Notices by Barbara J. King (bjkingape@mastodon.online)

Dogs wearing backpacks, and dropping seeds through holes in the fabric as they walk through woodlands, help with rewilding! #dogs #rewilding #woodlands #nature #England https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dogs-in-backpacks-help-rewild-english-woodland/

"Sleeping cuckoo bees, by Yorkshire-based Luke Chambers, has won this year's Royal Entomological Society Insect Week photography competition." #insects #invertebrates #naturephotography https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czddd407eezo

A hopeful story from botany, about rosy saxifrage: "A plant that went extinct in the wild has been re-introduced to the UK mainland. We can’t tell you the exact location - it’s a secret, to keep it safe." #botany #plants #nature #extinction #UK https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjkkm4re518o

What if we DIDN'T define "language" via human-only standards? What if we trained ourselves to see animal languages in the world? My review of Arik Kershenbaum's WHY ANIMALS TALK is up at the TLS. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/why-animals-talk-arik-kershenbaum-book-review-barbara-j-king/ #language #bookreview #animalcommunication #anthropology #biology #zoology #books #bookstodon

Thanks @nytimes for including my perspective in this piece on keeping an octopus as a pet. Octopuses are wild animals who belong in the ocean, and anyway, what message does it send to a child when a family orders an octopus online and she arrives in a cardboard box as shoes or a computer would arrive? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/tiktok-octopus-pet-oklahoma.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.jk0.DQgs.-hFwE9n7Cvs8&smid=url-share #octopus #cephalopod #animals #pets #animalwelfare #animalrights

@aral It's overwhelming.

Once again, the message comes through loud and clear to people highly vulnerable to COVID/ COVID damage (including me): Tough luck. "Americans who test positive for the coronavirus no longer need to routinely stay home from work and school for five days under new guidance planned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." #COVID #CovidIsNotOver #LongCOVID #immunocompromised #publichealth
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On this Trans Day of Visibility, I see and celebrate my own wonderful non-binary child, and everyone else trans and/or non-binary who adds so much to our world. https://www.glaad.org/tdov #transdayofvisibility #transgender #nonbinary #transrights #humanrights