Susan Runge

[Brandon Tatum @TheOfficerTatum]

HEARTBREAKING: A Florida father lost his wife and 2-year-old daughter after both were killed by lightning. He says he now has to stay strong for his surviving daughter.

Absolutely devastating. 💔

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Look how happy she is!😍
Taking a prize home to her hungry babies.
This is the desperate badger mum who came into my garden looking for anything to eat, and left with nothing.
The following evening I put some food out for her in the woods, where I know she visits (to drink from the water I leave out there daily for wildlife).
I left good quality dry cat food for her to eat, and slices of Chubb Roll and chopped apples and pears to take home to her cubs.
While textbook badger behaviour states they don't carry food to cubs, extreme environmental stress forces wildlife to adapt and break the rules, and as there's zero natural forage in this drought, clearly that's what this clever mum was doing.
She spent the whole night there.
After all these weeks of deprivation and stress it must have felt like Christmas for this sweet mum.
She made several trips back to her sett with food, in between eating for herself and resting and drinking.
Just before dawn she covered up what was left, and went to bed full and content.
I'm so happy.
Badger's history: https://t.co/c7N9kFscSe

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

As we enter yet another week of drought conditions please, I beg you, put out water for the wildlife.
They have nothing.
No puddles.
No ponds.
No streams.
All have dried up.
Sometimes the birds are thought of and provided for.
But the nocturnal animals go unseen.
Unthought of.
No kind dishes.
Just the tantalising smell of water from a pond they may drown in, or a drain they may get trapped in.
Or a stagnant, dirty old birdbath they may get fatal fluke from.
Hedgehogs need to drink a lot of water to stay healthy. Please provide clean, fresh, safe, ground level water each evening for our precious nocturnal wildlife.
Tap water is best.
Pop a dish or two out tonight.
Dying of thirst is a terrible, painful way to die.
It should never happen to any animal, and certainly not in a country that has the safest tap water in the world.
The few minutes it takes you to fill a dish will make the difference between life and death.❤️

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

A surprise visitor to my garden.
It's 4.30 in the morning, the end of a hard night's foraging, and this poor badger mum is going home to her hungry cubs empty handed.
Again.
Badgers don't want to come into gardens.
It's a massive risk to get that close to humans.
This is an act of profound desperation.
She tried digging for worms (which make up 80% of a badger's diet), but the prolonged drought has left the soil baked dry and barren.
The hedgehog feeders were inaccessible and the cat food had all been eaten by the visiting fox family.
She stay for half an hour and left as starving as she arrived.
If a hedgehog had been accessible she would have risked being wounded, just to eat and feed her cubs.
Badgers do NOT hunt hedgehogs, but a starving animal will eat anything to stay alive.
But it's NOT natural.
In fact it's no more natural than starving third world children eating mud.
Or prisoners of war eating pebbles.
Or victims of a mountain plane crash eating each other.
These are acts of desperation.
It's eat this or die.
And why hedgehogs? Why not cats or fox cubs - a much safer and more satisfying meal?
Simply because cats and foxes run away, hedgehogs don't.
And badgers are foragers, not hunters.
You don't need a degree in zoology to know that.
Just your own common sense.
Don't believe the perverts who enjoy hurting animals, or the callous dishonest farmers.
Believe your own eyes.
Just look at that low, squat body and lumbering gait: built for low-gravity stability while digging, and moving through dense undergrowth. Not for chasing down prey.
Look at the small head and downward facing eyes: perfect for focusing on the ground directly in front of their nose to locate worms and insects, but giving them a very limited field of view for spotting or tracking moving animals.
And take a look at those short stumpy legs: designed for power and endurance while excavating setts and turning over soil, making them incapable of the speed or agility required by true hunters.
The physical traits you can see with your own eyes are the textbook definition of a specialised fossorial (digging) forager, not a predator.
Because of this specific anatomy, badgers lack the biological machinery to actively hunt or target other mammals.
They are overwhelmingly, scientifically, anatomically, blatantly obvious ground-level foragers.
The idea that badgers systematically track or target hedgehogs is a narrative pushed by groups looking to justify culls, rather than an accurate description of badger biology.
In reality, a badger's daily life revolves around patiently snuffling through the soil for worms and grubs, and any departure from this is a rare, situational event born of sheer desperation.
So please remember this, next time some deviant shows you a hedgehog pelt, seeking your validation and inciting hatred towards these innocent animals.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Behind every orphan are the Keepers who have earned their trust. Here's Lemeki with Voi Head Keeper Joseph, in the kind of quiet, unhurried contact that comes after years of care.

