The Amazing Planet and Nature Thread

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All this talk of AI taking over, it sounds like we have to watch out for the cockies too…

Most Sydneysiders aren’t smart enough to figure that out.

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So the Cockatoos figured it out themselves. Journalism is just rubbish these days.

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Certainly wouldn’t want to rely on a brit working it out. :wink:

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Nor would I.

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Not sure why the BBC think that it’s called “Oceans”, but I recall posting after seeing Ocean at the cinema recently that it should be compulsory viewing for everyone.

Well, it’s now on Disney+ for those who have access and it should be top of your watch list.

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Scientists recently radiocarbon dated the eye proteins of 28 Greenland sharks and one female was estimated to be 400 years old. This means she has been wandering the oceans since the 1620s! This makes the Greenland shark the longest-living vertebrate known on Earth.

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Fuck me. Does every thread have to devolve that shit. Get a room and leave everyone else out of it.

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OK, I’ve deleted a few posts here with the same old, tiresome inside jokes. Do we have to repeat ourselves?

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I saw this article in the Guardian about foxes living on the roof garden of a new office block in London:

I have a few issues with this article, not least of which is that describe them as pests, and yet further down say that they are feeding off rats which are in turn feeding of human detritus. I’d really question who is the invasive species here.

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How did the foxes get there?

I’m not sure how they got on top of that particular building, but urban foxes are quite common. They will often dig dens around bushes or under sheds and the like. I’m assuming that there is some way up there, probably stairwells or something.