#Predators and #prey: size matters. “A chickadee is almost too small to have any [enemies]. That whimsical fellow called #Evolution, having enlarged the dinosaur until he tripped over his own toes, tried shrinking the chickadee until he was just too big to be snapped up by flycatchers as an insect, and just too little to be pursued by hawks and owls as meat. Then he regarded his handiwork and laughed. Everyone laughs at so small a bundle of large enthusiasms."
--Aldo Leopold
@bookstodon
‘Predators’ Director David Osit Signs With Cinetic Media (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #DavidOsit #Predators #Sundance
MTV Documentary Films Acquires Sundance Doc ‘Predators’
#News #MTVDocumentaryFilms #Predators
https://deadline.com/2025/03/mtv-documentary-films-predators-sundance-1236347722/
Sundance Documentary ‘Predators,’ an Exposé of ‘To Catch a Predator,’ Sells to MTV Documentary Films
#Variety #News #DocumentariestoWatch #Predators #SundanceFilmFestival
Sunda Clouded #leopards are agile ambush #predators of #gibbons, wild #pigs and mouse deer in #Borneo and #Sumatra. #Palmoil deforestation is a huge threat to these #BigCats. Help them when you #Boycottpalmoil
#Boycott4Wildlife
http://palmoildetectives.com/2025/03/23/sunda-clouded-leopard-neofelis-diardi/
No one needs to "protect girls from trans people".
What girls do need to be protected from, because they are an active and demonstrated threat, is patriarchal conservative cis male people.
Long-distance migration can be dangerous. A life history model by Ronald C. Ydenberg predicts differences in over-summering between similar sandpiper species because the mortality posed by predators differs between flyways. Read now ahead of print! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/734101
Trump can now meet up with Prince Andrew in Buckingham Palace and talk about old times on Epstein's island...
Yeah, it keeps happening though, doesn't it BBC?
20 years that racist predator had been plying his trade, and why did you get a white boy to present the Rap show anyway?!
Trump on Ukraine: "They started it, led Russia on"
Trump on the 20+ women who have accused him of rape: "They started it, led me on"
The World's press doesn't see it like it doesn't see all those rape scandals they know about but the predator's are too powerful to accuse.
Restoring Predators, Restoring Ecosystems: Yellowstone Wolves And Other Carnivores Drive Strong Trophic Cascade
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https://phys.org/news/2025-02-predators-ecosystems-yellowstone-wolves-carnivores.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03428 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #YellowstoneNationalPark #Largecarnivores #Willows #Crownvolume #Chronosequencephotographs #Trophiccascade #strength #ecosystem #ecology #biology #biodiversity #vegetation #wolf #elk #willows #riparian #stream #water #hydrology #tree #health #foresthealth #herbivore #carnivore #reintroduction #plants #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #biomass #foodweb #predictivemodel #model #modeling #response #predators #yellowstone
Close CFPB to save money?
$823M budget /yr
$20.7B returned to U.S. consumers since 2011
"The budget slated for 2025 for CFPB was $823 million. Since its creation in 2011, the CFPB has handled millions of consumer complaints and returned $20.7 billion back to consumers."
THIS is an agency they desperately want to stop. It protects consumers from #predators in the financial services sector.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5290914/russell-vought-cfpb-doge-access-musk
A recent theory proposes that #whales weren’t just #predators in the #ocean #environment. #Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key #fertilizer to these #marine #ecosystems.
#MarineBiology #Ecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/02/mbio02062501.html
An analogy for the modern world?
Canada, Denmark and Panama spent most of the past 80 years in the geopolitical equivalent of a petting zoo. In a petting zoo, nobody’s allowed to eat the animals. The zookeeper keeps everybody fed. No longer, the predator has taken his mask off.
Countries that won't hang together will be consumed - get it Starmer?
True/False Film Fest Unveils 2025 Lineup Including Eight Sundance Docus (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #DocumentariestoWatch #Predators #TrueFalseFilmFestival
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/true-false-film-fest-2025-lineup-1236290000/