Rescued as a week-old newborn in 2018, Lemeki was plucked from the floodwaters of the Mara River and raised by our Keepers. Now, as she journeys towards a life back in the wild, she has grown into the matriarch of our dependent Voi herd.

Learn about our pioneering Orphans' Project: https://t.co/EdWRBjgrNL

[Susan Runge @susanrun]

@SheldrickTrust ❤️🧍🏾‍♂️🐘 Joseph was looking a little wobbly in the heat of the day so darling Lemeki decided to give him a helpful steady hand as he'd done so many times before for her. 😊💕💕

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Tonight, the Empire State Building tower lights will turn to a pink sparkle at 9:25 to honor the late Dolly Parton.

Dolly was a global cultural icon whose seven-decade career reached generations of fans. Beyond entertainment, Dolly leaves a significant philanthropic legacy through the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, which has provided hundreds of millions of books to children worldwide.

At Nine-Two-Five tonight, we celebrate her and her legacy 💖

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

LIVE FROM THE NURSERY: Zuri and Kipekee don’t know it, but today is their special day – the dawn of World Elephant Day! Join Edwin as he wakes up our smallest babies, before joining the rest of the Nursery herd out in the forest.

Every elephant you see here is an orphan, rescued from a tragic fate and now growing up in our care. They’re at the very beginning of their journey – one that will lead all the way back to the wild.

Supporters like you help us protect Kenya’s elephants and provide the round-the-clock care every orphan requires. Adopt an elephant today: https://t.co/8N9JV5DI0E

Asante sana — thank you — and happy #WorldElephantDay!

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Watch the story of an orphan unfold – a story that began with loss, was defined by love, and eventually led them back to the wild.

Through our orphans, we walk alongside these remarkable creatures – rescuing orphans left behind, nurturing them to adulthood, and witnessing their own families take root in the wild.

This #WorldElephantDay, become part of an extraordinary story through an adoption or by donating in support of our elephant conservation projects: https://t.co/M9EAzYcXPu

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: Radical lunatic Francesca Hong has been DEFEATED

WOW

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

I don't care what people say.
Dogs are truly angels sent
from heaven ♥️😇🐾

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Last November, ex orphan Nasalot returned from the wild with a very special introduction: a two-week-old daughter, who we named Nala. 🐘💚

She had come to introduce baby Nala to the Ithumba Keepers who raised her. Nasalot lost her own family to poaching in 2000, when she was just three months old, and grew into one of the most nurturing elephants we have ever known.

Nala joins her older brothers, Nusu and Noah, among our growing family of known wild-born calves.

Meet the next generation of the Orphans' Project: https://t.co/gAYG28HymE

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Democrats Announce You Aren't Allowed To Remember What They Did A Few Years Ago https://t.co/rJxNxbfwpe

[Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 @seanhannity]

.@PressSec Karoline Leavitt to the Democrat Party: you are not the party of JFK anymore, you are not even the party of Obama anymore, and everyone can see it.

[Trey Yingst @TreyYingst]

This month marks eight years at Fox News. I’m more focused on the mission than ever.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

This is elephant conservation in action: moving mountains to save a life and secure a species’ future. 🐘

Last year alone, our teams:
• Shepherded nearly 400 elephants off community land to safety
• Treated 260 elephants for injuries in the field
• Supported 17 elephant rescues from dams and wells

This was one such operation: a herculean, four-day mission against time, terrain and rising tides to pull off one of our most challenging rescues yet.

Discover more about our elephant conservation work later, as we count down to #WorldElephantDay.

Support our work: https://t.co/ZLJQceLG0f

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Great, now I need a
baby water buffalo 🥰

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

A bunch of liberal women grin from ear to ear as Massachusetts Governor signs bill allowing abortion until birth

Demonic

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

The head is up and Fluffy made it through the night. This is all I wished for.

We have a chance now 🤞

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Jesus wept.