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  • I suppose the best thing would be to start with the backyard then slowly work your way up at their pace (maybe just an open front door if you don’t have a yard). Cat’s are liquid and one of the best examples of that is how hard it is to keep them in any sort of harness. I took my cat out for a walk once with my dogs and he managed to slip out of his harness; I had to chase him for about a block before I managed to corner him in someones driveway. I’m lucky I’m pretty fit else he would’ve been gone.

    … I do recall there was someone in …Texas I think? …that made harness’ specifically for cats. Something about avoiding a nerve centre on their back that basically makes them go limp if something pushes against it.














  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzBONE COLLECTOR
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    Despite >100 years of entomological surveys, the bone collector species has only been found in a 15-km2 area of mesic forest in the Waiʻanae mountain range on the island of Oʻahu. Typically, an endemic Hawaiian lineage will contain multiple species with similar habits distributed across at least part of the archipelago [e.g., (11, 12)], but no other member of the bone collector lineage has been found. Phylogenomic analysis shows that the bone collector lineage is at least 6 million years old, >3 million years older than the island of Oʻahu (Fig. 3) (13).

    The forest is being increasingly occupied by invasive species.




  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzHotdog for Scale
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    Scolopendra subspinipes

    …the species is known by many common names, including jungle centipede, orange-legged centipede, Hawaiian centipede, and Vietnamese centipede.

    …it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean islands, and possibly parts of the southern United States…

    I think it’s actually Scolopendra alternans because the one pictured has only 4 segments on it’s antennae, but subspinipes has many.

    Scolopendra alternans is a species group found in the whole Caribbean island and northern South America, with the Florida population reevaluated as a distinct species Scolopendra longipes.[1] They have also been reported as far north as Georgia.