The 'crawdad' in the creek behind your house is the reason it isn't fetid, dead water, and they're racing toward extinction.
Leaves fall in the water and rot, the crayfish shreds them into the bits that feed the bugs, the bugs feed the fish, and on up the line.
One Ozark study found more than 200 kinds of fish, birds, and animals eating crayfish. It's the floor the whole thing stands on. Pull it and the floor drops. Bass, herons, otters, all of it.
The US has nearly 400 kinds of crayfish, more than anywhere on Earth. About half are circling the drain and one has already gone extinct.
The sooty crayfish lived in the creeks around San Francisco Bay and nowhere else in the world. People brought in a bigger, hungrier cousin from up north, the signal crayfish. The sooty crawfish couldn't compete, and it blinked out of existence. That same signal crayfish is now grinding down the Shasta crayfish, which is hanging on in only a single county.
And it keeps happening by accident. A fisher dumps his leftover bait in a new lake, a classroom turns the science-project crayfish loose in a creek, somebody empties an aquarium into a pond: every one of those can introduce a crayfish the local ecosystem evolved without, and sometimes that's enough to unravel species that have been there for millions of years.
BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.
Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.
Being part of a generation that was told โWikipedia is not a sourceโ makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.
my favorite moments!!
- story of thoma's son wearing his mask
- a voluptuous~ landscape
- dunking on ai & mentions he has a degree in linguistics
- audience qna: how was filming during the bathroom scene
The us is silently killing Cuba
Since Iโve arrived we only got 3 hours of electricity in two days! Sick people keep dying due to lack of resources. Water shortages are insane, 20-30 days without water, which causes people to use dirty water.
a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered