplet of fossa pups. The zoo's central mission is to “prevent extinction,” and the success of its breeding programs shows what happens when the problem is approached with precision and care. Other zoos in the UK and Europe are working with Chester's lab to inform their own breeding decisions or diagnose pregnancies, and the zoo is also hoping to replicate its endocrinology technique in Kenya to help conservation in the wild.

An excellent video, here

In honor of Women's History month, lets discuss a very eye-opening list shared by author Kristy Sedgman on Twitter. It's a list of ways an 11th-century Benedictine monk saw fit to describe women and, spoiler alert, he wasn't their biggest fan. 

Some highlights include:

• appetizers of the devil
• sword of souls
• occasion of ruin
• nymphs, sirens, witches, Dianas
• lionesses like monsters make careless men perish
• sirens and Charybdis, who while you bring forth the sweet song of deception, contrive of the ravenous sea an inescapable shipwreck

Anti-women sentiments are so ridiculous you might

  have to laugh. After a few hundred years of social progress, let's hear it for all the lionesses out there, the nymphs,witches, the swords and the uh, feminine mozzarella sticks. Keep being mythically you.

 

 

 

A 1+minute video, Kitty & puppy, here.

 

Just because ...

 

Acorn Woodpecker

 

Smiles for Sunday ...

 

 

   

 

 

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