Biology of the Tour de France

Tweeting unofficially on amazing (and often threatened) species along the route of cycling's greatest race. Profile pic by Bernard Dupont CC-BY-SA.

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@LABORALkTeam Wishing her a speedy recovery!

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The unfertilized eggs of the female sturgeon are the world's most valuable fish product - you know it as caviar

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As the riders cross the river Po let’s remember that it used to be home to three sturgeon species
#MilanSanRemo

📷 Sheila Sund

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The Po is the only place the Adriatic sturgeon now breeds with the species now considered extinct from rivers in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Greece. So the Po and the conservation measures there are critical to the survival of this species

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@CafeRoubaix The ladies…

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@fiskmoos @BenjiNaesen @100Climbs I think I get tdf on our Irish language channel. Just need to brush up my Gaeilge ☘️

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@stevenD105 @100Climbs @gentlemanjackmk I went there and it was like a big empty void. Aptly named in fact…

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@irishpeloton Good journalism is essential for all the years that the sport remains behind the unaffordable TNT paywall. Otherwise the sport will die. AI does not equal good journalism

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@irishpeloton Everything will eventually sound the same. I know this from marking student essays…

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@irishpeloton @100Climbs You’d think they’d learn from the 1.5 billion copyright settlement claim Anthropic was hit with….

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@AgSmith99 @DerrickEvans4WV It would be safer if the car drivers dismounted and pushed their cars through

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I couldn’t agree more!

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A women's version of Il Lombardia is overdue and would add a more definitive end to the calendar as well as the fireworks the men's race is currently lacking, argues @robyn_emz.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/ch2zatcAiB

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@dchung615 @laflammerouge16 Why? sylvan Adams openly states his purpose is to promote Israel, a State currently breaking Geneva Conventions. Surely this shouldn’t be acceptable?

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Today @vismaleaseabike were the killer ladybirds

📷Tasmanianbeekeepers & Yobennane
#LaVuelta

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@KeithPenelope3 @lucasaganronald @UCI_cycling @daniellloyd1 Or maybe the peloton shouldn’t include teams promoting States conducting illegal warfare?

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@in_red69640 @BenjiNaesen @tompidcock I put him in my fantasy team 😃 (shame about the rest of my choices 🤣)

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@KimIversenShow @HeidiBriones It’s not fear of being deported. It’s fear of ending up in an ICE hell hole for several weeks…