Walrus

ectothermic detritivore, noted fish-liker, certified lawnkiller, full-time bugtoucher

[Walrus @AnAverageWalrus]

new year, new best of last year

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@KingSavageAxe She was raised by mole people cut her some slack

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@psychocutxx Plane bird has peco and valstrax animations both #HoldingOutCope

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@StairMasterNem @psychocutxx All of the fated four will return #HoldOutCope

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@lutyrannus Not that rise kushala isn't enjoyable just like wow wheres the wind pressure on this thing

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@lutyrannus "They're gonna lobotomize lao" they're gonna lobotomize KUSHALA more than rise already did because people refuse to interact with game mechanics even after putting like 100 hours minimum into a game

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@ChiefScrivener @SappleMyrup khezu is stylized with a tongue and giggi isnt its over thats a whelp

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@Oceaniz96 I swear its also hitting the valstrax divebomb they really are giving us pecostrax

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@ShriekingNoises @AttackOnChitin them just being one of the more abundant generalist species in pretty heavily fire suppressed regions where they're now overly abundant

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@ShriekingNoises @AttackOnChitin Figures yeah. Im not really 100% up to snuff w my tickborne illness lit but I also wouldnt be surprised if even among the NA native ticks Amblyomma are kind of overly singled out as a causative agent and its more the chronic lack of research into tick stuff and

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@AttackOnChitin c.c. is more range expansion, population level stuff typically has more to do w/ habitats/communities. In the case of NA a lot of it has to do with fire suppression (less overall tick mortality + dense shrubby understory), general cessation of disturbance, fragmentation etc

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@AttackOnChitin *this is nitpicking though I dont disagree with the actual point you're making lol

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@AttackOnChitin A. americanum isn't found in Australia so it was Not that but ags isn't caused by a species specific pathogen either so presumably it was one of the aus native generalist ticks

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@dove_of_babylon ...Moose actually *aren't* from north america really, weirdly enough. They (along w/ elk too) moved across the bering from eurasia fairly recently (geologic timescale) around the end pleistocene/early holocene following the extinctions/decline of most other things

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@mollytaft Which is to say yeah NYC is very much in the historc, native range of Amblyomma americanum. This isn't a climate change induced thing nyc has always been around its northern limit hugging the northeast coast

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@mollytaft Before it was city NYC wasn't unlike a lot of the pine barrens habitat its adjacent to in long island and monmouth/middlesex county, lone star ticks and all. It even had a lot of bog plants like swamp pink and pitcher plants

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@turdducken @isaiah_bb Fire kills ticks directly and also reduces cover for mice and improves quality of hunting habitat for mesopredators. What we have currently in ~99% of the once fire dependent east is overly dense closed canopy highly fragmented forest, mouse paradise and mesopredator hell

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@turdducken @isaiah_bb Historic range of lone star ticks is most of the southeast and atlantic coastal plain including all the way up to martha's vineyard but we're finally reaping the effects of a century of fire suppression in fire adapted ecosystems

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@TomatoMoomer The last few updates largely feel like mods lol

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@NATUREISWHACKY

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@n8crafter @Startheskeleto1 albo is the worst one for me locally and also the one I react to the worst what I wouldnt do for a Kill All Albopictus Posthaste button