krishob 🇮🇳

A concerned Indian. But there's hope in the air!! Believe strongly in a plural, inclusive, progressive India.

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a monarch butterfly migration arriving in the oyamel fir forests of central Mexico. None of these butterflies has ever been here before.

Their great-great-grandmothers left this exact grove in March. By July those grandmothers were dead. The butterflies you're watching are four to five generations downstream, born somewhere between Texas and Ontario, and they just flew up to 3,000 miles to a tree none of their parents ever saw.

The brain doing the navigation is smaller than a grain of rice.

The mechanism is a sun compass time-compensated by a circadian clock running in the antennae. Cut the antennae and the monarch loses orientation within hours. The clock corrects for the sun's position drifting across the sky as the day moves. Add iron-bearing magnetite particles for magnetic field detection on cloudy days, and a 0.5 gram insect is running redundant inertial guidance.

The destination is more specific than the navigation.

They cluster on a few dozen oyamel fir groves in the Sierra Madre at 9,000 to 11,000 feet. The microclimate has to sit between 32 and 41°F. Below freezing kills them. Above 41°F burns the fat reserves they need to survive five months without feeding. The right band exists a few hundred meters thick on a few specific mountains. Outside it, the migration ends.

One generation each year is built differently from the rest. Summer monarchs live two to six weeks. The fall generation lives eight months. It postpones reproduction, fattens up, and carries the entire round trip in a single body.

The map is genetic. Nobody has fully decoded how.

A monarch hatched in a backyard in Toronto in September has never seen a mountain, never smelled a fir, never met an ancestor. It flies south for ten weeks, picks the right peak, and lands on the tree its bloodline has been returning to for tens of thousands of years.

The forest knows the families that come back.

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@BlueDartCares A parcel was to be delivered to me on 17th May.
It has already arrived at the nearest centre on 17th.Hasn't been delivered yet.When I called up your customer care,I was told that it could take another 48 hrs.Since it's very urgent,I request you to find a solution.

[Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟧🌊🌈 @piyushmittal]

How Trump and Vance treated Zelenskyy …

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@ola_supports
Do you have a customer care number? I had sent a direct message to you regarding a payment issue. But there has been no response.

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@FedExHelp I am in india, and the parcel was to Australia

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@FedExHelp I paid up for express delivery n it's more than 9 days now. Neither has the parcel been delivered nor am I able to track the parcel. Moreover, I recvd an email this morning sayg that they attempted delivery in a wrong city and that the address given was incorrect.

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@FedExHelp Thanks for your response. I need international assistance ... for a parcel from India to Australia.

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

The predicament that awaits our papers!

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@DrSyedHaider @stathmom What are the toxins causing the stones, doctor? Could you advise on that?

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@mybmc @mybmcWardRC I do hope @mybmcWardRC will attend to this. Thanks!

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@mybmc I've been trying to get a fresh copy of a birth certificate from the BMC. Have made 5 visits in the past three weeks... no progress. Why is it so complicated?

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@mybmc Thank you so much!

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@Radhika_Khera @_pallavighosh Confusing!!! So do they alternate or do they retain?

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@SpiritOfCongres Mann ki baat! Freudian slip...

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I never grow tired of this video.

[Arpit Sharma @iArpitSpeaks]

Letter to the govt ft. A Common Man of India.

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

Amrit kaal...

[krishob 🇮🇳 @shobak4]

@INCKerala @BJP4Keralam Team @INCKerala .. you're too good!